In The News

IDF recovers remains of six hostages murdered in Gaza

The Israel Defense Forces on Tuesday morning recovered the bodies of six hostages kidnapped on Oct. 7, from a tunnel in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

Blinken arrives in Israel to push cease-fire deal amid doubts of success

Secretary of State Antony Blinken has arrived in Israel for a trip focused on bridging the significant gaps between Israel and Hamas on a U.S.-sponsored cease-fire proposal aimed at ending 10 months of fighting in the devastated Gaza Strip.

Read more: Washington Post

news Israel at War PA informs Israel of Abbas’s intent to visit Gaza Strip

Palestinian Authority leaders have started contacting countries and global bodies, including Israel, to receive backing and lay the groundwork for a visit by P.A. leader Mahmoud Abbas to the Gaza Strip, Ramallah’s official Wafa news agency reported Sunday.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

House Intelligence Committee chairman says Iran could “declare itself a nuclear weapons state by the end of the year”

Rep. Mike Turner, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said Sunday that Iran could declare itself a nuclear weapons state “by the end of the year,” blaming Biden administration policies for what would mark a major escalation that the U.S. has sought for years to avoid.

Read more: CBS News

Heavy fighting in Rafah, Hamas launches rockets from schools, clinic, cemetery, military says

The military said that Hamas used two schools a field hospital and a cemetery to launch rockets at Israeli communities in the south. “This is a further example of the systematic abuse of civilian and humanitarian infrastructure by the Hamas terrorist organization in Gaza,” the military said adding it had killed the terrorist responsible for rocket…

Hezbollah barrage kills one, wounds another in the Galilee

An IDF chief warrant officer was killed and a combat officer was seriously wounded on Monday morning when a drone launched from Lebanon slammed into Moshav Ya’ara in the Western Galilee, the army confirmed.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

Hamas, Islamic Jihad claim failed Tel Aviv suicide bombing

The “military” wings of the Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorist groups accepted responsibility on Monday afternoon for a failed suicide bombing attack in south Tel Aviv the previous night.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

Experts suggest federal judge’s ruling in UCLA antisemitism case could ‘reverberate’ at other schools

A federal judge in California ruled on Tuesday that UCLA must permit Jewish students equal access to campus spaces and events, finding that Jewish students who refused to denounce Israel were barred from accessing certain parts of campus by activists who erected a large anti-Israel encampment in the spring.

Read more: Jewish Insider

Proposed Pittsburgh anti-Israel ballot measure condemned by Pennsylvania political leaders

Top Pennsylvania political leaders are condemning an effort to put forward a ballot measure in Pittsburgh that would require the city to cut ties with any entity that does business with Israel.

Read more: Jewish Insider

17,000 terrorists killed in Gaza since Oct. 7, IDF says, up 3,000 since May

Israel Defense Forces troops have killed more than 17,000 terrorists in the Gaza Strip since the beginning of the war against Hamas on Oct. 7, IDF Spokesperson Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari revealed on Thursday night.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

Hezbollah probing Israel’s air defense for weakness

Hezbollah’s increased deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles into northern Israeli airspace is designed to expose vulnerabilities in the Jewish state’s air defense systems.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

Hezbollah reveals underground missile launch site

The Iran-backed Hezbollah terror group on Friday posted a video on Friday showing the Amad 4 underground facility from which missiles would be launched against Israel. The clip shows vast tunnels wide enough for trucks to drive through easily, equipped with computers and electric power. Trucks can be seen driving one after the other and missile…

Hosting Abbas, Erdogan vows to keep pushing for international pressure on Israel

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan told visiting Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday that Turkey will continue to support the Palestinian cause and push the international community to increase pressure on Israel, his office said.

Read more: The Times of Israel

Terrorist freed in November hostage deal killed by IDF drone

An Israeli drone strike killed two gunmen who threatened troops in the Balata camp on the outskirts of Nablus (Shechem) in central Samaria early Thursday, including a terrorist released in last November’s hostage/ceasefire deal.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

Palestinian on terror watchlist arrested on southern US border

Omar Shehada, 35, a Palestinian from Judea and Samaria who appears on a terror watchlist for alleged prior “explosives/arms” use, was arrested on the southern U.S. border in Santa Teresa, N.M., the New York Post reported.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

IDF kills 20 terrorists in Rafah as Gaza-wide ops continue

Israeli forces killed 20 terrorists and dismantled a structure concealing a tunnel entrance during operational activities in the former Hamas stronghold of Rafah in southernmost Gaza, the IDF said on Thursday.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

Columbia president resigns after ‘refusal to protect Jewish students’

Columbia University President Minouche Shafik has resigned after a tumultuous year marked by persistent and often violent anti-Israel demonstrations. Shafik’s exit comes just days after three university deans stepped down following the exposure of an email chain that dismissed concerns from Israeli and Jewish students about rising antisemitism on…

Israeli delegation heads to Doha for hostage talks

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed to dispatch on Thursday a high-ranking delegation to Doha, Qatar, for talks to secure the release of 115 hostages being held by Hamas in Gaza in exchange for a ceasefire in the war.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate