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Ahmad Al-Rub, from Qabatiya near Jenin, killed Shimshon Mordechai, 68, and Aviv Maor, 19, while injuring two others, in a series of terror attacks in and around the northern Israeli city of Beit She’an.
Israelis are barred from entering many Arab villages in Judea and Samaria under full Palestinian administrative and security control.
CBS News cited Iranian sources saying up to 20,000 may have been killed, though only some 2,500 have been confirmed by the U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency. Israel and Arab states have reportedly advised Washington that the regime is not weakened enough for a military strike to be decisive.
The exchange of fire with the terrorists, who had crossed the ceasefire line, involved airstrikes and tank fire, according to the Israeli military.
Despite rising security tensions, the organization says there is no change to Home Front Command instructions as volunteer medics heighten readiness.
In an interview on Monday, David Cunio detailed his abduction alongside his wife, Sharon, their twin daughters Yuli and Emma.
Yaakov Harari, a 72-year-old Israeli-Argentinian citizen, was freed as part of a goodwill gesture to President Donald Trump.
Those promoting the cessation of U.S. military aid recommend replacing that aid with binational corporations or cooperative programs that would develop new defense products, open new markets and generate potentially huge dividends for both countries.
“He didn’t want to talk at all and almost canceled the meeting,” Moran Stella Yanai said of a 2024 sitdown with U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres.
A recent, pro-Hamas demonstration outside a Queens synagogue was “not free expression,” she said. “That’s harassment, and targeting a Jewish community in this way is antisemitism.”
Rabbi A.D. Motzen, who praised the move, told JNS that there is no opt-out mechanism.
“The U.N. has a responsibility to uphold its own rules, not bend them to appease extremists or reward antisemitism,” Rep. Mike Lawler said.
Organizers of Adelaide Writers’ Week say Randa Abdel-Fattah’s participation following the Chanukah mass shooting on Bondi Beach would be “culturally insensitive,” given her past remarks.
“Iranian citizens braver than you could dream of being are sacrificing their lives in the fight for their own liberation, and all you can find to say is ‘it’s the Jews’ fault,’” she said.
Mahmoud Khalil, former spokesman for the anti-Israel encampment at Columbia University, led the crowd in a “free, free Palestine” chant.
The podcaster, who is not Jewish, said antisemitism is behind accusations that he took $6 million from AIPAC.
Antisemitism will only go away when everyone “rejects all of it, no matter what,” Rep. Greg Landsman said.
“It’s not a surprise that these activists would escalate their tactics to go directly to the targets of their indoctrination,” Mika Hackner, of the North American Values Institute, told JNS.
“Religious schools cannot be shut out of state programs just because they are religious,” an attorney for the school stated.
There will be “some opportunities to drive back some of that darkness on the horizon with concerted action by Jews and non-Jews alike,” Noah Shack, of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, told JNS.