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  Q: You've served as director of the Hall of Names at Yad Vashem – the world Holocaust remembrance center – for nearly 30 years. You told me before, that the preoccupation with names and the stories of the victims in the Pages of Testimony collection fascinates you. On a deeper level, what does this […]

  Prospects for a Gaza ceasefire appeared slim on Sunday as Hamas reiterated its demand for an end to the war in exchange for the freeing of hostages, which Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flatly ruled out. The two sides blamed each other for the impasse. In their second day of truce talks in Cairo […]

Liku Rifca Carmi and her family spent over two years from 1943 to 1945 sheltering from the Nazis in northern Romania. Now nearly 88 and living in Jerusalem, she recalls the hardships and horrors – bloodsucking leeches, dankness and darkness – and the words that haunted her mother to her dying day

  British Green Party candidate Mothin Ali, who won the Gipton and Harehills seat in Leeds with 3,070 votes, proclaimed his election was a "win for the people of Gaza." After the results were announced, he shouted "Allahu Akbar!" while supporters unfurled a Palestinian flag behind him. "We will not be silenced. We will raise […]

Dozens of Israeli evacuees from Shlomi near the Lebanon border, including about 20 Shoah survivors, have been living in a Jerusalem hotel for the past seven months

The letter forcefully calls on university leaders to fulfill their "moral obligation" to ensure a safe and inclusive environment.

A silent March from Auschwitz to Birkenau and a procession across Budapest, March of the Living marks the killing of more than 550,000 Hungarian Jews within a few months during the end of World War II. In Israel, Holocaust Remembrance Day will have a different look after Oct. 7

The violence that broke out at the pro-Palestinian encampment at UCLA, where I teach, is a warning for other U.S. campuses, which face the same dangerous spiral of exclusion, radicalization and intensified outside pressure for political gain

  Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu firmly rejected demands by Hamas for an end to the Gaza war in exchange for freeing hostages, stating on Sunday that acquiescing would keep Hamas in power and pose a grave threat to Israel's security. Netanyahu said Israel was willing to pause fighting temporarily to secure the release of over […]

Only a fool doesn't understand that eventually there will be a Palestinian state. And we Israelis are the biggest fools

  Several Israeli casualties were reported on Sunday noon after mortar fire hit the Kerem Shalom Crossing Point in the Gaza Strip in the southern part of the coastal enclave. Helicopters and aircraft were scrambled to the area. Hamas claimed responsibility for the barrage in which 10 rockets and several mortar shells were fired at […]

Israel's criminal defendant prime minister, more focused on saving his incompetent far-right government than saving the hostages who have spent seven months trapped in Gaza, is doing everything he can to torpedo Israel's last and best chance at bringing the hostages home

The ceremony of the 'Holy Fire' has been held for more than a millennium. This is how it was celebrated last week in Jerusalem

  A special event honoring the 80th anniversary of the Hungarian Jewish community who perished in the Holocaust was held Friday with the participation of senior officials of KKL-JNF and KKL Hungary. The event, which included a one-minute silence in memory of the victims, was attended by Hungarian Agriculture Minister Istvan Nagy, who was the […]

Israel's communications minister lauded the decision as 'an end to the network's well-oiled incitement machine'; Israel Police raided the channel's Jerusalem office and confiscated equipment; Al Jazeera slammed the decision, calling it a 'slanderous and deceptive move'

  Amid escalating tensions with Qatar over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's cabinet voted unanimously on Sunday to close Qatari television network Al-Jazeera's operations in Israel, according to a government statement. The statement did not specify when the decision might take effect. The network condemned the move to shutter its operations in the […]

“October 7 helped spread a fire that was already out of control”.

Danny Ayalon discusses the US university protests, noting the Muslim influence on public opinion in Europe and their efforts to replicate it in the US.

'A country on pause and an exhibition on pause': Israeli artist Ruth Patir has no regrets about closing her country's pavilion. Meanwhile political protests are spreading beyond Venice's Arsenale

Israel's Holocaust Remembrance Day, a state day of commemoration, is marked every year with a two-minute siren and moment of silence, as well as ceremonies and events held across Israel