1+ week, 5+ day ago  (395+ words) The Israeli government has approved a multi-year, nearly 1 billion shekel (about $334 million) plan to expand development in the Golan Heights and the town of Katzrin, New Hope Party lawmaker Ze'ev Elkin announced on Thursday. Elkin said the five-year initiative, adopted…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (234+ words) The Rafah Crossing between southern Gaza and Egypt has been reopened in both directions, the Israeli Defense Ministry's Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) unit said on Thursday. The decision to reopen the crossing, which had been closed…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (561+ words) With the war in Gaza fading from the headlines, at least for now, where does that leave the global solidarity movement with Hamas? After more than two years of college encampments and mass demonstrations, accompanied by a dizzying rise in…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (360+ words) Shanie Reichman is not a marginal voice in the American Jewish conversation about Israel. It is an emotionally resonant argument. It is also a dangerous one. This conflation " between skepticism about a specific diplomatic model and abandonment of Zionist identity…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (756+ words) After 843 days, Israel laid to rest the body of 24-year-old Ran Gvili, the final hostage held in Gaza. With his return, a promise made in the aftermath of Oct. 7, 2023, has been fulfilled: No Jew taken by force would be left…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago  (464+ words) Leading this dismal parade of monumental folly is the dubious duo of Nobel laureates Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres, under whose stewardship, the calamitous Oslo Accords were ushered in. Disdainfully dismissive of the clarion calls for caution that warned shrilly…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago  (324+ words) The vast majority of Israelis " nearly eight in ten " say they are concerned about a decline in support for Israel among the American public, according to a new survey reported by JTA. The poll of 1, 000 Jewish Israeli adults, conducted Dec....

3+ mon, 4+ week ago  (346+ words) For years, Israel's defenders have leaned heavily on what I call the "cherry tomatoes" approach, highlighting innovation, food, beaches, diversity and feel-good stories as a way to counter hostility. These campaigns are not inherently wrong. After Oct. 7, I had hoped…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago  (525+ words) Hamas will be disarmed "either the easy way or the hard way," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Knesset lawmakers on Monday, responding to terror chief Khaled Mashaal's rejection of President Donald Trump's demands for the Gaza Strip to be…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago  (1117+ words) RAMLE, Israel'In the heart of the central Israeli city of Ramle, where Jews and Arabs live side by side, the Yigal Alon Multidisciplinary High School is trying to spearhead a quiet revolution. When 32-year-old alumnus Moshael Shlomo, a commander in…...