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One of the candidates on the ballot for an upcoming Minnesota school board election is an avowed Holocaust denier who has called for all Jews to be sterilized and tattooed with the Star of David, all synagogues to be closed and all Jewish children to be forcibly removed from their parents.
Read more: The Times of Israel
An Israeli child was lightly wounded on Wednesday morning when Palestinian stoned Israeli vehicles on a road in the area of Huwara, according to Israel’s Army Radio.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan had pointed remarks for the world body after being detained by its security personnel, telling Fox News Digital that antisemitism is “very prevalent” within the halls of the U.N.
Read more: Fox News
Israeli forces engaged with a fire bomber on Monday night while 12 terrorist suspects were arrested in raids throughout the West Bank, the Israel Defense Forces said on Tuesday.
Read more: The Jerusalem Post
The Islamic Republic of Iran’s representative in Lebanon issued the first public announcement of the Iranian regime’s role in the mass murder of American military and diplomatic personnel in the early 1980s in Beirut.
Read more: Fox News
A Gaza terrorist group test-fired several rockets from the coastal enclave toward the Mediterranean Sea Tuesday morning, setting off an alert in southern Israel, the military said.
Read more: The Times of Israel
The South Pacific island nation of Fiji will inaugurate an embassy in Jerusalem next year, the country’s deputy prime minister said Monday, as faith-based diplomacy continues to flourish.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
The Israel Defense Forces have reportedly begun studying the range of ramifications for Israel on a military level should a normalization deal with Saudi Arabia be achieved.
Read more: The Times of Israel
Palestinian stone-throwers on Monday lightly injured an Israeli among a group of five Jews who came under attack while visiting Joseph’s Tomb on the outskirts of Shechem (Nablus).
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Over 50,000 Jewish worshipers gathered at the Western Wall plaza to hold a joint prayer of Birkat Kohanim (priestly blessing) on Monday, during the Hol Hamoed days of Sukkot and the High Holy Days.
Read more: The Jerusalem Post
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial on Friday morning to commemorate the 82nd anniversary of the Babyn Yar massacre in which over 33,000 Jewish men, women, and children were murdered.
Read more: The Jerusalem Post
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly told US President Joe Biden during their meeting last week that he is prepared to take steps that would keep the possibility of an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement alive as part of the normalization agreement that Washington is trying to broker between Israel and Saudi Arabia.
Read more: The Times…
An Iranian hacker group known as OilRig hijacked legitimate websites in order to target Israeli organizations, including a healthcare organization, in two separate cyberattack campaigns in 2021 and 2022, the Slovak ESET cybersecurity company reported last week.
Read more: The Jerusalem Post
The United States has quietly acknowledged that Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard successfully put an imaging satellite into orbit this week in a launch that resembled others previously criticized by Washington as helping Tehran’s ballistic missile program.
Read more: The Times of Israel
The US State Department is providing over $90,000 in grants to an organization that has expressed support for Palestinian terrorist groups, including the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), NGO Monitor reported on Wednesday.
Read more: The Jerusalem Post
Tourism Minister Haim Katz was welcomed to Riyadh in comments by his Saudi counterpart on Wednesday, while he held an unprecedented trip to the Gulf nation as rapprochement between the countries appears closer than ever.
Read more: The Times of Israel
Israel reopened its sole pedestrian crossing with the Gaza Strip on Thursday after closing it two weeks ago in response to rioting on the border.
Read more: The Times of Israel
Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) began a hearing of the House Subcommittee on Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia on Wednesday with a moment of silence for Taylor Force, the 28-year-old West Point graduate and U.S. Army veteran who was killed in 2016 while on a graduate-school trip to Israel.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate