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Members of the al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, take part in a parade as they celebrate
In The News

Report: IDF warns Hamas is readying to return to war; US opposes new Israeli offensive

Unsourced report claims terror group is recruiting new fighters, has resumed training its elite Nukhba force as US peace plan fails to progress; IDF says Oct. 7 terrorist killed in strike
 

Read More...The Times of Israel

Crown Prince and Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman looks on during a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump (not pictured)
In The News

Hamas viewed Saudi normalization as ‘fatal blow’

The terrorist organization’s decision to launch the Oct. 7 massacre was timed in part to thwart Saudi-Israeli normalization, say researchers.
 

Read More...JNS

A Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist inside a tunnel in Beit Hanun, in the Gaza Strip, May 18, 2022. Photo by Attia Muhammed/Flash90.
In The News

IDF kills Islamic Jihad operative who abducted, held Israeli hostages

Zaher Brahim Khalil Abu Salem also attempted to carry out “numerous” attacks during the war.
 

Read More...JNS 

Israeli soldiers in Southern Lebanon, dismantling Hezbollah terrorist infrastructure, June 2026. Credit: IDF.
In The News

IDF dismantles Hezbollah terror tunnel complex near Israeli border

The operation in the Majdal Zoun area was carried out after Jerusalem informed the United States.
 

Read More...JNS

Gavel. Credit: Katrin Bolovtsova/Pexels.
In The News

Arizona man charged federally for defacing Phoenix synagogue after terror-threat conviction

A board member at the Orthodox synagogue told the FBI that members began attending services less frequently after Kevin Charles Pyles allegedly targeted the synagogue in separate July and August 2025 incidents.
 

Read More...JNS

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Prime Minister of Saxony-Anhalt Reiner Haseloff and German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser visit the site where a car drove into a crowd of a Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany December 21, 2024.
In The News

Saudi doctor given life sentence for deadly car rampage on German Christmas market

A German court handed down a life sentence in a Christmas market attack that shocked the country and fueled debate over immigration ahead of national elections.
 

Read More...The Jerusalem Post

Belgian police conduct their investigation outside a synagogue that was his by a blast overnight in Liege, Belgium, March 9, 2026. (John Thys/AFP)
In The News

Seven arrested over March bombing of Belgian synagogue

Counterterror raids lead to arrests of unidentified suspects in attack that harmed Great Synagogue in Liege, amid rash of attacks on diaspora Jews during Iran war
Read More...The Times of Israel

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In The News

UN pauses vessel evacuation from Strait of Hormuz after ship comes under fire

A U.S. official said that Iran’s Revolutionary Guards launched a drone at a merchant vessel after Tehran warned against transiting via new routes.
Read More...JNS 

IDF troops operating in Southern Lebanon in early June. Credit: IDF.
In The News

Four IDF soldiers wounded in Hezbollah grenade attack in Lebanon

Israeli forces later killed six Hezbollah terrorists in separate engagements as troops continued operations inside the Security Zone.
Read More...JNS 

In The News

IRGC agents lived in Australia before directing attacks on Jewish targets, spy chief says

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps used two agents who once lived in Australia to direct arson attacks against Jewish targets in Sydney and Melbourne, the head of Australia’s domestic spy agency said on Wednesday.

Read More: The Times of Israel

In The News

Israeli envoy warns Lebanon talks risk becoming ‘a train wreck’ amid US-Iran diplomacy

As the fifth round of U.S.-brokered political and security talks between Israel and Lebanon began on Tuesday, Yechiel Leiter, Israeli ambassador to the United States, voiced concern that the Trump administration was allowing Tehran to fold the Lebanon issue into U.S.-Iran negotiations, potentially undermining momentum between Jerusalem and Beirut....

Reem Alsalem, United Nations special rapporteur on violence against women and girls, at the official U.N. commemoration of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women at the global body’s headquarters in New York, Nov. 23, 2022. Credit: Ryan Brown/UN Women.
In The News

‘Please look at me,’ former Israeli hostage demands of UN adviser on violence against women

It’s “absurd and tragic that there are U.N. experts who are supposed to care about the rights of women, especially to combat sexual violence, and she’s one of the world’s major deniers of sexual violence against Israeli women,” Hillel Neuer told JNS.
Read More...JNS

Emergency workers at a damaged building after an earthquake, in La Guaira, Venezuela, June 24, 2026 (photo credit: REUTERS/Maxwell Briceno)
In The News

Israel to send aid mission after earthquakes devastate Venezuela, killing hundreds

Israel's Foreign and Health ministries are preparing official delegations and aid, while non-governmental organizations, including IsraAID and KKL-JNF, are also sending aid.
Read More...The Jerusalem Post

IDF soldiers operate against Hezbollah terrorists in southern Lebanon, June 21, 2026.
In The News

CENTCOM Chief Cooper to visit IDF Chief of Staff to solidify Lebanon ceasefire, IDF withdrawal

For months in late 2024, the IDF complained that the Lebanese army was afraid of Hezbollah and not nearly aggressive enough in handling issues and complaints.
Read More...The Jerusalem Post

An Israeli soldier in the Gaza Strip, May 2025. Credit: IDF Spokesman’s Unit.
In The News

IDF kills Islamic Jihad weapons commander in Gaza

Adam Muhammad Ibrahim Abu Hadid, who oversaw weapons production, was eliminated in a strike in Khan Younis, according to the Israeli military.
Read More...JNS

Master Sgt. (res.) Basil Sweid, 32, from Peki’in, fell on June 24, 2026, during operational activity in Southern Lebanon. Credit: IDF.
In The News

IDF: Reservist KIA in Southern Lebanon

Basil Sweid, 32, a driver in the military’s 75th Battalion, was “a brave reservist fighter, filled with a sense of mission, who symbolized the unbreakable bond between the Druze community and the State of Israel,” said Israel’s prime minister.
Read More...JNS

In The News

Israeli citizen Michael Mizrahi killed in Montreal shooting

Victim’s rabbi tells JTA he was having coffee with a friend when the attack started.
Read more: Jewish Telegraphic Agency

In The News

Feds open antisemitism investigation into National Education Association

An employment discrimination case alleges harassment of Jewish members at the country’s largest teachers union.
Read more: Jewish Telegraphic Agency

In The News

Tunnel discovered near Jerusalem-area security checkpoint leads to arrests

Police suspect that the tunnel was recently excavated with the intention of carrying out terror attacks and the smuggling of Palestinians into Israel.
Read more: JNS

In The News

IDF kills Hezbollah terrorists operating near security zone

Israel will not withdraw from Southern Lebanon or Syria security zones despite potential U.S. pressure, said Israel’s defense minister.
Read more: JNS