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Israeli satellite imagery reveals catastrophic quake damage in Venezuela where 68,000 still missing

The imagery reveals extensive damage across several areas of the city, including the collapse of high-rise residential buildings in the Playa Grande neighborhood.

A combination of satellite images shows high-rises in Caraballeda, Venezuela, before (left) and after the earthquakes that hit the country, December 28, 2025, and June 26, 2026.
Police watch as people swim in the Canal Saint-Martin after public swimming was permitted in certain areas due to high temperatures amid a heatwave in Paris, France, June 26, 2026.

France records 1,000 excess deaths during record-breaking heatwave

THE TAIPEI Synagogue.

Taiwan's Jewish community establishes first-ever cemetery in Taipei, buries 74-year-old man

Simcha Applebaum serving as deputy commander within the 188th Brigade.

Holocaust survivor, Yom Kippur War hero Colonel Simcha Applebaum dies at 99


Matan Koch, disability advocate who urged Jewish communities to ‘let everyone in,’ dies at 44

“His condition declined far more quickly than he, and we, had hoped,” said the family of Koch, the Los Angeles ADA compliance officer and director of its disability access and services division.

Matan Koch speaks at Ikar, his Los Angeles synagogue, on Disability Shabbat, Oct. 18, 2025.

IDF Lt. Col. (res.) Ido Frommer killed in civilian parachuting accident

Lt. Col. (res.) Frommer was the CEO and co-founder of a UAV company and previously managed Yeruham's technological and economic development, as well as its education department.

IDF Lt. Col. (res.) Ido Frommer.

Case against mohel suspected of causing baby's death reinforced after three doctors testify

According to police, 66-year-old mohel Moshe Drai is now involved in four separate investigations, with evidence from all four suggesting negligence on his part.

The law courts in Tel Aviv

Twenty killed in suspected Boko Haram attack in Nigeria

The assaults are part of a surge by Boko Haram and its Islamic State splinter ISWAP, who have stepped up deadly attacks on military bases and villages in Nigeria's insurgency-hit northeast.

Nigerian Army soldiers patrol near the scene after a deadly gunmen attack in Yelwata, Benue State, Nigeria, June 16, 2025.

How songs become memory: The role of music on Israel’s Memorial Day

“People need someone to resonate with what they feel. Songs help them not feel alone,” says Dr. Ayelet Dassa, a music therapist and researcher at Bar-Ilan University.

SGT. GADI Cotal.

'My brother took his life': Suicide on Yom Hazikaron

Jacob Ness shares the heartbreaking story of his brother Josh's suicide, revealing the hidden struggles with mental health that no one saw coming. A powerful reflection on grief, family, and loss.

Joshua Ness, Jacob Ness's younger brother, took his own life at age 18 in 2019.

Israeli dies in Turkey after collapsing during Moldova-Israel flight

The Foreign Ministry is accompanying the deceased's family and is working with Turkish authorities to bring their remains for burial in Israel.

A Turkish ambulance in Ankara, pictured October 2024; illustrative.

Eight children killed in Louisiana mass shooting

According to NBC, the shooting occured as a result of a domestic dispute. Ten children were shot in total, ranging in age from 1 to 14.

SHREVEPORT, Louisiana, US.

Body discovered in Jerusalem warehouse identified as radio producer missing for two decades

Abramov had been missing since 2008, and no leads on her whereabouts were found for nearly two decades, despite investigators' assessments that she may have been in the Old City area.

Police car at night

New Kentucky law says authorities must contact Chabad before cremating unnamed body

While earlier versions of the bill specifically referenced Chabad, the final law was broadened to include any religious organization willing to assume responsibility.

Rabbi Shlomo Litvin, Director of Chabad of the Bluegrass and Chairman of the Kentucky Jewish Council.