Family of last hostage urges Witkoff, Kushner to pressure Hamas, not Israel;In first, Israeli bobsleigh team qualifies for Winter Olympics;Canadian teen charged with antisemitic hate campaign;Marco Rubio’s remarkable rise: How Trump’s former rival became his foreign policy powerhouse

 

The Daily Syndicate   Sunday, January 25, 2026

CENTCOM chief meets IDF’s Zamir amid US military buildup   Adm. Brad Cooper visited the Jewish state as a guest of Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir.   JNS Staff       Family of last hostage urges Witkoff, Kushner to pressure Hamas, not Israel   The imminent arrival of the American delegation was met with indignation by the family of Master Sgt. Ran Gvili, whose body remains in Gaza.   JNS Staff       In first, Israeli bobsleigh team qualifies for Winter Olympics   Four athletes made the cut for Milan after an earlier qualifying team decided not to send its full allocation of athletes.   JNS Staff       Canadian teen charged with antisemitic hate campaign   Police say a Toronto-area boy, 14, made antisemitic calls to Jewish institutions amid a surge in anti-Jewish threats, vandalism and violence since Oct. 7.   JNS Staff           opinion                 featured columnist     Fiamma Nirenstein   The Shoah is already here   The warning signs that preceded the Holocaust are visible again, this time on a global scale and cloaked in modern language.       Joseph Puder Trump’s unsavory Middle Eastern friends         Leonard Grunstein Huckabee and Hagee stand by Christian Zionism             Analysis & Feature                 Analysis     Shimon Sherman   Board of Peace explained: How it works and who is running it   Above the General Board is the Executive Committee, the primary strategic and decision-making organ, chaired by Trump, who retains veto power.             Analysis     Alan Baker   Human-rights inversion: Are Israelis not entitled to the same protections?   The accusers ignore the fact that the Israeli public suffer from ongoing and daily acts of terror committed by Palestinian and Islamist fanatics.             Analysis     Wang Shuangcheng   The impact of global and regional developments on Israel-China trade   As long as political relations between the two sides remain stable, trade and investment in high-tech can serve as an anchor against geopolitical risks.   Marco Rubio’s remarkable rise: How Trump’s former rival became his foreign policy powerhouse     Or Shaked and Dudi Kogan       How Oct. 7 changed Israeli television and cinema     Orit Arfa             latest news         Beverly Hills theater backtracks on Israeli comedian ban   Joshua Marks       Report: Israel deploys new Palestinian militias against Hamas   Ariel Kahana       One wounded by Border Police fire after bus stoned near Ma’ale Adumim   JNS Staff       Deni Avdija on Israel hate: ‘Just respect me as a player’   JNS Staff       Hezbollah chief: Muslim world faces major US-led confrontation   JNS Staff       Israeli Arab parties make first move toward joint Knesset run   JNS Staff       Anti-Israel groups to march in Sydney during Australia Day protests   JNS Staff       IDF completes year-long effort to destroy southern Gaza terror tunnel route   JNS Staff       86 Palestine Action supporters detained over prison protest   JNS Staff       Israel’s tech sector soars to $111 billion in 2025 deals   JNS Staff       Israel closer to privatization of defense giants as innovation accelerates   Yaakov Lappin

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