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Sanctions threatened over E1 expansion

JTA -
The UK threatened to sanction Israelis involved in West Bank settlement expansion after the Jewish state’s Lands Authority opened bids for 1,234 homes in the largely underdeveloped E1 section of Ma’aleh Adumim.
Israel

Healing journey to South Africa for wounded IDF

TPS -
Ten wounded Israeli soldiers traveled to South Africa recently for a recovery program combining support from local Jewish communities with a demanding trek through the Drakensberg mountain range.
Israel

Rep. critiques Israel for lack of investigation in WCK strike

JNS -
The ranking member of the House Appropriations Committee called Israel’s decision not to pursue a criminal investigation of a 2024 Gaza strike that killed seven humanitarian workers “a miscarriage of justice.”
Israel

Illegal outposts removed from Palestinian village

JTA -
The West Bank settlement movement’s leadership joined with one of its most prominent defenders, US Ambassador Mike Huckabee, in condemning an Israeli settler outpost set up in a Palestinian family’s yard in Qusra.
Israel

‘Always Hostages Square’

JTA -
The plaza that became the center of Israel’s campaign to bring home the 251 captives Hamas seized on Oct.7, 2023 is now formally called “Hostages Square,” establishing a permanent reminder of the more than two-year struggle that ended with the return of the final hostage in January, 2026.
Israel

Gaza — is the deal real?

Ron Kampeas, JTA -
Israel has rejected a Gaza peace plan advanced with much fanfare by President Donald Trump, saying it did not really guarantee disarmament by Hamas. Israel said it would not withdraw from any part of Gaza until Hamas is thoroughly disarmed.
Israel

Gilad Shalit abduction logs released

JNS -
Israel’s Ministry of Defense has published the operational logs from the Israel Defense Forces Archives 20 years ago that documented the day of Hamas’ kidnapping of soldier Gilad Shalit into Gaza.
Israel

Two former hostages wed

JTA -
Two former Israeli hostages have wed, in the first marriage of hostages taken when Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. Sasha Trufanov and Sapir Cohen were visiting Trufanov’s family on Kibbutz Nir Oz on Oct. 7 when they were attacked and abducted to Gaza.
GPO

Israel marks 1,000 days since Oct. 7

IJN Staff -
Israel President Isaac Herzog and the First Lady Michal Herzog marked 1,000 days since the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas massacre by hosting a moving gathering of members of Kibbutz Kerem Shalom, together with the mother of Sergeant Yaron Zohar, who was killed defending the kibbutz.
Israel

Entebbe documents declassified on 50th anniversary of legendary rescue

IJN Staff -
The Israel State Archives on June 26 released thousands of pages of previously classified documents detailing the Israeli government’s deliberations during the 1976 Entebbe hostage crisis, marking the 50th anniversary of the operation that rescued 102 hostages from Uganda.
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I.J. Singer is part of Italy’s Yiddish moment

In 1932, Israel Joshua Singer boarded a ship bound for New York, where he had been invited to report on the US for Yiddish-speaking Jews like himself. “Americans are a difficult people to understand,” the famed novelist wrote in one of his first articles from the US. Nearly a century later, his first encounters with America have appeared together in Italian translation.