Be’eri farmer who lost his wife, son and leg on Oct 7 returns to his fields

“A farmer does not leave his land.” Read more

BDS threats to cancel Israeli cycling team an ‘obtuse moral inversion’

Threats to disrupt the two biggest cycling races in the world over Israeli participation are an “obtuse moral inversion” by haters of the Jewish state, the Israel–Premier Tech team’s co-owner said on Wednesday. Read more

99-year-old Holocaust survivor tends graves of soldiers killed on Oct 7

KADIMA-ZORAN, Israel—Walking cane in hand, the small elderly man hovers over the two fresh graves, gingerly watering the potted plants adorning them. He straightens the pictures of the young men, arranges the stones and mementos, and cleans off the tombstones. Read more

Christian lawmakers at Israel’s ‘Ground Zero’ call to dismantle UNRWA

A group of 20 parliamentarians from around the world on Sunday visited an Israeli agricultural community on the border with Gaza hard hit in the Oct. 7 Hamas massacre and called on their governments to defund and dismantle the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees because of its ties to Palestinian terrorism. Read more

Israel sinks effort to oust it from African Union

Israel has thwarted an effort by South Africa and Algeria to deprive it of observer status in the African Union, the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem said on Tuesday. Read more

‘Aliyah’ applications from Western countries surge since Oct. 7

Israel expects a wave of immigration in the wake of the war against Hamas, fueled by solidarity with the Jewish state and antisemitism rising worldwide, the minister of aliyah and integration said on Wednesday. Read more

Dutch lawmakers urged to make UNRWA funding freeze permanent

The heads of the Knesset’s Christian Allies Caucus on Wednesday pressed Dutch legislators to cut funding to UNRWA altogether as Israel seeks alternatives for the U.N. body over its ties to Palestinian terrorism. Read more

‘Calculated Risk’: Israel to fight Pretoria’s genocide ‘blood libel’ at The Hague

Israeli representatives will appear before the International Court of Justice in The Hague next week to challenge South Africa’s “blood libel” accusing the Jewish state of committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, a government spokesman said on Tuesday. Read more

American-Israeli missing since Hamas attack declared dead

A 70-year-old American-Israeli teacher who was shot by Hamas terrorists when out for a walk with her husband at their kibbutz on the morning of Oct. 7 has been declared dead, her community announced Thursday. Read more

Papua New Guinea plans consulate in Israel’s biblical heartland

Papua New Guinea is set to become the first nation to open an honorary consulate in the biblical heartland after inaugurating an embassy in Jerusalem earlier this year. Read more

‘It reminded me of the Holocaust,’ says grandma freed from Gaza

Terrified, hungry and all alone in captivity in Gaza for over a month, Argentinian-born Ofelia Roitman hoarded small pieces of pita bread from the meagre rations she received from her Hamas terrorist captors. Read more

‘Shadows of Children’: Israel’s youngest hostages face long journey to recovery

Is it OK to eat? Can we look out the window? Is it alright to leave the room? Read more

Personal belongings tell story of music festival massacre

Rows of dusty sandals and sneakers, some in pairs. A bin of damaged sunglasses, a couple without lenses. T-shirts, shorts and other clothing in neat piles alongside colourful purses and handbags. Read more

Liel’s remains identified

The remains of the 12-year-old Israeli girl whose family members held a symbolic funeral at Kibbutz Revivim, burying her belongings, have been identified. Read more

Hamas’s youngest hostage had just begun crawling

Nine months old. Read more

Holocaust survivor saved from Hamas buries son, fears for captive family

“This is a second Holocaust for me,” said survivor Ruth Haran, 87, who is reliving a childhood nightmare. Read more

Three generations wiped out by Hamas in Kibbutz Be’eri

A 73-year-old grandmother, her 43-year-old son and barely 10-month granddaughter. Three generations of one Israeli family brutally murdered by Hamas terrorists on Oct. 7 were laid to rest Sunday side by side, the infant sharing the same coffin as her father. Read more

Death, destruction, debris mark borderline kibbutz communities near Gaza

Kibbutz Kfar Aza, Southern Israel—The stench of death fills the air.  The signs of carnage and destruction are all around. Read more

A desolate Sderot waits for the rockets to stop

SDEROT, Israel—This city, at its closest barely a half-mile from the Gaza Strip, lies forlorn, its storefronts shuttered and its tens of thousands of residents mostly gone. Read more

Grandmother outsmarts Hamas terrorists in her home

The Hamas gunman aimed his rifle at the elderly couple in their home in southern Israel early Saturday morning. He held a grenade on Rachel Edri’s head, began screaming “Allah Akbar” and announced he was a “martyr.” Read more

A stunned, silent Israel in mourning

An eerie silence pervaded Israeli cities on Sunday morning, with the country at war following the most lethal Arab assault on the Jewish state in half a century. Read more

Israeli gaming team hosted in Riyadh ‘like kings’

A team of Israelis who participated in a recent global video game competition in Saudi Arabia said Monday that they were treated like royalty and blended right in with the other international players meeting in the Gulf kingdom. Read more

Tel Aviv Light Rail to open to the public today

The Red Line’s 34 stations run from Bat Yam through Jaffa, Tel Aviv, Bnei Brak, Ramat Gan and Petach Tikva.

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Yad Vashem using AI to restore memory of Holocaust

Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Centre in Jerusalem announced Sunday that it has started using state-of-the-art AI technology including a new image detection capability to help comb through the world’s largest archive documentation of the Holocaust. Read more

Israel to assist firefighting efforts in Greece

Israel has sent two firefighting aircraft to Greece to help combat raging wildfires there, the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office announced on Wednesday. Read more

‘From the deepest hole to the highest mountain’

The view from atop the world’s highest peak was breathtakingly stunning. Read more

Shoebox tale of Shoah survival alters entrepreneur’s life

It was an ordinary shoebox that changed Eitan Neishlos’s life forever. Read more

Israeli to establish permanent embassy in Turkmenistan – 19kms from Iranian border

Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen will on Thursday inaugurate Israel’s first permanent embassy in Turkmenistan. Read more

Iraqi Islamic council sets out case for fatwa against Hamas

A clerical body in Iraq that recently issued a groundbreaking fatwa—a legal ruling on a point of Islamic law—against Hamas for oppressing the Palestinians in Gaza, on Thursday released a stinging indictment of the Islamist terrorist organisation detailing its decision. Read more

NGOs front and centre in the battle over reforming Israel’s legal system

Much-needed reform that will correct an overreaching Supreme Court and thereby make Israel more democratic, or a threat to the democratic values of the state that will destroy the political system’s checks and balances? Read more