(JNS.org) –Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu approved the Israel Defense Forces operational plans for Rafah, Mako reported on Friday, citing the Prime Minister’s Bureau. The IDF is preparing operationally for this next stage of the war while also readying for the evacuation of Gazan civilians from Rafah, the report added.
The prime minister described, for the second day in a row, Hamas’s latest conditions for facilitating a hostage...
(JTA) – This week, police in Cambridge, England, announced they were opening an investigation into a protest act focused on a British lord who has been dead for nearly a century.
Last week pro-Palestinian protesters at Trinity College — part of the University of Cambridge — sprayed red paint onto a 1914 portrait of Lord Arthur James Balfour and then slashed through it. Balfour, when he served...
(JTA) — Israel’s military announced the death of an American-Israeli soldier who had been missing since Oct. 7, ending months of uncertainty during which his parents emerged as two of the most visible advocates for the more than 100 people still being held hostage by Hamas.
Itay Chen, 19, from Netanya, was killed and his body abducted following a battle with terrorists during the Hamas onslaught, the...
(JTA) — Protesters opposed to Israel’s war in Gaza demonstrated outside a ceremony to mark the opening of the Netherlands’ first Holocaust museum on Sunday, citing the presence of the Israeli president.
More than 1,000 people joined in the protest over the ceremony, which took place in Amsterdam’s historic Portuguese Synagogue. The protesters came from the Dutch Palestinian community, Socialists International and Erev Rav, a local...
(JTA) — A United Nations report validated Israeli reports of sexual violence committed by Hamas during its Oct. 7 invasion of Israel and afterward, including instances of rape.
The 24-page report, based on a 17-day investigation spanning January and February, supports a claim that Israel and its supporters have stressed in the months since Oct. 7: that rape and sexual assault were part and parcel of the...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — When President Joe Biden delivers his State of the Union speech on Thursday, the audience will include 17 relatives of Americans held captive or murdered by Hamas terrorists in Israel.
A list published Monday by the Families of the American Hostages in Gaza coalition named relatives of six hostages still held captive, two released captives and two hostages who were killed.
(JTA) — Dozens of Palestinians died during a stampede to access aid in Gaza City on Thursday, a tally that Hamas said numbered 104.
Hundreds of people were injured in the incident, including 10 whom the Israel Defense Forces said its soldiers had shot.
The incident is the most dramatic marker yet of a humanitarian crisis inside Gaza that is jeopardizing the lives of Palestinians, U.S.-Israel relations...
(JNS.org) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen sent a letter to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with a list of demands for Israel to support the Palestinian economy in the West Bank.
The United States “urged the Israeli government to release clearance revenue to the Palestinian Authority to fund basic services and to bolster the economy in the West Bank,” Yellen said on Tuesday during a press...
(JTA) – A bill to mandate Holocaust education in Washington state’s middle and high schools died last week after debate over whether an amendment alluded to Israel’s war with Hamas.
H.B. 2037, introduced by a Republican state representative, would have built on a 2019 state law that suggested but did not mandate teaching the Holocaust in public schools.
The bill passed the House unanimously in Olympia but...
(JTA) — The Atlanta-area father of an Israeli soldier who was killed in a stabbing attack in Jerusalem in November is running for Georgia state senate after the Democratic incumbent in his district did not back a bill aimed at combating antisemitism.
David Lubin, a general contractor, told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution he is challenging Sen. Sally Harrell in the Democratic Party’s May primary because of her stance...
