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MBS tells Trump he wants to join Abraham Accords, but path to Palestinian state crucial

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said Tuesday during his White House meeting with US President Donald Trump that Riyadh wants to join the Abraham Accords, but calls for the need to secure a path towards a two-state solution.

Read more: The Times of Israel

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Senior UAE official urges expansion of Abraham Accords

A senior Emirati government official this week urged Israeli lawmakers to work together to further the expansion of the Abraham Accords as a foil against Islamic extremism in the region.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Sa’ar: PA nearly doubled payments to terrorists in 2025

The Palestinian Authority nearly doubled the payments it issued in 2025 to convicted terrorists and to the families of those killed while carrying out attacks, despite its repeated claims to have halted the practice, Israel’s Foreign Ministry revealed Wednesday.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Gaza water firm shuts down to protest Hamas kidnapping of worker

A Gaza firm that runs water desalination plants supplying nearly half the enclave’s two million residents halted operations on Tuesday to protest the abduction of one of its employees by Hamas terrorists a day earlier.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Op-Ed: Pastor John Hagee: Salvation or damnation for the Grand Ole’ Party?

Several weeks ago, I was honored to host Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas) at my church’s 45th annual Night to Honor Israel in San Antonio. In typical fashion, the senator spoke passionately and from the heart. Little did I know that his clarion call from the stage to combat the scourge of antisemitism on the fringe right would ruffle so many feathers.
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Hamas rejects disarmament clause in Gaza ceasefire plan, claims it was not part of original talks

Hamas rejected the clause in US President Donald Trump's Gaza peace plan regarding its disarmament, claiming that it was not part of the original negotiations, the Qatar-based Al Jazeera Mubasher reported on Monday.

Read more: The Jerusalem Post

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Saudi crown prince receives letter from Iranian president ahead of US visit, SPA reports

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman received a letter on Monday from Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, the Saudi state news agency SPA reported, a day ahead of the Saudi de facto ruler's visit to the US for talks with President Donald Trump.

Read more: The Jerusalem Post

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Netanyahu praises UNSC Gaza resolution vote, thanks US President Trump

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised the United Nations Security Council's (UNSC) vote to implement US President Donald Trump's Gaza peace plan, thanking Trump and his team for their efforts to secure the deal, the Prime Minister's Office posted to X/Twitter on Tuesday morning.

Read more: The Jerusalem Post

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IDF kills Palestinian terrorists after Gaza truce violations

The Israel Defense Forces eliminated two Palestinian terrorists on Tuesday after they breached the U.S.-brokered ceasefire by attempting to cross into IDF-controlled territory in the Gaza Strip.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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One killed, three wounded in Gush Etzion terror attack

One person was killed and three others wounded in a combined vehicle ramming and stabbing at the Gush Etzion Junction in Judea on Tuesday afternoon, according to emergency medical services.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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IDF kills terrorists breaching Gaza’s Yellow Line in two separate Monday incidents

The IDF killed several terrorists while crossing Gaza's Yellow Line in two separate events on Monday, the military said in a statement.

Read more: The Jerusalem Post

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Russian and Iranian foreign ministers discuss Tehran’s nuclear program, Moscow says

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov discussed Tehran's nuclear program with his Iranian counterpart Abbas Araghchi by phone on Monday, Lavrov's ministry said.

Read more: The Jerusalem Post

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Israeli FM: ‘Palestine’ would be a ‘terror state’

A Palestinian state would be a “terror state,” said Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar on Sunday.
Speaking to a delegation of young German leaders visiting Jerusalem, Sa’ar said: “There is a new obsession in the world, and mainly in Europe, that lacks any geopolitical logic. We are facing three terrorist states, a unique phenomenon in the...

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Hamas stockpiling weapons in sympathetic countries despite Gaza disarmament deal

Hamas has started stockpiling weapons in African countries, Yemen, and other nations sympathetic to the terrorist organization, Israeli public broadcaster KAN News reported on Sunday.

Read more: The Jerusalem Post

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Zamir in Gaza: Hamas to be disarmed ‘through agreement or military means’

Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir on Sunday vowed to disarm the Hamas terrorist group “either through an agreement or through military means.”

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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4 East Jerusalem Palestinians held for Islamic State ties, prepping for ‘end of days’ war

Four residents of East Jerusalem’s Beit Safafa neighborhood have been arrested and will be charged with affiliation to the Islamic State and planning attacks against Jewish Israelis as part of a “great war of the end of days,”  the Shin Bet security agency and Israel Police announced Friday.

Read more: The Times of Israel

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Exposing Hezbollah: IDF claims terror group murdered prominent Christian-Lebanese critic

Christian Lebanese politician, Elias Hasrouni, was assassinated by the Hezbollah terror group he opposed, the IDF confirmed on Friday.

Read more: The Jerusalem Post

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Iran accused of seizing Singapore-bound tanker off coast of UAE

A tanker transiting through the narrow Strait of Hormuz suddenly changed course into Iranian territorial waters Friday, with the British military warning that a possible “state activity” had affected it.

Read more: The Times of Israel

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Feds convict neo-Nazi who targeted Georgia rabbi, Jewish state rep

Federal prosecutors in Georgia announced on Thursday that a neo-Nazi was convicted of hate crimes earlier in the month after he sent threatening, antisemitic postcards to a local rabbi and the state’s lone Jewish representative.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Israel redeems the remains of slain hostage Meny Godard

Israel on Thursday night recovered the remains of hostage Meny (Menachem) Godard, who was murdered by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist organization during the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre, and whose body was taken into the Gaza Strip.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate