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Jordan has reportedly informed the Hamas terror group that it plans to deport a woman convicted of planning a 2001 suicide bombing that killed 16 people at a Jerusalem pizza parlor, in a move that could bring a long-delayed measure of justice to families of victims.
Read more: The Times of Israel
Israel’s new defense strategy against Hezbollah in Lebanon includes establishing permanent military outposts adjacent to each northern Israeli community, according to Hebrew media.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Defense Minister Israel Katz warned Hezbollah to halt its violations of the ceasefire deal or risk its continued existence.
“I would like to send a clear message to Hezbollah and the Lebanese government,” the minister said in remarks published by his office following a visit to Israel Defense Forces troops serving in Southern Lebanon.
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Maj. Gen. (res.) Eyal Zamir has been designated to replace Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi as the Israel Defense Forces chief of staff, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz announced on Saturday night.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday that talks with Israel and other Middle Eastern countries were “progressing,” emphasizing that “some very big meetings” are on tap for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to the White House on Tuesday.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Israel has said its troops will remain in southern Syria, weeks after the regime of Bashar Assad collapsed.
Defense Minister Israel Katz made the announcement while standing on the snow-covered Mount Hermon, situated on the Golan Heights, on Tuesday during a visit to soldiers currently stationed in Syrian territory.
Read more: The Jerusalem...
Hamas officially confirmed on Thursday night that the head of its terrorist army, Mohammed Deif, was killed in an Israeli strike in southern Gaza on July 13 alongside Khan Yunis Brigade commander Rafa’a Salameh.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan met with Hamas leader Muhammad Ismail Darwish in Ankara on Wednesday, Erdogan's office said in a statement. Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan and Intelligence Chief Ibrahim Kalin also attended the meeting, as well as other Hamas officials.
Read more: Reuters
Israeli Air Force fighter jets attacked Hezbollah targets in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley overnight on Thursday after the Iranian-backed terrorist organization dispatched a surveillance drone over the Jewish state, the IDF said on Friday morning.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Three Israeli hostages slated for release by Hamas from Gaza on Saturday were named Friday as Ofer Calderon, 54, Keith Siegel, 65, and Yarden Bibas, 35, officials said.
Read more: The Times of Israel
A small US security firm is hiring nearly 100 US special forces veterans to help run a checkpoint in Gaza during the Israel-Hamas truce, according to a company spokesperson and a recruitment email seen by Reuters, introducing armed American contractors into the heart of one of the world's most violent conflict zones.
Read more: The Jerusalem...
An Israeli drone strike in September eliminated the Palestinian terrorist who kidnapped Israel Defense Forces field observer Naama Levy during the Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023 cross-border massacre, the military revealed on Thursday.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Israel’s new ambassador to the United States, Yechiel Leiter, started work this week ahead of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s scheduled trip to Washington on Tuesday.
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Three Israelis and five Thais were redeemed from terrorist captivity in the Gaza Strip on Thursday as part of Hamas’s truce with Jerusalem, 482 days after they were taken captive during the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre.
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U.S. President Donald Trump signed a sweeping executive order on Wednesday that he said both reinstates an order combating Jew-hatred from his prior term, which the Biden administration “effectively nullified,” and “directs additional measures to advance the policy thereof in the wake of the Hamas terrorist attacks of Oct. 7, 2023, against the...
Qatar and Turkey are slated to take in the lion’s share of the Palestinian murder convicts released by Israel as part of its hostage deal with the Hamas terrorist group, Arab media reported on Wednesday.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday stressed to Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani the need to hold the Hamas terrorist group responsible for its actions.
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Steve Witkoff, U.S. President Donald Trump’s special Middle East envoy, landed in Tel Aviv on a direct private flight from Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, according to reports in Israeli media.
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Israeli forces in Southern Lebanon earlier this week struck a vehicle carrying Hezbollah terrorists who posed an imminent threat, the army announced on Tuesday.
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President Trump is expected to sign an executive order Wednesday instructing all federal agencies to identify civil and criminal authorities available to combat antisemitism — including finding ways to deport anti-Jewish activists who violated laws, The Post has learned.
Read more: New York Post
