Tuesday, 26 November 2024 | After nearly 14 months of clashes and exchanges of fire between Israel and Hezbollah, ceasefire seems ever closer with Israel reportedly having given its approval to end the hostilities. Lebanese officials and a Western diplomat told Reuters that Washington has informed Beirut a ceasefire could be announced “within hours,” pending
Continue Reading »Tuesday, 26 November 2024 | The only legal recourse that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant, the former defense minister, have to fight the arrest warrants issued by the International Criminal Court [ICC] is to surrender and go to trial, an expert on the laws of war said during a Friday webinar. Geoffrey
Continue Reading »Tuesday, 26 November 2024 | Three days before the US presidential elections, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei gave a November 2 speech to students. One of them, invited in advance, asked him to alter his fatwa (“religious decree”) that forbids the production of nuclear weapons. Khamenei responded that Iran will do all that is
Continue Reading »Tuesday, 26 November 2024 | Hilel Jonathan Jolodenco recalled the morning of October 7, 2023, as one that started out rather normally. He heard alarms at 6:30 a.m. in Sderot, in the south of Israel, where he lives and works as a paramedic and the city’s head of ambulance services for Magen David Adom [MDA,
Continue Reading »Monday, 25 November 2024 | Rabbi Zvi Kogan, an Israeli citizen and emissary for the Chabad organization in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), was confirmed on Sunday to have been murdered in what Israel’s government called “an abhorrent act of antisemitic terrorism.” The UAE intelligence and security authorities found Kogan’s [body] after he went missing
Continue Reading »Monday, 25 November 2024 | The international community took a step toward renewing significant international sanctions on Iran over the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program last week, even as Iran is continuing to make substantial progress toward nuclear weapons. The Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) reported on November 21 that Iran is capable of enriching
Continue Reading »Monday, 25 November 2024 | Former United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) Commissioner-General Pierre Krähenbühl repeatedly met with senior members of Hamas and other Palestinian terror groups, expressing the UN agency’s willingness to work together in the “spirit of partnership,” Geneva-based watchdog group UN Watch revealed over the weekend. Krähenbühl, who led the controversial
Continue Reading »Monday, 25 November 2024 | Last week, the prestigious Shanghai Ranking for academic institutions published its detailed 2024 departmental rankings, and overall, it was a positive year for Israeli academia. The decline in computer science rankings was halted, with the Weizmann Institute’s computer science department breaking into the top 100. Hebrew University climbed to 14th
Continue Reading »Friday, 22 November 2024 | The International Criminal Court [ICC] has issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, the tribunal in the Hague announced on Thursday afternoon. The court’s Pre-Trial Chamber “issued warrants of arrest for two individuals, Mr. Benjamin Netanyahu and Mr. Yoav Gallant, for crimes
Continue Reading »Friday, 22 November 2024 | The International Criminal Court’s [ICC] issuing of international arrest warrants against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant over allegations of their responsibility for alleged “war crimes” in the Gaza Strip, raises several questions regarding jurisdiction, enforcement, international implications and practical consequences. Is Israel Subject to the
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