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Red Cross vehicles carry released hostages at the Rafah Crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, Nov. 24, 2023. Photo by Atia Mohammed/Flash90.

Hostages in Gaza yet to receive medicines from Qataris

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France has sent badly needed medicines to Qatar for Israeli hostages held by Hamas in Gaza, the European nation's embassy in Tel Aviv confirmed to the Times of Israel on Tuesday. President Emmanuel Macron ordered the foreign...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with southern regional council heads, Jan. 16, 2024. Source: Screenshot.

Netanyahu vows to rebuild southern communities, even as rockets fall

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Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu on Tuesday promised that Israel would rebuild the towns and kibbutzim in Israel's south. During a meeting with local community heads at the Israel Defense Forces Southern Command base in Beersheva,...
Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protesters gather in front of the Colorado Convention Center, the site of the opening plenary of the Jewish National Fund-USA annual conference, Nov. 30, 2023. Photo by Carin M. Smilk.

Far-left antisemitic incidents up 1,753% in Q4 2023

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The Combat Antisemitism Movement (CAM) found a 1,753% increase in incidents of far-left antisemitism in the fourth quarter of 2023 worldwide, compared to the third quarter. The incidents typically manifested themselves through anti-Israel demonization, delegitimization...
IDF soldiers conduct activities in the Gaza Strip, Jan. 15, 2024. Credit: IDF.

As intense fighting ends in north Gaza, IDF finds 100 rocket sites

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Israel's war against Hamas entered its 102nd day on Tuesday, with rocket-alert sirens sounding in western Negev communities. Over the past 24 hours, IDF forces located some 100 rocket installations and 60 ready-to-launch rockets in...
Former President Donald Trump, 2024 Republican frontrunner for the U.S. presidential election in November, speaks after winning the Iowa Caucuses in Des Moines on Jan. 15, 2024. Source: YouTube Screenshot.

Trump pledges to solve ‘horrible’ situation in Israel quickly if elected

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Former President Donald Trump said on Monday that Israel would not have been attacked on Oct. 7 if he had still been president, and pledged to "solve" the "horrible" situation in the Jewish state...
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Israeli high-tech thrived in 2023 amid war, political unrest

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Despite the challenges judicial reform protests and the war against Hamas posed for the Israeli economy, the Jewish state’s high-tech industry emerged from 2023 with remarkable strength, according to a report issued on Monday. “The...
People attend 24-hour rally to mark 100 days since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas, at "Hostage Square" in Tel Aviv, on January 14, 2024. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90,

‘My heart is split in two’: Families mark 100 days of captivity

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“My heart is split in two,” said Zvika Mor, whose 23-year-old son Eitan remains captive in Gaza. As Israel on Sunday marked 100 days since Hamas’s Oct. 7 attacks, Mor said, “On the one hand,...
People visit the site of the Supernova music festival massacre near Kibbutz Re'im, Nov. 30, 2023. Photo by Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90.

Nova massacre survivors launch $53.6m lawsuit against the state

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Forty-two survivors of Hamas's Oct. 7 massacre at the Supernova music festival at Kibbutz Re'im are suing the Israel Defense Forces, Israel Security Agency and Israel Police for negligence, and are claiming 200 million shekels ($53.6...
Fig tree. Credit: ajcespedes/Pixabay.

Talking trees

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I remember once teasing a friend whose birthday is on Tu B’Shevat, the New Year for Trees. I told him: “Make like a tree and grow up!” Tu B’Shevat, literally the 15th of the Hebrew month...
The United Nations Outreach Programme on the Holocaust hosted Menachem Rosensaft at a book-signing and discussion at the U.N. Bookshop on April 27, 2022. Credit: U.N. Photo.

A talk with God about the Holocaust

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For some, the issue never fades from memory. Menachem Rosensaft was born in 1948 in Bergen-Belsen, a Nazi concentration camp turned into a displaced persons camp after the war. His parents somehow survived the German Nazi onslaught...