While National Newswatch does not keep an archive of external articles for longer than 6 months, we do keep all articles written by contributors who post directly to our site. Here you will find all of the contributed and linked external articles from Vivian Bercovici.
Early Thursday (Israel time) U.S. President Trump announced on Truth Social that a deal had been done. Hours later, Israelis were notified that a ceasefire was imminent. Jubilation does not begin to capture the mood. A small group of hostage families and former captives were filmed earlier today crowding around a telephone and thanking President Trump, profusely, for his dedication...
Desolation. Fittingly, that is all one sees on the Israeli side of the Kerem Shalom border crossing between Israel and the Gaza Strip. Especially at this time of year, the ground is hard-baked. Intermittent wind gusts grind sand into your skin. Article content I wait in the intense heat, along with a small group of international journalists and Israel Defence...
Each day, it seems, we wake to a fresh horror. Article content On Wednesday July 16, in response to an ongoing massacre of Syrian Druze, the IDF launched a limited but forceful ground incursion as well as airstrikes into Damascus.
On Feb. 1, 1979, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the leader of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, stood at the top of the stairs of an Air France jet that had just landed in Tehran. This stern, robed man had been whisked from his country villa provided by the French government (then led by President Valery Giscard d’Estaing) to a waiting jet...
In May, 2024, International Criminal Court Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan, K.C., abruptly cancelled a planned trip to Israel. Khan and ICC staff were meant to meet with Israeli officials in government, the military and NGO sectors. Instead, on the same day he cancelled, Khan appeared before a panel of ICC judges asking them to consider issuing arrest warrants for Israeli...
Daniella Gilboa is a beautiful 20-year-old Israeli woman and the spitting image of her mother, Orly. Orly is the mother of two daughters, Noam, age 15, and Daniella, an Israeli soldier who was brutally assaulted and taken captive by Hamas terrorists on October 7. On Tuesday evening, along with family members of four female soldiers held hostage by Hamas, Orly...
Late in the afternoon on Saturday, April 13, massive street parties popped up in Toronto, Montreal and elsewhere in Canada, celebrating the launch of over 300 ballistic missiles and attack drones by the Islamic Republic of Iran targeting sites in Israel. On Oct. 7, 2023, while Hamas terrorists were still slaughtering, mutilating, burning and kidnapping civilians in Israel, spontaneous parties...