For the 24th consecutive year, the B'nai B'rith World Center-Jerusalem and KKL-JNF are hosting a Yom HaShoah ceremony dedicated exclusively to Jewish rescuers who endangered their lives to save fellow Jews during the Holocaust. The April 14 event at Van Leer Jerusalem Institute will confer the Jewish Rescuers Citation posthumously on four heroes from France, Holland and Poland.
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President Trump warned Iran the blockade will hold and the deadline's expiration "won't be pleasant," while confirming Iranian contacts seeking a deal – all during a press conference interrupted by a McDonald's delivery.
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US Central Command (CENTCOM) began enforcing a naval blockade Monday at 5:00 p.m. (Israel time) over all vessels entering and leaving Iranian ports in the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman, covering ships from every nation. US President Donald Trump announced the move following the collapse of peace talks in Islamabad, with the aim […]
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Rachel Zini survived Auschwitz, a Nazi officer's pistol, and a 404-mile death march. Her grandson David Zini leads Israel's Shin Bet – a legacy that runs from the depths of the Holocaust to the heart of Israel's security establishment.
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Hungary's prime minister-elect, Peter Magyar, said Monday that his country would apply to rejoin the International Criminal Court (ICC). His predecessor, Viktor Orbán, had withdrawn Hungary from the court after it issued arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and then-Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. Speaking at his first press conference since winning the election,…
Qatar and the United Nations have begun clearing rubble, paving roads, and drilling water wells across the Gaza Strip – even as Israel insists Hamas must first lay down its arms before any reconstruction can proceed.
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Iran's central bank officials delivered a sobering assessment to President Masoud Pezeshkian's government: the Islamic Republic faces 180% inflation, two million additional unemployed citizens, and a 12-year road to economic recovery – even without the US sanctions regime. The report came on Monday from Iran International, a news network operated by Iranian exiles. According to information…
The young State of Israel, only 13 years old, organized itself with record speed in the early 1960s to prosecute Adolf Eichmann, one of the chief architects of the "Final Solution" – the Nazi program for the extermination of the Jews. In April 1961, just ten and a half months after Eichmann was captured by […]
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A young Israeli man from the Jerusalem area who recently returned from a vacation in Sinai has come forward with a disturbing account of what he says happened at the Taba border crossing on his way home. According to him, while passing alone through the Egyptian side of the crossing – just steps from the Israeli […]
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The US Navy began enforcing a sweeping maritime blockade on Iranian ports Monday after peace talks collapsed, as Tehran threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz to ships identified with the "enemy."
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The IDF has encircled Bint Jbeil – the southern Lebanese town where Hezbollah's late leader Hassan Nasrallah delivered his "Spider's Web" speech in 2000 – killing more than 100 terrorists, destroying dozens of terror infrastructure sites, and seizing hundreds of weapons.
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After peace talks in Islamabad collapsed over Iran's refusal to dismantle its nuclear program, the Trump administration is weighing limited strikes and a naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz – while Vice President JD Vance briefed Israel's ambassador on the state of negotiations.
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