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Israel, U.S. launch joint strikes against regime in Iran: What’s happening and how did we get here?

Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was killed in the first waves of Israeli and American strikes on Tehran, along with dozens of other Iranian military and government leaders.

Plan for Gaza’s future moves forward as Trump’s Board of Peace holds inaugural meeting

U.S. Maj.-Gen. Jasper Jeffers, the head of the International Stabilization Force, revealed that five countries have committed to sending troops to the ISF, including Indonesia, Morocco, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, and Albania.

Israeli Hi-Tech booms as Google and Apple buy up Silicon Wadi startups

2025 was a record-breaking year for Israeli hi-tech, with global acquisitions of Israeli-founded companies totalling an estimated $88 billion.

Soviet Anti-Zionism and the Refuseniks with Izabella Tabarovsky

When Zionism Went Into Exile: The History of Israel (Part 2 of 5)

The Mossad Scandal Israel Tried to Bury

IsraAid After October 7: An Unprecedented Humanitarian Mission in Israel and Gaza (Part 2)

Israel Open Mic: What Does “Israel’s Right to Exist” Mean?

Ma’alot Revisited: When Terrorists Came for the Children

Where Is Israel? Unpacking Israel’s Place in the World

Inside the American Right: Israel, Antisemitism, and Trump’s GOP Coalition

Parshat Beshalach and Ran Gvili: Why Judaism brings our dead home

When the Torah tells us that Moses carried Joseph’s bones out of Egypt, it’s teaching a Jewish ethic of dignity: the body still matters.

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