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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


Mayor of Kansas town charged with voting illegally without US citizenship

Jose Ceballos was charged with three counts of voting without being qualified and three counts of election perjury, a day after his reelection.

Attorney General Kris Kobach announced charges in a voter fraud case in Coldwater, Kansas.

After Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum groped in the streets, violence against women spotlighted

Video of the incident quickly ricocheted on the internet before being taken down by some accounts, underscoring for many in Mexico the insecurity women face in a country steeped in gender violence.

exico's President Claudia Sheinbaum speaks during a press conference at the National Palace in Mexico City, Mexico November 3, 2025.

Ankara tightens shelter regulations after report on Israel-Iran War leaves authorities concerned

Turkey's National Intelligence Organization report found that the current infrastructure was inadequate for protection in modern warfare after assessing damage from the 12 Day War.

 Jewish settlers next to the remains of a ballistic missile fired from Iran, at a settlement in the West Bank, June 29, 2025

World's top YouTuber MrBeast launches Saudi theme park

Riyadh is set to launch Beast Land, a theme park modeled on his videos that put people through elaborate endurance challenges.

People walk at the Beast Land theme park, by the current world's most popular YouTuber Jimmy Donaldson, known as MrBeast, who hit 100 billion total views this month, and modelled the theme park based on his videos that put people through elaborate endurance challenges, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Novem

Wild form of polio found in German sewage sample, Hamburg city authority says

The findings marked the first wild virus detection from environmental sampling in the country since this type of routine monitoring began in 2021.

A nurse fills a syringe with a vaccine before administering an injection at a kids clinic in Kiev, Ukraine August 14, 2019

US Pres. Donald Trump committed to $2,000 tariff payoff, warns US faces 'economic disaster'

Trump said the United States faced an economic and national security disaster if the Supreme Court ruled against his use of an emergency powers law to impose sweeping tariffs.

US President Donald Trump speaks inside the Oval Office, at the White House in Washington, DC, November 12, 2025

South Korea Red Cross chief resigns after alleged recorded comments on 'dark-skinned' ambassadors

Kim Chul Soo was allegedly recorded complaining after a gala that “only the non-significant foreign ambassadors were there … just the dark-skinned people."

Red Cross vehicles transport hostages held in Gaza since the deadly October 7, 2023 attack, in the central Gaza Strip, October 13, 2025

Scammers and money mules to be caned as Singapore toughens law

The physical punishments for scams were introduced after the Criminal Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill was passed by Parliament on November 4.

Special envoy of Prime Pinister Ann Sim of Singapore listens to a speech during the opening plenary session, at the Summit on peace in Ukraine, at the Buergenstock Resort in Stansstad near Lucerne, Switzerland, June 15, 2024.

Turkish man to pay ex-wife ‘cat support’ as felines caught in divorce crossfire

Ex-husband Bugra agreed to pay 10,000 liras every three months for the next 10 years to cover part of the cost of their food, vaccination and medical needs.

Study: Petting your cat sends an oxytocin wave through both of you.

Indonesia mosque blast suspect inspired by neo-Nazi figures, white supremacist ideology

Explosions at a mosque in Indonesia's capital Jakarta that injured dozens of people during Friday prayers, with a 17-year-old student the suspected perpetrator.

Police officials carry out an on-site investigation following a blast at a mosque inside a school in Jakarta on November 7, 2025