Israel Hayom speaks to the family of Lt. Col. Salman Habaka, 33, who fell on Nov. 2 while heroically battling Hamas terrorists in Gaza. "I want Salman to be remembered as a hero of Israel, and it doesn't matter if he is Muslim, Druze, Jewish, or Christian," his father, Imad, says.
Outgoing Foreign Minister Eli Cohen speaks with Israel Hayom.
Dr. Roni Eichel immigrated to Israel from Germany 26 years ago and serves as the head of neurology at the Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem. When his son went into Gaza, he went through what he describes as a nerve-wracking period.
Female reservists from the Sky Rider drone unit were the eye in the sky for the 13th Battalion in one of the major battles of the ground incursion into Gaza and helped the soldiers on the ground destroy the enemy and emerge unscathed.
The unique story of Urija Bayer, an Israeli-German-Christan combat soldier from the IDF Maglan commando unit who fell in the fighting in Gaza.
Naor, who was shot several times in the abdomen, is steadfast about fulfilling his dream of establishing a space industry in the Negev. Mordechai, who was hit by a missile that crushed 11 of his 12 pairs of ribs, gets the strength for the hard work of rehabilitation from playing the violin. And Yonatan, who was on the first bulldozer that entered Gaza to make way for other troops, smiles as he takes his first step on one remaining leg.
He created the impression of wanting to get closer to Israel, and even met with Herzog and Netanyahu, but then came the October 7 massacre that had the Turkish president revert to the position of supporting terrorist organizations.
Israel's objective is to destroy Hamas' governing and military capabilities to prevent a repeat of the Oct. 7 attack.
According to one expert who spoke with Israel Hayom, the analogy doesn't stand up. "First, even if Gaza is totally defeated and occupied at the end of the war, it is only a small part of the Arab world. Jihad, jihadists, political Islam and Islamists will continue to exist and thrive elsewhere, both in the Arab world and the wider Middle East."
In an exclusive Israel Hayom interview, the guards and commanders in charge of a prison facility where Hamas terrorists are incarcerated share what it is like to work in close proximity with the people who committed atrocities that the national psyche still struggles to comprehend. "On the outside, I have a poker face, but inside my soul is in turmoil," one of them shares.
