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Prosecutors say the 19-year-old suspect targeted Jews in an ISIS-inspired attack that left a Spanish tourist gravely wounded.
“A person in this situation has nothing around them. All that’s left is to believe. That’s it. Faith. When you believe in something you have something to lean on,” said Segev Kalfon, who spent two years in captivity in the Strip.
The move comes after violent anti-Israel protests disrupted races across Europe.
Alona Ben Natan hopes to become the first Israeli to race in Saudi Arabia.
Indonesia’s Nahdlatul Ulama gave its chairman three days to resign over inviting U.S. academic Peter Berkowitz to an event.
There are no signs yet that Iran has returned to enriching uranium, but it is cleaning up the sites damaged by Israel and reconstructing the infrastructure surrounding its nuclear program.
Thousands of protesters, some carrying flares and smoke grenades, showed up outside a basketball arena in Bologna where Maccabi Tel Aviv was playing.
“The courageous and painful testimony of Guy Galboa-Dalal exposes the shocking sexual violence he experienced during Hamas captivity,” said Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations.
Rabbi Arthur Schneier, 95, who leads the Park East Synagogue in Manhattan, is a Holocaust survivor who saw his synagogue burn on Kristallnacht.
“It’s not just a display of the scrolls, which of course in and of themselves would be powerful,” but other “wow objects” leave viewers in awe, the museum’s director of exhibits told JNS.
Jews have always innovated for collective safety. Now, they’re doing it digitally.
The paratroopers are carrying out operations aimed at protecting Israeli civilians.
