Poll: Half of Gaza residents ready to leave if given the chance

A survey published in the British Telegraph reveals that 52% of Gaza residents would leave the Gaza Strip either temporarily or permanently if given the opportunity. Read more

‘Hamas eats like kings while hostages starve,’ Eli Sharabi tells UN

Eli Sharabi, 53, a former hostage held by Hamas in Gaza, told the United Nations Security Council on Thursday that the terror group exploits aid from the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees for its own enrichment. Read more

Israeli Cabinet votes to sack Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar

The Israeli Cabinet overnight Thursday unanimously approved Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s proposal to sack Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar. Read more

Luminaries, much support, protests at Gal Gadot Hollywood star ceremony

Gal Gadot joined luminaries like William Shatner, Jodie Foster and even Godzilla when she was honoured on Tuesday with a star on the iconic Hollywood Walk of Fame—a first for an Israeli actress. Read more

Israel: Hamas has ‘a few days’ to agree to extended truce

The Hamas terror organization only has “a few days” to agree to a U.S.-proposed ceasefire extension, an Israeli government spokesman confirmed on Tuesday. Read more

Freed 10-year-old hostage to ChatGPT: ‘I miss the people we lost’

Former hostage Emily Hand, who was kidnapped by Hamas terrorists from her bomb shelter in Kibbutz Be’eri on Oct. 7, 2023, then aged 8, interacted with the ChatGPT AI chatbot on Monday in an educational event concerning innovation, revealing a girl haunted by her chilling experiences in captivity. Read more

Hamas expected to return bodies of several hostages on Thursday

Jerusalem is preparing to receive the bodies of four or five hostages on Thursday who were murdered in captivity in the Gaza Strip, Israel’s Kan News public broadcaster reported on Monday. Read more

Israeli Security Cabinet to meet to discuss Phase 2 talks with Hamas

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was set to convene the Security Cabinet on Monday to discuss Jerusalem’s stance toward the Phase 2 talks with the Hamas terrorist group in the Gaza Strip, the Prime Minister’s Office said in a statement on Sunday night. Read more

‘Israeli hostage could become blind in Hamas captivity’

Intelligence gathered from hostages released from Gaza suggests Alon Ohel, 24, abducted from the Supernova music festival on Oct. 7, 2023, may lose his vision. Read more

Israeli president blasts BBC’s Israel-Hamas equivalence

Israeli President Isaac Herzog on Sunday criticized the BBC for what he said was its false equivalence between the treatment of convicted Hamas terrorists by Israel and innocent Israeli hostages abducted into Gaza. Read more

Some hostages spent eight straight months in tunnels

Some of the seven hostages released from Gaza during the current ceasefire had been held in Hamas tunnels for eight consecutive months, deprived of daylight and human contact, an Israeli medical official revealed on Monday. Read more

Nova music festival survivor to represent Israel at Eurovision

Yuval Raphael, a survivor of the Supernova music festival massacre on Oct. 7, 2023, will represent Israel at the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest in Basel, Switzerland, in May. Read more

Harvard settles lawsuits, adopts IHRA definition of Jew-hatred

Harvard University has resolved two federal lawsuits alleging antisemitic discrimination on campus with the Louis D. Brandeis Centre for Human Rights Under Law and Jewish Americans for Fairness in Education. Read more

Netanyahu hosts Trump envoy on Gaza hostage talks

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met on Saturday afternoon with President-elect Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff, in what was described as a “surprise visit” to discuss the multilateral negotiations with Hamas for the release of Israeli hostages and a ceasefire in Gaza. Read more

Four soldiers killed in Gaza, bringing IDF wartime toll to 835

Four Israel Defence Forces soldiers were killed battling Palestinian terrorists in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, the military announced. Read more

Israeli tennis player defiantly wears yellow ribbon at Australian Open

Israeli tennis player Lina Glushko wore a yellow ribbon in her hair to an international match in Australia after organizers forbade her from wearing a pin, which organizers considered a political statement, during the competition, Israel’s Channel 14 reported on Tuesday. Read more

UNRWA ‘knowingly’ let Hamas infiltrate, per UN Watch report

Officials of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency meet “routinely” with Lebanese and Gazan terror groups, “mutually praise each other for ‘cooperation’ and describe each other as ‘partners.’” Read more

Mossad head travels to Qatar amid reported progress in hostage talks

Mossad chief David Barnea was scheduled to arrive in Doha on Monday for continued negotiations regarding the release of the 100 hostages still held by Hamas terrorists in Gaza after 458 days, foreign sources involved in the talks told Israel’s Kan News public broadcaster on Sunday night Read more

Biden notifies Congress of $8b arms sale to Israel

The Biden administration plans to sign an $8 billion arms deal with Israel before President Joe Biden leaves office on Jan. 20. Read more

Netanyahu approves delegation to resume hostage talks in Doha

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office announced on Thursday the approval of a new Israeli delegation to continue hostage negotiations in Doha, Qatar. Read more

Jewish Olympic legend Ágnes Keleti dies at 103

Ágnes Keleti, a Holocaust survivor who became the world’s oldest living Olympic champion and later shaped Israel’s gymnastics program, died Thursday in Budapest at age 103. Read more

Herzog lights eighth Chanukah candle with freed hostages

Israeli President Isaac Herzog and First Lady Michal Herzog lit the eighth Chanukah candle on Wednesday evening together with former Hamas captives, including Shoshan Haran, Shiri Weiss, Raaya Rotem and Raz Ben-Ami. Read more

Anti-Israel protesters disrupt New Zealand tennis match

Anti-Israel protesters interrupted a tennis match in Auckland, New Zealand, on Monday between Israeli player Lina Glushko and the four-time Grand Slam champion from Japan, Naomi Osaka. Read more

Israel blasts UN chief for comments on Yemen strikes

Israel’s Foreign Ministry on Friday lambasted U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres for his criticism of IDF’s retaliatory airstrikes against Yemen’s Houthi terrorists. Read more

A real Chanukah gift? The release of the hostages

My younger brother Evyatar turns 24 on Dec. 28. His Hebrew birthday falls on the eighth night of Chanukah, the second of Tevet. I should be planning his celebration…writes Ilay David. Read more

Gaza hostage deal ‘very, very close,’ White House says

The Biden administration believes that a ceasefire agreement in Gaza is “very, very close,” despite a recent impasse in negotiations due to Hamas stalling tactics, White House National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby said on Friday. Read more

IDF detains hundreds of terrorists at Hamas hospital base

Security forces apprehended more than 240 terrorists in a targeted operation against a Hamas command centre in Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, the Israel Defence Forces and the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) said in a joint statement on Saturday. Read more

Hostage deal could be reached by Chanukah, Israeli official says

An Israeli official, previously sceptical about negotiations, confirmed this week that progress had been made in talks aimed at securing the release of Israeli hostages held by the Hamas terror organization in the Gaza Strip. Read more

‘Very friendly’ Netanyahu-Trump call focused on Israeli victory, Gaza hostages, PM says

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had a “very friendly, warm and important” phone call with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on the need to complete Jerusalem’s victory over Iranian-backed terror proxies and free the hostages held by Hamas, the Israeli leader said on Sunday. Read more

Rebel leader: Israel has no more ‘excuses’ to strike Syria

Syria’s new leader said on Saturday that Israel’s “excuses” had run out for striking the deposed Assad regime’s military infrastructure, as well as for deploying troops to several demilitarized zones in the Syrian Golan Heights. Read more

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