Friday, 24 January 2025 | Reports that freed Israeli hostages had been held in UN shelters in the Gaza Strip amount to “a very serious allegation,” Farhan Haq, deputy spokesman for UN Secretary-General António Guterres, told JNS on Wednesday. “We call on those who have information on this to share it formally with UNRWA [United
Continue Reading »Friday, 24 January 2025 | Israel’s security cabinet, which recently convened to approve the hostage deal, also adopted measures to bolster security in Judea and Samaria. The cabinet decided to maintain IDF’s force levels in the region as they were before the outbreak of the war on October 7, 2023. A reduction in forces will
Continue Reading »Friday, 24 January 2025 | Layal Alekhtiar a Lebanese journalist and presenter for the Saudi TV network Al Arabiya landed in hot water in October 2023 after her interview with IDF spokesperson in Arabic Col. Avichay Adraee. During the interview, Alekhtiar referred to Adraee as “the spokesperson for the Israel Defense Forces” and “Mr. Adraee,”
Continue Reading »Friday, 24 January 2025 | Kibbutz Alumim—aThai agriculture worker crouched on top of the refrigerator in the small room in the cowshed in the southern kibbutz [collective community] of Alumim, eyeing the removable ceiling panels for an emergency getaway. It was October 7, 2023, and Hamas terrorists had stormed this agricultural community, less than 2.5
Continue Reading »Thursday, 23 January 2025 | The release of three women hostages held in the hellish nightmare of Gaza for more than 15 months has sparked a whirlwind of emotions among the Israeli, Jewish and international public. On the one hand, one cannot help but feel immense, unbridled ecstasy at witnessing the return of Romi Gonen,
Continue Reading »Thursday, 23 January 2025 | US President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday calling on the US secretary of state to designate the Houthis as a terror group within the next 30 days. Trump designated the Iranian-backed group—which is also known as Ansar Allah—as a foreign terrorist organization in January 2021, during his
Continue Reading »Thursday, 23 January 2025 | When Harel Saidov lay beneath the rubble of a building in Khan Younis, bleeding and covered in broken concrete and dust, everyone thought he was dead. The helicopter, loaded with wounded soldiers, was preparing to take off when his teammate, Eliya Hilel, noticed his faint breathing and shouted, “He’s alive!”
Continue Reading »Thursday, 23 January 2025 | Members of Hamas’s political bureau met with Turkish intelligence officials on October 7, 2023, the same day Hamas launched a devastating attack on Israel, killing over 1,200 people, Turkish news outlet 10HABER reported on Tuesday. The report includes rare, pointed criticism of Hamas, accusing it of causing catastrophic consequences for
Continue Reading »Wednesday, 22 January 2025 | Four people were wounded in Tel Aviv on Tuesday night in a terrorist attack perpetrated by a foreign national, according to the Israel Police. Local media reported that the attacker, a 29-year-old man identified via an ID card found on his person, was a US permanent resident originally from Morocco.
Continue Reading »Wednesday, 22 January 2025 | A prayer service at Jerusalem’s Temple Mount brought together Jewish and Christian worshippers on Monday to pray for newly-inaugurated US President Donald Trump. Rabbi Tuly Weisz, of Israel365, stated that the service—which he called “historic,” “unprecedented” and a “powerful display of religious unity and determination”—took place “despite the Jordanian Waqf’s
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