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Israel's Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich takes part in the Jerusalem Day parade at the Damascus Gate in the old city of Jerusalem, May 14, 2026. The controversial annual march sees thousands of nationalist Israelis celebrate the capture of the formerly Jordanian-held east of the city during the Six-Day War in 1967. (Erik Marmor/Getty Images)
Foreign relations
France bans Smotrich as 6 countries impose new sanctions over Israeli settler violence
By Shira Li Bartov
The U.K. has for the first time advised businesses against economic and financial activity in the West Bank.
Israel's Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich takes part in the Jerusalem Day parade at the Damascus Gate in the old city of Jerusalem, May 14, 2026. The controversial annual march sees thousands of nationalist Israelis celebrate the capture of the formerly Jordanian-held east of the city during the Six-Day War in 1967. (Erik Marmor/Getty Images)
June 10, 2026, 9:46 am
France bans Smotrich as 6 countries impose new sanctions over Israeli settler violence
The U.K. has for the first time advised businesses against economic and financial activity in the West Bank.
By Shira Li Bartov
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks in a video message released on June 8, 2026. (Screenshot/GPO)
June 8, 2026, 4:43 pm
PM called off major Iran strike after Trump warned Israel would be on its own — reports
About-face, said to come at last minute, reportedly follows tense calls about renewed fighting; Netanyahu says fire has ‘been halted’ but could return if Israel attacked
By Nava Freiberg
Children play in a public bomb shelter in the Nahlaot neighborhood of central Jerusalem, June 8, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
June 8, 2026, 3:59 pm
Israelis confront yet another wartime flare after Iranian fire
Schools closed, hospitals underground — but for how long?
By Theia Chatelle
Yousef Ayesh Awad Ramadan, a deputy commander of a Hamas Nukhba terrorist cell, at a bomb shelter at the Re’im Junction in Israel’s south, Oct. 7, 2023. (Credit: Israel Defense Forces’ Spokesperson’s Unit)
June 3, 2026, 10:53 pm
Hamas terrorist who kidnapped four on Oct. 7 eliminated in Gaza strike
Yousef Ayesh Awad Ramadan helped kidnap Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Eliya Cohen, Alon Ohel and Or Levy from a bomb shelter at the Re’im Junction in Israel’s south, according to the IDF.
By JNS Staff
The four finalists for the 2026 Sami Rohr Prize are, from left, Shaul Kelner, Amir Tibon, Jordan Salama and Laura Hobson Faure. (Anne Rayner, Ofir Berman, Becky Hale, Patrick Clavier/Archives de Paris)
June 3, 2026, 10:42 pm
Finalists announced for lucrative Jewish literary award
The winner of the 2026 Sami Rohr Prize will be named this month.
By Lisa Keys
Hasan Piker looks on as U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed delivers a stump speech in Ann Arbor, Michigan, April 7, 2026. Piker, a popular Twitch streamer accused of antisemitism, prompted controversy for campaigning with El-Sayed. (Andrew Lapin/JTA)
June 1, 2026, 9:59 pm
Hasan Piker blames Israel after UK bars him from entry, citing ‘potential risk’
British Jewish groups applauded the government’s decision to bar Piker and his uncle Cenk Uygur.
By Kelly Hartog
Dr. Kinneret Tenenbaum (left), head of the Twin Pregnancy Clinic at Clalit-Beilinson Hospital in Petach Tikvah, together with Dr. Yuval Gielchinsky during surgery, May 2026. (Credit: Clalit-Beilinson)
June 1, 2026, 9:32 am
In first, Israeli doctors perform fetal surgery to save unborn baby’s life
The mother was referred to the hospital after a tumor was detected growing on the surface of the placenta.
By JNS Staff
The British Museum with visitors outside, Feb. 28, 2025. (Vuk Valcic/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
May 28, 2026, 1:36 pm
British Museum postpones a Jewish Culture Month lecture, citing ‘disruption’ concerns
The museum said it made the decision following discussions with “organisers and security partners.”
By Kelly Hartog
Panama’s Foreign Minister Javier Martinez-Acha and Israeli Ambassador to Panama Mati Cohen sign an economic accord on May 27. (Credit: Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
May 28, 2026, 9:19 am
Israel and Panama sign economic agreement
The accord opens “significant opportunities for collaborations” between the two countries, Panama’s ambassador to Israel told JNS
By Etgar Lefkovits
Prof. Haim Cohen, Director of the Sagol Healthy Human Longevity Center at Bar-Ilan University’s Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences. (Courtesy/Bar-Ilan University)
May 27, 2026, 4:27 pm
In step toward immortality, Israeli scientists say they can ‘rewind’ aging in mouse livers
SIRT6 ‘longevity’ protein reverses DNA structure in new peer-reviewed study by researchers at Bar-Ilan University and US National Institute on Aging; treatment seeks to extend healthy human lifespan
By Diana Bletter
Downtown Toronto (Credit: Courtesy of Mark via Wikimedia Commons)
May 26, 2026, 3:18 pm
Posters for missing Jewish teen in Toronto reportedly torn down as search continues
"This shows the depravity of the war being waged on Jews," Deborah Lipstadt, the former U.S. special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism, stated.
By JNS
Illustrative: Montreal, QC, Canada - Aug. 10, 2014: Protest in Montreal (Photo by KMoFoto via iStock)
May 26, 2026, 9:02 am
Hanging effigies of Netanyahu, Ben-Gvir paraded in Montreal
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has not commented on the display, but publicized his disapproval of Israel's actions.
By Canaan Lidor
Noam Bettan at Turquoise Carpet event, 2026 (Photo by René Pudschedl / WikiPortraits via Wikimedia Commons)
May 17, 2026, 9:03 am
Israel’s Noam Bettan takes 2nd at Eurovision, buoyed by scrutinized public vote
It was the second straight year that Israel fell just short of a win.
By Philissa Cramer
Noam Bettan at Turquoise Carpet event, 2026 (Photo by René Pudschedl / WikiPortraits via Wikimedia Commons)
May 13, 2026, 9:45 am
Despite anti-Israel chants in arena, Israel’s Noam Bettan advances to Eurovision final
Singer says boos were quickly drowned out by support and that he felt he was ‘just singing to Israel’
By Amy Spiro
Screenshot of the recorded testimony of Darin Komarov, a survivor of the Nova Music Festival massacre to the Civil Service Commission on October 7th Crimes by Hamas against Women and Children. (Courtesy, Civil Commission)
May 12, 2026, 9:42 am
Sexual violence was ‘systematic, integral’ to Hamas-led October 7 terror assault, study finds
Rape, sexual torture, mutilation and postmortem sexual abuse found to have been used to ‘terrorize’ Israeli society, with images of the atrocities ‘weaponized’ through social media
By Jeremy Sharon
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