The IDF said that the decision was taken after late evidence by the force commander that 'could be collected earlier,' even though he was questioned three times. 'Gur was killed twice, no soil was placed on his grave, but lies and mortar,' his grandfather accused

Unlike other family members, instead of being a refugee from Majdal living in Gaza, displaced in a tent or perhaps dead, I am a Palestinian citizen of Israel, or an 'Israeli Arab,' or a 'fifth column,' or an 'enemy within'

Mamdani, a faculty senator at Columbia, said he was planning to suggest at a Senate meeting a 'healing process' through an alternative, broad-based commission on discrimination, rather than separate initiatives for specific groups

Touting a peace plan promising security and stability for Israelis and Palestinians, he is now treating every Palestinian as a suspect

The move by the Emirati-backed separatists upends the political arrangement among the anti-Houthi partners. Earlier this month, the forces marched to Hadramout and took control of the province's major facilities, including Yemen's largest oil company

The police are investigating a link between the attempted kidnapping and the disappearance of Haymanot Kasau, who went missing in northern Israel's Safed in February 2024. Police refuse to reclassify her disappearance as a kidnapping, which would mean more resources invested in the investigation

To operate a base in Israel, Wizz is expected to establish an Israeli subsidiary that will employ workers in the country. Wizz will employ foreign pilots who will be required to live in Israel, alongside Israeli crews trained for various jobs

Despite internal documents ruling it a success, the Health Ministry has announced it is ending the program's financing due to budget constraints. 'The government is once again disconnected from the ground and chooses to dismantle a basic service that connects the community to the medical system'

The 18-year-old managed to pass through four separate airport checkpoints without a ticket and board the plane. A former transport security official said the incident – the second in recent months – warrants an external investigation

Amid the Bondi massacre and rifts over Israel and antisemitism in the Republican Party, the U.S. vice president blamed antisemitism on 'ethnic grievances.' Echoing the great replacement theory, JD Vance also said that to fight Jew-hatred, one should 'support our efforts to lower immigration and promote assimilation'

From a viral Threads post to a U.S.-based initiative active in 16 countries, non-Jews are putting menorahs in their windows after the Bondi Beach killings. Supporters frame it as neighborly solidarity; critics caution that lighting Hanukkah candles crosses a line into a 'closed practice'

MK Zvi Succot, set to chair an education committee, said earlier this month that Palestinians who set fire to waste and cause widespread air pollution should be shot. MK Limor Son Har-Melech, set to chair a health committee, said, 'There is no such thing as Palestinians'

Jared Kushner's investment firm nixxed a deal to develop a former Yugoslav military HQ into a Trump Tower hotel after Belgrade residents protested the project – and the far-right government's efforts to circumvent laws protecting the building's historical status

Bills approved by lawmakers in a preliminary vote include proposed legislation to strip powers from the president of the Supreme Court and grant politicians authority to revoke the rank and benefits of former senior defense officials if lawmakers believe they defamed the IDF, dubbed 'Yair Golan' bill

Thanks to its ties with Turkey and Israel, Azerbaijan was considered an ideal country to take part in the U.S.-led international stabilization force for the Gaza Strip. However, Haaretz has learned that it tends to lean away from Gaza or from committing to the Abraham Accords

Fantagraphics' new release of 'Turn Loose Our Death Rays and Kill Them All!' gathers all 51 stories in a complete portrait of Fletcher Hanks' strange, punishing cosmos

More and more murders in Arab society stem from petty disputes, not organized crime. With the community abandoned by the Israeli government, guns proliferating and families eroding, no one is left to settle feuds

Tens of thousands of Palestinians have been displaced from refugee camps in West Bank cities over the past year. The IDF continues to raze buildings, saying it does so for 'operational reasons'; residents say, 'There's no explanation for the destruction of buildings and homes, except that it is collective punishment'

Rabbi Eli Schlanger, 41, is survived by his wife and five children and remembered by colleagues at Chabad of Bondi for his prison chaplaincy and his selflessness: 'In his life and in his death, he towered above as one the highest and holiest souls'

Roll the polyhedral dice: At a Tel Aviv gallery, role-playing games invite players to actively shape Jewish pasts and futures

The Association for Civil Rights and Hapoel Tel Aviv supporters say the Israel Police lack authority to bar fans over protest shirts, arguing the policy violates freedom of expression, and urged the High Court to hear the case before the next match, when thousands are expected to wear them

War dogs: A first-of-its-kind history by two former (human) members of Oketz, the IDF's elite canine unit, reveals dramatic successes alongside painful failures

Police said that Naveed Akram, the 24-year-old suspected shooter, was charged with one count of murder for each fatality and one count of committing a terrorist act, as well as 40 counts of causing harm with intent to murder in relation to the wounded and with placing an explosive near a building

Germany's far-right AfD, was represented at the gala by about 20 lawmakers, prompting a Democratic congressman to denounce it as 'rolling out the red carpet for leaders of Germany's Nazi-cosplaying party.' During the event, a protester wearing a Nazi armband was removed after reportedly shouting, 'I guess we're all Nazis!'

The myth depicts a struggle between 'Jews' and 'Greeks,' with Hellenist Jews in between. But this hides a complex truth: social collapse due to internecine struggles by corrupt leaders lusting for power, money and glory

In a sharply partisan celebration, Trump claimed many members of Congress now 'hate Israel.' He also brought on stage several Jewish backers, including megadonor Miriam Adelson, who urged him to seek an unconstitutional third term

The Canadian foreign minister said that Ottawa has expressed its 'objections regarding the mistreatment of these Canadians'; Israel said the group was denied entry because of its links to Islamic Relief Worldwide, an NGO that Israel deems a terror group

Despite calls within the opposition for a 'Zionist-only' coalition excluding Arab parties, centrist leader Gadi Eisenkot did not yield to Netanyahu's campaign of intimidation and incitement, telling voters plainly that without Arab parties, the electoral deadlock would persist – a win for Netanyahu

Police say protester violated minister's privacy and restrictions on demonstrations, but judge says even rules were violated, there was no reason for an arrest. Judge cancels restrictive conditions on protester and rejects police request to delay implementation of ruling

The new proclamation cites the Palestinian Authority's 'weak or nonexistent control,' adding that 'several U.S.-designated terrorist groups operate actively in the West Bank or Gaza Strip and have murdered American citizens'

From Paris to Pittsburgh, Manchester to Sydney, Netanyahu's response over the last 10 years to the killing of Diaspora Jews may appear varied, but in essence – they're still all about him

Judge Oded Shaham told the prosecutor that he believes Netanyahu's cross-examination 'is helping us very little.' The prosecutor said in response that Netanyahu spent dozens of hearings dealing with these very issues in his direct testimony

Rabbi Benjamin Elton, the spiritual leader of the oldest synagogue in Sydney, told a Knesset committee that he would encourage Israeli leaders to 'have confidence in the Jewish institutions in Australia, to listen to their analyses, and listen to their advice'

'We are facing a situation in the prisons,' the prison chief said during a Knesset committee hearing. Without specifying the possible scenarios that could arise, he added that many prisoners now held in Israeli facilities are 'terrorists with proven operational capabilities'

The U.S. bipartisan celebration of the hyper-capitalist hereditary monarchies of the Gulf states – symbolized most prominently by the rise of Qatar – signals a future in which the Gulf model goes global

One of the men was an 'an entrenched member of Hezbollah' who trained in taking hostages and the other had access to a 'wide-ranging Hezbollah network' which was linked to facilitating the acquisition of drone parts

Col. (res.) Yoav Yarom allowed Zeev Erlich, a historian and archaeologist, to visit an ancient mosque and fortress in Lebanon in violation of regulations. Sgt. Gur Kehati and Erlich were killed by Lebanese militants during the visit

Police told the court that the three suspects had planned the attack and carried it out in a racially motivated assault. The attack sent shockwaves across Jaffa, with many businesses going on strike in protest and dozens of residents demonstrating

Gazans claim the Israeli-controlled area, marked by the so-called Yellow Line, changes without warning, moving west. 'We are not fighters,' says one mother sheltering in central Gaza, who worries her children will get caught in the line of fire, 'we are people trying to live'

Critics warn the Atarot neighborhood, the first construction beyond Israel's internationally recognized Jerusalem border since the 1990s, could entrench Israeli control in East Jerusalem and block a future Palestinian state

The minister stopped short of blaming the Bondi Beach terror attack on the Australian government, but said 'but nothing was done. The government here contributed to a harsh anti-Israeli atmosphere.' He is scheduled to attend victims' funerals and speak to the local Jewish community

A GoFundMe campaign has been launched for the family, in honor of the 'bright, joyful, and spirited child who brought light to everyone around her.' It has already raised over $400,000, well over the $18,600 goal

From convicts and hopeful immigrants to a failed bid for Jewish autonomy – the long history of a community now going through one of its darkest moments

Efforts to contextualize or rationalize the devastating antisemitic violence in Australia are futile so long as irrational hatreds exist. Eternal vigilance will always be the price of Jewish life – in Israel and the Diaspora

Photos taken from the famed Australian beach before the terror attack, take on a new meaning after the horrific violence against the Jewish community

Post after post, story after story, Australia's so-called progressive camp is 'all lives mattering' the Jewish community in Sydney: The same camp that mainstreamed anti-Jewish hostility is now diluting Jewish victimhood

The couple, identified by The Sydney Morning Herald as Boris and Sofia Gurman, were the first two victims of Sunday's attack at a Chabad event at the famous Bondi Beach

The High Court of Justice rejected Levin's candidate to head the investigation in November, saying he did not meet the conditions the court had set, with one judge saying 'the fear arises that that person will serve as the minister's emissary'

Rob Reiner – whose shocking death alongside his wife Michelle at their L.A. home was reported on Monday - was a true mensch and a master of numerous genres. Does it matter that his most beloved works were all made in the first decade of his filmmaking career?

Police barred fans from entering recent matches wearing shirts critical of the police, the ultra-nationalist Kach movement and rival soccer club Maccabi Tel Aviv; supporters say the move violates freedom of expression

Jewish hedge fund billionaire Bill Ackman donated $66,500 to a GoFundMe page for al Ahmed, who was recorded on Sunday crouching behind a car before jumping into action as one of the terrorists shot a firearm at the Jewish celebration at Sydney's Bondi Beach

The lawsuit comes amid broader scrutiny of the BBC's editorial standards, including criticism of its Gaza documentaries

A Tuesday news conference by state officials marked the first official confirmation of the suspects' suspected ideologies, with the Australian PM revealing that evidence from the scene included Islamic State flags. The New South Wales Police chief suggested a possible link between them and Muslim militant groups in the Philippines

The paramedic died in Israeli military custody the same day he was detained during a coordinated medical evacuation in northern Gaza. His family learned of his death only after petitioning the court, and the autopsy results remain undisclosed

Beirut needs international support to curb Iranian efforts to maintain its presence in Lebanon while it continues to support Hezbollah. The resumption of war would free Tehran from this dilemma, as it fears the complete crushing of its regional sphere of influence

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani slammed the 'vile Islamophobia' after Republican council member Vickie Paladino wrote on X that 'we need to take very seriously the need to begin the expulsion of Muslims from Western nations'

Ayman Ghrayeb, who documents the forcible displacement of Jordan Valley communities, has been in 'administrative detention,' custody without trial, since November 17. On Monday his custody was extended by five months. Friends say that before his arrest, two Shin Bet agents told him they were fed up with his activism

A U.S. official told Axios, 'Netanyahu has turned over the last two years into a global pariah. He should ask himself why Egypt's al-Sisi refuses to meet him and why, five years after the Abraham Accords, he still hasn't been invited to visit the UAE'

Netanyahu knew full well when he submitted his request that it had no merit, but he judged it would spark a public debate in which even opponents of the pardon would treat it as a legitimate request. He judged correctly

Beitar Jerusalem fans waved the flag of the late Rabbi Meir Kahane's far-right Kach movement at a match against an Arab-Israeli team on Monday. A day earlier, a security official confiscated a shirt reading 'FCK BNGVR,' a reference to far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, from Hapoel Tel Aviv fans

The IDF says the Lebanese Army struggles to target Hezbollah's weapons stockpiles and operations in Shiite areas, while the group lacks the capability to carry out large-scale attacks on Israel. Hamas is also active, attempting to establish itself in Lebanon

Israel's Foreign Ministry condemned the International Criminal Court, calling the decision 'politics in the guise of international law'

Fed up with frustrating dating apps, many Jewish Americans are turning – like in the old shtetl – to matchmakers. Will the practice make Aliyah for secular Israelis?

The locations chosen reflect not only Israel's economic opportunities but also its diplomatic standing with countries that maintained their support during the Gaza war

The attack in Sydney does not defy the imagination of Jewish Americans, already living in a country where their security is uncertain and rising antisemitism has been extraordinarily central in the American political conversation

Will murderous antisemitism now be normalized in Australia, just as attacks on synagogues and antisemitic graffiti on our schools and threats of violence against 'Zionists' have been normalized?

Amsterdam's Royal Concert Hall faced criticism last month after canceling a planned Hanukkah performance featuring cantor Shai Abramson. Following an uproar, organizers agreed to hold a public Hanukkah concert without him, alongside smaller private performances featuring Abramson earlier in the day

The Israeli government cuts $68 million from Arab social programs to fund security forces, while arrests, racist attacks, and political delegitimization signal a shrinking space for equality and civic life

The Shin Bet domestic intelligence agency is involved in the investigation. A court ordered the release of all 14 people arrested for participating in a rally protesting the assault, which included a pepper spray attack, while several schools and businesses went on strike in solidarity with the family in the mixed Arab-Jewish city

Representatives from more than 45 countries have been invited to participate in what is described as an 'interim meeting,' where no final decisions are slated to take place. An Arab source close to the Turkish government said that Doha and Ankara are currently exerting pressure on Washington to invite Turkey to the conference

The terror attack at Bondi Beach on Sunday was not the first directed at the Chabad Lubavitch movement and its institutions. As the movement has expanded its reach, it has also enhanced its exposure to attacks