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Monday, October 9, 2023


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Israeli security forces at the scene where a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip hit a shelter in the southern Israeli city of Sderot, Oct. 9, 2023. Photo by Yossi Zamir/Flash90.

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Jonathan S. Tobin

As Israel bleeds, American Jewry stands at a crossroads

The community that rallied behind the Jewish state in 1967 and 1973 no longer exists. Can once formidable Jewish groups provide wartime leadership?

Netanyahu: Israel to ‘carry out massive attack on Hamas of unprecedented intensity’

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the nation on Oct. 9, 2023. Source: YouTube.

President Isaac Herzog attends an event on Israel's 75th Independence Day, April 26, 2023. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Herzog: ‘Not since Holocaust have so many Jews been killed in a day’

Israeli flag. Credit: Maxim Studio/Shutterstock.

France, Germany, Italy, UK, US support Israel, condemn Hamas

"The terrorist actions of Hamas have no justification, no legitimacy and must be universally condemned," the countries stated.

IDF soldiers near the Israeli-Gaza border in southern Israel, Oct. 9, 2023. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90.

Netanyahu: ‘We are changing the Middle East’

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Israeli soldiers at a staging area near the border with Lebanon, Oct. 9, 2023. Photo by Ayal Margolin/Flash90.

Israel’s choices in Gaza all lead to the destruction of the Hamas regime

Yaakov Lappin

A Hezbollah flag in Lebanon, as seen from the Israeli side of the border, June 27, 2023. Photo by Ayal Margolin/Flash90.

Six Israelis injured in gunfight with terrorist infiltrators from Lebanon

A Gazan rocket caused injury and damage in the Arab town of Abu Ghosh outside Jerusalem, Oct. 9, 2023. Photo by Jamal Awad/Flash90.

At least seven wounded as Gaza rockets continue to pound Israel

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Joe Biden meet at the InterContinental Hotel in New York, Sept. 20, 2023. Photo by Avi Ohayon/GPO.

Biden: At least 11 US citizens killed, ‘likely’ Hamas holding others

Security and rescue personnel at the scene where a Gazan rocket hit apartment buildings and cars in Ashdod on Oct. 9, 2023. Photo by Liron Moldovan/Flash90.

Number of Americans killed by Hamas rises

The European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, March 20, 2013. Photo by Botond Horvath/Shutterstock.

EU puts all Palestinian aid under review: ‘There can be no business as usual’

German taxpayer funding for Palestinians focal point of pro-Israel rally in Berlin

Orit Arfa

Families of civilians abducted by Hamas hold a press conference at Kfar Maccabiah in Ramat Gan, Oct. 8, 2023. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90.

Israel denies negotiating with Hamas for release of hostages

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets in Jerusalem with Maj. Gen. Abbas Kamel, the head of Egypt's General Intelligence Directorate, May 30, 2021. Credit: Prime Minister's Office.

Netanyahu denies report Cairo warned of Hamas attack

Brig. Gen. (res.) Gal Hirsch in Tel Aviv on Aug. 17, 2022. Photo by Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90.

Israel’s chief of missing and captured ‘working to get complete picture’

(From left) Former President Jimmy Carter, then-first lady Michelle Obama, former President Bill Clinton, and then-President Barack Obama at the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom Aug. 28, 2013. Credit: Joseph Sohm/Shutterstock.

Obama: America supports Israel as it ‘dismantles Hamas’

Groups across North America prepare pro-Israel rallies, vigils, events

The scene where a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip by Palestinian militants hit a building and cars in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon on Oct. 9, 2023. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90.

UK civil-society groups unite against Hamas attacks on Israel

The White House lit in blue and white as a symbol of America's solidarity with the people of Israel in the wake of multi-pronged terrorist attacks by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Oct. 9, 2023. Source: White House/X.

Blue-and-white colors the globe as nations, cities stand with Israel

Sign at the building entrance to CAIR headquarters. Credit: DCStockPhotography/Shutterstock.

Antisemitism strategy partner CAIR blames Israel for Hamas attacks

Menachem Wecker

Rachel Edri and her husband David were held hostage in their home in Ofakim for 20 hours until rescued by Israeli security forces. Credit: screenshot.

Grandmother outsmarts Hamas terrorists in her home

Etgar Lefkovits

The scene where a rocket fired from Hamas in the Gaza Strip hit buildings and cars in the southern Israeli city of Ashdod on Oct. 9, 2023. Photo by Liron Moldovan/Flash90.

Eli Cohen: ‘An evil that’s not created even by the devil’

Uri Mintzer (left) and Elinor Yosefin exchange wedding vows in the Israeli town of Shoham before reporting for reserve duty, Oct. 9, 2023. Photo by Avi Friedman.

Israeli couple ties the knot on eve of military deployment

Pesach Benson

A sign on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania. Credit: Sophia Zengierski/Shutterstock.

Penn to review policies following ‘Palestine Writes’ literary event

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Emergency Briefing: ‘Operation Swords of Iron’

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The failure of the IDF

How did Israeli intelligence fail to foresee a Hamas attack of this magnitude? “The Caroline Glick Show” with guest David Wurmser.

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Rabbi Avi Weiss

The Jewish state at war: ‘Yehi Or’

Even as it suffered a colossal intelligence failure, Israel will overcome.

Andrew D. Lappin

Liberate Western civilization from pre-medieval perversion

Douglas Noel Sandoval

Pro-Palestinian student groups hail Hamas terrorism

Rabbi Uri Pilichowski

Invincibility shattered

The scars will remain, but the Jewish people and their state will rise once again in glory.

Joseph Frager

Israel’s crisis is also an opportunity

Hamas’s barbaric attack has opened a brief window to destroy Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Iran’s nuclear program.

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Alex Traiman is CEO and Jerusalem Bureau Chief of the Jewish News Syndicate. A veteran Israeli journalist, radio-show host, documentary filmmaker and startup consultant, he writes on Israeli politics and U.S.-Israel relations. He has conducted one-on-one interviews with Israeli officials, among them Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose recent speech to a joint session Congress he attended and covered. Other key figures include members of the Knesset, government and War Cabinet. He has also interviewed U.S. senators, congressmen, ambassadors, former CIA heads and national security advisers. He interviewed then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on an official visit to Jerusalem. He has appeared on the BBC, Bloomberg, CBS, NBC, FOX, News Nation and Newsmax, and is a frequent guest on WABC and CBS radio. An NCAA champion fencer in the Yeshiva University sports hall of fame, he moved to Israel in 2004, and lives in Jerusalem with his wife and five children.

Alex Traiman

CEO/Jerusalem Bureau Chief, Jewish News Syndicate

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