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The newly unveiled fifth wall at the Memorial to Fallen Kibbutz Members in Mishmar HaEmek, northern Israel, engraved with the names of 466 fallen kibbutz members. Photo by Eitzik Shafran.

New wall unveiled to honor 466 kibbutz members killed since Oct. 7

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Three arrested after brawl at controversial Israeli-Palestinian memorial

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Lone Soldiers stand in formation during a memorial ceremony at the Jerusalem Theater honoring their fallen comrades on Israel’s Memorial Day, April 29, 2025. Photo courtesy of Noam Feiner.

Honoring the fallen: Lone soldiers remembered in Jerusalem ceremony

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Nadler goes after rabbi for exposing Democrat’s antisemitism

IDF hits ‘extremist group’ threatening Syrian Druze in warning to new regime

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Friends and family grieve at the graves of IDF soldiers killed on October 7th at Mount Herzl on April 29, 2025 in Jerusalem. Photo by Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images.

Katz: IDF must remain ‘barrier between enemies and our people’

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Israeli President Isaac Herzog speaks at the state Memorial Day ceremony at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, April 28, 2025.
Photo by Ma'ayan Toaf (GPO).

Herzog leads Memorial Day ceremony at Western Wall

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Wildfires halt torch ceremony as blazes sweep Judean Hills

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Poll: 57% of Jewish Israelis see Holocaust-Oct. 7 parallels

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IDF units launch memorial runs honoring fallen soldiers

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Israeli Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer during an interview at the JNS International Policy Summit in Jerusalem, April 28, 2025. Photo by Hillel Maeir.

Israel will not forget about hostages or destroying Hamas, Dermer tells JNS

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the inaugural JNS International Policy Summit in Jerusalem, April 27, 2025. Photo by Hillel Maeir.

‘Folly’ to think Palestinian state will produce peace, Netanyahu tells JNS

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U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee addresses the JNS International Policy Summit in Jerusalem, April 28, 2025. Photo by Hillel Maeir.

If Iran refuses to give up nuke ambitions, Trump will ‘lead war’ against it, Huckabee tells JNS

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Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar addresses the inaugural JNS International Policy Summit in Jerusalem, April 27, 2025. Photo by Shahar Yurman.

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Israeli Minister of Economy and Industry Nir Barkat (right) in conversation with JNS CEO Alex Traiman at the inaugural JNS International Policy Summit in Jerusalem, April 28, 2025. Photo by Shahar Yurman.

Economy minister predicts Israel to become superpower

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Expanding Abraham Accords will boost energy cooperation, Eli Cohen tells JNS Summit

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Hoenlein calls for global conference to combat surge of Jew-hatred

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Ultra-Orthodox evolution explored at JNS Policy Summit

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the inaugural JNS International Policy Summit in Jerusalem, April 27, 2025. Photo by Hillel Maeir.

Iran nuclear deal must remove enrichment ability, Netanyahu tells JNS

"We cannot live with anything short of that," said the Israeli premier.

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Israeli Ambassador to the U.N. Danny Danon addresses the inaugural JNS International Policy Summit in Jerusalem, April 27, 2025. Photo by Shahar Yurman.

Danon: War ‘will not end’ with hostages remaining in Gaza

Israel's ambassador to the United Nations is "very skeptical" regarding ongoing talks between the United States and Iran, calling the latter "masters of deception."

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Father of Israeli hostage demands Hamas be defeated

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Caroline Glick, adviser to the Israeli prime minister, speaks at the inaugural JNS International Policy Summit in Jerusalem on April 28, 2025. Photo by Yuval Chen.

Glick: Israel must redeem itself and reject two-state illusions

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Israel erred in negotiating with Hamas via Doha, says Chikli

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Israel fighting for all who believe in freedom, Zohar tells JNS Policy Summit

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Top evangelical leader: Iran has played US admins like a fiddle

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New York assemblyman stands with Jewish community at JNS summit

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The ‘conceptzia’: Examining Israel’s flawed pre-Oct. 7 strategic reality

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Yesha Council head calls on Israeli gov’t to back ‘Sovereignty Declaration’

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U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio attends the International Women of Courage Awards at the U.S. State Department in Washington, D.C., April 1, 2025. Credit: Liri Agami/Flash90.

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Rubio torpedoes the left’s anti-Israel stronghold inside the State Department

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The gate to Auschwitz. Credit: Alexander Zvir/Pexels.

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The left’s vile Hitler-Trump analogies dishonor the Shoah

INSIDE ISRAEL

A Defense Ministry Zoom event for families of fallen soldiers abroad. Photo courtesy of Israel's Ministry of Defense.

Israel’s Defense Ministry supports some 3,000 bereaved families abroad

Yaakov Lappin

A Virgin Atlantic jet lands at London's Heathrow Airport, on June 7, 2015. Photo by Adrian Pingstone via Wikimedia Commons.

Virgin Atlantic ceases London-Tel Aviv flights

Etgar Lefkovits

Israeli President Isaac Herzog accepts the credentials of Cambodian Ambassador Sok Chea at the Presidents Residence in Jerusalem, April 28, 2025. Photo by Kobi Gideon/GPO.

Herzog welcomes new envoys from four nations

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This 1,500-year-old stone capital is the only one of its kind in the world, according to Israel Antiquities Authority researchers. Photo: Evgeni Ostrovsky, Israel Antiquities Authority.

Ancient stone capital with menorah to go on display ahead of Independence Day

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American Jewish political commentator and columnist Ben Shapiro (left) on the Temple Mount, July 24, 2022. Photo by Michael Miller.

Ben Shapiro: Defending Israel means telling the truth

Ariel Bulshtein

Israeli antisemitism envoy: Oct. 7 was the Kristallnacht moment of our time

Amelie Botbol

Mahmoud Abbas poses for pictures in Rome, Italy on Nov. 2, 2022. Photo credit: The Office of the President of Italy.

Abbas: According to Quran, Jewish Temple stood in Yemen

Canaan Lidor

IDF eliminates Hamas terrorist involved in Oct. 7 Kissufim massacre

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Historic photos from Israel’s early years recall Yom Hazikaron, Yom Ha’atzmaut

Head of Shin Bat Ronen Bar attends a ceremony held at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem, as Israel marks the annual Holocaust Remembrance Day. April 23, 2025. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90.

Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar to resign over Oct. 7 failures

Joshua Marks

Remembering the fallen: Israel marks Yom Hazikaron

Miri Weissman

Moti Maman, 73, arrives at a court hearing in Beersheva, Sept. 19, 2024. Photo by Dudu Greenspan/Flash90.

Israeli man sentenced to 10 years in Iran espionage case

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IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir lays an Israeli flag on the grave of the last Israeli soldier who was buried, at Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem on April 28, 2025. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90.

IDF chief honors the fallen, vows to strengthen Israel’s security

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Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana (center-left) and Israeli Transportation Minister Miri Regev (third from left front row) pose for a group picture with the torch lighters of the Independence Day state ceremony, at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on April 28, 2025. (Credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90

Netanyahu honors torch-lighters ahead of Independence Day

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Israelis participate in a march to celebrate Israel's 71st Independence Day near Havat Gilad in Judea and Samaria on May 9, 2019. Photo by Hillel Maeir/Flash90.

Sovereignty over Judea and Samaria ‘only solution,’ says JNS panel

David Isaac

Four sentenced for shooting at Israeli office in Sweden

Joshua Marks

At one settlement, four fallen soldiers and a terror victim

Tal Weiss

Yakir Hexter after winning his Jerusalem Marathon division at age 18. Credit: Courtesy of the Hexter family.

Families of fallen IDF warriors find their own ways to remember them

Josh Hasten

Jewish Agency says funded anti-Israel group at donors’ request

Canaan Lidor

‘Every day is Memorial Day for us’

Tania Michaelian

International Criminal Court Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan announces he has applied for arrest warrants for Israeli leaders, May 20, 2024. Credit: ICC.

ICC restricts prosecutor over Israel arrest warrant moves

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US & CANADA NEWS

U.S. President Donald Trump holds a cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House, April 10, 2025. Credit: Molly Roberts/White House.

Trump fires Emhoff, other Biden-appointees on Holocaust Museum board

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Anti-Israel protesters gather at the Barclays Center in downtown Brooklyn, N.Y., before attempting to march toward 770 Eastern Parkway, April 28, 2025. Photo by Vita Fellig.

Anti-Israel protest blocked from reaching Chabad headquarters in Brooklyn

Vita Fellig

Harvard releases reports on campus Jew-hatred, Islamophobia

Andrew Bernard

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney arrives at the Office of the Prime Minister and Privy Council in Ottawa the morning after the Liberal Party of Canada won the federal elections on April 29, 2025. Credot" Andrej Ivanov/Getty Images.

Broad ‘apprehension’ from Canadian Jews in response to Carney’s election

Dave Gordon

The Philadelphia Board of Education Building, the city's district headquarters. Credit: Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons.

Philadelphia educator sues school district for harassment after Oct. 7

Jonathan D. Salant

Sarah Huckabee Sanders, governor of Arkansas. Credit: Office of the Governor.

Arkansas becomes first state to ban agencies from saying ‘West Bank’

House committee demands interview with Northwestern president over campus Jew-hatred

US civil-rights offices investigates Harvard for racial discrimination

Alleged ISIS terrorist arrested in connection with New Orleans attack

Comic alleges that Paramount erased Jewish content after Oct. 7

Andrew Bernard

Ben-Gvir concludes US visit with meetings on Capitol Hill

Joshua Marks

Kanye West booted off Twitch seven minutes into his first stream

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SENIOR CONTRIBUTORS

Jordanian police close the entrance of a Muslim Brotherhood headquarter in Amman after the announcement of banning the society in the country on April 23, 2025. Photo by Salah Malkawi/Getty Images.

Melanie Phillips

King Abdullah and the Islamists

A memorial service for late Pope Francis at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. April 23, 2025. Photo by Jamal Awad/Flash90.

Fiamma Nirenstein

From Rome to Jerusalem: The unfinished dialogue between Jews and the Vatican

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivering remarks on April 19, 2025. Source: YouTube Screenshot/@IsraeliPM.

Ruthie Blum

The significance of Netanyahu’s address to the nation

WORLD

England soccer legend John Barnes provides encouragement to runners during the 2025 TCS London Marathon on April 27, 2025. Photo by Luke Walker/Getty Images.

Runners honor hostages at London Marathon

JNS Staff

‘We’ll burn Jews like Hitler did,’ says BBC Gaza contributor

JNS Staff

Mamagama, from left: Arif Imanov (drums), Asef Mishiyev (vocals, guitar, songwriter) and Hasan Heydar (bass guitar, beats). Photo by Tato Panahi.

Azerbaijan’s Eurovision vocalist is a proud Mountain Jew

Amelie Botbol

Hungary's State Secretary for Security Policy Péter Sztáray speaks at the JNS International Policy Summit in Jerusalem, April 27, 2025. Credit: Screenshot.

Hungary stands, ‘often alone,’ for Israel, says Hungarian security minister

"A safe and stable Israel is vital, not only for the Middle East, but for the entire world," said Hungarian Minister of State for Security Policy Péter Sztáray.

David Isaac

St. Peter's Square in Vatican City during the funeral of Pope Francis on April 26, 2025. Photo by Alessandra Benedetti/Corbis via Getty Images.

Pope Francis funeral draws hundreds of thousands in Vatican

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Grave of renowned Jewish mystic desecrated in Damascus

JNS Staff

Swedish Parliament member Alireza Akhondi looks on during an opposition rally in solidarity with Iranian people on the 44th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, in Paris, on Feb. 11, 2023. Photo by Geoffroy Van Der Hasselt/AFP via Getty Images.

Swedish-Iranian MP has plan to topple Tehran regime, if only Israel and US would listen

Ariel Kahana

OPINION

Points of view from across the Jewish world

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Khaled Abu Toameh

Palestinian leaders play musical chairs to dupe Western donors

Gil Troy

Can Israel’s 77th Independence Day help Americans celebrate the 250th?

Avi Hasson

At 77, Israeli technology needs to scale with strategy

Amine Ayoub

Jordan’s Muslim Brotherhood ban is a win for regional stability

Steve Winston

Jewish identity hijacked in the UK for political vanity

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Ben Cohen

Antisemitism data illustrates the ‘new normal’

Sarah N. Stern

Playing with fire when it comes to Iran

Shuki Taylor

Things we carry, the people we’ll become

Eliezer Avraham

Echoes of agony

Daniel Greenfield

Biden’s antisemitism guru blames Jews for antisemitism

Ahmed Charai

Trump can crush the Muslim Brotherhood

Hillel Kofsky

Reminding humanity of its lowest moments

Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas addresses the general debate of the U.N. General Assembly’s 79th session on Sept. 26, 2024. Credit: Loey Felipe/U.N. Photo.

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Moshe Phillips

Unmasking the Palestinian Authority

Terrorism is not merely tolerated but honored.

Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi visits the International Atomic Energy Agency headquarters in Vienna in April 2021. Photo by Dean Calma/IAEA via Wikimedia Commons.

Giovanni Giacalone

Rome’s meeting was beneficial only to Italy and Iran

The Islamic Republic was trying to curry favor with Washington and improve its image in Europe by making it appear that it is interested in the talks

Sarah Huckabee Sanders, governor of Arkansas. Credit: Office of the Governor.

Scott M. Feltman

A historic step: Arkansas recognizes Judea and Samaria

Nitsana Darshan-Leitner

Hypocrisy and the Hippocratic Oath

Thane Rosenbaum

Hey, Harvard. Woke will make you broke!

Ronn Torossian

Protection is what we asked for

Alan Kadish

Why I’m voting in the WZO election

William Choslovsky

‘Willful ignorance’ at Northwestern University

Rabbi Areyah Kaltmann

Living on the edge: Resilience in troubled times

Shimon Cohen

On Haredim in the United Kingdom: Can we have a bit of positivity, please?

Alan Newman

Political hypocrisy under guise of broad Jewish coalition

Shoshana Bryen

How extremism continues with little intervention

Daniel Friedman

Anti-Zionism is worse than antisemitism

Aviram Bellaishe

When recognition becomes evasion: Europe’s Palestinian statehood campaign

Rabbi Yossy Goldman

‘For this, have you been chosen’

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Press releases from around the Jewish world

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A view of University of Haifa's giant pin in solidarity with the 59 hostages still in Hamas captivity, April 2025. Credit: Courtesy of the University of Haifa.

University of Haifa unveils giant hostage pin as sign of solidarity

A 295-foot installation created by hundreds of staff members honors the 59 hostages still being held by Hamas.

University of Haifa

Reserved seats in a lecture hall at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan, Israel, read: “Seats reserved for soldiers. We look forward to welcoming you on campus, equipped with your Academic Armor.” Credit: Courtesy of Bar-Ilan University.

Israeli Ministry of Defense honors Bar-Ilan University for support of student reservists

“One out of every two students on the dean’s list is a reservist—double their proportional representation in the student body,” said Arie Zaban, the school's president.

Bar-Ilan University

The B’nai B’rith World Center in Jerusalem and Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael–Jewish National Fund (KKL-JNF) held their 23rd annual joint ceremony commemorating Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day (Yom Hashoah) on April 24, 2025. Credit: Amos Luzon, KKL-JNF Photo Archive.

B’nai B’rith World Center, KKL-JNF honor rescuers at Holocaust remembrance ceremony

The “Jewish Rescuers Citation” was awarded posthumously to 14 individuals who rescued Jews in France, Hungary, Libya, the Netherlands and Poland.

B'nai B'rith International

A primary grade classroom. Credit: German Gomez/Pixabay.

Five innovative educators win Jewish Education Project award

2025 Robert M. Sherman Young Pioneers Award recipients work in numerous educational settings.

The Jewish Education Project

An experiential activity exploring the use of light in Jewish tradition, such as the role of the memorial candle in commemorating the fallen, as part of M²’s Yamim Project, with a theme of “Reaching for Hope,” April 2025. Credit: Courtesy.

300 educators gather to infuse Israel’s National Days with meaning … and light

“We are in a moment where it is incredibly hard to make sense of time,” said Mollie Andron, vice president of programs at M².

M²: The Institute for Experiential Jewish Education