Israel sets up new rocket-protected hospital for vulnerable patients

Clalit Health Services has opened a new rocket-protected hospital designed to safeguard some of the nation’s most vulnerable patients as Iran continues to fire ballistic missiles at the Jewish state, the healthcare provider said on Sunday. Read more

IDF names second soldier KIA in Southern Lebanon

The Israel Defence Forces on Monday afternoon released the name of a second soldier slain while fighting the Iranian-backed Hezbollah terrorist group in Lebanon the previous day. Read more

Trump: When you look at Oct. 7, war on Iran ‘had to be done’

The war against Iran “had to be done,” U.S. President Donald Trump said at a summit of Latin American leaders in Florida on Saturday. Read more

‘Indiscriminate, reckless’ attacks, say US, Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi, UAE

The governments of the United States, Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates said on Sunday that the Iranian regime had carried out “indiscriminate and reckless missile and drone attacks against sovereign territories across the region,” the U.S. State Department said.

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Modi places wreath at Yad Vashem’s Hall of Remembrance

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited Yad Vashem together with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday. Read more

Virginia senator’s Australia trip highlights US partnership, Jew-hatred concerns

Democratic Senator Tim Kaine (D-Va.) announced on Monday that he had returned from Australia after a week-long series of meetings with lawmakers, defence officials, and local rabbis as part of a trip focused on national security and shared concerns over rising antisemitism. Read more

British actor distances from Zionism after eulogy for Israeli

British actor Hugh Laurie on Friday distanced himself from Zionism after receiving negative reactions online for eulogizing an Israeli friend who died at the age of 52. Read more

Tel Aviv Marathon poised to break participation records

Israel is preparing to host what organisers say will be the largest sporting event in the state’s history when more than 50,000 runners take to the streets on Friday for the annual Tel Aviv Marathon. Read more

Slain captive Ran Gvili’s parents to visit Jewish community in Australia

The parents of Israel Police Master Sgt. Ran Gvili, the last hostage whose body was returned from Gaza, will travel to Australia on Feb. 18 to show solidarity with the Jewish community in the wake of the Bondi Beach massacre. Read more

Stolen Albino kangaroo found in Tel Aviv flat

The Israel Police Special Patrol Unit (Yasam) located on Thursday in a Tel Aviv apartment a baby kangaroo and other exotic animals that were stolen the previous night from a zoo in the Beit She’an Valley in northern Israel. Read more

Investigation uncovers hundreds of Nazi-linked accounts at Credit Suisse

The Senate Judiciary Committee heard testimony about newly uncovered links between the Nazis and a Swiss banking conglomerate, amid an ongoing legal dispute over restitution to Holocaust victims. Read more

UK lawyers say Britannica erased Israel from content

A British legal group has accused Encyclopaedia Britannica of erasing Israel from its children’s educational materials, alleging that entries on the Britannica Kids website misrepresent Middle Eastern history and geography. Read more

Apple buys Israeli startup in its second-largest deal

Apple Inc. announced on Thursday that it has acquired Israeli startup Q.ai, a software company that implements AI technology for audio, among other applications. Read more

Talik Gvili says ‘pride stronger than sadness’ after son’s remains retrieved from Gaza

“The pride is so much stronger than the sadness,” Talik Gvili said on Monday, speaking with reporters outside the family home in Meitar, southern Israel, hours after her son’s body was retrieved from Gaza. Read more

US will keep defeating evil of Jew-hatred, Rubio says on Australia Day

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio spent nearly 20% of a Jan. 25 statement marking Australia Day discussing the antisemitic mass shooting at Bondi Beach in Sydney on Chanukah in December. Read more

First ever Israeli bobsleigh team qualifies for Winter Olympics

Israel’s bobsleigh team has qualified for the Winter Olympics for the first time, to be held next month at venues across Lombardy and northeastern Italy. Read more

KKL-JNF earmarks tens of millions of shekels for projects across Israel

Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael–Jewish National Fund (KKL-JNF) has  approved budgetary and planning measures totalling tens of millions of shekels to strengthen communities and enhance social resilience in the Galilee, the Negev and the “Gaza Envelope.” Read more

Our Guy: Israeli wheelchair tennis star aims for Grand Slam sweep

Israeli tennis player Guy Sasson is on the cusp of one of Israel’s greatest sporting milestones. Read more

Yarden Bibas marks slain son Kfir’s third birthday

Yarden Bibas, whose family became a symbol of the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas kidnappings, has marked what would have been his murdered son’s third birthday with a wrenching Instagram post.​ Read more

Spielberg should use his ‘big platform’ to censure Mamdani’s views, ZOA president says

Morton Klein, national president of the Zionist Organisation of America, criticised filmmaker Steven Spielberg for reportedly meeting privately with New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, arguing that the visit legitimised a person who has gone out of his way to make his anti-Israel views known. Read more

JK Rowling speaks up for Iranian protesters, calls out Jew-hatred

“Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling voiced support for Iranian protesters and condemned antisemitism in a widely shared post on social media on Jan. 11. Read more

Mamdani deletes social media posts about Israel, Jew-hatred from mayoral account

Mark Goldfeder, director of the National Jewish Advocacy Centre, wrote to Zohran Mamdani on the latter’s inauguration day as mayor of New York City, informing him that he was violating the city records law by deleting posts from his predecessor about Israel and about Jew-hatred. Read more

Israel’s population hits 10,178,000

Israel’s population reached 10,178,000 by the end of 2025, an increase of 112,000 from Dec. 31, 2024, the Central Bureau of Statistics reported on Wednesday. Read more

Former Israeli hostages engaged to marry

Former Israeli hostage Matan Zangauker and his girlfriend, former hostage Ilana Gritzewsky, have become engaged. Read more

In Cairo talks, Israel presses to recover last hostage’s body from Gaza

An Israeli delegation led by Coordinator for Hostages and Missing Persons Brig. Gen. Gal Hirsch met with senior Egyptian officials and international mediators on Wednesday to discuss efforts to recover the body of Master Sgt. Ran Gvili, the last hostage being held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Read more

Shiri Bibas’s sister lights Chanukah menorah in Rafah

Israeli forces held a Chanukah candle-lighting ceremony in Rafah, the southern Gaza Strip, on Sunday, led by Golani Brigade commander Col. Adi Ganon and Sgt. (res.) Dana Silverman Seton, the sister of murdered Hamas hostage Shiri Bibas. Read more

Netanyahu: Jews’ spirit ‘will not fall’ after Sydney massacre

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lit on Sunday the eighth Chanukah candle together with Chabad emissaries at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem. Read more

Israeli who confronted Bondi terrorist remains in critical condition

A 30-year-old Israeli man who confronted one of the Bondi Beach attackers and was shot three times remains in critical condition and intensive care after multiple surgeries in St Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney on Sunday, a week after the massacre. Read more

Police open probe after woman blows out Tel Aviv mall Chanukah candles

Police opened an investigation on Friday after security camera footage showed a woman in Muslim religious garb blowing out Chanukah menorah candles at a Tel Aviv shopping mall. Read more

The stories of the victims of the Sydney Chanukah massacre

The stories of the victims of the Sydney Chanukah massacre Read more

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