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

Vatican removes nativity display featuring baby Jesus lying on keffiyeh 

Following a flurry of controversy, the Vatican chose to remove a nativity decoration that included a baby Jesus atop a black-and-white keffiyeh, a symbol often linked to Palestinian nationalism. Read more

Trump envoy: ‘He wants the hostages, and he will get them’

Adam Boehler, Donald Trump’s special envoy for hostage affairs, revealed to Israel Hayom this week that diplomatic efforts have intensified to secure a Gaza ceasefire deal before Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20, with Qatari mediators re-engaging in negotiations. Read more

Netflix picks up award-winning Israeli show ‘Six Zeros’

Netflix has purchased the Israeli comedy series “Six Zeros,” the first season of which aired in 2023 on Israel’s public broadcasting network, Kan 11, the channel announced on Tuesday. Read more

Israel has let 900,000 tons of food into Gaza, data show

Israel has let into the Gaza Strip almost 900 kilotons of food in some 40,000 trucks over the past year, according to official data. Read more

Israel’s oldest citizen turns 110

Israel’s most senior citizen marked her 110th birthday this week with a heartfelt celebration organized by the staff at Netanya’s Laniado Hospital. Read more

Nephew of former IDF chief of staff killed in Gaza

The nephew of Gadi Eizenkot, former chief of staff of the Israel Defence Forces and former member of Israel’s War Cabinet, was one of two soldiers killed on Sunday fighting Hamas terrorists in the northern Gaza Strip. Read more

IDF officer killed in Lebanon, bringing military death toll to 794

Israel Defence Forces Lt. Ivri Dickshtein, 21, was killed in action battling Hezbollah terrorists in Southern Lebanon, the IDF said on Thursday night. Read more

Palestinian official media describes ‘warm’ call between Abbas, Trump

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump held a “warm and general” call with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas on Friday, a Palestinian official told Axios, which reported that the two last spoke in 2017. Read more

Israelis ‘outrageously abused’ in Amsterdam, Dutch police chief says

Amsterdam police chief Peter Holla stated at a press conference on Friday that the past 36 hours have shocked him. Read more

Outrage, focus on Muslim migrants after Amsterdam ‘pogrom’

Amsterdam police detained 62 people in connection with a series of antisemitic assaults against Israeli soccer fans, which resulted in five moderate injuries and about 20 to 30 minor ones, in the Dutch capital, the city’s prosecutor René de Beukelaer said at a Friday press. Read more

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