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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.
A wider challenge of the international court’s jurisdiction over the State of Israel is still being weighed.
The Islamist organization is ready for a three- to five-year ceasefire, according to politburo member Mohammed Nazzal.
“The Israelis were getting a little bit out of control in what they were doing,” Trump’s top negotiator said.
Iran’s foreign ministry said it is still committed to the path of diplomacy amid expiration of 2015 JCPOA nuclear agreement.
“He was known for his great love of animals, nature and the kibbutz,” Nir Oz said of the 75-year-old, murdered on Oct. 7, 2023.
“No one can experience captivity like this without carrying it for life.”
Gazan ‘monster’ who took part in Oct. 7 attack caught ‘hiding’ in Louisiana, says Justice Department
“We will continue to stand by Jewish Americans and Jewish people around the world against antisemitism and terrorism in all its forms,” the U.S. attorney general said.
“We will pursue the balance of the deceased until they all go home,” the U.S. special envoy said at the Holocaust Museum in Washington.
“If this ceasefire falls apart, the fighting starts, that’s going to make it that much harder to find these loved ones and get them out,” Mike Waltz said.
A visit by the English activist spotlights Jerusalem’s expanding public-diplomacy efforts and differing views within the Jewish community.
World WIZO chairperson Anita Friedman paid tribute to her as “a courageous and inspiring leader who was the beating heart of WIZO.”
The recent internecine Palestinian killings highlighted the need to move to the next stage of the Trump peace deal, Sharren Haskel told JNS.
