Israel Delays Qatari Cash Delivery to Gaza

An Israeli tank fired into the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, killing a Hamas fighter in what the army described as retaliation for the wounding of a soldier and a brief...

Lone Soldiers Get a Helping Hand on Annual ‘Personal Errands Day’

Nefesh B’Nefesh and Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF) hosted its sixth annual “Yom Siddurim,” or “personal errands day,” for lone soldiers last week. The day, organized with the Israel...

Israeli Supreme Court Bars Woman From Using Serial Donor’s Sperm

BY MARCY OSTER JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s Supreme Court ruled that an Israeli woman cannot get pregnant with the sperm of an American man who has been identified as a...

Aliyah Chronicle 2.0

What Being A Mother In Israel Means To Me By Jessica Cutter I have waited too long to be able to write these words—I am a mother in Israel. The opportunity to...

Israel’s New Central Bank Chief: ‘Normalizing’ Rates Is Main Challenge

Israel’s new central bank governor Amir Yaron sees normalizing monetary policy as the most pressing challenge facing the Bank of Israel, he said as he took over the role...

Hostage Freed by Hamas: ‘I’ve Been Through Hell’

(October 24, 2023 / JNS) Yocheved Lifshitz, 85, one of the two Israeli women Hamas released from captivity in Gaza on Monday, described her ordeal to the media, saying that she had...

US Aid for Palestinian Security Set to Expire

Barring a legislative fix, the annual $35 million in U.S. security assistance to the Palestinian Authority will expire on Feb. 1. “We continue to work through the potential impact of...

Heavy Police Presence Tries to Keep Peace for Jerusalem Day

(Jerusalem Post) Thousands of police have been deployed around and inside Jerusalem’s Old City ahead of Sunday’s Jerusalem Day march. An already tense situation was made even more volatile after...

How Israel Welcomed Jews From Arab Lands As Spies

BY EMILY BURACK (JTA) — At the beginning of his new book, Matti Friedman writes that “time spent with old spies is never time wasted.” When he went to meet Isaac...
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