Tuesday, 4 June 2024 | Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that US President Joe Biden presented only a partial outline of the agreed proposal to secure a cease-fire in Gaza and the release of the Israeli hostages. “There is more in the proposal that Biden did not mention,” Netanyahu told the Knesset [parliament]
Continue Reading »Tuesday, 4 June 2024 | Four Israeli men, including a dual British citizen, who were taken hostage by Hamas terrorists on October 7 died in captivity in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, the Israel Defense Forces [IDF] said on Monday. “IDF officials informed the families of Haim Perry, Yoram Metzger, Amiram Cooper and
Continue Reading »Tuesday, 4 June 2024 | After Hezbollah launched a series of rocket barrages and explosive drones into northern Israel on Monday, massive fires erupted across the region, with firefighting teams struggling to contain the blazes. Major fires have reignited in the Ramim Ridge, north of Kiryat Shmona, prompting authorities to dispatch numerous firefighting teams. With
Continue Reading »Tuesday, 4 June 2024 | Israel’s envoy to the United Nations [UN] will depart his position this summer, according to the prime minister’s office. Gilad Erdan, whose confrontational nature has rattled UN officials and opposing diplomats, especially in a post-October 7 environment, announced that he will depart at the end of his appointed term, which
Continue Reading »Monday, 3 June 2024 | Israel forces on Sunday continued their “precise, intelligence-based targeted operations” in Gaza’s Rafah city, according to the Israel Defense Forces [IDF]. Troops have seized large caches of weapons and killed armed terrorists in the city, Hamas’s last stronghold in the Strip, the military said. Ground forces remain active elsewhere in Gaza, including
Continue Reading »Monday, 3 June 2024 | The two main political parties in the United States Congress rarely agree, but leaders from both sides reaffirmed their support for Israel last week. The top four members of the US Senate and House—in a letter published on House Speaker Rep. Mike Johnson’s page on X (formerly Twitter) on Friday—issued
Continue Reading »Monday, 3 June 2024 | Nahariya and Acre are two of Israel’s northernmost cities. For months, these cities had relative calm, especially compared to neighboring communities. Nahariya experienced five consecutive months without sirens, from November to April. In Acre, there were no sirens for four months, from late December until the end of April. However,
Continue Reading »Monday, 3 June 2024 | Ahead of Jerusalem Day on Tuesday evening and Wednesday, which this year celebrates 57 years since the city was reunified in the Six-Day War, the Jerusalem Institute for Policy Research has published its 38th annual report on the city, which provides an in-depth statistical look at the capital. With a
Continue Reading »Friday, 31 May 2024 | The Slovenian cabinet endorsed a decision to recognize a Palestinian state on Thursday, paving the way for parliament to approve the move in the coming days, the government in Ljubljana announced. “Today, the government has decided to recognize Palestine as an independent and sovereign state,” Prime Minister Robert Golob told
Continue Reading »Friday, 31 May 2024 | The images grip your heart and haunt you late into the night. A fire roaring through make-shift shelters as soot-streaked figures scurry desperately to save the inhabitants within. Refugees with vacant eyes sifting through the ashes hours later for tokens of life that the flames didn’t consume. Mothers sobbing their
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