Channel 12 reported on Sunday that Liri Albag, a survivor of Hamas captivity, was stopped and questioned at JFK Airport in New York City this past Thursday.
Albag had flown to New York with friends for a much-needed vacation when she was unexpectedly pulled aside by U.S. passport control officers. The agents informed her that, according to their system, she was still marked as being held hostage and suspected that someone might be impersonating her.
She was held for about an hour, during which officials from the Israeli Consulate in New York got involved to clarify her identity and resolve the confusion. After their intervention, she was cleared and allowed to proceed.

ISA director candidate David Zini, who currently leads the IDF Training and Drill Command and serves on the General Staff, gave a brutally honest appraisal of the military’s breakdown during the October 7 Hamas onslaught. In a striking admission, he described the events as “a crazy failure, greater than the Yom Kippur War.”
Zini was addressing residents of the Gaza border region, many of whom he joined in combat on the day of the attack. He laid bare the strategic and operational flaws that, in his view, were at the heart of the catastrophe.

NEW YORK – A dual U.S.-German national was arrested Sunday at John F. Kennedy International Airport and charged with attempting to attack the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv with firebombs, following his deportation by Israeli authorities. Joseph Neumayer, 28, had arrived in Israel in April. On May 19, he approached the U.S. Embassy in Tel […]

A moving visit took place today at the United Hatzalah headquarters, when the founder of the “Hatzalah” organization in the United States, Rabbi Hershel Weber, arrived for a special tour with his sons Naftali and Meir. He was greeted by Eli Beer, President and Founder of United Hatzalah, and Lazer Hyman – VP and Head of Volunteers and Operations. During the visit, Eli Beer shared with Rabbi Weber the story of United Hatzalah’s establishment, referring to the parallels between the path Rabbi Weber pioneered in New York in 1966 and the challenges faced during United Hatzalah’s early days in Israel. “When you established Hatzalah in the US, they warned you not to do it because of the ambulance monopoly – yet you chose to go against the current.

A cryptocurrency investor has been arrested and charged with kidnapping a man and keeping him locked up for weeks in an upscale Manhattan apartment, where authorities say he was beaten, shocked and led to believe that his family was in danger if he didn’t give up his Bitcoin password. John Woeltz, 37, was arrested Friday night after the victim escaped from the eight-bedroom town house and flagged down a traffic officer on the street for help, according to prosecutors. Woeltz was arraigned Saturday on charges of kidnapping, assault, unlawful imprisonment and criminal possession of a firearm, court records show. He was ordered held without bail, a spokesperson for the Manhattan district attorney’s office confirmed Saturday.

The Knesset Ethics Committee has dismissed a complaint submitted by MK Ofer Cassif of Hadash-Ta’al regarding remarks made by Likud MK Nissim Vaturi in which he called to “burn Gaza” during public statements made between late 2023 and early 2024.
The panel, which is responsible for reviewing and enforcing ethical conduct among lawmakers, stated that it had “examined the remarks and believes they are of political nature and accurately reflect the Knesset’s member’s ideology.”

The U.S. military spent more than $6 billion over the past three years to recruit and retain service members, in what has been a growing campaign to counter enlistment shortfalls. The financial incentives to reenlist in the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines increased dramatically from 2022 through last year, with the Navy vastly outspending the others, according to funding totals provided by the services. The overall amount of recruiting bonuses also rose steadily, fueled by significant jumps in spending by the Army and Marine Corps. The military services have routinely poured money into recruiting and retention bonuses over the years.