Gaza hasn't collapsed yet. Neither has Hamas. However, what's happening is unprecedented in scale: The devastation, intensity, and scope look like nothing like past operations. If Israel stays the course, it has a real chance of achieving the goals it set. This will require focus, resolve, tough decisions, legitimacy, and also time and luck – but it's achievable.
Eyal Dahan, a businessman from LA raised money in the US, and then hopped on a plane to Israel so that he could give it to IDF wounded and evacuated families. We bring you his story, as well as that of three others like him who stepped up to the plate.
For the first time since taking office, Minister of Health Uriel Bosso provides an interview.
Sixteen years have elapsed since Hamas took control by force of all the government branches and institutions in the Gaza Strip, and either expelled the Fatah operatives or literally threw them off the rooftops. With the support of international aid organizations, and also to a large extent with the indirect support of Israel, Hamas developed into a governmental terrorist organization.
“The president of the United States – the leader of the Democratic Party – came out so strongly in favor of Israel,” Ruderman Family Foundation President Jay Ruderman says. “These radical left voices mean nothing to him.”
"There's a sense of helplessness; we want to put out one fire after another, and it doesn't end," says Professor Jonathan Levav, a professor of marketing at Stanford Graduate School of Business.
During the harrowing moments on Oct. 7, the special unit – which normally fights only alongside other commandos – improvised on its own. “A dog who was with one of our men went in to comb a house,” Lieut. Col. A. related. “He revealed the location of two terrorists, took a burst of gunfire from them, and was killed."
The alleged Israeli strike several days ago prevented the landing of not just the plane carrying the Iranian foreign minister, but another aircraft likely carrying illicit arms and high-ranking officers.
Israel Hayom editor-in-chief and newsdesk director visit the scene of the Hamas slaughter, seeing firsthand the Holocaust-like aftermath.
Mukhtar Mammadov, the first-ever ambassador to the Jewish state, claims that the recent operation in Nagorno-Karabakh was in self defense. "We had 10,000 illegal Armenian soldiers on our territory, would Israel have accepted that?" He also makes it clear Israel-Azerbaijan relations "not directed at Iran," although he calls on all parties to fulfill their commitments under the agreements with the IAEA.
