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Sgt. Idan Fooks, 19, was the third soldier killed in battle during a fragile ceasefire.
Michael Lotem finished a three-year tour as envoy to Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi and the Seychelles in August 2025.
Tzipi Hotovely will be filling a position that has been vacant for two years.
Among those killed was Hazem Rami Ali Aidi, who infiltrated Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.
“We are thankful that the law enforcement officer shot during the attack is safe and on the path of recovery,” said Israeli President Isaac Herzog.
Nesya Karadi was the 22nd fatality in Israel since the start of the war with the Islamic Republic on Feb. 28.
Despite the ceasefire, the European agency said further monitoring is needed to assess the risks to civil aviation.
Israeli forces detained 11 suspects and are searching for the others.
Despite contrary reports, Hamas spokesman denies candidates linked to the terror group are taking part.
The Palestinian gunmen were spotted riding in a pickup truck.
The Iranian-backed organization fired two projectiles at Israeli communities near the border.
The prime minister delayed the publication of his annual medical report to prevent Iranian “false propaganda” during the war.
The terrorists fired rockets into Israel as Trump announced the extension of a tenuous pause in the fighting.
“We exposed the European Union’s complicity,” the NGO’s Naomi Linder Kahn tells JNS.
The affair is a rare case where the Islamic Republic is believed to have recruited agents with access to highly sensitive material.
The team’s success builds on a strong track record in international competition.
“The meeting went very well,” the president wrote. “The United States is going to work with Lebanon in order to help it protect itself from Hezbollah.”
The assessment calls for the return of Palestinian Authority governance and efforts to “advance a durable political settlement based on the two-state solution.”
The newly created role at a time of global international turbulence seeks to buttress Israel’s relations with the Christian world.
Fragments had punctured the girl’s abdomen, causing severe liver damage.
A “temporary security cordon” was imposed on Madama, a Palestinian village near Nablus, as soldiers searched for the assailant.
Israeli forces remain deployed in the enclave in accordance with the Oct. 10, 2025, truce.
Jerusalem and Beirut on April 16 agreed to a 10-day ceasefire following mediation by U.S. President Donald Trump.
Indonesia in its statement denounced the banner as an “insult to a humanitarian facility.”
The group UN Staff for Gaza claims that it is not affiliated formally with the United Nations but held its first event at the global body’s headquarters.
“The world must understand: Hamas uses rape as a weapon,” Michal Herzog, Israel’s first lady, said ahead of the council’s session in New York.
The soldiers, who were lightly wounded, were evacuated to hospitals and their families notified.
The suspect was charged on Aug. 7 with preparing and inciting a serious act of violence endangering the state.
The Israeli defense minister was briefed on operational plans to take control of the Hamas power center and create the conditions for ending the war.
The largest line item in the request is about $1 billion to replace SM-3 IB Threat Upgrade missiles, each costing $9-to-$12 million.
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar submitted an official request to the United States, citing UNIFIL’s failure to prevent Hezbollah’s entrenchment south of Litani River.
The biggest need, Aliyah and Integration Minister Ofir Sofer told JNS, is integrating professionals into the workforce in Israel and getting jobs that reflect their level in the United States.
“Your call for a Palestinian state pours fuel on the antisemitic fire,” the Israeli premier wrote in a letter to his Australian counterpart Anthony Albanese.
“Ultimately you’re going to have to fight like hell” against Hamas, Trump said of Israel.
The discovery sheds new light on the development of the ancient city even after the destruction of the first Jewish Temple in 586 BCE.
The two sides reportedly discussed easing tensions following attacks on the Druze community and restoring the 1974 disengagement agreement.
