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Five captives released last January are identified in English as 'Thai hostage,' while the Israeli hostages are all named. The press office blames 'tight timetable' for omission, but names were easily available from announcements made at the time by the Prime Minister's Office and Thai Embassy in Israel

The justices should have backed Gali Baharav-Miara in the fight to preserve the rule of law, but it seems that Netanyahu and his allies have also succeeded in intimidating the court. Their call for a compromise is another slap in the attorney general's face

Justice Ministry and attorney general remain at loggerheads over who has authority to investigate leak of video showing Palestinian detainee being abused at the Sde Teiman detention facility and the subsequent cover-up ■ Justices have given the sides until noon on Thursday to agree – or it will make the decision for them

The Goldins' struggle ended exactly where it began – at the military cemetery in Kfar Sava. 11 years and three months after holding his first funeral, the masses made sure to see him off one final time. 'There was no fear of sin here all this time,' says his older brother. 'They were busy with everything here except returning hostages'

During the attack, the Pakistani man shouted racist threats and insults in Italian, such as “dirty Jews” and “you kill children in Palestine, and I’ll kill you."

Over 2,000 complaints were received about air pollution and bad odors over the past year and a half in the Jezreel Valley region. The fires are from Arab towns who don't have the budget to treat their waste – and criminals have taken over the garbage collection

Israel controls 53 percent of Gaza along a boundary meant to be temporary. Reconstruction is moving forward – but only on the Israeli-controlled side of the line

The Monty Python and Fawlty Towers star, 86, said he will reschedule the shows 'as soon as possible' but the cancellation follows a flurry of anti-Israel and conspiratorial posts recirculating far-right influencers and viral misinformation accounts

The commission acknowledged that antisemitic incidents were likely to be drastically underreported, with Jewish students were further likely not to report incidents due to fear of retaliation.

'We won't let this go,' says Gur Kehati's grandfather, as the army prepares a long-delayed hearing for Col. (res.) Yoav Yarom, who launched a scouting operation in Lebanon that led to the soldier's death. A year on, no indictment, no operational report, no conclusions and no accountability for the lies told to the family

Tel Aviv-based cybersecurity startup Tenzai emerges from stealth with one of the largest seed rounds in industry history, aiming to revolutionize penetration testing with autonomous AI

The Buxton's jird is endemic to Israel and Sinai, and lives along coastal dunes. Its fate largely depends on a hearing of objections to the construction plan in Rishon Letzion, which took place on Sunday

State Comptroller Matanyahu Englman warned that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's failure to formalize Israel's national security concept left the IDF and defense establishment directionless, with decades of governmental inaction compounding the risks – so on October 7, Israel faced Hamas with no coherent strategy or prioritized defenses

A clear line separates political debate and the harming of cultural freedom, even when it's protesters demonstrating against the war in Gaza