Category: 3. Middle East

Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring key issues currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World, with host Jessica Steinberg speaking with former hostage Eli Sharabi.

Sharabi, whose bestselling book “Hostage” was…

Israel provided documents proving that a Gazan media production worker killed in an airstrike earlier this month was a member of Hamas’s military wing, the German broadcaster cooperating with the slain operative’s company said on…

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Monday that London has signed an agreement to sell Eurofighter jets to NATO-member Turkey in a 10-year deal worth nearly $11 billion, after talks in Ankara with President Recep Tayyip…

The Israeli government says it has allowed a member of Hamas into territory in Gaza controlled by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) to help Red Cross and Egyptian personnel search for the bodies of 13 remaining dead hostages.

“The Red Cross, the…

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar on Monday accused the Palestinian Authority of continuing its controversial “pay-for-slay” policy, providing financial benefits to the families of slain terrorists, despite pledges to end it.

Sa’ar…

Thousands of mourners gathered in Kibbutz Be’eri near the Gaza border on Monday to bury deceased hostage Yossi Sharabi, whose body was returned to Israel earlier this month, more than two years after terrorists kidnapped him from his…

Haaretz.com, the online English edition of Haaretz Newspaper in Israel, gives you breaking news, analyses and opinions about Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish…

Israeli settlers last week set up a new outpost next to the West Bank village of Mukhmas, north of Jerusalem. The village is surrounded by illegal outposts, but the newest one’s proximity to the village and the Bedouin community that lives on the…