Israel News
The latest Israel news, videos, analysis and opinions on politics, business, government, society, culture and more. JNS.org covers everything from breaking stories to in-depth reports on Israel and Jewish communities worldwide.
LATEST
Amid U.S.-led diplomatic push, defense minister insists IDF will maintain control of security zone inside Lebanon.
The U.S. president calls for calm as diplomatic efforts continue over Israel-Lebanon truce.
The initiative aims to boost employment, expand IDF service pathways and position the nation as a leader in assistive technology.
The prime minister spoke before Israel and Lebanon began a 10-day ceasefire.
The move aims to boost long-haul capacity as other airlines scale back routes to and from Israel.
The agreement does not call for a withdrawal of Israeli ground forces from Lebanon and says that the initial ceasefire may be extended “as Lebanon effectively demonstrates its ability to assert its sovereignty.”
With Israeli elections set for this fall, “we don’t want to act politically” in halting the agreement governing the EU-Israel relationship, Dubravka Šuica tells JNS.
The incident occurred during violent riot near Beit Duqqu northwest of Jerusalem in Judea and Samaria.
IDF troops found more than 130 weapons stashed inside a school in the southern Lebanese town.
Israeli kickboxer Ahavat Hashem Gordon previously defeated his Turkish rival in a high-profile championship competition.
Katzrin is to be designated as the first city on the strategic plateau.
Some of the soldiers have reportedly already returned to fighting on the front lines.
Jerusalem ended its boycott of the right-wing politician in early 2025.
“In one case, we found a hive inside a couch on a home’s balcony,” a beekeeper from the western Negev said.
Budapest vetoed previous attempts to isolate and defund the Jewish state.
The reported talks marked the first direct U.S. engagement with Hamas since the ceasefire put into place on Oct. 10, 2025.
The Israeli prime minister joins roughly two dozen world leaders, including Trump, Xi Jinping and Pope Leo XIV, on Time’s 2026 list of most influential people.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will speak directly with Lebanese President Joseph Aoun, says an Israeli Cabinet minister.
Gadi Taub’s criticism of Ronen Bergman’s reporting on the Mossad’s pager operation against Hezbollah was not defamatory, a judge ruled.
The vessels left Spain following a “temporary weather-related delay,” organizers said.
The Israeli prime minister added that the Jewish state is set to eliminate the “great stronghold” of Bint Jbeil, “the place where Hassan Nasrallah said 26 years ago, ‘The Israelis are cobwebs.’”
The Israeli currency’s symbolic 2.99-rate against the dollar is said to reflect shifting regional dynamics and growing confidence in the Jewish state’s economic outlook.
No injuries were reported among Israeli forces.
The Nazareth resident was accused of photographing military and energy sites for an Iranian handler in exchange for payment.
“The Palestinian Authority ensures that it very much pays to slay,” said Palestinian Media Watch.
Friends, family and officials gathered near Ben-Gurion Airport to honor the agricultural student slain by Hamas in Gaza.
“It’s the right thing to do, it’s moral and it will prevent them from taking hostages,” said the leader of the right-wing Otzma Yehudit Party.
Jerusalem remains committed to returning all hostages, disarming Hamas and preventing the Strip from posing threat, says Israeli defense minister.
Now-slain Hamas terror leader Yahya Sinwar would have become “a modern-day Saladin,” he said.
The attack marked the third such incident in as many days.
The site in Southern Lebanon was previously struck during the IDF’s “Operation Northern Arrows” in September 2024.
The clans are “substantial, influential players that control hundreds if not thousands of enforcers.”
The Israeli Prime Minister’s Office announced that it had updated all of the families of hostages, adding that “our hearts are with them in this difficult hour.”
Washington told guarantor countries of the Gaza deal that if the terror group attack Palestinians, the United States will protect the latter and “preserve the integrity of the ceasefire.”
The terrorist faction did not provide the names of the deceased.
Egypt is expected to lead the international force that is to maintain security inside Gaza, along with troops from Turkey, Indonesia and Azerbaijan.
