Category: 1. Israel

Efforts were being made on Wednesday to secure a meeting between senior Israeli, American, Qatari, and Egyptian officials to discuss the Gaza hostage deal’s second phase, a source familiar with details told The Jerusalem Post.

President Isaac Herzog addressed the Great Synagogue of Rome on Wednesday evening as the names of the slain hostages to be returned on Thursday – Oded Lifshitz, Shiri Bibas, Ariel Bibas, and Kfir Bibas – were announced.

The PA’s announcement that it canceled its policy on salary payments to terrorists is a “deception” and only “cosmetic,” senior security officials told government ministers during a security cabinet meeting this week.

The interminable, excruciating wait is over. After more than 500 days of not knowing, prayers, and unbearable suffering, the bodies of Shiri Bibas and her two young children, Ariel and Kfir, will at last be brought back to Israel. But this…

The bodies of Shiri Bibas and her sons Ariel Bibas and Kfir Bibas to return to Israel after 503 days in Hamas captivity.

Edan Alexander, the Tenafly, New Jersey, born member of the Golani Brigade’s 51st Battalion who was abducted the morning of October 7 while patrolling near the Gaza Strip, should be released in the second phase of the hostage-ceasefire…