SpaceX launches ‘Dror-1’ Israeli communications satellite

Israel’s new national communications satellite, “Dror-1,” was launched into space on Sunday morning, Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) announced. Read more

France sets annual Dreyfus commemoration day

France will hold an annual day honouring Alfred Dreyfus, the French-Jewish military officer who was falsely accused of treason in 1895, President Emmanuel Macron declared on Saturday. Read more

Israeli court grants woman right to use slain soldier son’s seed for surrogacy

The Family Court in Eilat has authorised Sharon Eizenkot, mother of slain IDF Sgt. Maor Eizenkot, to use her late son’s sperm to conceive a grandchild through surrogacy. Read more

Hollywood outlier: Elliott Gould focuses the camera on real life

It’s difficult to imagine a face like Elliott Gould’s becoming a matinee idol today. It is angular and brooding, with eyes that have carried a weight beyond their years and a voice that teetered between irony and sincerity. Read more

Huckabee donates blood to Israel’s emergency rescue service

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee and his wife, Janet, donated blood on Sunday to Israel’s Magen David Adom emergency medical service in honour of the hostages still held by Hamas in Gaza. Read more

UK says new MI6 chief did not know her Nazi grandfather

The British government said on Saturday that the incoming MI6 chief “neither knew nor met her paternal grandfather”— a man who was revealed earlier in the week to be a Nazi spy, AFP reported. Read more

Trump hails Lubavitcher Rebbe’s ‘blessings’ on 31st death anniversary

U.S. President Donald Trump wrote a public letter on Sunday to the Chassidic Chabad-Lubavitch movement, marking the 31st yahrzeit (anniversary of death) of its leader, Menachem Mendel Schneerson. Read more

Netanyahu corruption trial should end in plea deal, Herzog says after Trump call for pardon

Israeli President Isaac Herzog reiterated on Thursday his support for a plea deal in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ongoing criminal trial, responding to U.S. President Donald Trump’s call to cancel the “witch hunt” against the premier in the wake of the Iran war. Read more

Knesset illuminated in red, white and blue in tribute to US strikes on Iran

Israeli landmarks in Jerusalem on Sunday honoured the United States with special gestures of gratitude following the American military’s aerial operation against Iran’s nuclear facilities the previous night. Read more

‘Rising Lion’: IDF strikes key military, nuclear targets in Tehran

The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) carried out a series of airstrikes in central Tehran overnight Thursday, targeting critical military infrastructure, including missile production sites and a facility linked to Iran’s nuclear weapons research and development efforts. Read more

60 IAF fighter jets strike nuclear, arms facilities in Iran

The IDF overnight Wednesday carried out a series of strikes in Tehran, targeting more than 20 military sites, including facilities linked to Iran’s nuclear weapons development and missile production programs. Read more

Israel will do ‘what we need to do’, PM says about eliminating Khamenei

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told America’s ABC News on Monday night that eliminating Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei would not escalate but rather “end the conflict” between Tehran and Jerusalem. Read more

Israeli rescue team pulls baby from rubble after missile barrage

A three-month-old baby was pulled out of the rubble in Rishon Letzion early Saturday morning in the aftermath of the third Iranian barrage of ballistic missiles fired at the greater Tel Aviv area. Read more

Thunberg signs Israeli deportation order, other activists refuse

Swedish activist Greta Thunberg has signed a deportation order after she and 11 other activists were stopped at sea by Israeli forces on Monday while attempting to break the Israeli blockade on the Gaza Strip, Hebrew media reported on Tuesday. Read more

Israel kills terror chief responsible for Bibas family abduction, murder

The IDF and the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) on Saturday killed a terrorist leader who was “directly involved” in the kidnapping of Shiri Bibas and her children, Kfir and Ariel, from Kibbutz Nir Oz and their subsequent murder in Gaza, the defence bodies announced in a joint statement. Read more

GHF reopens Gaza aid centres after Hamas threats

The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) resumed aid distribution in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, after cancelling distribution on Saturday due to what the U.S.-backed organisation said were direct threats by Hamas. Read more

Aussie firefighter trains Israelis to combat forest fires

Timothy Wainwright, an Australian volunteer firefighter, has conducted seven training missions in Israel since 2019, teaching civilian communities along Israel’s border regions how to effectively fight wildfires with limited resources. Read more

Five Jewish sites vandalised in central Paris

Vandals on Friday night defaced five Jewish sites, including France’s Holocaust Memorial, in the Marais district in central Paris with green paint. Read more

Shavuot 2025: Everything you need to know

This year, Shavuot begins on the evening of June 1. Here’s everything you need to know about one of the major festivals on the Jewish calendar. Read more

US-backed Gaza aid group delivers nearly a million meals on Thursday

The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a U.S.-backed independent aid distributor, said that it had delivered 997,920 meals on Thursday via three sites, including a new site that opened in Bureij, in central Gaza. Read more

US-backed aid centres expand operations in Gaza

A third humanitarian aid distribution centre opened in the central Gaza Strip on Thursday as part of a U.S.-led initiative to provide direct assistance to Palestinian civilians, according to Israel’s Army Radio military correspondent Doron Kadosh. Read more

IDF: Cannot confirm deaths of Gaza doctor’s children in airstrike

The Israel Defence Forces said it cannot verify claims that nine children from the al-Najjar family were killed in an Israeli airstrike in Khan Yunis over the weekend. Read more

Mia Schem’s hostage-solidarity ribbon confiscated at Cannes

Security personnel at the 78th annual Cannes Film Festival on Saturday confiscated a yellow ribbon worn to the event by Mia Schem, a 22-year-old dual Israeli-French citizen and former Hamas hostage, in solidarity with captives still held in Gaza. Read more

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

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