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IDF gradually tightens grip on Hamas’s last bastion in Gaza

By YAAKOV LAPPIN

(JNS.org) – Developments in Rafah signify that the Israeli military is implementing a gradual expansion of its operation in Hamas’s last fortress.

The Israel Defense Forces is engaged in intensive operations in central and northern Gaza as...

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Yom HaShoah commemorated at National WW II Museum

By DEAN M. SHAPIRO

Yom HaShoah, an annual day dedicated to the approximately six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust, was memorialized at the National World War II Museum this past Monday, May 6, a day that roughly coincides with...

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IDF recovers bodies of 3 Nova festival victims, including Shani Louk

By RON KAMPEAS

(JTA) — The Israeli military has recovered the bodies of three people who were killed in the massacre at the Nova music festival on Oct. 7, including Shani Louk, whose body was photographed being carried away in...

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OP-ED: After 76 years of Israeli independence, Jews must still be Zionists

By JONATHAN TOBIN

(JNS.org) – Amid the celebrations of Israel’s 50th birthday in 1998, there began to be talk of the Jewish state entering into a post-Zionist era. To many Israelis as well as Jews in the Diaspora, the idea of...

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