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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.
The former U.K. prime minister reportedly faced criticism for his 2003 support for the invasion of Iraq and is expected to instead serve on the board’s executive committee with Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff.
The 2026 National Defense Authorization Act keeps overall U.S.-Israel missile defense cooperation spending at $200 million, consistent with 2025 expenditures.
“We have to have a dose of reality here,” the Republican senator told JNS. “Hamas is never going to give up their weapons and never going to give up power unless somebody makes them.”
Officials urge the entire population to get immunized against influenza as hospitals report rising child cases and low vaccination rates nationwide.
The pin bears the same color as that worn over the past two years in solidarity with the Gaza hostages held by Hamas terrorists.
The section of the wall unearthed at the Tower of David Museum is among the longest and most intact segments ever uncovered.
Amir Baram, the director-general of Israel’s Defense Ministry, said that the project is a “central component” of its new strategy.
More than 82,000 individuals are being treated today by Israel’s Defense Ministry; the oldest is 98 and served in the Haganah.
Maj. Gen. Roman Gofman rushed to the thick of the battlefield with only his personal weapons, sustaining a gunshot wound in the leg.
The lecture was reportedly canceled after the Israeli Education Ministry determined that Brothers in Arms violates the State Education Law.
The gathering marked the largest delegation of Israeli diplomatic representatives to visit the country, according to Israeli officials.
The statement came after Khaled Mashaal rejected the U.S.- and U.N.-backed demands for Hamas to disarm and for the Strip to be demilitarized.
