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Austin ordered strike on Houthis from hospital, White House says
U.S. President Joe Biden convened his national security team on Jan. 9, following one of the largest Houthi attacks in the Red Sea, during which U.S. and UK forces shot down nearly 20 drones...
International Court of Justice opening statement on behalf of Israel
Proceedings instituted by South Africa against the State of Israel on Dec. 29, 2023
(South Africa v. Israel)
Co-agent’s opening statement
Presented on Jan. 12, 2024, by Tal Becker, legal adviser to the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs;...
If Israel can’t bring it to social media, bring the social media to Israel
With the realization that the social-media pen is mighty like the sword, the nonprofit organization Yalla Israel focuses on sending social-media influencers to Israel to experience the Jewish state firsthand and, it hopes, to portray Israel...
661 terrorists tied to Oct. 7 to get PA ‘pay for slay’ financial stipends
Since the Oct. 7 Hamas massacre of Israeli communities near the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Authority has added thousands of Palestinians to its list of people who qualify to receive terror stipends, an Israeli watchdog reported on...
How the IDF spokesperson in Arabic wins hearts and minds
At 6:59 p.m. on Oct. 17, it seemed that the course of the Gaza war was about to change, and not in Israel’s favor, when a rocket exploded at Al-Ahli Hospital in the Zeitoun neighborhood in...
Why Israel’s air power did not paralyze the Hamas factories of death
It is easy to see that the dirt field and ruins located at the edge of the Al-Bureij refugee camp, in the heart of the Gaza Strip, was once a densely populated residential neighborhood....
Those who can keeping the day for those who can’t: Shabbat 4 Soldiers
When Sasha Litnaitzky-Drutz and David Drutz of Toronto held their first soup-to-nuts Shabbat on Dec. 22, the guest of honor was 6,000 miles away.
Now in their second year of marriage, the couple had been...
Anti-Zionism on Campus
The demonization and delegitimization of Israel and bigotry directed toward Jewish faculty, staff, and students is increasing at dramatic rates on university and college campuses.
In these supposedly intellectual spaces, virulently anti-Israel “scholars” and student-activists connected to,...
Important Differences Between African-American Cause and Goals of Hamas
President Biden faces a tug-of-war for the next 10 months to retain the Black vote – thanks mostly to champions for the Palestinians.
When the chief executive addressed an audience of 700 at a historic...
It’s time for the US to go to court to protect its citizens
I appreciate President Joe Biden’s public announcements and personal display of support for Israel since Hamas invaded Israel on Oct. 7 and the slaughter of 1,200 people and the kidnapping of 240 others. His...