JNS The Daily Syndicate - Thursday, January 23, 2025

Thursday, January 23, 2025


	The Daily Syndicate

Israeli President Isaac Herzog with António Guterres, secretary-general of the United Nations, in New York City, on July 20, 2023. Credit: Eskinder Debebe/U.N. Photo.

‘Very serious allegation,’ UN says of reports hostages held at its sites in Gaza

Mike Wagenheim

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks after being sworn in by Vice President JD Vance in Washington, Jan. 21, 2025. Photo by Allison Robbert/AFP via Getty Images.

Rubio stresses support for Israel as ‘top priority’ in first call with Netanyahu

Danny Danon, the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, hosts a press briefing with journalists in New York, Jan. 22, 2025. Photo by Vita Fellig.

Israeli envoy: Hostages in Gaza ‘first priority’ in talks with Washington

Vita Fellig

Elon Musk and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speak with Sha’ar HaNegev Regional Council acting head Yossi Keren in Kibbutz Kfar Aza, Nov. 27, 2023. Credit: Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO.

Netanyahu says Musk ‘falsely smeared,’ but NY officials, top Michigan legal officer say he hates Jews

JNS Staff

The U.S. Department of Education in Washington. Credit: Emma K. Alexandra/Creative Commons.

Senate bill would require schools to help students file Title VI complaints, including about Jew-hatred

Jonathan D. Salant

Rembrandt. "Moses with the Tablets of the Law" (1659) at the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin. Credit: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie/Christoph Schmidt, Public Domain.

Appeals court hears argument over Louisiana Ten Commandments bill

Andrew Bernard

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks with his friend Steve Witkoff in the East Room of the White House, March 1, 2018. Photo by Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images.

Trump to put Witkoff in charge of nuclear talks with Tehran, reports say

Israel Defense Forces soldiers operate against the Hezbollah terrorist group in Southern Lebanon, Jan. 23, 2025. Credit: IDF.

Israel in talks with Trump administration to delay IDF exit from Lebanon

Akiva Van Koningsveld, Amelie Botbol

Korawit Kaeokoed milking cows at Kibbutz Alumim, near the Gaza Strip, Jan. 22, 2025. Photo by Rafi Babayan.

Thai farm workers attacked on Oct. 7 return to Negev farms

Etgar Lefkovits

U.S. President Donald Trump meets with Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman at the White House, on March 14, 2017. Credit: White House Photo/Shealah Craighead.

Riyadh to invest $600b in US, per official Saudi media

Alex Welz

Yuval Raphael in the "Hakochav Haba" ("Rising Star") song competition. Credit: Channel 12/YouTube.

Nova music festival survivor to represent Israel at Eurovision

JNS Staff

Elon Musk at the Ira C. Eaker Distinguished Speaker Presentation at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo., on April 7, 2022. Photo by Trevor Cokley via Wikimedia Commons.

Jewish groups criticize Musk for use of Nazi puns

A Delta Air Lines flight takes off from Ben-Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv, Oct. 25, 2021. Photo by Yossi Aloni/Flash90.

Delta to resume flights to Israel in April

JNS Staff

Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) chief Ronen Bar during a visit to officers serving in Jenin, northern Samaria, Jan. 23, 2025. Credit: IDF.

Shin Bet chief in Jenin: Impossible to defeat terror without attacking

The Isawiya neighborhood in northeastern Jerusalem, on Aug. 10, 2023. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Jerusalem Arab arrested for Hezbollah contacts

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar (left) and his Hungarian counterpart, Péter Szijjártó, in Budapest, Jan. 23, 2025. Credit: Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

Sa’ar thanks Hungary for opposing ‘politicized and corrupt’ ICC warrants

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Jonathan S. Tobin, Ruthie Blum

Ruthie Blum: Unpacking Trump’s first days and the hostage deal

opinion

U.S. President Donald Trump welcomes his friend, Steve Witkoff (now the president's special envoy to the Middle East), in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., on March 1, 2018. Credit: Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead.

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Melanie Phillips

The art of the deal or the rout of the real?

Benjamin Anthony

The unspoken perils of the hostage release deal

Daniel S. Mariaschin

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Kirill Gayvoronskiy

It’s all about power and influence

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