Category: 3. Middle East

Israeli-American Dan Brotman handed his US passport to a Lebanese border control officer at the Masnaa border crossing with Syria in May, expecting an easy passage. Brotman began to feel nervous when the officer held his passport for a long…

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) — US-based scientists John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for “experiments that revealed quantum physics in action,” paving the way for the development of the next…

‘We will rise’: Brother of hostage killed by IDF vows to build a better future

Yonatan Shamriz, the brother of Alon Shamriz, taken hostage and accidentally killed by IDF troops in December 2023, recounts at the national…

ROME (Reuters) — Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Tuesday that she and two of her ministers had been reported to the International Criminal Court for alleged “complicity in genocide” in connection with Israel’s war…

Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring key issues currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World, with host Amanda Borschel-Dan speaking with The Times of Israel’s senior analyst Haviv Rettig Gur, marking the October 7,…

Elizabeth Tsurkov, the Israeli-Russian researcher who was held for two years by a Shiite militia in Iraq and released last month, on Tuesday recounted being in captivity when Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, 2023, and lamented the…

Anti-Israel activists rallied worldwide on Tuesday, the second anniversary of Hamas’s October 7 rampage through southern Israel, which sparked the ongoing war in Gaza.

Large rallies were held in Sydney, London, Paris, Geneva, Athens,…

CCTV footage obtained and verified by the BBC shows the moment before impact and the immediate aftermath. Munitions experts told BBC Verify that the strikes and destruction…

A US delegation led by White House special envoy Steve Witkoff will soon join talks in Egypt for a Gaza ceasefire-hostage deal based on US President Donald Trump’s proposal, Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty said…