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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.
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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.
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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.
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Israel was preparing on Wednesday afternoon to receive the remains of a deceased hostage, according to the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem.
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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.
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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.
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Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar met Monday in Jerusalem with an African king who heads an ethnic group based in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa, according to the Israeli Embassy in South Africa.
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The U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation on Monday that would render participants in the Hamas-led Oct. 7 attacks in southern Israel inadmissible to the United States.
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The Israel Defense Forces warned on Tuesday that the Hezbollah terrorist organization in Lebanon is rapidly rebuilding its military capabilities despite Jerusalem’s ongoing strikes since the ceasefire took hold over a year ago.
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The International Committee of the Red Cross on Tuesday handed over to the Israel Defense Forces “findings” that had been transferred to it by Hamas, according to the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office.
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Surgeons at Haifa’s Rambam Medical Center managed to save the life of an Israeli soldier wounded in Syria who arrived at the hospital in critical condition with a bullet lodged in his heart, the hospital said Sunday.
Read more: The Times of Israel
Infamous Nazi doctor Josef Mengele lived a comfortable life in an affluent Argentinian suburb after fleeing Germany, according to a comprehensive Fox News Spanish-language analysis of declassified documents.
Read more: The Jerusalem Post
Israel’s high-powered laser interception system, dubbed “Iron Beam,” will be delivered to the military at the end of the month, the head of the Defense Ministry’s Directorate of Defense Research and Development said Monday.
Read more: The Times of Israel
Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on Thursday night delivered a blistering broadside against the United States and Israel, accusing the allies of committing global crimes and claiming Tehran emerged victorious from the 12-day conflict in June.
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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.
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The U.S. Senate recently approved legislation that would create a 10-year program to identify deceased Jewish American soldiers buried abroad with gravemakers that do not accurately reflect their religion and heritage, the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs announced on Monday.
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