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The U.S. has slightly loosened the reins on Israel in Lebanon in return for Israel's compliance with a U.S.-Iran cease-fire, while still banning attacks on Beirut. Now, Hezbollah leadership is threatening to topple the Lebanese government by force and restart the country's civil war

The police commissioner accused the Shin Bet of failing to assist the police in tackling rising violent crime: 'The government thinks the Shin Bet is some kind of magician and the police are not, but we do everything' in Israel

Tax Authority wants that in return for the prestigious training that the state provides to these employees, they will undertake to keep their economic activity and tax base in Israel for a decade.

From Tuesday morning, communities on the conflict zone between Israel and Lebanon will face restrictions on public gatherings; Israeli officials said expanded strikes on Hezbollah targets are awaiting cabinet approval, as Netanyahu vowed to 'increase the intensity' of attacks following drone fire from Lebanon

The Bank of Israel lowered its benchmark rate to 3.75%, citing falling inflation, a stronger shekel and reduced geopolitical risks, while warning renewed regional instability could drive prices back up

Activists detained after Israel intercepted a Gaza-bound aid flotilla alleged beatings, sexual assault and other mistreatment; Israel's prison service denied the claims

The U.S. president said countries involved in Iran cease-fire talks should 'immediately sign the Abraham Accords' and normalize ties with Israel, while Iranian officials stressed Tehran remains focused on ending the war rather than finalizing a nuclear deal

Lebanon's rescue services said one of their facilities in the city of Nabatieh was destroyed in one of the strikes. The Israeli military said it identified a drone launched toward northern Israel, but later lost contact with it

Israel's Foreign Ministry also criticized Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez and his ministers for not condemning the conduct of Spanish police nearly 24 hours after officers were allegedly seen using force against flotilla participants, while 'rushing to condemn Israel at every opportunity'

Whom are you saluting? How can you continue parading as if nothing happened, as if Israel has not committed crimes, as if it hasn't turned into a pariah state across the world and only in New York you march, waving its flag? Are you not ashamed?

At least four explosive drones from Lebanon struck northern Israel, including Rosh Hanikra where no sirens were activated before impact. Israel struck Hezbollah sites in Lebanon's Bekaa and Tyre, while Lebanese reports airstrikes caused civilian and medic casualties in the south

Former U.S. president Biden's disgraced son found common ground with far-right provocateur and past challenger Candace Owens on conspiracy theories about Israel pushing the U.S. into the Iran war and Trump turning 'Gaza into a golf course, with the maître d' being Jared Kushner'

A Washington Post report revealed that the U.S. military fired over 200 high-altitude THAAD interceptors in defense of Israel, roughly half of the Pentagon's total stockpile

Israel said on Thursday it had deported all the foreign activists seized by Israeli forces from a Gaza-bound flotilla, following global outcry over their treatment in custody. Israel’s foreign ministry spokesman, Oren Marmorstein, said that “all foreign activists from the PR flotilla have been deported from Israel”. “Israel will not permit any breach of the lawful naval blockade on Gaza,” he added. Earlier, the legal centre and rights groups representing the activists, Adalah, said all detained activists from the Gaza-bound Global Sumud Flotilla and Freedom Flotilla Coalition had been released from Israel’s Ktziot prison ahead of deportation. Adalah said it had received “official confirmation” from the Israeli Prison Service and state officials that the detainees had been released. “The majority of the participants are being transferred to Ramon Airport to be flown out of the country,” the group said. One of the organisers of the Freedom Flotilla mission, Thiago Avila, in a post on X, said, “Zohar, one of our...

The Israeli ministry's statement comes after reports that Turkey would fly over 70 of its citizens detained by Israel as well as citizens of other countries. Their arrest drew international condemnation after footage shared online showed detainees bound and taunted

In a new book, historian Avner Ben-Zakan, head of the Institute for Israeli Thought, argues that Zionism completed its mission when the state of Israel was founded. But that state, he warns, has failed to instill in its citizens a sense of national identity, thereby jeopardizing its future

Adalah – the Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel says that many of the international activists detained for trying to breach the Israeli blockade of Gaza claim to have been subjected to extreme violence and sexual humiliation, adding that many suffered severe injuries

What was not true in the interview Tucker Carlson gave to Israel's Channel 13? He told interviewer Udi Segal Segal that he was living in a country that had recently murdered thousands of children. What was wrong about that? It's obvious that Israel 'is not a democracy in any sense,' as Carlson said

The security reality Israel wants has political, economic and military conditions. But the question is not just how to disarm, but what comes after demilitarization; every leadership void will eventually be filled with anger and extremism

Israeli authorities have begun detaining hundreds of activists seized from a Gaza-bound flotilla at the southern port of Ashdod on Wednesday, a rights group said, after Israeli forces intercepted their vessels at sea. The Global Sumud Flotilla set sail from Turkiye last week in the latest attempt by activists to breach Israel’s blockade of the Palestinian territory, after Israeli forces intercepted a previous convoy last month. Israeli authorities said 430 activists aboard the flotilla were en route to Israel, while rights group Adalah said some had already arrived at Ashdod port and were being held there. “Having set sail toward Gaza to deliver humanitarian aid and challenge the unlawful blockade, these civilian participants were forcefully abducted from international waters and taken into Israeli territory entirely against their will,” Adalah said. “These acts are a direct extension of Israel’s policies of collective punishment and starvation of Palestinians in Gaza.” The Israeli foreign ministry dismissed ...