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U.S. President Donald Trump during a telephone conversation with Axios on Monday stopped short of endorsing Israel’s plan to step up military activity in Gaza, but “seemed to agree” that increasing the pressure on Hamas was necessary.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
The lives of the remaining living hostages in Gaza are under an immediate threat due to physical and mental torture carried out by their Hamas captors, a grim report released by the Health Ministry found on Tuesday.
Read more: The Jerusalem Post
The mother and sister of hostage Bipin Joshi, a Nepali agricultural volunteer taken captive from Kibbutz Alumim on October 7, landed in Israel on Monday for their first visit since their loved one’s abduction.
Read more: The Times of Israel
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz posted to X on Monday a chart of senior Israeli officials Iran intends to assassinate.
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An expert review initiated by the Israel Defense Forces has concluded that there are “no signs of a widespread malnutrition phenomenon among the population in Gaza,” the military announced on Tuesday morning.
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Holocaust survivor Olga Weisberg, 91, from Rehovot, collapsed and died on Saturday, shortly after her ending hospitalization for serious wounds sustained in an Iranian missile attack during June’s 12-day war.
Read more: Jewish New Syndicate
The IDF killed Anas Al-Sharif, a Hamas terrorist who also worked as an Al Jazeera correspondent inside the Gaza Strip, on Sunday, the military announced.
Read more: The Jerusalem Post
Former Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh last month praised the Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023, massacre of some 1,200 people as “courageous and unprecedented,” according to a translation by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI).
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Donald Trump talked about Israeli plans to take “control of the remaining Hamas strongholds in Gaza in order to bring about the end of the war, the release of the hostages and the defeat of Hamas,” per an Israeli readout of the Sunday call.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned of a concerted effort in the United States and beyond to "break down" the bond between Christians and Jews.
Read more: Fox News
A historic synagogue in Odessa, Ukraine, was damaged in a Russian drone attack this week when a direct hit caused the shul to catch fire.
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NewMed Energy and the rest of the Leviathan reservoir partners on Thursday signed the largest gas export deal in Israel’s history, involving 130 BCM (billion cubic meters) worth an estimated $35 billion to be sold to Egypt through 2040.
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A British report published on Wednesday documented the second-highest number of antisemitic incidents in the first half of any year, surpassed only by the first six month of 2024 in the aftermath of the Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023, massacre in southern Israel.
Read more: The Jerusalem Post
Israel's Security Cabinet approved Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's proposal to occupy Gaza City, the Prime Minister's Office confirmed on Friday morning.
Read more: The Jerusalem Post
A senior commander in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terror group was killed Thursday in an Israeli airstrike at a border crossing between Lebanon and Syria, the IDF and Shin Bet announced on Friday afternoon.
Read more: The Times of Israel
1,047 antisemitic crimes including two attempted murders were recorded in Germany in the first quarter of 2025, the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) revealed in a report on July 31.
Read more: The Jerusalem Post
Six weeks after being released from US federal detention, Mahmoud Khalil, the first pro-Palestinian protest leader to be arrested by President Donald Trump’s administration last spring, has defended Hamas’s onslaught of October 7, 2023, and said concerns about antisemitism at Columbia University reflect a “manufactured hysteria.”
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US prosecutors have brought federal hate crime charges against the man accused of fatally shooting two Israeli Embassy staffers outside a Jewish museum in Washington, DC, in May.
Read more: The Times of Israel
Questioned about Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s possible plans for a full military occupation of Gaza, President Donald Trump emphasized the American role in fostering stability across the region.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio emphasized on Wednesday the importance of freeing the hostages being held by Hamas, dismantling the terrorist group and addressing critical humanitarian needs in Gaza, while calling for greater focus on the first two issues.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate