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Nov 21, 2025, 8:22 PM

Israel Must Redefine Its Red Lines with Washington and Riyadh

Peace at the Price of Air Superiority? Israel Must Redefine Its Red Lines with Washington and Riyadh Trump’s trillion-dollar deal with Saudi Arabia revives the debate over F-35 sales to the Kingdom — and forces Israel to decide what it...

Carmit Palty Katzir

Nov 18, 2025, 4:56 PM

The Goldin family taught me what my brother Elad already knew

Simcha and Leah Goldin give a statement about the return of the body of their son, Hadar Goldin, on November 9, 2025, after it was held in Gaza for 11 years. (Alon Gilboa/ Hostages Forum)

Even as successive governments conveyed helplessness, these few stalwarts upheld the sacred task of redeeming captives

Nov 16, 2025, 10:43 PM

An Absent State and Missing Questions

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By a strange twist of fate, one of my daughters is called after Hadar Goldin, the captured Israeli soldier whose body was recently returned by Hamas from Gaza after eleven years. In 2005, I was living in Cambridge, UK, commuting...

Nov 14, 2025, 6:14 PM

It’s not over- waiting to breathe

May this be the last. Picture by Mori Sokal

Three people whose lives were cut short by evil, just for being here. But it's "just" three. Can't we say it's done? Three, each one a world. Three, each picture and name engraved on our minds and hearts. One...

Nov 13, 2025, 9:51 AM

Between Gaza and Ankara, While Washington Watches

A year into one of Israel’s most difficult crises in Gaza, the Middle East is quietly reshaping itself — not along ideological lines, but through shifting interests. Israel, Turkey, and the United States now find themselves locked in a...

Stephen M. Flatow

Nov 10, 2025, 10:17 AM

Hadar Goldin is Home: A Lesson in Morality the World Still Doesn’t Understand

I never met Lt. Hadar Goldin. I never sat with his parents over coffee or stood beside them at a rally. Yet like so many Israelis and Jews around the world, I felt their pain, their fight, and their...

Nov 10, 2025, 10:12 AM

Lt. Hadar Goldin’s Second Funeral

Captain Eitan Fund, Photo ©️ IDF, 2025

Now that the rest of the remains of Lt. Hadar Goldin z”l have finally returned home, it is important to remember that Hadar already has a burial place in Israel, and this will in fact be the second burial,...

Yoseph Janowski

Nov 10, 2025, 10:11 AM

The BBC messes up, and Hadar Goldin comes home

The BBC’s huge mistake As long as they stuck to just maligning Israel, they got away with it. Israel was fair game. After all, throughout history the Jews have been targeted. So it was just more of the same. But they...

Nov 10, 2025, 5:36 AM

The Return of a Hero

“Ve-shavu banim ligvulam” – “And children shall return to their border.” (Jeremiah 31) “Ve-shavu banim ligvulam” is a pasuk from Yirmiyahu (Jeremiah 31), a verse we have turned into a standard expression of hope that our children will return home. Hadar...

Nov 9, 2025, 9:47 PM

Simcha and Leah Goldin give a statement about the return of the body of their son, Hadar Goldin, on November 9, 2025, after it was held in Gaza for 11 years. (Alon Gilboa/ Hostages Forum)

Simcha and Leah fought for 11-years to bring their son back for burial, all the while insisting that live terrorists not be freed in exchange

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