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NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed JTA — The self-appointed chief rabbi of Saudi Arabia, Rabbi Jacob Herzog, said he had been denied entry to the Gulf nation. “With profound regret, I announce that I was barred from entering the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia upon arrival, despite holding a valid entry visa, and despite having spent a significant portion of the past years living and serving in this blessed Kingdom,” Herzog wrote Monday in a post on X. While the country has no official Jewish community, Herzog has in recent years marketed himself as an emissary for the country’s small population of…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed Israel has sent a delegation to Egypt for talks to recover the remains of the last hostage held in the Gaza Strip. Meanwhile, representatives from the Islamic group Hamas have been conferring with officials from Turkey over the transition to the next phase of a peace plan for Gaza. Egypt and Turkey are two of the countries mediating discussions over the peace plan between Israel and Hamas. The ceasefire agreement took effect in October. But the plan has not moved forward as Hamas has yet to hand over the body of the last hostage. On Wednesday,…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed Speaking on Sunday, Ghalibaf warned that if the executive fails to address rising prices of basic goods, parliament would have a “duty” to take action.But moderate voices in Tehran argue the episode is less about procedure than positioning.“These remarks indicate a fundamental shift in relations between the presidency and parliament,” wrote the news website Rouydad24, arguing that Ghalibaf is recalibrating his role from co-manager of the system’s crises to its chief overseer.By adopting an openly critical stance, the outlet said, Ghalibaf is seeking to distance himself from shared responsibility for deteriorating economic conditions while presenting parliament…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed Scouts marched under a clear blue sky in Bethlehem on Wednesday, as the Palestinian city emerged from the shadow of the war in Gaza to celebrate its first festive Christmas in more than two years. Throughout the war in Gaza, which began with Hamas’s attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, a somber tone had marked Christmas in the biblical birthplace of Jesus Christ. But on Wednesday, celebrations were in full swing again in the West Bank city, as a fragile truce held in the Strip, where hundreds of thousands of people are facing the winter…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed Former hostage Segev Kalfon, who was released this past October after 738 days in Hamas captivity, accused the government on Wednesday of waging the war against the terror group at his expense. Hamas “took me from within the country’s borders. Why did I have to sit and pay the price? Why did I have to bear the cost of this war?” he demanded, on Kan public radio. “If they’d gotten me out, they’d have had to stop the war — they didn’t want to get me out, because they made [the war] their first priority, above…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed Rabbi Alon Meltzer, a Research Scholar in the 2025/2026 cohort of YU’s Sacks-Herenstein Center, has written a widely discussed op-ed in the December 17, 2025 edition of The Washington Post. He is also a graduate of the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS), where he received his rabbinic ordination, YU’s Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies and the Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration. The op-ed, which responded to the recent massacre on Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia during a Hanukkah celebration that killed 15 Jews, is titled A Hanukkah Without Light in Australia. In his eloquent…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed When tragedy strikes a community – whether it’s a natural disaster, a large-scale accident or a horrific act of violence – all kinds of people might mobilize in response, such as law enforcement and investigators, relief workers and members of the news media. Now, they’re often joined by another person: a Michigan man with a 10-foot cross that he trucks across the country, aiming to bring comfort to devastated communities facing their darkest moments. “I go wherever people’s hearts are hurting the most,” Dan Beazley told CNN in late September, as he rolled the cross around…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed Meteorological Service director Dr. Amir Givati reported that another significant rain system is approaching. The rainfall is likely to be accompanied by flooding in many areas in central Israel. Rain will return on Saturday morning in the northern and central regions. Additionally, on Sunday, the rain will intensify and be accompanied by flash floods in the central and southern coastal areas, Samaria, and the Jerusalem hills. Floods are also expected in the Judean Desert, Dead Sea valleys, and northern Negev. The post”Starting Saturday, significant rain system accompanied by flo” is auto generated by Nepalisrael.com’s Auto feed…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed Jerusalem  —  They called themselves the “Women in Red.” Dressed in crimson robes and white caps, they marched with faces downturned in silent protest against Israel’s government in the year before the war in Gaza. Borrowing imagery from Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel “The Handmaid’s Tale,” the group meant to sound an alarm: the government’s judicial overhaul threatened to undo decades of progress on women’s rights. Three years later, what the government dismissed as theatrical exaggeration is increasingly viewed as prescient foreshadowing. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing government, which relies upon the support of ultra-Orthodox parties, is…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed Attachments Between 17 December 2025 and 20 January 2026, there will be one Humanitarian Situation Update issued every week. The next Humanitarian Situation Update on the Gaza Strip will be issued on 30 December and the next Humanitarian Situation Update on the West Bank will be issued on 6 January. Key Highlights Four Palestinian children were killed in the West Bank over the past two weeks, including three by Israeli forces and one by Israeli settlers. In total, a quarter of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces or settlers in 2025 were children. Over 100 Palestinians were…