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Amelie Botbol is a diplomatic correspondent for JNS. Originally from Casablanca, Morocco, she made aliyah in 2014. Her reporting focuses on major international developments and the Israeli political arena, including weekly coverage from the Knesset. She also produced one of the world’s most extensive bodies of reporting on Israel’s hostage crisis following the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led terrorist attacks.

“It is clear the momentum is with us,” B’Yachad party No. 2 Yair Lapid told JNS.
Knesset hopefuls pitch security, national identity and social priorities.
“Taking a pro-Israeli stance may jeopardize one’s career; they may face shaming on the internet. If they have a business, their windows will be broken. People are afraid,” Ambassador Zvi Vapni said.
‘I didn’t leave that place with vengefulness or anger,’ she tells JNS.
“Captivity was too hard to handle, and every moment you didn’t know if it was going to get even worse,” she said.
The park offers a space to gather, learn to ride, train and enjoy cycling while reconnecting with the sport at the heart of the community.
The Together party is putting female professionals at the forefront of its Knesset slate, according to MK Merav Ben-Ari.
At an inauguration, the father of Ariel and Kfir recalled the fateful decision in Nir Oz to resist terrorists before his children and wife Shiri were killed.
Luis Har was freed from captivity in Gaza in a daring Israeli military operation 129 days after he was abducted during the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre.
Three years after the Oct. 7 Hamas massacre, the families of Capt. Elay Adany and those he helped rescue remain bound by his final acts of courage.
The film is consistent with a pattern of people judging Israel without understanding the realities of war, Lt. Col. (res.) Sarit Zehavi tells JNS.