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Michal Elon was wounded on October 7th, at the Zikim IDF base, while spending Simchat Torah there with her husband and eight of her children. Michal spoke to Arutz Sheva - Israel National News about her injury, survival, and important message to the nation. ... Michal concluded, “I think unity is the most important thing. We were fighting with each other, and I think that's the most important thing we have to think about. It's easy to say, it's very difficult to do. Despite the challenges, we have to think that this is the most important thing, and even if...

Avichay Adraee, the IDF's Arabic-language spokesman, on Wednesday published rare footage of a spontaneous anti-Hamas protest which broke out in Deir al Balah, Gaza. In their protest, the Gazans called for the release of the Israeli hostages, so as to bring about an end to the Hamas-Israel war.

Freed hostage Hagar Brodutch recounted to Kan News her ordeal in Hamas captivity along with her children. “It was a horror movie. The fields of Kfar Azza were full of Gazans in every direction. We drove wildly, in my car, into Gaza. As we were brought in, the crowds in the street all cheered, they pulled my hair, they scratched me. The terrorist was holding Ofri, a girl not 10 years old, the whole time, and showing the crowd what he had captured.”

The International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) cited "safety and security" concerns as the grounds for its decision to exclude the Israeli team from all competitions, a move that has stirred controversy and accusations of antisemitism.

“The UN, dominated by dictatorships, riddled with antisemitism, appoints ICJ judges, who therefore, by definition, lack the moral authority to stand in judgment over any democracy, especially Israel.”

"On one of the days, we moved from a house to a tunnel. Suddenly the door opened and six girls were waiting and suddenly we understood that there are girls who were alone. A lot of girls experienced severe sexual assaults, they suffered very very serious and complicated injuries that were not treated. They bandaged themselves or we helped them with bandages.

Two explosions that killed nearly 100 people and wounded scores at a ceremony in Iran on Wednesday looked like a "terrorist attack" of the kind ISIS has been responsible for in the past, a senior Biden administration official said on Wednesday. The official, speaking to reporters, said "it does look like a terror attack, the type of thing we've seen ISIS do in the past, and as far as we are aware that is kind of, I think, our going assumption at the moment."

“I thought it was important to physically show up, and take the risk of being here because I don’t take freedom for granted,” she said. “I fought very hard for my freedom. And when I see people here, they’re not fighting for land, or wealth, or power – they’re fighting for the right to exist – and that’s why I felt it was important for me to come here. “When [the October 7 massacre] happened, I felt I had to come. These are my people: How could I not come?”Haart is one of the procession of celebrities who have visited...

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports that the strike targeted two distinct sites linked to Hezbollah and Iranian-backed militias A senior commander in Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps was reportedly in an airstrike near Damascus, Tehran said on Monday. The attack, attributed to Israel, eliminated Sayyed Reza Mousavi, a key figure responsible for Iranian forces in Syria.

Prime Minister's wife calls on the leader of the Christian world to intervene and use his influence to bring about the release of the hostages being held in Gaza. “I am writing to you not only as the wife of Israel's prime minister but also as a mother and as a woman. On October 7, Hamas terrorists committed an unprovoked act of unparalleled cruelty, the worst savagery perpetrated against Jewish people since the Holocaust. They murdered children in front of the parents, burnt babies alive, beheaded men, raped and mutilated women,” Netanyahu wrote the Pope.

Israel's Chief Rabbi David Lau addresses letter to Pope Francis after Pope accuses Israel of engaging in terrorism just like Hamas.Chief Rabbi of Israel David Lau addressed a letter today (Sunday) to Pope Francis in which he called on the Pontiff to retract comments made during a conversation with President Isaac Herzog last month in which he appeared to accuse both Israel and Hamas of “terrorism” in the ongoing war that started with the Hamas massacre of over 1,200 people in southern Israel on October 7. During the conversation, Pope Francis said that it is “forbidden to respond to terror...

Two Israeli doctors who treated freed hostages, as well as an Israeli military official familiar with the matter, confirmed to American newspaper USA TODAY that some released women revealed that they had suffered violent sexual assaults in captivity. All three spoke on condition of anonymity. One of the doctors said that among those aged 12 to 48, many of the 30 suffered sexual assault during their captivity at the hands of Hamas in Gaza. The doctor chose not to detail the specific nature of the assaults, while emphasizing that victims of sexual abuse generally have a four times higher risk...

Daughter of former US president Donald Trump, Ivanka Trump, and her husband Jared Kushner, who served as an advisor to Trump, landed early Thursday morning in Israel. Escorted by heavy security, they were met Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana. The couple are in Israel to express support and sympathy for the ongoing Israel-Hamas War and are expected to visit wounded IDF soldiers and the families of those kidnapped by Hamas.

Head of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis, chastised Israel’s war on Hamas saying it is “forbidden to respond to terror with terror". In a widely reported conversation with Israel’s President Isaac Herzog, the head of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis, chastised Israel’s war on Hamas saying it is “forbidden to respond to terror with terror". … If Israel's war is not just, then there has never been a just war. In a Wall Street Journal opinion piece, David Rivkin and Peter Berkovitz, with decades of experience in statecraft between them, including serving in senior national security positions in multiple US...

The UN's humanitarian coordinator, Lynn Hastings, left the West Bank after Israel refused to renew her visa, according to a CNN report. Foreign Minister Eli Cohen was informed that Hastings' visa was not renewed due to the UN's preference towards the Palestinians. The spokesperson of the UN, Stefan Dogeric, said that a replacement for Hastings will be appointed soon.

On Sunday, the officer recalled the attack: "Today, on my way home to Ateret in Binyamin, returning from IDF activity with my reserve unit, I stopped at a convenience store at the Rantis gas station. When I was at the checkout, I felt a strong blow from behind and saw someone running from the store. I started chasing him and shot at him. Apparently, I wounded him," Kalcheim said. He added, "Thank God that I was standing there, an officer in an IDF uniform with a long weapon who could respond. If somebody else had been there, the outcome might...

Ni silence, ni déni : des violences sexuelles atroces ont été perpétrées par les terroristes du 7 octobre. Elles doivent être universellement reconnues, fermement condamnées, et leurs auteurs sévèrement punis. Témoignages glaçants des femmes engagées dans cette cause. Neither silence nor denial: atrocious sexual violence was perpetrated by the October 7 terrorists. They must be universally recognized, firmly condemned and the perpetrators severely punished. Chilling testimonies from women committed to this cause.

Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar’s days “are numbered,” a senior Biden administration official said Thursday, pledging that “justice will be served.” Coinciding with a visit to the region by U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, the official said of Sinwar, “I think it’s safe to say his days are numbered…He has American blood on his hands.”

Hasan Bitmez, a member of parliament from the opposition Felicity Party, collapsed after delivering speech on Turkey's policy towards Israel Hasan Bitmez, 54, an oppositional Turkish lawmaker, on Thursday died in Ankara City Hospital after suffering a heart attack in front of the parliament, Ministry of Health told Turkish reporters.

Dear Ms. Owens, I have never met you but have appreciated you from your emergence in the public eye, as during that early Congressional hearing and your early debates on Fox with Cornell West. You became a superstar as your career was boosted by the likes of David Horowitz’s Freedom Center, Dennis Prager’s “Prager U.,” and Ben Shapiro’s Daily Wire. I would write you privately if I knew how to reach you, but I don’t. Therefore, because I am blessed to write for Israel National News and other publications, I hope this letter reaches you. br> I speak with some...