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🇮🇱NOW STREAMING: Singer, actor and Big Time Rush star James Maslow opens up about his music, his Jewish identity, and why he’s proud to stand with Israel on the latest StandWithUs Podcast. 🔴YouTube: bit.ly/4zDOtv2 🟢Spotify: bit.ly/4BQ81Oh 🟣Apple Podcasts: apple.co/4zyi9cR @jamesmaslow @michaeldickson

A HERO! The IDF reservist who lost both legs fighting Hamas in Gaza just got to his feet to be sworn in to Israel’s Knesset. Elisha Madan, a father of six, was critically wounded in an explosion in Beit Hanoun, Gaza, that killed four of his fellow soldiers. He battled through a long rehabilitation, became an inspiration to Israelis, and lit the Torch of Healing and Rehabilitation at Israel’s 77th Independence Day ceremony. On November 10, the new MK pulled himself up on his prosthetics to swear his oath - and lawmakers from right to left were on their feet applauding him. Watch the moment. This is Israeli strength. 🇮🇱

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Neria Leiter, the son of Israel’s Ambassador to the US Yechiel Leiter, has left Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem and begun neurological rehabilitation. He was seriously injured on September 23 in a Palestinian terror attack. After weeks of fighting for his life, he can breathe without help but has not yet woken up. Praying for Neria’s full recovery.

🔴BREAKING: An alert was issued at 11:25 (Israel local time) for a magnitude 4.5 earthquake in the Eilat area, southern Israel. The quake originated in Taba, Egypt, and residents reported feeling it. No injuries or damage have been reported so far. Residents are being asked to stay in open areas, and people at Ramon Airport have been temporarily evacuated.

standwithus.com/news/legal/t… Targeted for Being Jewish, A Mother Stands Up in Court and Holds Her Harasser Accountable Erin Schrode refused to tolerate a barrage of antisemitic harassment and threats. At a California courtroom, she watched her harasser Megan Fuerst plead guilty, and then the court's apt sentence. StandWithUs Saidoff Law represented Schrode through its Victim Advocacy Program, alongside local attorney and victim advocate Ocean Mottley. We applaud Erin for her courage!

Before she was Wonder Woman, she was Miss Israel. 👑 Gal Gadot won the title in 2004, at just 18. 🇮🇱 Credit: GPO/AMOS BEN GERSHOM

In Israel, no one gets left behind.🐄💙 After days of heavy rain, firefighters in Kiryat Ata, near Haifa, found a cow stuck deep in the mud. With help from a local vet and some heavy machinery, she was pulled out safe and sound. 🇮🇱 Photo: Israel Fire and Rescue Authority @102_IL

A goal so good, it needed Hebrew! 🗣️🇮🇱 A Spanish-language commentator burst into Hebrew to celebrate Israeli forward Liel Abada’s goal for Charlotte FC. ⚽

“My grandfather was a Jewish pilot in World War II. He fought to defend that country [the United States] and he’s probably rolling in his grave seeing how elected officials in our country can’t condemn ‘globalize the intifada’...” | Singer, actor and Big Time Rush star James Maslow talks about the hate being taught and spread in America on the latest episode of the StandWithUs Podcast. Link to watch the full podcast: bit.ly/4zdjapJ @jamesmaslow @michaeldickson

On this day in 1975, Chaim Herzog delivered one of the most iconic speeches in UN history in response to the outrageous "Zionism is Racism" allegation. Herzog stood before the UN and tore up the resolution in question. Incredible that today, we face the same bigotry and corruption in the UN. "I stand here not as a supplicant. Vote as your moral conscience dictates to you. For the issue is neither Israel nor Zionism. The issue is the continued existence of this organization, which has been dragged to its lowest point of discredit by a coalition of despots and racists. The vote of each delegation will record in history its country's stand on antisemitic racism and anti-Judaism. You yourselves bear the responsibility for your stand before history, for as such will you be viewed in history. We, the Jewish people, will not forget."

On this day in 2014, Israel suffered two deadly terror attacks within hours. 🕯️ In Tel Aviv, a Palestinian terrorist stabbed IDF Sgt. Almog Shiloni, 20, at the HaHagana train station. Almog died of his wounds that night. That afternoon, at a bus stop at the entrance to Alon Shvut in Gush Etzion, in Judea and Samaria/the West Bank, a Palestinian terrorist tried to run over people waiting for the bus, then attacked them with a knife. Dalia Lemkus, 26, was murdered, and two others were wounded. 12 years later, we remember Almog and Dalia. May their memories forever be a blessing. 🕯️