Thursday, 12 December 2024 | Germany has announced the cancellation of a planned joint Israeli-German pavilion at the Frankfurt Book Fair, originally intended to mark 60 years of diplomatic relations between the two countries. The decision was conveyed to Israel by Yoel Pollak, the coordinator for the 60th anniversary on behalf of Germany’s Foreign
Continue Reading »Thursday, 12 December 2024 | “The first time that we took part in the mass distribution of thousands of free eyeglasses for soldiers and evacuees was in the wake of the October 7, 2023, Hamas onslaught on Israel,” Chana Simon, chief operating officer of the RE-SPECS nonprofit organization, told JNS recently. For years, she was
Continue Reading »Wednesday, 11 December 2024 | In 48 hours, Israel has effectively obliterated what’s left of Syria’s military. Planes, tanks, ships, missiles, air defenses—an estimated 80% of these key weapons were destroyed by Israeli strikes following the overthrow of the Syrian regime by rebels, some of whom have terrorist connections. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,
Continue Reading »Wednesday, 11 December 2024 | Senior Israeli officials were informed Tuesday night that Hamas wants a ceasefire and hostage release deal, in light of the visit of Shin Bet [Israeli internal security organization] head Ronen Bar and Israel Defense Forces [IDF] Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi to Egypt, and the assessment in Israel
Continue Reading »Wednesday, 11 December 2024 | The international aid organization World Central Kitchen [WCK], which operates community kitchens in the Gaza Strip, has fired at least 62 of its 500 employees after security background checks conducted by Israel. The layoffs came after several employees were identified as potential “security threats,” and a week after airstrikes
Continue Reading »Wednesday, 11 December 2024 | Nearly two-thirds (64%) of Jewish women surveyed by Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America, reported that antisemitism had impacted their work, lives or relationships, according to new data released by the organization on Tuesday. More than 1,000 people responded to the survey, the results of which also found that
Continue Reading »Tuesday, 10 December 2024 | As the Iranian regime grapples with the fallout of the Assad regime’s collapse in Syria, an Iranian political analyst has offered a blunt assessment of what many in the Middle East and beyond have observed: the steady dismantling of Iran’s so-called “Axis of Resistance” under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Through
Continue Reading »Tuesday, 10 December 2024 | Defense Minister Israel Katz has ordered the Israel Defense Forces [IDF] to create a secure area free of “heavy strategic weapons and terror infrastructure” beyond the buffer zone with Syria, the Defense Ministry announced Monday. Katz said he had instructed the IDF to establish full control over the demilitarized buffer
Continue Reading »Tuesday, 10 December 2024 | The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), the UN agency mainly responsible for education and social services in the Gaza Strip, employed Hamas members, the New York Times confirmed on Saturday, almost a year after it was first revealed by Israel. The
Continue Reading »Tuesday, 10 December 2024 | The photo exhibit “Gaza, Palestine: A Crisis of Humanity, a Cry for Justice” in the lobby of UN headquarters in Manhattan includes images of demolished buildings, displaced civilians, maimed children and corpses. It mentions neither Hamas nor the terror group’s October 7 terrorist attacks in southern Israel that launched the
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