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Two Israelis killed in Samaria terrorist attack

“We will not allow terrorism in Judea and Samaria to raise its head,” the Israeli PM said before convening a high-level meeting on the recent wave of shootings.

July 24, 2026

JNS Staff

Israel News

Thousands of Koreans visit Israel in faith-based trip

“Your decision to convene in Israel during these challenging times is a profound demonstration of friendship, solidarity and confidence in our nation,” Michael Izhakov, director general of the Israeli Tourism Ministry, told the Christian tourists.

July 24, 2026

Etgar Lefkovits

Israel News

Guatemala recognizes City of David as part of its heritage

At a Jerusalem ceremony, Guatemala’s ambassador unveiled a plaque recognizing the City of David archaeological site as part of the Central American country’s cultural heritage.

July 24, 2026

Josh Hasten

Israel News

UNESCO designates Samaria’s Sebastia, Lebanese castles as World Heritage sites over Israeli objections

“Any discussion of Sebastia must recognize, explicitly, the ancient Jewish presence and connection to this land,” Israeli U.N. diplomat Nina Ben-Ami said. “Yet the Palestinian submission deliberately ignores this historic fact.”

July 24, 2026

Mike Wagenheim
U.S.
U.S. News

Iran warns renewed US attacks would lead to expanded war

The Revolutionary Guards threatens Israel, the United Kingdom and the Gulf states.

July 26, 2026

JNS Staff

World News

CENTCOM: US naval blockade of Iran remains in full effect

American forces redirected 12 vessels, disabled two and boarded two others to ensure compliance.

July 26, 2026

JNS Staff

U.S. News

Attempted murder hate crimes charges for man accused of stabbing visibly Jewish, Asian men in NYC

The New York City Police Department told JNS that the suspect is being charged with “attempted murder as a hate crime, attempted murder, assault as a hate crime, two counts of assault and two counts of criminal possession of a weapon.”

July 24, 2026

Jessica Russak-Hoffman

U.S. News

Federal judge recommends dismissing most of Israeli teacher’s suit against Oregon school district

The teacher alleged Portland Public Schools allowed Palestinian flags and anti-Israel displays while administrators told him that displaying “an Israeli flag or related symbols would be too disruptive.”

July 24, 2026

JNS Staff
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Thousands of Koreans visit Israel in faith-based trip

“Your decision to convene in Israel during these challenging times is a profound demonstration of friendship, solidarity and confidence in our nation,” Michael Izhakov, director general of the Israeli Tourism Ministry, told the Christian tourists.

July 24, 2026

Etgar Lefkovits

World News

Report: Israeli tourists fend off axe, knife attack in Mongolia

Diaspora Affairs Ministry said six Israelis were targeted after speaking Hebrew at a northern Mongolian campsite, where attackers reportedly shouted “Heil Hitler.”

July 24, 2026

Canaan Lidor

Israel News

Israel begins preparing for 2,000-year anniversary of Jesus’s baptism

The milestone will be marked in 2030.

July 24, 2026

Etgar Lefkovits

World News

Bahrain, Kuwait reportedly carried out secret Iran air strikes

The Arab Gulf countries attacked drone- and missile-storage depots inside the Islamic Republic after months of Iranian attacks on their countries, the “Wall Street Journal” reported.

July 24, 2026
Analysis
- Yaakov Lappin
- Shimon Sherman
Analysis

Sinwar document details plans for ‘10,000-strong’ terror invasion force

The deputy director of the Amit Terrorism and Intelligence Research Institute told JNS the former Hamas leader instructed terrorists to document atrocities against Israeli civilians and soldiers.

July 19, 2026

Yaakov Lappin

Analysis

The PA’s massive army threatens millions of Israelis within just 14 miles

Israel must immediately dismantle the 70,000-strong P.A. force to prevent a catastrophe potentially far worse than Oct. 7.

July 19, 2026

Lt. Col. (res.) Maurice Hirsch

Analysis

Intelligence experts question Ahmadinejad ‘regime-change’ report

Questions emerge over claims the former Iranian president was part of an Israeli campaign to reshape Iran’s leadership.

July 15, 2026

Yaakov Lappin

Analysis

Polls, blocs and mergers: Setting the stage for Israel Election 2026

With the principal blocs separated by a handful of seats in most polls, the campaign could be decided less by movement between Netanyahu’s Likud and Eisenkot’s Yashar than by which smaller parties survive the 3.25% electoral threshold.

July 19, 2026

Shimon Sherman
Opinion
Editor-in-Chief

Trump is a puzzle, but he’s standing firm on Iran and the Saudis

The president’s refusal to appease Tehran, along with his insistence that Riyadh recognize Israel if it wants a nuclear program, are potential political liabilities. But both stands are right.

July 24, 2026 03:35 PM

Jonathan S. Tobin

Column

For whom the bell polls

All electoral surveys should be taken with a grain of cynicism, especially those presented as some kind of gold standard for showing a left-wing victory.

July 26, 2026 01:22 AM

Ruthie Blum

Opinion

How Qatar helped create today’s socialist movement

Affinities of ideology and rhetoric have allowed an Islamist network to infiltrate the American left.

July 26, 2026 05:15 AM

Max Blankfeld

Opinion

The Haredi draft debate is becoming a political weapon

Any lasting solution will require more than legislation or enforcement measures.

July 25, 2026 11:45 PM

Mordechai Traiman
JNS TV
Think Twice

The rabbi who saved Soviet Jewry and reimagined American Judaism

“Think Twice” with Jonathan Tobin and guest Rabbi David Eliezrie, Ep. 231

July 23, 2026

Jonathan S. Tobin

JNS TV / Israel Undiplomatic

Is anti-Israel politics becoming mainstream in America?

July 23, 2026

Ruthie Blum, Mark Regev

JNS TV

How Oct. 7 exposed antisemitism inside American media

July 22, 2026

Fleur Hassan-Nahoum

JNS TV / JLMinute

Is the Middle East heading toward a wider war?

July 21, 2026

Alex Traiman, Josh Hasten
Jewish Life
Israel News

South African immigrant killed in Jerusalem balcony collapse

Barry Levitt, 80, died when a residential balcony collapsed onto an Angel Bakery store in the city’s Rehavia neighborhood.

July 21, 2026

JNS Staff

Opinion

Belgium’s war on the ‘mohel’: A confrontation that was never necessary

The government owes its Jewish citizens more than silence and prosecutorial drift. It owes them the same good-faith accommodation that the rest of Europe has managed to provide.

July 22, 2026

Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt

Opinion

Crete: Where Jewish worlds met

An ancient community has, in its small way, resurrected itself.

July 21, 2026

Michael Freund

Think Twice

The rabbi who saved Soviet Jewry and reimagined American Judaism

“Think Twice” with Jonathan Tobin and guest Rabbi David Eliezrie, Ep. 231

July 23, 2026

Jonathan S. Tobin
Antisemitism
U.S. News

Must be price for Jewish blood, ‘mayhem going on,’ rabbi tells JNS after man wearing kippah stabbed in NYC by attacker who, witnesses say, yelled ‘Allahu akbar’

“We’re a tiny percentage of the population, yet we’re over 50% of the attacks, and the mayor’s diatribes don’t help,” Rabbi Allen Schwartz of Ohab Zedek, a synagogue the victim attends, told JNS on the fast of Tisha B’Av.

July 23, 2026

Jessica Russak-Hoffman, Menachem Wecker

U.S. News

Jewish stabbing victim named, ‘especially frustrating’ since Moshe Grunhaus was in process of leaving Manhattan to move to Florida, sources say

“When the mayor of New York repeatedly uses his platform to relentlessly single out and demonize Israel, the world’s only Jewish state, and calls those who support it ‘monsters,’ he contributes to a climate in which Jewish New Yorkers are increasingly targeted and unsafe,” Eric Goldstein, CEO of the UJA, said at a press conference.

July 24, 2026

Rikki Zagelbaum, Menachem Wecker

World News

‘Back to the 1930s’: Outrage over online ‘mapping’ of Jewish, Israeli tourism in Italy

The effort to single out Jewish and Israeli tourists was widely condemned by Italian politicians across the political spectrum.

July 22, 2026

David Isaac

U.S. News

Mamdani ‘didn’t say much’ when asked about Jew-hatred, says lone rabbi at mayor’s event for Staten Island clergy

“He was smiling. He has a winning demeanor, but I don’t expect to see any changes,” Rabbi Gerald Sussman, of Temple Emanu-El of Staten Island, told JNS.

July 21, 2026

Debra Nussbaum Cohen
Features
JNS Interview

‘Doesn’t impact my life’ if someone sits in their basement hating me, Jewish NY City Council member says

“I knew I was gonna be fighting antisemitism,” Inna Vernikov, a Republican, told JNS. “I didn’t see politicians doing that on a big scale. I just saw a lot of pandering on both sides.”

July 13, 2026

Rikki Zagelbaum

Feature

‘Enormous mistake’ to leave NYC because of Mamdani, Jewish leaders say

“We will not allow hatred to dictate whether we remain in New York,” Rivkie Feiner, a board member of the Jewish Federation and Foundation of Rockland County, told JNS. “Our history is defined by resilience, not surrender, and that will not change now.”

July 23, 2026

Rikki Zagelbaum

Breaking Myths

A South African’s journey from anti-Israel activist to Israel advocate

Former BDS supporter Klaas Mokgomole told JNS that a firsthand visit to the Jewish state overturned years of anti-Israel indoctrination.

July 21, 2026

Etgar Lefkovits

Online Antisemitism

World Cup antisemitism targets Lionel Messi, revives old anti-Jewish tropes

According to CyberWell, social media posts tied to the 2026 FIFA World Cup falsely claim the Argentine soccer star is Jewish or controlled by Jews while recycling conspiracy theories about Jewish control of FIFA.

July 15, 2026

Steve Linde
Culture
Think Twice

Why does the Israeli left endorse blood libels against their own nation?

“Think Twice” with Jonathan Tobin and guest Gadi Taub, Ep. 230

July 17, 2026

Jonathan S. Tobin

SCOOP: Opinion

Apple Maps and the cartographic erasure of Jews

Discrimination is embedded in the app’s zoom function; at an average level of magnification, Arab localities appear on the map while neighboring Jewish communities do not.

July 21, 2026

Daniel Winston

Feature

At Corning museum in New York, some Israel depictions walk on broken glass

Art historian Jacob Wisse told JNS that he is concerned “when museums, which I value for the rigor, depth and richness of their curatorial voice, fall back, lazily, on untruths.”

July 24, 2026

Menachem Wecker

Column

Jabotinsky, 86 years on

In the first quarter of the 20th century, the founder of Zionist Revisionism and the Betar Zionist youth movement had turned his attention to a parallel matter still relevant to our time.

July 21, 2026

Yisrael Medad
The Wire
Newsletter
Republish JNS Content
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Israel
Israel News

Two Israelis killed in Samaria terrorist attack

“We will not allow terrorism in Judea and Samaria to raise its head,” the Israeli PM said before convening a high-level meeting on the recent wave of shootings.

July 24, 2026

JNS Staff

Israel News

Thousands of Koreans visit Israel in faith-based trip

“Your decision to convene in Israel during these challenging times is a profound demonstration of friendship, solidarity and confidence in our nation,” Michael Izhakov, director general of the Israeli Tourism Ministry, told the Christian tourists.

July 24, 2026

Etgar Lefkovits

Israel News

Guatemala recognizes City of David as part of its heritage

At a Jerusalem ceremony, Guatemala’s ambassador unveiled a plaque recognizing the City of David archaeological site as part of the Central American country’s cultural heritage.

July 24, 2026

Josh Hasten

Israel News

UNESCO designates Samaria’s Sebastia, Lebanese castles as World Heritage sites over Israeli objections

“Any discussion of Sebastia must recognize, explicitly, the ancient Jewish presence and connection to this land,” Israeli U.N. diplomat Nina Ben-Ami said. “Yet the Palestinian submission deliberately ignores this historic fact.”

July 24, 2026

Mike Wagenheim
U.S.
U.S. News

Iran warns renewed US attacks would lead to expanded war

The Revolutionary Guards threatens Israel, the United Kingdom and the Gulf states.

July 26, 2026

JNS Staff

World News

CENTCOM: US naval blockade of Iran remains in full effect

American forces redirected 12 vessels, disabled two and boarded two others to ensure compliance.

July 26, 2026

JNS Staff

U.S. News

Attempted murder hate crimes charges for man accused of stabbing visibly Jewish, Asian men in NYC

The New York City Police Department told JNS that the suspect is being charged with “attempted murder as a hate crime, attempted murder, assault as a hate crime, two counts of assault and two counts of criminal possession of a weapon.”

July 24, 2026

Jessica Russak-Hoffman

U.S. News

Federal judge recommends dismissing most of Israeli teacher’s suit against Oregon school district

The teacher alleged Portland Public Schools allowed Palestinian flags and anti-Israel displays while administrators told him that displaying “an Israeli flag or related symbols would be too disruptive.”

July 24, 2026

JNS Staff
World
- United Nations
- Middle East
- Europe
- Eastern Europe
- Asia
- Africa
- Latin America
- Canada
- Australia
- Iran
Israel News

Thousands of Koreans visit Israel in faith-based trip

“Your decision to convene in Israel during these challenging times is a profound demonstration of friendship, solidarity and confidence in our nation,” Michael Izhakov, director general of the Israeli Tourism Ministry, told the Christian tourists.

July 24, 2026

Etgar Lefkovits

World News

Report: Israeli tourists fend off axe, knife attack in Mongolia

Diaspora Affairs Ministry said six Israelis were targeted after speaking Hebrew at a northern Mongolian campsite, where attackers reportedly shouted “Heil Hitler.”

July 24, 2026

Canaan Lidor

Israel News

Israel begins preparing for 2,000-year anniversary of Jesus’s baptism

The milestone will be marked in 2030.

July 24, 2026

Etgar Lefkovits

World News

Bahrain, Kuwait reportedly carried out secret Iran air strikes

The Arab Gulf countries attacked drone- and missile-storage depots inside the Islamic Republic after months of Iranian attacks on their countries, the “Wall Street Journal” reported.

July 24, 2026
Analysis
- Yaakov Lappin
- Shimon Sherman
Analysis

Sinwar document details plans for ‘10,000-strong’ terror invasion force

The deputy director of the Amit Terrorism and Intelligence Research Institute told JNS the former Hamas leader instructed terrorists to document atrocities against Israeli civilians and soldiers.

July 19, 2026

Yaakov Lappin

Analysis

The PA’s massive army threatens millions of Israelis within just 14 miles

Israel must immediately dismantle the 70,000-strong P.A. force to prevent a catastrophe potentially far worse than Oct. 7.

July 19, 2026

Lt. Col. (res.) Maurice Hirsch

Analysis

Intelligence experts question Ahmadinejad ‘regime-change’ report

Questions emerge over claims the former Iranian president was part of an Israeli campaign to reshape Iran’s leadership.

July 15, 2026

Yaakov Lappin

Analysis

Polls, blocs and mergers: Setting the stage for Israel Election 2026

With the principal blocs separated by a handful of seats in most polls, the campaign could be decided less by movement between Netanyahu’s Likud and Eisenkot’s Yashar than by which smaller parties survive the 3.25% electoral threshold.

July 19, 2026

Shimon Sherman
Opinion
Editor-in-Chief

Trump is a puzzle, but he’s standing firm on Iran and the Saudis

The president’s refusal to appease Tehran, along with his insistence that Riyadh recognize Israel if it wants a nuclear program, are potential political liabilities. But both stands are right.

July 24, 2026 03:35 PM

Jonathan S. Tobin

Column

For whom the bell polls

All electoral surveys should be taken with a grain of cynicism, especially those presented as some kind of gold standard for showing a left-wing victory.

July 26, 2026 01:22 AM

Ruthie Blum

Opinion

How Qatar helped create today’s socialist movement

Affinities of ideology and rhetoric have allowed an Islamist network to infiltrate the American left.

July 26, 2026 05:15 AM

Max Blankfeld

Opinion

The Haredi draft debate is becoming a political weapon

Any lasting solution will require more than legislation or enforcement measures.

July 25, 2026 11:45 PM

Mordechai Traiman
JNS TV
Think Twice

The rabbi who saved Soviet Jewry and reimagined American Judaism

“Think Twice” with Jonathan Tobin and guest Rabbi David Eliezrie, Ep. 231

July 23, 2026

Jonathan S. Tobin

JNS TV / Israel Undiplomatic

Is anti-Israel politics becoming mainstream in America?

July 23, 2026

Ruthie Blum, Mark Regev

JNS TV

How Oct. 7 exposed antisemitism inside American media

July 22, 2026

Fleur Hassan-Nahoum

JNS TV / JLMinute

Is the Middle East heading toward a wider war?

July 21, 2026

Alex Traiman, Josh Hasten
Jewish Life
Israel News

South African immigrant killed in Jerusalem balcony collapse

Barry Levitt, 80, died when a residential balcony collapsed onto an Angel Bakery store in the city’s Rehavia neighborhood.

July 21, 2026

JNS Staff

Opinion

Belgium’s war on the ‘mohel’: A confrontation that was never necessary

The government owes its Jewish citizens more than silence and prosecutorial drift. It owes them the same good-faith accommodation that the rest of Europe has managed to provide.

July 22, 2026

Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt

Opinion

Crete: Where Jewish worlds met

An ancient community has, in its small way, resurrected itself.

July 21, 2026

Michael Freund

Think Twice

The rabbi who saved Soviet Jewry and reimagined American Judaism

“Think Twice” with Jonathan Tobin and guest Rabbi David Eliezrie, Ep. 231

July 23, 2026

Jonathan S. Tobin
Antisemitism
U.S. News

Must be price for Jewish blood, ‘mayhem going on,’ rabbi tells JNS after man wearing kippah stabbed in NYC by attacker who, witnesses say, yelled ‘Allahu akbar’

“We’re a tiny percentage of the population, yet we’re over 50% of the attacks, and the mayor’s diatribes don’t help,” Rabbi Allen Schwartz of Ohab Zedek, a synagogue the victim attends, told JNS on the fast of Tisha B’Av.

July 23, 2026

Jessica Russak-Hoffman, Menachem Wecker

U.S. News

Jewish stabbing victim named, ‘especially frustrating’ since Moshe Grunhaus was in process of leaving Manhattan to move to Florida, sources say

“When the mayor of New York repeatedly uses his platform to relentlessly single out and demonize Israel, the world’s only Jewish state, and calls those who support it ‘monsters,’ he contributes to a climate in which Jewish New Yorkers are increasingly targeted and unsafe,” Eric Goldstein, CEO of the UJA, said at a press conference.

July 24, 2026

Rikki Zagelbaum, Menachem Wecker

World News

‘Back to the 1930s’: Outrage over online ‘mapping’ of Jewish, Israeli tourism in Italy

The effort to single out Jewish and Israeli tourists was widely condemned by Italian politicians across the political spectrum.

July 22, 2026

David Isaac

U.S. News

Mamdani ‘didn’t say much’ when asked about Jew-hatred, says lone rabbi at mayor’s event for Staten Island clergy

“He was smiling. He has a winning demeanor, but I don’t expect to see any changes,” Rabbi Gerald Sussman, of Temple Emanu-El of Staten Island, told JNS.

July 21, 2026

Debra Nussbaum Cohen
Features
JNS Interview

‘Doesn’t impact my life’ if someone sits in their basement hating me, Jewish NY City Council member says

“I knew I was gonna be fighting antisemitism,” Inna Vernikov, a Republican, told JNS. “I didn’t see politicians doing that on a big scale. I just saw a lot of pandering on both sides.”

July 13, 2026

Rikki Zagelbaum

Feature

‘Enormous mistake’ to leave NYC because of Mamdani, Jewish leaders say

“We will not allow hatred to dictate whether we remain in New York,” Rivkie Feiner, a board member of the Jewish Federation and Foundation of Rockland County, told JNS. “Our history is defined by resilience, not surrender, and that will not change now.”

July 23, 2026

Rikki Zagelbaum

Breaking Myths

A South African’s journey from anti-Israel activist to Israel advocate

Former BDS supporter Klaas Mokgomole told JNS that a firsthand visit to the Jewish state overturned years of anti-Israel indoctrination.

July 21, 2026

Etgar Lefkovits

Online Antisemitism

World Cup antisemitism targets Lionel Messi, revives old anti-Jewish tropes

According to CyberWell, social media posts tied to the 2026 FIFA World Cup falsely claim the Argentine soccer star is Jewish or controlled by Jews while recycling conspiracy theories about Jewish control of FIFA.

July 15, 2026

Steve Linde
Culture
Think Twice

Why does the Israeli left endorse blood libels against their own nation?

“Think Twice” with Jonathan Tobin and guest Gadi Taub, Ep. 230

July 17, 2026

Jonathan S. Tobin

SCOOP: Opinion

Apple Maps and the cartographic erasure of Jews

Discrimination is embedded in the app’s zoom function; at an average level of magnification, Arab localities appear on the map while neighboring Jewish communities do not.

July 21, 2026

Daniel Winston

Feature

At Corning museum in New York, some Israel depictions walk on broken glass

Art historian Jacob Wisse told JNS that he is concerned “when museums, which I value for the rigor, depth and richness of their curatorial voice, fall back, lazily, on untruths.”

July 24, 2026

Menachem Wecker

Column

Jabotinsky, 86 years on

In the first quarter of the 20th century, the founder of Zionist Revisionism and the Betar Zionist youth movement had turned his attention to a parallel matter still relevant to our time.

July 21, 2026

Yisrael Medad
The Wire
Newsletter
Republish JNS Content
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Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan

Israeli President Isaac Herzog and his wife, Michal, are welcomed to the United Arab Emirates by Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, UAE Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Jan 30, 2022. Credit: Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO.

News

Herzog visits UAE to pay respects following death of Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan

Israeli President Isaac Herzog met with the UAE’s new president, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan.

May 15, 2022

Portraits of United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan and Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum in Fujairah, UAE. Credit: Philip Lange/Shutterstock.

Israel News

Jewish, Israeli and US leaders offer condolences following death of UAE president

Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, 73, was credited with helping lead Mideast cooperation in science, business, technology, academia and tourism, as well as working with the Jewish community that resides in the United Arab Emirates.

May 13, 2022

Dmitriy Shapiro