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Israel-Hamas War: Week Thirty Three.
Weekly dispatches from Israel provided by Forbes Israel. IDF expands ground activity in Rafah. About 800,000 civilians have already been evacuated from Rafah to nearby humanitarian areas. Military activity also continues in northern Gaza. IDF retrieves the bodies of four Israeli hostages. U.S. national security advisor visits the region. Further escalation on the Israel-Lebanon border. Local. Israel has increased its military pressure on Hamas in recent weeks throughout Gaza.
Israel-Hamas War: Week Thirty Two.
Weekly dispatches from Israel provided by Forbes Israel. Local. Negotiations between Israel and Hamas are again at an impasse. Hamas hardens position and encounters Israeli refusal. The IDF begins limited ground activity in Rafah while intensifying military pressure throughout the Strip. Further escalation on the Israel-Lebanon border as Hezbollah nears 300 dead in its ranks. Hostage deal talks on the verge of collapse.
Israel-Hamas War: Week Thirty One
Weekly dispatches from Israel provided by Forbes Israel. Local. Cautious optimism from mediators as hostage deal talks reach decisive moment. Reports of understandings in negotiations under American guarantees to end the war in Gaza. In preparation for a planned military operation in Rafah, the IDF on Monday began evacuating residents of eastern Rafah, along the Egyptian border, to a humanitarian zone in Khan Yunis.
Israel-Hamas War: Week Twenty Nine.
Weekly dispatches from Israel provided by Forbes Israel. Local. Attack on Iran. On Friday morning, the Israeli Air Force attacked a facility in the heart of Iran. Although Israel has not officially claimed responsibility for the attack, several sources attributed the precise strike to Israel in response to Iran's unprecedented attack last week.
Israel-Hamas War: Week Twenty Eight.
Weekly dispatches from Israel provided by Forbes Israel. Iran’s attack on Israel. A wave of condemnation around the world, back-to-back support for Israel from Western countries. The negotiations to formulate a hostage deal are deadlocked - Hamas responds negatively to the American initiative. The IDF continues targeted activity throughout the Strip, even after a significant reduction of forces and leaving Khan Yunis. Three sons of a senior Hamas official were killed in an air strike.
Israel-Hamas War: Week Twenty Seven.
Weekly dispatches from Israel provided by Forbes Israel. Local. Six months since Hamas terrorist attack on Israel on October 7. This week marks exactly six months since the Gaza terrorist organizations Hamas and Islamic Jihad launched an attack in which they killed more than 1,200 civilians in Israel and took another 250 hostage, including women and children. Following the deadly terrorist attack, Israel started a military operation against the Palestinian terrorist organizations in Gaza.
Israel-Hamas War: Week Twenty Six.
Weekly dispatches from Israel provided by Forbes Israel. Local. Deadlock in hostage deal talks. Last week, Hamas officially rejected the American compromise proposal accepted by Israel and reiterated its rigid demands as conditions for the release of the hostages: a total and permanent ceasefire, the return of all displaced Palestinians to the northern Gaza Strip and a massive release of Palestinian security prisoners.
Israel-Hamas War: Week Twenty Five.
Weekly dispatches from Israel provided by Forbes Israel. The IDF fights in Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza, where hundreds of terrorists have been killed or captured. Negotiation of a hostage deal continues. A worrying poll reveals widespread support among the Palestinian public for Hamas and its atrocities. A proposed resolution submitted by the U.S. at the UN Security Council calling for a ceasefire and condemnation of Hamas was rejected following vetoes by Russia and China.
Israel-Hamas War: Week Thirteen
Weekly dispatches from Israel provided by Forbes Israel. Local. Israel Defense Forces (IDF) operating throughout Gaza. In the area of Gaza City, Hamas terrorists have suffered heavy casualties in recent days. In the southern Gaza Strip, IDF forces intensified their activities within the city of Khan Yunis, where the Gaza leadership of the Hamas terror organization is hiding.
Israel-Hamas War: Week Twelve
Dispatches from Israel provided by Forbes Israel. Local. IDF (Israel Defense Forces) intensifies its operations deep within the Gaza Strip as the conflict enters its 12th week. Following a week of intense fighting, IDF troops have achieved operational control in the Shejaiya neighborhood and seized command of Hamas' stronghold, considered the strongest and most fortified enclave in the Gaza Strip.
Hamas Secret Investments Portfolio: A Forbes Investigation Already Revealed Two Years Ago
A comprehensive investigation by the New York Times, based on documents and testimonies of Mossad personnel, reveals how the global investment network of Hamas was exposed by the Mossad and points to the failures of the government led by Benjamin Netanyahu, which did not take special action to stop the financial mechanism in light of the findings presented to it.
Israel-Hamas War: Week Eleven
Dispatches from Israel provided by Forbes Israel. Local. According to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), ground and air forces carried out more than 500 strikes this week against terrorist infrastructure, including weapons and ammunition warehouses, attack tunnels and observation and rocket launching positions. Fighting in the Gaza Strip continues, concentrated in the last two Hamas strongholds in the Gaza City area, Shejaiya and Jabaliya, and in Khan Yunis in the south.
Israel-Hamas War: Week Ten.
Dispatches from Israel provided by Forbes Israel. Local. Israel increases its grip on the Gaza Strip as war enters third month. The intensity of the fighting has increased as Israel Defense Force (IDF) units approach decisive points both north and south in the Gaza Strip. In the past week, the IDF has struck some 1,000 Hamas terror targets by land, air and sea, whilecommando units recently have mounted an attack on the Khan Yunis area in southern Gaza.
Israel-Hamas War: Week Nine
Dispatches from Israel provided by Forbes Israel. Local. Ceasefire expires, war in Gaza resumes. Upon the expiration Friday of a ceasefire during which Israel released Palestinian prisoners in return for hostages seized by Hamas during its terrorist attack on October 7, Hamas launched dozens of rockets at towns and cities in the south and center of Israel, including the densely populated Gush Dan metropolitan area in Israel.
Israel-Hamas War: Week 7
Dispatches from Israel provided by Forbes Israel. Local IDF claims significant achievements against Hamas as ground operation expands. IDF troops operating deep in Gaza have taken control of important Hamas government centers and military posts used for terrorist activities.
Israel-Hamas War Updates: Week Six
Dispatches from Israel provided by Forbes Israel. Local. Inside the city of Gaza: After completing the encirclement of Gaza last week, IDF (Israel Defense Forces) infantry, engineering and armored units, covered by aircraft and naval support, have been encircling Hamas strongholds and deepening their operations in the northern Gaza Strip. Since the start of ground operations, the IDF has taken control of 11 Hamas outposts.
Israel-Hamas War Updates: Week Five
Dispatches from Israel provided by Forbes Israel. On October 7, Hamas, a terrorist organization dedicated to the destruction of Israel, and which has ruled Gaza since it overthrew the lawful Palestinian Authority by force of arms in 2007, carried out a massacre in Israeli towns, villages and army bases near the Gaza-Israel border. In this attack, Hamas killed an estimated 1,400 people and took more than 200 hostages.
The Europeans Turn A Blind Eye - And The Money Flows To Hamas
Behind every successful terror organization stands an economic system, in many cases it’s a state,” declared the Chief of Staff, Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi, several years ago during his tenure as the chief of the Military Intelligence Directorate. “In our region, Iran is the main financier of terror,” he determined.
Noa Kirel in Spanish, Uri Geller in Japanese: The Multilingual AI Campaign That Recruited Influencers
Less than three weeks have passed since that fateful Saturday of October 7th, which ignited the war imposed on Israel. It’s already evident that this will be a protracted campaign, potentially lasting many months or even years. Despite the short time that has elapsed, one can already discern the importance of the information battleground in the fight against the terrorist organization.
The Empire Strikes Back: Here's how Eyal and Idan Ofer reached the world's top billionaires
This year’s Forbes World’s Billionaires List, brings a notable presence of Israeli billionaires, marking a significant increase in their numbers over the past decade. The Israeli Billionaires list, compiled in collaboration with Forbes Israel, identifies no less than 30 billionaires as Israeli.
Astrix Security, a cybersecurity start-up, completes another substantial fundraising round
Only a year after exits stealth with a significant seed round, Astrix Security, the Israeli cybersecurity start-up, announces an additional fundraising round (A) -totaling approximately $25 million. The current fundraising round was led by CRV Fund, with participation from existing investors, Bessemer Venture Partners and F2 Venture Capital.
Israel is among the top 20 global economies in GDP per capita for the first time
The year 2020 — the year of the coronavirus pandemic — was an unusual year by any measure. In terms of GDP and growth, it was the worst year for the Israeli economy in its 73 years of economic independence. According to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics, in 2020, the gross domestic product contracted at real rate of 2.6% as compared to 2019.
The Richest Terror Organizations in the World
This article appeared in Forbes Israel 2017 has turned out to be an especially bloody year. Over the course of the year, eight huge terror attacks were executed, each with more than a 100 fatalities. Six of the eight deadliest attacks claimed the lives of nearly 1,500 people this year in Syria, Libya, Afghanistan, Egypt and Somalia – planned, financed and carried out by the Taliban, ISIS or Al-Qaeda.
The Emerging Economies That Will Shine In 2016
Farmers in Mekong delta, Vietnam, the country's largest rice producer. March 2, 2016. Photo: STR/AFP/Getty Images This article appeared in Forbes Israel As "traditionally" emerging economies decline, new ones are rising. These are the ones that will come into their own this year.
As Greece Stumbles, Ireland Continues To Surge
Photo: Miguel Medina/AFP/Getty Images The story of Europe's fastest-growing economy This article appeared in the November 2015 issue of Forbes Israel While Greece languishes under economic and political chaos, Ireland’s stunning recovery continues. With declining debt and unemployment, rising property prices and one of the world’s highest growth rates, the Irish have plenty of reasons to celebrate their luck as they laugh all the way to the European Central Bank.
Do Governments Have The Tools To Prevent Financial Collapse?
This article appears in the September 2015 issue of Forbes Israel Former US defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld once said, “There are […] unknown unknowns […] things we don't know we don't know.”It was by paraphrasing this cryptic utterance that Dr. Olivier Blanchard chose to open what will likely be his last press conference as chief economist of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
The World's 10 Richest Terrorist Organizations
Money is what fuels any organization, whether its purpose is building homes, selling goods – or conducting horrific violent acts. A terror organization, just like any legitimate business, needs capital to survive. Quick cash is used to finance general activities, pay salaries for activists, develop training camps, purchase weapons and destructive materials, and provide transportation and much more.
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