Passengers from flydubai flight FZ1073 walk with their family members through the arrivals hall at Ben Gurion International Airport on Sept. 30, 2026. (Flash90)
Jewish communities worldwide under heightened threat after flydubai attack
Israeli security forces at the scene of a car-ramming attack near the Maccabim checkpoint in Samaria, where an IDF soldier was wounded, Sept. 23, 2026. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90.
Neria Leiter, son of Israel’s ambassador to US, remains in ‘very serious condition’ after terror attack
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the United Nations in New York City, Sept. 24, 2026. Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90)
Full text: Netanyahu’s address at the U.N. General Assembly
Sandy and Rosalie Goldstein at their daughter Risa’s wedding in Israel, June 2026. (Mark Tso/Mark4Wedding. Used with permission by JNS)
Never too late to make aliyah for these US olim
A view over a new neighborhood in the Jewish settlement of Kedumim, in the West Bank on September 8, 2026 in Kedumim, West Bank. (Amir Levy/Getty Images)
UK, France, Canada to ban goods from Israeli settlements
Israeli Border Police patrol outside Damascus Gate in Jerusalem’s Old City during Ramadan, Feb. 18, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
Israel Police deploy thousands for High Holidays
Israeli Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben Gvir, attends a press conference at the Etzel Museum following the discovery of the Altalena ship after 78 years at bottom of the Mediterranean sea on August 24, 2026 in Tel Aviv, Israel. (Amir Levy/Getty Images)
How the sunken 1948 Altalena arms ship became an election battleground in Israel in 2026
Former Israeli hostage Agam Berger with her parents, Meirav and Shlomi, aboard an Israeli Air Force helicopter en route to a hospital following her release after 482 days in Hamas captivity, Jan. 30, 2025. Credit: IDF Spokesperson’s Unit.
The photograph reached Israeli phones within the hour.
Some 50 miles to the east, in Ma’ale Adumim, Rabbi Zev Shandalov read the six words and wrote a piyut, a form of prayer-poetry that rabbis have composed since antiquity.
A ‘piyut’ for former Gaza hostage Agam Berger
Yehuda Katz was a 22-year-old tank gunner and yeshiva student when he was killed in the First Lebanon War 44 years ago. (Israel Defense Forces)
Remains of last Israeli soldier missing from First Lebanon War’s Sultan Yacoub battle found
Israelis gather at Hostages Square to demand an official investigation into the events of Oct. 7, 2023, in Tel Aviv on July 2, 2026. (Mostafa Alkharouf/Anadolu via Getty Images)
‘History cannot be erased’: ‘Hostages Square’ in Tel Aviv formalized in official name change
The “David’s Wanderings Path” on the edge of the Judean Desert in the Mount Hebron region, August 2026. (Courtesy of Mount Hebron Regional Council)
Where David met Abigail: A Judean Desert-area trail is reviving Biblical romance
Micah Bernstein in the mamad with his nephew Yahli Greenbaum at his parents’ home in Modi’in during the war with Iran.
North Texans find way home from wartime Israel
Alexander Muss High School in Israel celebrate the return of Israeli hostages. (Courtesy JNF-USA)
Grants available for Texas high schoolers to study in Israel
IAF commander Maj. Gen. Tomer Bar (center) monitors “Operation Roaring Lion,” Feb. 28, 2026. (IDF)
Historic Israeli Air Force operation: 200 fighter jets hammer Iran
Dallas native Ryan Prager, drafted by the Cleveland Guardians last summer, pitched for the Lynchburg Hillcats — the Guardians’ Single-A affiliate — last August. He is currently in spring training with Cleveland in Goodyear, Arizona, and will play for Team Israel March 6–11, 2026, in Miami. (Courtesy Lynchburg Hillcats)
Dallas’ Ryan Prager named to Team Israel for WBC
The Texas State Capitol in Austin. On Feb. 12, 2026, state leaders announced plans to double Texas’ investment in Israel bonds. (Stock)
Texas doubles investment in Israel bonds to $280M
Howard Haber, second from left, stands with American and Israeli firefighters during a deployment in Israel. (Howard Haber)
Israel called, a local Jewish firefighter answered
Talik Gvili, mother of Ran Gvili, Dec. 10, 2025. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)
Talik Gvili says ‘pride stronger than sadness’ after son’s remains retrieved from Gaza
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a press conference in Jerusalem on Jan. 27, 2026. (Screenshot/ PMO)
With last hostage Gvili returned, Netanyahu says ‘Holy mission complete’
Israeli Master Sgt. Ran Gvili, 24, who was killed in the Hamas-led terrorist attacks in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, and whose body is being held by Hamas, Dec. 6, 2025. (Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)
US politicians, Jewish groups welcome return of final hostage’s body from Gaza
The IDF recovered the body of Master Sgt. Ran Gvili, the last remaining hostage, from the Gaza Strip, on Jan. 26, 2026. (IDF/X)
IDF recovers body of Ran Gvili, last hostage in Gaza
From left, volunteer magicians Ben Cohen, Avi Frier, Sam Jacobs and Eliyahu Joseph at Moshav Shokeda, near the Gaza Strip, on Nov. 24, 2025. (Courtesy of Magic4Israel)
US magicians producing smiles in Israel
The 2025 Guiness Book of World Records. (Jammer Gene/AdobeStock)
Guinness World Records ‘no longer accepting submissions from Israel, Palestinian territories’
Three coffins draped in Israeli flags are surrounded by IDF soldiers standing at attention, paying tribute to the fallen hostages during a solemn ceremony in Israel on Nov. 2, 2025. (IDF)
Israel receives body believed to belong to slain hostage
Soldiers in the Israel Defense Forces give a thumbs-up for their new hats. (Courtesy)
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Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto taking the oath of office on Oct. 20, 2024. (Ministry of State Secretariat of the Republic of Indonesia via Wikimedia Commons)