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An Israel Defense Forces reservist was killed and two others were seriously wounded battling Hamas terrorists in northern Gaza on Thursday, the army announced on Friday morning.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Tal Shoham, who was freed from Gaza as part of the hostage deal with Hamas on Feb. 22, revealed on Thursday that the terrorists had called his wife, freed during previous ceasefire, and threatened to kill him if she talked about her own experiences in captivity.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Survivors of the October 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel, freed hostages and hostages’ family members carried Israeli flags and sang the Israeli national anthem “Hatikvah” as they walked through the main gate of the Auschwitz death camp Wednesday.
Read more: The Times of Israel
The IDF and Shin Bet said Thursday an airstrike in northern Gaza’s Jabalia targeted a group of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad operatives at a command center used by the terror groups.
Read more: The Times of Israel
U.S. President Donald Trump asked Americans on Wednesday to observe the Days of Remembrance of Victims of the Holocaust by upholding “the memory of the victims of the Holocaust and Nazi persecution by remembering the lessons of this atrocity so that it is never repeated.”
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Israel came to a standstill on Thursday morning as a two-minute siren sounded nationwide at 10 a.m., marking Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom Hashoah).
Read Mored: Jewish News Syndicate
Iran has carried out 1,051 state executions since President Masoud Pezeshkian took office on July 8, 2024 – a surge that security experts say the U.S. must weigh as it resumes nuclear negotiations with Tehran.
Read more: Fox News
Israeli President Isaac Herzog will travel to Poland on Thursday to lead the 2025 March of the Living at the former Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp, marking 80 years since the liberation of the Nazi death camps and the end of World War II.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
A ballistic missile fired at Israel by the Iran-backed Houthi group in Yemen set off sirens early Wednesday morning in the north of the country for the first time, sending over a million people rushing for the safety of bomb shelters.
Read more: The Times of Israel
“Sons of dogs, hand over the hostages,” Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas told Hamas in a televised speech at the PA’s Central Council on Wednesday.
Read more: The Jerusalem Post
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday following a telephone conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he and the Israeli leader were aligned “on every issue.”
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
U.S. military strikes in Yemen in recent weeks have killed at least 500 Houthi fighters, including senior commanders, a Saudi newspaper reported on Tuesday, based on interviews with U.S. officials and Yemen’s information minister.
Read More: Jewish News Syndicate
China and Egypt launched a wide-scale joint military exercise this week near the Israeli border, in what Chinese media described as a “historic” first of its kind.
Read More: Jewish News Syndicate
Members of the IDF General Staff Forum held a seminar on Monday to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II. They were joined by IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir.
Read More: Jewish News Syndicate
Antisemitic incidents in the United States reached unprecedented levels in 2024, breaking annual records for the fourth consecutive year, according to a report released Tuesday by the Anti-Defamation League.
Read More: The Times of Israel
Qatari and Egyptian mediators have presented a new ceasefire framework to Hamas, including a multi-year truce, the release of all Israeli hostages in exchange for Palestinian security prisoners and a full Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, according to a report on Monday.
Read More: Jewish News Syndicate
The Israel Defense Forces on Sunday eliminated two senior Hezbollah terrorist operatives in separate targeted airstrikes in Southern Lebanon.
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Pope Francis, the first Latin American leader of the Roman Catholic Church, died on Monday morning at the Vatican at the age of 88.
Read More: Jewish News Syndicate
