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In The News

ADL records 477% increase in anti-Israel activity on campus

The 2,087 anti-Israel incidents of assault, vandalism, harassment, protests and divestment resolutions that the Anti-Defamation League recorded on U.S. campuses between June 1, 2023, and May 31, 2024 represent a 477% increase over the prior academic year, per a report the nonprofit released on Monday.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Hezbollah plot to assassinate former senior official thwarted

The Shin Bet has managed to foil a Hezbollah plot to assassinate a former senior official in the Israeli defense establishment. The attack, which was set to be executed in the coming days, centered around a Claymore-type charge equipped with a remote activation mechanism.
Read more: Israel Hayom

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New Iranian FM pledges ‘unlimited’ support for regional terrorism

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi vowed on Monday to keep up Tehran’s “unlimited support” for terror groups throughout the region while avoiding a direct clash with Israel, according to official Iranian media.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Head of Islamic Jihad’s Rafah rocket unit killed in Israeli strike

An Israeli aerial strike on Monday killed the head of Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s rocket and missile unit in the Rafah area of southern Gaza.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Israel adds safe return of northern residents to war goals

Israel’s Security Cabinet overnight Monday added returning Israelis displaced from their homes in the north to the country’s war goals, bringing a potential major confrontation with Hezbollah in Lebanon closer to reality.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Hundreds of Hezbollah members wounded in Lebanon when pagers explode, security source says

Hundreds of members of the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah, including fighters and medics, were seriously wounded on Tuesday when the pagers they use to communicate exploded, a security source told Reuters.

Read more: Reuters

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American Association of University of Professors under fire for reversing opposition to academic boycotts

Just weeks after the American Association of University Professors reversed course and dropped its longtime opposition to academic boycotts, faculty members on several campuses, days into the new academic year, have started implementing aspects of a boycott of Israel by not assigning articles written by Israeli scholars, refusing to invite Israeli...

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Hamas, Houthis open offices in Baghdad

Hamas and the Houthis have recently established offices in Iraq. The offices, which opened in June, testify to Iraq’s shift towards the Iranian camp in Tehran’s conflict with Israel and the United States.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Iran using Houthis’ Yemen as weapons ‘testing ground’

Israeli air defense officials are reviewing the performance of Air Force detection and interception capabilities on Sunday, hours after the Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen fired a surface-to-surface missile that set off sirens across central Israel.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Jewish communities worldwide brace against rising hatred

French Jewry is on the brink of a coordinated attack, with community members in some cases behaving almost like crypto-Jews. In the UK, people avoid wearing a kippah in public, while Australian Jews are experiencing unprecedented levels of antisemitism.

Read more: Israel Hayom

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Time to avert war with Hezbollah running out, Gallant tells US

Amid fresh rocket fire from Lebanon, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on Monday told his American counterpart Lloyd Austin that time was running out for an agreed-upon de-escalation with Hezbollah.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Are U.S. Airlines Effectively Boycotting Israel?

Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, defines his campaign against Israel as being won as much through economics and psychological coercion as through victories on the battlefield. And nearly a year into the Jewish state’s war with Hamas, Iran’s military proxy in the Gaza Strip, Khamenei’s strategy appears to be advancing—with an assist...

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Spain hosts European, Muslim nations in talks on push for a Palestinian state

Spain, hosting a high-level meeting on Friday of several Muslim and European countries on ways to end the Gaza war, calls for a clear schedule for the international community to implement a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Read more: The Times of Israel

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WHO chief applauds ‘massive success’ of Gaza’s polio vaccine drive

The World Health Organization chief hails the success of the first phase of a giant polio vaccination campaign in war-ravaged Gaza after more than 560,000 children received a first dose.

Read more: The Times of Israel

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Iran boosts ties with criminal networks to attack critics in US, Europe

The Washington Post is reporting that the Iranian government has increased its ties with criminal networks overseas to carry out attacks on its critics in the United States and Europe.

Read more: VOA

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Israel braces for UN showdown as Palestinians seek sanctions

Israel is girding for a high-stakes diplomatic confrontation at the United Nations next week as the Palestinian Authority pushes for sweeping measures against the Jewish state, including calls for an international arms embargo and sanctions.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Hezbollah launches 20 rockets at Safed

Alarms sounded at about 1 a.m. on Friday in the northern Israeli city of Safed, as the Hezbollah terror group launched some 20 rockets from Lebanon, the Israel Defense Forces stated.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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IDF declares victory over Hamas’s Rafah brigade

The Israel Defense Forces has defeated Hamas’s Rafah brigade, the military declared on Thursday after four months of targeted raids in the area of the Gaza Strip’s southernmost city near the border with Egypt.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Soldier killed in ramming attack in West Bank, terrorist apprehended

IDF Sgt. Geri Gideon Hanghal was killed in a ramming attack that occurred near Givat Assaf in the West Bank on Wednesday.

Hanghal, 24, from Nof Hagalil, was a soldier from the 90th Battalion, Kfir Brigade.

Read more: The Jerusalem Post

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Released hostage details how Hamas keeps captives in caged enclosures

In a revealing radio interview on Army Radio Thursday morning, Adina Moshe, freed from Hamas captivity as part of the November hostage deal, shared startling details of her 49-day ordeal. Moses disclosed her encounters with fellow Israeli hostages Yarden Bibas and Ofer Calderon from Kibbutz Nir Oz, whom she saw confined behind bars within the...