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The Netanyahu government is moving toward Russia, away from Ukraine, and also closer to Vladimir Putin's favored disruptor parties in Europe. It is something Jerusalem's Western allies will have to consider going forward

Twenty-six-year-old nurse Sarah Abu Lebdeh was arrested on Tuesday and charged with threatening violence, using a carriage service to threaten to kill, and using a carriage service to menace.

Israel barred two European Parliament members over their support for boycotts, which their parties decried as an attack on EU institutions

Yarden Bibas' sister, Ofri, said the prime minister's decision to reveal details about the murders of Shiri, Kfir and Ariel Bibas despite the family's plea for privacy is 'outright abuse' ■ Netanyahu revealed specifics of the murders while speaking before AIPAC

The sadistic, decade-long captivity of two helpless civilians, Hisham al-Sayed and Abera Mengistu, reveals Hamas' terrorist DNA. It should force not only an emotional response, but also an analytic reckoning among those who brushed off evils like these

The director of a Gaza City hospital said the deaths occurred in unheated tents used by displaced families, and that other infants remain at risk due to weather

Nothing was known about Alon Ohel's fate until the latest group of hostages was released over the past several weeks. His younger brother, Ronen, says Alon's captivity is always with him. 'It's like the sun. You can't look at it all the time because it's blinding. But it's always there'

The Israeli opposition leader's plan would have Egypt rule Gaza for 8-15 years and allow for the PA's return to Gaza under certain conditions

Argamani spoke at the United Nations in New York and called for the cease-fire/hostage release deal to be implemented 'to end this tragedy'

The police canceled two shows by Nidal Badarny, who had posted jokes online about hostages who had returned to Israel. Badarny said the cancellation was due to an 'incitement campaign against me by extremist racist groups'

Channel 12's 'Uvda' program broadcast a segment in December alleging that Sara Netanyahu exchanged text messages with her husband's office manager asking that the employee take action against a witness in the prime minister's corruption trial, but the show's management refuses to provide its raw material, saying it could compromise its source

The State Prosecutor's Office said the police failed to ask for the necessary approval to launch an incitement investigation before arresting the owners of the shop, which specializes in the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Israel tried, but only Lebanese actors can truly place Hezbollah in its grave. Here's why that's unlikely to happen

'We want a state that decides when there is war or peace. Our foreign policy will be neutral on Arab and international matters,' Nawaf Salam said in a parliamentary session

The Israeli army will start presenting its findings from the Oct. 7 investigations to communities near Gaza, as well as the families of the victims in the Nahal Oz military base and the Nova music festival. The main question remains – where was the army?

Netanyahu repeatedly invokes 'matters related to ensuring our existence' to cut down his court appearances – despite being the one who insisted on staying in office, assuring both the court and the public that he could govern even with an indictment looming over him

Lifshitz, 83 at the time of his death, was one of the founders of Kibbutz Nir Oz ■ He was taken hostage by Islamic Jihad from his home on October 7 ■ His wife Yocheved said: 'We fought for peace all these years and we were struck a heavy blow by the very people we helped on the other side' ■ Israel's President Herzog: 'On behalf of the State of Israel, I ask for forgiveness'

"This is just the latest example of rampant antisemitism on campus that threatens the safety of Jewish students," said US Congressman Josh Gottheimer.

Riled by the blocking of 'Lyd' and 'Jenin, Jenin II,' the director of the Al Sayara Theater says the venue 'must not accept any entity with pretensions of being a self-appointed censor of artistic creativity'

While the prime minister attempts to reduce his weekly time in court, his attorney requested that Netanyahu be brought in a staggering 24 more times, saying they aren't 'aren't willing to give up' on refuting all the prosecution's arguments