Open letter about Oscars calls out diversity initiative exclusion of Jews

New rules by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences—known for presenting the annual Oscar awards in Hollywood, Calif.—go into effect this year to qualify for the Best Picture category. Read more

UNRWA teachers Telegram channel glorifies Oct. 7 Hamas massacre

A Telegram channel for UNRWA teachers in Gaza with over 3,000 members contains messages glorifying the Hamas massacre of Oct. 7 and encouraging the execution of Israeli hostages, an investigation by Geneva-based human rights NGO UN Watch has found. Read more

Idan Amedi, ‘Fauda’ star, seriously injured in Gaza

The musician and actor Idan Amedi, 35, who plays Sagi in the Netflix series “Fauda,” was reportedly seriously injured while serving as a reservist with the Combat Engineering Corps in Khan Yunis in Gaza. Read more

3 million tourists visited Israel in 2023 before Hamas war

Three million tourists visited Israel last year, with the first nine months before the outbreak of the war with Hamas setting a record for tourism from the United States, the Israeli Tourism Ministry announced on Monday. Read more

Wounded soldier ended up being treated at his father’s hospital

Dr Roni Eichel, the head of neurology at Shaare Zedek Medical Centre in Jerusalem, has two sons serving in elite combat units in the Israel Defence Forces. Read more

Qantas crew members don Palestinian pins while serving passengers

Qantas has received a rebuke from AJA for a decision by staffers to display Palestinian flag pins on a Dec. 20 flight from Melbourne to Hobart. Read more

Netanyahu confirms Israel engaged in new talks on releasing hostages

During a meeting on Thursday with representatives of captives still being held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed that his government was engaged in negotiations to return “everyone.” Read more

Mia Shem opens up about Gaza captivity: ‘Everyone there is a terrorist’

In her first television interview since being released from Hamas captivity in the Gaza Strip four weeks ago, Israeli Mia Shem opens up about the abuse she suffered at the hands of Palestinian residents of the coastal enclave. Read more

‘NY Times’ op-ed page gives voice to Hamas-appointed Gaza mayor

’Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the news, not a keyboard was clanking, except in New York to target the Jews. Read more

South African Jews—a community under threat? 

Jews have been an integral part of the fabric of society in South Africa since the seventeenth century when some arrived with the early Dutch settlers…writes Rolene Marks. Read more

Torah scroll, hidden during Holocaust, brought to Yad Vashem

A Torah scroll hidden in the attic of a synagogue in Poland that was ransacked on Kristallnacht was placed in the Holy Ark at Yad Vashem, Israel’s official Holocaust remembrance centre. Read more

Gadi Haggai, 73, first US hostage confirmed killed by Hamas

An Israeli-American is the first U.S. citizen taken hostage who has died in Hamas captivity in Gaza, a group representing the families of Hamas prisoners announced on Friday. Read more

Antisemitism ‘context’ at Harvard costs the school another billionaire donor

Len Blavatnik has joined a “donor revolt” following Harvard University president Claudine Gay’s testimony before Congress that it depends on context whether calling for genocide against Jews violates school policy, Bloomberg reported. Read more

Seinfeld visits Be’eri during solidarity visit to Israel

American Jewish comedian Jerry Seinfeld toured Kibbutz Be’eri, one of the Gaza border communities whose residents were murdered during Hamas’s Oct. 7 onslaught on the northwestern Negev. Read more

South Africa threatens to prosecute citizens fighting for IDF

The South African government has threatened to prosecute citizens fighting for the Israel Defense Forces against Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip, according to a Monday report by Agence France Presse. Read more

London to bar ‘extremist Israeli settlers’ from entering UK territories

The United Kingdom has become the first European nation to bar “extremist Israeli settlers” from entering its territories, a week after the United States announced a similar travel ban. Read more

Barak calls for Netanyahu’s ouster despite war raging

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak recently laid out his plans to oust the current premier, Benjamin Netanyahu, despite Israel’s ongoing war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Read more

What river? What sea?

Some may wonder what students understand when they chant the antisemitic slogan “From the river to the sea.” Read more

Sole survivor of family celebrates bar mitzvah two months after massacre

Two months after his parents and two sisters were brutally murdered in their home by Hamas terrorists during the Oct. 7 massacre at Kibbutz Nahal Oz, Ariel Zohar celebrated his bar mitzvah on Thursday. Read more

Maccabi World Union unveils memorial to victims of Oct. 7

Maccabi World Union unveiled a memorial to the 1,200 victims of the Oct. 7 Hamas massacre at the Kfar Maccabiah Hotel and Sports Club complex in Ramat Gan. Read more

Netanyahu: Israeli troops surround Hamas senior leader Sinwar’s home

The Israel Defence Forces has surrounded the residence of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar in the Gaza Strip, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement on Wednesday night. Read more

IDF finds massive weapons cache near Gaza clinic, school

Israeli forces have located a massive stockpile of weapons near a clinic and school in the Gaza Strip, the IDF said on Wednesday, describing it as “one of the largest found” since the start of the ground invasion on Oct. 27. Read more

Neighbours ‘stunned’ after ex-SS soldier found living in sleepy English suburb

A British newspaper has revealed the hidden past of a 97-year-old gardening enthusiast living in a quiet Nottingham suburb, once a member of Hitler’s notorious Waffen SS Galizien. Read more

Netanyahu: Only Israel can demilitarize Gaza

Israel will not accept any international force in the Gaza Strip, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a primetime address on Tuesday night. Read more

US announces restrictions against Israeli, Palestinian ‘extremists’

“Violence in the West Bank this year is at levels not seen since the Second Intifada, and in recent weeks, an alarming surge in violent acts has driven this unwelcome record even higher,” said Matthew Miller, U.S. State Department spokesman, at the department’s press briefing on Tuesday. Read more

Hamas tranquillised hostages before release to ‘look happy’

Hamas drugged the hostages who were released during the ceasefire so that they would “look happy” during the transfer to the Red Cross in Gaza, according to Israel’s Health Ministry. Read more

Hamas delegation in South Africa for Palestinian solidarity event

A senior Hamas delegation arrived in South Africa to participate in the Fifth Global Convention of Solidarity with Palestine. Read more

Eight hostages return to Israel from Gaza Strip

Hamas freed six more Israelis from captivity in the Gaza Strip shortly before midnight on Thursday, bringing the total number of hostages released on the seventh day of the ceasefire to eight. Read more

Model Gigi Hadid pushes blood libel of Palestinian organ-harvesting 

In a since-deleted social-media posting, American supermodel Gigi Hadid levelled several false charges against Israel. Read more

Hamas forced 12-year-old hostage to watch Oct. 7 attack videos

The aunt of an Israeli boy who was held hostage by Hamas in Gaza said on Tuesday that while in captivity, he was forced to watch videos of the terror group’s Oct. 7 massacre and that he and the other child hostages were threatened at gunpoint when they cried. Read more

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