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Bring them all home: Israel's 12-year fight to ensure every hostage is rescued from Gaza - feature

To celebrate this day and honor those who have fallen, The Jerusalem Post has created a timeline in remembrance of the national struggle to finally bring every hostage home.

 People walk past a wall displaying posters of hostages, in Tel Aviv, Israel, August 18, 2024
 A person holds a placard during a demonstration against antisemitism, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Brussels, Belgium December 10, 2023.

Over 800 severe antisemitic incidents reported in 2025, 21 Jews murdered, Diaspora Ministry reveals

 Auschwitz concentration camp, operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during the Holocaust.

On This Day in 1945: Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp is liberated by Soviet Army

Fires are lit as protesters rally on January 8, 2026 in Tehran, Iran.

Iran may have slaughtered 30,000 protesters in 48-hour intense crackdown - report


Archaeologists uncover 15,000 unexpected artifacts beneath Tulsa cemetery

A routine search for unmarked graves at Oaklawn Cemetery has instead uncovered 15,000 artifacts that reveal a vivid, unexpected picture of early Tulsa.

The Oaklawn Cemetery in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Are mummies responsible for NJ Devils' string of injuries? Archaeologists, players weigh in

The strange tale of two mummies discovered beneath the Prudential Center collides with the Devils’ run of bad injury luck this season.

 A cameraman films the only known example of a pregnant Egyptian mummy, displayed at an exhibition in National Museum in Warsaw, Poland May 4, 2021

Forgotten treasure: First-edition Superman comic fetches millions at auction after attic discovery

The Superman comic, found in excellent condition with a nine out of ten rating by the company CGC, was released in 1939 by Detective Comics Inc. and is one in only a handful which still exist.

A rare first edition copy of a Superman comic, forgotten for many years in an attic, sold for more than $9 million at a Texas auction house, making it reportedly the most expensive comic ever sold.

Self-portrait of Frida Kahlo sells for more than $54 million, setting new record for female artists

Featuring Kahlo asleep in her bed, the piece, painted in 1940, surpassed the painting price of the previous record holder, Georgia O’Keeffe, whose painting sold for $44.4 million in 2014.

Auctioneer Oliver Barker, Chairman of Sotheby's Europe, sells a Frida Kahlo self portrait for $34.9 Million USD during an art auction, in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., November 16, 2021

Possible double-burial of pharaohs in Osorkon II’s tomb, newly discovered statues show

Archaeologists uncovered 225 inscribed funerary statues beside an unmarked sarcophagus in Osorkon II’s tomb, strengthening the case for two royal burials at Tanis, Egypt.

Shabti figurines inscribed with the name of Pharaoh Shoshenq III, found inside Osorkon II’s tomb at Tanis, northern Egypt.

Greta Thunberg, other activists fined, banned from Venice after Grand Canal dyed green

The activist dumped dye in the Grand Canal and strung a banner from the Rialto Bridge reading “Stop Ecocide.”

People enjoy a gondola ride on the Grand Canal, where the canal's water has been dyed green in a protest organised by the "Extinction Rebellion" climate activists, in Venice, Italy, November 22, 2025.

Former British PM David Cameron reveals prostate cancer diagnosis

The former UK leader went for a screening after he and his wife listened to Nick Jones, the founder of the Soho House empire, share the details of his own cancer diagnosis in 2022.

 British Foreign Secretary Lord David Cameron delivers a speech at the National Cyber Security Centre in London, Britain. Picture date: Thursday May 9, 2024.

Cuban scientists race against time to save fish as old as the dinosaurs

The garfish - long, slender, its snout filled with sharp teeth- is considered “critically endangered," earning it a spot on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) red list.

A dead garfish lies in a marsh near Venice, Louisiana May 20, 2010. For nearly a month, roughly 5,000 barrels (210,000 gallons/795,000 liters) of oil per day have been gushing from BP's broken Deepwater oil well situated in the Gulf of Mexico, in what could be named the worst oil spill in U.S. histo

NASA releases images of comet 3I/ATLAS, rejects alien spacecraft 'rumors'

While the comet's precise point of origin remains unclear, the NASA scientists said they believe it hails from a solar system older than our own, which formed about 4.5 billion years ago.

This image of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS was captured by the Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera, July 21, 2025.

US CDC adopts Kennedy's anti-vaccine views on recast website

Scientists took issue with statements on the website that studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism, arguing that it is "exploiting a quirk of logic."

A sign of the CDC is seen on a podium during the meeting of the members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, as the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) advisory panel for vaccines convenes in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. June 25, 2025.