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Volunteers Saved US $50 Million in Israeli Produce during War, Study Finds

Tuesday, 30 July 2024 | Volunteers in Israel have saved agricultural produce valued at $50 million since the start of the war against Hamas in Gaza, even amid major damage to the country’s agricultural sector, according to a study released this week. Hundreds of thousands of volunteers from Israel and around the world have helped

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Responses to Hezbollah Rocket Massacre Include Outrage, Denial… and Fear

Monday, 29 July 2024 | For 10 months, Lebanese Hezbollah terrorists have invited a great catastrophe by firing rockets indiscriminately at Israel. On Saturday, the long-feared nightmare exploded violently onto an Israeli soccer field, murdering at least 12 children. The oldest of the Israeli–Arab victims—all members of the Druze Muslim community—was just 16 years old,

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How Will Israel Retaliate Following Hezbollah’s Deadly Rocket Attack?

Monday, 29 July 2024 | Top Israeli officials signaled last night, even as some of the bodies of the children at the soccer field in Majdal Shams remained unidentified, that Israel is unlikely to drastically alter its containment policy towards Hezbollah, even after the Cabinet meeting where the IDF’s [Israel Defense Forces] response will be

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Turkey’s Erdoğan Threatens to Invade Israel 

Monday, 29 July 2024 | Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said in a televised address on Sunday that Ankara might invade Israel, drawing a harsh rebuke from the Jewish state’s foreign minister. “We must be very strong so that Israel can’t do these ridiculous things to Palestine. Just like we entered Karabakh, just like we

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‘I Was their Jewish Doll:’ October 7 Survivor Recounts Rape by Hamas Terrorists 

Monday, 29 July 2024 | Warning: The article contains graphic accounts of rape and sexual violence. An Israeli man who survived Hamas’s massacre at the Nova music festival on October 7 recounted to the Daily Mail on Sunday how the terror group’s Nukhba force terrorists raped him. “I was a Jewish doll to them, to

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Unpacking the Netanyahu, Harris Meet

Friday, 26 July 2024 | A senior official on Friday criticized Vice President Kamala Harris for saying the serious humanitarian situation in Gaza cannot be ignored. Harris spoke after she met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday. “Hopefully the things the vice president said in a press conference would not be interpreted by Hamas

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Pro-Palestinian and Pro-Israel Demonstrations Face off in Paris on Eve of Olympics

Friday, 26 July 2024 | Less than a day before the opening ceremony of the 2024 summer Olympics on Friday, there were competing demonstrations in Paris against and in support of Israel. The several hundred pro-Palestinian demonstrators chanted, among other things: “Fascist and terrorist Israel”, “Israel is occupying, Emmanuel Macron will wake up”, “Free Palestine”

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Were Americans Listening to Netanyahu’s Message? 

Friday, 26 July 2024 | What Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in his address to a joint meeting of Congress was important. Both Americans and Israelis need to understand that the war in the Gaza Strip is just one front in a conflict with Iran that is, as he rightly said, a battle “between

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Northern Israel Border City is a Ghost Town Scarred by War 

Friday, 26 July 2024 | Kiryat Shmona, Israel—The streets are deserted, the malls, stores and businesses long shuttered, and the pockmarks of war are everywhere. Even for Israel’s northernmost border city long known for bearing the brunt of rocket attacks from Hezbollah in Lebanon in decades past, as well as earlier notorious Palestinian terror attacks,

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Netanyahu to US Congress: ‘Our Victory Will Be Your Victory’

Thursday, 25 July 2024 | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu received bursts of applause and frequent standing ovations—often from both sides of the aisle—as he delivered an address to a joint session of the US Congress on Wednesday afternoon. In his remarks, which ran about an hour, Netanyahu praised the longevity and closeness of the

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