GENEVA, March 16 (Xinhua) -- The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) on Saturday called on Israel to halt its ground assault on Rafah, the southernmost city in Gaza, saying 1.2 million people there have nowhere safe to go. "I'm gravely concerned about reports of an Israeli ...
She was in Israel celebrating the high holidays. "It was Simchat Torah, which is called the 'joy of the Torah,'" she said, "and it's a holiday where the Jews really like sing songs of peace." She woke up the next morning to sirens. "I didn't know what was going on,"...
Many people think of “Israel” and the “Jews” as being the same group of people, but in reality, the Jews are just a small segment of the larger group of people God called Israel. Who is Israel? Jacob was the son of Abraham whose name was changed by God to “Israel,” which me...
Israeli soldier who refuses to serve in Gaza speaks outYuval Green, a 26-year-old reservist who was called up to fight in southern Gaza, said he decided to leave the Israel Defense Forces when his unit was asked to set fire to a Palestinian house there.Bashar Taleb/AFP via Getty Im...
UK to halt some arms exports to Israel Follow Sky News on WhatsApp Keep up with all the latest news from the UK and around the world by following Sky News Tap here On the day she was abducted, Ms Yerushalmi sent a video of rocket fire to her family group chat and said she was le...
The health agency called for sustained humanitarian corridors to continue providing vital aid, even if an immediate ceasefire is not reached.■ Palestinians gather to get relief food supplies in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah, on Feb. 14, 2024. The World Health Organization (WHO) on We...
All of the original Siri voices worldwide came from a bank of digital voices that were recorded in 2005. I recorded four hours a day, five days a week for a month. The process is called concatenation, and the reason the original Siri was so iconic is because she was the first concatena...
Culture minister Miri Regev called on the government to revoke the Israeli citizenship of the mother of the gunman. “His mother is a resident of Gaza who came to Israel to marry an Israeli citizen,” she said. “Now we need to revoke her identity card and expel her and the en...
The drone strike that killed three U.S. troops in Jordan and was apparently launched by Iran-backed militants was the latest in a flurry of attacks and reprisals across the Middle East.
A 4-year-old boy whose curiosity led to the destruction of a 3,500-year-old jar has returned to the museum in northern Israel where it happened, welcomed by forgiving curators who are using the accident as an educational opportunity.