After the funeral: Israel365 Charity steps in for Israel’s widows and orphans
The funeral ends, and the mourners go home. A few weeks later, the rent comes due. That second moment never makes the news, and it is the moment Israel365 Charity built its newest campaign around.
“A light to the nations”: Israel’s battlefield medicine, forged after October 7, now a model for the US Army
On October 7, 2023, Israel lived through the darkest day in its modern history. Hamas. Three years later, the US Army published a study of what Israel’s military medics learned in that war, with a clear message for American commanders: learn from the Israelis.
Filmmaker behind NAZA turned a rabbi’s murderer into a Gaza “peace” story, investigation finds
Regavim releases a previously unpublished investigation showing the Gaza “peace” teacher reenacted the stabbing, praised Hamas commanders and celebrated October 7, as the IDF, legal experts, and IDF reservists dismantle NAZA’s claims.
Let the children sleep; tomorrow is gone
Her whole life as a mother had been about standing between her child and the world. But she could not stand between her daughter and this. The army would take her daughter today, and Tanya did not want to be the one to give her to them.
Biden’s hostage negotiator admits U.S. pressure on Israel hardened Hamas, stalled hostage deal
Brett McGurk, the man President Biden chose to bring home the hostages Hamas dragged into Gaza on October 7, now admits that American pressure on Israel hardened Hamas and made the hostages harder to free.
Behind “Naza”: Genocide Claims, Hamas, a Whitewashed Terrorist, and a Film No Israeli Has Actually Seen
“Naza” arrived at the Venice Film Festival with a claim large enough to fill a headline: that the IDF has been running a policy of mass civilian killing in Gaza, executed with the help of artificial intelligence and accepted in advance rather than treated as an accident.
Elections committee forces Shas to pull IDF soldier ad amid draft law furor
The ruling lands as Shas faces mounting public anger over its role in pushing through the Basic Law draft exemption, legislation that grants sweeping military service exemptions to ultra-Orthodox yeshiva students.
Is the IDF becoming Gideon’s army of God?
By 2025, a religious man serving in Israel’s military reserves was more than twice as likely to still be in uniform each month than his secular counterpart.
Knesset enshrines Torah study as “foundational value” in new Basic Law, reigniting decades-old draft battle
The vote came after ten hours of speeches and opposition filibustering, and it lands the country squarely back inside a fight over military conscription that has simmered since the state’s founding in 1948.
Torah study now a Basic Law in Israel: Draft-dodging gets constitutional cover
Israel’s Knesset voted Wednesday to advance a Basic Law declaring Torah study a foundational constitutional value of the Jewish state, a measure legal experts warn could permanently entrench draft exemptions for tens of thousands men, while the IDF fights a manpower shortage on multiple fronts.