Bini Ashkenazi

Feb 12, 2025 | jpost.com | Amichai Stein |Bini Ashkenazi

Germany's cabinet has decided in principle to deploy police forces for a European Union civilian mission to monitor the border crossing between Gaza and Egypt at Rafah, a government source told Reuters on Wednesday. The exact timing and size of Germany's contribution to secure the key entry and exit point for the Palestinian territory were yet to be decided, the source added.

Feb 12, 2025 | jpost.com | Amichai Stein |Bini Ashkenazi

Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA) Chair Julie Platt and President & CEO Eric D. Fingerhut thanked US President Donald Trump on Tuesday for his strong stance against Hamas’s threat to break the ceasefire and stop releasing hostages. “With the undeniable evidence of the criminal mistreatment of the hostages and Hamas’s new threat to stop releasing hostages, Jewish Federations of North America thank President Trump for taking a strong position against this reprehensible threat,” they said.

Feb 12, 2025 | jpost.com | Amichai Stein |Bini Ashkenazi

74 illegal residents from the West Bank were found in a Ramat Gan building and arrested during a raid in the overnight between Tuesday and Wednesday, Israel Police announced on Wednesday morning. The police said that as part of the operation to arrest a large number of illegal residents, forces of officers and emergency response unit volunteers arrived at the building in Ramat Gan and raided the apartment under a court order.

Feb 12, 2025 | jpost.com | Amichai Stein |Bini Ashkenazi

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba told Japan's parliament that Japan would be accepting wounded people from the Gaza Strip for treatment, Asahi Shimbun reported on Wednesday. “We are keenly considering the possibility of treating a very small number of patients in Japan who have difficulty being treated locally,” he told the upper house of the National Diet.

Feb 12, 2025 | jpost.com | Amichai Stein |Bini Ashkenazi

BREAKING NEWS US President Donald Trump is nominating former Republican National Committee executive Sean Cairncross as his national cyber director, Axios reported on Wednesday.