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Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa said in a Monday interview with Fox News that Syria would not at this time enter into talks to join the Abraham Accords, but that perhaps US President Donald Trump’s administration would help in making such negotiations possible.
Read more: The Jerusalem Post
Yechiel Leiter, Israel’s ambassador to the United States, told ABC News on Monday that once the remaining hostages’ bodies are returned, the second phase of the ceasefire deal could begin, which requires the “disarming of Hamas and demilitarization of Gaza.”
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Israel Defense Forces Lt. Hadar Goldin was laid to rest at the military cemetery in the central city of Kfar Saba on Tuesday, more than 4,000 days after he was killed during “Operation Protective Edge” in 2014.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
A terrorist shot at Israeli police detectives from the Hebron Police Station, near the community of Beit Hagai in Judea, on Monday after the officers stopped a suspicious car.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Israeli President Isaac Herzog on Monday commemorated the 50th anniversary of his father’s iconic performance at the United Nations, when then-ambassador to the world body Chaim Herzog ripped apart a U.N. resolution that labeled Zionism a form of racism.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Zimnako Salah, 46, whom a jury convicted in March of placing a backpack around a toilet in a church in Roseville, Calif., to “convey a hoax bomb threat and to obstruct the free exercise of religion of the congregants who worshipped there,” was sentenced to six years in prison on Friday, the U.S. Justice Department said.
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The body of Lt. Hadar Goldin, killed and abducted by Hamas during the 2014 Gaza War, was returned to Israel on Sunday after more than 11 years in captivity, the military announced, confirming forensic identification.
Read more: The Times of Israel
Ahead of Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa’s visit to the White House on Monday, the Trump administration said on Friday that it is removing sanctions on the Syrian leader and a top minister, following a vote of the United Nations Security Council.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
The Senate Judiciary Committee passed the Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery Act of 2025, which would remove a “sunset” date of Dec. 31, 2026 from a 2016 bill of the same name, unanimously on Thursday.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
The woman who has accused the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court of sexual abuse has been targeted by private intelligence firms in a covert operation carried out on behalf of Qatar, a British daily reported on Thursday.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Hasan Izadi, an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps official in Iran, planned to assassinate Einat Kranz Neiger, the Israeli ambassador to Mexico, starting in late 2024 and kept the plot going actively through the first half of 2025, according to a U.S. official and the Israeli Foreign Affairs Ministry.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Hundreds of people gathered at the Kiryat Shaul cemetery in Tel Aviv on Friday to pay their last respects to slain Israeli-American hostage soldier Cpt. Omer Maxim Neutra, whose body was returned to Israel from Gaza on Sunday evening.
Read more: The Times of Israel
The battle lines have been drawn, and they are theological.
On one side is the Nick Fuentes-Tucker Carlson wing of ethno-nationalism, which espouses a form of Catholic integralism or “blood-and-soil” traditionalism. On the other side is the most powerful grassroots force for evangelicals in the GOP: the dispensationalist Christian Zionism of…
US Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff is expected to announce that Kazakhstan will join the Abraham Accords on Thursday evening, a source with knowledge of the matter told The Jerusalem Post.
Read More: The Jerusalem Post
Police seized weapons and arrested a British man suspected of links to alleged Hamas members in Germany who are accused of plotting attacks on Jewish targets, authorities said Thursday.
Read More: The Times of Israel
The U.S. Department of the Treasury sanctioned Hezbollah operatives, who it said exploited Lebanon’s cash economy to funnel more than $1 billion to the terror group this year, the agency announced on Thursday.
Read More: Jewish News Syndicate
An Afghan national was arrested in Denmark on Wednesday on suspicion of taking part in an Iranian plot to attack Jewish targets in Germany, the Associated Press reported.
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The IDF confirmed carrying out an airstrike targeting Hezbollah infrastructure in the Lebanese city of Tyre on Thursday.
According to the IDF, the site belonged to Hezbollah’s Construction Unit. It was used to manufacture equipment used by the terror group to rebuild its infrastructure that had been previously targeted and dismantled during the…