Monthly Archives: January 2024
Knesset caucus hears testimony on Hamas’s brutal sexual violence
“There will be some difficult things to digest here, so take a deep breath.”
The Knesset Caucus for Female Victims of Sexual and Gender Violence in the Swords of Iron War opened Tuesday’s meeting with...
Biden threatens Netanyahu’s drive to destroy Hamas
The deepening antipathy of the Biden administration toward Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is threatening to derail Israel's military offensive to destroy Hamas.
With every day that the Israel Defense Forces maintains its effort to...
American-Israeli father says US abandoned his terror-victim son
A 16-year-old dual American-Israeli citizen wounded on Jan. 15 in a Palestinian terrorist attack in Ra’anana while waiting at the bus stop outside his school has been abandoned by the United States, according to the victim's...
EU threatens ‘consequences’ for Israel’s opposition to Palestinian state
E.U. diplomats said on Monday in Brussels that a two-state solution is the only credible path to peace between Israel and the Palestinians, after earlier threatening "consequences" if Israel continued to oppose the plan.
“We...
US Lebanon diplomacy ‘a fool’s errand’ but still ‘has value’
It was Oct. 12, 2022, and U.S. special envoy Amos Hochstein had just wrapped up a maritime border and natural gas agreement between Israel and Lebanon.
Hochstein tweeted that he was proud to have served...
Cairo: IDF border operations will threaten relations
An Egyptian government spokesperson warned Israel on Tuesday against taking military action in a buffer zone along the Gaza-Egypt border known as the Philadelphi Corridor.
Israeli officials have warned they may launch military operations along the...
Hamas rejects offer of two-month ceasefire for release of all hostages
Hamas rejected an Israeli proposal for a two-month ceasefire in exchange for the staged release of the 136 remaining hostages being held in the Gaza Strip, a senior Egyptian official told the Associated Press on Tuesday.
The...
‘Fauda’ star Idan Amedi to be released from hospital
Israeli actor Idan Amedi, best known for his role in the Netflix hit show "Fauda," will be released from hospital on Tuesday, according to a statement issued on his behalf that was shared with...
24 IDF soldiers killed in deadliest day since start of Gaza combat
Twenty-four Israel Defense Forces soldiers were killed in the Gaza Strip on Monday, the deadliest single day for the Israeli military since the start of its ground operation against Hamas on Oct. 27.
Twenty-one soldiers...
Jerusalem library gets 45,000 Jewish manuscripts from Yemen
The National Library of Israel in Jerusalem has received the world’s most extensive collection of Yemenite Jewish manuscripts.
The 60,000 items in the collection include notable pieces such as Judeo-Yemenite renditions of works by Maimonides...