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.
Israel’s Ministry of Tourism invests millions in domestic travel as international tourism recovers
The Israeli Tourism Month initiative will offer Israelis approximately 1,000 guided tours and hundreds of other activities for just 18 shekels, helping support tourism businesses following the summer and holiday vacation periods.
Curse of Ishmael: Houthi drone intercepted near Mecca as Islam’s holiest city comes under fire
Saudi air defenses shot down a Houthi drone just south of Mecca on Tuesday evening, hours after missile warning sirens sounded across the holy city for the first time in the current round of fighting between Saudi Arabia and Yemen’s Iran-backed rebels.
Majority of Israelis fear October 7-style attack from Judea and Samaria, new poll shows
The number has climbed steadily for over two years, and it now sits alongside a defense establishment warning that the threat is not theoretical.
Rosh Hashanah 5787: A Historic Jump Toward Redemption
For those watching the process of Geula unfold before our eyes, there are times when its significance is impossible to miss. Rosh Hashanah 5787 was one of those times.
For the first time in thousands of years, the shofar sounds on the Temple Mount
Hundreds of Jews stood on the Temple Mount before dawn on the second day of Rosh Hashanah this year, and something had happened there that Rabbi Josh Wander believes had not happened in thousands of years: the shofar sounded on the Mount together with the silver Temple trumpets.
As Israel’s population nears 10.3 million, the ingathering of the exiles advances toward a Messianic threshold
To a demographer, 10.3 million is a number in a government spreadsheet. To anyone who reads the Hebrew Bible as a living document rather than an ancient artifact, it is something closer to a milestone in a redemption already underway.
Betting on the outcome of an election that will never happen
The fact that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas recently issued a decree calling for elections this coming November is the first red flag that the elections will probably not happen. If they do, there will be no semblance of democracy.
The pattern is in the data: New York Times, BBC studies confirm anti-Israel media bias
The New York Times’ coverage of the Israel-Hamas war was grossly skewed toward the Palestinian side and against Israel, according to a study. Israeli casualties were consistently omitted or minimized, while Palestinian suffering was amplified and given far greater prominence throughout.
As the third anniversary of Oct. 7 nears, the world gets two very different portraits on screen
“Naza” relies on anonymous, unverifiable testimony that accuses the IDF of running a policy of mass civilian killing in Gaza. “Fauda,” though fictional, tracks the documented record of Oct. 7 so closely that one reviewer said it actually understates what happened.