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Members of the Mothers of Combat Soldiers group protest outside the hotel of U.S. States Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Tel Aviv, Jan. 9, 2024. Photo by Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90.

With Blinken in Tel Aviv, IDF mothers protest US interference in war

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A group composed of some 7,000 mothers of Israeli soldiers fighting in the Gaza Strip held up huge posters depicting the children of senior U.S. officials as IDF recruits during a protest in front...
Released Israeli hostage Aviva Siegel testifies in Jerusalem to the Knesset Caucus for the Hostages, Jan. 9, 2024. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

‘The son of a bitch touched her’: Freed hostage testifies at Knesset

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A South African-Israeli woman freed from Hamas captivity in Gaza after 51 days delivered searing testimony about her experiences there to a Knesset panel on Tuesday. Aviva Siegel, 64, and her husband, Keith, 62, a...
View of the Jewish community of Pnei Kedem in Gush Etzion, June 14, 2021. Photo by Gershon Elinson/Flash90.

Ignoring minister’s orders, IDF destroys Jewish homes in Gush Etzion

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Israeli security forces early on Tuesday morning destroyed six Jewish homes in the eastern Gush Etzion region of Judea, in defiance of instructions by Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich. At least one of the destroyed houses...
U.N. workers and empty trucks wait for the arrival of humanitarian aid at the Palestinian side of the Rafah border crossing with Egypt on Oct. 21, 2023. Photo by Atia Mohammed/Flash90.

Biden promised Gaza aid wouldn’t go to Hamas. He lied.

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A week after the horrors of Oct. 7, when the Biden administration first convinced Israel to open up the siege of Gaza and allow in international aid, it promised Hamas would not get it. “If...
The Chaim Herzog Museum of the Jewish Soldier in World War Two in Latrun, Israel. Photo: Harel Gilboa.

All roads lead to Israel

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Zvi Kan-Tor, a retired Israel Defense Forces chief of staff, is a sabra superman who grew up with a uniquely Israeli perspective on the Shoah and World War Two. Now the director of the Chaim Herzog...
Fijian pilgrims arrive at Ben-Gurion International Airport. Sept. 29, 2023. Credit: Courtesy of ICEJ.

3 million tourists visited Israel in 2023 before Hamas war

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Three million tourists visited Israel last year, with the first nine months before the outbreak of the war with Hamas setting a record for tourism from the United States, the Israeli Tourism Ministry announced...
Countess Eloise of Orange-Nassau's Jan. 4 TikTok video. Source: Screenshot.

Jewish orgs accuse Dutch royal of fundraising for Hamas on TikTok

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The Central Jewish Board of the Netherlands, which counts among its members some of the country's most prominent Jewish religious and pro-Israel groups, has called on the government to take a stand after a...
The Israel-Premier Tech cycling team special edition jersey was inspired by the Israel National Trail. Credit: Israel-Premier Tech.

Tens of thousands to cycle for release of Gaza hostages

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A mass solidarity ride will take place around the world on Jan. 14 to mark the 100th day since Hamas's Oct. 7 massacre. The event is being organized by the Israeli professional cycling team Israel—Premier...
Israeli singer and actor Idan Amedi performs live during Israel's 69th Independence celebrations in Beit Shemesh on May 1, 2017. Photo by Yaakov Lederman/Flash90.

Idan Amedi, ‘Fauda’ star, seriously injured in Gaza

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The musician and actor Idan Amedi, 35, who plays Sagi in the Netflix series “Fauda,” was reportedly injured seriously while serving as a reservist with the Combat Engineering Corps in Khan Yunis in Gaza. “We would...
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators block the Holland Tunnel to New York City on Jan. 8, 2023. Source: YouTube Screenshot/NBC New York 4.

Don’t look away from the primary cause of an epidemic of antisemitism

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We could look at it as just another day in New York, where protests on behalf of one cause or another have been part of the culture of the place for more than a...