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Prayer notes calling for peace have been sent from Arab countries to the holy site in Jerusalem, and some even from Iran.
The Israeli prime minister said strikes on steel production facilities weaken the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as the operation against Iran progresses “beyond the halfway point.”
“These acts of violence stand in stark contradiction to the values upon which Israel was founded and to the enduring ethical tradition of the Jewish people,” the Israeli president wrote.
“I think that the rule that women always pay the price could sadly, unfortunately, materialize here as well,” the legal scholar Ruth Halperin-Kaddari told JNS.
Around 400 munitions were dropped in a “large wave of strikes” across the country.
Rescue teams pulled a mother and her two children from a partially collapsed residential building after a fragment fell on the roof.
The precision strike in Beirut eliminated Hamza Ibrahim Rakhin, the deputy commander of Unit 1800, along with his operations chief and a third operative.
The move follows French restrictions on Israeli defense companies and support for a U.N. arms embargo amid tensions over Paris’s stance during the war.
The country’s Defense Ministry signed an agreement for the production of tens of thousands of 155mm shells, boosting Israel’s local arms output.
“No one was hurt in the strike on Bazan, and the strike was not in production facilities,” Israeli Energy and Infrastructure Minister Eli Cohen stated.
Liran Ben-Zion, 19, from Holon, served in the 401st “Iron Tracks” Brigade.
The bill is expected to go to the Knesset plenum for its final two readings later on Monday.
An operative in the Anatolian nation directed a cell in Samaria and recruited two locals for terrorist activity, the Shin Bet said.
According to an indictment filed against two Israelis, the Air Force officer’ exposure to classified information earned them a total of $152,331 on Polymarket.
The Menashe Regional Brigade’s “Netzah Israel” Battalion was suspended from operational activity.
Two soldiers were severely wounded by an anti-tank missile and three others were hurt by a separate attack.
“Even in times of war, we care for all the citizens of Israel without exception,” says Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich.
Projectiles trigger air-raid sirens across the north, hitting Haifa refineries as emergency crews respond to multiple sites.
Israel says the use of ambulances to move weapons and launch attacks a grave breach of international law.
Iranian Ambassador Mohammad Reza Sheibani has remained past Beirut’s March 29 deadline to leave.
The complex was “designed to have the capability to produce weapons-grade plutonium,” the IDF said.
Ahmed Faiz Salem Abu Rida “systematically violated the terms of the agreement, including by crossing the Yellow Line multiple times, transferring funds to suspects for terrorist activity and posing a threat to IDF soldiers.”
Israel temporarily asked people of all faiths to avoid worship at major religious sites in Jerusalem’s Old City, the prime minister said.
In a panel discussion at NBN’s Jerusalem campus on “Faith in Times of War,” four authors explore writing and spirituality following Oct. 7.
The Israeli foreign minister will also sign an agreement with his Bolivian counterpart to renew diplomatic relations between the two countries.
Oran Almog told JNS that he supported the hostage deal even though it released the mastermind of the terror attack that killed his family members.
Israeli Economy and Industry Minister Nir Barkat hailed San José as “a natural trade partner” for the Jewish state.
“People are risking their lives to go there. They ended up in jail, and then the Dutch government sends them a bill,” a spokeswoman said.
Former intelligence officer tells JNS that dismissing commanders from reserve duty after their service age has no substance
“We have only one nation-state—that is the story of Zionism. To be here in a city where the mayor-elect has declared that Jews have no right to their nation-state is precisely why I wanted to make this point and be here,” said the Israeli president.
At Ben-Gurion Airport, Gal Hirsch, Israel’s hostage affairs coordinator, reaffirmed Israel’s pledge to recover the body of the last hostage, Staff Sgt. Ran Gvili, still held in Gaza.
All six established towns, some dating to the early 1990s, with hundreds of residents, have received retroactive authorization.
Israeli soldiers found three rockets “at various stages of preparation,” as well as explosive devices and materials for producing bombs.
Netanyahu is scheduled to meet with Trump on Dec. 29 at Mar-a-Lago in Florida.
The raid in the Ma’alot Dafna neighborhood was carried out by the municipality “as part of a debt-collection procedure.”
