LUKE TRESS 
Displaced Palestinians carry food parcels as they raid trucks carrying humanitarian aid in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip on August 9, 2025. Photo: AFP
July 8, 2026, 4:43 pm
NGOs exploited Gaza suffering to raise funds
Survey raises claims of bias and anti-Israel narratives within humanitarian organisations.
By LUKE TRESS 
From left: Eden Pryer and Yehuda Nothman with other members of Australia’s delegation. Photo: Luke Tress/Times of Israel
February 23, 2026, 12:39 pm
Aussie Jews join CTeen in Times Square
The CTeen International Shabbaton brought together more than 4500 youths from around 60 countries.
By LUKE TRESS 
The lighting of the world's largest menorah in New York City. Photo: Luke Tress/Times of Israel
December 18, 2025, 9:59 am
‘More light’: NYC’s defiant Chanukah celebration
Jewish communities around the world, stepped up security around Chanukah events following the Bondi attack.
By LUKE TRESS 
New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, center, speaks in front of the Unisphere alongside his transition team, in Queens, New York City, November 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Heather Khalifa)
November 6, 2025, 12:53 pm
Mamdani’s election win puts NY Jews into uncharted waters
For the first time, world’s largest Diaspora community will have to contend with a leader of New York City many view as a threat.
By LUKE TRESS 
A Palestinian woman at an UNRWA camp for internally displaced people in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on May 28, 2024. Photo: Eyad Baba/AFP
September 25, 2025, 12:45 pm
Countries recognising Palestine ignore refugee issue
By LUKE TRESS 
UN commissioners Chris Sidoti, left, Navi Pillay, center, and Miloon Kothari, right, discuss their probe into Israel and the Palestinians at the United Nations in New York, October 27, 2022. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)
July 16, 2025, 11:35 am
UN commission quits Israel investigation
Resignations, including ex-UN rights chief and follow U.S. sanctions on anti-Israel investigators.
By LUKE TRESS 
Gov. Hochul said she had directed the New York State Police and the state’s national guard to be on high alert and step up patrols of at-risk sites for Hanukkah, following the firing of shots at an Albany synagogue on Dec. 7, 2023. (Photo: Jason Lawrence/Wikimedia Commons/New York Jewish Week.)
December 8, 2023, 11:39 am
Shots fired at New York synagogue with preschool, suspect in custody
The suspect reportedly shouted “Free Palestine” during the incident.
By LUKE TRESS 
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, meets with United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres during the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly at UN Headquarters, September 20, 2023. Photo: AP/Craig Ruttle
September 21, 2023, 1:17 pm
Meeting Guterres, Netanyahu demands UN ‘change attitude’ toward Israel
Prime minister accuses United Nations of ‘baseless criticism’ of Jewish state; secretary-general discusses ‘ending occupation’ in talk with Palestinian president
By LUKE TRESS 
Israeli protesters in New York City's Times Square on September 19. Photo: Luke Tress/Times of Israel
September 21, 2023, 9:18 am
Hundreds protest as Bibi meets world leaders
"If there won't be equality, we'll take down the government, you came down on the wrong generation."
By LUKE TRESS  and TOI STAFF
Vivek Ramaswamy and Nikki Haley speak during a Republican presidential primary debate. Photo: AP Photo/Morry Gash
September 3, 2023, 6:36 am
Haley lashes Ramaswamy at Republican debate
"You want to go and defund Israel," Haley said. "You have no foreign policy experience and it shows."
By LUKE TRESS 
Donald Trump arrives at a campaign rally in Erie, Pennsylvania on July 29. Photo: AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File
August 4, 2023, 12:25 pm
Trump campaign compares indictment to Nazi persecution
Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt decries comparison as 'factually incorrect, completely inappropriate and flat out offensive'
By LUKE TRESS 
Roseanne Barr on Fox & Friends. Photo: Evan Agostini/Invision/AP
July 11, 2023, 6:59 am
Comedian Roseanne Barr draws fire for remarks
Barr also highlighted Jewish contributions to the entertainment industry, said Hollywood was largely Jewish, and criticised Dave Chappelle's Saturday Night Live monologue against Jews in entertainment.
By LUKE TRESS 
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks during a press conference in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on July 1, 2023. Photo: Richard Pierrin/AFP
July 7, 2023, 12:13 pm
UN chief: Israel used excessive force in Jenin
Guterres dodges question on UN war crimes allegation, blames Israel for ‘worst violence’ in West Bank in years; UN envoy Erdan: ‘Shameful’ statements ‘detached from reality’
By LUKE TRESS 
Marchers in the Celebrate Israel Parade in NYC on June 4. Photo: Luke Tress/Times of Israel
June 12, 2023, 7:10 am
New York holds annual Israel parade
US Congressman Jerry Nadler, a New York Democrat who is Jewish, joined the group, saying he was "proud to march and fight for Israel's democracy".
By LUKE TRESS 
Mahmoud Abbas speaks at the UN 'Nakba' event. Photo: Screenshot
May 23, 2023, 6:38 am
Abbas calls on UN to oust Israel
Israel harshly opposed the event, calling it a "distortion of history" and said it had convinced dozens of other countries to boycott the commemoration.
By LUKE TRESS 
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