Mossad head travels to Qatar amid reported progress in hostage talks

Mossad chief David Barnea was scheduled to arrive in Doha on Monday for continued negotiations regarding the release of the 100 hostages still held by Hamas terrorists in Gaza after 458 days, foreign sources involved in the talks told Israel’s Kan News public broadcaster on Sunday night Read more

Biden notifies Congress of $8b arms sale to Israel

The Biden administration plans to sign an $8 billion arms deal with Israel before President Joe Biden leaves office on Jan. 20. Read more

Netanyahu approves delegation to resume hostage talks in Doha

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office announced on Thursday the approval of a new Israeli delegation to continue hostage negotiations in Doha, Qatar. Read more

Jewish Olympic legend Ágnes Keleti dies at 103

Ágnes Keleti, a Holocaust survivor who became the world’s oldest living Olympic champion and later shaped Israel’s gymnastics program, died Thursday in Budapest at age 103. Read more

Herzog lights eighth Chanukah candle with freed hostages

Israeli President Isaac Herzog and First Lady Michal Herzog lit the eighth Chanukah candle on Wednesday evening together with former Hamas captives, including Shoshan Haran, Shiri Weiss, Raaya Rotem and Raz Ben-Ami. Read more

Anti-Israel protesters disrupt New Zealand tennis match

Anti-Israel protesters interrupted a tennis match in Auckland, New Zealand, on Monday between Israeli player Lina Glushko and the four-time Grand Slam champion from Japan, Naomi Osaka. Read more

Israel blasts UN chief for comments on Yemen strikes

Israel’s Foreign Ministry on Friday lambasted U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres for his criticism of IDF’s retaliatory airstrikes against Yemen’s Houthi terrorists. Read more

A real Chanukah gift? The release of the hostages

My younger brother Evyatar turns 24 on Dec. 28. His Hebrew birthday falls on the eighth night of Chanukah, the second of Tevet. I should be planning his celebration…writes Ilay David. Read more

Gaza hostage deal ‘very, very close,’ White House says

The Biden administration believes that a ceasefire agreement in Gaza is “very, very close,” despite a recent impasse in negotiations due to Hamas stalling tactics, White House National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby said on Friday. Read more

IDF detains hundreds of terrorists at Hamas hospital base

Security forces apprehended more than 240 terrorists in a targeted operation against a Hamas command centre in Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, the Israel Defence Forces and the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) said in a joint statement on Saturday. Read more

Hostage deal could be reached by Chanukah, Israeli official says

An Israeli official, previously sceptical about negotiations, confirmed this week that progress had been made in talks aimed at securing the release of Israeli hostages held by the Hamas terror organization in the Gaza Strip. Read more

‘Very friendly’ Netanyahu-Trump call focused on Israeli victory, Gaza hostages, PM says

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had a “very friendly, warm and important” phone call with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on the need to complete Jerusalem’s victory over Iranian-backed terror proxies and free the hostages held by Hamas, the Israeli leader said on Sunday. Read more

Rebel leader: Israel has no more ‘excuses’ to strike Syria

Syria’s new leader said on Saturday that Israel’s “excuses” had run out for striking the deposed Assad regime’s military infrastructure, as well as for deploying troops to several demilitarized zones in the Syrian Golan Heights. Read more

Vatican removes nativity display featuring baby Jesus lying on keffiyeh 

Following a flurry of controversy, the Vatican chose to remove a nativity decoration that included a baby Jesus atop a black-and-white keffiyeh, a symbol often linked to Palestinian nationalism. Read more

Trump envoy: ‘He wants the hostages, and he will get them’

Adam Boehler, Donald Trump’s special envoy for hostage affairs, revealed to Israel Hayom this week that diplomatic efforts have intensified to secure a Gaza ceasefire deal before Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20, with Qatari mediators re-engaging in negotiations. Read more

Netflix picks up award-winning Israeli show ‘Six Zeros’

Netflix has purchased the Israeli comedy series “Six Zeros,” the first season of which aired in 2023 on Israel’s public broadcasting network, Kan 11, the channel announced on Tuesday. Read more

Israel has let 900,000 tons of food into Gaza, data show

Israel has let into the Gaza Strip almost 900 kilotons of food in some 40,000 trucks over the past year, according to official data. Read more

Israel’s oldest citizen turns 110

Israel’s most senior citizen marked her 110th birthday this week with a heartfelt celebration organized by the staff at Netanya’s Laniado Hospital. Read more

Nephew of former IDF chief of staff killed in Gaza

The nephew of Gadi Eizenkot, former chief of staff of the Israel Defence Forces and former member of Israel’s War Cabinet, was one of two soldiers killed on Sunday fighting Hamas terrorists in the northern Gaza Strip. Read more

IDF officer killed in Lebanon, bringing military death toll to 794

Israel Defence Forces Lt. Ivri Dickshtein, 21, was killed in action battling Hezbollah terrorists in Southern Lebanon, the IDF said on Thursday night. Read more

Palestinian official media describes ‘warm’ call between Abbas, Trump

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump held a “warm and general” call with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas on Friday, a Palestinian official told Axios, which reported that the two last spoke in 2017. Read more

Israelis ‘outrageously abused’ in Amsterdam, Dutch police chief says

Amsterdam police chief Peter Holla stated at a press conference on Friday that the past 36 hours have shocked him. Read more

Outrage, focus on Muslim migrants after Amsterdam ‘pogrom’

Amsterdam police detained 62 people in connection with a series of antisemitic assaults against Israeli soccer fans, which resulted in five moderate injuries and about 20 to 30 minor ones, in the Dutch capital, the city’s prosecutor René de Beukelaer said at a Friday press. Read more

Holland investigating whether it missed Israeli alerts prior to mob assaults

The government in Amsterdam launched an inquiry into whether alerts from Jerusalem were overlooked prior to the mob attacks carried out on Thursday night against Israeli soccer fans, Justice Minister David van Weel said in a letter to the Dutch Parliament, Reuters reported on Saturday. Read more

ICC to launch sexual-misconduct probe of top prosecutor

The International Criminal Court will launch an external investigation into sexual misconduct accusations against its top prosecutor, Karim Khan, the Associated Press reported on Friday. Read more

A year after Oct 7, terrorists’ remains found in Kibbutz Nirim

On Thursday, 397 days since Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, massacre, Israeli workers discovered terrorists’ remains in Kibbutz Nirim in the western Negev. Read more

Trump 2.0: Pompeo, Friedman among floated appointees

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is expected to begin selecting the members of his new cabinet soon. Read more

Abbas calls for sanctions against Israel at UN

Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas demanded on Monday that the U.N. sanction Israel for alleged breaches of its charter and failure to implement resolutions, Ramallah’s Wafa news outlet reported. Read more

Israel: ‘Rotten’ UNRWA is ‘infected with terror’

Following the Knesset’s vote on Monday to ban the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the Israeli Foreign Ministry called the refugee agency “rotten.” Read more

Soldier hurt in Gaza succumbs to wounds, bringing IDF toll to 772

An Israel Defence Forces soldier wounded earlier this month while battling Hamas terrorists in the northern Gaza Strip has succumbed to his wounds, the military announced on Monday night. Read more

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