Avivit and Orit Yablonka, sisters of Israeli hostage Hanan Yablonka, described how they felt on Friday morning when the IDF informed them that they had retrieved their brother’s body from Gaza. “We woke up to a black morning, we are crushed and broken, don’t know how to cope, couldn’t have imagined this,” the sisters said. Hanan’s father Reuven describes receiving the sad news, “At seven in the morning, friends called me and asked if it was true, I had no idea what they wanted from me.”
The bodies of three more hostages: Hanan Yablonka, Michel Nisenbaum, and Orion Hernandez Radoux, were rescued during a joint IDF and Shin Bet operation. Based on verified intelligence obtained by the IDF, the hostages were murdered already during the October 7th attack and were abducted from the Mefalsim Intersection to Gaza by Hamas terrorists. The bodies of the hostages were rescued during a joint IDF and Shin Bet operation in Jabaliya, based on precise intelligence obtained and analyzed by the IDF Intelligence Directorate’s Headquarters for the Hostages and Missing Persons. At the beginning of the operation, intense combat was carried…
Israel’s ambassador to Germany strongly criticized Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s office for saying that if the International Criminal Court (ICC) issues a warrant against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, he would be arrested if he steps on German soil. When asked if Germany would obey the ICC’s warrant for Netanyahu’s arrest, Chancellor Scholz’s spokesman, Steffen Hebestreit, responded, “Of course. Yes, we abide by the law.” Israel’s ambassador to Germany Ron Prosor condemned the statement on X, and wrote, “This is outrageous! The public statement that Israel has the right to self-defense loses credibility if our hands are tied as soon as…
In this ALL ISRAEL 101 video, we join the people of Israel as they commemorate Yom HaZikaron, Memorial Day, and transition into the joyous celebrations of Yom Ha’atzmaut, Independence Day. Against the backdrop of Mount Herzl, Israel’s national cemetery and memorial site in Jerusalem, we explore the profound symbolism of these two days, which are observed back-to-back. Keep reading this article at allisrael.com
GUEST EDITORIAL By Tom Tradup Contributing Editor, ALL ISRAEL NEWS Vice President of News & Talk Programming, SALEM RADIO NETWORK / SRN NEWS On March 26, I joined 15 other guests at the Embassy of Israel in Washington, D.C. for a private screening of the infamous videos shot by Hamas terrorists during their October 7 reign of terror. (We were all invited to Washington by ALL ISRAEL NEWS Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief Joel Rosenberg on the 172nd day of the current war.) Although I was honored to be among the invitees, I was not looking forward to seeing the footage captured…
President Biden spoke this morning with Prime Minister Netanyahu. U.S. President Joe Biden underscored the need for Israel to defend its citizens from terrorism in a manner that protects civilians during a call on Sunday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the White House said. Biden also “underscored the need to immediately and significantly increase the flow of humanitarian assistance to meet the needs of civilians in Gaza.” The following is an official readout of the phone call, as provided to YWN by the White House: The leaders discussed developments in Gaza. The President reiterated that Israel has every right…
U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham has played the role of shadow secretary of state this year. Back in April, Graham, a South Carolina Republican, traveled to Israel and met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a week after a trip to Saudi Arabia yielded a sit-down with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Earlier this month, conducting shuttle diplomacy throughout the Middle East, Graham and a bipartisan Senate delegation bounced from Saudi Arabia to Israel to Egypt, meeting with the leaders of all three countries in an attempt to keep the Israel-Hamas war from spiraling out of control and to save a potential…
Less than two weeks after the Oct. 7 massacre of 1,400 Israelis, the world is predictably starting to turn on Israel, whether it’s at the United Nations, in the international media or now in the financial markets. Last week, major rating agencies, including S&P Global Ratings, Fitch Ratings and Moody’s took the perplexing step of downgrading Israel’s credit outlook to “negative.” Their rationale? The anticipation of a war negatively impacting the country’s economy. It is a grave mistake, however, to underestimate a nation armed with nuclear capabilities, one of the world’s most formidable armies and a highly advanced air force…
Elie Wiesel said it best: “Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” The silence from university presidents at Harvard, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia, Brown, George Washington University and Cooper Union is deafening. In support of Hamas’s Oct. 7 rampage through southern Israel, paid protesters, agitators and rabble rousers have wreaked havoc on campuses across the U.S. At Cooper Union, Jewish students were subjected to a pro-Hamas mob that terrorized them. At George Washington University, the statements “Glory to Our Martyrs” and “Free Palestine from the River to the Sea”—barely concealed code…
Israel has tried to enlighten the world about the true nature of Hamas for years. Since the unspeakable atrocities that Hamas committed on October 7, some of the Western world is seeing the light. Others never will because they simply don’t want to – in fulfillment of ‘הלכה היא ידועה שעשו שונא יעקב.’ But on Friday, even the anti-Israel New York Times published a report entitled: As Gazans Scrounge for Food and Water, Hamas Sits on a Rich Trove of Supplies. The report quotes Western and Arab officials confirming Israel’s assertions that the Hamas terror group has been stockpiling supplies…