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The Hamas terrorist group on Sunday announced that it will not attend a final round of negotiations for a ceasefire and hostage release agreement set for this Thursday.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Several reports Sunday evening indicated that Israel was expecting a major Iranian attack to be launched within days, though the military sought to downplay this by stressing that instructions to civilians were unchanged.
Read more: The Times of Israel
Iran is ramping up online activity that appears intended to influence the upcoming U.S. election, in one case targeting a presidential campaign with an email phishing attack, Microsoft said Friday.
Read more: VOA News
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin updated his Israeli counterpart on Thursday about the bolstering of U.S. forces in the Middle East in the face of threats from Iran and its terrorist proxies.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Three deans at Columbia University, who the university’s president said exchanged messages that “disturbingly touched on ancient antisemitic tropes,” have resigned, the New York Times reported on Thursday, adding that a fourth, who participated “to a lesser extent,” remains in his job.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said an Israeli delegation will attend ceasefire-for-hostage negotiations with Hamas on August 15, making the announcement immediately after the United States, Egypt and Qatar issued a joint call for talks to resume next week with the aim of swiftly concluding a deal.
Read more: The Times of Israel
The IDF Spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari stated that the IDF’s 98th Division began operational activity in the Khan Yunis area following intelligence indicating the presence of terrorists and terror infrastructure in the area of Khan Younis in southern Gaza.
Read more: Y Net News
Israeli Air Force fighter jets attacked a series of Hezbollah terrorist targets in Southern Lebanon overnight Thursday, the military said.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Last Monday morning, I logged onto my various news feeds and saw photos of the latest antisemitic assault on American Jews.
Read more: Jewish Link
Palestinian terrorists this week attempted to ambush Israel Defense Forces troops in the Jordan Valley with remotely detonated roadside bombs, the military revealed on Wednesday.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Foreign Minister Israel Katz announced Thursday that Israel is canceling the diplomatic status of Norway’s representatives to the Palestinian Authority in response to Oslo’s recognition of a Palestinian state and decision to join South Africa in its lawsuit against Israel at the International Criminal Court.
Read more: Israel Hayom
Harvard University “failed its Jewish students” and must face a lawsuit over antisemitism on campus following the Oct. 7 Hamas attack against Israel, a federal judge in Boston ruled.
Read more: ABC News
Israeli officials increasingly believe it will be Hezbollah, rather than Iran, that will be first to launch a major attack on Israel in the coming days, according to media reports on Wednesday, while Tehran was reported to be possibly reconsidering its threatened large-scale onslaught.
Read more: The Times of Israel
A senior Hamas member in Gaza who was involved in directing terror attacks in the West Bank was killed in an airstrike two weeks ago, the Israel Defense Forces announced on Thursday, while Air Force jets struck dozens of targets belonging to terror groups in the Strip over the past day.
Read more: The Times of Israel
Jordan, Qatar and Saudi Arabia have rebuffed requests to contribute troops to a postwar peacekeeping force in Gaza, an Arab official and a second source familiar with the matter told The Times of Israel on Tuesday.
Read more: The Times of Israel
Several media outlets and critics of Israel noted that Monday’s release of results of an internal United Nations investigation stated that nine UNRWA staffers “may” have participated in Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Voters in Missouri’s bright blue 1st Congressional District served a sharp rebuke of the left’s progressive wing on Tuesday, denying Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., a third term.
Read more: Fox News
Israeli warplanes broke the sound barrier over Beirut just ahead of a pugnacious speech by Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah on Tuesday afternoon, as northern residents were told to stay close to bomb shelters amid a series of cross-border attacks from Lebanon.
Read more: The Times of Israel