Monthly Archives: December 2023
Not an international crime to kill soldiers, UN’s Francesca Albanese says of Oct. 7
Francesca Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur for Palestinian rights, has courted controversy among Israel supporters for her one-sided faulting of Israel for its conflict with the Palestinians and comments she has made which...
Netanyahu to bereaved families: Your children did not die in vain
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met on Thursday night at military headquarters in Tel Aviv with bereaved families from the Heroism Forum, who told him about their loved ones that fell in battle.
The families...
The medical specialists who left all behind to volunteer in Israel
Mere hours into the Oct. 7 onslaught, the Israeli Health Ministry received dozens of applications from medical teams abroad who wanted to come to Israel and volunteer.
It received requests from some 7,500 physicians from...
Jews in Judea and Samaria fear return of Palestinian workers
The Berkleys live on a quiet street in Karnei Shomron in Samaria where almost every second house is undergoing necessary renovations. The homes, built in the 1980s when the town was first established, need...
Rising from the ruins of a generation of Israeli doctrine
Two underlying assumptions guided Israel’s security establishment for the past generation. The first asserted that with the end of the Cold War, the era of conventional wars had ended. In the present age, brains,...
A mother prays for a sign of life from her captive son
“I love you, stay strong, survive.”
These are the words Rachel Goldberg utters daily since Hamas terrorists kidnapped her son Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, during the organization's Oct. 7 massacre of 1,200 people in the northwestern...
Christian population in Israel up 1.3% last year
About 2% of Israelis are Christians, and the community is expected to continue to grow at an annual rate of over 1%, official statistics released Thursday ahead of Christmas show.
About 190,000 Christians live in...
Signs of a long war
It didn't take long after Oct.7 to realize that this war would not be over in a couple of days. Routing out one of the best-funded and -equipped terrorist groups in the world and securing...
Tenth of Tevet fast day to be marked amid war against Hamas
A group of Israeli Zionist Orthodox rabbis which aims to bridge the gaps between religious and secular Jews is calling for an upcoming Jewish fast day to serve as a national day of prayer,...
Existential Risks to Israel: “Escalation Dominance” and Nuclear War
An end to the Israel-Hamas Gaza War could ultimately involve a threat or operational use of nuclear weapons. More precisely, after this conflict, even a pre-nuclear Iran could elicit an Israeli nuclear warning or...