
BDE: Hannah Katzir, Hostage Released In Last Year’s Hostage Deal Passes Away
With great sadness we report that Chana (Hannah) Katzir, a former Hamas hostage has passed away just over one year after her release from captivity.
With great sadness we report that Chana (Hannah) Katzir, a former Hamas hostage has passed away just over one year after her release from captivity.
The slain troops are named as: Cpt. Ilay Gavriel Atedgi, 22, from Kiryat Motzkin; Staff Sgt. Netanel Pessach, 21, from Elazar; and Sgt. First Class (res.) Hillel Diener, 21, from Talmon.
Pagers exploded across Lebanon in September. Retired Mossad agents, key to the operation, tell 60 Minutes Israel’s plot started years ago with getting Hezbollah terrorists to buy walkie-talkies.
The IDF announced on Tuesday that Major (Res.) Moshiko Maxim Rozenwald, aged 35, from Modi’in-Maccabim-Re’ut, and Sergeant First Class (Res.) Alexander Anosov, aged 26, from Modi’in-Maccabim-Re’ut, a squad commander in the 7107th Battalion, fell during combat in southern Gaza.
Switzerland’s parliament on Tuesday voted to outlaw Hezbollah, in a rare move by the neutral country that has traditionally followed a policy of promoting international dialogue and mediation.
The IDF announced that four Israeli reserve soldiers were killed in a suspected “operational accident” in southern Lebanon yesterday afternoon.
n the summer of 1996, during an archaeological excavation at Tel Miqne, identified as the biblical city of Ekron, a remarkable artifact was uncovered: an 18-karat gold jewel designed in the shape of a cobra. This unique piece, discovered in a destruction layer from the Iron Age II, survived the Babylonian destruction of the city in 603 BCE.
We are pleased to share that the Population Authority has announced an extension of this policy. Dual citizens will be permitted to enter and exit Israel using their foreign passports until December 31, 2025.
The IDF on Sunday captured the Syrian side of Mount Hermon which was abandoned by ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s army. The decision to capture the area was approved unanimously overnight by the cabinet.
The US Supreme Court agreed on Friday to resolve a long-standing legal battle over whether Palestinian authorities can be sued in US courts by Americans killed or injured in terrorist attacks in the Middle East.
A major shift of power has changed the landscape of the Middle East tonight as Syrian rebel fighters take control of the City of Damascus in a lighting assault.
Binyamin Regional Council announced Motzei Shabbos that Avraham Ben Pinchas, a resident of Harasha, fell in battle in Gaza.
The IDF says it has recovered the body of hostage Itay Svirski from the Gaza Strip, in a joint operation with the Shin Bet security agency.
The earliest archaeological evidence of the relationship between the Land of Israel and China was uncovered in Jerusalem on Mount Zion in an archaeological dig jointly conducted by the Israel Antiquities Authority and the Protestant Institute of Archaeology. A rare 16th century CE Chinese inscription was discovered on a porcelain bowl fragment, reading: “Forever we will guard the eternal spring.”
Just weeks after being dismissed from hi post as Israel’s Defense Minister and less than two weeks after having an ICC arrest warrant placed on his head, Yoav Gallant made a visit to 770 Eastern Parkway during the International Kinus Hashluchim.
The Israeli Cabinet this evening (Tuesday) approved the ceasefire deal brokered by the US in Lebanon.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu commented at the start of the Cabinet today on the murder of Chabad Shliach Rabbi Zvi Kogan OBM, who was abducted in the UAE on Thursday and whose body was found this morning.