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“They say now the most important thing for them is to bring Rani [home]. On this, we got a promise from all of them,” Itzik Gvili, father of Ran, told JNS.
Israel’s army says 151 troops died in 2025, less than half the 2024 toll, as combat intensity fell.
New regulations take effect Jan. 1 after security reviews found some NGO employees tied to Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, officials say.
“On behalf of hundreds of thousands of reservists, thank you,” Israel Katz said. “You are the vanguard of the State of Israel.”
Col. (Ret.) Yonatan David Zagdanski’s Citizen Defenders Project is training armed civilians to become Israel’s first line of defense against terror.
Former defense officials tell JNS that an Israeli base on the Horn of Africa could make operations against Iran and the Houthis much more convenient.
The relationship between Trump and Netanyahu is very strong. There is complete alignment on Hamas, Hezbollah, Syria and Iran. And Trump’s fondness toward Israel remains unshakable.
Cameron Kasky, a Democrat who is Jewish, claimed that he was in the Jewish state on a Palestinian-led tour to see the “reality on the ground.”
The renewal comes as U.S. President Donald Trump said that Washington and Jerusalem “have an understanding regarding Syria.”
Israeli currency’s surge is being driven by tech exits, defense exports and hedging flows.
At stake is not only how Israel investigates one of the darkest days in its history, but whether the country preserves national cohesion, moral clarity and strategic focus during an existential war.
The Knesset approved legislation to cut electricity and water to UNRWA facilities and allow state seizures of some UNRWA-used properties in Jerusalem.
