Defense and Security
The military is discussing an expanded operation against Hezbollah in Lebanon.
IDF Maj. Gen. Ori Gordin has reportedly argued behind closed doors that current conditions are favorable for the IDF to swiftly implement such a move.
The Israeli premier told U.S. presidential envoy Amos Hochstein that a “fundamental change” to the security situation in northern Israel is needed.
Expanding Israel’s coalition government will help advance a hostages-for-ceasefire deal with Hamas, the premier said.
The city of Efrat in the Gush Etzion region of Judea will admit Palestinian workers starting this week following litigation.
The order allows for a search of every “person’s body, vehicles, baggage and other goods at the entry point to the community.”
Assaf Yakir of the Standing Together NGO said the prime minister and his family should meet the fate of dictators the world over.
The reserve soldiers will be operating in the Strip for a second tour since the start of the war.
Several men stole the victim’s phone and beat him until security forces interrupted them.
The defendants are accused of assaults on three vehicles near Nablus.
“I think of the mothers who have lost sons to war, how many young lives have been cut short,” the pontiff said.
“This is a time of great trial for Jews everywhere,” President Isaac Herzog said.
