Two Jewish shepherds were injured on Thursday morning after Palestinian Arabs beat them with clubs and pummeled them with large sharp rocks while they were picking olives near the Rimonim intersection in Binyamin. One shepherd suffered a serious head injury and was knocked unconscious. Paramedics evacuated him and the second victim, who was lightly to moderately wounded, to Shaare Tzedek Hospital in Jerusalem. Meanwhile, the Arab terrorists fled to the village of Dier Jarr. An initial investigation showed that the Arabs waited in ambush for the Jews under the cover of the olive harvest. Eliyahu Ochiyon, a resident of Kochav…
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Palestinians at the rubble of a destroyed building after an Israeli air strike in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on October 26, 2023. Photo by Atia Mohammed/Flash90 *** Local Caption *** הרס פלסטינאים הפגזות חרבות ברזל הפצצה עזה JERUSALEM (JNS) – Over the past day, Israeli fighter jets struck over 250 Hamas terror targets in the Gaza Strip, including terror infrastructure, operational command centers, tunnel shafts and rocket launchers placed in the heart of civilian areas that fired toward Israeli territory throughout the war, according to the Israel Defense Forces. <!– Click to get Text Message Updates right…
Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman said on Monday that Israel “will handle any Iranian threat” seemingly in response to a Reuters report published last week, that claimed Tehran was transferring ballistic missiles to its Iraqi proxies with the capability of reaching Israel. “As for the threat from Iran, we are not limiting ourselves to Syria. That should be clear,” Liberman told a conference organized by Hadashot TV news. When asked specifically if this included Iraq, the defense minister responded: “I’m saying we will handle any Iranian threat, no matter where it comes from. We are maintaining the right to act… and any threat or…
For the first time since the Syrian civil war erupted over seven years ago, two rockets hit the Sea of Galilee on Wednesday. Air defense sirens blared across the Golan Heights in the afternoon hours and after an inquiry, the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said the military had identified one rocket launch toward Israel – apparently errant fire from the fighting in southwest Syria between the Assad regime and rebel groups. Eyewitnesses in Israel later reported seeing two impact explosions in the Sea of Galilee, near the Gofra beach, where numerous beachgoers, among them families with children, were vacationing. Shimon Cohen,…
If you’ve ever been in Israel for Yom Hazikaron—the Memorial Day for those who gave the ultimate sacrifice for the Jewish homeland—chances are you will never forget it. Even if you somehow miss the official ceremonies honoring the fallen, there’s no way to sleep through the siren sounding across the Jewish state at 8 p.m. and then again at 11 the next morning. At that moment, Israelis everywhere freeze in mid-air—mid-bank deposit, mid-math lesson, mid-email or mid-carpool—while traffic screeches to a halt, and folks climb out of their cars and stand completely silent. Both instances represent a long minute of…
During the 2014 Gaza war, Hamas terrorists captured the remains of two Israeli soldiers, Hadar Goldin and Oron Shaul. In the following year, two apparently mentally ill Israeli civilians, Abera Mengistu and Hisham al-Sayed, entered the Gaza Strip of their own volition and were taken captive by Hamas. “We have the utmost responsibility to bring back the captives and the IDF soldiers — the improvement of Gaza Strip residents’ situation is dependent upon this as well,” Maj. Gen. Eyal Zamir told a conference in the southern town of Sderot. Israel has called for the civilians and slain soldiers to be…
WASHINGTON — US President Donald Trump said on Monday he could return to Jerusalem in May when the US opens its new embassy in the city to coincide with Israel’s 70th anniversary. Sitting across from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office, the American president was asked if he would travel to Israel to cut the ribbon on the new facility, almost a year after his first visit to Jerusalem as president. “I may. I may,” he said. “We’re looking at coming, if I can, I will.” He went on, “We’re going to have it built very quickly and very…
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday continued his exaggerated response to US President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel by threatening regional war. Speaking in Cairo, Abbas stated: “Jerusalem is the key to peace if it is our capital, and if it is not – it is the key to war. Trump will need to chose. “There is no such thing as a Palestinian who will give up even one millimeter of Jerusalem.” There were two key problems with Abbas’ remarks. First, it has by now become clear that Trump’s declaration regarding Jerusalem was not really…
The Knesset’s passage of a law that requires two-thirds of its members to approve any future transfer of land in Jerusalem to a foreign entity is “equivalent to a declaration of war on the Palestinian people,” Nabil Abu Rudeinah, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s spokesman, said on Tuesday. Late Monday night, the Knesset passed the law, with 62 lawmakers voting in favor of it and 52 against it. While many of the law’s backers hope it will make it more difficult to divide Jerusalem as a part of a future peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians, only a simple…
Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pulled no punches during his speech before the United Nations General Assembly last Tuesday. The focus of Netanyahu’s speech was the failed nuclear agreement with Iran, which continues to deny international inspectors and violate the terms of the deal. Iranian officials have in recent weeks boasted that they can restart a nuclear arms program at any moment, and that they remain dedicated to eradicating Israel within 25 years. Netanyahu told them firmly and boldly that will never happen. “I have a simple message for Ayatollah Khamenei, the dictator of Iran: The light of Israel will…