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St. Louis Jewish Light

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St. Louis Jewish Light

War In Israel

Secretary Marco Rubio attends a meeting with U.S. Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff, National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan al-Saud, National Security Advisor Mosaad bin Mohammad al-Aiban, the Russian president's foreign policy advisor Yuri Ushakov, and Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at Diriyah Palace in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, February 18, 2025. (Official State Department photo by Freddie Everett)

Rubio: Palestinian terrorists must free all hostages or be destroyed

JNS StaffPublished February 23, 2025

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio demanded on Saturday that Hamas and other Palestinian terror groups in the Gaza Strip immediately free all remaining hostages, or else be eradicated. “Hamas’s treatment of hostages, including its brutal murder...

Pictures of Shiri Bibas and her children Kfir and Ariel who are held hostage in Hamas captivity hang outside the protest tent calling for the release of Israeli hostages in the Gaza Strip, outside the Prime Minister’s Residence in Jerusalem, Feb. 19, 2025.

Hamas promises investigation after ‘error or overlap in bodies’

Ben Sales, JTAPublished February 21, 2025

Hamas has handed a body to the Red Cross that, the terror group says, belongs to Shiri Bibas, Israeli media reported on Friday. The transfer of the body comes less than 24 hours after the Israeli military announced after a forensic examination that...

Firefighters and rescue personnel at the scene of a possible bus bombing in Bat Yam, central Israel, Feb. 20, 2025. Credit: Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90.

Israeli authorities probing bus blasts near Tel Aviv as terror

JNS StaffPublished February 20, 2025

Three buses exploded near Tel Aviv and bombs were found on two others on Thursday night in what is being investigated as a coordinated attack. All of the explosions occurred in parked, empty buses across the central city of Bat Yam, located just south...

IDF soldiers at the ceremony to receive the coffins of the four deceased hostages on Feb. 20, 2025.

Nation mourns Bibas family, Oded Lifshitz as bodies handed over to Israel

Israel Hayom (JNS)Published February 20, 2025

Israel redeemed on Thursday the bodies of four fallen hostages from Hamas captivity in Gaza: the three members of the Bibas family – mother Shiri, infant son Kfir, and his older brother Ariel, and Oded Lifshitz. Although the Israeli government has...

U.S. President Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office, Feb. 10, 2025. Credit: Daniel Torok/White House.

Trump’s Gaza plan backed by majority of Israelis, according to new poll

JNS StaffPublished February 18, 2025

In a survey of 501 Israeli adults, 68% said they support U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan to relocate Gaza’s population, according to Israel’s Channel 12. The poll, which has a 4.4% margin of error, found that 20% oppose the plan, while 12% remain...

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