Thursday, April 25, 2024

Israel

Hamas Fires Anti-Tank Missile At Bus Moments After Soldiers Leave It, IDF Eliminates Launchers

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — During the morning hours of Thursday, a Hamas anti-tank crew shot missiles at an IDF bus which was parked near the Gaza border. Meir Waknin, the driver of the...

Hamas Official Says ‘No Shortage Of Missiles’

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BEIRUT (AP) — A senior Hamas official said in an interview Thursday that he expects a cease-fire between the group’s Gaza branch and Israel within a day, but warned that Hamas has ...

VIDEO: Israeli Soccer Star Tomer Hemed Celebrates Goals With Israeli Flag And Kippah ‘For Peace’

NEW ZEALAND (JTA) — Israeli soccer player Tomer Hemed scored two goals for his New Zealand club Wellington Phoenix in a crucial match on Sunday and celebrated in Jewish style: with...

Explainer: How Did Hamas Grow Its Arsenal To Strike Israel?

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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — In this fourth war between Israel and Gaza’s Hamas rulers, the Islamic militant group has fired more than 4,000 rockets at Israel, some hitting d...

Safety Inspector: I Authorized The Bleachers, The Chasidim Added To Them

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JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The safety inspector who authorized the Shavuos event for the Karlin chasidim in Givat Ze'ev stressed Thursday that he had given a permit for the bleachers in...

WATCH: Former British Military Commander Calls The IDF The Most Moral Army In The World

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UNITED KINGDOM (VINnews) — Here we are once again, Day 11, as Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad are using Gaza’s civilian neighborhoods as launching pads to fire rockets indiscri...

Minister: Israel Prepared To Expand Gaza Campaign

JERUSALEM — Israel’s defense minister says the military is prepared to expand its campaign against Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip, despite ongoing international efforts to...

The Temple Mount Speech That The World Needs To Hear

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JERUSALEM (JNS/Gary Schiff) The Jewish people desperately need a leader who is willing to clearly explain the history, layout and current state of the Temple Mount to the world. Ha...

Bernie Sanders Leads Effort To Stop Arms Sale To Israel

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WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders is leading a long-shot effort to halt a $735 million arms sale to Israel as Democrats in the U.S. Congress raise mounting concerns about the v...

Biden’s Pattern With Israel: Public Support, Private Scolds

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It's a story Joe Biden has loved recounting over the decades: A chain-smoking Golda Meir welcoming the 30-year-old senator to Israel on his first visit in 1973 and giving him a gra...

Israeli Student In New Mexico Hospitalized After Alleged Hate-crime Attack

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NEW MEXICO (JNS) - A Jewish student at the University of New Mexico was taken to the hospital after being the victim of an alleged hate-crime attack. Israeli Roni Saponar was tr...

Pro-palestinian Protestors Violently Assault Jewish Diners In Los Angeles

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LOS ANGELES (JNS) - The Anti-Defamation League is offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of men who assaulted patrons at a Los Angeles restaurant on Tuesday...

US Says It Opposes UN Resolution Calling For Gaza Cease-fire

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States said Wednesday it opposes a proposed U.N. Security Council resolution calling for a cease-fire in the conflict between Israel and Gaza’s Ham...

Alexandria Ocasio-cortez Leads Push In Congress To Block Arms Sale To Israel

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WASHINGTON (JTA) - A trio of progressive Congress members is about to propose a resolution to block a $735 million weapons sale to Israel over concerns about its actions in Gaza, J...

UK Police Arrest 2 Men They Say Assaulted Rabbi In A Hate Crime

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LONDON (JTA) - Two men have been arrested in the attack of a rabbi near London in what police called a hate crime. The suspects, aged 18 and 25, were arrested Monday “in connect...

Islamic Jihad Leader Says Expected ‘Costly’ Battle

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BEIRUT — The leader the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group says militant factions in Gaza went into the latest battle with Israel knowing it will be “costly but also knowing that it i...

Leading Candidates For Israeli President: Yitzchak Herzog And Miriam Peretz

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JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The two leading candidates for the 11th Israeli president, who will be chosen by the Knesset on June 2nd, are Yitzchak Herzog, son of Israel's 6th president C...

Opinion: AP Pretends It Didn’t Know It Was Sharing A Building With Hamas

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WASHINGTON (JNS/DANIEL GREENFIELD) - You can absolutely trust the Associated Press’s coverage of Israel. After an Israeli airstrike took out a building in the Gaza Strip with tenan...

Netanyahu ‘Determined’ To Continue Gaza Operation

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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that he is “determined to continue this operation until its aim is met,” despite U.S. President Joe Bide...

Israel’s Police Chief In Hot Seat For Likening Both Arab And Jewish Rioters To ‘Terrorists’

JERUSALEM (JNS) - Israel Police Commissioner Yaakov Shabtai sparked an uproar on Tuesday night during a visit to the embattled city of Lod in central Israel when he called both Ara...