Monthly Archives: October 2023
A paramedic recounts Israel’s black Sabbath
Early in the morning on Simchat Torah, my husband woke me up and told me that there were many rocket launches towards central Israel. As a volunteer paramedic with United Hatzalah, I am available...
Humanitarian has two sides
In the first wrenching days after the Simchat Torah Massacre, Israeli Energy Minister Israel Katz made what turned out to be an unkeepable promise: That no humanitarian relief in the form of water, fuel...
More than 800 civilian victims of Hamas massacre identified
Israeli authorities said on Thursday that 808 civilian victims of Hamas's Oct. 7 assault on southern Israel have been identified.
Police said this represents 84% of the civilians believed killed during the attacks.
Authorities have encountered...
Israeli hospitals go underground amid Gaza war
With a ground war in Gaza and escalation of rocket fire imminent, Israeli hospitals are going underground.
The Galilee Medical Center in the northern city of Nahariya has moved its 700 beds below ground and...
Israel strikes more than 250 Hamas terror targets in 24 hours
Over the past day, Israeli fighter jets struck over 250 Hamas terror targets in the Gaza Strip, including terror infrastructure, operational command centers, tunnel shafts and rocket launchers placed in the heart of civilian...
Olim who fled Ukraine volunteering in Israel’s war effort
The 300 volunteers arrive on buses from Tel Aviv, Haifa, Jerusalem and Beersheva at army bases around Israel to work in 12-hour shifts sorting and packing medical equipment and field rations. They all fled...
IDF conducts targeted raid inside the Gaza Strip
Israeli tanks rolled into the northern Gaza Strip on Wednesday night in a pinpoint raid "as part of preparations for the next stages of combat," the army said.
Under the lead of the Givati Brigade,...
Unsung Heroes: Lone soldiers on the frontline against Hamas
“When we first got there, there were terrorists still alive, some dead... a lot of injured soldiers, dead soldiers, dead civilians, bodies everywhere.”
These are the words of D., a member of the Israel Defense...
‘Return my daughters’: A mother’s appeal for her captive children
Mayan Zin hasn’t seen her two daughters since they were kidnapped on Oct. 7. Hamas terrorists entered Kibbutz Nahal Oz, killed her ex-husband and 17-year-old stepson Tomer, and took daughters Dafna, 16, and Ella, 8,...
A trip into the archives for Amid Falling Walls
Learn about the work that goes into finding the right images to tell the story of Folksbiene’s new musical.