'They feel abandoned': Iranians needs Trump's help, former IRGC officer warns

FRONTLINES

US warns IRGC against 'escalatory behavior' in international waters

‘THEY LOVE Trump, they love America – but right now they feel abandoned, and it hurts.’ The US president said he has no reason to strike, but protesters have been asking for US intervention. Here, a man shows a sign mentioning Trump during a rally in support of nationwide protests in Iran in Rome.
  People walk past an anti-US billboard in Tehran, Iran, January 26, 2026
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump speaks to reporters over the North Atlantic as he returns to Washington from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, aboard Air Force One, US, January 22, 2026.

IDF announces capture of one of Hamas's top remaining commanders during overnight operations

Hamas terrorists stand at a site as Hamas says it continues to search for the body of the last deceased hostage, in Gaza City December 8, 2025.
Amnesty International Greek activists and Iranians living in Athens hold candles and placards in front of the Greek Parliament to support the people of Iran, in Athens, Greece, January 30, 2026.

Despair, 'endless anger' growing among Iranians as military action looms

Concrete roadblocks placed in Arab neighborhoods in Lod.

Arab neighborhoods in Lod blocked off by police-placed concrete cubes

US approves $6.5 billion in potential military sales to Israel, $9 billion sales to Saudi Arabia

ARIEL SEIDMAN, Israel’s Chargé d’Affaires in South Africa.

Israel responds to South Africa, declares chargé d'affaires persona non grata

Demonstrators march calling for an end to ICE operations in Minnesota on January 30, 2026 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Protesters marched through downtown to protest the deaths of Renee Good on January 7, and Alex Pretti on January 24 by federal immigration agents.

Thousands demonstrate in Minnesota and across US to protest ICE

ORI AVINOAM in Of Dogs and Men.

Of Dogs and Men: A haunting story in the aftermath of October 7 massacre

REVIEW
ETHAN HAWKE and Margaret Qualley star in Blue Moon, Richard Linklater’s drama about composer Lorenz Hart.

From Lorenz Hart to Mel Brooks: Two Jewish lives now available on Israeli screens

Tents sheltering displaced Palestinians in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.

'Pollution without borders': Gaza sewage flows north, contaminating Israeli waters

FEATURE
A man searches through piles of garbage in Gaza City.

Gaza’s rubble problem: How 60 million tons of war debris threaten an environmental collapse

FEATURE

Own your flame

Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli presenting an award to Deputy Mayor of Rome Tobia Zevi, who received it on behalf of the Mayor of Rome Roberto Gualtieri, honored for his unwavering support, his commitment to Jewish education, and his role in strengthening Jewish life in Rome and beyond.

Teva Israel, Health Ministry issue recall for Nutrilon Phase 1, Nutrilon AR baby formula

Return of Arab Joint List takes seats from opposition while Likud strengthens

POLL
Baby formula
REPORT

Haredi enlistment on the rise, still falling short of IDF goals

Haredi soldier

Millions of Israelis, including 900,000 children, live in poverty, NII report for 2024 shows

 ABOUT 41% of Jerusalem families suffer from poverty, compared to about 20% in the rest of the country.

MSF halts staff list submission to Israel, raises safety, transparency issues

A staff member assists a resident of the Sinai Residences in Boca Raton, Florida, on June 6, 2025.

Jewish seniors rally behind their caregivers as 350,000 Haitians are set to lose legal status

PORTLAND TRAIL BLAZERS forward Deni Avdija (8) scores a basket during the first half against Miami Heat forward Nikola Jovic (5) at Moda Center in Portland, Oregon.

Israel’s basketball powerhouse: Deni Avdija’s meteoric rise to NBA stardom

Some of the Jewish and Israeli 2026 Winter Olympians, from left: Noa Szollos, Quinn Hughes, A.J. Edelman, Attila Mihály Kertész and Mariia Seniuk.

Jewish and Israeli athletes to watch in the 2026 Winter Olympics

Tal Berkovich.

Model, actress Tal Berkovich killed in car accident at 41

Ritchie Torres challenger takes aim at Bronx 'Zionist millionaires' in campaign video

Qatar ties linked to anti-Western ideological shift at Georgetown, Middle East Forum reports

Congressional challenger Jose Vega, left, tells anti-Israel influencer Erik Warsaw that Rep. Ritchie Torres is controlled by "Zionist influencers and millionaires" living in Riverdale, a heavily Jewish Bronx neighborhood.

Yoram Hazony’s antisemitism speech sparks pushback from former aide, Jewish conservatives

Yoram Hazony speaks at the National Conservative Convention in Washington DC, September 2, 2025.

Giant portrait of Hind Rajab, girl killed in Gaza war, unfurled on Barcelona beach

A giant portrait of 5-year-old Palestinian girl Hind Rajab who was killed in Gaza in 2024, is unfurled on Barceloneta Beach in the second anniversary of her death and after a film about her death received an Oscar nomination, in Barcelona, Spain January 29, 2026.

TikTok deal fuels rise of UpScrolled, founder conceived it as a haven for Palestinian activism

Iran ready to resume talks with US, Aragchi says, calling for 'fair, equitable' negotiations

Israel braces for high air pollution as dust from North Africa impacts air quality

IRANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER Abbas Araghchi (right) speaks with Turkish counterpart Hakan Fidan in Istanbul in June. The North Kurdistan political movement is under Ankara’s harsh pressure. In Iran, Kurds face systematic suppression, says the writer.

Huda Kattan faces backlash after reposting pro-Iranian regime video

A vehicle carries Egyptian soldiers near the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, in Rafah, Egypt, August 6, 2025

Israel to reopen Rafah Crossing to civilians, coordinate with Egypt, EU, PA on security

US AND Israeli soldiers convene at the Civil Military Coordination Centre, the US-led centre overseeing the implementation of President Donald Trump's plan to end the war in Gaza, in Kiryat Gat, southern Israel November 17, 2025.

US changes Gaza Civil-Military Coordination Center leadership as Trump pursues stage II of plan

How media decides which deaths count and which events matter

ANALYSIS

Your Investments: Ran Gvili, the Exodus from Egypt, Tu Bishvat and your money

View of an illustration depicting captured Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro in downtown Caracas.
INTERVIEW

‘It felt like victory’: IDF dentist on identifying last Gaza hostage Ran Gvili

IDF works to identify body of St.-Sgt.-Maj. Ran Gvili, January 26, 2026.
OPINION

Ran Gvili's return: Israel did not 'win,' it negotiated and paid a price

Pallbearers from the Israeli Police sit in the hearse with the casket of Israeli hostage Ran Gvili, the last captive held by Hamas in Gaza, on January 28, 2026.
ByJONATHAN LIBERMAN

Your Taxes: AI dos and don’ts

Lockheed Martin to quadruple THAAD anti-missile interceptor production

Microwave weapon aims to knock drones out of the sky, Epirus pitches Leonidas

 US Army 1st Lt. Tony Gosser with Task Force Talon, 94th Army Air and Missile Defense Command, views a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) weapon system. October 26, 2017.
OPINION

A wake-up call for Jerusalem: Space superiority is a security and economic imperative

ByHILLA HADDAD CHMELNIK
 An illustrative image of artificial intelligence.

Former CIA chief tech officer warns: ‘AI needs security now to avoid the Internet's fate’

 UNIT 8200 soldiers in action – working with data.

Former IDF officer says key to AI is still 'person behind the algorithm' at Cybertech conference

Barcelona police arrest Chinese businessman for financing Hamas through his beauty shop

Final Epstein document cache released by US Justice Department, including over 3 million pages

Mossos d'Esquadra police officers stand on the stage as they attend a press conference.

FBI arrests former CNN anchor Don Lemon in investigation over anti-ICE church protest

Don Lemon attends the premiere of the fourth season of the TV show "The Morning Show" in New York City, US, September 9, 2025.

Daniel Rosen, Minnesota’s US attorney won confirmation in part on strength of Jewish leadership

Daniel Rosen, US Attorney for Minnesota

Venezuela plans amnesty law for prisoners, vows to convert major prison center

Venezuela's interim president Delcy Rodriguez, Venezuela's National Assembly President Jorge Rodriguez and Venezuela's Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello attend a press conference, more than a week after the U.S. launched a strike on the country and captured President Nicolas Maduro and his wife

A luxury Passover escape by the sea

Pesach at the Carlton Tel Aviv

Israel’s real estate map is changing

BAT YAM, the mini-Tel Aviv that hasn’t quite caught up with itself.

Dr. Sivan Mercer reveals: From salmon DNA to biostimulators: The hottest trends in aesthetics

Dr. Sivan Mercer MD

Apple buys secretive Israeli AI company Q.ai for $1.6 billion in biggest acquisition of its history

Investment firm offers to buy 51% of Israeli med tech company at $18 per share

 A women uses an iPhone mobile device as she passes a lighted Apple logo at the Apple store at Grand Central Terminal in New York City, US, April 14, 2023. Uploaded on 31/5/2024

Israel experiences 150% more investments in mental health, $352 million in startup funding in 2025

Mental health [illustrative]

Elon Musk’s Tesla halts production of Model X, Y to focus on ‘autonomous future’ in 2026

Tesla will halt production of the Model X and Model S, two of their most popular models.

IDB Chief Economist Einat Meir on Israel’s 2026 economic outlook and the global picture

War's forgotten victim: Israel faces mounting environmental crisis

JERUSALEM REPORT

Next years 'critical' for Israel's earthquake preparedness, Katz warns

Visitors walk across salt formations along the receding shoreline of the Dead Sea, a stark sign of the region’s growing environmental crisis.
JERUSALEM REPORT

Seeing sinkholes: How the Dead Sea’s collapse became a tourist draw

Indonesian rescue members search for victims at the site of a landslide following heavy rains in Pasir Langu village, West Bandung regency, West Java province, Indonesia, January 27, 2026.

Indonesia landslide death toll rises to 34 with 32 still missing

Indonesian rescue members carry a body bag containing the remains of a victim from the site of a landslide after it hit Pasirlangu village, West Bandung, West Java province, Indonesia, January 24, 2026.

Indonesia resumes search for 80 after landslide kills 17 in West Java

Low risk of deadly Nipah virus spreading from India, World Health Organization reassures

Neural 'on/off' switch discovery may shed light on sex differences in social behavior

AIRPORT HEALTH authorities in protective masks prepare a thermal imager at Soekarno Hatta International Airport, following the implementation of health screening for arriving passengers, after India confirmed two cases of the Nipah virus, in Tangerang near Jakarta, Indonesia, January 30, 2026.

History in Israel: Rabin Medical performs countries 1,000th lung transplant

Israeli Holocaust survivors foregoing medical treatment due to inaccessibility of care, study finds

STUDY

More than half of Israelis take dietary supplements and vitamins, new survey reveals

Any solution but the obvious: Israel can't rely on aliyah to fill IDF manpower shortage

OPINION

IDF unveils ‘Olim Al Bet’ program for fast-track immigrant reserve enlistment

AN IDF reserve soldier reports for a military drill along the border with Lebanon and Syria.

Aliyah from Denver to Jerusalem: ‘One picture wasn’t enough’

Sample of Tami Ellison’s figure-ground visual illusion photography.

Aliyah to Israel: A wedding postponed, a dream fulfilled

 Shira Sedek Ben-Zekhariah arrives at Ben-Gurion Airport, June 26, 2025.
OPINION

Homeward bound: Why South African Jews are making aliyah now

South African Jews, aged 60 and over, recently arrived via a Jewish Agency aliyah project, meet at Telfed - South African Zionist Federation in Raanana.
ByBRENDA KATTEN

Yamim ha’Tzeira. Your home by the sea, in Netanya

Contrary to reports: "Cancellation wave of less than half a percent"

 Yamim ha’Tzeira residential complex.

Luxury with roots and a vision for the future

Urban renewal under the “Evacuation and Reconstruction” framework in Kiryat Eliezer, Haifa.

Massive urban renewal plan approved in Kiryat Eliezer, Haifa under “evacuation & reconstruction”

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Want to choose a lawyer for an urban renewal project? Here are 5 tips you must read

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KEVIN WARSH, Fellow in Economics at the Hoover Institution and lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, speaks during the Sohn Investment Conference in New York City, US, May 8, 2017.

Trump names former governor Kevin Warsh as Powell's successor for US Federal Reserve head

Trump warns Britain on China business ventures, as Starmer calls for closer relationship

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio bans senior Iranian officials, families from being in US

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Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro speaks at Pennsylvania Department of State’s press briefing, after polls close, on the day of the 2024 U.S. presidential election, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, U.S.

Josh Shapiro’s new memoir puts his Jewish identity at the center of his political vision

After Alex Pretti killing in Minneapolis, Jewish gun owners confront Second Amendment tensions

Russian strike hit home of Kryvyi Rih Chabad rabbi, mikveh damaged

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People attend the funeral of the security forces who were killed in the protests that erupted over the collapse of the currency's value in Tehran, Iran, January 14, 2026.

‘Freedom is God’s idea,’ pastor says, casting Iran showdown as a moral mandate

Pope Leo asks God for 'a world with no more antisemitism' on Holocaust Remembrance Day

Patriarchs’ statement on Christian Zionism lacked pastoral care

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Tamara Cohen, founder of the Mazál bagel restaurant in Madrid, immigrated from the United States through  Spain's Sephardic ancestry law.

Tamara Cohen's ancestors were expelled from Spain, now she’s bringing bagels to Madrid

Yuval Village's Grand Vista Hotel returns to reclaim its glorious past

HIBA in Tel Aviv: Winter menu marks turning point for chef Yossi Shitrit's restaurant

Archaeology   

The two tombs date from the time of Rome's Republic and were found near that city's northeast Via Pietralata.

Ancient Roman tombs, shrine to Hercules discovered in Rome suburb dig

Italy discovers basilica design by ancient Roman architect Vitruvius, 'father of architecture'

Digital scans unveil new love notes and sketches on ancient Pompeii wall

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 Life beyond Earth may exist in far stranger places than scientists once thought, a new study suggests. January, 22.

Habitable worlds may be far more common than thought, Israeli study says

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Triennial report: Israeli science at the precipice

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The scene at Bloomfield Stadium was bedlam as Hapoel Tel Aviv players and fans celebrated together after the Reds earned their first derby victory over arch-rival Maccabi since 2014.

Curse is broken: Hapoel Tel Aviv’s night to remember after derby drought

'I don’t know s***': Trump invites Vecna and Freddy Krueger to Board of Peace on Eretz Nehederet

Israeli Space Week highlights Israel’s growing role in space sector

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Kai Höss at the Holocaust memorial in Berlin. January 27, 2026.

Grandson of Auschwitz commandant: 'My grandfather was greatest mass murderer in history'

'It is impossible to believe, but it happened': Holocaust survivor recalls childhood in Nazi camps

Holocaust education: Why telling Lithuania’s Jewish story matters more than ever

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Serbian police seize five tons of marijuana, assault rifles, rocket launcher

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