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“In every generation, they rise up against us to destroy us,” Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir posted, citing the words recited from the Haggadah during the Passover service.
“Clearly, we’re at a difficult hour. We’re at war for our lives, for our freedom and also for the freedom of the world,” said the Israeli president.
The new non-stop service comes amid burgeoning relations between Jerusalem and Buenos Aires.
The initial strikes on the Islamic Republic were planned meticulously over months and in coordination with the U.S. military.
The Quds Force officer was eliminated as IDF targets weapons and missile sites across Iran.
Israel’s foreign minister condemned the attack as “part of the strategy of war crimes committed by the Iranian terrorist regime.”
The IRGC’s Imam Hossein University in Tehran was also used to develop ballistic missiles, says IDF spokesperson.
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 troops were reportedly killed during a close-range firefight with Hezbollah terrorists.
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.
Limor Son Har-Melech, who introduced the bill and whose husband was murdered in a 2003 terror attack, stated that the “historic law” means “whoever chooses to murder Jews because they are Jews forfeits their right to live.”
“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.
“We believe a quick course correction is warranted,” the Anti-Defamation League wrote on X.
Tucker Carlson booed at the largest gathering of pastors in Israel since the establishment of the state.
The Israeli premier’s military secretary will replace outgoing agency chief David Barnea.
The prime minister said that he would be open to meeting the mayor-elect if he recognized Israel as a Jewish state.
The 24-year-old rescued some 100 people and killed 14 Hamas terrorists on Oct. 7, 2023, having gone out to fight despite a broken shoulder.
The Israeli military is monitoring threats “near and far,” including the “evolving threat” of drones, said Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir.
According to military data, the Israel Border Police recruited 104% of the planned number of female recruits, while the Artillery Corps exceeded recruitment goals by 137%.
“We have peace in the Middle East. People don’t realize it” said the U.S. president.
The visit will coincide with a “deeply concerning rise in antisemitic incidents from both the right and the left,” the Israeli president’s office said.
NGOs in Gaza are part of “an institutionalized framework of coercion” that serves the terrorist group’s objectives, according to NGO Monitor.
The five-year, $18 million plan includes a dedicated antisemitism research institute, and new policing and education tools.
A mllitary official tells JNS that the IDF is expanding the authority of division and brigade commanders as well as adopting a “community as fortress” concept.
