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Katz warns Iran: IDF will respond freely to any strike
An Iranian attack on Israel would release the IDF “from any restrictions,” Defense Minister Israel Katz said on Thursday during a speech to Defense Ministry employees ahead of the Rosh Hashanah holiday, Walla reported. “We will destroy all national,...
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Elections Committee ordered to reconsider voter-reporting ban
The full Central Elections Committee is expected on Sunday to reconsider a ban on parties receiving identified, real-time voting information from polling stations, after the High Court raised doubts Wednesday over whether committee chairman Justice...
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IDF, Shin Bet nab Hamas security chief in Gaza
The IDF and Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) on Tuesday night confirmed in a statement that they had captured Hamas’s head of internal security in the Gaza Strip in the first high-level abduction operation deep in Gaza in a long time. The official...
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Huckabee hopes Turkey can be a stabilizing force
US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee is hopeful that Turkey will decide to become a stabilizing force in the Middle East. “I don’t think we know the full extent of it – whether they are helpful or not,” he told The Jerusalem Post in an interview on...
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Dahlan’s Fatah Democratic Reform faction seeks to end Palestinian infighting
Fatah’s Democratic Reform (FDR) faction is seeking to unify Hamas, Fatah, and all Palestinian factions, hoping that doing so will allow the groups to focus on building a Palestinian state rather than becoming consumed by internal conflict. This is...
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IDF evicts settlers who barricaded themselves inside Kusra home
In a continuation of attacks that have taken place for several week, settlers barricaded themselves inside a Palestinian house in Kusra on Saturday. Residents were present in the building before IDF forces arrived to forcibly remove the rioters. The...
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IDF boosts forces in W. Bank as Zamir warns of flare-up
IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Eyal Zamir on Thursday announced that he is expanding the IDF forces being used to maintain public order in Judea and Samaria leading into the High Holy Days. The Jerusalem Post understands that the volume of forces will be...
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Worried Likud weighs settling for rotation government with Eisenkot
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s associates in the Likud Party are analyzing the possibility of joining a rotation government with the center-left bloc that appears to be in the ascendency if, as polls currently predict, neither major party is able...
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Religious Zionist Party’s Sukkot destroys shrine to terrorists in W. Bank
MK Zvi Sukkot (Religious Zionist Party) confirmed he had destroyed a monument in Kafr Madama near Nablus, after footage circulated on social media was shared by Israeli outlets on Tuesday morning. The monument appeared to be in honor of members of the...
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US declares ‘Operation Economic Outcast’ on Iran after warning of ‘economic D-Day’
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced the start of Operation Economic Outcast on Iran in remarks at a press conference on Monday following earlier threats of an “economic D-Day” against the regime. “Our objective is to sever every economic...
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Mossad head, Syria FM hold positive de-escalation talks
A meeting held on Sunday between Israeli and Syrian officials “went well” amid ongoing efforts to lower tensions between the two countries, a source familiar with the meeting told The Jerusalem Post. Those in attendance included Mossad chief Roman...
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US envoy: Israel may have ‘baited’ Turkey with airbase strike ahead of elections
The airstrike on a Syrian military base last week may have been a deliberate attempt to provoke Turkey ahead of Israel’s elections, US Special Envoy Tom Barrack said Saturday. His comments – made during an interview with commentator Mario Nawfal on...
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High Court annuls Army Radio closure, warns of silencing critics
The government’s decision to shutter Army Radio in December was invalidated on Thursday by the High Court of Justice. The reason, the ruling reads, is that those who made the decision acted in part because they felt the station did not align with...
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Israel’s strike on Syria risks military escalation with Turkey
After the Prime Minister’s Office took responsibility for Monday night’s strike on Abu al-Duhur airbase in Idlib, Syria, US ambassador to Turkey and the Trump administration’s special envoy to Syria, Tom Barrack, said that the strike “carried a real...
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DM Katz wants police to take W. Bank Jewish issues from IDF
Defense Minister Israel Katz’s announced proposal last week to transfer authority for handling extremist Jewish activists’ problems from the IDF to the police was not coordinated with the relevant authorities and may yet be blocked, The Jerusalem Post...
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Iran threatens to go on offensive in Strait of Hormuz if talks fail
Likud ministers in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government backed the premier’s eight reserved slots in the party’s list that he would fill at the Likud primaries on Monday, while also characterizing the event as a celebration of the party’s...
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Ben-Gvir: For first time, Jewish men can pray on Temple Mount with prayer books
Jewish men were permitted to bring prayer books onto the Temple Mount on Sunday, National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir confirmed to The Jerusalem Post. The statement came after right-wing journalist Arnon Segal shared a photo of Jewish men...
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Police find Yahalomi mother, daughter in Argentina
Israeli mother Mali Yahalomi and her daughter, Liel, were found alive in Argentina on Friday night, the Israel Police confirmed, one week after their disappearance in Vienna, in a case that has gripped Israel. The mother and daughter were found on an...
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Defense officials shocked by speed of Iran recovery
Israeli defense officials are shocked by the speed of Iran’s recovery following the early 2026 war, The Jerusalem Post has learned. This includes both IDF and Mossad officials, though the military was the lead evaluator of targeting and the harm from...
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Settler extremists clash with IDF after outpost evac
Dozens of settler extremists clashed with the IDF on Wednesday near Kusra in the northern West Bank after the military evacuated an outpost that was set up in the area without authorization. The entire area was declared a closed military zone on...
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Netanyahu reserves Likud slots for three ministers
The Likud party’s secretariat on Tuesday approved reserved slots on its Knesset slate for Defense Minister Israel Katz and Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar, who were selected by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ahead of the upcoming elections. The...
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Quake reminded me of sirens in Israel
“It reminded me of Israel with the sirens and the bombs,” Israeli resident Fernando Chaim Bisker told The Jerusalem Post from Bogotá. An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.4 shook Colombia’s coastal Choco province at 7:34 a.m. on Monday, killing at...
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Netanyahu rejects 15-point BoP plan for reconstruction of Gaza
Israel rejected the 15-point plan for the Gaza Strip proposed by the Board of Peace, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared while speaking in a Sunday afternoon cabinet meeting. “Israel rejects the 15-point Gaza document proposed by the Board of...
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Hezbollah failing in its attempts to wreck Beirut-Jerusalem talks, experts tell ‘Post’
Hezbollah’s attacks on the IDF and Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) have not derailed talks between Beirut and Jerusalem, even amid Israel’s recent strikes on the group, two experts told The Jerusalem Post. Beirut and Jerusalem held talks in Rome last...
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Secret X bot army based in City Hall boosting Mamdani
Dozens of suspected bot accounts on X/Twitter are amplifying content from New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and his circle, and reportedly can be traced to New York City Hall IP infrastructure, the World Zionist Organization told The Jerusalem Post...
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Remains of Herzl’s grandparents reinterred alongside Zionist leader
Seventy-seven years after Theodor Herzl was reburied in Jerusalem, the founder of modern political Zionism was finally reunited with the last missing members of his immediate family on Wednesday as the remains of his grandparents, Shimon Leib and Rivka...
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Knesset panel approves hundreds of millions of shekels for haredi education
The Knesset Finance Committee on Tuesday approved the transfer of approximately NIS 270 million to haredi (ultra-Orthodox) education institutions amid the Knesset’s recess ahead of the election. The approval came after a lengthy and stormy debate in...
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High Court questions factual basis of petition against UNRWA curbs
The High Court of Justice on Monday questioned whether a petition challenging legislation restricting UNRWA’s operations had established the factual basis needed for constitutional review, with all three justices repeatedly asking for evidence that the...
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PM retreats from draft evasion law, calls to either ‘enlist or go to prison’
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly told officials on Sunday that if reelected, he would not advance the contentious law that seeks to freeze the arrests of haredi (ultra-Orthodox) draft evaders, which his coalition passed last...
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Trump, BoP hail ‘historic’ Gaza breakthrough
Senior US and Board of Peace officials said Hamas has accepted a plan that would ultimately require the dismantling of its military infrastructure, the destruction of tunnels and weapons factories, and its complete withdrawal from governing...
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Israel rejects Hamas disarmament plan
Israel is demanding the complete disarmament of Hamas, including the removal of weapons from Gaza and the full demilitarization of the Gaza Strip, as a precondition for any withdrawal process, a diplomatic source told The Jerusalem Post on...
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Iran hides centrifuges at Pickaxe Mountain
WASHINGTON – Iran is storing centrifuges at Pickaxe Mountain, a senior Israeli diplomatic source said Wednesday. Israel does not believe Iran’s nuclear program has been completely destroyed, the source told reporters who accompanied Prime Minister...
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Netanyahu, Trump hold positive meeting
US President Donald Trump hosted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday to discuss the war in Iran. They also spoke about expanding the Abraham Accords, following calls by Trump for Saudi Arabia to normalize ties with Israel. “It was a very...
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Trump: US-Tehran talks are ‘good,’ drones hit Iran’s neighbors ‘Turkey seeks to meddle in vote with social media’
WASHINGTON/DUBAI (Reuters) – US President Donald Trump said on Monday that the United States was having “good talks” with Iran and there was a chance of a deal over their conflict, but warned that US strikes would resume if the negotiations failed to...
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Cabinet approves ISF to enter Gaza Strip
The Security Cabinet approved on Sunday the principal approval for the entry of the International Stabilization Force (ISF) into the Gaza Strip, included in US President Donald Trump’s 20-point plan. The goal is to launch a pilot project in Rafah...
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Wide-scale arrests in West Bank after 2 Israelis killed in terror attack
More than 70 terror suspects from the West Bank were arrested Saturday following overnight operations, according to an IDF statement. The wide-scale operation came after two Israelis, including an IDF officer, were killed and several others were...
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Man severely wounded in West Bank stabbing attack
a 51-year-old israeli, itamar cohen, was seriously wounded in a stabbing attack near the west Bank settlement of elon moreh on thursday morning and in an attack later, idF soldiers killed a terrorist after he carried out a stabbing attack in the Ganim...
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Haim Yavin, Israel’s legendary ‘Mr. Television,’ dies at 93
Haim Yavin, the veteran broadcaster known to generations of Israelis as “Mr. Television,” died on Wednesday at the age of 93, his family announced. Yavin was one of the founders of Israeli television and the longtime presenter of the public...
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US strikes pressure Iran to propose truce
It was Tehran that initiated the proposal now being advanced by mediators for a 10-day ceasefire between the United States and Iran, two sources familiar with the negotiations told The Jerusalem Post. The fact that Iran proposed the initiative...
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Houthis impose naval blockade on Saudi Arabia
DUBAI/RIYADH (Reuters) – Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis said on Monday they were imposing a naval blockade on Saudi Arabia, a move that opens a new front against the United States in its war on Iran and widens the threat to global energy supplies and...
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Zamir: IDF ready to strike back against Tehran
Hours after shrapnel from an Iranian missile landed near Eilat on Sunday, IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Eyal Zamir threatened Iran with a harsh counterstrike. Iran had fired a series of ballistic missiles at the Jordanian Red Sea city of Aqaba. While...
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2 US soldiers killed in Jordan by Iranian attacks
WASHINGTON/CAIRO (Reuters) – The US military reported that two of its personnel were killed in Jordan and another was missing after an Iranian attack on Saturday, while Iran’s supreme leader said Washington would pay for “seeking to incite war” after a...
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Knesset passes sweeping broadcast changes
A bill proposed by Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi (Likud) to enact sweeping reforms in the broadcasting sector was approved by the Knesset on Thursday. The contentious bill passed in its second and third readings by 53-48 votes. Prime Minister...
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IDF races to destroy Hezbollah infrastructure before US withdrawal push
The IDF is racing to finish eliminating Hezbollah terror infrastructure in 52 southern Lebanese villages in the coming weeks, before the US presses Israel for a wider withdrawal, military sources said on Wednesday. During The Jerusalem Post’s visit to...
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Knesset votes to freeze arrests of ultra-Orthodox draft evaders
The Knesset plenum passed on Tuesday the contentious bill that will temporarily freeze the arrests of haredi (ultra-Orthodox) draft evaders, a measure expected to remain in effect for at least six months, with 58 lawmakers voting in favor and 54...
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Sinwar believed Israel might use nukes in response to October 7
Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, mastermind of the October 7 massacre in 2023, believed Israel might respond to the terrorist invasion by using nuclear weapons against Gaza, according to a document he wrote by hand on August 24, 2022. It was revealed to the...
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Sen. Lindsey Graham dies suddenly at 71
Hardline supporter of Israel, US Senator Lindsey Graham, passed away on Saturday evening after a brief and sudden illness, the communications director for his office said in a post on X/Twitter early on Sunday. “Senator Graham’s family appreciates...
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Khameni pledges revenge for slain father and predecessor
A written statement from Iran’s new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, threatened vengeance for the death of his predecessor and father on Saturday, but added that it would depend not only on Iran but also on “free people around the world.” In the...
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Iran says it hits US military targets in Gulf
DUBAI (Reuters) – Iranian armed forces launched attacks on US military infrastructure in Gulf states on Thursday following US strikes on Iran’s southern coastal and eastern provinces, putting further strain on a threeweek-old ceasefire agreement. The...
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Trump says accord to end Iran war ‘over’
ANKARA/DUBAI (Reuters) – President Donald Trump said an interim agreement to end the war with Iran was “over” and that the United States was likely to launch new strikes on Wednesday night following Iranian attacks on US bases in the Gulf. In a...
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Trump signals willingness to sell F-35 fighter jets to Turkey
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced that the United States would lift sanctions on Turkey that were imposed in 2020 over Ankara’s purchase of Russian defense missiles, and signaled a willingness to sell the NATO ally F-35 fighter jets; both...
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Hamas official resigns in first step to dissolve Gaza’s governing body
Hamas on Monday announced that the head of the Emergency Committee had submitted his resignation, as the first step to dissolving the “committee for monitoring government activity,” the body that effectively serves as Hamas’s government in the Gaza...
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Gov’t threatens to ignore High Court ruling to freeze media regulator jobs
The government unanimously approved a proposal on Sunday declaring that it would not comply with a High Court of Justice ruling relating to the Second Authority Council, following petitions arguing that appointments for its members were political. Such...
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Khamenei funeral projects hardline grip on post-war Iran
TEHRAN (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of Iranians thronged a vast outdoor prayer complex in Tehran on Saturday to view the coffins of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his family. Dressed in black and draped in the red, white, and green flags of the Islamic...
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High Court orders Knesset to hold new comptroller vote
The High Court of Justice ruled unanimously on Thursday that the Knesset’s controversial vote to appoint attorney Michael Rabello as state comptroller was invalid and that the vote must be held again. In its ruling, the court stated that a...
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Maccabiah Games opens in colorful ceremony
The Maccabiah Games, often referred to as the “Jewish Olympics,” kicked off on Wednesday evening with around 5,000 athletes from some 35 countries participating in the opening ceremony at Jerusalem’s Teddy Stadium. The Maccabiah is one of the largest...
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Bill to enshrine Torah Study in Basic Law goes to first reading
The Knesset House Committee voted on Tuesday to advance the haredi (ultra-Orthodox) parties’ controversial bill that seeks to enshrine Torah Study in the country’s Basic Law, ahead of its first reading in the plenum. The Basic Law: Torah Study bill is...
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Lebanon army must prove it can push Hezbollah back, Katz says
The pilot program for the IDF to withdraw from parts of southern Lebanon while waiting to see whether the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) can properly remove Hezbollah, will initially focus on the zone between the Yellow Line and the Litani River, Defense...
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Katz calls to freeze arrests of haredi draft evaders
Defense Minister Israel Katz (Likud) on Sunday called to advance a proposal that would temporarily freeze the arrests of haredi (ultra-Orthodox) draft evaders, as the Knesset advanced contentious legislation to enshrine Torah study in a Basic Law after...
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Israel, Lebanon sign historic framework deal
The United States, Israel, and Lebanon signed a trilateral framework agreement aimed at combating Hezbollah on Friday, after days of US-mediated talks in Washington. According to a US State Department statement, the agreement outlines a structured...
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US officials to meet IRGC to reduce tensions – Vance
In a stunning turn of events, US Vice President JD Vance told the media outlet Unherd on Thursday that US Central Command officials will meet with Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps officials in Doha, Qatar, to resolve conflicts between the US and...
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Haredim disrupt traffic throughout country in widespread demos
The country’s highways returned to normal congestion levels on Wednesday evening after thousands of haredi (ultra-Orthodox) demonstrators blocked Highways 1 and 4 in mass nationwide anti-IDF draft protests. MKs Yitzhak Goldknopf (United Torah Judaism)...
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IDF kills Hezbollah operatives in separate incidents, but Lebanon ceasefire holds
In two separate incidents on Tuesday afternoon, the IDF said that it had killed armed Hezbollah operatives approaching its positions in the Ali al-Taher Ridge, which is at the edge of Israel’s security zone. Despite the two incidents interrupting the...
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Israel-Lebanon talks to discuss disarmament, normalizing of ties
Israeli and Lebanese delegations are set to meet in Washington on Tuesday for another round of talks focused on the disarmament of Hezbollah in southern Lebanon and continued discussions on the prospect of normalization between the two countries. The...
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Pakistan flexes its clout in Iran talks
Pakistan continues to play a key role in Iran talks. The warm embrace between US Vice President JD Vance and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Field Marshal Asim Munir, chief of the Defense Forces, is significant. Vance praised the...
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Five soldiers killed in Lebanon
Five IDF soldiers were killed in Lebanon over the weekend in two separate incidents. Four soldiers were killed early Friday while fighting in southern Lebanon when their tank was hit. Commander of the 52nd Battalion, 401st Brigade Lt.-Col. Dor Gedalia...
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Israel will remain in security zone in southern Lebanon
The IDF will not withdraw from Israel’s security strip in southern Lebanon, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday. Tensions have escalated between Jerusalem and Washington over a US-Iran agreement that calls for an end to hostilities in...
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US publishes MoU with Iran
US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday his new ceasefire agreement with Iran was not final and he could resume the war if he is unsatisfied, even as Israel launched fresh airstrikes in Lebanon where fighting threatens the wider truce. “It’s a...
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Aerial version of Iron Beam will change face of 21st century warfare
The future of warfare is lasers, Star Wars-style. Much of the world is already familiar with the game-changing Iron Beam laser defense system, which Israel covertly deployed against Hezbollah drones in October 2024, and then publicly in December...
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Netanyahu: We don’t know what US-Iran ceasefire deal says yet
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that he and US President Donald Trump don’t always “see eye-to-eye,” during a press conference on Monday evening following Sunday’s announcement that the US and Iran had reached a ceasefire agreement. “There are...
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Somaliland president in Israel to open Jerusalem embassy
Somaliland President Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi and First Lady Fardowsa Mohamed Roble, accompanied by a senior delegation, arrived in Israel on Sunday for a landmark state visit, opening a new chapter in relations between the two countries. Israel...
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Trump: Framework deal to end war may be signed today
DUBAI/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – US President Donald Trump and mediator Pakistan said on Saturday an initial deal to end the war in the Middle East would be signed on Sunday, although Iran denied the signing would take place so soon. Pakistani Prime...
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Trump calls off strikes, says deal with Iran agreed by all
US President Donald Trump announced that he had canceled scheduled strikes and bombings against Iran on Thursday night, after a deal with the Islamic Republic had been agreed upon. Trump had earlier announced that the US would be striking Iran in a...
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Israel and Iran trade blows before Trump imposes end to fighting
For the first time since the April 7 ceasefire, Israel and Iran traded repeated blows on Sunday night and Monday until US President Donald Trump imposed a new ceasefire on both sides late in the afternoon. Although the Islamic Republic demanded that...
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Yesh Atid petitions High Court over state comptroller vote, calls process ‘fundamentally corrupt’
The Yesh Atid faction filed a petition to the High Court of Justice on Sunday against the highly controversial Knesset vote on Wednesday in which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s personal attorney, Michael Rabello, was elected as the new state...
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