16+ hour, 45+ min ago   (664+ words) I was there. And in a sense, I have been inside both films. The first is Naza, an Israeli movie that won the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival and received an astonishing 25-minute standing ovation on Saturday....

23+ hour, 11+ min ago   (460+ words) Israel’s Central Elections Committee is preparing for threats that go well beyond the traditional logistical challenges of running an election, including cyberattacks, disinformation, foreign influence operations and the possibility of a major security escalation on Election Day. Naomi Binyamini, a…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (387+ words) Israeli and Lebanese ambassadors will meet next week in Washington, D.C. “to discuss ongoing developments and the continued implementation of the Trilateral Framework,” a U.S. State Department official said on Saturday. The official described the framework agreement as “the only viable…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago   (455+ words) The Israel Defense Forces completed its mission to dismantle Hezbollah’s underground beneath the Ali al-Taher Ridge in southeastern Lebanon before the eve of Rosh Hashanah, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir said on Friday. Visiting the troops of…...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago   (561+ words) Aug. 18, 2026 | The return of Sgt. First Class Yehuda Katz’s remains The Israel Defense Forces, in an operation led by the Military Intelligence Directorate and the Mossad, returned to Israel the remains of Sgt. First Class Yehuda Yekutiel Katz, an Armored…...

3+ day, 4+ hour ago   (307+ words) Israeli President Isaac Herzog on Friday marked the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks on the United States, noting that the “evil of that vicious” assault still resonates today as the fight against terrorism continues and emphasizing that the Jewish…...

3+ day, 5+ hour ago   (330+ words) As fighting continues in Gaza and Lebanon, a record proportion of U.S. voters say their sympathies lie more with the Palestinians than Israelis, according to a poll released Thursday. In the Quinnipiac University poll, 38% of voters said they were more sympathetic…...

3+ day, 4+ hour ago   (520+ words) The Israel Defense Forces destroyed a sprawling Hezbollah underground network under the Ali al-Taher Ridge in southeastern Lebanon, completing the consolidation of the security zone along Israel’s northern border, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz announced on…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago   (391+ words) Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-Pa.), a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, thinks that criticism of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu does not make one anti-Israel and that the prime minister’s response to Oct. 7 is making the Jewish state less…...

2+ day, 15+ hour ago   (735+ words) Summer is an ironically somber time for Jews. While the weather reaches pleasant highs, the Jewish calendar reaches its nadir. The fast of Tisha B’Av commemorates what ArtScroll’s introduction to the book of Lamentations, read in the synagogue that evening,…...