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In The News

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards threaten US warships as they stage naval exercise in Gulf

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps on Thursday kicked off naval wargames in the Gulf, issuing warnings to US warships in the area, more than five months after the 12-day war with Israel that briefly drew in American forces.

Read more: The Times of Israel

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Declassified files expose Hamas’s grip on NGOs in Gaza

Hamas Interior Ministry documents taken from the Gaza Strip shed new light on the methods the terror group used to exert control over foreign-aid groups, NGO Monitor revealed in a report on Wednesday.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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House foreign affairs panel advances bill to designate Muslim Brotherhood as terrorists

The House Foreign Affairs Committee advanced legislation on Wednesday to require U.S. President Donald Trump to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Pro-Palestinian Protest Turns Violent at Wilshire Boulevard Temple Event

UCLA medical student Eliana Jolkovsky arrived on Wednesday, December 3, at Wilshire Boulevard Temple and saw a group of about 15 protesters, their faces masked by keffiyehs, chanting, “Baby Killers,” “Zionist Pigs,” and “Occupation no more.”

Read more: Jewish Journal

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Body of Thai citizen Sudthisak Rinthalak returned to Israel

Israeli authorities on Thursday morning confirmed that the remains recovered from the Gaza Strip the previous evening belong to murdered Thai national Sudthisak Rinthalak, whose body had been held captive in Gaza since the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Manhattan Institute poll finds 17% of GOP members are ‘anti-Jewish Republicans’

Some 17% of GOP supporters are “anti-Jewish Republicans” with beliefs including Holocaust denial or the view that Israel is a “settler-colonial state” that drags the United States “into wars we have no business in,” according to a poll which the conservative Manhattan Institute released on Monday.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Israeli teen indicted on terror charges for allegedly planning ISIS-inspired bombing

Prosecutors indicted an 18-year-old on terror charges Wednesday after he allegedly plotted to carry out an Islamic State-inspired attack on IDF soldiers at a bus station in Beersheba.

Read more: The Times of Israel

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Father of hostage Sudthisak Rinthalak: ‘I always worry about him, I pray for him’

The family of Sudthisak Rinthalak, one of the two remaining hostages whose bodies are held in the Gaza Strip, spoke Wednesday about the long wait for the return of their son and brother, during a brief interview recorded by Army Radio.

Read more: The Times of Israel

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Alon Ohel reveals how he survived two years of torment in Gaza

During an interview with Israel’s Channel 12 that aired on Monday, released hostage Alon Ohel, 24, said he is alive today because he made a conscious decision to survive.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Israel receives body believed to belong to slain hostage

Israel was preparing on Wednesday afternoon to receive the remains of a deceased hostage, according to the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Trump, Netanyahu hold call on Hamas disarmament

U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a phone call on Monday to discuss Gaza.
“The two leaders stressed the importance and obligation of disarming Hamas and demilitarizing the Gaza Strip, and discussed expanding the peace agreements,” the prime minister’s office wrote.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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US envoy: Israel doesn’t need OK to hit Hezbollah

New U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon Michel Issa said last week that Israel does not need an American green light to defend itself, while stressing the importance for regional security of disarming the Hezbollah terrorist group.

Read More: Jewish News Syndicate

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Israeli FM meets with African king in Jerusalem

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar met Monday in Jerusalem with an African king who heads an ethnic group based in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa, according to the Israeli Embassy in South Africa.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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House passes bill to bar, deport Oct. 7 perpetrators

The U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation on Monday that would render participants in the Hamas-led Oct. 7 attacks in southern Israel inadmissible to the United States.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Israel warns Hezbollah racing to rebuild in Lebanon

The Israel Defense Forces warned on Tuesday that the Hezbollah terrorist organization in Lebanon is rapidly rebuilding its military capabilities despite Jerusalem’s ongoing strikes since the ceasefire took hold over a year ago.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Red Cross transfers to Israel ‘findings’ from Gaza

The International Committee of the Red Cross on Tuesday handed over to the Israel Defense Forces “findings” that had been transferred to it by Hamas, according to the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Surgeons save soldier wounded in Syria who has a bullet lodged in his heart

Surgeons at Haifa’s Rambam Medical Center managed to save the life of an Israeli soldier wounded in Syria who arrived at the hospital in critical condition with a bullet lodged in his heart, the hospital said Sunday.

Read more: The Times of Israel

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Declassified docs reveal Argentinian gov. knew Jozef Mengele was living in Buenos Aires in 1950s

Infamous Nazi doctor Josef Mengele lived a comfortable life in an affluent Argentinian suburb after fleeing Germany, according to a comprehensive Fox News Spanish-language analysis of declassified documents.

Read more: The Jerusalem Post

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IDF to receive ‘Iron Beam’ laser interceptors at the end of the month

Israel’s high-powered laser interception system, dubbed “Iron Beam,” will be delivered to the military at the end of the month, the head of the Defense Ministry’s Directorate of Defense Research and Development said Monday.

Read more: The Times of Israel

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Khamenei: Iran defeated US, Israel in June’s 12-Day War

Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on Thursday night delivered a blistering broadside against the United States and Israel, accusing the allies of committing global crimes and claiming Tehran emerged victorious from the 12-day conflict in June.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate