Category: 1. Israel

Israel celebrates Yom Ha’atzmaut this week, its 78th Independence Day. Since it comes so close this year to Yom HaShoah, one can’t help but think of how different the Jewish reality is today, with all its challenges, compared to the 1930s…

My friend in Israel, whom I call The Nameless One in order to abide by his wish not to be named in print due to his work, offers a perspective shaped by both personal experience and the realities of ongoing war. Though he requests anonymity,…

The Board of Peace’s lead envoy for Gaza told Reuters on Monday that he was “fairly optimistic” ‌a plan for disarmament of Hamas and other militant groups in Gaza can be agreed but cautioned that it will still take time.

“We’ve had ⁠some very…

The EU’s foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said Monday the bloc will gauge the willingness of member states to take measures against Israel after Spain re-upped demands to suspend a…

Aid organizations say they are still facing major obstacles operating in Gaza and other Palestinian territories, despite Israel’s Supreme Court suspending a ban that had restricted their work, a director at one of the…

The evacuation warnings came late in the morning on April 8. “Urgent alert to residents of the southern suburbs,” an Israel Defense Forces official wrote on Telegram and X, listing neighborhoods in greater Beirut where military operations…