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David Isaac

David Isaac

David Isaac, an expert on Jewish history, politics and current events, is an Israel bureau correspondent for JNS.

The goal of an online conference was to prepare for hostile foreigners brought by left-wing organizations to stir up trouble.
McGurk refuted recent reports, including from Hebrew daily “Haaretz,” that Hamas had signaled within a day of the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre that it was prepared to release all civilian hostages.
The policy goes “far beyond the boundaries of legitimate political debate,” the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem said.
Israeli President Isaac Herzog plans to recommend that all receive the Presidential Award for Civilian Heroism, Israel’s highest civilian honor.
Hamas “wanted to win. We defeated them, first and foremost here on the Temple Mount,” Israel’s national security minister said.
“The friendship between the Moroccan and Jewish peoples has deep roots and a rich history,” said Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar.
The P.A. established the Palestinian National Monitoring Center in July, Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) revealed this month.
“When someone gets out of the ambulance and says, ‘May God punish Hamas,’ while I’m filming, the people around him turn their camera away,” he said.
The U.S. State Department extended its visa restrictions against Palestinian delegates and officials for another year, citing their internationalization of the conflict, unilateral moves for statehood and glorification of terrorism.
Tehran has turned to overland routes to move goods after the U.S. blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, but border delays and rising costs are hampering the effort, The Wall Street Journal reported.
The airman described the moment the plane was struck and their immediate realization that it was a catastrophic hit, like “getting hit by a freight train.”
The scholarly study found a dominant narrative that placed “near-exclusive agency and responsibility” on Israel while downplaying Hamas’s role in the conflict.