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In The News

Children filmed praising Palestinian terrorist leaders at rally in Brussels

Israel’s ambassador to Belgium joined local politicians in condemning a protest in Brussels where two girls were filmed praising Hamas leaders in an Arabic-language song while sitting on the shoulders of keffiyeh-clad men.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Houthi terrorists detain 11 UN staff in Sanaa raid

Houthi terrorists detained at least 11 United Nations staff in a raid on the international body’s offices in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa on Sunday, Reuters reported.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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IAEA finds uranium traces linked to Syrian site bombed by Israel

The United Nations' (UN) International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) found traces of uranium in Syria during an its investigation into a building Israel destroyed in 2007.
Read more: i24 News

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Jerusalem denounces synchronized anti-Israel media campaign

Israel’s Foreign Ministry attacked an orchestrated media campaign by Reporters without Borders, which directed more than a hundred news outlets to simultaneously condemn the Jewish state on Monday for killing local journalists and preventing the entry of foreign media into Gaza.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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IDF chief: Activity in Gaza City area to intensify

The Israel Defense Forces continues to strike Hamas targets and is enhancing its focus on the Gaza City area, Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir said on Friday.

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Jewish woman stabbed at Ottawa supermarket

Prosecutors in Canada on Thursday charged a 71-year-old man with stabbing and severely wounding a Jewish woman at a Loblaws supermarket in Ottawa that houses a well-known kosher section, in an assault that rights groups said was likely antisemitic.

Read More: Jewish News Syndicate

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Turkey completely severes economic ties, closes airspace to Israel

Turkey has decided to completely sever all commercial and economic ties with Israel and is closing its airspace to Israeli planes, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said Friday.

Read More: The Jerusalem Post

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Israeli strike on Yemen said to kill Houthi prime minister, other top officials

The prime minister of the Iran-backed Houthi group in Yemen was reportedly killed during Israel’s airstrikes on Thursday in the capital city of Sanaa.

Read More: The Times of Israel

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My son died because IDF spares civilians, Israeli envoy to US says

Israel’s ambassador to the United States, Yechiel Leiter, said in a televised interview on Thursday that his son Moshe, who did fighting Hamas in 2023, would be alive today if Israel really did what it is accused of doing in Gaza.

Read More: Jewish News Syndicate

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IDF, Shin Bet recover two hostage bodies from Gaza

Israeli forces have retrieved the bodies of two hostages, that of Ilan Weiss and another, unnamed, individual, that Hamas terrorists had kept in the Gaza Strip, the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem said on Friday.

Read More: Jewish News Syndicate

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Oldest dam uncovered in Jerusalem dated to biblical kings

The largest dam in ancient Israel, uncovered just outside the walled Old City of Jerusalem, has been dated back to the time of the biblical kings, some 2,800 years ago, the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) announced on Monday.

Read More: Jewish News Syndicate

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Bahrain welcomes Israeli envoy, signaling revived ties

Bahraini Foreign Minister Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani on Wednesday received the credentials of Israeli Ambassador Shmuel Revel at the ministry’s headquarters in Manama, the state-run Bahrain News Agency reported.

Read More: Jewish News Syndicate

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IAF intercepts Houthi drones launched from Yemen

The Israeli Air Force intercepted two drones dispatched by Houthi terrorists in Yemen on Thursday afternoon that triggered air-raid sirens, including in the border communities of Bnei Netzarim and Naveh.

Read More: Jewish News Syndicate

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Israel strikes Hezbollah terrorist targets across Southern Lebanon

Israeli Air Force craft struck several targets of the Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorist group, including a rocket launcher, in Southern Lebanon on Thursday.

Read More: Jewish News Syndicate

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Minnesota shooter wrote of killing ‘filthy Zionist Jews,’ ‘free Palestine’

Robin Westman, who died of a self-inflicted gunshot after killing two children at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis, Minn., wrote of murdering “filthy Zionist Jews,” that “six million wasn’t enough” and “free Palestine,” the New York Post reported on Wednesday.

Read More: Jewish News Syndicate

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Iran-directed criminals twice targeted wrong venue before torching kosher Australian deli

After Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Tuesday that Iran was found to be behind a pair of antisemitic arson attacks in 2024, court documents published in a report Wednesday showed how one of those attacks was bungled by local criminals and a gangster styling himself as “James Bond.”

Read more: The Times of Israel

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IDF intercepts Houthi missile after sirens sound in Jerusalem, West Bank

The IDF intercepted a missile from Yemen after sirens sounded in Jerusalem and the West Bank on Wednesday morning.

Read more: The Jerusalem Post

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Israeli forces arrest Fatah terrorist in Hebron raid after years on the run

Israeli security forces have arrested a Fatah terrorist wanted for years in connection with a shooting in the South Hebron Hills, the Israel Police announced Wednesday.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Senior Hamas security official killed in Israeli strike

The Israel Defense Forces announced on Wednesday that a senior Hamas security official had been killed in an airstrike in the Gaza Strip on Aug. 22.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Netanyahu recognizes Armenian genocide in first for Israeli PM

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday for the first time publicly recognized the genocide carried out against the Armenians, Assyrians and Greeks by Ottoman Turkey in the early 20th century.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate