Tag: Operation Swords of Iron
Netanyahu to Red Cross: Pressure Hamas to release hostages
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met on Thursday at the Kirya military headquarters in Tel Aviv with International Committee of the Red Cross President Mirjana Spoljaric Egger.
Netanyahu recounted the atrocities carried out by Hamas during its Oct....
Gallant to Sullivan: Israel needs more than several months to destroy Hamas
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant told visiting U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan on Thursday that the war against Hamas in Gaza will continue for several months during discussions held at Defense Ministry Headquarters...
Israel offers up to $400,000 for Hamas leaders’ whereabouts
The Israel Defense Forces is urging Palestinians in the Gaza Strip to help topple Hamas rule, with flyers dropped in the coastal enclave promising up to $400,000 for information on the whereabouts of Yahya...
‘Our soldiers did not fall in vain,’ Netanyahu tells Sullivan in Tel Aviv
The more than 450 Israeli soldiers who have been killed fighting the Hamas terrorist organization "did not fall in vain," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan in Tel...
How will this Chanukah be remembered?
As much of the world enters Christmas holiday preparation mode, focusing on gift-giving and sharing festive recipes, Israelis are connecting the dots to put this year’s Chanukah festival into context for our time.
Many religious...
‘She worried about us more than she did for herself’
“My 18-year-old daughter Tchelet was killed on a Saturday morning during the holiday of Simchat Torah,” Gladys Fishbein told JNS.
On Oct. 7, Fishbein was tending to her ill 94-year-old mother, Sarah, at Kibbutz Be’eri...
An ‘Abraham Plan’ for the Middle East
Oct. 7, the day of Hamas’s barbaric, abhorrent terrorist attack on Israel, marked a watershed moment for the Middle East, with far-reaching consequences. In the short-term, Israel—which must be backed to the fullest extent—will...
Why the images of Hamas prisoners sparked outrage
I was poised to go on a live broadcast of WION, an English-language Indian television network, last week to discuss the war against Hamas. But before my turn to speak came, I was startled by...
Netanyahu lights first Chanukah candle at Western Wall
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, lit the first Chanukah candle on Thursday evening at the Western Wall in Jerusalem.
Below is the text of his address:
“We are here by the remnant...
Let the world know: It’s not 1945
How important is the State of Israel to the Jews of the world? How important is the strength of that state to the safety of the Jews who don’t live there?
We now have a...