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Let our people go!

Credit: Yaakov (DryBones) Kirschen.
Credit: Yaakov (DryBones) Kirschen.
Political cartoonist Yaakov Kirschen grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., made aliyah to Israel in 1971 and began drawing “Dry Bones” in January 1973. The internationally syndicated, award-winning cartoons ran in The Jerusalem Post for 50 years. They were reprinted in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, TIME and other mainstream media publications. The “Dry Bones” story has been covered by CBS, CNN and Forbes, among other outlets. He was a member of America’s National Cartoonists Society and the Israeli Cartoonists Society. Kirschen died at 87 on April 14, 2025.

Let our people go!

“They think it was intentional murder by the country of Israel,” the Kentucky congressman said of the 1967 attack.
“Israel has a full right to self-defense, and we are exercising it to the extent necessary,” the prime minister told the nation. “I say this to you, just as I say this, with appreciation and respect, in my good conversations with my friend President Trump.”
The president’s statement came amid U.S. efforts to prevent further military escalation in the region.
The inflammatory rhetoric is condemned by the Israeli Foreign Ministry as “a total loss of moral compass.”
Executives, in an April 4, 2024, emergency meeting, warned the money may have fallen into the hands of “Hamas and other terror-related entities operating in Gaza.”
The IDF chief of staff directed the operation from the Israeli Air Force command center.