Trump’s UN victory is a path to a stalemate in Gaza; Gaza terrorists open fire on troops, prompting IDF retaliatory strikes; Palestinian textbooks still glorify attacks against Israel, violating EU accord; Israeli medical breakthrough: a new treatment for blood cancer

 

The Daily Syndicate   Wednesday, November 19, 2025

from the editor-in-chief     Jonathan S. Tobin   Trump’s UN victory is a path to a stalemate in Gaza   Though Palestinian statehood remains a non-starter, the U.S. scheme is likely to result in part of the coastal enclave remaining in the hands of Hamas, not an era of peace.       Top stories       Gaza terrorists open fire on troops, prompting IDF retaliatory strikes   The incident in Khan Yunis marks the third consecutive day of violations of the ceasefire with Hamas.   JNS Staff       Ed Department programs going to other agencies to ‘return education to states’   Kenneth L. Marcus, of the Brandeis Center, told JNS that it is "notable" that the Education Department has not said that it is winding down its office that probes alleged Jew-hatred.   JNS Staff   Netanyahu leads visit to IDF-controlled security zone in southern Syria     JNS Staff     Palestinian textbooks still glorify attacks against Israel, violating EU accord     Etgar Lefkovits           Get the jns App   Your trusted news is now only a tap away     Download                 opinion                 featured columnist     Mitchell Bard   A resilient but traumatized nation   Rebuilding national confidence demands a sober accounting of what went wrong—the gaps in coordination, the breakdowns in emergency response and the complacency that left communities exposed.       Kamal Alam How a few American rabbis are making Syria great again   Their work has gone a long way to help pacify fears and develop an all-inclusive coalition to make the country more cohesive, with the goal of rebuilding shattered communities.           MORE HEADLINES         Israeli medical breakthrough: a new treatment for blood cancer   JNS Staff       Sotheby’s sells Klimt painting, stolen by Nazis and depicting a Jew, for $236.36 million   Jessica Russak-Hoffman       Dreyfus posthumously promoted, 130 years after being wrongly accused of treason in France   Debra Flax       Sa’ar: PA nearly doubled payments to terrorists in 2025   JNS Staff       Knesset rejects bill to allow public transit on Shabbat   JNS Staff       Bill to address the threat of ‘vehicular terror’ passes House         GW Hillel receives anonymous $4 million gift

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