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U.S. President Donald Trump’s senior envoy Steve Witkoff is expected to visit Israel for meetings with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel’s military chief.
Read more: Reuters
Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir held talks in Washington over the weekend with American officials, focusing on Iran.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
For Michael Ganeles and his wife, visiting the City of David in Jerusalem was a must when they took their three children to Israel for the first time from West Hempstead, New York, to celebrate their middle daughter’s bat mitzvah.
Read more: The Times of Israel
The Israel Defense Forces on Monday targeted and killed a Hezbollah terrorist near Ansariyah in southwestern Lebanon “in response to Hezbollah’s repeated violations of the ceasefire understandings,” the military said.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Michael Sam Teekaye Jr., of Hanover, Md., pleaded guilty in federal court on Friday to trying to join the Islamic State, a U.S.-designated terror organization.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
In recent days, multiple satellite photo providers have put out pictures of the latest Iranian efforts to conceal the status of their nuclear program rebuilding efforts at Natanz, Isfahan, and Parchin-Taleghan 2.
Read more: The Jerusalem Post
Jonathan Dekel-Chen, the father of former Israeli-American hostage Sagui Dekel-Chen, 36, is slated to join the faculty at Columbia University as a visiting professor at the School of International and Public Affairs in July.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Carlisle Rivera, 50, a convicted murderer hired by Iran to assassinate Iranian-American journalist and human-rights activist Masih Alinejad, was sentenced on Jan. 28 to 15 years in prison, the U.S. Department of Justice announced.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Israel has declared South Africa’s senior diplomatic representative, Chargé d’affaires Shaun Edward Byneveldt, persona non grata and has been given 72 hours to leave the country, as announced in a statement by the Israeli foreign affairs ministry on Friday.
Read more: The Jerusalem Post
Israel will reopen the Rafah Crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt for pedestrian traffic in both directions on Sunday, according to the Defense Ministry’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) unit.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
European Union foreign ministers on Thursday agreed to include the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on the bloc’s list of terrorist organizations, putting the powerful Iranian military force in a category similar to that of Islamic State and al Qaeda and marking a symbolic shift in Europe’s approach to Iran’s leadership.
Read more: The Times…
Several European countries that had previously blocked the European Union from designating the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) a terror organization were threatened to do so by the IRGC Quds Force, according to several political sources.
Read More: The Jerusalem Post
Qatar has gained sizable control over Georgetown University, according to a new report by the Middle East Forum.
GU established a campus in Qatar in 2005 through a partnership with the Qatar Foundation and has since renewed its contract multiple times and extended it through 2035.
Read more: The Jerusalem Post
Iranian regime forces have used hospitals and doctors as tools for shutting down antigovernmental protests in recent weeks, according to various media reports, citing firsthand accounts.
Read more: The Jerusalem Post
Senior Hamas official Musa Abu Marzouk told Al Jazeera on Wednesday that the terrorist organization never agreed to disarmament as part of U.S. President Donald Trump’s ceasefire deal for the Gaza Strip.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday revealed a document recovered from the Gaza Strip acknowledging that Iranian-backed Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Gaza’s second-largest terror group after Hamas, knowingly launched rockets that fell inside the Strip.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
A driver smashed a car into a side entrance of the Chabad movement’s world headquarters in New York City on Wednesday, provoking widespread alarm in the Jewish community.
Read white: The Times of Israel
The Israel Defense Forces said on Wednesday that it had received a report of a suspected stabbing near the Tunnel Checkpoint area in Jerusalem.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate