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3 weeks ago | 
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3 weeks ago | 
thejc.com | Nathan Jeffay
The Hostage and Missing Families Forum said the recovery brought partial closure, but added: “Our hearts will not be whole until all 12 hostages from Nir Oz, and all 56 hostages in total, are returned.” US Senator Marco Rubio said the return of the bodies “underscores the barbarity of Hamas”. President Herzog called the operation “a painful but necessary step to honour their memory”. Elsewhere, It has emerged that Jerusalem is arming an ISIS-linked Gaza militia in order to undermine Hamas.
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3 weeks ago | 
thejc.com | Nathan Jeffay
The group said it stood with the Boulder Jewish community and would not be silenced. “This was a terror attack targeting Jews demonstrating peacefully. We call on leaders in the US and around the world to protect our right to speak out,” the statement said.
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4 weeks ago | 
thejc.com | Nathan Jeffay
Meanwhile, Benjamin Netanyahu has apparently given the green light in principle to a new US-brokered ceasefire and hostage deal — but Israel’s Channel 12 reported Hamas is expected to scupper the agreement today. Netanyahu told hostage families he supports the outline advanced by US envoy Steve Witkoff.
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1 month ago | 
thejc.com | Nathan Jeffay
“If the corridors stay open, we close them,” the official said. The strike followed expanded Houthi drone launches toward Israeli airspace. The airport had only just reopened after the last Israeli attacks. Israel reached 600 days since the October 7, 2023 massacre and abductions with the one of largest hostage protests since the war began. Thousands marched in Tel Aviv’s Hostages Square. Protest leaders demanded a full hostage release deal.
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1 month ago | 
thejc.com | Nathan Jeffay
GHF said it had distributed 8,000 food boxes – equal to 462,000 meals – but admitted it could not manage the crowd. UN officials criticised the group for bypassing coordination with established humanitarian agencies and putting civilians at risk. Elsewhere, US officials are concerned that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may order a strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities without American coordination, the New York Times has reported.
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1 month ago | 
thejc.com | Nathan Jeffay
Witkoff said Israel had accepted his draft, which calls for a 45–60 day ceasefire in exchange for the release of ten live and nineteen dead hostages, along with Palestinian prisoners. Israeli officials fear Hamas would breach the agreement after the first release and have rejected the alternate version Hamas claims to support. In Tel Aviv, families of 41 hostages killed in captivity held an emergency press conference. They warned that further military escalation would cost more lives.
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1 month ago | 
thejc.com | Nathan Jeffay
Israel’s National Security Council raised the travel alert level for Canada from Level 1 to Level 2, citing an increased threat from terrorist elements targeting Israelis and Jewish people. The advisory urged Israeli nationals in Canada to take extra precautions and avoid displaying Israeli or Jewish symbols in public.
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1 month ago | 
thejc.com | Nathan Jeffay
He said the couple “weren’t the victims of a random crime,” and that the gunman killed them “for one reason and one reason alone – he wanted to kill Jews”. He linked the shooter’s chant of “Free Palestine” to the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023 and called the slogan “today’s version of ‘Heil Hitler’”. In the US, Attorney General Pam Bondi condemned the attack as antisemitic and promised “the most severe possible punishment”. Rodriguez is charged with murdering foreign officials.
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1 month ago | 
thejc.com | Nathan Jeffay
Lischinsky, who was reportedly German and Christian born and the moved to Israel and converted to Judaism, served in the IDF and studied at Hebrew University. He worked in the embassy’s political department. Milgrim, a Jewish-American woman, held graduate degrees in international affairs and sustainable development and worked in public diplomacy. The couple had planned to get engaged in Jerusalem next week.
