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In The News

Rockets fired from Syria for first time in a year; Israel holds Sharaa responsible

Defense Minister Israel Katz said Jerusalem would mount a “full response” against the regime of Syrian leader Ahmed al-Sharaa after two rockets were fired from Syria at the Golan Heights for the first time in over a year, minutes before a Houthi missile triggered sirens across central Israel.

Read more: The Times of Israel

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IDF soldier KIA in Gaza, bringing wartime toll to 862

The Israel Defense Forces on Wednesday announced that Master Sgt. (res.) Alon Farkas had been killed in combat in the northern Gaza Strip.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Khamenei rejects US uranium enrichment demands

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Wednesday defiantly rejected U.S. demands to halt uranium enrichment, declaring that the Islamic Republic will not concede to “the rude and arrogant leaders of America.”

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Michigan antisemite plotted to massacre kids at Jewish daycare, tried to buy assault weapons to use for ‘God’s wrath’: feds

A Michigan antisemite was plotting to massacre kids at a Jewish daycare and tried to illegally buy assault weapons after hurling threats at the preschoolers, federal prosecutors have revealed.

Read more: New York Post

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‘Cannot stay silent’: Christian leaders react to antisemitic terror attack in Boulder

Pastor John Hagee of Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, Texas, and founder of Christians United for Israel, shared his thoughts on the tragedy in an X post Monday morning.

Hagee addressed the fact that one of the victims was a Holocaust survivor.

Read more: The Christian Post

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Trump: No uranium enrichment under any Iran deal

U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday stated unequivocally that the nuclear deal currently being discussed with Iran will not allow any uranium enrichment, contradicting earlier media reports.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Boulder attacker charged with antisemitic hate crime

Mohamed Sabry Soliman, a 45-year-old Egyptian national, has been charged with a federal hate crime and multiple state offenses after attacking a pro-Israel rally in Boulder, Colorado, with fire bombs and a makeshift flamethrower on Sunday, according to reports.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Three IDF soldiers killed by roadside bomb in north Gaza’s Jabalia

Three Israeli soldiers were killed and two were wounded by a roadside bomb Monday during operations in the Jabalia area in the northern Gaza Strip, the military announced Tuesday morning.

Read more: The Times of Israel

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Peace with Qatar? Mark Levin says not until the country stops funding terrorism

Now that the Biden regime is history, we’re finally seeing genuine efforts to combat the anti-Semitism that was allowed to run rampant for years.

Read more: Blaze Media

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1.8 million tons of supplies delivered to Gaza since war began

In the nearly 20 months since some 6,000 Hamas-led Gazan terrorists invaded Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, the Jewish state has facilitated the delivery of close to 1.8 million tons of aid to the Strip, including 1.3 million tons of food, Israel said this weekend.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Netanyahu says Boulder attack a direct result of ‘blood libels’ against Israel and Jews

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday condemned the “vicious terror attack” in Boulder, Colorado against people demonstrating for the hostages held in Gaza, saying that a recent spate of violent attacks against Jews around the world was a direct result of “blood libels against the Jewish state and people.”

Read more: The Times of Israel

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Boulder terror suspect got work permit despite visa overstay

The alleged attacker in Sunday’s firebombing of a pro-Israel vigil in Boulder, Colo., overstayed his visa and was subsequently granted a work permit by the Biden administration, White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller said on Monday.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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8 wounded in flamethrower, firebomb attack on rally for Israeli hostages in Colorado

At least eight people were wounded Sunday in Boulder, Colorado — including one person in critical condition — when activists rallying for the release of the Israeli hostages in Gaza were attacked by a man shouting “end Zionists,” who fired a makeshift flamethrower and threw firebombs at them.

Read more: The Times of Israel

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Medical breakthrough in Israel: Artificial heart implanted at Hadassah Ein Kerem

The life of a 63-year-old man was saved on Sunday thanks to the first-ever implantation in Israel of an artificial heart.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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IDF downs missile fired from Yemen in week’s 6th Houthi attack

A ballistic missile launched at Israel by the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen was successfully intercepted by air defenses, the military said Thursday night, in what has recently become an almost daily occurrence.

Read more: The Times of Israel

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ISIS claims first attack on Syrian government forces since Assad’s fall

The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for two attacks in southern Syria, including one on government forces that an opposition war monitor described as the first on the Syrian army to be carried out by the jihadists since the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in December.

Read more: The Times of Israel

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IAF strikes Hezbollah site in Lebanon’s Beqaa Valley

The Israeli Air Force carried out an overnight strike on Hezbollah terrorist infrastructure site in eastern Lebanon’s Beqaa Valley, the military said on Friday.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Hamas official tells BBC group will reject Witkoff’s new Gaza ceasefire proposal, demand changes

An unnamed Hamas official told the BBC on Friday that the terror group is expected to reject the latest hostage deal-ceasefire proposal by US Middle East Envoy Steve Witkoff.

Read more: The Jerusalem Post

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IDF reveals it used laser system to intercept dozens of Hezbollah drones last year

During the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon last year, the Israeli Air Force intercepted dozens of drones launched by the terror group using a new laser interception system, the military and Defense Ministry revealed on Wednesday.

Read more: The Times of Israel

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Lebanese army said dismantling Hezbollah infrastructure more quickly than expected

Lebanon’s army has dismantled most of Hezbollah’s posts and weapons stockpile in the country’s south, with the help of Israeli intelligence passed along by the US, and Israeli and American officials are said to be pleasantly surprised by the progress, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.

Read more: The Times of Israel