Defense and Security
“The IDF will continue to operate to remove any threat against the State of Israel,” the army said.
Joshua Luito Mollel, 21, was honored at Ben-Gurion Airport before his body was returned to Tanzania more than two years after the Oct. 7, 2023, attack.
The IDF has meanwhile completed its logistics preparations for the cold season, supplying 370,000 winter items for troops.
The high-level team is charged with developing a five-year plan to bolster security, infrastructure and communities along the eastern frontier.
“We succeeded in bringing the national team’s matches back home, to their natural place,” said Avi Peretz, chairman of Israel’s Tennis Association.
The IDF remains “deployed in accordance with the ceasefire agreement and will continue to operate to remove any immediate threat,” the military said.
Even when framed as part of a normalization deal with Saudi Arabia, 62% of Israelis oppose a Palestinian state, according to the Jerusalem Center For Security and Foreign Affairs poll.
U.S. President Donald Trump has said he plans to approve the deal.
In the wake of the Oct. 7 massacre, community security teams have been gearing up with drones equipped with thermal imaging systems.
Will Washington find a way to preserve the additional edge on which Israeli security policy has relied for decades?
More than 6,500 attendees gathered at the closing gala banquet of the International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries in New York City.
“The vast majority of the Israeli public, between 75% and 80%, reject another Palestinian terror state, which this time would overlook Ben-Gurion Airport,” Dan Diker, president of the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs, told JNS.
