Israel’s Yuval Raphael reaches Eurovision Grand Final

Israeli singer Yuval Raphael has advanced to the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 Grand Final, following a powerful and emotionally resonant performance of her ballad “New Day Will Rise” during Thursday night’s second semifinal in Basel, Switzerland. Read more

ICC cases grind to halt due to Trump sanctions against court, report says

The work of Karim Khan, chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court, has ground to a halt since U.S. President Donald Trump slapped the top ICC official with sanctions, the Associated Press reported on Thursday. Read more

Third Houthi missile launched at Israel in 24 hours

Israeli air defences early on Wednesday morning intercepted a ballistic missile launched from Yemen, according to the Israel Defence Forces. It was the third such attack since Tuesday night. Read more

New museum opens at Czech industrial site where Schindler saved 1,200 Jews

The Museum of Survivors hosted its first visitors this weekend at the site of an old industrial plant in the Czech town of Brněnec 100 miles east of Prague, in an event timed to coincide with the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II. Read more

80 years after liberation, Holocaust survivors lead March of the Living in Hungary

Eighty years after the fall of Nazi Germany and the liberation of concentration camps across Europe, 60 Holocaust survivors led more than 5,000 participants through the streets of Budapest on Sunday in a solemn and powerful March of the Living, commemorating the victims of one of history’s darkest chapters. Read more

Israel files complaint after delegation threatened at Eurovision opening

Israel’s Kan public broadcaster has filed a complaint with Swiss police after a man was filmed threatening the Israeli delegation during the opening event of the Eurovision Song Contest on Sunday afternoon. Read more

Tel Aviv Uni medical school receives largest-ever donation

Jonathan Gray, president and chief operating officer of the global investment firm Blackstone, and his wife, Mindy, are donating A$195 million (about 450 million shekels) to Tel Aviv University’s Faculty of Medicine. Read more

Ben-Gvir slams hostage deals with Hamas amid terrorist recidivism

National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir lashed out on Friday at Israel’s concessions to Hamas as a “capitulation” to terrorism, citing data on recently freed Palestinian prisoners who resumed attacks. Read more

Abbas meets Putin in Moscow, demands Gaza ceasefire

Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Friday, calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and the opening of humanitarian aid corridors amid Israel’s ongoing military campaign against Hamas. Read more

Jewish congratulations for Pope Leo

Congratulations have been sent to newly-elected Pope Leo XIV from Jewish sources in Israel, the United States and Australia. Read more

Nazi recording confirms Hitler ordered Holocaust

Approximately 800 digital recordings and transcripts of Nazi criminals from after World War II were revealed on Saturday, including dramatic and disturbing testimonies that shed light on Nazi methods during the war and Holocaust and on their escape routes. Read more

Israel to launch new Gaza aid distribution plan to bypass Hamas

Israel is preparing to implement a new humanitarian aid distribution system in southern Gaza designed to prevent Hamas from seizing the supplies, according to a report on Tuesday. Read more

Rabbi Smuley Boteach says Australia is a sewer of antisemitism

This past week, I was attacked three times. Not for anything I said, or anything I did—but simply for being Jewish…Rabbi Shmuley Boteach tells the Jewish world. Read more

Yuval Raphael’s emotional journey from Supernova to Eurovision

One morning, when Yuval Raphael, a survivor of the Supernova music festival massacre, was a 6-year-old girl, her father gathered her and her younger brother to announce they were relocating to Switzerland. Read more

IDF chief: ‘Our moral duty is to bring our hostages home’

The nation’s “moral duty” is to bring home the hostages still held by Hamas, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir said on Monday. Read more

Quentin Tarantino buys Tel Aviv property for $13.8 million

Renowned filmmaker Quentin Tarantino and his spouse, Israeli singer Daniella Pick, recently bought property in Tel Aviv for an estimated 50 million shekels (~$13.8 million), Hebrew media reported on Sunday. Read more

IDF finds Hamas weapons hidden in UNRWA bags near Rafah

Israeli forces operating in the Tel al-Sultan area of Rafah discovered a Hamas weapons cache hidden inside UNRWA humanitarian aid bags, the IDF announced on Sunday. Read more

Bar led ‘greatest security failure’ in Israeli history, PM says of Shin Bet chief

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday accused outgoing Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) chief Ronen Bar of having led the “greatest security failure” in the state’s history. Read more

‘We’ll burn Jews like Hitler did,’ says BBC Gaza contributor

A freelance journalist frequently featured on BBC Arabic has called for Jews to be burned “as Hitler did” and praised terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians, according to an exposé published in The Telegraph on Saturday. Read more

Israel’s oldest Holocaust survivor dead at 109 on Yom Hashoah

Nechama Grossman, Israel’s oldest Holocaust survivor, died at the age of 109 on Thursday, coinciding with Yom Hashoah, or Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day. Read more

Israel denies any role in huge Iran port blast

Israeli officials denied on Saturday any connection to the massive explosion that rocked the Port of Shahid Rajaee, Iran’s largest, on Saturday, killing at least 18 people and injuring more than 700 others. Read more

Trump: Willing to ‘lead the pack’ in strike against Iran

If the negotiations on a deal to dismantle Tehran’s nuclear program fail, the United States will lead an attack against it, President Donald Trump said on Friday. Read more

Great-grandson killed in Gaza as Shoah survivor visits Bergen-Belsen

As Magda Baratz, a 96-year-old Holocaust survivor, was visiting the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany, where she was held during World War II, her great-grandson was killed in action in Gaza. Read more

Jewish identity hijacked in UK for political vanity

There is no shortage of people willing to sign their names to morally unserious causes…writes Steve Winston. Read more

PA no different, Chikli says after Abbas calls Hamas ‘sons of dogs’

Mahmoud Abbas “cannot claim to be any different from Hamas” as long as he rewards terrorists for their attacks, Israeli Diaspora Affairs Minister for Amichai Chikli said on Thursday after the Palestinian Authority chief called the Islamist terrorist group “Sons of dogs.” Read more

One in 10 Israeli Shoah survivors died in past year

Approximately 120,000 of the Holocaust survivors who made the Jewish state their home after the 1941-1945 destruction of European Jewry remain alive as of this month, the Ministry of Welfare and Social Affairs revealed ahead of Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day. Read more

‘How about we put pressure where it really belongs, on Hamas,’ Huckabee tells WHO

Mike Huckabee, the newly installed U.S. ambassador to Israel, shared a public response to Dr. Hanan Balkhy, regional director for the eastern Mediterranean at the World Health Organisation, who called on him to allow more aid into Gaza. Read more

New ceasefire proposal presented to Hamas in Cairo talks

Qatari and Egyptian mediators have presented a new ceasefire framework to Hamas, including a multi-year truce, the release of all Israeli hostages in exchange for Palestinian security prisoners and a full Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, according to a report on Monday. Read more

66,250 Holocaust survivors will remain in 2035, Claims Conference predicts

A report that the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany published yesterday about aging Holocaust survivors suggests “sobering insights into the future of this incredible community,” per the nearly 75-year-old nonprofit, which estimates that it will distribute about US$530 million in compensation this year to Holocaust survivors worldwide, and $960 million for welfare needs of survivors. Read more

IDF rescues dog taken to Gaza on Oct. 7

Israeli soldiers in Rafah recently rescued a dog stolen from Kibbutz Nir Oz during Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023 invasion, Hebrew media reported on Tuesday. Read more

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