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Netanyahu Considers Early Elections Without Passing Contentious Charedi Draft Bill

Netanyahu Considers Early Elections Without Passing Contentious Charedi Draft Bill

While Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his associates continue to publicly declare their intention to pass a historic draft law for charedim, assessments within the… Read More ›

Israeli teen, two Swiss Jewish sisters confirmed among dead in Swiss New Year’s Eve resort fire

Israeli teen, two Swiss Jewish sisters confirmed among dead in Swiss New Year’s Eve resort fire

Alicia and Diana Gunst, aged 15 and 14, and Charlotte Niddam, 15, were named among the victims of the deadly Swiss ski resort fire. Fifteen-year-old… Read More ›

2 Israelis rescued from Tulkarm in West Bank

2 Israelis rescued from Tulkarm in West Bank

After the two Jews were spotted in area of Palestinian city, the Civil Administration acted to provide them with protection and transfer them to IDF… Read More ›

Scrutiny around Qatargate and Bild leak may put PM one step closer to hot seat

Scrutiny around Qatargate and Bild leak may put PM one step closer to hot seat

Explosive interview with ex-spokesman alongside fresh revelations revive suspicions and raise sinister questions regarding influence peddling in Netanyahu’s inner circle New revelations this week supercharged… Read More ›

UN spends approximately $100 million in funding to target Israel yearly, new report shows

UN spends approximately $100 million in funding to target Israel yearly, new report shows

Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon told The Jerusalem Post that the figure reflects a network of UN bodies, committees, and mechanisms structurally embedded… Read More ›

Israel to moves to restore another settlement evacuated in 2005 disengagement

Israel to moves to restore another settlement evacuated in 2005 disengagement

Government approves plan to allow settlers to return to Sa-Nur 20 years after its evacuation, de facto repealing 2005 disengagement in northern West Bank The… Read More ›

AG slams government’s ‘political’ Oct 7 inquiry: ‘Tailor-made for coalition’s needs’

AG slams government’s ‘political’ Oct 7 inquiry: ‘Tailor-made for coalition’s needs’

Baharav-Miara warns coalition’s plan would politicize commission, undermine its independence and let those under scrutiny shape the investigation Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara on Sunday excoriated… Read More ›

Israel signed NIS 112 billion gas deal with Egypt, Netanyahu announces

Israel signed NIS 112 billion gas deal with Egypt, Netanyahu announces

Some NIS 58 billion will go directly to state coffers, he said, standing beside Energy and Infrastructure Minister Eli Cohen. Israel has signed the largest… Read More ›

Inside Israel’s shadow war with Hezbollah: the hunt for Nasrallah and the next round

Inside Israel’s shadow war with Hezbollah: the hunt for Nasrallah and the next round

After Nasrallah’s killing, Israel braces for renewed clash with a weakened but well-armed Hezbollah, as intelligence tracks hidden assets, political shifts and Iranian funding ahead… Read More ›

Trump: US ‘looking into’ whether Israel violated Gaza truce by killing Hamas leader

Trump: US ‘looking into’ whether Israel violated Gaza truce by killing Hamas leader

Report says White House rebuked Netanyahu over strike: ‘We won’t allow you to ruin president’s reputation’; Rubio, Witkoff and Kushner said ‘pissed by Israeli inflexibility’… Read More ›

Storm Byron slams Israel with heavy rain, flooding fears from coast to desert

Storm Byron slams Israel with heavy rain, flooding fears from coast to desert

Downpours set to continue through Thursday, with up to 150 millimeters along the coast; flooding was expected in the coastal plain and the Shephelah, and… Read More ›

Trump to announce transition to Phase II of Gaza deal, ‘Board of Peace’ by Christmas – Axios

Trump to announce transition to Phase II of Gaza deal, ‘Board of Peace’ by Christmas – Axios

The report cited two US officials and a Western source familiar with the details. US President Donald Trump is expected to announce Gaza’s “Board of… Read More ›

IAI chief: Arrow 4 almost ready for serial production

IAI chief: Arrow 4 almost ready for serial production

Israel Aerospace Industries CEO Boaz Levy says Israel’s next-generation interceptor is advancing rapidly as the Arrow system’s wartime performance boosts global demand; Germany receives its… Read More ›

Bennett calls Haredi draft law a con, quotes Moses saying Torah students must fight in wars

Bennett calls Haredi draft law a con, quotes Moses saying Torah students must fight in wars

PM cancels his own video address, claiming scheduling conflict, but Lapid and other rivals accuse him of hiding from public scrutiny over ‘betrayal’ of reservists… Read More ›

Iran-linked ‘Handala’ hacktivists claim to leave bouquet in Israeli nuclear scientist’s vehicle

Iran-linked ‘Handala’ hacktivists claim to leave bouquet in Israeli nuclear scientist’s vehicle

Iran-linked hacktivists claimed they broke into an Israeli nuclear scientist’s car and issued threats, earlier publishing what they said were names of Unit 8200 soldiers.… Read More ›

IDF chief: Israel needs bold leadership that recognizes failure, doesn’t ‘frighten, evade’

IDF chief: Israel needs bold leadership that recognizes failure, doesn’t ‘frighten, evade’

Remarks, read as thinly veiled critique of government, come amid public spat with Defense Minister Israel Katz over the latter’s selective promotions of senior IDF… Read More ›

Hamas transfers hostage remains to Red Cross, IDF confirms

Hamas transfers hostage remains to Red Cross, IDF confirms

Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad previously announced that the remains reportedly found by the PIJ on Monday evening would be returned at 4 p.m.… Read More ›

This is what Israel must demand as compensation for a US F-35 sale to Saudi Arabia

This is what Israel must demand as compensation for a US F-35 sale to Saudi Arabia

Analysis: Saudi Arabia’s proposed F-35 purchase would end Israel’s exclusive regional access to the jet, weakening a core security advantage even though Riyadh would receive standard… Read More ›

Levin to lead Ben Gvir, Smotrich and others in delineating government’s Oct. 7 probe

Levin to lead Ben Gvir, Smotrich and others in delineating government’s Oct. 7 probe

Lapid accuses PM of trying to ‘whitewash’ own responsibility by appointing far-right ministers, architect of judicial overhaul that led to ‘neglected’ security before Hamas attack… Read More ›

Israel cannot set timeframe for creation of Gaza international force, Netanyahu tells cabinet

Israel cannot set timeframe for creation of Gaza international force, Netanyahu tells cabinet

In an exchange leaked from the cabinet meeting, Netanyahu told National Missions Minister Orit Strock that he “did not know” until when a ceasefire in… Read More ›