Iran interference and Trump’s conditional support

Every successful military campaign requires an accompanying political effort to harvest battlefield victories into lasting strategic gains. Israel and Iran are locked in a battle of titans, where Iran, despite suffering defeats... Read more »

Why did Iran’s nuclear experts go on secret mission to Russia?

clandestine Iranian delegation with direct ties to Tehran’s disbanded nuclear weapons program traveled to Moscow in August 2024, visiting Russian research facilities and requesting tritium – a radioactive material that nuclear proliferation... Read more »

Leading UK Jewish group calls Israeli aid measures in Gaza ‘long overdue’

JTA — The Board of Deputies of British Jews, the largest Jewish organization in the United Kingdom, called for a rapid increase in Gaza aid this week, adding that the Israeli government’s... Read more »

Make sure Hamas doesn’t get what it wants

French Prime Minister Emmanuel Macron didn’t have to wait long for it to come. Razi Hamad, a senior official in Hamas’ political bureau based in Qatar, rushed to take credit on behalf... Read more »

Sa’ar calls for world’s attention on hostages ahead of UN security council session

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar on Monday urged the world to bring attention to the hostages held in Gaza before heading to a United Nations Security Council session on the issue, saying, “It... Read more »

Israel orders emergency killing of 200 starving crocodiles

In an extraordinarily unusual move, following years in which a historic crocodile farm in the Jordan Valley operated without oversight and without feeding, as the crocodiles became cannibalist and began consuming one... Read more »

Athens mayor tussles with Israeli envoy over antisemitic graffiti in Greek capital

ATHENS, Greece — The mayor of Athens became embroiled in a war of words Sunday with the Israeli ambassador to Greece who accused city authorities of not doing enough to clean up... Read more »

‘A shell of himself,’ ‘This is starvation’: Ex-hostage, leaders appalled by captive’s video

Former hostages and Israeli leaders reacted with shock and outrage Saturday night to new footage issued by terror groups of emaciated Israeli captives held in Gaza’s tunnels, as politicians accused Hamas of... Read more »

Israelis lament, and cling to, societal divides on a holiday mourning ancient disunity

JTA — Two days before Tisha B’Av, the Israeli scholar Tomer Persico warned that the country was facing another destruction of Jerusalem, this time of its “moral and religious core” brought on... Read more »

Journalist thought her Israeli freedom-fighter mother hid something big. She was right

As Marisa Fox was growing up in New York, her mother, Tamar, would take her to double features on the weekends. The movies were full of spies, femmes fatales, action, and intrigue.... Read more »