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New F-35 fighter jets arrive at Israel’s Nevatim Airbase

The Israeli Air Force received three more F-35i “Adir” fighter aircraft on Thursday night, the Israel Defense Forces said.

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Homes raided as part of Michigan crackdown on pro-Palestinian vandalism targeting Jews

US federal and state agents in Michigan raided at least three different home addresses connected to pro-Palestinian activists Wednesday, as part of what authorities said was an ongoing investigation into more than a year of the group targeting homes and businesses, including prominent Jewish locations.

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Israeli forces arrest PIJ terrorist in Samaria, foiling imminent attack

Israeli security forces overnight Thursday arrested an armed terrorist in western Samaria affiliated with Palestinian Islamic Jihad who was allegedly planning an imminent attack.

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IDF reservist killed fighting Hamas in Gaza, bringing war toll to 849

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.

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Hamas threatened to kill hostage in call to his freed wife

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.

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At Auschwitz, Oct. 7 survivors and freed hostages sing ‘Hatikvah’

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.

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IDF says strike targeted Hamas, Islamic Jihad terrorists in north Gaza command center

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.

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Trump recognizes Days of Remembrance of Victims of the Holocaust

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.”

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Israel halts for Yom Hashoah, honoring the Six Million

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).

Iran ramps up state executions amid nuclear talks with US

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.

Herzog to lead March of the Living with freed hostages

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.

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In first, Houthi ballistic missile triggers sirens in Haifa; IDF says intercepted

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.

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‘Sons of dogs, release the hostages,’ Mahmoud Abbas tells Hamas

“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.

Trump says he, Netanyahu on ‘same side of every issue’

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.”

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US said to have killed 500 Houthi fighters

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.

China, Egypt hold first joint drill near Israeli border

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.

IDF ‘decisive answer to horrors of Holocaust,’ says chief of staff at Yom HaShoah seminar

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.

ADL says 2024 antisemitic incidents in US shattered records for fourth year in a row

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.