(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…
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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.…
The Harvard University community has roundly condemned the political cartoon posted by PSC and HFSJP. The leader of the two anti-Zionist Harvard University groups that posted an antisemitic cartoon on social media has resigned from his positions, according to an announcement first reported by The Harvard Crimson on Tuesday. Walter Johnson, who teaches African and African American Studies at Harvard, left his role as faculty adviser of the Harvard Undergraduate Palestine Committee (PSC) and ended his membership in Harvard Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine (HFSJP), of which he was the first founding member. The announcement follows a controversy…
Jeffrey Stevens, 41, allegedly sent messages to the CIA and to the Fort Wayne Police Department, in Indiana, threatening to murder Jews and pro-Israel government officials. According to a complaint, filed on Feb. 12 with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana to apply for an arrest warrent, Stevens operated Facebook pages under the names “Jeffrey Stevens,” “Zayed Stevens,” and the “Ishmael Report.” On Sept. 28, someone wrote to the CIA from an IP address registered to Stevens and his partner, saying, “I am a journalist covering the Middle East with very strong connections throughout the West…
The Biden administration and a small group of Middle East partners are attempting to bypass Israel and rush to complete a comprehensive plan for long-term peace between Israel and Palestinians, including a firm timeline for the establishment of a Palestinian state that could be announced as early as the next several weeks, according to a Washington Post report. The administration is trying to use a proposed pause in the Israel-Hamas war for a hostage deal to gain support for the formation of an interim Palestinian government which would then take over Gaza and establish a state which could be internationally…
The families of hostages are hoping that suit filed at the Hague will lead to arrest warrants against Hamas leaders in UN member states. The brother of a hostage said that the lawsuit filed against Hamas at the International Criminal Court at The Hague could harm the terror group by leading to the warrants for the arrest against senior Hamas leaders in all UN member states. “This is a pivotal moment in our struggle against Hamas,” Moshe Or, whose brother Avinatan remains captive by Hamas, told Arutz Sheva about the complaint filed by the hostages’ family. He added that the…
Hamas regularly uses hospitals and civilian centers such as mosques and schools for its terrorist activities. Based on ‘credible intel’ that Hamas was hiding bodies of hostages in Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, the IDF embarked on a precise mission to locate them, IDF spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari reported on Thursday. He said, “We have credible intelligence from a number of sources, including from released hostages, indicating that Hamas held hostages at the Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis and that there may be bodies of our hostages in the Nasser hospital facility.” Hamas regularly uses hospitals for its terrorist…