Aviva Ballas narrowly escaped the massacre of Israel's athletes at the 1972 Olympic Games. Afterward she found it difficult to trust anyone
Born in Baghdad, former track and field champion Aviva Ballas was one of Israel's top runners in the early 1970s. From her home in Switzerland, she recalls the stroke of luck that saved her from ...
U.N. Chief Warns Israeli Leaders Seeking to Fully Annex West Bank
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has warned that Israeli leaders have turned their attention from Gaza to the West Bank, hoping to annex the territory once and for all. Guterres spoke ...
Israeli Troops Surround Hospitals in Jenin, Fire on Medical Workers
In the occupied West Bank, residents of the Jenin refugee camp are reporting constant gunfire and explosions as Israel’s deadly raid entered its third day. Doctors and eyewitnesses say Israeli ...
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Elon Musk’s Nazi Salute Just Got the Most Insane Defender
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rushed to Elon Musk’s defense Thursday, claiming that the billionaire’s disturbing inauguration gesture—which millions of people around the world recognized ...
The desperate search for loved ones under the rubble in Gaza: ‘My children ask me every day where daddy is’
Wissam, 40, has seen dozens of bodies pulled from the rubble in Gaza in the desperate search for her missing husband.The ...
How the Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal will unfold —and why it its so precarious
Israeli troops have pulled back to the edges of Gaza, the first hostages have been released and many Palestinians have returned to what remains of their homes in the first few days of the Israel-Hamas ...
After Gaza: what is Israel doing in the West Bank?
Benjamin Netanyahu launches 'extensive and significant' operation, with deadly strikes on Jenin, arrests and checkpoints across the occupied territory ...
With Gaza quiet, Israel is turning its focus on the West Bank. Here’s why
The sudden expansion of Israeli security operations in the West Bank has killed at least 10 people and follows the start of the delicate ceasefire process in Gaza, by which Israeli hostages are ...
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McConnell speaks out against Trump administration’s isolationist Pentagon hires
It’s alarming that people can clear vetting after claiming U.S. interests in the Middle East are ‘minimal to nonexistent,’’ McConnell told JI ...
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Trump should try to end, not manage, the Middle East’s oldest conflicts
First is to stop acting like an absentee hegemon. When Hamas attacked Israel on October 7th, no one was particularly interested in how Russia, China or the European Union would respond. Like it or not ...
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Here's what a Boca Raton rabbi has to say about the Gaza ceasefire deal
Rabbi Josh Broide of the Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County, sits down with WPTV while in Israel to talk about the ...
Hamas attack survivor to represent Israel at Eurovision
Yuval Raphael, who survived the 7 October attack in 2023, has been chosen to represent Israel at this year's Eurovision Song ...