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42+ min ago   (245+ words) US President Donald Trump's Board of Peace on Tuesday officially launched its account on social media site X. The first three official posts to the account announced that three countries have joined the Board as founding members: Argentina, Armenia and Azerbaijan....

54+ min ago   (380+ words) President Isaac Herzog announced an upcoming visit to Australia to meet with the local Jewish community and Australian officials on Tuesday, with his official schedule indicating that he will depart on February 8 and return on February 12. Herzog was invited to…...

1+ hour ago   (255+ words) The Chicago City Council has unanimously adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism, formally adding it to the city's declaration of human rights, JNS reported. Alderman Raymond Lopez, a Democrat who sponsored the legislation, announced the…...

1+ hour, 19+ min ago   (438+ words) Husam Badran, a member of the political bureau of the Hamas terrorist organization, addressed the ongoing ceasefire negotiations on Tuesday, claiming that Israel's demand for Hamas to disarm is an attempt to obstruct the implementation of the agreement's second phase....

1+ hour, 23+ min ago   (938+ words) Muslims should be told that if they do not reform violent Islamic teachings, they cannot have a mosque, Belgian Vlaams Belang Party MP Sam van Rooy told The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday. "We should stop making the distinction between Islam…...

1+ hour, 30+ min ago   (913+ words) Calls for a limited U.S. military strike on Iran rest on a dangerous illusion: that Washington can control escalation while achieving a meaningful strategic outcome. In reality, a strike that does not explicitly aim at, and actively pursue, regime change risks…...

1+ hour, 37+ min ago   (635+ words) A rabbi was verbally and physically attacked in the Forest Hills neighborhood of Queens in New York, on International Holocaust Remembrance Day. City authorities described the incident as "targeted antisemitic attack", according to a report in Ynet. According to Yeshiva…...

2+ hour, 3+ min ago   (415+ words) Israel is marking the end of a painful chapter after the return of the remains of the last hostage held in Gaza. Across the country, people removed yellow pins from their lapels and marked what many described as the fulfillment…...

2+ hour, 11+ min ago   (263+ words) The Department of Homeland Security deported three Iranian nationals known or suspected of terrorism who were former members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Fox News reported on Tuesday. They were among 14 Iranians placed on a deportation flight to…...

3+ hour, 13+ min ago   (324+ words) The Knesset Ethics Committee, chaired by MK Eliyahu Revivo (Likud), on Tuesday morning rejected a complaint submitted by the human-rights organization B'Tsalmo against MK Ayman Odeh (Hadash-Ta'al). The complaint was filed following Odeh's call for an arms embargo on Israel....