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Francesca Albanese, U.N. special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, speaks at the National Press Club of Australia on Nov. 13, 2023. Source: YouTube/ABC News (Australia).

Not an international crime to kill soldiers, UN’s Francesca Albanese says of Oct. 7

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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...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with representatives of bereaved families from the Heroism Forum, Dec. 21, 2023. Photo by Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO.

Netanyahu to bereaved families: Your children did not die in vain

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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...
Dr. Abigail Henkin-Wei, an emergency-room doctor in West Virginia, volunteers at Magen David Adom in Ashkelon, November 2023. Credit: Nefesh B’Nefesh.

The medical specialists who left all behind to volunteer in Israel

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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...
An unfinished home renovation project in Karnei Shomron, 30 miles northeast of Tel Aviv. Photo by Judith Segaloff.

Jews in Judea and Samaria fear return of Palestinian workers

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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...
U.S.-made MIM-23 Hawk anti-aircraft missiles on display at a military parade in Tel Aviv in 1965. Credit: Avraham Amir via Wikimedia Commons.

Rising from the ruins of a generation of Israeli doctrine

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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,...
Rachel Goldberg and her son Hersh Goldberg-Polin. Photo: Courtesy of Rachel Goldberg.

A mother prays for a sign of life from her captive son

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“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...
Staff and kids take part in a missile attack drill during a national IDF Home Front Command drill at Batra Kindergarten in Katzrin, the Golan Heights, Feb. 22, 2023. Photo by Michael Giladi/Flash90.

Signs of a long war

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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...
Palestinians fleeing from Khan Yunis to Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on Dec. 18, 2023. Photo by Atia Mohammed/Flash90.

Biden is causing an unnecessary humanitarian crisis in Gaza

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The plight of Gazans is due, first and foremost, to the invasion and massacre of Israelis by Hamas on Oct. 7. They are now suffering because they are being used as human shields by...
DF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi (center) visits soldiers of the Golani Brigade in Gaza City's Shejaia neighborhood, Dec. 16, 2023. Source: Twitter/X.

Gallant in Eilat: If Houthis keep attacking, we’ll know what to do

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If the Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen continue to attack Eilat with missiles, the State of Israel will “know what to do,” Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said during a visit to the Red Sea city...
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken testifies before the Senate Committee on Appropriations on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 31, 2023. Credit: Chuck Kennedy/U.S. State Department.

Blinken: Not in world’s interest for conflict to end with Hamas still in power

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Hamas should be removed from power when the conflict in Gaza ends, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said during a year-in-review press briefing at the State Department on Wednesday. “Everyone would like to see...