Israel

IJN Columnist Chaim Goldberg speaks with KNUS’ The Jeff & Bill Show the day after the Israel elections. Plus his comments on the race for Colorado’s Congressional District 1.

The bitter battle rages between Israel’s security and political establishments over who bears responsibility for the failures ahead of the Oct. 7 attacks. Former Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar filed a defamation lawsuit against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who blamed the intelligence head for the failures leading up to the attack.

Israel Police arrested 10 people on Monday, Oct. 19, on suspicion of involvement in violent acts over the weekend against journalists, foreign diplomats and Palestinians in the West Bank during the annual olive harvest.

A report released by Israel’s largest health organization found that the most pronounced impact of the health costs of war over the past three years was on mental health.

Former Knesset Member Yoav Segalovitz announced Aug. 31 that he had joined the Arab the Ra’am party led by Mansour Abbas in an attempt to give the coalition of opposition parties enough votes to unseat Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oct. 27 Israeli election.

Professor Ada Yonath, the Israeli chemist who won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her research into the structure and function of the ribosome — the tiny molecular machine inside cells that reads genetic instructions and uses them to build the proteins essential for life — died on Monday, Aug. 31, at 87.

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.

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.

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.”

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.