Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar this week welcomed the Pacific island nation of Fiji as the seventh country to declare its embassy will move to Jerusalem.
Israel and Hamas have agreed to speed up the next exchange of the Hamas-held hostages for Palestinian prisoners. Hamas says it will now release six hostages this coming Saturday. It also says it will return the remains of four dead hostages to Israel on Thursday.
For now, some of the 60,000 residents of northern Israel are returning to their homes they evacuated when the Iranian-backed Hezbollah attacked on the day after the October 7th Hamas massacre in 2023.
While the world focuses on Hamas and the hostages in Gaza, a U.S. Senate delegation visiting Israel warns Iran poses a much greater threat to the world as it rushes to develop nuclear bombs.
A disturbing video has surfaced of two nurses in an Australian hospital saying they've killed Israeli patients and threatened to kill more. But there's good news. The nurses have been identified and Australian leaders are denouncing it.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday. Their meeting follows a heart-wrenching Saturday when the Hamas terror group released three more hostages to their families. Monday also marks 500 days since the October 7th, 2023, attacks.
While Israelis have suffered in many ways for more than 16 months, so have the country's forests and animals. CBN News traveled north to visit an important park that reopened after more than a year.
Three Israeli hostages held for 498 days by Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists in Gaza were released Saturday in exchange for more than 360 Palestinian prisoners in Israel, many with blood on their hands.
Israeli authorities confirmed they received three Israeli men held hostage in the Gaza Strip on Saturday after Hamas handed them over to the Red Cross in exchange for more than 300 Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails. The three are Iair Horn, 46, Sagui Dekel Chen, 36, and Alexander (Sasha) Troufanov, 29. All are dual nationals.
!["The 21:" A powerful new animated film marks 10 years since Christians were martyred at the hands of ISIS.](https://cmsedit.cbn.com/sites/default/files/styles/image_xl_640x480/public/the21movie_si.jpg?itok=RRhLaWyh ""The 21:" A powerful new animated film marks 10 years since Christians were martyred at the hands of ISIS.")
Ten years ago, ISIS terrorists marched 21 Christian men to their deaths on a Libyan beach. Their story of faith, sacrifice, and eternal hope is now being memorialized in a new animated film.