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If the International Criminal Court and its prosecutor Karim Khan don’t reverse their “outrageous unlawful actions to pursue arrest warrants against Israeli officials, the Senate should immediately pass sanctions legislation, as the House has already done on a bipartisan basis,” Senate Majority Leader-elect John Thune (R-S.D.) wrote on Sunday….
Canadian authorities have foiled an Iranian attempt to assassinate renowned Jewish jurist Irwin Cotler, a former Canadian justice minister and attorney general, the Globe and Mail reports.
Read more: The Times of Israel
The United States delivered a draft proposal for an Israel-Hezbollah truce to Lebanon’s Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri on Thursday.
Read More: Jewish News Syndicate
Business magnate Elon Musk engaged in a confidential hour-long meeting with Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations at an undisclosed New York location, The New York Times reported Thursday night. The revelation comes as Tehran shows signs of potential diplomatic realignment with a future Trump administration.
Read More: Israel Hayom
Greece is in talks with Israel to develop a 2 billion-euro ($2.11 billion) anti-aircraft and missile defense dome, part of a wider push to modernize its armed forces as it recovers from a protracted debt crisis, Greek officials said on Thursday.
Read More: The Times of Israel
More than 10% of principals and senior education staff employed by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in the Gaza Strip are members of Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad, according to a report published on Thursday.
Read More: Jewish News Syndicate
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) proposed incorporating the Antisemitism Awareness Act into the National Defense Authorization Act as part of negotiations with top congressional leaders, potentially putting the bill on a fast-track to passage, his office told Jewish Insider on Thursday.
Read More: Jewish Insider
The Israeli strikes on Iranian military facilities last month destroyed an active nuclear weapons research facility in the Parchin military complex, outside of Tehran, Axios reports, citing three US officials, an Israeli official and a former Israeli official.
Read More: The Times of Israel
On Wednesday, the Israeli Air Force targeted smuggling routes in Syria used by Hezbollah to transport weapons into Lebanon.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Over 140 Hezbollah rocket launchers in Southern Lebanon were destroyed by Israeli airstrikes over the past week, the Israel Defense Forces said on Thursday.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Six Israeli soldiers were killed in a clash with Hezbollah forces, the IDF announced Wednesday, as Israeli troops pushed deeper into southern Lebanon amid an intensification of violence, even as officials expressed cautious optimism on ceasefire talks.
Read more: The Times of Israel
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s announcement on Wednesday that Ankara would sever all remaining ties with Israel is being met with condemnation from Capitol Hill lawmakers on both sides of the aisle.
Read more: Jewish Insider
Israeli intelligence officials have identified Dutch organizations with Hamas ties as the primary instigators of last week’s disturbances in Amsterdam, according to a report released Wednesday by Israel’s Diaspora Affairs Ministry.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Israeli privately-held tech companies and start-ups raised nearly $1 billion in the month of October alone, according to a recent report by Israeli business daily Globes.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
US President-elect Donald Trump moved to build out his national security team Tuesday, announcing he is nominating Fox News host and Army veteran Pete Hegseth to serve as his defense secretary and former director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe to lead the Central Intelligence Agency.
Read more: The Times of Israel
Israel has destroyed most of Hezbollah’s weapons storage sites and missile production facilities in the group’s stronghold in Dahieh, a southern suburb of Beirut, the Israel Defense Forces said on Tuesday.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Palestinian Islamic Jihad released a proof-of-life video on Wednesday of Russian-Israeli hostage Alexander (“Sasha”) Troufanov, who was abducted from his family home during the Hamas terrorist attacks in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, and has been held captive in the Gaza Strip for 404 days.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
President-elect Donald Trump nominated former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee as the next US ambassador to Israel on Tuesday — insisting that the conservative pundit and Baptist minister “will work tirelessly to bring about Peace in the Middle East!”
Read more: New York Post