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Rep. Mike Johnson, speaker of the House of Representatives, welcomed Syrian-born Australian tobacconist Ahmed al-Ahmed to the U.S. Capitol on Thursday. Last month, al-Ahmed wrenched a rifle away from one of the two gunmen during the terrorist attack on a Chanukah event at Sydney’s Bondi Beach.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
The IDF on Friday announced a series of strikes against Hezbollah targets in Lebanon "in response to Hezbollah’s continued violations of the ceasefire understandings."
Read more: The Jerusalem Post
The U.S. Government Accountability Office released a report on Thursday finding that the U.S. State Department failed to properly inform Congress about efforts to reform Palestinian textbooks.
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An 8-year-old Jewish girl was hospitalized with a fractured skull after being struck by a rock, which was thrown through a window on the bus she was aboard, on the New Jersey Turnpike in Teaneck on Wednesday afternoon.
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Tear gas burning his eyes, his voice hoarse from shouting anti-government slogans as cars honked around him, Majid joined crowds of Iranians taking to the streets in defiance of a crackdown on a swelling protest movement.
Read more: The Times of Israel
Anne London-Weinstein, an Ontario Superior Court of Justice judge, ruled on Jan. 7 that Iain Aspenlieder, a former lawyer for the city of Ottawa who pleaded guilty to vandalizing a Holocaust memorial, is free to go after serving five months in prison. Prosecutors had sought a two-year sentence for Aspenlieder's crime, which was committed in June...
A resolution condemning last year's violent antisemitic attacks in Pennsylvania, Colorado and the nation's capital passed the U.S. Senate without opposition on Wednesday.
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Qatar has been the largest source of foreign funding for U.S. higher education institutions, according to data displayed in a new U.S. Department of Education portal.
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Australia will hold a royal commission inquiry into the mass shooting that killed 15 people at Bondi Beach during a Hanukkah celebration, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Thursday, as he faced public demands for answers.
Read more: The Times of Israel
Israel on Thursday condemned the Syrian government over “grave and dangerous” attacks against the Kurds in the northern city of Aleppo as Damascus ordered civilians to evacuate the area amid deadly clashes that have displaced tens of thousands of people.
Read more: The Times of Israel
A 15-year-old from northern Israel was indicted on Thursday for planning to carry out Islamic State-inspired terrorist attack, police said.
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Israeli President Isaac Herzog on Thursday reopened a kindergarten in the Upper Galilee kibbutz of Manara that was destroyed by a Hezbollah missile during the fighting with the Iranian-backed terror proxy.
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Palestinian terrorists fired a rocket toward Israel from the Gaza City area, which is under Hamas control, on Thursday.
“The launch fell within the territory of the Gaza Strip, near a hospital,” the Israel Defense Forces said. “In a rapid closing of the circle, the IDF struck the launch point in a targeted manner.”
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The death toll in growing anti-regime protests in Iran reached 36 on Tuesday, according to a rights group, as opposition media reported that massive street demonstrations completely swamped Abdanan, a Kurdish city in the western part of the country.
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The Pacific Island nation of Samoa will open an embassy in Jerusalem this year, the country’s prime minister told Christian leaders this week.
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Iran’s military chief warned on Wednesday that Iran will not stand by and allow itself to be threatened by outside powers, after the United States and Israel backed anti-government protests.
Read more: The Times of Israel
Israel, Syria and the United States announced a “joint fusion mechanism” for security cooperation.
After holding talks in Paris, the three states agreed on Tuesday to create the “dedicated communication cell” for “intelligence sharing, military de-escalation, diplomatic engagement and commercial opportunities” under U.S. guidance.
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The Israel Defense Forces on Wednesday struck a Hezbollah terrorist in the Jwaya area of Southern Lebanon, the military said.
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Ibrahim Shalhoub, from the West Bank city of Tulkarem, was sentenced to life in prison on Sunday for killing 83-year-old Holocaust survivor Ludmila Lipovsky in a terror attack in Herzliya in December 2024.
Read more: The Times of Israel
Researchers at Tel Aviv University have identified a mechanism that enables breast cancer to metastasize to the brain, a discovery that could lead to new treatments for the often-fatal condition.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate