Hamas hands over body believed to be Lt. Hadar Goldin, killed and abducted in 2014; Israel readies formal confirmation and burial as focus shifts to eight October 7 victims still held, including a Thai national.
The election of an avowed anti-Zionist as New York’s mayor signals not merely a political...
The election of Zohran Mamdani as mayor of New York City has stirred fear across Israeli and American Jewish communities. Many view his anti-Israel stance and anti-Zionist rhetoric as hostile to Jewish interests and potentially antisemitic. Liberal Jewish New Yorkers obsequiously applaud his outreach but remain queasy about the implications for safety and communal ties.
Resolution would authorize a U.S.-commanded International Stabilization Force to administer Gaza for two years, disarm Hamas, and coordinate reconstruction with Israel and Egypt while the Palestinian Authority undergoes reform. Israel seems inclined to go along, but wants to keep out representatives of Turkey, Qatar, the Palestinian Authority and Islamic forces.
As Trump eyes postwar diplomacy, Israel’s leaders resist renewed calls for Palestinian statehood. Senator Lindsey Graham warns annexation would erode U.S. backing, while talk of a Jordanian-Palestinian confederation quietly re-enters the debate. History and Security demand that there be no Arab state between “the river and the sea.”
Military Advocate General Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi admits authorizing media leaks in the Sde Teiman detention case and resigns after her dismissal, saying, “I bear full responsibility.” Her duplicitous leak of alleged mistreatment of Arab prisoners, later proven false, blackened the IDF’s name around the world. In Israel, a “shtinker” is an informer, an odious offense, especially in her high position.
As Israel mourns a Haredi teenager who fell to his death during an anti-draft protest, it must remember those who fall not by chance but by choice—the men and women who defend their people with courage, not curiosity.
Jerusalem condemns Hamas for returning the body parts of Ofir Tzarfati — an Israeli civilian murdered on October 7 — whose remains had already been recovered, buried, and even supplemented months earlier, calling it a cruel and cynical manipulation.
As Israel reports knowing the location of nine of the 13 remaining deceased hostages held by Hamas, it is the public pressure from Donald Trump—paired with Israel’s readiness to re-escalate—that appears to be loosening the stalemate and shaping the next phase of the conflict.
As Netanyahu insists Israel is no client state, Washington’s grip tightens — with U.S. officials dictating Gaza policy, weapons resupply, and diplomatic timing, leaving the Prime Minister protesting sovereignty while maneuvering under unmistakable American constraint. The lady doth protest too much, and we’re not referring to Sara.
After the Knesset’s preliminary sovereignty vote in Judea and Samaria, Trump erupts in fury, vowing revenge if PM Netanyahu “f—ks the Gaza deal,” exposing the deepest U.S.–Israel rift in recent memory. Where is Menachem Begin now that we need him?
Senior MK removed from Knesset defense panel after backing the sovereignty bill in Judea and Samaria, defying party discipline and exposing deep rifts within Likud. Netanyahu is afraid of angering the US Administration but showing his weakness. The bill must pass two more reading before becoming law, but this is a shot across Bibi’s bow from Greater Israel loyalists.
Amid administration fears that Benjamin Netanyahu may undo the U.S.-brokered Gaza truce, Vice President J.D. Vance flies to Israel—just as Jerusalem quietly contends it was misled into a deal that leaves Hamas in control, not the understanding to which Israel agreed.
After revealing behind-the-scenes tensions on U.S. television, to Israel’s detriment, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff have the chutzpah to come in Israel trying to salvage a Trump-brokered truce already strained by new clashes, delays in hostage returns, and Hamas non-compliance. The President and his men say that the war won’t resume even as the terror group makes clear that it won’t disarm.
Rafah firefight ends fragile pause; reports of Hamas-led executions and reprisals, and the slowness in returning murdered hostages, highlight the chaos and bad faith of the terrorists left in control of Gaza. Consensus left and right in Israel that fighting should resume.
Two years after the Hamas invasion, the guns have quieted. The Trump-brokered framework has stopped the fighting, brought most hostages home, and reshaped the regional map—but it’s a TKO, not the knockout Netanyahu promised, and he knows it. The referee has called the bout in Israel’s favor, yet the combatants are still standing. The match is not over.
Despite the truce and the return of some hostages’ remains, many in Israel demand that Hamas must still return all bodies, dismantle its arsenal, and submit Gaza to full demilitarization before additional elements of the deal can proceed.
By returning a non-Israeli corpse and just seven of 28 promised remains, Hamas confirms its deceit and decline. With executions, clan warfare, including the killing of “Mr. FAFO,” Gaza teeters on self-destruction — even as Washington and Jerusalem align on how to finish dismantling Hamas’s military machine and infrastructure, the easy way or the hard way.
As Israel celebrates the miraculous return of its final 20 living hostages from Gaza, Donald Trump declares, “The war is over — now we build peace,” marking an extraordinary moment of redemption, unity, and resolve for the Jewish state.
As Israel stands hours away from the long-awaited release of 22 hostages — including a Nepali and an Israeli presumed dead — from nearly two years in Hamas captivity, a shocking act of division stained a moment meant for national unity, an embarrassing act of classlessness from those who don’t accept democracy nor masterful statecraft.
After nearly two years of war, a fragile 72-hour truce begins. The Israel Defense Forces withdraw and Hamas pledges to release 20 live hostages by Monday, along with the remains of most of the fallen. Netanyahu warns disarmament will come either by agreement—or by force. There are critics and doubters, but the national unites around hope that all hostages are returned to Israel.
With U.S. envoys Witkoff and Kushner joining talks in Egypt, Hamas has hardened its demands—seeking the release of Nukhba killers and slain commanders—while Israel vows no concessions till all hostages returned.
Hamas isn’t planning on releasing hostages anytime soon — and that means no ceasefire, and no prisoners home, no matter what Trump says. Despite White House optimism and Netanyahu’s cautious approval of the Trump plan, Hamas’ Tehran envoy makes clear: the terror group won’t compromise — and Israel won’t either.
Netanyahu says he hopes to announce the release of every Israeli hostage “in the coming days,” while Hamas conditionally accepts Trump’s peace plan—but refuses disarmament, testing Israel’s patience as new security chiefs take charge. If the terrorists don’t deliver all 48 Israelis held in 72 hour, Bibi says the fighting will resume with even greater intensity.
