Daily News Surrounding Israel

News Digest — 1/30/24

Israeli counterterrorism forces foiled an October7-inspired terror attack early Tuesday (30th), targeting a cell hiding and planning an…

News Digest — 1/29/24

The New York Times on Sunday (28th) published details on the accusations that Israel leveled at…

News Digest — 1/26/24

The International Court Of Justice (ICJ) is expected on Friday (26th) to announce its decision on South Africa’s lawsuit demanding…

News Digest — 1/25/24

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant blamed the Hamas leadership abroad for thwarting a hostage deal by taking a…

News Digest — 1/24/24

The majority of Israelis oppose a prisoner exchange deal that will include ending the fighting and releasing all security prisoners in…

News Digest — 1/23/24

President of Israel Isaac Herzog  released a message on Tuesday morning (23rd) regarding the disaster in Gaza in which…

Israel at War: Week 16

Since the Hamas Attack of October 7, 2023, 130 hostages of the 250 taken remain under Hamas control. Hostage families stormed the Knesset Monday demanding the…

News Digest — 1/22/24

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on Sunday (21st) visited the 100 Squadron of the Israel Air Force at the Hatzor Airbase, and participated in a…

News Digest — 1/19/24

Deputy Head Of Propaganda for terror organization Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Wael Makin  Abdallah Fanounah, was targeted and killed by…

News Digest — 1/18/24

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited an IDF air force base in Southern Israel on Wednesday (17th), vowing that…

Hamas Hijacks Hostages’ Medicine

Hamas has prevented medicine from reaching its intended recipients, Israeli hostages in Gaza, instead keeping it for its organization…

News Digest — 1/17/24

The head of a terrorist cell in Nablus was killed overnight in a joint operation between the IDF and…

News Digest—1/16/24

The IDF has succeeded in killing more Hamas terrorists and uncovered approximately 100 rocket launchers…

Israel at War: Week 15

The Israel Cabinet approved an amended 2024 budget, adding $15 Billion (US) [55 Billion NIS} to the budget…

News Digest — 1/15/24

Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant vowed that the IDF will continue operating in the Gaza Strip until Israel has achieved its…

News Digest — 1/12/24

The IDF has struck again at Hamas infrastructure in Gaza over the past 24-hours eliminating dozens of terrorists, including…

News Digest — 1/11/24

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday evening (10th) released a video statement in which he stressed…

Arab Nations Won’t Accept Gazans

Egypt and Jordan have refused to accept Palestinians fleeing the Gaza Strip. “There will be no refugees in Jordan and no refugees in Egypt”…

News Digest—1/10/24

Speaking at The Jerusalem Post’s Israel Summit in Jerusalem, on Tuesday (9th), leading US Evangelical leader, Dr. Mike Evans said that…

Israel at War: 3 Months

From the outset, Israel has said their aim is to defeat, dismantle, and destroy Hamas…

News Digest — 1/9/24

A senior commander in Hezbollah’s elite Radwan force was killed in an Israeli strike on…

News Digest — 1/8/24

Israeli Defense MinisterYoav Gallant told the Wall Street Journal Sunday night (7th), in an interview,  that Israel is not…

News Digest — 1/5/24

Jordanian airstrikes targeted several sites near the Jordanian-Syrian border on…

News Digest — 1/4/24

IDF Chief of the General Staff Herzi Halevi on Wednesday (3rd) held a situational assessment at the…

News Digest — 1/3/24

Hamas’ deputy leader abroad Saleh al-Arouri was killed in an Israeli strike in the Beirut suburb of Dahiyeh on…

News Digest — 1/2/24

Five rockets were fired from Syrian territory into Israel on Monday (1st), the IDF stated.  The rockets reportedly fell in open areas…

News Digest — 12/29/23

One woman sustained moderate to severe injuries and a man suffered minor injuries in a stabbing…

News Digest — 12/28/23

Hezbollah on Wednesday (27th) unleashed multiple rounds of rocket attacks and multiple drone strikes reaching approximately three dozen total attacks on…

News Digest — 12/27/23

IDF Chief-of-Staff Lt.-Gen. Herzi Halevi on Tuesday (26th) said that it could even take months to arrest or…

News Digest — 12/21/23

Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant on Wednesday (20th) met with the Navy commanders and service-people operating…

News Digest — 12/20/23

Ahmed Kahlot, the director of the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Jabalya, Gaza, confessed to the Shin Bet that the Hamas terror organization used his…

News Digest — 12/19/23

Israel has told the US administration that it wants Hezbollah to be pushed roughly six miles from the border as part of a…

The Biggest One Yet!

On Sunday, December 17, the IDF uncovered the largest terror tunnel yet. The tunnel network under Gaza has served as a launching point for Hamas into Israel…

News Digest — 12/18/23

On Sunday (17th), the IDF uncovered the largest terror tunnel in northern Gaza extending close to the…

News Digest — 12/15/23

Israel’s special forces have recovered the body of 28-year-old hostage Elia Toledano, who was held in the Gaza Strip by Hamas…

News Digest — 12/14/23

White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby on Wednesday (13th) highlighted some of the steps the IDF has taken to prevent…

News Digest — 12/13/23

The IDF recovered from a tunnel in the Gaza Strip the bodies of Eden Zacharia, 28, of Rishon LeZion and…

Israel at War: Week 9

Three words describe the current military operation in Gaza; pernicious, complex, and difficult…

News Digest — 12/12/23

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu participated Monday (11th) in the discussion of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Security Committee and referred to the continuation of the…

News Digest — 12/11/23

Alleged Israeli airstrikes targeted sites near Zaynab, a stronghold of Iranian militias, near Damascus on…

News Digest — 12/8/23

IDF Spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari spoke about the IDF’s progress in the war against Hamas on the two-month anniversary of the…

News Digest — 12/7/23

IDF Spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said on Wednesday (6th) that the IDF is making significant progress in its…

News Digest — 12/6/23

IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi stated that the IDF is launching the third stage of its ground campaign against the…

News Digest — 12/5/23

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant held a situational assessment Monday (4th), on the border of the Gaza Strip and praised the…

Rising Hate

The headlines and news reports announce the rise of antisemitism in both the U.S. and around the world…

News Digest — 12/4/23

In recordings released Sunday (3rd) by Israel’s public broadcaster KAN, Shin Bet head Ronen Bar is heard saying…

News Digest — 12/1/23

The ceasefire between Israel and Hamas came to an end Friday morning (1st) as Hamas renewed rocket fire toward…

News Digest — 11/30/23

A 24-year-old woman, a 73-year-old man and an additional victim were murdered Thursday morning (30th) in a…

Hamas Exploits Israel’s Patience

The Israel-Hamas ceasefire entered its fifth day on Wednesday, during which Hamas released 10 Israeli and two Thai hostages…

News Digest — 11/29/23

MK Avigdor Liberman on Wednesday morning (29th) responded to the extended ceasefire with…

News Digest — 11/28/23

A Palestinian prisoner who was released by Israel over the weekend as part of the Israel-Hamas hostage transfer deal was caught on video…

News Digest — 11/27/23

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu became the first Israeli head of state to travel to Gaza in two decades when he visited IDF troops stationed…

News Digest — 11/22/23

On Wednesday evening (22nd), Hamas will provide Israel with a list of ten hostages expected to be released on Thursday (23rd)…

Israel at War: Week 7

Israel has advanced deeply into Gaza City and the fighting has, as expected, been fierce. An example, the 36th Battalion has encountered…

News Digest — 11/21/23

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the War Cabinet on Monday evening (20th) concluded their meeting with the families of the hostages being held by…

News Digest — 11/20/23

The Shin Bet and the IDF on Sunday night (19th) disclosed a video showing Hamas bringing back two foreign hostages…

News Digest — 11/17/23

The body of Israeli soldier Corporal Noa Marciano, who was abducted by Hamas during the Oct.7th attacks, was brought back to Israel after being…

News Digest — 11/16/23

Israeli security forces foiled a shooting attack on Route 60 just south of Jerusalem…

Israel at War: Week 6

The number of Israeli soldiers killed in Operation Swords of Iron is now up to 44, with 1,200 civilians killed…

News Digest — 11/15/23

IDF ground troops are currently carrying out a precise and targeted operation against Hamas in a…

News Digest — 11/14/23

On Monday evening (13th), Defense Minister Yoav Gallant commented on the IDF’s revelation that Hamas held hostages under a childrens’…

News Digest — 11/13/23

On Tuesday (14th), Jews and their allies from across America will flock to Washington, DC, to participate in what promises to be one of the largest…

News Digest — 11/10/23

The IDF early Friday morning (10th) struck the organization in Syria that carried out the launch of a UAV toward Eilat on Thursday (9th), which hit…

News Digest — 11/9/23

IDF soldiers from the Nahal Brigade on Wednesday night (8th) completed an operation to take control of Post 17, a military fortress belonging to the…

News Digest — 11/8/23

Israelis across the country observed a minute of silence at 11 am on Tuesday morning (7th) to commemorate the victims of…

Israel at War: Week 5

US Jewry to hold vigils remembering those killed and still held hostage, as Hamas still holds 240 captives…

News Digest — 11/7/23

A broad coalition of American communities will gather for the “March for Israel” rally next week at 1 pm on Tuesday, November 14, at the…

News Digest — 11/6/23

The top political and diplomatic brass of the terror organization Hamas all live and operate outside of the…

News Digest — 11/3/23

Interest increases ahead of a speech announced by Hassan Nasrallah, scheduled for…

News Digest — 11/2/23

On Wednesday (1st) Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant visited the troops of the 36th Brigade, which are deployed to the…

News Digest — 11/1/23

Israeli missile boats were deployed in the Red Sea on Wednesday (1st) as reinforcements, the IDF said in a statement, following long-range missile and drone attacks…

News Digest — 10/31/23

A female IDF soldier who was kidnapped by Hamas terrorists during the massacre of October 7 was rescued and returned to…

Israel at War: Week 4

Hamas captured Private Ori Megidish on October 7. In a rescue action combining the services of Shin Bet and the IDF last night, they freed her and she has returned to her family…

News Digest — 10/30/23

The IDF operated In Jenin ‘refugee’ camp early Monday morning (30th) in what Israeli media said was a widespread operation against…

News Digest — 10/27/23

IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said Friday (27th) that a strike in the Egyptian Red Sea town of Taba in the early hours of the morning originated from…

News Digest — 10/26/23

Israel Defense Forces deployed a limited ground incursion into Gaza overnight, sending infantry forces and tanks into the northern part of…

News Digest — 10/25/23

The Israel Defense Forces said it struck several Syrian military targets early Wednesday (25th) after rockets were fired from Syria toward…

Israel at War: Week 3

The United States leaders, Secretary of State Blinken and President Biden have both given lip service to Israel’s ground invasion…

News Digest — 10/24/23

In a push to prevent a regional escalation with Iran, French President Emmanuel Macron landed in Israel on Tuesday (24th) for a one-day…

News Digest — 10/23/23

Iran could launch a missile at Haifa “without hesitation” deputy chief of the IRGC Ali Fadavi said on Monday morning (23rd), threatening direct…

News Digest — 10/20/23

A special prayer service was held on Thursday evening (19th) at the Western Wall for the safe return of hostages held in the…

News Digest — 10/19/23

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak arrived in Israel on Thursday morning (19th) for meetings with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and…

News Digest — 10/18/23

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz made a joint statement to the…

News Digest — 10/17/23

IDF Chief Spokesman Brig. Gen. Daniel Hagari on Tuesday (17th) said that the IDF used airstrikes to thwart an attempted…

The Gaza War: Week 2

On Monday, October 16, 2023, the number of hostages grew to 199. Noya Dan, a twelve year old girl with autism, is among the hostages…

News Digest — 10/16/23

No ceasefire has been agreed to in southern Gaza, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said after reports claimed a ceasefire for the transport of…

News Digest — 10/13/23

The Israeli military announced on Thursday evening(12th) that some 600,000 Palestinians in Gaza should relocate to the enclave’s south within…

News Digest — 10/12/23

An emergency government was formed on Wednesday afternoon (11th) after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and National Unity leader Benny Gantz met in…

News Digest — 10/11/23

Jerusalem, usually the bustling capital of Israel; with its tourists and pilgrims, eating places and politicians, has become deserted amid…

News Digest — 10/10/23

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the nation Monday evening (9th) on the third day of the…

War!

Early in the pre-dawn hours on Saturday, October 7th, fifty years to the day of the Yom Kippur War in 1973, Hamas unleashed an unprecedented attack on Israel…

News Digest — 10/9/23

Israel’s Cabinet early on Sunday (8th) made a series of decisions marking the start of the offensive phase of “Operation Swords of Iron,” ordering the…