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Benjamin Netanyahu, US President Trump to meet on Dec. 29, PMO confirms

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump will meet on December 29, the Prime Minister’s Office confirmed on Monday.

Read more: The Jerusalem Post

2,000-year-old Jerusalem city wall uncovered

A section of Jerusalem’s city wall dating from the Hasmonean period more than two thousand years ago has been unearthed in the city’s Tower of David Museum, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced on Monday.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

Jerusalem Israel’s ‘rightful capital,’ says Trump on anniversary of city’s recognition

President Donald Trump said on Dec. 6 that his decision on that day in 2017 to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and to begin the process of moving the U.S. embassy there was “a transformative step forward in the pursuit of peace in the Middle East.”

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

IDF kills six terrorists, arrest dozens of wanted individuals in ‘Operation Five Stones’

The IDF killed six terrorists and arrested dozens of wanted individuals over the past two weeks in the northern West Bank, in what the military dubbed “Operation Five Stones,” the military said in a Friday statement.

Read more: The Jerusalem Post

Iran, Qatar, other foreign actors backing anti-Israel demonstrations, LA Israeli consulate says

Foreign actors backed protests like the Wednesday Los Angeles synagogue demonstration, claimed the Israeli Los Angeles consulate, also warning that unless authorities checked belligerent behavior, it could lead to another Washington embassy staff terrorist attack.

Read more: The Jerusalem Post

In civilian talks, Israel and Lebanon confront Hezbollah’s grip

Israel and Lebanon have launched their first ever direct talks at the civilian level to explore potential economic and other cooperative initiatives that are not tied to the ongoing military campaign against Hezbollah.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

‘We chose life’: Eli Sharabi, Alon Ohel recall helping each other survive Gaza captivity

In an interview that aired Thursday night on Channel 12, reunited freed hostages Eli Sharabi and Alon Ohel recounted their time in Hamas captivity together, each crediting the other with his survival.

Read more: The Times of Israel

Iran holds drills in Gulf, firing ballistic and cruise missiles at simulated targets

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Navy fired ballistic and cruise missiles at simulated targets in the Gulf on Friday during a two-day military exercise aimed at countering foreign threats, state media reported.

Read more: The Times of Israel

Body of Thai citizen Sudthisak Rinthalak returned to Israel

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.

Read More: Jewish News Syndicate

Protesters ‘targeted Jewish community’ at Los Angeles synagogue, rabbi says

Things “turned unlawful,” and two people were arrested—one for battery and the other for vandalism—after a group protested outside and within Wilshire Boulevard Temple in Los Angeles on Wednesday, Jeff Lee, a spokesman for the Los Angeles Police Department, told JNS.

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Declassified files expose Hamas’s grip on NGOs in Gaza

Hamas Interior Ministry documents taken from the Gaza Strip shed new light on the methods the terror group used to exert control over foreign-aid groups, NGO Monitor revealed in a report on Wednesday.

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Iran’s Revolutionary Guards threaten US warships as they stage naval exercise in Gulf

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps on Thursday kicked off naval wargames in the Gulf, issuing warnings to US warships in the area, more than five months after the 12-day war with Israel that briefly drew in American forces.

Read more: The Times of Israel

Declassified files expose Hamas’s grip on NGOs in Gaza

Hamas Interior Ministry documents taken from the Gaza Strip shed new light on the methods the terror group used to exert control over foreign-aid groups, NGO Monitor revealed in a report on Wednesday.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

House foreign affairs panel advances bill to designate Muslim Brotherhood as terrorists

The House Foreign Affairs Committee advanced legislation on Wednesday to require U.S. President Donald Trump to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

Pro-Palestinian Protest Turns Violent at Wilshire Boulevard Temple Event

UCLA medical student Eliana Jolkovsky arrived on Wednesday, December 3, at Wilshire Boulevard Temple and saw a group of about 15 protesters, their faces masked by keffiyehs, chanting, “Baby Killers,” “Zionist Pigs,” and “Occupation no more.”

Read more: Jewish Journal

Body of Thai citizen Sudthisak Rinthalak returned to Israel

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.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

Manhattan Institute poll finds 17% of GOP members are ‘anti-Jewish Republicans’

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.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

Israeli teen indicted on terror charges for allegedly planning ISIS-inspired bombing

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