Middle East Experience

After more than three weeks of detention, Cecilia Sala has been released from Tehran's Evin Prison and was met at the airport in Rome by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Italian journalist Cecilia Sala lands in Rome after release from Iranian prison

Liberal respondents have little to no confidence across the board that Trump will “do the right thing” in any area of questioning.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: Will Trump do the ‘right thing’ in dealing with Palestinians and antisemitism?

The IDF confirmed Ziyadne was discovered in an underground tunnel in Rafah adding that it discovered "findings relating to Youssef's son."
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: Body of hostage Youssef Ziyadne found in Gaza

The University of Bristol fired Miller in 2021 for a series of controversial statements, including claims that Israel wanted to "impose [its] will all over the world."
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: UN's Albanese cites Holocaust while supporting 'conspiracy theorist' anti-Israel academic

Palestinian officials said two children were among three people killed in an Israeli air strike on the occupied West Bank on Wednesday which the military said targeted militants.Ahmad Asaad, governor of the northern West Bank city of Tubas, told AFP that the strike hit nearby Tammun village, killing a 23-year-old man and two children, aged eight and 10, all from the same family.The Palestinian foreign ministry in Ramallah condemned the deadly strike, accusing Israel of harming civilians "under the pretext" of fighting militants.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Palestinians say Israel strike kills two children in West Bank

Gaza's civil defence agency said a series of Israeli air strikes killed at least 14 people on Wednesday, in the latest violence to ravage the already devastated Palestinian territory.Five people were killed and several wounded in an air strike on the house of the Barghout family in the Zeitun neighbourhood of Gaza City, the agency said.Three people were killed in another strike targeting the house of the Al-Banna family in the central city of Deir el-Balah.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Gaza rescuers say 14 killed in Israel strikes

Rouen Mayor Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol condemned the antisemitic vandalism on Tuesday, saying on Facebook that such action had no place in the city or republic.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: Rouen synagogue vandalized months after arson, knife attack

Syrians returned on Wednesday to the national museum in Damascus, reopened for the first time since Islamist-led forces seized the capital and ousted president Bashar al-Assad.The antiquities museum closed its doors on December 7, a day before Damascus was taken by rebel forces, over fears of looting."We firmly shut the museum's iron doors after we saw the situation was unstable," said Mohamed Nair Awad, head of the national antiquities authority.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Safe from looting, Damascus museum reopens a month after Assad's fall

UN peacekeepers in Lebanon patrol through rocky hills and olive groves near the border with Israel, ahead of a deadline for a truce in the war with Hezbollah that some residents fear will not hold.The situation is "still very fragile", said Indian peacekeeper Gurpyar Sharma from the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) amid the wreckage of several destroyed buildings near the town of Marjayoun."We are carrying out these kind of patrols" to help prevent any "further escalation of the violence", he said as AFP accompanied peacekeepers on a tour of the area.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: UN peacekeepers patrol in Lebanon as truce deadline nears

American Jewry is diversifying demographically. It’s no longer the overwhelmingly Democratic and Eastern European community of my youth. Just look how many Queens Jews voted for Donald Trump.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: Solomon Schechter school embodied a bygone American, Zionist, NY Jewish dream