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49+ min ago  (98+ words) IDF reservists on the front in Syria film themselves baking Matzahs for the Passover holiday. Rabbi Chananya Rachel, a teacher at the Ramat Hasharon and Avinoam yeshivas and an IDF reservist, published a video in which he is seen with…...

1+ hour, 25+ min ago  (203+ words) Hollywood actress Sydney Sweeney sparked outrage on social media after posting an Instagram story overnight (Thursday) showing a video call with her younger brother, Trent. Trent, who serves in the United States Air Force, was recently deployed overseas amid the…...

58+ min ago  (445+ words) The Education Ministry stated: "Founded by Chantal, her husband, Marc Belzberg, and their daughter Michal, whose sacrifice of her own bat mitzvah celebration started it all, OneFamily is Israel's national organization supporting bereaved families and wounded Israelis affected by terror…...

1+ hour ago  (138+ words) Hassan Mohammad Bashir led hundreds of terror attacks against IDF troops and Israeli civilians and commanded several terrorist cells that carried out continuous anti-tank fire toward northern Israel. The IDF announced that Yesterday (Wednesday), the Israeli Air Force struck and…...

10+ hour, 17+ min ago  (437+ words) The Knesset Finance Committee on Sunday approved the 2025 State Budget, the largest in Israel's history, after a 13-hour debate. It will head to the Knesset plenum for a final vote on Monday at 8:00 p.m. local time. The debate is expected to…...

54+ min ago  (851+ words) I was 13 years old when I witnessed the birth of the milk cow Annabelle. I looked on with rapt attention as I leaned on a corral fence at a summer camp. The counselors told us to be quiet as Annabelle's…...

1+ hour, 2+ min ago  (631+ words) That's what happens when the Israeli-Palestinian conflict becomes, in the public eye, less about working toward a solution and more about scoring political points or drawing eyeballs to endless social media feeds. Who cares what someone really said when I…...

2+ hour, 11+ min ago  (119+ words) The IDF published new footage on Thursday of Brigade 226 operating in southern Lebanon. The soldiers, operating under the command of the 146th Division, are conducting targeted operations in Southern Lebanon as part of the forward defensive posture. The soldiers have carried…...

1+ hour, 19+ min ago  (680+ words) This is a cult-like regime that feeds on grievance, fear, and deception. It is, in essence, a death cult, one that glorifies death and martyrdom while devaluing life itself. In such a system, dying for the regime is sanctified, and…...

8+ min ago  (755+ words) A fossil jawbone suggests apes like gorillas, gibbons and humans may arise from Africa's north Masripithecus moghraensis (illustrated here) lived in Egypt around 17 million years ago. The ancient primate's discovery is a new wrinkle in the evolutionary story of apes....