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US negotiators target Iran's military-grade enrichment capability

1 day ago | jns.org | Adam Haskel

(April 24, 2025 / Israel Hayom)The next phase of talks between Iran and the United States, with American experts and International Atomic Energy Agency specialists participating, which had been scheduled for this past Wednesday, will now be held in parallel with the third round of indirect talks between Washington and Tehran in Oman on Saturday.
How Israel produced luxury dye 3,000 years ago

4 days ago | jns.org | Adam Haskel

(April 20, 2025 / Israel Hayom)A study conducted at the University of Haifa and published in the journal PLOS One presents direct evidence of tools used to produce the prestigious purple dye during the Iron Age, between 1100 and 600 BCE, partly corresponding to the First Temple period. The evidence includes large pottery basins stained with dye, grinding stones and other tools used in the dyeing process.
Former hostages gather at Western Wall for priestly blessing

1 week ago | jns.org | Adam Haskel

(April 15, 2025 / Israel Hayom)Tens of thousands of worshippers arrived Tuesday morning at the Western Wall plaza in Jerusalem for the traditional priestly blessing ceremony held during the intermediate days of Passover. This year’s event, organized by the Western Wall Heritage Foundation, holds special significance with the participation of hostages released from Hamas captivity, families of those still held captive, and wounded Israel Defense Forces soldiers.
CENTCOM sends message to Iran-with quote from Israeli rap hit ‘Harbu Darbu'

1 week ago | jns.org | Adam Haskel

(April 15, 2025 / Israel Hayom)The U.S. military’s Central Command (CENTCOM), whose Area of Responsibility encompasses 21 nations in the Middle East, Central Asia and parts of South Asia, published a post in Hebrew Tuesday on its X account, referencing a previous joint drill with Israel. Embedded in the post was a message clearly aimed at Israeli ears.
US pilots recall defense of Israel against Iranian attack

1 week ago | jns.org | Adam Haskel

(April 15, 2025 / Israel Hayom)Exactly one year after Iran’s first direct attack on Israel in April 2024, the U.S. Air Force published interviews on Sunday with the American pilots who defended Israeli airspace when more than 300 drones, cruise missiles and ballistic missiles were fired toward the country, taking part in the unprecedentedly successful interception effort. “The radar just lit up,” one pilot described the first moments of the attack.
Who knows one? The arrival of the Moss Haggadah at the National Library of Israel

1 week ago | jns.org | Adam Haskel

(April 15, 2025 / JNS)One of Passover’s central themes is that participants at the seder, the interactive experience at Jewish families’ dinner tables that opens the annual holiday, should internalize the Israelites’ Exodus by seeing themselves, even millennia later, as personally having been liberated from slavery in Egypt. Artist David Moss took the Hebrew word lir’ot, to see, to heart. In a Haggadah he began working on in 1980, Moss presented that theme across two facing pages.
The lost seder plates: A glimpse into a vanished Jewish world

1 week ago | jns.org | Adam Haskel

(April 15, 2025 / JNS)TREUCHTLINGEN, Bavaria—The year is 1928 and a quiet seder is being held in the home of Siegfried Meyer, head of the town’s small Jewish community. The family is gathered around a lavish holiday table, with a magnificent, ornate seder plate at its center—the pride of the family.
Beirut pays Hezbollah men, families benefits ‘similar to soldiers' wages'

1 week ago | jns.org | Adam Haskel

(April 11, 2025 / MEMRI)Reports published in Lebanon over the past year indicate that, for the last 25 years, operatives of the Hezbollah terrorist organization have enjoyed status equal to that of soldiers in the Lebanese Armed Forces. The government pays pensions and compensation to them and their families, and provides economic benefits to a large segment of the organization’s supporters and operatives (transfers often referred to as “pay-to-slay”).
How the US precipitated Israel's offensive cyber collapse

2 weeks ago | jns.org | Adam Haskel

(April 7, 2025 / Israel Hayom)A few weeks ago, Meir (not his real name) received an envelope from the American embassy in Jerusalem containing distressing news. “Inside were personal letters for me, my wife and each of my children,” he recounted. “The letters notified us that all our visas had been revoked and warned us against attempting to enter the U.S.“The letter also ‘strongly recommended’ that we bring our passports to the American embassy for physical removal of the visas.
Hamas demanded $500m from Iran for destruction of Israel

2 weeks ago | jns.org | Adam Haskel

(April 6, 2025 / Israel Hayom)Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz revealed, for the first time, communications between Tehran and slain Hamas leaders Mohammed Deif and Yahya Sinwar. “This is definitive proof of Iran‘s support for Hamas’s plan to destroy Israel and for the October 7, [2023], massacre,” Katz said.