RAMAT GAN, Israel (AP) — For more than 470 days, Eitan Gonen publicly pleaded with his daughter to stay alive while in Hamas captivity. He didn’t know if she would hear him, but he ended every interview he gave with the same hopeful message: Romi is coming home alive.

TEL AVIV — On lampposts, in shop windows and on smartphone screens across Israel, the posters show a smiling, red-headed baby boy clutching a pink elephant. And now the country is bracing to learn Kfir Bibas’ fate.

LOS ANGELES (KTLA) – With the devastating Palisades Fire still smoldering, Lisa Pelton and some of her neighbors in Mandeville Canyon received an unpleasant notice from their bank: their home equity lines of credit were being slashed. “I was appalled,” Pelton told KTLA 5 News on Thursday. “I thought it was unconscionable what they did. […]

Attendees at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv pose with pictures of the three women released by Hamas on Jan. 19, 2024. (Deborah Danan) Britons Sam Reubens and Heski Strassman, both from Manchester, made aliyah after Oct. 7, in response to growing antisemitism ...

Air India on Wednesday announced that it will resume its non-stop services between Delhi and Tel Aviv from March 2 onwards, the airline said in a statement. "Air India

Israel says a Hamas list shows that eight of the 33 hostages to be released in the first phase of the Gaza ceasefire are dead.

Delta now plans to resume flights from New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport to Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport starting April 1. Israeli-owned El Al has been the only airline offering nonstop service from Tel Aviv to North America, which has driven up fares more than 100%, the Times of Israel reported.

Emotional crowds gather to watch as first three hostages are released in deal, but worry over fate of those still held in Gaza clouds joy

"Thank you for saving the hostages," someone called to him from the crowd, while a chant went up in English to "bring them home."

Militants in the Gaza Strip have released eight hostages, handing them over to the Red Cross amid chaotic crowds as part of a swap in which 110 Palestinians are to be released from Israeli prisons lat

The first hostage, soldier Agam Berger, 20, was released after Hamas paraded her in front of a crowd in the heavily destroyed urban Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza. Israeli soldier Agam Berger stands with masked Islamic Jihad militants as she is handed over to the Red Cross at the Jabalya refugee camp in Gaza City (Mohammed Hajjar/AP)