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Israeli Navy intercepts boat carrying Greta Thunberg to Gaza

By JOSHUA MARKS

(JNS.org) – Israeli naval forces on Monday intercepted the vessel carrying Swedish national Greta Thunberg and other activists to the Gaza Strip.

Calling it the “selfie yacht” of “celebrities,” Israel’s Foreign Ministry said the 12 passengers had been...

Greta Thunberg’s Gaza flotilla could soon reach Israeli waters: What you need to know

By GRACE GILSON

(JTA) — A week after climate activist Greta Thunberg set sail Sunday, June 1,  along with 11 other activists on a ship carrying aid to Gaza, the group could soon near Israeli waters.

Israeli officials have vowed...

French police detain Palestinian man who allegedly struck rabbi with a chair

By GRACE GILSON

(JTA) — French police detained a man originally from Gaza on Friday after a rabbi was attacked in a Paris suburb, capping a week of antisemitic incidents raising alarm among French Jews.

Rabbi Elie Lemmel was sitting...

Argentina’s rabbi-ambassador to Israel says El Al will launch direct flights to Buenos Aires

By JUAN MELAMED

(JTA) — A canceled flight on his way to assume his new job might well have added urgency around one of Rabbi Axel Wahnish’s first big breakthroughs as Argentina’s ambassador to Israel: direct flights between Tel Aviv...

Trump’s new travel ban will block ‘those in need of real refuge,’ American Jewish Committee says

By ANDREW LAPIN

(JTA) — The American Jewish Committee has come out against President Donald Trump’s new executive order banning travel to the United States from 12 countries, which Trump says is needed because of incidents such as this week’s...

FBI, DHS issue warning of ‘elevated threat’ to Jewish and Israeli communities

By GRACE GILSON

(JTA) — In the wake of two violent attacks on Jewish community events in recent weeks, the FBI and Department of Homeland Security have issued a public service announcement warning of an “elevated threat” to Jews and...

IDF captures and returns two bodies of Oct. 7 hostages

In a joint operation between the Israel Security Agency (ISA) and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), troops staged a raid in the Gaza Strip in which they captured the bodies of two Israeli-American hostages slain on October 7, 2023 that...

Trump bans travelers from 12 countries, citing attack on Jews in Boulder, Colorado

By PHILISSA CRAMER

(JTA) — Citing Sunday’s attack on Jews in Boulder, Colorado, President Donald Trump has announced a ban on entry to the United States for people from 12 countries, most but not all majority Muslim.

The ban is...

Man charged with hate crime in Boulder firebombing wanted to ‘kill all Zionist people,’ FBI says

By JTA STAFF

(JTA) — Mohamed Sabry Soliman, the man accused of firebombing people marching to raise awareness of Israeli hostages in Gaza, had planned the attack for over a year, local and federal authorities said on Monday as they...

Karol Nawrocki, right-wing Holocaust revisionist historian, elected Polish president

By JTA STAFF

(JTA) — Karol Nawrocki, a right-wing historian involved in Poland’s recent efforts to revise Holocaust history to minimize the role of local collaborators, has been elected president of Poland.

Nawrocki eked out a narrow victory over Rafał...