Ofra Keidar was buried on Thursday at Kibbutz Be’eri, after being held hostage for 625 days, nearly 21 months since her abduction on October 7, 2023.
Her son Elad Keidar spoke at the graveside, reflecting on their final phone call. “After they told us you had been recovered from Gaza, I couldn’t stop replaying our last phone conversation in my head – the photos and videos I saw, the situation we were in at home, and the state you were in when you faced the terrorists. I started analyzing the entire situation from every angle, like a 360-degree view. I need these details to find closure in my personal journey. I hope with all my heart that all the families of the hostages will also be able to find their closure.”

Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu delivered a video address on Thursday in which he declared that Israel had secured a meaningful triumph over Iran and emphasized that this moment presents a strategic chance to broaden the circle of peace in the region.
Referencing Tehillim, Netanyahu stated: “The Lord gives strength to His people; the Lord blesses His people with peace.”
He continued: “We fought with strength against Iran and achieved a great victory. This victory opens the door to a dramatic expansion of the peace agreements. We are working on this vigorously.”

NEW YORK (AP) — New York Mayor Eric Adams set out Thursday to persua

NEW YORK (AP) — Jeremy Didier had taken he

Nestle said Wednesday it will eliminate artificial colors from its U.S. food and beverages by the middle of 2026. It’s the latest big food company making that pledge. Last week, Kraft Heinz and General Mills said they would remove artificial dyes from their U.S. products by 2027. General Mills also said it plans to remove artificial dyes from its U.S. cereals and from all foods served in K-12 schools by the middle of 2026. The move has broad support. About two-thirds of Americans favor restricting or reformulating processed foods to remove ingredients like added sugar or dyes, according to an AP-NORC poll. Both California and West Virginia have recently banned artificial dyes in foods served in schools. On Sunday, Republican Gov.

President Donald Trump claimed that reporters from CNN and The New York Times could soon face termination over what he called inaccurate coverage of the recent American airstrikes on Iranian nuclear facilities.
Both media organizations had published pieces suggesting that the U.S. bombing campaign failed to achieve lasting damage to Iran’s nuclear infrastructure, estimating that any disruption would last just a few months.
However, CIA Director John Ratcliffe contradicted those claims on Wednesday, stating that reliable intelligence pointed to severe destruction of Iran’s nuclear capabilities, potentially requiring years for the regime to rebuild.
In a post to Truth Social on Thursday, Trump took aim at the two news giants.

The Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday it has expanded existing warnings on the two leading COVID-19 vaccines about a rare heart side effect mainly seen in young men. Myocarditis, a type of heart inflammation that is usually mild, emerged as a complication after the first shots became widely available in 2021. Prescribing information from both Pfizer and Moderna already advises doctors about the issue. In April, the FDA sent letters to both drugmakers asking them to update and expand the warnings to add more detail about the problem and to cover a larger group of patients. While the FDA can mandate label changes, the process is often more of a negotiation with companies.

A home in the southern Lebanon town of Houla, allegedly used by Hezbollah to observe Israeli forces, was demolished by IDF troops overnight, the military says. According to the IDF, the home belonged to Ahmad Ghazi Ali, a Hezbollah operative killed in a drone strike in Houla a week ago.

WH PRESS SECRETARY: “With President Trump as Commander-in-Chief, the world is a much safer place… After decades in which past Presidents coddled and enabled the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism, President Trump finally ended the immediate threat of a nuclear Iranian regime.”

WH PRESS SECRETARY: “The contrast is clear, Obama and Biden sent taxpayer dollars in a failed attempt to buy the Iranian regime’s compliance. President Trump sent war planes to destroy Iran’s ability to produce nuclear weapons.”

WH PRESS SECRETARY: “The President wants peace. He always has… We see a new era in which perhaps some of these Gulf and Arab states can sign on to the Abraham Accords.”

WH PRESS SECRETARY: “When we look at the entirety of the intelligence that we have to this date, it concludes that these strikes on the Iranian nuclear facilities were absolutely successful. It was a total obliteration.”

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The bombing has quieted in Iran’s 12-day conflict with Israel. Now its battered theocracy and 86-year-old Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei must regroup and rebuild in a changed landscape. Israeli airstrikes decimated the upper ranks of Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard and depleted its arsenal of ballistic missiles. Israeli missiles and American bunker buster bombs damaged the nuclear program—though how much remains disputed. Khamenei went into deep isolation in an undisclosed location, appearing only twice in videos as the Israelis had free rein over the country’s skies. Iran’s self-described “Axis of Resistance,” a group of allied countries and militias in the Mideast, has been mauled by the Israelis since Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack.

A California state employee with a public-facing persona as a friendly engineering graduate now stands accused of attempting to support ISIS and plotting to murder Jews, according to a criminal complaint unsealed this week. Ammaad Akhtar, 33, who is still listed online as a hazardous substances engineer with the California Environmental Protection Agency, was charged Tuesday with providing material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization and making violent threats. Federal prosecutors allege he tried to funnel money, firearms, and tactical gear to an individual he believed was an ISIS operative—and repeatedly expressed his desire to kill a Jewish man he believed had served in the IDF.

Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont offered high praise for New York Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani following Mamdani’s apparent victory in the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City, calling him a leader who brings more than charm to the table.
“What Zohran understood, is that in order to win, you got to be more than charismatic, and he is,” Sanders said during an appearance on MSNBC’s “All In with Chris Hayes.”
Sanders elaborated on what makes Mamdani’s campaign effective, saying, “You got to be more than smart, which he is. You got to build a strong grassroots movement around a progressive agenda. He had thousands and thousands of people knocking on doors because they were excited about his message.”

In the hours after the U.S. delivered a massive precision strike on Iran, President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a late-night call that could reshape the Middle East. According to a bombshell report by Yisrael Hayom, Trump and Netanyahu reached an understanding to bring the war in Gaza to a close within two weeks, install a coalition of Arab states to govern the Strip, exile Hamas leadership, release all remaining hostages, and jumpstart a historic expansion of the Abraham Accords. The report, citing a source familiar with the conversation, outlines a sweeping regional realignment with implications far beyond Gaza’s borders. The call, described by one Israeli official as “euphoric,” included U.S.

The U.S. economy shrank at a 0.5% annual pace from January through March as President Donald Trump’s trade wars disrupted business, the Commerce Department reported Thursday in an unexpected deterioration of earlier estimates. First-quarter growth was weighed down by a surge of imports as U.S. companies, and households, rushed to buy foreign goods before Trump could impose tariffs on them. The Commerce Department previously estimated that the economy fell 0.2% in the first quarter. Economists had forecast no change in the department’s third and final estimate. The January-March drop in gross domestic product — the nation’s output of goods and services — reversed a 2.4% increase in the last three months of 2024 and marked the first time in three years that the economy contracted.

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