A Moscow court sentenced former Foreign Ministry official Arseniy Konovalov to 12 years in a high-security prison for treason, finding he had leaked classified information to U.S. intelligence; he was detained in March 2024.
U.S. cities are on heightened alert for potential terrorist attacks during New Year’s Eve celebrations, while seven countries have canceled or their events altogether citing safety and security concerns.
New NASA boss Isaacman says U.S. will return to the moon within Trump’s term * NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said the U.S. will return to the moon within President Donald Trump’s second term. * Isaacman said that will be key to unlocking an “orbital economy,” which could include Helium-3 mining and space data centers. * […]
Prime Minister Netanyahu plans to tell President Trump when they meet on December 29 at Mar-a-Lago that any agreement which leaves Hamas armed and in control of Gaza would be a “historic mistake,” i24NEWS reports. Israeli officials fear Washington may move ahead with the next phase of Gaza talks without a clear plan to disarm […]
Saudi Arabia says it rejects Israel’s announcement recognizing Somaliland’s sovereignty, calling the move a unilateral secessionist action that violates international law.
An Israeli settler and IDF reservist who was filmed ramming an all-terrain vehicle into a Palestinian man in the West Bank has been placed under house arrest, authorities confirmed, following the circulation of graphic footage that sparked widespread condemnation. The suspect was detained overnight Friday and released to five days of house arrest, police said. […]
Toronto police are investigating a suspected antisemitic hate crime after mezuzahs were forcibly removed from the doors of Jewish residents in a North York apartment building, the latest in a growing series of incidents targeting the city’s Jewish community. According to The Canadian Jewish News, mezuzahs were torn from three apartment doors on the same […]
A viral video showing a woman trapped by her neck in a newly installed MTA fare gate has injected fresh political heat into New York City’s long-running war over fare evasion. The clip, filmed at Manhattan’s Broadway–Lafayette Street station, shows a woman in a long black coat wedged between automated turnstile doors that appear to […]
Israel has ranked last for the second year in a row in the 2025 Nation Brands Index, suffering the steepest annual decline since the survey was created nearly 20 years ago, according to data released Thursday by BrandIL. The index, compiled by Ipsos and developed by policy adviser Simon Anholt, measures global perceptions, not military […]
Senior rabbis from across Australia have issued an extraordinary public demand for the federal government to ban what they describe as “hate-fuelled” anti-Israel demonstrations and to establish a Federal Royal Commission into antisemitism, warning that Jewish communities are facing an unprecedented and escalating threat. In a letter sent to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Thursday, […]
An Army Radio host on Wednesday lauded Arab-Israeli filmmaker Mohammad Bakri, the director of the libelous anti-Israel film “Jenin, Jenin,” who violated every journalistic ethic to produce the film. “During our broadcast, the beloved, amazing actor Mohammad Bakri passed away, someone who truly is among the greatest of the great,” the broadcaster said. “A huge, […]
A Gazan man who publicly boasted of armed attacks against Israel and prayed for the death of Jews has been released from prison in the United Kingdom after entering the country illegally earlier this year. The man, known online as Abu Wadei and identified as Mosab Abdulkarim al-Gassas, was freed despite a digital trail that […]
The Syrian Jewish community in Brooklyn has made a historic real estate move in Jerusalem, purchasing two entire residential towers currently under construction near the Machane Yehuda shuk. The deal, valued at up to NIS 1 billion (approximately $270 million), is believed to be among the largest private real estate transactions ever completed in Israel. […]
The U.S. Navy has crossed a new threshold in its race to field low-cost strike weapons, successfully launching a one-way attack drone from a ship at sea for the first time. The test took place Dec. 16 in the Arabian Gulf, when the USS Santa Barbara, a littoral combat ship, launched a Low-cost Unmanned Combat […]
Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke with Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Manet to voice concern over the continuing violence between Cambodia and Thailand and offer help to facilitate talks to support peace and stability between the two countries. He conveyed Trump’s call for peace and stressed the importance of fully implementing the Kuala Lumpur Peace […]
