Wednesday, 20 November 2024 | Much has been said about how the Gaza war caught Israel’s military and professional leadership by surprise. Alongside the impressive technological and operational superiority, the Israel Defense Forces [IDF] faced significant challenges requiring all technological units in the army to rapidly adapt and develop effective responses to new threats. In
Continue Reading »Wednesday, 20 November 2024 | The sound of laughter echoed through the home of former Hamas hostage Emily Hand’s home on Sunday as fellow October 7 survivors and former hostages Noa Argamani and Hila Rotem Shoshani arrived bearing gifts, traditional Moroccan doughnuts and birthday candles to celebrate her 10th birthday. Life in Kibbutz Be’eri had
Continue Reading »Tuesday, 19 November 2024 | A debate event held last June in Los Angeles featured participants such as Mosab Hassan Yousef (“The Green Prince”), Moran Stela Yanai—a survivor kidnapped and held captive by Hamas, University of California Los Angeles Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies Director Prof. Dov Waxman and pro-Palestinian activist Aidan Dewolf, the
Continue Reading »Tuesday, 19 November 2024 | Tehran is telling its Lebanese terrorist proxy Hezbollah that it supports ending the war against Israel amid an American push for a ceasefire agreement, the New York Times reported over the weekend. Ali Larijani, senior adviser to Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, met with senior Lebanese officials in Beirut on
Continue Reading »Tuesday, 19 November 2024 | The UN Interim Force in Lebanon [UNIFIL], which is responsible for Lebanon’s border with Israel, said it was ambushed on Saturday, “likely” by “non-state actor members.” UNIFIL stated that French and Finnish troops were patrolling the village of Bedias when a group of unnamed people—at least one of whom was
Continue Reading »Tuesday, 19 November 2024 | “Let’s start from the end,” I say to veteran Kurdish–Syrian journalist, Hayvi Bouzo who, for fear of the authorities, has moved to Washington. Let’s focus on the here and now. For her Yalla website, each week she interviews Israelis—mainly those who lost family members in the October 7 massacre, but
Continue Reading »Monday, 18 November 2024 | Israel destroyed an Iranian facility capable of crucial research into nuclear weapons during their direct attack on Iran in October, according to a recent report by Axios. However, the cheers that Iran’s march to the bomb was halted may be premature, as a nuclear weapons expert is asking—with an implied
Continue Reading »Monday, 18 November 2024 | Hamas’s senior leadership has relocated from Qatar to Turkey, Israel’s Kan News public broadcaster reported on Sunday evening. The report cited unnamed Israeli sources as confirming the move, which was said to have taken place in “recent days.” According to the broadcaster, the development could have “dramatic” consequences for the
Continue Reading »Monday, 18 November 2024 | Pope Francis has called for an international investigation into the possibility that Israel has committed genocide in its war against the Hamas terrorist group in Gaza, a charge that Jerusalem vehemently denies. In excerpts from a new book published by Italian daily La Stampa on Sunday, the pontiff is quoted
Continue Reading »Monday, 18 November 2024 | Jewish students in Ireland are changing schools to escape harassment as a report exposes bias in school textbooks. The findings emerge from an extensive study by the Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education (Impact-se), an Israeli nonprofit organization, which identified problematic content in Irish educational materials,
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