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With 22-25 seats, Benny Gantz's National Unity would be the largest Israeli party if an election were held today, according to surveys for Channels 11, 12 and 13. Knesset balance between major blocs remains unchanged

Party source says activists are angry at the defense minister, who was the only coalition member to vote against the bill. Likud MKs Nissim Vaturi and Osher Shkalim call on Netanyahu to dismiss him

Hamas says it accepts U.S.-drafted UN Security Council resolution calling for cease-fire and release of all hostages, is ready to negotiate over its details ■ U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan says Hamas cannot remain in power in Gaza after war ■ Fifty rockets fired from Lebanon at the Golan Heights ■ Rocket sirens blare in northern Israeli city of Haifa for first time since January ■ Here's what you need to know 249 days into the war

Israel's prime minister has never developed a coherent policy to counter Iran's nuclear program, including in 2018 when he got Trump to withdraw from the nuclear deal. In Netanyahu's speech in Congress, expect more bluster like 'the West is facing destruction'

Jurors found Hunter Biden guilty of lying to a federally licensed gun dealer, making a false claim on the application by saying he was not a drug user and illegally having the gun for 11 days

Confidence in the U.S. president has tumbled to 57 percent from 68 percent, putting him just three points ahead of Trump

The Palestinians killed in a village near Ramallah included a member of Hamas' military wing who had previously served a 20-year sentence in an Israeli prison

Evans has also led several tours to Israel, inviting believers to experience the Holy Land firsthand.

The guardrails will be off for an emotionally unhinged, declining, isolationist president should Trump return to the White House. If he wins a second term, the U.S. could be left unrecognizable

A source in the Likud party told Haaretz that party members are furious with Defense Minister Yoav Gallant who voted against the bill, with some beginning to call for his dismissal from the party

Anti-Israel activists clashed with police as they attempted to reestablish a protest encampment at UCLA.

The 63 Knesset members who voted in favor of the bill already knew of the deaths of four soldiers in an explosion in Gaza's Rafah. Netanyahu's sly smile during the discussion symbolizes what has become his legacy: the disconnect between the people and their elected representatives

Hundreds of anti-Israel protesters demonstrated outside a Manhattan exhibition commemorating the young Israelis who were massacred on October 7 at the Nova music festival, shouting 'Zionists decided to rave next to a concentration camp'

Gaza's outsized literacy rate and high university attendance have come under attack over nearly nine months of war. Some are launching makeshift alternatives to regular schooling, but rebuilding Gaza's destroyed schools could take years

Tal Pshebilski Shaulov, Eitan Karlsbrun, Almog Shalom, and Yair Levin were killed when a booby trapped building exploded in the Shabura neighborhood in Rafah's east

In written correspondence revealed by the Wall Street Journal, Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar told Hamas officials in Qatar that 'Things went out of control' on October 7' and that the deaths of civilians in Gaza would 'infuse life into the veins of this nation'

Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine said that he condemned the "repulsive, vile" targeting of the exhibition.

National Unity Party's departure from the coalition failed to set off nationwide protests, but the government's conduct may yet bring Israelis back to the streets ■ Gantz and Eisenkot's decision suggests a belief that Netanyahu is still sufficiently reined in, mainly by U.S. opposition ■ Israel, as a result of Netanyahu's clear choice, is missing the Saudi normalization train

Blinken meet families of eight American-Israeli hostages ■ U.S. Ambassador to the UN: Israel is ready to move forward with cease-fire hostage deal ■ U.S. State Dept: U.S. to add $404M in aid for Palestinians in Gaza, West Bank ■ Reports in Lebanon: IDF strikes in villages Kfarkela, Naqoura in southern Lebanon ■ Israeli forces kill four Palestinians in West Bank arrest raid ■ WSJ quotes Sinwar's letter to Hamas officials: Gaza civilians killed are 'necessary sacrifices'