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

IAF strike kills sons of Hamas leader Haniyeh

An Israeli Air Force strike in the Al-Shati Camp on the northern Gaza coast killed six relatives of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, the Israel Defence Forces confirmed on Wednesday night. Read more

Outrage following Jerusalem hospital’s admission of Hamas terrorist

Dozens of protesters swarmed the halls of Hadassah Mount Scopus Medical Center in Jerusalem on Wednesday morning after news got out that the hospital was treating a member of Hamas’s “Nukhba force.” Read more

Freed Thai hostages wed, plan to return to Israel

Two Thai citizens who were abducted to Gaza during the Oct. 7 Hamas invasion and were later freed have married and are planning to return to Israel for work. Read more

Six months after joining War Cabinet, Gantz calls for early elections

Israel should go to the polls in September, National Unity leader and War Cabinet Minister-without-Portfolio Benny Gantz said at a press conference in Jerusalem on Wednesday, marking the first time that the left-wing politician has called for early elections since joining the wartime government six months ago. Read more

Jewish origins of Mozart’s librettist a ‘poorly kept secret’

One of the most important librettists, or authors of operatic texts, in music history, was born Jewish, but his origins weren’t known widely until the Nazis banned works of Jewish artists during the Holocaust. Read more

Japan to resume UNRWA funding

Tokyo said on Tuesday that it will restore funding to the U.N. Relief and Works Agency. Read more

Palestinian Authority pushing for full-fledged UN membership

The Palestinian Authority intends to press the United Nations to schedule a vote on its admission as a full member of the world body later this month, Ramallah’s permanent U.N. “observer” told Reuters on Monday night. Read more

IDF to lift restrictions on Gaza border areas, including Nova massacre site

The Israel Defence Forces will lift restrictions on several areas along the border with the Gaza Strip, including the site of the Supernova music festival near Kibbutz Re’im, where Hamas terrorists massacred over 360 people on Oct. 7. Read more

Israel’s Supreme Court orders stop to yeshivah funding for haredim required to enlist in IDF

Israel’s Supreme Court on Thursday issued an interim order prohibiting the government from providing stipends to some haredi, or ultra-Orthodox, Jewish men who do not serve in the Israel Defence Forces. Read more

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