The young IDF soldier shivers in the cold, a sharp contrast to sweating during the desert heat that day. Every member of his elite unit has one of the most highly trained dogs in the world at their side as they lead the way into the tunnels in Gaza, but there are no coats. When one of the young men in this unit tells his family about the extreme cold, his father knows who to call. “You have to help him because, you see, my son is also your child,” said the father to Nir Salomon, executive director of EFRAT,…
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Some of the women and children held hostage by Hamas begin returning to Israel, where they are reunited with their families. In the last few days, Israel collectively held its breath as the first hostages to be returned from Hamas captivity began making their way back home. As photos and videos of children held in captivity for 50 days being reunited with their parents began making rounds, a huge sigh of relief could be heard around the country. Continue Reading this article at israel21c.org
Gigi Hadid added to her list of outrageous claims against Israel on Sunday sharing a video in which the person claims Israel illegally harvests the organs of dead Palestinians. By Shiryn Ghermezian, The Algemeiner Model Gigi Hadid made a series of false accusations about Israel and its treatment of Palestinians, while also promoting an antisemitic blood libel, to her more than 79 million Instagram followers over the weekend. On Sunday, the 28-year-old shared on her Instagram Story a reel in which a user named Umme Murtaza (umme_murtazaa) tells her followers to “watch this disturbing video, where health officials admitted that…
(JTA) — The world’s first Israeli-Palestinian boy band landed in Los Angeles to start recording songs on Oct. 6, the day before Hamas attacked Israel and kicked off a war in Gaza, a new feature from Billboard magazine reveals. As1one—pronounced “as one”—is a group of four Jewish Israelis and two Palestinians, one Muslim and one Christian. The project was first envisioned by music executives James Diener and Ken Levitan as an Israeli version of BTS—the seven-piece Korean pop group that has reached superstardom around the world—and has been in development for a couple of years. Diener, who worked in top…