Huckabee: Israel not committing genocide or starvation in Gaza

Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee on Sunday firmly rejected allegations that Israel is committing genocide or deliberately starving Gaza. Read more

This is the Hezbollah-linked activist behind lawfare on Israelis

Long before he perfected the use of lawfare to hound Israelis abroad, Belgian-Lebanese anti-Israel activist Dyab Abou Jahjah was already seen as “one of the most dangerous figures” for modern European Jews, according to a community activist from Antwerp. Read more

DiCaprio moves forward with eco-hotel at Herzliya Marina

Hollywood actor and environmental activist Leonardo DiCaprio, in partnership with the Israeli real estate firm Hagag Group, is moving ahead with plans for a massive eco-luxury hotel at Herzliya Marina, along Israel’s central coast just north of Tel Aviv. Read more

Cages were ‘worst part’: Emily Damari on Hamas captivity

Cages became the defining horror of Emily Damari’s captivity beneath Gaza, as she described in a harrowing exclusive to Britain’s Daily Mail published on Friday. Read more

Lion cub rescued from Palestinian village near Jerusalem

A lion cub was found on Saturday tied to a tree in the yard of a home in the Palestinian village of Abu Dis, east of Jerusalem, the Israel Nature and Parks Authority said. Read more

UK, Germany, Italy join Australia in rejecting Macron’s ‘Palestine’ statehood plan

The governments of the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy and Australia announced over the weekend that they are not planning on backing France’s initiative to recognise a Palestinian state at the United Nations in September. Read more

Huckabee: France’s ‘Palestinian’ state will be called ‘Franc-en-Stine’

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee on Friday mocked Paris’s decision to recognize a Palestinian state, suggesting that this new entity be located in southern France and named after a fictional monster. Read more

Israeli security forces foil attempt on Netanyahu’s life

An anti-government activist from Tel Aviv was arrested two weeks ago on suspicion of conspiring to assassinate Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israel Police confirmed on Wednesday. Read more

Performer displays PLO flag at London’s Royal Opera House

A cast member at London’s Royal Opera House unfurled a PLO flag during the final curtain call of Giuseppe Verdi’s Il trovatore on Saturday night, prompting a brief scuffle with a venue official who attempted unsuccessfully to remove the flag. Read more

Abbas calls elections for PLO parliament

Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas claimed on Saturday that elections for the Palestinian National Council, an internal body of his Palestine Liberation Organization, will be held by the end of the year. Read more

Gal Gadot calls for hostage return at Jerusalem Film Festival

Gal Gadot spoke of her hopes for the return of all the hostages held in Gaza, speaking at the opening ceremony of the 42nd Jerusalem Film Festival at the Sultan’s Pool amphitheatre on Thursday night. Read more

SpaceX launches ‘Dror-1’ Israeli communications satellite

Israel’s new national communications satellite, “Dror-1,” was launched into space on Sunday morning, Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) announced. Read more

France sets annual Dreyfus commemoration day

France will hold an annual day honouring Alfred Dreyfus, the French-Jewish military officer who was falsely accused of treason in 1895, President Emmanuel Macron declared on Saturday. Read more

Israeli court grants woman right to use slain soldier son’s seed for surrogacy

The Family Court in Eilat has authorised Sharon Eizenkot, mother of slain IDF Sgt. Maor Eizenkot, to use her late son’s sperm to conceive a grandchild through surrogacy. Read more

Hollywood outlier: Elliott Gould focuses the camera on real life

It’s difficult to imagine a face like Elliott Gould’s becoming a matinee idol today. It is angular and brooding, with eyes that have carried a weight beyond their years and a voice that teetered between irony and sincerity. Read more

Huckabee donates blood to Israel’s emergency rescue service

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee and his wife, Janet, donated blood on Sunday to Israel’s Magen David Adom emergency medical service in honour of the hostages still held by Hamas in Gaza. Read more

UK says new MI6 chief did not know her Nazi grandfather

The British government said on Saturday that the incoming MI6 chief “neither knew nor met her paternal grandfather”— a man who was revealed earlier in the week to be a Nazi spy, AFP reported. Read more

Trump hails Lubavitcher Rebbe’s ‘blessings’ on 31st death anniversary

U.S. President Donald Trump wrote a public letter on Sunday to the Chassidic Chabad-Lubavitch movement, marking the 31st yahrzeit (anniversary of death) of its leader, Menachem Mendel Schneerson. Read more

Netanyahu corruption trial should end in plea deal, Herzog says after Trump call for pardon

Israeli President Isaac Herzog reiterated on Thursday his support for a plea deal in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ongoing criminal trial, responding to U.S. President Donald Trump’s call to cancel the “witch hunt” against the premier in the wake of the Iran war. Read more

Knesset illuminated in red, white and blue in tribute to US strikes on Iran

Israeli landmarks in Jerusalem on Sunday honoured the United States with special gestures of gratitude following the American military’s aerial operation against Iran’s nuclear facilities the previous night. Read more

‘Rising Lion’: IDF strikes key military, nuclear targets in Tehran

The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) carried out a series of airstrikes in central Tehran overnight Thursday, targeting critical military infrastructure, including missile production sites and a facility linked to Iran’s nuclear weapons research and development efforts. Read more

60 IAF fighter jets strike nuclear, arms facilities in Iran

The IDF overnight Wednesday carried out a series of strikes in Tehran, targeting more than 20 military sites, including facilities linked to Iran’s nuclear weapons development and missile production programs. Read more

Israel will do ‘what we need to do’, PM says about eliminating Khamenei

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told America’s ABC News on Monday night that eliminating Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei would not escalate but rather “end the conflict” between Tehran and Jerusalem. Read more

Israeli rescue team pulls baby from rubble after missile barrage

A three-month-old baby was pulled out of the rubble in Rishon Letzion early Saturday morning in the aftermath of the third Iranian barrage of ballistic missiles fired at the greater Tel Aviv area. Read more

Thunberg signs Israeli deportation order, other activists refuse

Swedish activist Greta Thunberg has signed a deportation order after she and 11 other activists were stopped at sea by Israeli forces on Monday while attempting to break the Israeli blockade on the Gaza Strip, Hebrew media reported on Tuesday. Read more

Israel kills terror chief responsible for Bibas family abduction, murder

The IDF and the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) on Saturday killed a terrorist leader who was “directly involved” in the kidnapping of Shiri Bibas and her children, Kfir and Ariel, from Kibbutz Nir Oz and their subsequent murder in Gaza, the defence bodies announced in a joint statement. Read more

GHF reopens Gaza aid centres after Hamas threats

The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) resumed aid distribution in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, after cancelling distribution on Saturday due to what the U.S.-backed organisation said were direct threats by Hamas. Read more

Aussie firefighter trains Israelis to combat forest fires

Timothy Wainwright, an Australian volunteer firefighter, has conducted seven training missions in Israel since 2019, teaching civilian communities along Israel’s border regions how to effectively fight wildfires with limited resources. Read more

Five Jewish sites vandalised in central Paris

Vandals on Friday night defaced five Jewish sites, including France’s Holocaust Memorial, in the Marais district in central Paris with green paint. Read more

Shavuot 2025: Everything you need to know

This year, Shavuot begins on the evening of June 1. Here’s everything you need to know about one of the major festivals on the Jewish calendar. Read more

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