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IDF kills Hamas Oct. 7 commander

By JNS STAFF

(JNS.org) – The Israel Defense Forces on Sunday announced the elimination of Hasan Mahmoud Hasan Hussein, a Nukhba company commander in Hamas’s Bureij Battalion who took part in the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre.

Hussein operated alongside Muhammad...

Knesset committee votes to advance death penalty for terrorists

By JNS STAFF and AMELIE BOTBOL

(JNS.org) – The Knesset National Security Committee on Sunday approved for first reading a bill that would impose the death penalty on terrorists.

Committee members voted to advance the law, which was introduced by Otzma...

Pro-Palestinian arsonist sentenced to 19 years in prison for bombing police car in Berkeley

By ANDREW LAPIN

(JTA) — A pro-Palestinian activist who pleaded guilty to firebombing a police vehicle in Berkeley, California, last year, was sentenced this week to 19 years in federal prison.

Casey Goonan, 35, also admitted to targeting other sites,...

IAF hits over 140 terror targets amid advance into Gaza City

By JNS STAFF

(JNS.org) – The Israeli Air Forces struck more than 140 targets across the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours, including terrorists, tunnel shafts and military infrastructure, the IDF announced on Friday.

As part of operations in the...

An open letter opposing the Israeli film boycott, signed by Liev Schrieber, Mayim Bialik and others, is making the rounds in Hollywood

By ANDREW LAPIN

(JTA) — Around 1,200 Hollywood names, including stars like Liev Schrieber, Mayim Bialik and Jennifer Jason Leigh, have signed onto an open letter opposing a growing celebrity boycott of the Israeli film industry.

Led by Creative Community...

Report: In first for a US tech giant, Microsoft terminates Israeli military use of its software

By GRACE GILSON

(JTA) — Microsoft has revoked the Israeli military’s access to a software it used to store data on millions of phone calls by Palestinian civilians, according to a letter obtained by the Guardian.

In doing so, the...

An isolated Netanyahu takes UN stage amid pushback from Trump and Abbas

By PHILISSA CRAMER

(JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will address the United Nations General Assembly on Friday, a day after both Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and U.S. President Donald Trump spoke forcefully against some of his ambitions.

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Florida man charged with arson for setting Chabad classroom ablaze before Rosh Hashanah

By GRACE GILSON

(JTA) — A Florida man has been arrested in connection with a fire last week in a classroom at a Chabad in Florida, days before Rosh Hashanah.

Blake Richard Hoover, 31, of Punta Gorda, was arrested by...

Syracuse students charged with hate crime after pork thrown into Jewish frat on Rosh Hashanah

By GRACE GILSON

(JTA) — Two Syracuse University students face hate crime charges for allegedly throwing pork into a Jewish fraternity house on Rosh Hashanah.

At around 6 p.m. Tuesday, members of the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity were gathered for...

Netanyahu: There will be no Palestinian state

By JNS STAFF

(JNS.org) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated on Sunday that there will not be a Palestinian state, and said that an Israeli response to the international recognition by various Western countries will come upon his return from a...