Details of the mistakes Israel made leading up to the Hamas atrocities of Oct. 7 are coming to light. Israeli investigative reporter Ronen Bergman has recently published two jaw-dropping articles about how much Hamas knew and how Israeli intelligence warnings were ignored—because of the mistaken “concept” that Hamas could be domesticated and transformed into … Read more
As the war against Hamas entered its seventh week at the end of November, the first major breakthrough occurred in the efforts to release the approximately 240 hostages who were seized on October 7 when 3,000 heavily armed terrorists stormed across the Gaza border, entering 22 Israeli communities and killing 1,200 people, mostly civilians. … Read more
The Knesset passed a law on Monday that would allow doctors or medical institutions to share medical information on patients in order to help identify bodies or causes of death. According to the new law, medical information is only permitted to be shared with the National Forensic Medicine Center as well as experts who … Read more
Opposition leader Yair Lapid took to social media Tuesday to criticize Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s comparison between the deaths of victims of the Oslo Accords and those of the October 7 massacre. Lapid took to his X account (formerly Twitter) and denounced it as an “evil political campaign.” He stated that “Israel is at … Read more
France, Germany, and Italy called for the European Union to set up a special sanctions scheme to target Hamas as EU foreign ministers met on Monday to consider possible next steps in response to the Middle East crisis. Among the possible measures up for discussion at the meeting are a crackdown on Hamas’s finances … Read more
