By Uriel Heilman, JTA World News Service (JTA) – Now that the latest Gaza conflict appears to be over — or nearly so — it’s time to take stock of the winners and losers. Who won the war? Perhaps more than the other two Gaza conflicts in the last sixContinue Reading
JTA World News Service JERUSALEM (JTA) — A West Bank man said to be the leader of the terrorist cell that kidnapped and killed three Israeli teenagers in June was arrested. A gag order on reporting the arrest, which took place more than three weeks ago, was lifted Tuesday evening,Continue Reading
By Uriel Heilman, JTA World News Service (JTA) — There’s no shortage of images from the Gaza conflict. We’ve seen rubble, dead Palestinian children, Israelis cowering during rocket attacks, Israeli military maneuvers and Israeli army footage of Hamas militants emerging from tunnels to attack Israeli soldiers. WhatContinue Reading
JTA World News Service (JTA) — An Israeli soldier appears to have been captured by Hamas in the Gaza Strip. The Israel Defense Forces identified the soldier as 2nd Lt. Hadar Goldin, 23, from Kfar Saba. Hamas fighters reportedly emerged Friday morning from a tunnel near Rafah, in the southernContinue Reading
JTA World News Service ANTWERP, Belgium (JTA) – A Belgian physician who refused to treat a Jewish woman with a fractured rib suggested she visit Gaza to get rid of the pain. The physician made the remark on Wednesday while manning a medical hotline in Flanders, Belgium’s Flemish region, whoseContinue Reading
(JNS.org) After Israeli forces captured and interrogated a Hamas terrorist who had been hiding in a tunnel for three weeks, he revealed that Hamas members have undergone training to execute terrorist attacks from the air, Israel Hayom reported. The prisoner told security forces he had been sent to Malaysia to learn how toContinue Reading
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Hamas has executed more than 30 Gazan Palestinians accused of collaborating with Israel, according to Palestinian news sources. Hamas reportedly captured dozens of suspected collaborators in the Shejaiya neighborhood of Gaza City last week during battles with Israeli soldiers. The accused collaborators were executed after a shortContinue Reading
SEVILLA, Spain (JTA) — The Jewish Community of Madrid said it would take legal steps against a celebrated writer who cited Israel’s Gaza operation in justifying past expulsions of Jews. Antonio Gala, an award-winning playwright and author, made the statement in an Op-Ed which was published on July 23 byContinue Reading
SYDNEY, Australia (JTA) — A senior Jewish leader in Sydney resigned from a government post amid a furor over an email he sent about the Gaza conflict. Vic Alhadeff, the chief executive of the New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies, stood down on Sunday as the part-time chair ofContinue Reading
By Maayan Jaffe, JNS.org Jews around the world were inspired last month when Arab-Israeli teenager Mohammad Zoabi cloaked himself in an Israeli flag and spoke into a bedroom video camera, “I am an Israeli and will remain an Israeli. Israel will remain a Jewish and a democratic country.” What fewContinue Reading
(JNS.org) Hamas was likely planning a major attack on Israel during Rosh Hashanah using its complex system of tunnels under the Israel-Gaza border, Israeli security sources said. According to the report, Hamas planned to send 200 terrorists at a time through several tunnels to attack several western Negev towns and toContinue Reading
By Uriel Heilman, JTA World News Service (JTA) — Until this latest war, if you asked most Israelis about the threat from Gaza, they would probably start talking about Hamas rockets. But that has changed over the last few days of fighting, for two reasons. One, the much-heralded success ofContinue Reading
By Aaron D. Panken, JTA World News Service NEW YORK (JTA) – When the siren sounded, the Rolling Stones’ tortured 1969 track “Gimme Shelter” popped into my head, oddly enough. That haunting song offered a stunning reminder of the endless horrors of war, reawakening a sleepy world with a vividContinue Reading
Janis Siegel, Jewish Sound Correspondent AKIM Israel, Israel’s National Association for the Habilitation of the Mentally Handicapped, and the largest provider of services to the disabled, is now moving hundreds of kids and their families to safer cities in the north of the country to keep them stable and calm. AKIM’sContinue Reading
By Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA World News Service DNEPROPETROVSK, Ukraine (JTA) — Anatoly Lazaurenko’s face betrays no emotion as he watches footage of an old woman he used to know lying in the rubble of what once was his home in the war-torn city of Slavyansk. Oblivious to her mangled face,Continue Reading
By Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA World News Service (JTA) — For the past 14 years, French Jews have grown accustomed to coming under attack during periods of conflict in the Middle East from hostile elements within their country’s large Arab and Muslim communities. One recent incident, however, stood out: the JulyContinue Reading
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A United Nations agency condemned the discovery of rockets discovered in one of its schools in the Gaza Strip.The United Nations Relief and Works Agency, which assists Palestinian refugees, said in a statement issued Thursday that about 20 rockets were discovered hidden on the premises of aContinue Reading
By Alina Dain Sharon, JNS.org Australia’s Sydney Harbor is up in flames. Large letters superimposed on the scene ask, “How would they react?” That image and many others like it have been distributed by an Israeli student initiative called “Israel Under Fire,” which now boasts more than 57,000Continue Reading
(JTA) — Israel launched a ground incursion into the Gaza Strip to destroy tunnels it says are used for terrorist activities. “A large IDF force has just launched a ground operation in the Gaza Strip,” the Israel Defense Forces’ spokesman’s office said late Thursday on its Twitter feed. “A new phase ofContinue Reading
WASHINGTON (JTA) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry ripped Hamas for ignoring a cease-fire call and affirmed Israel’s right to defend itself.“I cannot condemn strongly enough the actions of Hamas in so brazenly firing rockets in multiple numbers in the face of a goodwill effort to offer a cease-fireContinue Reading
