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California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) has hit an all-time low approval rating of 44%, according to a new poll by the UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies and the Los Angeles Times.

Israeli President Isaac Herzog has written an open letter to the leaders of American colleges and universities, demanding that they show “moral leadership” in the face of rising antisemitism on their campuses since the Hamas terror attack on October 7.

Palestinian civilians continue to evacuate from the northern Gaza Strip to the south, as the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has opened a daily corridor for several hours, allowing safe passage for those who want to flee the fighting against Hamas.

The entire country of Israel came to a standstill on Tuesday at 11:00 a.m. local time as the nation observed a moment of silence to mark one month since the October 7 attack by Palestinian Hamas terrorists, which killed over 1,400 people.

A Jewish man from Los Angeles was confirmed dead Monday after he was allegedly struck in the head by a megaphone wielded by pro-Palestinian protester at an anti-Israel rally.

The Biden administration is ratcheting up pressure on the Israeli government to declare a “pause” in fighting against Hamas — even as Israel continues to push the terror organization into a corner.

Writers and publications within the Beltway appear to have decided that now is the time to push Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu out of office — a goal long cherished by both the Barack Obama and Joe Biden administrations in Washington, DC.

South Africa, a country now synonymous with crime, electricity shortages, inequality, human rights abuses, and (occasionally) a rugby championship, has pulled its ambassador from Israel as it accuses the Jewish state of “genocide” against Hamas terrorists.

Hundreds of pro-Palestinian demonstrators marched outside the Israeli Consulate in West Los Angeles on Saturday, demanding a ceasefire in Gaza and waving signs with slogans such as, “Is (not) Rael” and “Israel bombs hospitals, Biden pays for it,” according to media reports and photos of the event.

Sgt. Elisheva Rose Ida Lubin, 20, an American who moved to Israel two years ago and volunteered in the Israeli police force, died of her wounds Monday after she and a colleague were stabbed by a 16-year-old Palestinian terrorist in the Old City of Jerusalem.

A new study has documented the extraordinary volunteer effort among Israelis during the war against the Palestinian Hamas terror group, showing that nearly two-thirds of Israelis are donating to charities and over 40% are volunteering their time.

A new report says that 13 employees of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which is responsible for Palestinian refugees, praised the Hamas terror attack of October 7, in which more than 1,400 people were murdered in Israel.

An Indiana woman was arrested Friday night after backing her car into a building used by a Black Hebrew Israelite hate group, thinking she was attacking a Jewish school on behalf of “her people back in Palestine.”

Hecklers shouted “kill the babies” to taunt a protest Sunday organized by Jews in Skokie, Illinois, to highlight the fact that 30 children, including babies, are being held hostage by the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas in Gaza.

Holocaust survivor Saul Dreier, 98, said Friday that Israel had to “get rid of Hamas,” or else there could be a repeat of the attempted genocide of Jews by the Nazis in the 20th century.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) departed from much of the “progressive” left on Sunday morning when he opposed a ceasefire in Israel’s war against the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, though he supported a “pause” and criticized Israel’s bombing in Gaza.

Pro-Palestinian rallies, which are closely covered by Israeli media, have strengthened Israel’s resolve to fight: they have convinced Israeli Jews that if they were, somehow, to give up, and allow their country to become “Palestine,” there would be nowhere else to go.

Newly-confirmed U.S. Ambassador to Israel Jack Lew, who backed many of Barack Obama’s anti-Israel policies, offered conditional support to the Israeli war effort against Hamas terrorists Sunday, saying it should be conducted “in a manner that reflects the values that we share.”

Real Admiral Daniel Hagari of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) told reporters in a briefing Sunday that Israel trying to protect civilians in the war but that the Palestinian terror group Hamas was trying to stop civilians from evacuating, and operating from hospitals.

Former President Barack Obama backtracked Friday on his early support for Israel against the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, telling an audience at the Obama Foundation Democracy Forum in Chicago that they had pushed him to modify his position.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced Sunday that it had discovered Hamas rocket launchers near sensitive sites, including schools, as IDF soldiers penetrated deeper into Northern Gaza.

Yahya Sinwar, the Gaza-based leader of Hamas responsible for planning the October 7 terror attack on Israel, was once treated for brain cancer while serving a life sentence in Israeli prison. He was let go in a prisoner exchange and went back to killing Israelis.

A group of anti-Israel protesters who participated in a large demonstration Saturday in Washington, DC, attempted to storm the White House and chanted slogans such as “Allahu Akbar” while calling for the destruction of Israel in favor of a Palestinian state.

It is Barack Obama who is complicit in the death and suffering over the last month in Israel and in Gaza. His policies and those of President Joe Biden put billions of dollars into Iranian coffers.

Obama told his former staffers on the Pod Save America Saturday that “all of us are complicit to some degree” in the violence in Gaza, as he appeared to describe a moral equivalence between Hamas murdering Israelis and the Israeli “occupation” of Gaza.

Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff leads the White House strategy on antisemitism, but his daughter, model Ella Emhoff, is raising money for Gaza after Hamas triggered a worldwide surge in Jew-hatred.

The Palestinian Hamas terror group tried to smuggle dozens of terrorists in ambulances meant to carry wounded civilians out of Gaza, before the U.S. and Egypt reviewed the list of passengers and stopped the ambulances from going through the border.

Israeli inspectors stopped a truck this week that was meant to carry “humanitarian” aid into Gaza because they discovered oxygen-concentrating machines that were meant to allow Hamas to ventilate its tunnels, according to the Times of Israel.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) revealed video and photos of a raid earlier this week on a Hamas terrorist base in the Jabaliya “refugee camp,” a neighborhood of multi-story buildings near Gaza City once settled by refugees from wars against Israel.

The State of Israel issued an unprecedented warning Friday to Israeli citizens to be cautious when traveling abroad in the midst of a global wave of antisemitism — and to avoid “openly displaying Israeli and Jewish symbols.”

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it carried out an airstrike Friday on an ambulance that was ferrying Hamas terrorists in violation of international humanitarian law.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his nation on Friday evening that he had refused the Biden administration’s request for a “pause” in fighting, ostensibly for humanitarian purposes.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu released a message to the soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on Friday in which he quoted a Biblical injunction from Deuteronomy: “You shall remember what Amalek did to you” (25:17).

The elite Yahalom (Diamond) combat engineering unit of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has been busy finding and destroying Hamas tunnels in the Gaza Strip as part of an operation that could take many months.

There should be no ceasefire in Gaza until Hamas is eliminated. Any “pause” would slow the momentum of the Israeli military, allow Hamas to regroup, and give bad actors — like Russia and China — leverage to stop Israel from winning an existential war.

Leaders of Israeli universities and research institutions have written an open letter to academic leaders in the West, rebuking them for adopting Hamas’s terrorist cause against Israel, and allowing antisemitism to flourish on their campuses.