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Amelie Botbol is a diplomatic correspondent for JNS. Originally from Casablanca, Morocco, she made aliyah in 2014. Her reporting focuses on major international developments and the Israeli political arena, including weekly coverage from the Knesset. She also produced one of the world’s most extensive bodies of reporting on Israel’s hostage crisis following the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led terrorist attacks.

The film is consistent with a pattern of people judging Israel without understanding the realities of war, Lt. Col. (res.) Sarit Zehavi tells JNS.
“When we are not there, Iran is there,” Yisrael Ganz, chairman of Israel’s Binyamin region and of the Yesha Council, tells JNS.
The Islamist group “has been operating in Judea and Samaria for decades,” Shai Maimon tells JNS in rebuking the French president.
The drill exposed small tactical gaps that the army is now working to address, Lt. Col. Aleph told JNS.
The Charedi Public Party says it will protect full-time Torah study while supporting military or national service for ultra-Orthodox men who are not studying in yeshivahs, address math and English instruction in haredi schools.
The Israeli president met with his Cypriot counterpart, Nikos Christodoulides, discussing expanded bilateral security ties and broader Middle East stability.
“We are a winning list that includes all parts of Israeli society,” MK Farkash-Hacohen told JNS.
The Hebron spokesman secured the 12th slot after MK Tzvika Foghel opted not to seek reelection.
‘I’ve been in politics for 15 years already, and I’m telling you with certainty: this is the most talented, execution-driven, and devoted list to run for the Knesset in the last generation,’ Naftali Bennett said.
Military commanders mobilized reserve units and tested sudden war plans ahead of the High Holidays.
The current standoff has effectively turned Carl von Clausewitz’s famous adage on its head: Politics is, for now, the continuation of war by other means.
Party officials emphasized judicial reform ahead of Israel’s Oct. 27 elections.