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21+ min ago (113+ words) UNGA votes 139-12 to back ICJ's call for Israel to allow Gaza aid via UN agencies, including UNRWA. Israel denounces UNRWA as complicit in terror, rejecting the resolution as "morally distorted." "(Arutz Sheva-Israel National News' North American desk is keeping you updated until the start of Shabbat in New York. The time posted automatically on all Israel National News articles, however, is Israeli time.) UN General Assembly backs ICJ opinion urging Israel to cooperate with UNRWA UNGA votes 139-12 to back ICJ's call for Israel to allow Gaza aid via UN agencies, including UNRWA. Israel denounces UNRWA as complicit in terror, rejecting the resolution as "morally distorted."...

26+ min ago (391+ words) ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 798 The administration of US President Donald Trump plans to order visa-exempt foreign tourists, including those from Israel, to disclose their social media histories from the last five years before entering the country, according to an official notice. The regulations would apply to tourists from 42 countries, Israel was first'designated'into the Visa Waiver Program by DHS in September 2023. The same year, Israeli tourism to the United States reached 376,439, followed by 417,077 in 2024, according to'Statista. Currently, those travelers only need to apply for a waiver known as the Electronic System for Travel Authorization (ESTA), which still requires them to provide certain personal details. Under the proposed new rules, the collection of social media data would become a "mandatory" part of ESTA applications. Applicants would need to provide their social media histories from the last five years, according to the notice....

56+ min ago (570+ words) ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 798 Released Hamas hostages Avinatan Or, an Israeli employee of chip giant NVIDIA, and his girlfriend Noa Argamani met Thursday evening with the company's founder and CEO Jensen Huang at its US headquarters, marking Or's first meeting with the tech executive since his release from Hamas captivity. The meeting was organized by Amit Krig, senior vice president and head of NVIDIA's Israel research and development center. Members of NVIDIA's Israeli management team, currently visiting the US headquarters in Santa Clara, California, also took part in the gathering. Or was held hostage in Gaza for 738 days after he and Argamani were abducted by Hamas terrorists from the Nova music festival on October 7, 2023. Footage showing the couple being violently separated during the attack became one of the most widely circulated images of the massacre. Argamani was freed on June…...

1+ hour, 5+ min ago (920+ words) ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 798 NEW YORK " Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch, a prominent Reform leader in New York City, said on Friday that he remains deeply concerned about the city's future after a meeting with New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani. Hirsch is the president of the New York Board of Rabbis, head of Manhattan's Stephen Wise Free Synagogue and a national leader in the Reform movement. He is a prominent voice in support of American Zionism and had urged Mamdani to reconsider his views on Israel during the mayoral campaign. He and other rabbis met with Mamdani on Thursday night, weeks before Mamdani takes office on January 1. Hirsch said on X that the group was "pleased to be able to discuss our concerns" with Mamdani, but that "concerns remain." "We've never before had a mayor who has expressed this kind of…...

1+ hour, 36+ min ago (480+ words) ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 798 Scottish rock group Primal Scream superimposed swastikas combined with Stars of David over the eyes of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defense minister Yoav Gallant, as well as other global politicians, in on-stage graphics during a Monday night concert, leading a Jewish security group to file a police complaint. The Scottish band was playing at the historic Roundhouse venue in north London, where they performed their 2000 single "Swastika Eyes." During the song, the band flashed images on screen of global politicians " many of them Israeli " in which their eyes had been replaced by flashing swastikas inside a Star of David. The politicians featured by Primal Scream included US President Donald Trump, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Argentine President Javier Milei and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich. A spokesperson for the Jewish organization Community Security…...

1+ hour, 36+ min ago (449+ words) ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 798 Iranian security forces on Friday "violently" arrested the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi at a memorial ceremony for a lawyer who died earlier this month, her supporters said. Mohammadi, who was granted temporary leave from prison in December 2024, was detained along with several other activists at the ceremony for lawyer Khosrow Alikordi, who was found dead in his office last week, her foundation wrote on X. Also writing on X, Mohammadi's Paris-based husband, Taghi Rahmani, said she had been arrested at the ceremony in the eastern city of Mashhad along with fellow prominent activist Sepideh Gholian. Alikordi, 45, was a lawyer who had defended clients in sensitive cases, including people arrested in a crackdown on nationwide protests that erupted in 2022. His body was found on December 5, with rights groups calling for an investigation into his death, which…...

1+ hour, 51+ min ago (778+ words) ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 798 The United States has reportedly pressed Israel to assume responsibility for clearing the vast rubble left behind by more than two years of war in the Gaza Strip, a demand that could burden Jerusalem with a massive, multi-year engineering project costing upward of $1 billion. According to a Thursday Ynet report, Washington has conveyed to Israel that it expects the country not only to finance the removal of debris across Gaza, but also to oversee the operation itself " a prerequisite for reconstruction that has yet to begin under the proposed postwar framework. The Gaza Strip has been devastated during the war that erupted after Hamas's October 7, 2023, attack on southern Israel, in which some 1,200 people were killed and 251 taken hostage. Israel launched a military campaign against Hamas in response, leading to widespread destruction across the enclave as fighting…...

1+ hour, 54+ min ago (627+ words) Iran's crisis goes viral as Gen Z leads a bold challenge to the ayatollahs. They are young, plugged into TikTok and Instagram and no longer afraid. From a devastating water crisis to nostalgia for the shah's style, Iran's Generation Z is openly challenging the regime online. But before optimism, there is also a nightmare scenario ... Irans crisis goes viral as Gen Z leads a bold challenge to the ayatollahs The post Irans crisis goes viral as Gen Z leads a bold challenge to the ayatollahs appeared first on Jerusalem World News....

2+ hour, 10+ min ago (194+ words) Thailand's prime minister, Anutin Charnvirakul, said he told US President Donald Trump in a phone call Friday that Cambodia was to blame for deadly border clashes."Trump said he want a ceasefire," Anutin told reporters after his call with the US president, adding in reference to Cambodia, "I replied that he'd better tell that to our friend."(Arutz Sheva-Israel National News' North American desk is keeping you updated until the start of Shabbat in New York. The time posted automatically on all Israel National News articles, however, is Israeli time.) Thailand PM tells Trump Cambodia is to blame for deadly border clashes Thailand's prime minister, Anutin Charnvirakul, said he told US President Donald Trump in a phone call Friday that Cambodia was to blame for deadly border clashes. "Trump said he want a ceasefire," Anutin told reporters after his call…...

3+ hour, 7+ min ago (650+ words) ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 798 For the second week in a row, hundreds gathered at Tel Aviv's Hostages Square to support the family of police officer Master Sgt. Ran Gvili, the final hostage whose body is held captive in Gaza. Itzik Gvili, Ran's father, spoke about his son in the present tense. "It's hard for me to accept condolences. Until I see his body, I don't speak about him in the past tense," he said. Gvili mentioned the police officers present at the gathering, "who saved the nation," and described that October 7 morning, when they woke Ran early in the morning to tell him about the Hamas invasion. Ran Gvili, a police master sergeant who had a broken shoulder, went to fight at Kibbutz Alumim. "His shoulder was broken and he didn't think twice about fighting," said Gvili. "He said to…...