RAMAT GAN, Israel (AP) — For more than 470 days, Eitan Gonen publicly pleaded with his daughter to stay alive while in Hamas captivity. He didn’t know if she would hear him, but he ended every interview he gave with the same hopeful message: Romi is coming home alive.

Hamas held them captive for 477 days. Their return to Israel was met by cheers − and tears − as crowds gathered in Tel Aviv to watch the event unfold on large screens set up in "Hostage Square ...

LOS ANGELES (KTLA) – With the devastating Palisades Fire still smoldering, Lisa Pelton and some of her neighbors in Mandeville Canyon received an unpleasant notice from their bank: their home equity lines of credit were being slashed. “I was appalled,” Pelton told KTLA 5 News on Thursday. “I thought it was unconscionable what they did. […]

Attendees at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv pose with pictures of the three women released by Hamas on Jan. 19, 2024. (Deborah Danan) Britons Sam Reubens and Heski Strassman, both from Manchester, made aliyah after Oct. 7, in response to growing antisemitism ...

Families of the captives and their supporters crowded the centers to watch and cheer as Emily Damari, 28, Romi Gonen, 23, and Doron Steinbrecher, 31, left Gaza after more than 15 months in

Delta now plans to resume flights from New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport to Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport starting April 1. Israeli-owned El Al has been the only airline offering nonstop service from Tel Aviv to North America, which has driven up fares more than 100%, the Times of Israel reported.

Israel says a Hamas list shows that eight of the 33 hostages to be released in the first phase of the Gaza ceasefire are dead.

Emotional crowds gather to watch as first three hostages are released in deal, but worry over fate of those still held in Gaza clouds joy

Israel already had a thriving startup scene, meaning its companies may be better placed to capitalise on the wartime boom, with some already winning orders from abroad with aims to shape future battle

The drone that tracked Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar and filmed him as he lay dying in footage beamed around the world last October was made by Israeli startup Xtend, according to media reports, one of many such firms to get a boost from Israel's war needs.

When Ilana Gritzewsky returned to Israel after being held captive in Gaza for 55 days in November 2023, she had so much adrenaline coursing through her body she couldn’t sleep for two days.