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To help the more than 500 Jewish families who lost their homes in California's wildfires, a group of women launched Rebuilding Judaica, hoping to replace precious Jewish objects, many of them passed in families for generations. 'It just makes you feel like you can start to move forward,' one recipient says

Ron and Maayan Kehati, whose son Gur was killed in November, met with Herzl Halevi at IDF headquarters in Tel Aviv, where the latter took responsibility for the fatal incident

By attacking Iran, with or without the United States, Israel's prime minister seeks to turn the October 7 calamity into an epic strategic triumph. Will the Saudis help Trump avert this?

Defense Minister Israel Katz announced that Yadai, a former Ground Forces Command and Central Command chief, will serve as Eyal Zamir's deputy

Rom Braslavski worked as a guard at the Nova music festival – eyewitnesses say he could have saved himself, but stayed to help others. His family hasn't received signs of life of the 21-year-old from former hostages

A man was arrested after he video called 27-year-old Pia Bernstein and threatened her with a gun, she told German media.

Sagui Dekel Chen, Iair Horn and Alexander 'Sasha' Troufanov, all Nir Oz residents, have been announced as the hostages to be released in the next weekly phase of the cease-fire deal

As one battalion commander says about the Gaza war, 'If a child or an old man enters a forbidden area and isn't directly endangering you, morally you're not allowed to shoot them. Here the IDF needs a very large correction'

The bill would also impose an 80-percent tax on donations from foreign state entities, with one NGO official saying the criteria are designed to target government critics

  The Prime Minister's Office of Israel confirmed Friday that three more Israeli hostages are slated for release from Hamas captivity on Saturday through Qatari and Egyptian mediation: Alexandre Sasha Troufanov (29), Sagui Dekel Chen (36), and Yair Horn (46). Alexandre Sasha Troufanov Alexandre Sasha Troufanov, 29, was taken from Kibbutz Nir-Oz alongside his mother […]

  Alexandre Sasha Troufanov, 29, was abducted on Oct. 7, 2023, from his family home in kibbutz Nir Oz, where he had grown up and where he was visiting that Saturday with his girlfriend Sapir Cohen. The terrorists breached the house while the family was sheltering in the safe room, seized control of the property, […]

  Keith Siegel, released two weeks ago from Hamas captivity through the hostage-prisoners exchange agreement, released a video message Friday directed at President Donald Trump, describing his grueling 484-day ordeal in captivity. "Every day felt like it could be my last," Siegel said, whose wife Aviva was also taken hostage and freed in an earlier […]

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is elated after a successful Washington visit. As he admires Trump's consolidation of power, he can also be glad that the investigation into his wife Sara on suspicion of harassing a witness is stalled over a missing phone

  Two Gaza migrants, Talal al-Damsi and Khaled Abdul Qassab, entered the Israeli Embassy in Asuncion, Paraguay, in May 1970, where they fatally shot the ambassador's secretary, Edna Peer. The pair were among thousands of Gaza residents whom Israel had persuaded to emigrate to Paraguay in exchange for airline tickets and several hundred dollars. During […]

While the creators of 'No Other Land,' a documentary about the West Bank community of Masafer Yatta, prepare for the Oscars, Israeli authorities carry a large and cruel demolition operation there. 'Masafer Yatta is disappearing before my eyes,' wrote the film's co-director Basel Adra

Ever since October 7, many Israelis have been unable to sleep. But even when they do manage to drift off, their dreams often center around the Hamas massacre, the fighting and the hostages languishing in Gaza. Experts explain

  The fact that Israel urged Qatar to increase aid to Gaza has been known for a long time, but the alleged involvement of Netanyahu's office officials in "laundering" the emirate's image must be thoroughly investigated. We must not accept a reality where senior officials in the prime minister's environment work for an entity that […]

  Iair Horn, 46, the eldest of the Horn brothers, was taken from his home in Kibbutz Nir Oz along with his younger brother Eitan, 37, who had been visiting that fateful weekend of October 7. In an impossible Solomon-like judgment, Iair is set to be released while Eitan remains absent from the list. Signs […]

  As you read these lines, a tall, slightly hunched man stares through the expansive window of his apartment atop a skyscraper in Moscow City, examining the view with a melancholic gaze. Over the past two months, his eyes have grown accustomed to this vista, though they've never learned to draw comfort from it. The […]

In the quiet moments at their home, three young girls await their father's return. For Sagui Dekel-Chen's family, the pain of his absence reverberates through every daily routine – especially for his newborn daughter, who knows him only through stories and photographs. Chen, 36, was taken from Kibbutz Nir Oz during the October 7 attack, […]