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Republican nominee Donald Trump and Arab Americans for Trump chair Bishara Bahbah at a campaign event ahead of the 2024 US presidential election. (Bisharah Bahbah/X)
May 14, 2025, 2:18 am
Palestinian-US political activist operated key backchannel in Edan Alexander’s release
Bishara Bahbah passed messages between Witkoff and senior Hamas official Ghazi Hamad, and succeeded in convincing terror group to free the American-Israeli hostage unconditionally
By Jacob Magid
A protester holds up a cutout of Edan Alexander's face at a rally calling for the release of the hostages, at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, March 15, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
May 12, 2025, 7:36 am
Backchannel helped secure release of American-Israeli hostage, sources tell ToI
Witkoff was kept in loop about talks 3rd-party mediator held with Hamas that managed to convince the terror group to free the 21-year-old unconditionally after weeks of pushback
By Jacob Magid
Varda Ben Baruch, grandmother of Edan Alexander, holds a picture of her grandson near the border with the Gaza Strip on April 20, 2025. (Lior Rotstein/Hostages and Missing Families Forum)
May 12, 2025, 3:22 am
Hamas set to free US-Israeli hostage Edan Alexander Monday in goodwill gesture to Trump
Israel wasn’t told in advance about release; Hamas hoping US will now coax Jerusalem to end war in exchange for all hostages; Trump hails potential step toward ending ‘this brutal conflict’
By Jacob Magid, Nurit Yohanan, Shira Silkoff, Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff
(L-R) Yael Alexander, Adi Alexander, Ruby Chen, Hagit Chen, Orna Neutra and Ronen Neutra at a press conference for the families of American-Israeli hostages in Washington on April 30, 2025. (Courtesy)
April 30, 2025, 11:54 pm
US hostage families see Trump’s May trip to region as chance for loved ones’ return
Parents of American-Israeli captives pan Netanyahu’s handling of negotiations, fearing he’s using military pressure only to ensure his government’s survival
By Jacob Magid
Joshua Tartakovsky's Facebook profile picture, uploaded on May 19, 2021. (Social media; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
October 10, 2024, 12:11 pm
Israeli citizen arrested in Beirut with UK passport deported to US – reports
Hebrew media says freelance journalist Joshua Tartakovsky freed from Lebanon following American pressure; Israeli authorities also said to have been involved in resolving incident
By ToI Staff
Joshua Tartakovsky's Facebook profile picture, uploaded on May 19, 2021. (Social media; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
October 9, 2024, 9:20 pm
Israeli arrested in Beirut, after entering Lebanon as journalist on foreign passport
Joshua Tartakovsky, 42, is a graduate of Brown University, LSE; Israeli official tells TOI government is responding to case, urges citizens not to enter enemy countries
By ToI Staff and Lazar Berman
US Embassy in Jerusalem, October 27, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 3, 2023, 3:28 pm
‘A nightmare’: US passport crunch for dual citizens in Israel among most severe
Over 200,000 people with citizenship of both countries live in Israel; even newborns need separate appointments, which now take around 90 days to get in Israel, down from 360 days
By Laurie Kellman, Rebecca Santana and DAVID KOENIG
Zionist Union MK Merav Michaeli embraces a participant at the Israeli American Council’s annual Washington conference, on Nov. 5, 2017. (Ron Kampeas/JTA)
November 8, 2017, 8:28 am
Israeli Americans, US Jews talk what unites them, drives them apart
At its annual conference, Israeli American Council highlights different views on key issues in Jewish life taken by Israelis, Americans
By Ron Kampeas
Palestinian women hold a scarf bearing the Palestine name as Israeli youths carry their national flag in the "flag march" through Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City during celebrations for Jerusalem Day on May 17, 2015. (AFP Photo/Jack Guez)
May 11, 2017, 6:30 am
How the Six Day War changed American Jews
Historians say the existential crisis brought people together in a way that hasn’t been seen since Mount Sinai
By Ben Sales
Israeli and US flags (Moshe Milner/GPO/Flash90)
December 31, 2016, 8:42 am
US-Israel citizens in a tizz over new kids’ savings plan
Dual citizens face dilemma of choosing low-interest bank track or a plan liable to double taxation
By Shoshanna Solomon
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