(JTA) — Iran launched dozens of drones at Israel, a gambit that may be aimed at swarming Israel’s air defenses. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel was ready to strike back, portending an escalation in the Israel-Hamas war.
“We...
A prestigious award given by the University of Missouri to a photojournalist who took an image depicting the half-naked body of Shani Louk, a 22-year-old Israeli murdered by Hamas terrorists at the Nova music festival in southern Israel on Oct. 7, has...
By Beth Harpaz, The Forward
• Published April 10, 2024
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Hamas says it does not have 40 hostages to release in exchange for a ceasefire, CNN reported Wednesday.
Until now,...
Hamas rejected the latest ceasefire proposal on Monday, according to senior officials in the terror organization as reported by multiple news outlets.
“We reject the latest Israeli proposals that the Egyptian side informed us of. The politburo met...
Thousands of Israelis are expected to converge on Jerusalem’s Yaka Square on Sunday evening for a rally to mark six months since Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre and demand the release of 133 remaining hostages being held in Gaza.
According to the Hostages...
Bill Motchan, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published April 5, 2024
Last Oct. 7, everything changed for Naomi Petel Adler and Mirjam Heutink, two residents of Nahal Oz, a kibbutz less than one mile from Gaza. Both women and their families survived the Hamas attack. They visited St. Louis on April 4 to share painful memories...
(JTA) — The Israeli military chief of staff fired two officers found to be responsible for the mistakes that led to the killing of seven aid workers with the World Central Kitchen, which deepened a crisis in U.S.-Israel relations.
The sackings Friday,...
The head of the Israel Defense Forces on Tuesday night issued an official apology for the accidental killing of seven World Central Kitchen (WCK) aid workers in the Gaza Strip on Monday.
“I want to be very clear—the strike was not carried out with...
IDF soldier Shalev Golan, wounded while fighting in the Gaza Strip, now sits in jail in Prison 10 near the town of Kfar Yona to wait out legal proceedings against him for having taken a Kalashnikov rifle as a souvenir.
The story has been gradually gaining...
(JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel’s military was responsible for what he called a “tragic” and “unintentional” strike that killed seven workers affiliated with the international aid nonprofit World Central Kitchen...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — U.S. Rep. Tim Walberg released a statement saying he wasn’t calling for nuclear war after he came under fire for advising Israel to “get it over quick” with Hamas in Gaza, “like Nagasaki and Hiroshima,” the Japanese cities...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — A range of Jewish and pro-Israel figures, including Israel’s antisemitism envoy, accused Sen. Jeff Merkley of advancing a “blood libel” for linking Easter to what he called Israel’s “indiscriminate bombing” of Gaza.
Merkley,...
