Laʻauli Leuatea Schmidt has promised to open an embassy in Jerusalem by the end of the year.
The senator will face off against leftist incumbent Lula in a second round on Oct. 25.
The prime minister vowed there will be no Hamas rule in the Gaza Strip.
The military targeted Deniz Feneri director Saqr Nabil Musa Qaisi in Khan Yunis after he funded Hamas operatives and breached the ceasefire.
“The arrests announced today disrupted a global financing network that was supplying Hamas with the funds needed to continue its campaign of destroying innocent lives,” the assistant U.S. attorney general for national security said.
Mohamed Abdou, a former Columbia University professor who describes himself as a “Muslim anarchist,” is scheduled to address students virtually as part of his “Death to the Akademy” tour.
The board’s vice president denies calling a Jewish board member a “Zionist b****.”
“It’s yet another example of the Wikipedia editors’ anti-Israel bias,” Alyza Lewin of the Combat Antisemitism Movement told JNS.
The revised guide remains focused on far-right groups and states that Republicans use antisemitism as an excuse to silence anti-Israel voices.
The vandalism comes after anti-Israel protesters demanded that Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson end the city’s relationship with Beersheva in Israel.
In videos posted to Instagram displaying his guns, Duncan Fraser MacDonald allegedly said, of Hitler, that “the Austrian painter was correct.”
OCT. 7, THREE YEARS: REMEMBRANCE AND HONOR
Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir presented the main lessons of the military’s Oct. 7 inquiries, honored a Unit 8200 warrant officer and said the IDF must grow to meet multi-front threats.
“We feel that we made one huge achievement and that is to move the conversation from whether these crimes happened to what are their consequences,” Israeli legal scholar Cochav Elkayam-Levy told JNS.
The Jewish state lowered its flags to half-staff at 6:29 a.m. to launch commemorations honoring fallen soldiers and victims of the 2023 assault.
The war’s first year saw a 45.5% rise in new anxiety diagnoses and a 100% increase in new PTSD diagnoses.
A coffee cart in northern Israel honors Staff Sgt. Gal Hershko through the things he loved: Nature, friendship and bringing people together.
The military targeted Deniz Feneri director Saqr Nabil Musa Qaisi in Khan Yunis after he funded Hamas operatives and breached the ceasefire.
A hostile Democratic administration will pile on sanction after sanction.
Balad party chair Sami Abu Shehadeh, who wrote a piece lauding Hamas’s Oct. 7 attacks, withdrew his candidacy for the upcoming election.
Their parties remain separatist, even as the community seeks better societal integration.
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The war transformed a decades-old legal and political dispute into an urgent fight over military manpower, equality of service and the future of Haredi society.
At its core, the dispute is about what military service, Torah study and citizenship mean in the Jewish state.
Originally intended to accommodate a few hundred Torah scholars, the exemption of ultra-Orthodox yeshivah students from IDF service evolved into one of Israel’s most contentious public policy issues.
Despite holding a fraction of Knesset seats, Shas and United Torah Judaism have become indispensable coalition partners, reshaping Israeli politics.
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“While the challenges remain immense, the strength and compassion we see every day give us hope for the future,” said JDC CEO Ariel Zwang.
AFHU also promotes Alana Menitoff to the position of philanthropy officer for the Southeast region.
She plans to focus on strengthening multigenerational connections to the Technion, drawn from her own family’s history with the institution.
Brings more than two decades of experience in donor engagement and philanthropic management.
Eight laureates recognized for contributions to medicine, physics, chemistry and mathematics.
Rabbi Greg Litcofsky, executive director of recruitment and partnerships: “It brings us together—across generations, programs and the different names we called it—around one shared experience.”
AJU alum to guide convening strategy and national leadership initiatives.
When ideology outranks professional ethics “to do no harm,” the patient on the table pays for it.
A weekend-long celebration bringing together generations of BCI participants, alumni, faculty and friends to honor 85 years of Jewish learning, community, creativity and connection.
“Be the safe place for your Jewish peers,” Rebecca Heinrichs, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, told participants.