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Thousands of Israeli protesters wave flags during a rally against the Israeli government's judicial overhaul bills in Jerusalem, March 27, 2023. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)

Israeli politics

Israel’s judicial overhaul is back. So are the protests.

By Ben Sales

This time, a more limited proposal might pass.

Argentinean President Javier Milei prays at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, Feb. 6, 2024. (Courtesy Israel Foreign Ministry)

RecognitionJavier Milei, Argentina’s pro-Israel president, is first non-Jew to win ‘Jewish Nobel’

By Philissa Cramer

Graffiti in Shelburne Park found on Oct. 31 (Photo courtesy of Julie Paris)

AntisemitismNearly half the globe has ‘elevated levels’ of antisemitic beliefs, ADL survey finds

By Asaf Elia-Shalev

Israelis protest against the government and for the release of hostages in the Gaza Strip, at the Goma Junction in the Galilee on Jan. 11, 2025. (Photo by Ayal Margolin/Flash90)

Israel at warQatar offers hostage draft agreement, awaiting Hamas’ approval

By Joshua Marks and Amelie Botbol

January 14, 2025, 6:22 pm

Nearly half the globe has ‘elevated levels’ of antisemitic beliefs, ADL survey finds

About 46% of the global adult population is projected to harbor heightened levels of antisemitic views.

By Asaf Elia-Shalev

January 14, 2025, 2:38 pm

Javier Milei, Argentina’s pro-Israel president, is first non-Jew to win ‘Jewish Nobel’

Milei, the first head of state to get the Genesis Prize, is also famously drawn to Judaism and says he intends to convert once he leaves office.

By Philissa Cramer

January 13, 2025, 3:51 pm

Qatar offers hostage draft agreement, awaiting Hamas’ approval

Qatar has reportedly delivered a final draft agreement to both Israel and Hamas.

By Joshua Marks and Amelie Botbol

January 10, 2025, 8:40 am

Israel’s judicial overhaul is back. So are the protests.

This time, a more limited proposal might pass.

By Ben Sales

Examples of some of the plants recovered from the Gesher Bnot Ya’akov percussive tools. From left to right: oak, yellow water lily, and common oat. (Hadar Ahituv/Yoel Melamed/Bar-Ilan University)

January 9, 2025, 8:21 am

Early man ate carbs and processed food 780,000 years ago, northern Israel site shows

Analysis of basalt tools from the Hula Valley shows that Stone Age humans gathered, extracted and crushed starches from acorns, cereals, legumes and aquatic plants

By Gavriel Fiske

NFL Legends Nick Lowery and Tony Richardson meet with the father of brother of Hamas captive Na'ama Levy. (Photo courtesy of Eric Rubin)

January 8, 2025, 4:53 pm

‘We love and support you’: NFL legends pay solidarity visit to Israel

“They now know why we can't be defeated,” according to Eric Rubin, a member of the Athletes for Israel advisory board.

By Rolene Marks

Philippe Lazzarini, commissioner-general of the U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), at a press briefing on Sept. 21, 2023 in New York. (Credit: Manuel Elías/U.N. Photo)

January 8, 2025, 4:28 pm

UNRWA ‘knowingly’ let Hamas infiltrate, per UN Watch report

Terror groups "significantly influence the policies and practices of a U.N. agency with 30,000 employees, and a $1.5 billion annual budget," per the report.

By JNS Staff

Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz tells reporters on the sidelines of hte Jerusalem Post conference on June 16, 2019 that Israel will participate in the Bahrain economic peace summit. (Pool photo/Marc Israel Sellem via Flash90)

January 7, 2025, 2:58 pm

Israeli leaders threaten ‘war’ in the West Bank after terror attack

Some Israeli leaders are pushing for the military to shift its focus from other fronts to the West Bank.

By Ben Sales

Visitors at Hostage Square in Tel Aviv stand in front of a sign reading "Now!" in Hebrew, Jan. 6, 2025. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

January 6, 2025, 9:57 am

List of hostages for potential release circulates

Israel cautioned that the list did not reflect any agreement with Hamas.

By Philissa Cramer

Sydney Opera House (Photo by Benh LIEU SONG (Flickr), CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses)

January 6, 2025, 9:19 am

‘F— the Jews’: Antisemitic graffiti found in Sydney suburb

The Australian premier denounced the incident and police opened an investigation.

By JNS Staff

Israeli security forces at the scene of a shooting near the village of al-Funduq, in the northern West Bank, Jan. 6, 2025. (Itai Ron/Flash90)

January 6, 2025, 9:06 am

3 Israelis killed in West Bank terror attack

The attack is the latest in a year that has seen heightened violence in the West Bank.

By Ben Sales

The bowling green at the Barlow Institute in Edgworth, England, 1995. (Photo by Austen Redman via Wikimedia)

January 2, 2025, 12:29 pm

World Bowls Tour decision to ban Israelis reversed after backlash

The local MP said: “This is how you deal with the bullies taking to the streets of OUR country every weekend. Stand up to them.”

By Rolene Marks

Agnes Keleti performs a split in front of Hungarian young gymnasts Budapest on January 16, 2016. (Peter Kohalmi/AFP/Getty Images)

January 2, 2025, 11:32 am

Agnes Keleti, Holocaust survivor who won 10 Olympic gymnastics medals, dies at 103

Keleti moved to Israel in 1957 and helped build the new country’s gymnastics program.

By Philissa Cramer

January 1, 2025, 3:37 pm

The world after Oct. 7, and before Trump 2.0: The essential Jewish conversations of 2024

In a tumultuous year, JTA essayists struggled with the trauma of the Israel-Hamas war and the impact of a polarizing election.

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

A display erected on a Jerusalem street by the families of hostages, urging their safe return (Photo by Toby Tabachnick)

December 31, 2024, 11:48 am

Hamas said willing to free only 22 of 34 living hostages demanded by Israel in deal

Issue of who would be released in proposed first phase continues to stall agreement; PM said to alarm negotiators with comments on determination to resume war after any deal completed

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid