Gantz announces departure from wartime unity government

War Cabinet Minister Benny Gantz on Sunday night announced his National Unity Party’s departure from the government set up in the aftermath of Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre and the ensuing Gaza war. Read more

Actor Michael Douglas visits Kibbutz Be’eri, hard hit by Hamas on Oct. 7

During a solidarity trip to Israel this week, Jewish actor Michael Douglas, 79, met with the families of hostages still being held in the Gaza Strip and toured areas of the country’s south, including the site of the Nova music festival, where 364 attendees were murdered on Oct. 7 by Hamas and other Palestinian terrorists after they infiltrated the southern border. Read more

Family dog succumbs to wounds after saving loved ones on Oct. 7

The canine hero who saved her family from Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Kibbutz Be’eri has succumbed to injuries sustained during the harrowing ordeal, according to Ynet. Read more

Blinken discusses ceasefire deal with Gallant, Gantz

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken held separate phone calls on Sunday with Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant and War Cabinet Minister Benny Gantz about the latest proposal for a hostage deal with Hamas. Read more

Hamas releases recording of hostage Noa Argamani

Hamas on Friday evening released what is believed to be an audio recording of Noa Argamani, an Israeli student taken hostage on Oct. 7. Read more

‘Damaged’ Gaza pier to be removed for at least a week for repairs, Pentagon says

The U.S. Department of Defence announced that it will remove a temporary pier off the Gazan coast for at least a week for repairs, after the top of the T-shaped pier separated and drifted into the coast on Tuesday. Read more

Israel: Civilians killed by fire that broke out after Rafah strike

Noncombatants were killed in an Israeli airstrike in Rafah on Sunday night due to a fire that broke out after the attack, an Israeli government spokesperson said on Monday. Read more

Nova massacre survivor wins gold at European jujitsu championship

Israeli jujitsu fighter Yarin Shriki won a gold medal at the European Championship in Germany over the weekend, seven months after surviving the Hamas massacre at the Supernova music festival near Gaza. Read more

Iranian Jew at ‘imminent risk’ of execution after appeal rejected

A Jewish man on death row in an Iranian prison for killing a man in a brawl two years ago in self-defence is at “imminent risk of execution” after Iran’s Supreme Court rejected his appeal. Read more

Netanyahu requests release of gruesome Oct 7 footage

In the wake of the recent release of a video showing the abduction of female soldiers from the Nahal Oz base, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has requested the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) to release a modified version of the 43-minute video documenting the brutal events of the Hamas massacre on Oct. 7. Read more

Report: Israel opts for limited Rafah action with Biden’s blessing

Israel will not engage in a full-scale military offensive in Gaza’s southernmost city of Rafah. Instead, it will continue its limited operation in the last Hamas bastion, with the blessing of the Biden administration, according to Washington Post analyst David Ignatius. Read more

Salman Rushdie: ‘Free Palestine is a Taliban-like state’

Indian-born British-American novelist Salman Rushdie warned on Sunday that a Palestinian state would be a Taliban state, speaking in an interview with Germany’s Bild newspaper. Read more

Five IDF soldiers slain in Gaza over the weekend

Five IDF soldiers were killed in Gaza over the weekend as the army issued evacuation orders for Jabalia in the northern Strip ahead of a major operation after attempts by Hamas to regroup there. Read more

Hamas airs propaganda video of hostage Nadav Popplewell

Hamas on Saturday released footage of British-Israeli hostage Nadav Popplewell. Read more

‘Israel stands on the front lines of the fight for civilisation,’ say 80 former US generals and admirals

Eighty former U.S. generals and admirals called in an open letter on Friday for a reaffirmation of the U.S.-Israeli bond. Read more

March of the Living kicks off at Auschwitz

The 36th International March of the Living kicked off on Monday, with thousands traversing the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in memory of the Jews murdered in the Holocaust and in honour of those who survived. Read more

Israeli whose husband was murdered on Oct. 7 gives birth to his son

Ella Chaimi, whose husband was murdered by Hamas during the terror group’s Oct. 7 massacre, has given birth to a healthy baby boy, the Rabin Medical Center’s Beilinson Hospital in Petach Tikvah announced on Tuesday. Read more

Freed Israeli hostage to leave hospital after five months

Five months after being freed from Hamas captivity in the Gaza Strip, Elma Avraham is set to be released from hospital, Beersheva’s Soroka Medical Center announced on Tuesday. Read more

March of the Living set to kick off at Auschwitz

The 36th International March of the Living was set to take place today, with thousands traversing the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in memory of the Jews murdered in the Holocaust and in honour of those who survived. Read more

Israel marks first post-Oct. 7 Holocaust Remembrance Day

Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day began at sundown on Sunday, with the official state opening ceremony taking place at 8 p.m. in Warsaw Ghetto Square, Yad Vashem, on the Mount of Remembrance in Jerusalem. Read more

IDF posts on Gaza border failed routine inspection on Oct. 4

A routine inspection of Israel Defence Forces posts along the Gaza border carried out 72 hours before Hamas’s Oct. 7 onslaught showed a severe lack of preparedness, Channel 12 reported this week. Read more

Skeletons without hands, feet found under Göring’s home

Five skeletons missing their hands and feet were recently discovered beneath the Wolf’s Lair home of Hermann Göring, Adolf Hitler’s No. 2 who served as commander-in-chief of the Luftwaffe during World War II. Read more

Blinken heading to Israel to press for Gaza ceasefire deal

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday urged Hamas to accept Israel’s “extraordinarily generous” truce offer, speaking from Saudi Arabia ahead of his visit to the Jewish state. Read more

Decision on Rafah op expected within 72 hours

The Israeli government will decide within the next 72 hours whether to launch a military operation to eliminate Hamas’s terror battalions in Gaza’s southernmost city of Rafah, Ynet reported on Tuesday. Read more

Smotrich aims to legalize 68 outposts in Judea and Samaria

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich aims to legalize 68 outposts in Judea and Samaria and has instructed various ministries to prepare to provide them with public services. Read more

US to back Rafah op in exchange for Israel dropping major Iran strike—report

Unnamed Egyptian officials told the Qatari Al-Araby Al-Jadeed news outlet on Wednesday that the United States has agreed to back an Israeli operation in Gaza’s southernmost city of Rafah in exchange for Jerusalem forgoing a major strike on Iran. Read more

LA film museum that first ignored Jews will hold exhibit on Hollywood’s Jewish founders

When the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures opened in Los Angeles in September 2021, it drew criticism for failing to feature Jews, who have played essential roles in developing the film industry in Hollywood. Read more

Israel’s War Cabinet favours retaliating to Iranian attack

Israel’s War Cabinet on Sunday recommended retaliating to the first-ever direct Iranian attack on the Jewish state, although they were divided on the scope and timing of the response, Reuters reported on Monday, citing Israeli officials. Read more

Nova music festival survivors bring child into post-Oct 7 world

Supernova music festival massacre survivors Astar Moshe, 35, and Shlomi Tobi, 37, have welcomed a healthy baby to the world, almost six months to the day following Hamas’s Oct. 7 invasion of southern Israel. Read more

‘Matter of when, not if’: Iranian attack on Israel reportedly imminent

Washington and its allies believe that a major attack on Israel by Iran is imminent and may be launched in the coming days, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday, citing officials familiar with the intelligence. Read more

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