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Defense Ministry Director General Amir Baram (left) and his Greek counterpart, Ioannis Bouras, sign a sale of Israeli systems to Greece, August 31, 2026. (Defense Ministry)
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Greece inks record $3.5 billion deal to buy comprehensive missile defense system from Israel
By Emanual Fabian
‘Achilles Shield’ to see Israel build Greece a multi-tiered air defense array; separate deal will provide drone protection; Finland said to secretly extend defense MOU with Israel
Head of Ra'am Mansour Abbas (right) holds a joint press conference with new party member Yoav Segalovitz (left) in Nazareth. August 31, 2026. (Michael Giladi/FLASH90)
Israeli politicsJewish Zionist politician joins Arab party Ra’am in push to defeat Netanyahu
By Tomer Almagor
Head of Ra'am Mansour Abbas (right) holds a joint press conference with new party member Yoav Segalovitz (left) in Nazareth. August 31, 2026. (Michael Giladi/FLASH90)
September 1, 2026, 1:26 pm
Jewish Zionist politician joins Arab party Ra’am in push to defeat Netanyahu
“Hope won out” over fear, Mansour Abbas said as he welcomed former Yesh Atid lawmaker Yoav Segalovitz to his party.
By Tomer Almagor
Defense Ministry Director General Amir Baram (left) and his Greek counterpart, Ioannis Bouras, sign a sale of Israeli systems to Greece, August 31, 2026. (Defense Ministry)
August 31, 2026, 11:05 am
Greece inks record $3.5 billion deal to buy comprehensive missile defense system from Israel
‘Achilles Shield’ to see Israel build Greece a multi-tiered air defense array; separate deal will provide drone protection; Finland said to secretly extend defense MOU with Israel
By Emanual Fabian
Director Danny Ben-Moshe in Melbourne, at a location filmed in his documentary “Cancelled.” (Credit: Courtesy)
August 31, 2026, 9:50 am
Australian documentary on cancel culture quashing Jewish artists is itself canceled
The film was also nixed by both of Australia’s national public broadcasters.
By Etgar Lefkovits | JNS
Ratko Mladić, former commander of the Bosnian Serb Army, during his war crimes trial at the United Nations tribunal in The Hague, Nov. 22, 2017. (UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia)
August 30, 2026, 7:24 pm
Ratko Mladić committed genocide. His death reminds me why I reject the charge against Israel.
A law professor sees a fundamental difference between the crimes of the Bosnian Serb general and Israel’s war on Hamas.
By Menachem Z. Rosensaft
A partisan bunker is seen in Rūdninkai Forest. (Photo by Shira Li Bartov)
August 27, 2026, 10:48 am
In a forest where Jews fought Nazis, a German base encroaches on memory
The families of partisans might no longer be able to visit bunkers in Rūdninkai Forest, which mark the only memorial to their resistance in Lithuania.
By Shira Li Bartov
Montreal City Hall in Montreal, Canada, September 9, 2025. (Domenico Cippitelli/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
August 26, 2026, 9:36 am
Montreal passes Palestinian solidarity motion; removed text on cutting ties with Israel
National Jewish organizations strongly opposed the initial language.
By Shira Li Bartov
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks on the phone on September 04, 2019. (Lior Mizrahi/Getty Images)
August 25, 2026, 2:23 pm
Netanyahu gives out his phone number in campaign video
Hundreds of messages and calls arrived in minutes, disabling the WhatsApp account associated with the number.
By Deborah Danan
Dutch singer Claude Kiambe parades during the flag ceremony prior to the grand final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 at the St. Jakobshalle arena in Basel, May 17, 2025. (Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP)
August 25, 2026, 7:48 am
Dutch broadcaster pulls out of Eurovision over Israel’s participation
The national network Avrotos said the annual song competition “can no longer be considered neutral.”
By Shira Li Bartov
The Irgun ship Altalena burning off the Tel Aviv beach after being shelled by the IDF on June 22, 1948. (Photo by Hans Pinn via Wikimedia)
August 24, 2026, 12:35 pm
Israel locates Altalena shipwreck off coast 78 years later
The Heritage Ministry found the sunken Irgun vessel intact at a depth of 1,650 feet.
By Joshua Marks | JNS
Rafael Mariano Grossi (front), Rebeca Grynspan (left), Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett (second from left) and Macky Sall, candidates for the position of next U.N. secretary-general, during a town hall debate at the U.N. headquarters in New York City, July 23, 2026. (Credit: Mark Garten/UN Photo)
August 24, 2026, 12:07 pm
Jewish candidate for UN sec-gen falls to second place in new round of polling
“After years of bias, failure and eroded trust, the organization needs a leader who is prepared to change the system,” stated Danny Danon, Israeli ambassador to the global body.
By Mike Wagenheim | JNS
Yehuda Katz was a 22-year-old tank gunner and yeshiva student when he was killed in the First Lebanon War 44 years ago. (Photo credit: Israel Defense Forces)
August 20, 2026, 4:14 pm
Remains of last Israeli soldier missing from First Lebanon War’s Sultan Yacoub battle found
Yehuda Katz was a 22-year-old tank gunner and yeshiva student when he was killed 44 years ago.
By Deborah Danan
Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem in 2009 (Photo by Sebastian Baryli from Wien, Österreich, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons)
August 20, 2026, 12:46 pm
Meet Moshe, the nonexistent ‘Israeli thinker’ Hezbollah loves to quote
When terror group chief Naim Qassem cited ‘Yedioth journalist Moshe Yair’ to prove a point in a speech last week, he joined others who have used fictitious Israeli writer to bolster group’s narrative
By Nurit Yohanan
Sri Lankan police outside the Chabad House in Sri Lanka, Aug. 14, 2026. Credit: Chabad-Lubavitch.
August 18, 2026, 8:39 pm
Violence erupts outside Chabad House in Sri Lanka
“The fuel here is antisemitism,” Chabad Rabbi Yossi Gabai told JNS after protesters hurled stones and firecrackers in the direction of the Jewish center.
By Etgar Lefkovits
A damaged window at Kol HaNeshamah synagogue in Jerusalem. (Courtesy of Debi Shoua Haim)
August 17, 2026, 8:40 pm
Vandals attack prominent Reform synagogue in Jerusalem
Police have opened an investigation into the incident at Kol HaNeshamah, in which the assailants damaged the building and tore down Pride flags.
By Deborah Danan
Israeli soldiers patrol a street as they are deployed during an operation in the village of Qusra, south of Nablus, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, on August 13, 2026. Photo by Zain JAAFAR / AFP via Getty Images
August 14, 2026, 9:40 pm
U.S. ambassador calls settlers who sieged Palestinian homes in Qusra ‘terrorists’
Mike Huckabee called on the IDF to remove Israeli settler outposts erected in Palestinian yards.
By Theia Chatelle
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