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Israeli army forces stand outside a house that was hit by rockets fired by Hezbollah from Lebanon in the northern Israeli border town of Kiryat Shmona on Nov. 26, 2024. (Jalaa Marey/AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inIsrael

Takeaways from IDF’s newly released report about Oct. 7

Ben Sales by Ben Sales February 28, 2025March 3, 2025
Music Director Lahav Shani conducts the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. (Shai Skiff)
Posted inMusic

Israel Philharmonic to return to San Francisco with deeply personal program 

Andrew Gilbert by Andrew Gilbert February 27, 2025March 3, 2025
Four slain hostages
Posted inIsrael

Without its earlier theatrics, Hamas returns bodies of four more hostages

Ben Sales by Ben Sales February 27, 2025February 27, 2025
Yarden Bibas speaks at the funeral of his wife and sons, murdered in captivity in Gaza and returned to Israel after 16 months, Feb. 26, 2025. (Screenshot)
Posted inIsrael

‘I’m sorry I couldn’t protect you all,’ Yarden Bibas tells his sons and wife at their funeral

Philissa Cramer by Philissa Cramer February 26, 2025March 3, 2025
United Nations
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U.S., Israel vote against U.N. resolution condemning Russian invasion of Ukraine

Ben Sales by Ben Sales February 25, 2025February 25, 2025
Newly freed hostages reunite with family members on Saturday. Top row from right: Omer Shem Tov, Hisham al-Sayed and Avera Mengistu. 
Bottom, from right: Omer Wenkert, Eliya Cohen and Tal Shoham. (Collage via Israel Government Press Office_
Posted inIsrael

Families of newly freed hostages share stories of ’emotional and physical scars’

by Bar Peleg February 23, 2025February 23, 2025
Pro-Israel student groups at UC Berkeley set up an orange tent on Sproul Plaza on Thursday in memory of Shiri, Ariel and Kfir Bibas.
 (Shaya Keyvanfar)
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Jewish students at Cal memorialize Bibas family with orange display

by J. Staff February 21, 2025February 21, 2025
The Israel Defense Forces received the caskets and draped them in Israeli flags on Thursday. (Israel Government Press Office)
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IDF: Ariel and Kfir Bibas were murdered by Hamas, but third body is not their mother

Ben Sales by Ben Sales February 20, 2025February 21, 2025
Yony Alony came from southern Israel to pay her final respects at a vigil in Tel Aviv on Feb. 20, 2025. (Deborah Danan)
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Israel grieves as bodies said to be of hostages Shiri, Ariel and Kfir Bibas, Oded Lifshitz return from Gaza

by Deborah Danan February 20, 2025February 20, 2025
A closeup of a woman in a crowd — her hand is over her mouth as if she is gasping in shock
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At a Jaffa community center and beyond, tragic news of Bibas family’s fate sparks confusion, mourning and rage

by Deborah Danan February 19, 2025February 19, 2025

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