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Tucson Jewish Community Center (Tucson J) staff discovered “hateful” antisemitic materials posted near the building, Jewish Philanthropies of Southern Arizona (JPSA) announced on Monday.
Read More: The Jerusalem Post
The Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) on Friday criticized a United Nations report on Gaza that said famine had been averted but conditions “remained critical,” calling the assessment “a distorted and baseless picture of reality.”
Read More: The Jerusalem Post
The U.S. Department of the Treasury imposed new sanctions against Iran on Thursday, targeting the Islamic Republic’s “shadow fleet” used to transport illicit petroleum.
Read More: Jewish News Syndicate
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar on Friday congratulated Yehuda Kaploun, a Chabad rabbi, after the U.S. Senate confirmed his appointment as special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism.
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Four people killed in the antisemitic terror attack in Sydney on Sunday were laid to rest Friday, including a couple who were shot dead after tackling one of the two terrorists who killed 15 people and wounded dozens at the Hanukkah candle-lighting event on Bondi Beach.
Read More: The Times of Israel
In the wake of the terrorist attack on Jews in Sydney, Australia, Israeli President Isaac Herzog spoke on Wednesday with Pope Leo XIV about the rise of global antisemitism.
Read More: Jewish News Syndicate
French, Saudi Arabian, and American officials will hold talks with the head of the Lebanese army on Thursday in Paris aimed at finalizing a roadmap to enable a mechanism for the disarmament of the Hezbollah group, diplomats said.
Read More: The Jerusalem Post
Four funerals were held in Australia on Thursday for victims of the Bondi Beach terror attack, with mourners lamenting the great-grandfather who shielded his wife from the bullets, a Holocaust survivor who had sought a new life in Australia, a defiant father who tried to stop the attack, and the “joyful” 10-year-old girl who was cut down in the...
Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas praised the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre, calling it “the greatest day in Palestinian history,” Palestinian researcher Hani al-Masri said in a recent interview.
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If Hamas does not follow through with U.S. President Donald Trump’s peace plan that involves the terrorist group laying down arms, Israel “will have to deal with the problem,” Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar said in an interview with the Saudi state-owned channel Al Arabiya English on Wednesday.
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The dozens of posters of hostages that once greeted arrivals and departures at Ben-Gurion International Airport have disappeared except for one of the last hostage whose body remains in Gaza, Israel Police officer Ran Gvili.
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Mossad Director David Barnea said on Tuesday that Iran “has not abandoned its aspiration to destroy the State of Israel,” speaking at a Mossad excellence awards ceremony at the President’s Residence in Jerusalem on Tuesday night.
Read More: The Jerusalem Post
The surviving gunman in Sydney’s Bondi Beach terror attack at a Jewish community event was charged Wednesday with 59 offenses, including 15 charges of murder, as Australian authorities were investigating the two perpetrators’ links to the Islamic State terror group.
Read More: The Times of Israel
A 1,300-year-old lead pendant decorated with a menorah was uncovered during an archaeological excavation beneath the southwestern corner of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, north of the City of David, the Israel Antiquities Authority revealed on Monday.
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U.S. President Donald Trump imposed a new travel and immigration ban on Tuesday for anyone attempting to enter the United States with documents issued by the Palestinian Authority or Syria.
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Footage posted to social media on Tuesday shows a young Jewish man on a train being violently grabbed by the neck in what Israeli UN Ambassador Danny Danon dubbed a “hate crime.”
Read more: The Jerusalem Post
Iran’s rial slid further Monday to a new record low of more than 1.3 million to the US dollar, deepening the currency’s collapse less than two weeks after it first breached the 1.2-million mark amid sanctions pressure and regional tensions.
Read more: The Times of Israel
An Israel Police officer opened fire at a Palestinian driver who escaped a traffic stop in the Gush Etzion region of Judea on Tuesday afternoon, in what was initially reported as an attempted terrorist car-ramming.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Israel Defense Forces soldiers found weapons and Hamas surveillance equipment during raids along the ceasefire line in Gaza’s eastern Rafah area, the military announced on Monday.
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New videos have emerged of unarmed bystanders who sought to thwart the gunmen in the Bondi Beach Hanukkah terror attack and paid for their heroism with their lives.
Read more: The Times of Israel