{"id":90093,"date":"2025-10-19T12:12:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T17:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=90093"},"modified":"2025-10-30T23:57:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T04:57:24","slug":"redemption-war-israeli-govt-approves-new-name-for-fighting-sparked-by-oct-7-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/redemption-war-israeli-govt-approves-new-name-for-fighting-sparked-by-oct-7-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Redemption War\u2019: Israeli gov\u2019t approves new name for fighting sparked by Oct. 7 attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By JNS STAFF<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-meta-str\">&nbsp;(<em><span class=\"light-weight-content\">JNS.org<\/span><\/em><span class=\"light-weight-content\">) \u2013&nbsp;<\/span>Israel\u2019s government on Sunday backed a proposal by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to rename the seven-front war that began on Oct. 7, 2023, from \u201cIron Swords\u201d to \u201cWar of Redemption.\u201d<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_90094\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-12-10-at-12.27.24_4c5c489e-1320x880-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-90094\" class=\"wp-image-90094 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-12-10-at-12.27.24_4c5c489e-1320x880-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-12-10-at-12.27.24_4c5c489e-1320x880-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-12-10-at-12.27.24_4c5c489e-1320x880-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-12-10-at-12.27.24_4c5c489e-1320x880-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-12-10-at-12.27.24_4c5c489e-1320x880-1.jpg 1320w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/200;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-90094\" class=\"wp-image-90094 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-12-10-at-12.27.24_4c5c489e-1320x880-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-12-10-at-12.27.24_4c5c489e-1320x880-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-12-10-at-12.27.24_4c5c489e-1320x880-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-12-10-at-12.27.24_4c5c489e-1320x880-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-12-10-at-12.27.24_4c5c489e-1320x880-1.jpg 1320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-90094\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers remarks at the start of the weekly Cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, Dec. 10, 2023. Photo by Kobi Gideon\/GPO.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAfter two years of continuous fighting, we remember how we began,\u201d Netanyahu told his Cabinet at the start of the weekly meeting in Jerusalem, speaking ahead of the vote on the name change.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe rose from the terrible disaster of October 7,\u201d he said of the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led massacre of 1,200 people in Israel\u2019s south. \u201cThis is the war of our revival\u2014a direct continuation of the War of Independence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over a year ago, in a special Cabinet meeting marking 12 months since the Palestinian terrorist invasion, Netanyahu presented a draft decision to his ministers to rename the war\u2014which until then had been dubbed the \u201cIron Swords War\u201d by the Israel Defense Forces\u2014the \u201c<em>Tkuma<\/em>&nbsp;War.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The literal translation of&nbsp;<em>tkuma<\/em>&nbsp;in English is \u201crebirth\u201d or \u201cresurrection,\u201d with the Prime Minister\u2019s Office formally translating it as \u201credemption.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the explanatory note to the Cabinet decision, \u201cOn Oct. 7, during the Simchat Torah holiday of 5784, Hamas terrorists launched a murderous attack on the State of Israel, during which they infiltrated from Gaza and massacred men, women, the elderly and children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cDuring the war that started on that date, the IDF and Israel\u2019s security agencies operated across seven fronts: in the Gaza Strip, Judea and Samaria, Lebanon, Syria, Iran, Yemen and Iraq,\u201d the note added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The costs of the name change are estimated to be around 2 million shekel (just over $600,000), according to Sunday\u2019s Cabinet decision.<\/p>\n<div class=\"end-of-article-donate popup _hide_if_pressplus_user _hide_if_society_user _hide_if_premium_user\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; 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