Israeli officials spent much of the day examining whether the incident aboard Flight FZ1073 was an attempted terrorist attack.
Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem said Wednesday night that after undergoing lifesaving procedures in its trauma unit, Leiter underwent complex brain surgery lasting several hours along with additional treatments.
The scholar’s earlier affinity for the Jewish state is worth revisiting and appreciating, reminding us in this moment of uncertainty that more positive possibilities could very well emerge between two nations, a friendship as existed decades ago, renewed.
A U.S. president’s mercy had helped give the Michtom family the means of substantively supporting the eventual rebirth of the State of Israel.
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Defense Minister Israel Katz warned that a missile and drone attack targeting Israeli civilians was expected “in the immediate future.”
Upon completion of the mission, Israel opened the Rafah Crossing for the first time in more than two years.
At 11:55 a.m. Israel time, the IDF confirmed the news the world had waited nearly two years to hear: “There are no more living Israeli hostages in Hamas captivity.”
The Israeli government “approved the framework for the release of all of the hostages, the living and the deceased,” the prime minister’s office stated.
