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Bennett Tucker

Bennett Tucker is a freelance correspondent and cultural critic based in Israel and contributes to U.S. and Israeli publications. He holds degrees from the Massachusetts Maritime Academy, the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and is a former research fellow at the Hebrew University. He is also an architecture historian at the Technion Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa. Although based in Israel, he calls Virginia home.
by | Nov 28, 2024

On Monday, Nov. 25, United Arab Emirates officials released the names and photographs of three Uzbek nationals arrested for the murder of Chabad Lubavitch emissary Rabbi Zvi Kogan. The Israel intelligence agency Mossad had been working with UAE security authorities…

by | Nov 12, 2024

Hezbollah in southern Lebanon has assaulted Israel with tens of thousands of rockets and missiles for over a year, forcing over 60,000 northern Israeli residents to flee their homes. Although Israel has been responding with airstrikes against Hezbollah’s military infrastructure…

by | Nov 2, 2024

The long-anticipated Israeli attack on Iran commenced in the early hours of Saturday, Oct. 26. By 2:15 a.m., explosions were reported on the outskirts of Tehran, followed promptly by an Israel Defense Force statement confirming it had commenced air attacks…

by | Oct 19, 2024

Israeli Police and Israel Defense Force (IDF) forensic teams spent the first day of the Jewish High Holiday of Sukkot on Thursday, October 17, working to determine if the body of one of the three terrorists killed the previous day…

by | Oct 2, 2024

At 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday night, the Israeli national alarm system began notifying every phone across the country of an imminent Iranian attack. Israel Home Front Command recommended everyone to remain at home, near their bomb shelters, or try to…

by | Sep 29, 2024

On Friday, September 27, the Israel Airforce (IAF) eliminated Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and a number of other Hezbollah and Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) leaders while they were meeting in an underground headquarters in the residential Dahia neighborhood of…

by | Sep 26, 2024

On Monday, Sept. 23, the 300,000 residents of Haifa, Israel, rushed to bomb shelters as oscillating wails of rocket sirens pierced the city for the first time since the outbreak of war 11 months ago. Overhead, bright orange flares from…

by | Sep 6, 2024

Israeli forces have been conducting counter-terrorism raids in the West Bank in what is considered one of the longest operations in the territory since the Second Intifada. What began last week as raids to thwart Iranian-backed networks in the northern…

by | Jul 27, 2024

On the morning of July 21, the Israel Defense Force (IDF) sent out the first round of 1,000 draft orders to men between the ages of 18 to 26 in the ultra-Orthodox “Haredi” Jewish communities across Israel. The order followed…

by | Jul 9, 2024

During the 2012 presidential debates, Gov. Mitt Romney criticized President Barack Obama for depleting the military budget and reducing the U.S. Navy to the fewest ships since 1917. “Well, Governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets, because the nature…

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