News Digest — 10/6/23
In accordance with the assessment of the security situation and the guidance of the political echelon, a general closure will be placed on…
In accordance with the assessment of the security situation and the guidance of the political echelon, a general closure will be placed on…
Israeli troops clashed with Palestinian gunmen in the West Bank city of Tulkarem Thursday morning (5th) with security forces reporting…
A three-year-old girl was injured Wednesday morning (4th) after Palestinian Authority (PA) Arabs hurled…
Israel will host the 68th annual Jerusalem March this week, continuing a tradition that began in 1955 and draws a crowd of…
The Jerusalem Municipality and the Israel Heritage Department, led by Deputy Mayor Aryeh King, this year put up the largest…
The Bnei Menashe Jewish community of northeastern India will gather to celebrate the Sukkot holiday this week, despite widespread…
Israeli security forces busted a weapons production facility and seized weapons during raids throughout the West Bank overnight…
Israel delivered a message to Hamas on Tuesday (26th) via UN envoy Tor Wennesland, who entered the Gaza Strip through the Erez Crossing in an effort to…
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attended the 50th-anniversary state memorial service for Israel’s fallen soldiers in the Yom Kippur War at…
Police remain stationed throughout Jerusalem to prevent vehicular traffic from disrupting the holy day of Yom Kippur, currently being…
IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi penned a letter addressed to IDF service members in which he commemorates the 50th anniversary of the…
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met on Wednesday (20th) with the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres during the…
Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan waved a photo of Mahsa Amini, a Kurdish Iranian woman, 22, killed in the…
NEW YORK – Iran’s President on Monday (18th) warned against normalization with Israel, denied his country had sent drones to Russia for use in the…
A terrorist attack was foiled in Jerusalem Monday morning (18th), hours after the end of…
On the eve of the Jewish New Year, the number of Jews worldwide stands at approximately 15.7 million compared to…
About 9.8 million people are living in Israel ahead of Rosh Hashanah, with the country’s population expected to reach…
Sinkholes opened on Eliezer Hoofien St. in Holon and Shirat Geulim St. in Herzliya on Wednesday (13th) as unseasonable…
Monday (11th) marked the 22nd anniversary of the World Trade Center attacks when terrorists flew hijacked planes into the…
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday (10th) urged religious Jews to avoid traveling on the annual pilgrimage to Uman, amid the risks posed by…
Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant held a situational assessment on Thursday (7th) to discuss the defense establishment preparations ahead of the Jewish…
Qatari envoy Mohammed al-Emadi traveled to the Gaza Strip this week, according to several reports in Palestinian…
Papua New Guinea opened its embassy to Israel in Jerusalem on Tuesday (5th), becoming the fifth country with a full diplomatic…
On Tuesday (5th), following engineering guidance and ISA intelligence, IDF and Israeli Border Police forces targeted a building that contained…
August 2023 has been a deadly month of terror attacks in Israel, and between August 5 to August 31, five people have been killed…
One person is dead and five young Israelis, three of them soldiers, were injured in a vehicular truck-ramming attack…
The Israeli and American militaries will hold a series of pre-planned joint military drills in the coming…
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant met with United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres at the UN Headquarters in…
An Israeli air aggression put Aleppo International Airport out of service, the Syrian Defense Ministry said on…
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Rabbi Slomo Koves and Rabbi Shmuel Oirechman on Thursday (24th) ahead of a discussion on…
A five-year-old boy was killed and at least 8 others injured in a rockslide at Nahal David near the…
The year 2023 is shaping up to be one of the deadliest in terms of terror casualties for Israel in decades, with an average of one terror victim each…
The IDF, Shin Bet and the Border Police arrested two Palestinians Tuesday morning (22nd) suspected of carrying out the shooting attack in which…
An Israeli woman was murdered in a terror shooting attack on Route 60, near Hebron, in Judea and Samaria on…
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian took advantage of his official visit to Saudi Arabia on Thursday (17th) to reiterate the…
The United States has approved Israel’s sale of the Arrow 3 missile defense system to Germany, the Israeli Defense Ministry announced…
Some five years after Paraguay closed its embassy in Jerusalem, its new President , Santiago Pena announced Tuesday (15th) that the South American country will…
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu commented Monday afternoon (14th) about the Fitch Rating’s affirmation of Israel’s…
Defense Minister Yoav Gallant vowed to not “lend his hand” to any harm caused to the Israeli military in a visit to…
More than 200 Israeli and Ethiopian Jews were rescued from war-torn northern Ethiopia on Thursday afternoon (10th) amid ongoing…
A Palestinian gunman was killed by Israeli forces near the northern West Bank city of Nablus before…
Defense Ministry personnel on Wednesday (9th) thwarted an attempt to smuggle into Gaza 10 reconnaissance drones concealed within a blackbag inside a…
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is confident that Israel and Saudi Arabia will sign a peace agreement and that the ties between…
Four Syrian soldiers were killed and four others were wounded in alleged Israeli air strikes near Damascus early Monday morning (7th)…
The head of the Palestinian Authority’s “Colonization and Wall Resistance Committee,” Minister Moayad Shaaban, and other committee members were filmed…
President Isaac Herzog visited a military post on the Lebanese border on Wednesday (2nd) delivering a stern message to Hezbollah amid increased…
Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah warned that armed groups in Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, and the Palestinian territories would “prevent attacks” on…
Recent days have seen several security-related incidents along the Israel-Jordan border, as seven people illegally crossed into the country, sparking…
The IDF operated overnight in the Jenin “refugee” camp for the first time since its major counterterrorism operation in June and arrested…
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will convene a discussion on Sunday (30th) that will focus on the…
Thousands of Jews are expected to visit the Temple Mount on Thursday (27th), Tisha B’Av, which is one of the prime days for…
Jews around the world are set to mark, remember and mourn on Tisha B’Av (the ninth day of the Hebrew month of Av) Wednesday night (26th) and…
Three Palestinian gunmen were killed by Israeli forces while attempting an attack at a small Samaritan community in the northern…
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was discharged from Sheba Medical Center on Monday morning (24th) after two days of recovery in the…
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said there are ongoing efforts to reach consensus ahead of the crucial Knesset vote on a bill aimed at…
Palestinian gunmen attacked Jewish worshipers at Joseph’s Tomb in Nablus late Wednesday night (19th) according to a Thursday morning (20th) Israeli Defense…
Two Syrian soldiers were injured after alleged Israeli airstrikes targeted sites in the Damascus area on Tuesday night (18th) according to…
US President Joe Biden spoke with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday evening (17th) for the first time in four months and extended an invitation to…
Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen landed in Kenya on Sunday (16th) for a short visit at the invitation of the African…
The Wall Street Journal on Friday morning (14th) published an op-ed harshly criticizing the Biden administration for its treatment of the Israeli…
Foreign Minister Eli Cohen met with Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic in Serbia on Wednesday morning (12th) in what was the first…
Defense Minister Yoav Gallant will leave for an official visit to Azerbaijan’s capital of Baku on Wednesday evening (12th), the Defense Ministry…
The Knesset overnight passed along partisan lines a bill to restrict the use of the “reasonableness” standard by the Supreme Court. The bill was advanced by a vote of 64-56…
Israel’s security cabinet, by a majority of eight to one, with one abstention, voted Sunday evening (9th) to prevent the collapse of the Palestinian Authority…
The two terrorists that carried out Thursday’s (6th) shooting attack on a police car in the Samaritan neighborhood of Har Bracha were…
Two rockets were fired from southern Lebanon towards Israel on Thursday (6th), one of them landing in Lebanese territory and…
The IDF struck the Gaza Strip early Wednesday morning (5th) after five rockets were fired from the Strip toward the Sderot area in southern Israel…
The IDF on Sunday night (2nd) launched its largest operation in Jenin since the Second Intifada with a series of more than…
The Mossad Thursday evening (29th) revealed additional details about the planned Iranian terrorist attack against Jewish and Israeli targets in Cyprus which was thwarted…
Israeli police arrested 15 suspects for hanging a sign with photos of terrorists and waving flags of terror organizations after the Muslim Eid al-Adha…
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to visit China next month in a move that is seen as undermining Jerusalem’s relationship with…
The Civil Administration’s Higher Planning Council on Monday (26th) approved the construction of approximately 5,700 units throughout Judea and Samaria…
Israel on Sunday evening (25th) confirmed Cypriot media reports that an Iranian terrorist attack against Israeli and Jewish targets in the Island nation of Cyprus was thwarted…
Nearly half of Israelis support the launch of a large-scale military operation in Judea and Samaria following recent deadly terror attacks, according to a new poll…
The IDF on Wednesday night (21st) killed a terror cell in the West Bank using a drone, an unusual move generally reserved for targeting major terrorists or…
Hours after two Hamas terrorists massacred Israelis at a gas station in the Binyamin region north of Jerusalem, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a stern warning to…
Israel’s Jewish population will number close to 12 million by the country’s 100th Birthday, according to a projection released by the Central Bureau of statistics…
Multiple Israeli troops sustained injuries Monday (19th) after coming under fire while concluding an arrest in the West Bank city of Jenin. The fighters are said to have…
Five years after the U.S. dedicated its new embassy in Jerusalem, Russia is set to follow suit, Israel Hayom revealed. According to the newspaper, in a secret agreement…
Iran’s President arrived in Cuba early Thursday (15th) morning, according to Trabajadores, Cuban pro-government newspaper. He was met at the airport by…
A Syrian soldier was seriously injured in alleged Israeli airstrikes that targeted sites near Damascus early Wednesday morning (14th), according to Syrian state…
The Israeli government has informed the Biden administration of its intentions to approve 4,000 new housing units in Judea and Samaria this month…
A senior source in Israel responded to the concern of the diplomatic and security echelons following reports that Iran and the West may reach an agreement on a…
An attempted stabbing attack occurred on Friday morning (9th) at the Rantis checkpoint near Ramallah. A suspected terrorist who arrived at the scene tried to steal…
The political-security cabinet is expected to give its approval to a plan to attack Iran if such a proposal is raised by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and…
Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on Tuesday (6th) threatened to bomb Hezbollah and Lebanon “into the stone age,” if the terror group “makes a mistake and starts…
Two Israeli soldiers were wounded in a car-ramming attack in the northern West Bank town of Huwara on Monday evening (5th), the military and medical officials said. The Israel Defense…
One of the terrorists who murdered Israeli civilian Malachi Rosenfeld was given two life sentences by an IDF military court on Sunday (4th), the IDF’s Spokesperson’s Unit…
The Security Cabinet is set to meet this week to discuss a potential multi-front conflict including Iran and Hezbollah, amid concerns of Tehran’s progress toward…
Hungary will be the first EU member state to move its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, Foreign Minister Eli Cohen announced during a visit to Budapest Wednesday (5/30). “Hungary supports…
Meir Tamari, who was killed Tuesday afternoon (5/30) in a shooting attack was a relative of terror-victim Esther Horgan, who was murdered in December 2020. Horgan had…
Israel’s President Isaac Herzog and his wife Michal on Tuesday morning (30th) arrived for a state visit to Baku, Azerbaijan at the invitation of the country’s…
An attempted terror attack was thwarted in the Jewish settlement of Teneh Omarim, close to Hebron, on Friday morning (26th). Shortly before 10 am, a terrorist…
Israeli security forces arrested early Thursday morning (25th) a Palestinian terrorist fugitive involved in a September 2022 shooting and firebombing attack on…
An Israeli Arab from Umm al-Fahm was arrested by the Shin Bet and Israel Police after he was recruited by Hamas to conduct a bombing attack on a bus in…
Over 20 Israeli firefighting teams continued attempts to gain control of a wildfire blazing next to the Dead Sea on Tuesday morning (23rd). Preliminary investigations determined…
Israeli security forces killed three Palestinians during a raid near Nablus, early on Monday (22nd), the Palestinian Health Ministry said, in what Army Radio described as…
Many thousands of Jews took part in the annual Jerusalem Day Flag March on Thursday evening (18th) in celebration of the 56th anniversary of the liberation and reunification of…
Police Commissioner Yaakov Shabtai warned Wednesday night (17th) ahead of the Flag March scheduled to take place Thursday (18th) in Jerusalem…
Negotiating teams from the Opposition and Coalition who have been meeting at the President’s Residence for talks aimed at reaching an agreement on judicial reform have…