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Israeli forces target Hamas, Islamic Jihad terror infrastructure in Gaza
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Netanyahu: ‘Hamas has already felt our strength’
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Israeli envoy rips ‘feigned concern’ about Gaza at UNSC
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AJC rips Erdoğan for saying Israel ‘feeds on blood of innocents’
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Google to buy Israeli startup Wiz for $32b
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Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir, center, during a tour of the Rafah area in southern Gaza on March 18, 2025. Credit: IDF.
IDF chief tours Rafah amid renewed Gaza offensive
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IDF shoots down Houthi missile
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Israel ‘outraged’ by UN chief’s ‘moral bankruptcy’
Joshua Marks
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) visits sites that Hamas terrorists attacked on Oct. 7, 2023, in southern Israel, Jan. 4, 2024. Credit: U.S. Embassy Jerusalem.
Sa’ar thanks Graham for ‘moral clarity’ on Israel
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Justice Department files statement of interest in support of Jewish UCLA students, faculty
New Hope Party head Gideon Sa'ar speaks during the conference of the Israeli Television News Company in Jerusalem on March 7, 2021. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
Sa’ar: Hamas to learn the ‘hard way’ that it won’t beat Israel
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The Dome of the Rock on Jerusalem's Temple Mount as seen from the Mount of Olives observatory, April 24, 2023. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
Rare Pakistani delegation visits Israel
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ADL report finds ‘clear evidence’ of anti-Israel bias among Wikipedia editors
Israelis wait for the arrival of released hostages Or Levy and Eli Sharabi at the Sheba Medical center in Ramat Gan, Feb. 8, 2025. Photo by Tomer Neuberg/Flash90.
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Gideon Sa'ar, the Israeli foreign minister, addresses the AIPAC board of directors in Jerusalem, March 18, 2025,. Credit: Mordechai Gordon/Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
‘Not a one-day operation,’ Israeli foreign minister tells AIPAC board, of renewed fighting in Gaza
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi speaks during a news conference at the Department of Justice Building on Feb. 12, 2025 in Washington, D.C. Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images.
US Justice Dept announces Oct. 7 task force 
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Elan Carr, U.S. special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism, speaks at an event in Tel Aviv on Dec. 17, 2019. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90.
Israeli-American Council voted unanimously into Conference of Presidents
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Sather Gate at University of California, Berkeley in California in 2012. Credit: Photo by Carol M. Highsmith/Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress.
Berkeley enabling violent Jew-hatred, per federal civil rights complaint
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Arkansas State Capitol in Little Rock. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
Arkansas Senate passes bill to combat Jew-hatred in public schools, colleges
Amb. Nikki Haley, a Clemson University trustee, speaks at an event at the South Carolina public school marking an agreement between Clemson, Hebrew University and Sapir College, March 11, 2025. Credit: Clemson University.
Clemson, Hebrew U, Sapir partnership ‘a perfect match,’ Nikki Haley says
U.S. President Donald Trump delivers a joint address to Congress, March 4, 2025. Source: White House/X.
Trump blames Iran for Houthi attacks, warns of ‘dire consequences’
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US launches fresh strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen
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Yehuda Aronsson, who is Orthodox, and Ran Milon, who is secular, study Torah and subjects like literature and math as part of a project having secular and Orthodox people learn from each other, March 12, 2013. Credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90.
OU study: Those who leave Orthodoxy may remain connected
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‘Columbia didn’t do enough’ after protests, Schumer tells ‘NYT’
Vita Fellig
Palestinian trucks parked near the Kerem Shalom crossing in the Gaza Strip after Israel stops aid deliveries on March 2, 2025. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.
‘Horrible suffering’ in Gaza ‘sits with Hamas,’ State Department says
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Working canines and their handlers from multiple U.S. Department of Homeland Security agencies, participate in a DHS Working Canine Showcase on the Hill, at the Rayburn House Building in Washington, D.C., on July 10, 2024. Credit: Mikaela McGee/Department of Homeland Security.
Deported Brown U doctor went to Nasrallah funeral, had photos ‘sympathetic’ to terrorists, per gov
Illustrative image of a cyber attack. Credit: TheDigitalArtist/Pixabay.
Israel extradites developer of ‘one of most prolific’ cybercrime groups to US
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) gives remarks before President Joe Biden signs the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act on the South Lawn of the White House, Nov. 15, 2021. Credit: Cameron Smith/White House.
Schumer book tour postponed due to ‘security concerns’
Rep. Nita Lowey (D-N.Y.), of the House Appropriations Committee, asks questions of U.S. Border Patrol Chief Carla L. Provost during a hearing on border patrol oversight, July 24, 2019. Credit: Glenn Fawcett/U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
Late US rep Nita Lowey ‘embodied highest ideals,’ Jewish groups say
U.S. President Donald Trump delivers an address to a joint session of Congress in Washington, March 4, 2025. Credit: Daniel Torok/White House.
HIAS fires, furloughs 40% of staff due to Trump cuts to refugee work
Dubai chocolate. Credit: Courtesy of Garcia Nevett Chocolatier de Miami.
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INSIDE ISRAEL

Abu Hamza, the chief propagandist for the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group, holds a press conference in Gaza City, March 26, 2010. Photo by Mohammed Abed/AFP via Getty Images.
Israeli strike kills Palestinian Islamic Jihad spokesman
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Smoke rises after an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City, March 18, 2025. Photo by Ali Hassan/Flash90.
EU, Arab states condemn Israeli strikes against Hamas
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A Magen48 team training together with the IDF. Courtesy of Magen48.
Israel’s post-Oct. 7 civil defense revolution
Steve Linde
Sir Ephraim Mirvis, the chief rabbi of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth, speaks at a pro-Israel rally that drew an estimated 60,000 people in London on Nov. 26, 2023. Credit: Stuart Mitchell/Campaign Against Antisemitism.
European officials to skip Israel’s Jew-hatred conference due to far-right political invitees
Etgar Lefkovits
Shari Arison, 5th from right, joins women attending a Good Deeds Day event in Yavne, Israel on March 18, 2025. Photo courtesy of Roach Tova.
Israelis give back on annual charity drive marked by war
Canaan Lidor
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir at the Knesset in Jerusalem. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90.
Ben-Gvir’s Otzma Yehudit rejoins gov’t
Akiva Van Koningsveld
U.S. Central Command operations against Iran-backed Houthi terrorists in Yemen on March 15, 2025. Credit: CENTCOM.
Yaakov Lappin
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Yaakov Lappin
US strikes in Yemen boost protection of Israel’s home front
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, U.S. President Donald Trump, UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan and Bahraini Foreign Minister Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani hold up the Abraham Accords, during the signing ceremony at the White House, Sept. 15, 2020. Photo by Avi Ohayon/GPO.
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Smoke rises after an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City, March 18, 2025. Photo by Ali Hassan/Flash90.
IDF renews heavy strikes against Hamas in Gaza
"This follows Hamas's repeated refusal to release our hostages, as well as its rejection of all of the proposals it has received," the Israeli prime minister's office stated • IDF Home Front Command orders schools near the border closed until further notice.
Joshua Marks
Smotrich, Ben-Gvir applaud renewed fighting against Hamas
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a 40-signatures debate at the Knesset in Jerusalem, March 3, 2025. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90.
Netanyahu: AG can’t prevent Shin Bet chief’s dismissal
Canaan Lidor
Trucks loaded with International humanitarian aid enter Gaza through the Israeli Kerem Shalom Crossing, in the southern Gaza Strip, on July 1, 2024. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.
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Ze'ev Degani, principal of the Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium in Tel Aviv, Sept. 4, 2023. Photo by Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90.
Education minister threatens to defund Tel Aviv school that urged students to skip class in protest
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One of three new F-35I fighter jets that arrived at the Israeli Air Force's Nevatim Airbase on March 13, 2025. Credit: IDF.
Israel strikes artillery threat in southern Syria
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Pravesh Jiral commemorates his murdered countrymen in Kibbutz Alumim, Israel on Feb. 13, 2025. Photo by Canaan Lidor.
Foreign Oct. 7 victims honored at kibbutz
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Argentina's President Javier Milei (C) Argentina's Vice-President Victoria Villarruel (R) and Israel's ambassador to Argentina Eyal Sela attend a ceremony to commemorate the 32nd anniversary of the bombing at the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires that killed 29 people and wounded 200, at the Israeli Embassy Square in Buenos Aires on March 18, 2024. Photo by Juan Mabromata/AFP via Getty Images.
Israel marks 33 years since Buenos Aires embassy bombing
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Gali Baharav-Miara, Israel's attorney general, attends a Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee in the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, Nov. 18, 2024. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
Israel’s Supreme Court: Cabinet can vote on Shin Bet chief’s dismissal
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Madison Stock, 22, of Woodbury, N.Y. (center), is officially the 10,000th participant in Birthright Israel’s volunteer program. Credit: Birthright Israel.
22-year-old is 10,000th participant in Birthright Israel volunteer program

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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) walks in Statuary Hall at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., March 14, 2025. Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images.
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SENIOR CONTRIBUTORS

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a security assessment at the Kirya in Tel Aviv with Defense Minister Israel Katz and senior security officials, March 18, 2023. Photo: Maayan Toaf/GPO.
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Striking when the iron’s cold
A view of cars charred by Hamas terrorists during the massacre in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, at a field near the Israeli border with the Gaza Strip, Nov. 26, 2023. Photo by Yossi Zamir/Flash90.
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The West is facing an Islamic holy war
Left-wing Israeli activists protest against the war, the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and IDF operations in Judea and Samaria, Jerusalem, March 12, 2025. Photo by Jamal Awad/Flash90.
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The deadly ‘conceptzia’ is alive and well

OPINION

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Global public opinion is against Iran’s regime, Islamic terrorism
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Arab plan for Gaza ignores Palestinians’ failed quest to destroy Israel
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When speech turns into conduct
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Something has changed …
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Mahmoud Khalil case
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Iran, its adversaries and the Middle Corridor
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It’s time to abolish the UN’s pro-Hamas bureaucracy
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The cost of complacency
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‘Hague Group’ requires some scrutiny
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Democrats still wobbly on antisemitism
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Raphael BenLevi
Victory now, and peace with Arab world later
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Chaya Yosovich
Jewish education amid unprecedented antisemitism
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P.A.’s ‘crackdown’ on terror was fake
It has a long history of “revolving-door justice” in which extremists are arrested in front of television cameras … and then quietly released.
U.S. President Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office, Feb. 25, 2025. Credit: Molly Riley/White House.
Bryan E. Leib
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Promises made, promises kept
Trump 2.0 has resumed strategic cooperation that defined his first term, ensuring that Israel maintains its Qualitative Military Edge in the region.
Palestinians and left-wing activists clash with Israeli forces during a protest in Masafer Yatta, on June 10, 2022. Photo By Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90.
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No other purpose
An anti-Israel hit job in the form of a documentary was elevated at the Oscars.
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Farley Weiss
Democrats fail to grasp the concerns of American Jews
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How the West was won, and how it can be saved
Martin Sherman
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Martin Sherman
The alliance that alarms the ayatollahs
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Margaux Jubin
Khalil’s arrest is about law and order
Eric Levine
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Eric Levine
Who protects Jewish students in First Amendment battles?
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Rabbi Chaim Goldberg
Purim for every IDF soldier
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Joseph Puder
The US State Department’s hostility toward Israel
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Kamal Alam
Syrian Jews could hold the key to peace
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Joseph Frager
Gateway to a reimagined Gaza Strip
Rabbi Yossy Goldman
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Behind the mask
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Rabbi Areyah Kaltmann
The gallows, the tunnels and the tree: Hidden miracles from Persia to Gaza
Steve Rosenberg
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Steve Rosenberg
Woke indoctrination is destroying schools, and equity is the Trojan Horse

WORLD

The beach promenade in Tiberias, on the Sea of Galilee, Feb. 3, 2025. Photo by David Cohen/Flash90.
BBC apologizes for footage of Israeli city in report on ‘settlements’
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The emissaries to Kharkiv turned rescue operators for Ukrainian Jews
Etgar Lefkovits
Elijah Ogunnubi-Sime (left), Mohammad Comrie (center) and Faiz Shah (right) were convicted of the attempted kidnapping of Israeli music producer Itay Kashti on Aug. 24, 2024. Credit: Dyfed-Powys Police.
UK: Trio convicted for kidnap attempt of Israeli music producer
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An anti-Israel rally in Dublin on Nov. 18, 2023. Credit: Sinn Féin via Wikimedia Commons.
‘Zionists are not welcome’: Israeli spat on in Dublin eatery
No one intervened in the altercation.
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Jewish National Fund offices in London vandalized by Palestine Action, Nov. 2, 2024. Source: Palestine Action/X.
UK group causes millions in damage to Israel-linked firms
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Uzbekistan’s textbooks highlight tolerance and Jewish history, report finds
Belgian writer Herman Brusselmans and his attorneys at the Gent Correctional Court, on Nov. 5, 2024. Photo by James Arthur Gekiere/BELGA MAG/AFP via Getty Images.
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JNS WIRE

Press releases from around the Jewish world
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Participants in the therapeutic mountain-biking program run by Geerz, which also sponsors an annual “Israel Charity Ride.” Credit: Courtesy.
Wire
Riding for resilience: 100-plus bicyclists unite to support mental health for Israeli youth
“The Geerz Israel Charity Ride is more than a fundraiser; it’s a celebration of the community coming together to support the resilience and success of our youth,” says Nachum Wasosky.
Geerz
Birthright Israel Fellows process their day’s learning together. Credit: Courtesy of iCenter.
Wire
Israel educators gather as new cohort of Birthright Israel Fellows
Fellows will be leading trips this summer, coinciding with Birthright Israel’s 25th anniversary, celebrating its impact on some 900,000 Jewish young adults.
The iCenter,
Birthright Israel
The New York Stock Exchange on Wall Street, by a significant margin the world's largest stock exchange per market capitalization of its listed companies, at $23.1 trillion as of April 2018. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
Wire
American Jewish University invests in TOV ETF, strengthening values-based investing
The newly launched exchange-traded fund is managed by JLens and trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker TOV—a nod to the Hebrew word for “good."
American Jewish University
OU executive vice president and COO Rabbi Dr. Josh Joseph (left) and OU executive vice president Rabbi Moshe Hauer shared the OU’s strategy and vision for addressing the Jewish community’s ongoing needs and advancing communal solutions. Credit: Courtesy.
Wire
OU marks 125 years of building a religiously vibrant community
Orthodox Union's celebrates its milestone anniversary and its work supporting Jewish life, innovation and community growth at its biennial convention and gala.
Orthodox Union
Dr. Betsy Stone presents a workshop on “Promoting Growth Through Embracing Struggle." Photo by Jill Goldstein Smith, Foundation for Jewish Camp.
Wire
The Jewish Education Project conference highlights mental-health challenges faced by teens
The keynote address focused on how families can find balance in their relationship with technology for the benefit of our teens and ourselves.
The Jewish Education Project

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