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The Gaza deal is a dangerous, flawed agreement that even fails to achieve its main goal – keeping Netanyahu's coalition in power, not the release of hostages

The transition between Israeli and Syrian Mount Hermon happens without fanfare. Decades-old concrete blocks and razor wire have been pushed aside, replaced by bulldozer tracks carving out what soldiers have nicknamed the "Tuscany Route" – a single path stretching from Israel deep into Syria. This week, Israel Hayom received unprecedented access to the Syrian Hermon […]

  "We have not been able to discover any trace of installations for exterminating civilian prisoners." That is what the Red Cross published on Nov. 22, 1944, after visiting the Auschwitz II-Birkenau death camp, where 1.1 million people were murdered. The same humanitarian organization has proven too many times in the last fifteen months that […]

A groundbreaking eight-country study on Holocaust knowledge has revealed alarming gaps in awareness, particularly among young adults. The comprehensive survey – conducted by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany and spanning the United States, England, France, Austria, Germany, Poland, Hungary and Romania – found that 76% of American adults believe another Holocaust could […]

  The one who declared Wednesday that IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi's resignation comes too little, too late was right. Halevi, like the rest of the security leadership, should have removed their uniforms and devoted themselves to writing memoirs more than a year ago. But the central problem isn't the resignation of […]

  United States President Donald Trump's appointment of Mel Gibson to be one of three special ambassadors to Hollywood brought the latter's antisemitic history into the limelight again, including Gibson's drunken anti-Jewish rant when a police officer arrested him for drunk driving in 2006 (which he later profusely apologized for); and his ugly alleged "oven […]

  A historic handwritten letter by Rabbi Chaim ben Attar (1696-1743), the revered author of the biblical commentary "Or HaChaim," sold for $700,000 (2.5 million shekels) at auction in Jerusalem Wednesday. The sale, conducted by Kedem auction house, includes an additional 25 percent commission fee. The manuscript, which emerged from a comprehensive collection assembled by […]

Despite war challenges, the 1.5M shekel project will cut greenhouse gas emissions by 68% using locally-manufactured solar technology.

LEBANON: Israel seeks U.S. support to delay IDF withdrawal; Two UNIFIL soldiers wounded in Israeli bombardment ■ ISRAEL: About 200 protesters block main Jerusalem road over shooting of two settlers in West Bank ■ GAZA: IDF: Soldiers in Gaza opened fire at armed persons who posed a threat to them ■ WEST BANK: Shin Bet chief on IDF's Jenin operation: 'We are in a multifront act, now is the time for Samaria' ■ GAZA HOSTAGE DEAL: Israeli sources: Hamas might send number of living hostages without naming them

Defense Minister Israel Katz says operation marks a shift in the military's security plan in the West Bank and is 'the first lesson from the method of repeated raids in Gaza'

  1. In the shadows of the violent twilight that Israel is experiencing, we've once again been exposed to the views of Israeli Arab public officials. Ostensibly citizens of their state, but in their consciousness they live under occupation in a country that kidnapped their land. This isn't fantasy but rather a persistent narrative marketed […]

Ahmad Nimr al-Shayeb, 43, was killed when driving near the Jenin refugee camp. He heard gunfire, accelerated and crashed into a pole. His passengers said that an IDF sniper open fired at them. Palestinians officials say al-Shayeb was one of 10 people killed on the first day of the IDF's operation in the city. On the second day, the military blocked entrances to hospitals and, according to residents, told patients to leave

Clearing the debris and rebuilding their homes with their own hands: this is the reality some Gazans share on social media, after the cease-fire between Israel and Hamas took effect

Defense Minister Israel Katz announces Amir Baram, Eyal Zamir and Tamir Yadai as possible replacements for outgoing chief of staff Herzl Halevi. Zamir has long been considered Netanyahu's favorite candidate: Interviews start Sunday