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Columbia University President Minouche Shafik has resigned after a tumultuous year marked by persistent and often violent anti-Israel demonstrations. Shafik's exit comes just days after three university deans stepped down following the exposure of an email chain that dismissed concerns from Israeli and Jewish students about rising antisemitism on...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed to dispatch on Thursday a high-ranking delegation to Doha, Qatar, for talks to secure the release of 115 hostages being held by Hamas in Gaza in exchange for a ceasefire in the war.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Iran is secretly advancing its nuclear weapons program and is now closer than ever to building a nuclear bomb as Tehran is set to resume tests to produce nuclear bomb detonators, opposition-affiliated news outlet Iran International reported on Wednesday, citing three independent sources in Iran.
Read more: Y Net News
On Wednesday morning, the IDF spokesperson published visual evidence that the rocket attacks targeting Tel Aviv on Tuesday were launched from the humanitarian zone in Khan Younis.
Read more: Israel Hayom
There is desperation in Western media to declare Israel’s campaign in Gaza, Operation Swords of Iron, a failure.
Read more: Tablet
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on Tuesday vowed to push back Hezbollah terrorists north of the Litani River, in accordance with U.N. Security Council Resolution 1701 that ended the 2006 Second Lebanon War with the Iranian proxy.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
The Defense Security Cooperation Agency, part of the U.S. Department of Defense, notified Congress on Tuesday that U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken had approved five potential sales to Israel—collectively worth up to $20.3 billion—of tactical vehicles, mortar and tank cartridges, missiles and F-15 fighter jets.
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A former Cornell University student arrested for posting statements threatening violence against Jewish people on campus last fall after the start of the war in Gaza was sentenced Monday to 21 months in prison.
Read more: The Times of Israel
A 22-year-old man has been arrested and charged with 14 counts, including attempted murder, assault and hate crimes, on suspicion of stabbing a 33-year-old man near a Brooklyn synagogue over the weekend, police said.
Read more: CNN
A week after the appointment of Hamas leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, as the head of the political bureau of the terrorist organization, replacing Ismail Haniyeh, who was eliminated in Tehran, the London-based Arabic newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat is shedding some light on how he operates and sends messages to the Hamas leadership and negotiators.
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After 10 months of conflict, Israel has drawn a crucial lesson: the need to indigenously produce and develop critical weaponry for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).
Read more: Israel Hayom
Iran on Tuesday rejected Western calls to stand down its threat to retaliate against Israel for its alleged killing of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran late last month.
Read more: The Times of Israel
One Israeli was killed and another moderately wounded when terrorists opened fire at their vehicles near the Mehola Junction in the northern Jordan Valley on Sunday, the Israel Defense Forces confirmed.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
The Israel Defense Forces announced on Monday that Sgt. Omer Ginzburg, 19, of the Paratroopers Brigade’s 101st Battalion, from Kiryat Tivon, was killed in battle in the southern Gaza Strip on Sunday.
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The IDF and the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet), in a joint operation on Saturday, conducted a precision strike on a Hamas command and control center embedded in a mosque in the Al-Taba’een school compound in Gaza City.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Several Hezbollah operatives were killed in a drone strike in southern Lebanon’s Taybeh Sunday, the Israel Defense Forces said, with Lebanese media reporting two people were killed when a motorcycle was targeted.
Read more: The Times of Israel
The Hamas terrorist group on Sunday announced that it will not attend a final round of negotiations for a ceasefire and hostage release agreement set for this Thursday.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Several reports Sunday evening indicated that Israel was expecting a major Iranian attack to be launched within days, though the military sought to downplay this by stressing that instructions to civilians were unchanged.
Read more: The Times of Israel
Iran is ramping up online activity that appears intended to influence the upcoming U.S. election, in one case targeting a presidential campaign with an email phishing attack, Microsoft said Friday.
Read more: VOA News
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin updated his Israeli counterpart on Thursday about the bolstering of U.S. forces in the Middle East in the face of threats from Iran and its terrorist proxies.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
