Defense and Security
Founded by former captives and relatives of hostages, 255 is based on the understanding that being a hostage family is a lifelong reality.
“We are building and fighting, we are building and winning,” Netanyahu said during a signing of a housing development agreement in Kiryat Gan.
“It represents the fact that we’re not all rowing in the same direction when it comes to our responsibilities” to the Jewish community, Rabbi Kenneth Brander told JNS. “It’s very painful to see that.”
“We’re losing our teens when they are deciding who they are, where they belong and what they believe,” Russell Robinson, CEO of Jewish National Fund-USA said. “We must do more.”
The ice-cream company co-founder posted a video of himself making a watermelon sorbet in solidarity with Palestinians.
The remains were received in a military ceremony with the participation of the chief rabbi of the Israel Defense Forces.
According to the IDF, Military Advocate General Brig. Gen Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi requested the leave, which was approved by the IDF chief of staff.
“I want all of you to put on tefillin together with me—my dream while in captivity was to put on tefillin, and we’ll do it for the release of all our brothers who are still there,” said Bar Kupershtein, 23, who survived 738 days in captivity in Gaza.
Board of Governors members will meet in Jerusalem to discuss the mounting challenges faced by global Jewish communities in the wake of Oct. 7, 2023.
A Bethlehem man freed in a previous Hamas hostage deal is suspected of resuming bomb-making months after his release.
This is the moment to “move from a covenant of faith, a people bound together by a history of suffering, to a covenant of destiny,” said Ditza Or, whose son, Avinatan Or.
The dual Israeli-American citizen held in Gaza for 584 days is determined to complete his military service.
