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The IDF killed six terrorists and arrested dozens of wanted individuals over the past two weeks in the northern West Bank, in what the military dubbed "Operation Five Stones," the military said in a Friday statement.
Read more: The Jerusalem Post
Foreign actors backed protests like the Wednesday Los Angeles synagogue demonstration, claimed the Israeli Los Angeles consulate, also warning that unless authorities checked belligerent behavior, it could lead to another Washington embassy staff terrorist attack.
Read more: The Jerusalem Post
Israel and Lebanon have launched their first ever direct talks at the civilian level to explore potential economic and other cooperative initiatives that are not tied to the ongoing military campaign against Hezbollah.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
In an interview that aired Thursday night on Channel 12, reunited freed hostages Eli Sharabi and Alon Ohel recounted their time in Hamas captivity together, each crediting the other with his survival.
Read more: The Times of Israel
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Navy fired ballistic and cruise missiles at simulated targets in the Gulf on Friday during a two-day military exercise aimed at countering foreign threats, state media reported.
Read more: The Times of Israel
Israeli authorities on Thursday morning confirmed that the remains recovered from the Gaza Strip the previous evening belong to murdered Thai national Sudthisak Rinthalak, whose body had been held captive in Gaza since the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre.
Read More: Jewish News Syndicate
Things “turned unlawful,” and two people were arrested—one for battery and the other for vandalism—after a group protested outside and within Wilshire Boulevard Temple in Los Angeles on Wednesday, Jeff Lee, a spokesman for the Los Angeles Police Department, told JNS.
Read More: Jewish News Syndicate
Hamas Interior Ministry documents taken from the Gaza Strip shed new light on the methods the terror group used to exert control over foreign-aid groups, NGO Monitor revealed in a report on Wednesday.
Read More: Jewish News Syndicate
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps on Thursday kicked off naval wargames in the Gulf, issuing warnings to US warships in the area, more than five months after the 12-day war with Israel that briefly drew in American forces.
Read more: The Times of Israel
Hamas Interior Ministry documents taken from the Gaza Strip shed new light on the methods the terror group used to exert control over foreign-aid groups, NGO Monitor revealed in a report on Wednesday.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
The House Foreign Affairs Committee advanced legislation on Wednesday to require U.S. President Donald Trump to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
UCLA medical student Eliana Jolkovsky arrived on Wednesday, December 3, at Wilshire Boulevard Temple and saw a group of about 15 protesters, their faces masked by keffiyehs, chanting, “Baby Killers,” “Zionist Pigs,” and “Occupation no more.”
Read more: Jewish Journal
Israeli authorities on Thursday morning confirmed that the remains recovered from the Gaza Strip the previous evening belong to murdered Thai national Sudthisak Rinthalak, whose body had been held captive in Gaza since the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Some 17% of GOP supporters are “anti-Jewish Republicans” with beliefs including Holocaust denial or the view that Israel is a “settler-colonial state” that drags the United States “into wars we have no business in,” according to a poll which the conservative Manhattan Institute released on Monday.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Prosecutors indicted an 18-year-old on terror charges Wednesday after he allegedly plotted to carry out an Islamic State-inspired attack on IDF soldiers at a bus station in Beersheba.
Read more: The Times of Israel
The family of Sudthisak Rinthalak, one of the two remaining hostages whose bodies are held in the Gaza Strip, spoke Wednesday about the long wait for the return of their son and brother, during a brief interview recorded by Army Radio.
Read more: The Times of Israel
During an interview with Israel’s Channel 12 that aired on Monday, released hostage Alon Ohel, 24, said he is alive today because he made a conscious decision to survive.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Israel was preparing on Wednesday afternoon to receive the remains of a deceased hostage, according to the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a phone call on Monday to discuss Gaza.
“The two leaders stressed the importance and obligation of disarming Hamas and demilitarizing the Gaza Strip, and discussed expanding the peace agreements,” the prime minister’s office wrote.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
New U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon Michel Issa said last week that Israel does not need an American green light to defend itself, while stressing the importance for regional security of disarming the Hezbollah terrorist group.
Read More: Jewish News Syndicate