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“We have a lot of support for the plan, a lot of buy-in,” Witkoff said of the Arab, Muslim and European support for the deal.
Acre resident Issa Mahdi, 18, planned to attack a bus stop near the city’s train station and had already taken steps to acquire explosives, according to police.
Instead of Hamas isolating the Jewish state, “we turned the tables and isolated Hamas,” Netanyahu said.
The organizers are “not against Israel” and do “not mix politics” with cheese, said Noémie Richard-Stein of Gvinage dairy in northern Israel.
Two years after Hamas’s massacre displaced 62,000 southern Israel residents, those returning receive symbolic kits to help restore a sense of home, security and community.
On Chabad’s 250th anniversary, Jewish community in Portugal remembers Rabbi Baruch Portugali, whose legacy spans generations and continents.
The situation in Lebanon remains volatile following the end of the truce on Feb. 18.
“I believe that today we’re taking a critical step towards both ending the war in Gaza and setting the stage for dramatically advancing peace in the Middle East.”
According to the plan, Hamas will disarm, and the Gaza Strip will become a “deradicalized terror-free zone” governed by a “technocratic, apolitical Palestinian committee.”
Despite the plan adhering to most of Netanyahu’s red lines, Israelis to his right, including members of his coalition, may be upset with its terms.
“Attacks on houses of worship are illegal, and the Justice Department will not tolerate interference with Americans’ First Amendment rights,” a Justice Department official said.
“Hamas will be disarmed, Gaza will be demilitarized, Israel will retain security responsibility,” Netanyahu said.
A spokeswoman for the public university system told JNS that it will “fully cooperate” with the federal investigation.
During his meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed “deep regret” to his Qatari counterpart for the death of a Qatari serviceman in Israel’s Sept. 9 strike on Hamas leaders in Doha, and vowed no such attack would be carried out in the future.
The “very profound” deepening of Israel’s connection to Judaism of several decades accelerated “intensely” after Oct. 7, Rabbi Jeffrey Woolf told JNS.
Jihan Abdalla, who works for an Emirati state-owned publication, has also said that the Israeli prime minister reserves the right to “kill innocents.”
There, she prayed for the Jewish people; the defeat of their enemies; and the safe return of the remaining 48 hostages being held by terrorists in Gaza.
“Nobody gave a cogent, persuasive answer because there is no cogent, persuasive answer,” Daniel S. Mariaschin, the nonprofit’s CEO, told JNS.
“Parents are entitled to see what their children are being taught,” Lori Lowenthal Marcus, of the Deborah Project, told JNS.
“Harvard does not appear to have disciplined, and instead has rewarded, two students who assaulted an Israeli Jewish student,” Reps. Tim Walberg and Elise Stefanik stated.