Israel

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The bitter battle rages between Israel’s security and political establishments over who bears responsibility for the failures ahead of the Oct. 7 attacks. Former Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar filed a defamation lawsuit against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who blamed the intelligence head for the failures leading up to the attack.

Israel Police arrested 10 people on Monday, Oct. 19, on suspicion of involvement in violent acts over the weekend against journalists, foreign diplomats and Palestinians in the West Bank during the annual olive harvest.

A report released by Israel’s largest health organization found that the most pronounced impact of the health costs of war over the past three years was on mental health.

Former Knesset Member Yoav Segalovitz announced Aug. 31 that he had joined the Arab the Ra’am party led by Mansour Abbas in an attempt to give the coalition of opposition parties enough votes to unseat Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oct. 27 Israeli election.

Professor Ada Yonath, the Israeli chemist who won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her research into the structure and function of the ribosome — the tiny molecular machine inside cells that reads genetic instructions and uses them to build the proteins essential for life — died on Monday, Aug. 31, at 87.

The UK threatened to sanction Israelis involved in West Bank settlement expansion after the Jewish state’s Lands Authority opened bids for 1,234 homes in the largely underdeveloped E1 section of Ma’aleh Adumim.

Ten wounded Israeli soldiers traveled to South Africa recently for a recovery program combining support from local Jewish communities with a demanding trek through the Drakensberg mountain range.

The ranking member of the House Appropriations Committee called Israel’s decision not to pursue a criminal investigation of a 2024 Gaza strike that killed seven humanitarian workers “a miscarriage of justice.”

The West Bank settlement movement’s leadership joined with one of its most prominent defenders, US Ambassador Mike Huckabee, in condemning an Israeli settler outpost set up in a Palestinian family’s yard in Qusra.

The plaza that became the center of Israel’s campaign to bring home the 251 captives Hamas seized on Oct.7, 2023 is now formally called “Hostages Square,” establishing a permanent reminder of the more than two-year struggle that ended with the return of the final hostage in January, 2026.

Israel has rejected a Gaza peace plan advanced with much fanfare by President Donald Trump, saying it did not really guarantee disarmament by Hamas. Israel said it would not withdraw from any part of Gaza until Hamas is thoroughly disarmed.

Israel’s Ministry of Defense has published the operational logs from the Israel Defense Forces Archives 20 years ago that documented the day of Hamas’ kidnapping of soldier Gilad Shalit into Gaza.

Two former Israeli hostages have wed, in the first marriage of hostages taken when Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. Sasha Trufanov and Sapir Cohen were visiting Trufanov’s family on Kibbutz Nir Oz on Oct. 7 when they were attacked and abducted to Gaza.

The Israel State Archives on June 26 released thousands of pages of previously classified documents detailing the Israeli government’s deliberations during the 1976 Entebbe hostage crisis, marking the 50th anniversary of the operation that rescued 102 hostages from Uganda.

Israeli critics of the Iran deal should be wary of alienating President Donald Trump, particularly given their country’s dependency on US military aid, Vice President JD Vance told reporters on June 18. “Donald J. Trump is the only head of state in the entire world who is sympathetic to the nation of Israel at this moment in time,” Vance said.

Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has joined France and a chorus of Israelis and Jews in denouncing Israel’snational security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, for posting a video that showed Ben-Gvir taunting detained activists from a Gaza-bound aid flotilla that had been intercepted by the Israeli navy.

Yitzhak Ben-Hebron, believed to be the last survivor of the 1929 Hebron Massacre in Palestine, died on May 21 at the age of 100. Born Yitzhak Halali in Hebron on Dec. 1, 1925, he adopted the name Ben-Hebron in honor of the city in which his family had lived for generations and whose Jewish community he helped rebuild after Israel regained control of it in 1967.

A four-kilometer walk through the rolling hills above the Sea of Galilee leads to the tomb of Nabi Shuaib, the holiest site in the Druze faith and a major annual pilgrimage destination for Druze communities in Israel and across the region.

A growing number of progressives, including J Street, have come out against American funding for Israel’s Iron Dome defense system. J Street president Jeremy Ben-Ami on April 12 joined Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ro Khanna, along with Jewish Democratic congressional challenger Brad Lander, in opposing future budget earmarks for Israeli defense systems.

The Knesset voted 62-48 on March 30 to pass a bill imposing the death penalty on terrorists convicted of killing Israelis. The motive behind the bill is to deter first-degree murder and the lopsided exchanges of multiple terrorists convicted of first-degree murder for a a small number of kid- napped Israelis.

Nine people were killed and over two dozen wounded by an Iranian missile impact in Beit Shemesh on Sunday, according to Israel’s Magen David Adom emergency medical service. According to …

Doctors Without Borders suspended “non-critical” medical services at Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, the southern Gaza Strip after Palestinian terrorists were spotted operating from the medical center, Reuters reported Feb. 14.

A reversal, Guinness World Records is again accepting submissions from Israel, Israeli President Isaac Herzog said on Jan. 25, and will be cited for a world record in kidney donations. The remarks follow a public outcry last year after the British body had informed the Israeli group behind an event honoring 2,000 Israeli kidney donors in Jerusalem that Guinness was no longer accepting submissions from Israel or the Palestinian territories due to regional tensions.