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Shin Bet Director Ronen Bar (right) attends a state ceremony at the Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem marking the Hebrew calendar anniversary of last year's Hamas-led terrorist invasion, Oct. 27, 2024. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90.
What happened to the Shin Bet on Oct. 7?
The agency experienced critical failures ahead of one of Israel's worst-ever breaches.
Itay Ilnai
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. Credit: Australian Government via Wikimedia Commons.
Netanyahu ties Melbourne shul attack to Labor government’s ‘extreme anti-Israelism’
Incidents of Jew-hatred have surged in Australia since the Hamas-led terrorist attacks in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.
Amelie Botbol
British Jews, pro-Israel supporters to rally in London against hate
Faygie Holt
Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Herzi Halevy, Ronen Bar, head of the Shin Bet security and Mossad chief David Barnea attend a ceremony of laying of the Israeli flags on each fallen soldier's grave at Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem, on May 8, 2024. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash 90.
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Caroline B. Glick
A coup attempt in the shadow of Oct. 7
A bullet-riddled portrait of Syrian President Bashar Assad adorning Hama's municipality building after it was defaced following the capture of the city by anti government fighters on Dec. 6, 2024. Photo by Omar Haj Kadour/AFP via Getty Images.
Assad remains in Syria, urged to govern in exile after fall of Hama
Amnesty International activists protest outside the Israeli embassy in The Hague, the Netherlands, May 8, 2024. Photo by Pierre Crom/Getty Images.
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Ruthie Blum
Amnesty International’s antisemitic agenda
Golda Meir, Israel's first ambassador to the Soviet Union, visited the Choral Synagogue in Moscow on Oct. 4, 1948. Photo by David Khabkin/Nativ.
New photo emerges of Golda Meir’s historic 1948 Moscow visit
Ariel Kahana
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Amelie Botbol
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New photo emerges of Golda Meir’s historic 1948 Moscow visit
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Tania Fernandes Anderson. Credit: U.S. Army Photo by Capt. Kevin M. Lindow via Wikimedia Commons.
Boston official who called Oct. 7 a ‘military operation’ under federal investigation
Leading Saudi cleric condemns Oct. 7 attacks, urges release of hostages
Credit: Yaakov (DryBones) Kirschen.
A funny thing
Dry Bones
An Israel Defense Forces guard tower near Kibbutz Nahal Oz and the Gaza Strip, May 17, 2018. Photo by Moshe Shai/Flash90.
IDF to arm border lookouts, move bases to ‘safe distance’
El Al airplanes. Credit: Courtesy.
Israel ups threat level for Armenia, Maldives, lowers it for Brazil
A picture of a terrorist and a Hezbollah flag lie on a temporary grave as civilians and terrorists are exhumed for relocation in Tyre, Lebanon, on Dec. 4, 2024. Photo by Ed Ram/Getty Images.
Hezbollah begins rebuilding militarily, financially
JNS Staff
Israel Defense Forces Spokesperson Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari in Gaza City. Credit: IDF.
Katz to forgo disciplinary action against Hagari following apology
A picture of slain Israeli-American hostage Hersh Goldberg Polin hang on a building in Jerusalem, Dec. 3, 2024. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90.
Doha dives back in as Trump seeks ceasefire before Jan. 20
Joshua Marks

INSIDE ISRAEL

Ayelet Samerano, whose 21-year-old son, Yonatan Samerano, was shot by Hamas terrorists and abducted by a UNRWA social worker on Oct. 7, 2023, speaks at a memorial, sponsored by the Israeli Consulate General in New York and the Israeli-American Council, at Park East Synagogue on Manhattan's Upper East Side on Oct. 28, 2024. Credit: Ohad Kab studio/Israeli Consulate General.
‘Another nail in UNRWA’s coffin’: Hostage family sues agency
Ariel Kahana
Israeli hostage Itai Svirsky died in Hamas captivity in the Gaza Strip. Credit: Courtesy.
Israeli-German hostage’s body retrieved from Gaza for burial
A home that was hit by a Lebanese missile in Metula, in the Galilee panhandle, Nov. 27, 2024. Photo by Ayal Margolin/Flash90.
As ceasefire set in, Israelis take stock of devastated north
Canaan Lidor
Israeli security forces during a counterterrorism raid in the Nablus region of Samaria, Dec. 3, 2024. Photo by Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90.
IDF: Security forces attacked by citizens in Samaria; several arrested
A tank unit of the Israel Defense Forces in northern Israel near Mount Hermon on Nov. 26, 2024. Photo by Ayal Margolin/Flash90.
Israel to ease arms exports rules amid growing global demand
JNS Staff
Israeli Air Force F-16 fighter aircraft in flight, May 9, 2019. Photo by Moshe Shai/Flash90.
Israel eliminates terrorist who tortured Gazans
Jerusalem Magistrate's Court Judge Chavi Toker during a swearing-in ceremony at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, Oct. 30, 2017. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
Jerusalem court frees activist who wished AG dead, slams selective enforcement
Rafidia Hospital, in Nablus, in central Samaria, Sept. 6, 2024. Photo by Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90.
Hamas terrorist hurt in Israeli drone strike caught in Nablus hospital
David Isaac
analysis
David Isaac
Ben-Gvir’s push to curtail volume of Muslim call to prayer mimics Saudi Arabia’s
"Floaters" at the Jaffa Port wave energy pilot installation. Credit: Eco Wave Power.
Jaffa Port gets Israel’s first wave energy plant
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Israel begins reopening northern national parks
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Police clash with left-wing activists during an anti-government protest, Aug. 31, 2024. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
Low turnout: Anti-government rallies moved from Tel Aviv’s Kaplan Junction
Police demand that Tel Aviv protests be held on Begin Road, near Kirya military headquarters.
Israel Police Judea and Samaria District chiel Cmdr. Avishay Mualem arrives for a hearing at the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court, on Dec. 5, 2024. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90.
Top cop in Judea, Samaria questioned over his refusal to arrest alleged Jewish extremists
The Israeli border with Lebanon, as seen from Kibbutz Malkia, Oct. 30, 2024. Photo by Ayal Margolin/Flash90.
Five Israelis arrested after being caught crossing into Lebanon
Israelis protest in support of Eli Feldstein outside the Tel Aviv District Court, Nov. 27, 2024. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90.
Tel Aviv court finds insufficient evidence to prosecute Eli Feldstein for intending to harm state security
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Record number of religious women enlist in IDF unit
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Then-Energy Minister Israel Katz attends a conference in Tel Aviv, March 13, 2023. Photo by Tomer Neuberg/Flash90.
Katz: Real chance for hostage deal with Hamas
IAF launches first haredi aircraft maintenance facility
The scene where two Israeli soldiers were wounded by a Hezbollah bomb on Mount Dov in the Golan Heights on Oct. 7, 2014. Credit: Flash90.
Yaakov Lappin
analysis
Yaakov Lappin
Israeli will to enforce Lebanon understandings put to the test
Hamas's Khalil al-Hayya speaks at a terrorist rally in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, Sept. 15, 2015. Photo by Emad Nassar/Flash90.
Hamas, PA officials leave Cairo without agreement on ‘day after’ in Gaza
JNS Staff
Benny Morris. Credit: Courtesy.
German University nixes gig by Israeli scholar Benny Morris
Canaan Lidor
At the 36th annual Israel Film Festival in Los Angeles are (from left) Ynon Kreiz, Mattel chairman and CEO; actress Gal Gadot; and Meir Fenistein, founder and executive director of the Israel Film Festival, which ran from Nov. 13-26, 2024. Photo by Jordan Strauss/January Images.
Israeli Film Festival in LA screens 40-plus pictures, draws 7,000 people
Outstanding English-speaking immigrants to Israel receive the prestigious Sylvan Adams Nefesh B'Nefesh Bonei Zion Award, on December 2, 2024. Photo by Shahar Azran/Courtesy of Nefesh B'Nefesh.
Outstanding immigrants awarded by Sylvan Adams and Nefesh B’Nefesh
Judy Lash Balint
From left: Israel's First Lady Michal Herzog, President Isaac Herzog, Montana and Michelle Tucker and Museum of Tolerance Jerusalem CEO Jonathan Riss attend the world premiere of the documentary film "The Children of October 7th" in Jerusalem, Dec. 2, 2024. Photo: Arnon Bossani.
From LA to the Gaza border: Montana Tucker’s Oct. 7 documentary premieres in Jerusalem
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US & CANADA NEWS

Adam Boehler (left) in Morocco as part of a joint U.S.-Israeli delegation to Rabat to meet with King Mohammed VI and other officials, and to sign various Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs), Dec. 22, 2020. Credit: David Azagury/U.S. Embassy Jerusalem via Wikimedia Commons.
Trump taps Abraham Accords negotiator as hostage affairs envoy
Jared Isaacman speaks at the 30th Annual National Character and Leadership Symposium in Arnold Hall at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo., on Feb. 23, 2023. Credit: Trevor Cokley/U.S. Air Force via Wikimedia Commons.
Trump names Jewish tech entrepreneur to head NASA
Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia. Photo by Carin M. Smilk.
Senate passes bill to consider transferring Weitzman museum to Smithsonian
Andrew Bernard
An Amnesty International demonstration in Senate Square calling for the Finnish government and EU to actively work for an immediate ceasefire in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories, Nov. 21, 2023. Credit: rajatonvimma via Wikimedia Commons.
Amnesty International to release report accusing Israel of genocide
David Swindle
IDF Cpt. Omer Maxim Neutra was killed fighting Hamas terrorists in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. Credit: Courtesy.
Long Island shul hosts memorial service for Oct. 7 terror victim Omer Neutra
School classroom. Credit: Pixabay.
Man who shot two kindergartners names motive as ‘genocide, oppression of Palestinians’
Azeez Al-Shaair, No. 0 of the Houston Texans, points to the Jacksonville Jaguars bench after a fight and being ejected during the second quarter of a game at EverBank Stadium in Jacksonville, Fla., on Dec. 1, 2024. Photo by Mike Carlson/Getty Images.
NFL linebacker wearing Palestine cleats vows to become ‘villain’
House hearing discusses radical indoctrination of young students
An air-conditioning unit at a Jewish home in Charlotte, N.C., is vandalized with swastikas, Dec. 5, 2024. Source: “WCNC Charlotte” screenshot.
Swastikas, slurs graffitied on home of Jewish family in North Carolina
Dawson College in Montreal. Credit: Jeangagnon via Wikimedia Commons.
Quebec to investigate two Montreal colleges for complaints of Jew-hate
Israeli Ambassador Danny Danon speaks during the “Summit of the Future” on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly annual general debate in New York, Sept. 22, 2024. Photo by Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images.
UN calls for conference to advance Palestinian state
JNS Staff
Holocaust survivor Branko Lustig. Photo by Carin M. Smilk.
‘Humans of Judaism’ exhibit opens in Philadelphia, a ‘labor of love’ for a first-time author
Through text and images, “we can celebrate our story, the Jewish story,” said Nikki Schreiber. “We can give people a little flavor of our lives.”
Carin M. Smilk
A page from the U.S. military's Handbook on German Army Identification (1943) on Nazi flags, including the personal standard of Adolf Hitler. Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Banner bearing Adolf Hitler’s personal standard found at Polish museum
Andy Warhol. “Franz Kafka” (1980) from the “Ten Portraits of Jews of the 20th Century” series. Screenprint on Lenox Museum Board. 40 x 32 inches. Credit: Courtesy of Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, via Morgan Library and Museum, New York.
Kafka’s Jewishness ‘can’t be extricated from his work’
Vita Fellig
Nearly a third of Ontario’s Jewish doctors may leave Canada due to bigotry
A candidate at a job interview. Photo by Alan Cleaver via Wikimedia Commons.
Jewish, Israeli Americans face ‘substantial’ hiring bias, ADL finds
More than 1,200 BBYO teens raise over $1m on #Giving Tuesday
David Swindle
Special envoy Lipstadt traveling to Egypt, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, UAE 
A bust of Israeli founding father and first prime minister David Ben-Gurion on the campus of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Photo courtesy of Americans for Ben-Gurion University (A4BGU).
120-plus organizations join A4BGU for third annual Ben-Gurion Day in USA
Reut Shapir Ben-Naftaly speaks during the General Assembly 39th plenary meeting at the headquarters of the United Nations in New York City on on Nov. 28, 2023. Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images.
UN approves major conference in push for Palestinian state
Mike Wagenheim
Amir Saeid Iravani, Iranian ambassador to the United Nations, addresses the U.N. Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East (Syria) on Oct. 23, 2024. Credit: Evan Schneider/U.N. Photo.
Middle East Forum report: Iranian regime change likely to be focus of Trump Middle East policy
JNS Staff
Illustrative: Oil tanker. Credit: Weeksymate/Pixabay.
US sanctions 35 vessels, companies that are part of Iranian ‘shadow fleet’
Shlomo Bar-Aba, Liora Rivlin, Ofer Hayoun, Roni Daloomi, Rotem Keinan, Elisha Banai, and Shani Klein in Six zeros (2023). Credit: Courtesy.
Netflix picks up award-winning Israeli show ‘Six Zeros’
JNS Staff
Booking photo for Sidi Mohamed Abdallahi, 22, from Nov. 22, 2024. Credit: Cook County Sheriff’s Office.
Chicago Jewish groups react to suicide of man who shot Jewish worshipper
David Swindle
People replace posters of hostages taken captive by Hamas during the terror attack on Israel on October 7th after being ripped down in New York City, on Nov. 30, 2023. Photo by Michael M. Santiago via Getty Images.
NYC staffer suspended after tearing down hostage poster
Israel's first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, in the Negev Desert. Credit: Courtesy.
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David Ben-Gurion’s message of resilience takes center stage on Dec. 8
Americans for Ben-Gurion University is again inviting Americans to honor the Israeli founding father’s spirit of resilience in the face of challenges.
Jacob Kamaras

FROM THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

U.S. President Joe Biden walks out of Nantucket Bookworks with his son Hunter Biden, grandson Beau and daughter-in-law Melissa Cohen Biden in Nantucket, Mass., on Nov. 29, 2024. He is carrying the book “The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine” by Rashid Khalidi. Photo by Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images.
Jonathan S. Tobin. Photo by Tzipora Lifchitz.
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BlueAnon: Left’s conspiracy theories target Jews
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GOP presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump takes photos with the family of Edan Alexander at the Ohel in Queens, N.Y., the resting place of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson (the Lubavitcher Rebbe), one year after the Hamas-led terrorist attacks and kidnappings in southern Israel, Oct. 7, 2024. Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images.
Jonathan S. Tobin. Photo by Tzipora Lifchitz.
the column
Jonathan S. Tobin
Trump voices the moral clarity on hostages the world needed

WORLD

A scene from "Fursan al-Aqsa: The Knights of the Al-Aqsa Mosque." Source: Screenshot.
Computer game that glorifies Hamas pulled offline in UK
Canaan Lidor
European parliamentarians meet in Brussels in an effort to have Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps designated as a terrorist organization, Dec. 4, 2024. Credit: Courtesy.
European lawmakers renew push to list the IRGC as terror group
Etgar Lefkovits
Chanukiyah with oil candles. Credit: Ri-Ya/Pixabay.
UK Chanukah initiative to ‘shine light’ on hostages in Gaza
Henri Borlant speaks of his experiences in 2004. Credit: Shoah Memorial/YouTube.
Only survivor of 6,000 Jewish children deported from France dies, aged 97
David Isaac
A banner published on the website of Amnesty International on Dec. 5, 2024. Source: Screenshot.
Amnesty Israel rejects parent group’s genocide allegations
JNS Staff
The Adass Israel Synagogue in Ripponlea in Melbourne, Australia, on April 12, 2018. The community is made up of about 200 families who live in a square-kilometer block in the Ripponlea neighborhood. Photo by Darrian Traynor/Getty Images.
Fire heavily damages Melbourne synagogue, investigation underway
Faygie Holt
A pro-Palestinian rally in Melbourne, Australia, on Oct. 15, 2023. Credit: Matt Hrkac via Wikimedia Commons.
Report: Incidents of Jew-hate up 316% in Australia
Receiving honors in Washington, D.C., on behalf of the Romanian government for their longtime work in building the Eastern European country’s democracy and combating antisemitism are (from left) Mark Levin, executive vice chairman and CEO of the National Coalition for Supporting Eurasian Jewry; Daniel S. Mariaschin, CEO of B’nai B’rith International; and Rabbi Andrew Baker, director of international Jewish affairs for the American Jewish Committee, Dec. 2, 2024. Credit: LucyJo Photography.
Romania bestows honor upon trio of longtime American Jewish leaders who tackle antisemitism
It comes in the backdrop of a Holocaust denier who is projected to win the country’s premiership in a matter of days.
Mike Wagenheim
Visualization of Golda Meir Park in Kyiv. Credit: Kyiv City Council.
Kyiv approves Golda Meir Park in historical center
David Isaac
French President Emmanuel Macron addresses a press conference at the United Nations on Sept. 19, 2017. Credit: Kim Haughton/U.N. Photo.
Macron announces French-Saudi conference for Palestinian state
A PLO flag flutters in the wind after it was raised in the courtyard outside City Hall in Oslo on Nov. 29, 2023. Photo by Ole Berg-Rusten/NTB/AFP via Getty Images.
Norwegian fund divests from Bezeq over Judea and Samaria service
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Members of the British Royal Family, including King Charles, welcome Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, emir of the State of Qatar and his wife, Sheikha Jawaher bint Hamad bin Suhaim Al Thani, in London on the first of a multiple-day state visit to the United Kingdom, Dec. 3, 2024. Photo by Karwai Tang/WireImage.
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OPINION

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Latkes and doughnuts for Chanukah? Think oil, but think again
As Jews left country after country, they took their favorite recipes, adapting them for the kosher kitchen and enriching cuisine everywhere they went, including America.
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Andy Warhol. “Franz Kafka” (1980) from the “Ten Portraits of Jews of the 20th Century” series. Screenprint on Lenox Museum Board. 40 x 32 inches. Credit: Courtesy of Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, via Morgan Library and Museum, New York.
Kafka’s Jewishness ‘can’t be extricated from his work’
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Outstanding English-speaking immigrants to Israel receive the prestigious Sylvan Adams Nefesh B'Nefesh Bonei Zion Award, on December 2, 2024. Photo by Shahar Azran/Courtesy of Nefesh B'Nefesh.
Outstanding immigrants awarded by Sylvan Adams and Nefesh B’Nefesh
Foreign Ministry Special Envoy Fleur Hassan-Nahoum, who hosts "The Quad" on JNS-TV, received the 2024 award for Israel advocacy. 
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From left: Israel's First Lady Michal Herzog, President Isaac Herzog, Montana and Michelle Tucker and Museum of Tolerance Jerusalem CEO Jonathan Riss attend the world premiere of the documentary film "The Children of October 7th" in Jerusalem, Dec. 2, 2024. Photo: Arnon Bossani.
From Los Angeles to the Gaza border: Montana Tucker’s Oct. 7 documentary premieres in Jerusalem
“The Children of October 7" tells the stories of eight Israelis between the ages of 10-16 who survived Hamas's massacre.
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JNS poll: Israelis willing to defy US to defend national interests
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JNS poll: 84% of Israelis say ICC a political body
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No religious or ethnic group should be villainized and left alone to fight battles about their very existence.
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Teens view the wall of names of victims of the Inquisition from Oporto. Photo by CIP/Bizarro.
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1,000 teens mark Portuguese Edict of Expulsion in visit to Jewish Museum of Porto
The director of the museum explained that the Edict of Expulsion did not just have a negative impact on the Jews but on Portugal itself.
Jewish Community of Oporto
College students network with young professionals attending Jewish National Fund-USA's Global Conference for Israel. Credit: Courtesy.
Wire
Students unite for Israel at sold-out College Summit
The students joined more than 2,500 attendees at Jewish National Fund-USA's Global Conference for Israel.
Jewish National Fund-USA
A man in a wheelchair works to bring awareness in Israel about issues of public transportation as part of International Day of Persons with Disabilities on Dec. 3, 2024. Credit: Israel Elwyn.
Wire
#Love_Kav campaign brings disability awareness to Israel’s streets
It focuses on the heightened understanding surrounding challenges regarding public transportation for people with disabilities.
Israel Elwyn
Condolence notes left outside the JC Kosher Supermarket in Jersey City, N.J., Dec. 17, 20019. Photo: New Jersey OAG.
Wire
Committee formed to commemorate Diaspora Jews murdered by an antisemitic groups
Israeli committee is calling on the public to submit names of terror victims in the Diaspora who may be eligible for commemoration.
The Jewish Agency for Israel

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