Netanyahu vows to visit NYC despite Mamdani’s arrest threat
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday that he will “of course” visit New York, despite threats by Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani to have him arrested under an International Criminal Court warrant.
“I’ll come to...
Australian city defers approval for menorah, angering Jews
“What happened in Stonnington Council was a slap in the face of the Jewish community,” said Dr. Dvir Abramovich, chair of the Melbourne-based Anti-Defamation Commission.
The Stonnington City Council in Australia has delayed approval for...
Body of Thai citizen Sudthisak Rinthalak returned to Israel
Israeli authorities on Thursday morning confirmed that the remains recovered from the Gaza Strip the previous evening belong to murdered Thai national Sudthisak Rinthalak, whose body had been held captive in Gaza since the...
Press Iran to release Jewish man jailed for going to son’s bar mitzvah, lawmakers...
Last month, Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-N.Y.) sounded the alarm to U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio about one of his constituents being held in an Iranian prison. The congressman wrote to Rubio again this...
Israeli delegation to visit White House for upcoming summit on AI
The Jewish state “is a leader in frontier AI cyber security and specialized chip design,” Jacob Helberg, U.S. under secretary of state for economic affairs, told reporters.
Israel will be among a select group of...
Senate panel advances Trump nominee on Jew-hatred
The Senate Committee on Foreign Relations advanced the nomination of Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun to be the Trump administration’s special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism in a bipartisan vote on Wednesday.
If confirmed by the...
Guinness World Records ‘no longer accepting submissions from Israel, Palestinian territories’
The NGO, “Matnat Chaim” whose name means “Gift of Life” in Hebrew said it had contacted Guinness World Records regarding an event it is planning next month, which will bring together 2,000 Israeli kidney...
Colombia sends members of Lev Tahor cult to US
Colombia said Monday it had sent 26 members of a fundamentalist ultra-Orthodox Jewish cult to the United States, where they are under investigation for alleged child sex abuse.
Authorities in the South American nation said...
Mengele lived openly in Argentina for years, declassified archives show
Declassified archival files made public by Argentinian President Javier Milei prove that Josef Mengele, the infamous Nazi concentration camp doctor known as the “Angel of Death,” lived openly in the country after World War...
Israel warns Hezbollah racing to rebuild in Lebanon
The Israel Defense Forces warned on Tuesday that the Hezbollah terrorist organization in Lebanon is rapidly rebuilding its military capabilities despite Jerusalem’s ongoing strikes since the ceasefire took hold over a year ago.
According to...