Shir Siegel, daughter of freed hostages Aviva and Keith Siegel, on Sunday condemned the booing during US Envoy Steve Witkoff’s speech at Hostages Square.
Shir, who attended Saturday night’s rally at Hostage Square together with her parents,…
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Smotrich: Israel delayed sending troops south on Oct. 7 for fear of Hezbollah attack
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said “God did us a favor” on October 7, 2023, by rousing Israel to the threat of Hamas, and claimed that the government and IDF delayed sending troops to southern Israel for fear the Hamas invasion was…
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Biden undergoing radiation, hormone therapy to fight prostate cancer
Former US president Joe Biden is undergoing radiation and hormone therapy to fight prostate cancer that was revealed in May, a spokesperson said Saturday.
“As part of a treatment plan for prostate cancer, President Biden is currently…
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Jewish activist with goat arrested near Temple Mount
מעצר הפעיל עם הגדיללא קרדיט An activist identifying with the “Returning to the Temple Mount” group was arrested Sunday morning while making his way to the Mount carrying a goat intended for a sacrifice.
The activist was…
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Lidia Thorpe’s Melbourne protest declaration sparks controversy as hostage release nears
“We will fight every day,” she said. “And if I have to burn down Parliament House to make a point … I am not there to make friends. I’m there to get justice for our people.”
Senator Lidia Thorpe addresses Sunday’s pro-Palestinian…
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Hostages to be released ‘by dawn on Monday’
Hostages to be released ‘by dawn on Monday’ | The Jerusalem PostJerusalem Post/Israel NewsHamas will reportedly release all remaining hostages, living and deceased, by dawn on Monday, October 13, 2025. Illustrative image of Hamas…
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Iran out in the cold as Mideast unites around Gaza ceasefire-hostage deal
As the Middle East broadly welcomes the first phase of a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, Iran finds itself at one of its weakest moments since its 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Tehran, which is sworn to destroy Israel, has operated…
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Nobel Peace Prize winner Machado says Trump ‘certainly deserves’ next year’s award
Newly crowned Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado said in an interview published Saturday that she believes US President Donald Trump deserves to win next year’s prize.
Machado, a Venezuelan opposition activist and former…
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Two thousand dead: The unfathomable toll of Israel’s two-year war
From the horrors of October 7 to battles across Gaza, Lebanon and beyond, Israel marks 2,000 fatalities in war—soldiers, civilians, children and Holocaust survivors—offering a sobering portrait of a nation forever changed by war, grief and…
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Business travel platform Navan aims for $6.45b IPO valuation
The company was founded by Israelis Ariel Cohen and Ilan Twig, and employs hundreds of people in Israel and around the world.
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