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Iran executes Jewish man for fatal stabbing

Authorities in Iran on Monday executed a Jewish man, Arvin Nathaniel Ghahremani, who had been sentenced to death for murder, Iranian media reported.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

Israel-bound rocket hits UN base in Lebanon with Irish troops

A U.N. military base in Lebanon where hundreds of Irish troops serve was hit by a rocket likely fired by Hezbollah terrorists at Israel, according to Ireland’s army.

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‘Akin to surrender’: Lebanon denies US proposal for unilateral cease-fire

A U.S. envoy this week asked Lebanon to declare a unilateral cease-fire with Israel as part of an effort to help negotiations to reach a resolution for the more than year-long conflict, a senior Lebanese political source and a senior diplomat told Reuters on Friday.

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Chicago Police announces hate crime, terror charges against gunman accused of shooting Orthodox Jew

Chicago is adding one felony count each of terror and hate-crime charges to the 14 felony charges it has brought against Sidi Mohamed Abdallahi, 22, who is accused of shooting a 39-year-old Jewish man who was walking to synagogue on Shabbat, Chicago Police superintendent Larry Snelling announced on Thursday.

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Iran’s Khamenei orders third direct attack on Israel

Iran’s supreme leader has instructed the country’s Supreme National Security Council to prepare for another assault on Israel, The New York Times reported on Thursday.

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House ed panel: ‘Shocking’ college concessions to anti-Israel protesters

Republicans on the House Committee on Education and the Workforce released the findings of their year-long investigation into campus antisemitism on Thursday, writing that universities offered “shocking concessions” to anti-Israel protesters.

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‘The IDF should be bigger,’ Halevi says during situational assessment in Western Galilee

IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi said the IDF should be bigger during a situational assessment in the Western Galilee on Wednesday.

“The IDF needs to be larger, both in regular forces and reserves, and therefore, we’re building more forces,” he said.

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French court overturns ban on Israeli firms at arms expo

Citing constitutional principles of equality, a Paris court on Wednesday reversed a decision to ban Israeli firms from the Euronaval Defense Exposition.

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Hezbollah reportedly agrees to withdraw beyond Litani River, Lebanese reports claim

Despite Hezbollah’s declarations throughout the war, the terrorist organization has agreed to drop its demands and is ready to withdraw beyond the Litani River, Lebanon's MTV website, which is associated with Hezbollah opponents, reported Wednesday night.

Read more: The Jerusalem Post

Russia’s ‘comprehensive’ treaty with Iran will include defence, Lavrov says

A treaty that Russia and Iran intend to sign shortly will include closer defence cooperation, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Thursday. Military ties between the two countries are a source of deep concern to the West as Russia wages war in Ukraine while Iran and Israel have exchanged missile and air strikes in the Middle East.
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Iran said threatening ‘definitive, painful’ response to Israel, likely before US election

Iran will deliver a “definitive and painful” response to Israel’s recent attack on its territory, likely before the US presidential election on November 5, CNN reported Wednesday, citing an anonymous senior source.

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Hezbollah rockets kill seven in northern Israel

Seven people were killed and one person was seriously wounded on Thursday in two separate Hezbollah rocket attacks on Israel’s north.
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Drone hits Nahariya, IDF warns Lebanese to flee Baalbek as US mediators head to region

A drone fired from Lebanon hit an aviation plant in northern Israel, and Israel warned residents of a Hezbollah stronghold deep inside Lebanon to flee ahead of airstrikes, as Israel and the terror group continued to trade blows ahead of the arrival of senior US officials hoping to halt the deadly fighting.

Read more: The Times of Israel

US offers $5m for info on Hezbollah-linked 1994 plane bombing

The United States is offering a $5 million award for information leading to the arrest of any individual who abetted the 1994 bombing of a commercial flight in Panama believed to have been carried out by Hezbollah, the U.S. State Department announced on Tuesday.
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German charged in Islamist plot against Jewish institution

German prosecutors have charged a 25-year-old man with planning a terrorist attack on a Jewish institution. The suspect, whose identity remains undisclosed due to privacy laws, was arrested in May.

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Biden advisers heading to Israel to discuss Lebanon deal

Two senior White House officials are traveling to Israel this week to discuss a potential ceasefire agreement between Jerusalem and the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah.
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Israel’s Iron Dome performs overseas as Marines adopt system

The US Marine Corps has successfully completed its first live-fire test of an air defense system incorporating the Iron Dome interceptor. The system combines American and Israeli technology: US-made radar and command-and-control center, alongside Rafael Advanced Defense Systems' Iron Dome interceptor (the Tamir model) and mobile launcher. Raytheon...

Chicago Jewish leaders ‘disappointed’ law enforcement downplaying antisemitism as motive in shooting

Jewish leaders in Chicago are urging the local prosecutor to upgrade the charge against a Muslim man who allegedly shot a Jewish man walking to synagogue on Saturday in West Rogers Park, home to one of the city’s largest Orthodox Jewish populations, to a hate crime.

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Naim Qassem elected to replace slain Hezbollah leader Nasrallah

Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah on Tuesday elected its deputy secretary general Naim Qassem to replace secretary general Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Beirut on Sept. 27.

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Israel’s Strike on Iran Also Hit Russian Arms Industry’s Once-Strong Image

Israel’s airstrikes early Saturday didn’t just destroy critical Iranian military infrastructure. They also battered the reputation of Russian military equipment, which has already been pummeled by poor performance during Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.

Read more: MSN