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Ahead of Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa’s visit to the White House on Monday, the Trump administration said on Friday that it is removing sanctions on the Syrian leader and a top minister, following a vote of the United Nations Security Council.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
The Senate Judiciary Committee passed the Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery Act of 2025, which would remove a “sunset” date of Dec. 31, 2026 from a 2016 bill of the same name, unanimously on Thursday.
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The woman who has accused the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court of sexual abuse has been targeted by private intelligence firms in a covert operation carried out on behalf of Qatar, a British daily reported on Thursday.
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Hasan Izadi, an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps official in Iran, planned to assassinate Einat Kranz Neiger, the Israeli ambassador to Mexico, starting in late 2024 and kept the plot going actively through the first half of 2025, according to a U.S. official and the Israeli Foreign Affairs Ministry.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Hundreds of people gathered at the Kiryat Shaul cemetery in Tel Aviv on Friday to pay their last respects to slain Israeli-American hostage soldier Cpt. Omer Maxim Neutra, whose body was returned to Israel from Gaza on Sunday evening.
Read more: The Times of Israel
The battle lines have been drawn, and they are theological.
On one side is the Nick Fuentes-Tucker Carlson wing of ethno-nationalism, which espouses a form of Catholic integralism or “blood-and-soil” traditionalism. On the other side is the most powerful grassroots force for evangelicals in the GOP: the dispensationalist Christian Zionism of...
US Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff is expected to announce that Kazakhstan will join the Abraham Accords on Thursday evening, a source with knowledge of the matter told The Jerusalem Post.
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Police seized weapons and arrested a British man suspected of links to alleged Hamas members in Germany who are accused of plotting attacks on Jewish targets, authorities said Thursday.
Read More: The Times of Israel
The U.S. Department of the Treasury sanctioned Hezbollah operatives, who it said exploited Lebanon’s cash economy to funnel more than $1 billion to the terror group this year, the agency announced on Thursday.
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An Afghan national was arrested in Denmark on Wednesday on suspicion of taking part in an Iranian plot to attack Jewish targets in Germany, the Associated Press reported.
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The IDF confirmed carrying out an airstrike targeting Hezbollah infrastructure in the Lebanese city of Tyre on Thursday.
According to the IDF, the site belonged to Hezbollah’s Construction Unit. It was used to manufacture equipment used by the terror group to rebuild its infrastructure that had been previously targeted and dismantled during the...
Recently released Israeli hostage Rom Braslavski has revealed for the first time that he was sexually abused and tortured by his captors in the Gaza Strip.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Remains returned from Gaza to Israel overnight were identified as those of Tanzanian national Joshua Loitu Mollel, Israeli authorities said Thursday.
Military and Foreign Ministry representatives notified Mollel’s family that his body was returned to Israel after forensic experts completed the identification.
Read more: The Times of Israel
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A 35-year-old man rammed his car into pedestrians and cyclists on Wednesday on the French Atlantic island of Oleron, wounding 10 people, four of them seriously, a prosecutor said.
Read more: The Times of Israel
An Israeli medical delegation is heading to Jamaica to provide humanitarian assistance to the Caribbean island nation in the aftermath of last week’s Hurricane Melissa, Jerusalem’s health and foreign ministries announced on Wednesday.
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IDF soldiers killed two terrorists in the central Gaza Strip who were attempting to cross the Yellow Line and approach troops stationed in the area, the military said on Wednesday.
Read more: The Jerusalem Post
Military representatives notified the family of Staff Sgt. Itay Chen that his body was returned to Israel by Hamas on Tuesday night, following the completion of identification efforts by forensic experts.
Read more: The Times of Israel
Democratic candidate Zohran Mamdani on Tuesday was elected mayor of New York City, capping a stunning rise for the far-left anti-Israel activist and state assembly member who, at 34, will be the city’s youngest mayor in over a century.
Read more: The Times of Israel
Speaking at a youth conference in Germany on Monday, Jordan’s Queen Rania appeared to equate Israel’s attitude toward the Palestinians to Nazi Germany’s dehumanization of Jews.
Read more: The Times of Israel