Florida district pulls many Jewish and Holocaust books from classroom libraries (www.timesofisrael.com)
Removed works include Saul Bellow’s ‘Herzog’ and ‘Black, White and Jewish’; no individual reasoning given for books’ removal....
Syria’s Assad claims Holocaust was a lie fabricated to justify creation of Israel (www.timesofisrael.com)
Syrian President Bashar Assad earlier this week declared that there is no evidence that six million Jews were killed during the Holocaust and accused the United States of funding the German Nazi party....
Hamas leader Sinwar said to narrowly evade capture by IDF two separate times (www.timesofisrael.com)
Jewish and Arab volunteers help Arab Israeli farmers suffering from labor shortage amid war in Gaza (www.timesofisrael.com)
Shipping firms MSC and CMA CGM are latest to suspend passage through Red Sea (www.timesofisrael.com)
'I am a Zionist,' says Biden at Hanukkah event, promises continued military assistance to Israel (www.timesofisrael.com)
‘I am a Zionist,’ says Biden at Hanukkah event, promises continued military assistance to Israel (www.timesofisrael.com)
Gazan men questioned by IDF over Hamas ties claim they were abused (www.timesofisrael.com)
A day after Israel confirmed it was rounding up suspected Hamas members in Gaza for interrogation, some released Palestinian men tell The Associated Press they were treated badly, providing the first alleged accounts of the conditions under which they were detained.
At least 10 freed hostages were sexually abused in Hamas captivity, doctor says (www.timesofisrael.com)
At least 10 of the Israeli civilians released by Hamas, both men and women, were sexually assaulted or abused while in captivity, the Associated Press reported Wednesday....
IDF appears to push back on ‘irresponsible’ US claim Hamas refusing to release raped hostages (www.timesofisrael.com)
The Israel Defense Forces says public discussions about the state of captives held in Gaza has moved into reckless territory, urging those responsible to knock it off....
Heads of 3 top US colleges refuse to say calling for genocide of Jews is harassment (www.timesofisrael.com)
Heads of 3 top US colleges refuse to say calling for genocide of Jews is harassment (www.timesofisrael.com)
Hamas may have profited from Oct. 7 assault with informed trading — study (www.timesofisrael.com)
Referencing the Study Trading on Terror? which is freely downloadable.
Family says Yuval Castleman, killed after taking out terrorists, was ‘executed’ (www.timesofisrael.com)
Castelman was hit by soldier who apparently mistook him for a terrorist during Jerusalem attack, but footage shows him unarmed, with his hands in the air prior to being shot
US tells Israel it will announce visa ban on violent settlers in coming weeks — officials (www.timesofisrael.com)
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken notified Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during meetings yesterday that the Biden administration is preparing to announce a series of visa bans against Israeli settlers involved in attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank, an Israeli official tells The Times of Israel. A US official...
Report: Truce fell apart after Hamas refused to release more Israeli female hostages (www.timesofisrael.com)
Israeli official says Hamas doesn’t want to release remaining women because it doesn’t want them speaking publicly about what they endured on Oct. 7 and in their time in captivity...
Family says Yuval Castleman, killed after taking out terrorists, was ‘executed’ (www.timesofisrael.com)
Castelman was hit by soldier who apparently mistook him for a terrorist during Jerusalem attack, but footage shows him unarmed, with his hands in the air prior to being shot
Top Hamas official says hostage negotiations are off until war ends (www.timesofisrael.com)
Saleh al-Arouri, deputy head of Hamas’s politburo, said in an interview with Al Jazeera on Saturday that negotiations with Israel for further release of hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners have halted, and that there will be no further exchanges until Israel ends its war in Gaza....
Fatah official: Oct. 7 is part of our ‘defensive war’ against Israel, Hamas is ‘part of our political and social fabric’ (www.timesofisrael.com)
Jibril Rajoub, secretary general of Fatah’s Central Committee, justifies the October 7 massacre by Hamas as an act “in the context of the defensive war our people are waging.”...
Following Israeli rebuke, Palestinian Authority foreign ministry deletes claim from social media that the Oct. 7 rave massacre was committed by the IDF (www.timesofisrael.com)
The Palestinian Authority falsely claimed Sunday that a preliminary investigation by the Israel Police has revealed that the Israel Defense Forces was responsible for the death of all 364 partygoers near Kibbutz Re’im during Hamas’s October 7 onslaught, drawing fierce denunciation from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and...
UK doctor who worked at Shifa confirms Gaza hospital used for ‘non-medical purposes’ (www.timesofisrael.com)
A British doctor who used to work at Shifa Hospital, Gaza’s largest medical center, under which the IDF says Hamas operates a major command and control base, has confirmed that there were areas of the hospital where he could not go, or else he would be shot....
Surveillance footage shows Hamas bringing hostages into Shifa Hospital on Oct. 7 (www.timesofisrael.com)
The Israel Defense Forces releases surveillance camera footage from Shifa Hospital showing Hamas terrorists bringing a Nepali and Thai citizen who were abducted from Israel on October 7 to the medical center.