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Orna Neutra (left) and Ronen Neutra (second from left), parents of Omer Neutra, and other families of Americans being held hostage by Hamas stand outside the White House after a meeting with administration officials on Nov. 12, 2024. Photo by Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images.

Biden meets with families of American-Israeli hostages

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President Joe Biden met on Thursday with families of American Israelis held hostage by the Hamas terrorist group in the Gaza Strip, and "reaffirmed the Biden-Harris administration's commitment to getting the hostages home to...
Workers at the Ben and Jerry's factory near Kiryat Malakhi, near the Israeli city of Ashkelon, on July 21, 2021. Photo by Flash90.

Ben & Jerry’s sues Unilever for blocking ‘pro-Palestine’ action

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Ice cream manufacturer Ben & Jerry’s on Wednesday sued its parent company, Unilever, for allegedly blocking its efforts to voice support for Palestinians in Gaza. The lawsuit, which was filed in the United States, claims...
Rabbi Mendy Chitrik, chairman of the Alliance of Rabbis in Islamic States, greets 62-year-old Zebulon Simantov, “Afghanistan’s last Jew,” at the airport in Istanbul, September 2021. Source: Twitter.

Afghanistan’s last Jew arrives in Israel

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Zebulon Simantov, Afghanistan's last Jew, who was rescued from Kabul in September 2021, arrived in Israel last week. Simantov initially went to Turkey, spending three years in Istanbul, and would have continued there but was prompted to...
Israeli soldiers near a public shelter in Nahariya, northern Israel. Nov. 12, 2024. Photo by David Cohen/Flash90.

Dermer talks Hezbollah truce amid pressure in Israel to keep fighting

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Israel's Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer met with President-elect Trump during a visit to his Florida estate on Sunday, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday. Sunday's discussions at Mar-a-Lago centered on an Israeli ceasefire in Lebanon that involves Western and...
President Joe Biden walks to the Oval Office with President-elect Donald Trump, Nov. 13, 2024. Credit: Adam Schultz/White House.

Biden admin ready to work with Trump on hostage deal, Sullivan says

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The Biden administration is ready to work with President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming foreign-policy team on securing the release of the hostages Hamas continues to hold in the Gaza Strip, Jake Sullivan, the U.S. national...
Anti-Israeli demonstrators march In support of Palestinians. Photo by Antony Jones/UK Press via Getty Images.

America’s electrifying counter-revolution

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America is attempting to clean up its house. Europeans are burning theirs down. Within hours of his re-election as president of the United States, Donald Trump started the process of rolling back the influence of...
Mourners attend the funeral of slain Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh in the Qatari capital Doha on Aug. 2, 2024. Photo by Mahmud Hams/AFP via Getty Images.

Under US pressure to expel Hamas, Qatar keeps double-dealing

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The United States is pressuring Qatar to expel Hamas leaders from its territory due to the terrorist organization's refusal to consider even a short ceasefire and new suggestions for a hostage release deal with...

Felice Gaer, ‘legendary’ human-rights activist, 78

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Felice Gaer Baran, a leading advocate of global human rights for decades, died on Nov. 9 after a battle with cancer. She was 78 years old. Her career was marked by a history of opposing dictatorships and...
The Tikvah Forum for Families of Hostages held prayers at Rachel's Tomb just outside Bethlehem on Tuesday for the safe and speedy return of their children from the Gaza Strip. The Bnei Rachel Yeshiva hosted the event, which was attended by Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel Kalman Ber and Knesset member Yitzhak Wasserlauf of the Otzma Yehudit Party. Among the family members attending the event was Tzvika Mor, whose son Eitan, then aged 23, was kidnapped to Gaza while working as a guard at the Supernova music festival on Oct. 7, 2023. Eitan saved hundreds of people from the festival before he was taken hostage. He has been held for more than 400 days. Mor told those gathered that God promised Rachel that her children will return to their borders. "There is no place more worthy to pray to God and ask him to return the hostages than at the place of her burial, and on the anniversary of her passing," he said. At a Knesset committee meeting on Tuesday, Mor said that a family which has a member kidnapped is "a wound that never heals." "It's all the time the worry. It's all the time the fear of that terrible knock on the door," he said. "The main question is why there is still no decision in Gaza, to bring the enemy to such a state that he realizes that he has no future," he said, expressing frustration that Israel still hasn't completely destroyed the enemy there. He said that pursuing a deal with Hamas for the release of the remaining hostages was a mistake. "When we pursue a deal, a deal flees from us," Mor said. Kobi Samerano, whose son Jonathan, 21, was kidnapped and murdered in Gaza, recited Kaddish, the mourners’ prayer. Samerano said it was his first visit to Rachel's Tomb. The names of the remaining hostages were read aloud. Organizing the event along with the Tikvah Forum were the Kissufim and Ayelet Hashachar groups.

Hostages’ families hold prayer at Rachel’s Tomb

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The Tikvah Forum for Families of Hostages held prayers at Rachel's Tomb just outside Bethlehem on Tuesday for the safe and speedy return of their children from the Gaza Strip. The Bnei Rachel Yeshiva hosted...
U.S. President Joe Biden departs the Rose Garden after speaking about the recent presidential election at the White House in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 7, 2024. Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images.

Will Biden take a parting shot at Israel?

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U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s sweeping election victory generated a collective sigh of relief for many, especially in Israel. After four years of destructive and misguided American foreign policy, Israelis look forward to an administration...