In an interview with the BBC, Itay Regev, a former Hamas hostage freed in late November, shared harrowing details of his captivity experience. Regev, kidnapped from the Nova music festival on October 7, described his captors as “very, very vicious” and recounted the brutal treatment he received. Regev recalled the terrifying kidnapping, where terrorists sprayed fleeing vehicles with bullets “without any mercy,” injuring him and his sister Maya. He shared the heart-wrenching moment when Maya said goodbye, fearing she wouldn’t survive. “I saw my sister Maya injured and crying. Maya also that day said goodbye to me and told me…
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Polish politician Grzegorz Braun interrupts German institute’s Holocaust speech in Poland by smashing the speakers microphone.
Pro-Palestinian activists demand Dutch police arrest Herzog for ‘genocide.’ Israeli President Isaac Herzog is set to visit the Netherlands next week, despite calls for his arrest. A spokesperson for the president announced Thursday that Herzog will depart for the Netherlands on Sunday or a day-long state visit. However, a criminal complaint filed by a Dutch attorney against Herzog could complicate Herzog’s plans. Haroon Raza, a Rotterdam-based attorney affiliated with the anti-Israel “March 30 Movement,” has accused Herzog as Israel’s head of state of genocide in Gaza. Citing allegations of Israeli “genocide” in Gaza put forth by groups like Amnesty International,…
Hamas issued a statement criticizing Israel for refusing its demands for a permanent ceasefire and a complete withdrawal troops from the Gaza Strip. As the US and Arab countries scrambled to push for a days-long pause in fighting to build trust between Israel and Hamas, the terror group has reportedly rejected the deal and has reverted to its earlier demands for a permanent ceasefire. The Biden Administration was desperate to implement a 6-week long ceasefire before the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in exchange for the over 130 Israeli hostages remaining in Gaza and says the ceasefire deal now “lays…
Families of the hostages have requested that some of the 12 torches be lit in the areas attacked by Hamas on October 7. Israel canceled fireworks displays at national Independence Day celebrations because of the war with Hamas, Transport Minister Miri Regev said on Wednesday. “In light of the events of Oct. 7 and the war, we are adjusting the format of the ceremony,” said Regev, who is overseeing Israel’s official Independence Day celebrations. Regev also called on municipal leaders organizing celebrations in their localities to do likewise. Independence Day, Israel’s 76th, begins at sundown on May 13. Israel’s Memorial…
(JNS) — Family members of 16 soldiers from Gush Etzion and Efrat who fell defending the State of Israel since Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre gathered on Monday at a military base in the Gush’s western foothills to dedicate the base’s newly expanded synagogue in memory of their loved ones. The synagogue was also dedicated in memory of Ari Fuld, a well-known Israel activist, educator and Israel Defense Forces reservist who was murdered by an Arab terrorist just before Yom Kippur 2018. Family members of IDF soldiers who have fallen in Gaza since Oct. 7 participate in the dedication of a…
A shooting attack took place at a gas station in the yishuv of Eli in Binyamin late Thursday afternoon. The attack left two Israelis murdered. Their identities have not been released. One victim is reportedly 17 years old, and the second is 31. According to initial reports, the attack was carried out by a terror cell of three terrorists. One terrorist was neutralized by the owner of “Chummus Eliyahu,” next to the gas station, and one reportedly barricaded himself inside a store next to the gas station. A large number of Israeli security forces launched a manhunt for additional terror…
Dozens of messages, written on placards, said, ‘resistance is justified,’ and ‘get these Zionists out of office.’ University of California-Santa Barbara (UCSB) has issued a statement condemning the antisemitic harassment of its Jewish student body president, Tessa Veksler, while reports emerged on social media that a school official who engaged in antisemitic conduct in the building where Veksler was harassed has been terminated. “The campus was distressed to learn of incidents over the weekend that included offensive social media message and signage on one of our buildings,” a university spokesperson told The Algemeiner in a statement. “The signage has been…
The reservist fired a first bullet through the window then got out, made contact, and took out the terrorist. A reservist who had just been discharged from serving in Gaza fired a pistol and neutralized one of the three terrorists who attacked motorists outside of Ma’ale Adumimm on Thursday morning. Hananya Ben Shimon, 23, was sitting in a car with his mother after having been discharged a week and a half ago from for serving three months and facing intense combat as a tank crew member in Khan Younis. Since he was on his way to work as a security…
United Airlines says it plans to resume flights to Israel next month, reviving a route that was suspended in October at the start of the Israel-Hamas war. The airline said Wednesday that it will start flights from Newark, New Jersey, to Tel Aviv with a stop in Munich on March 2 and March 4. United said it hopes to begin daily service on March 6 and to add a second daily flight as soon as May. American Airlines and Delta Air Lines also stopped flying to Tel Aviv after the war started and have not announced when service might resume.…