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Israeli President Isaac Herzog on Monday began a state visit to Germany, marking 60 years of diplomatic relations and calling for urgent global action to free hostages from Gaza and confront Iran.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar said on Sunday that Israel “fully endorses” what he characterized as a recently announced American plan for providing aid to the Gaza Strip.
Read more: The Times of Israel
Hamas was set to release American-Israeli hostage Edan Alexander on Monday after over 580 days in captivity. The Palestinian terror group agreed to the move as a gesture of goodwill to US President Donald Trump ahead of his trip to the region, hoping that he will in turn coax Israel to sign a deal freeing the remaining hostages in exchange for an…
A US federal judge on Tuesday said there was reason to believe a US nonprofit knew its employee was holding Israelis captive in Gaza and was affiliated with Hamas, marking a win for former hostages in a legal battle against the group.
Read more: The Times of Israel
The head of Iran’s powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on Thursday threatened to “open the gates of hell” on Israel and the United States if the countries attack his country, warning Washington that its ally was pushing it into war.
Read more: The Times of Israel
Two Israel Defense Forces soldiers were killed fighting Palestinian terrorists in the southern Gaza Strip, the military announced on Friday.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Several terrorists threw rocks at an Israeli car and bus near the town of Na’ama in the Jordan Valley on Thursday evening, lightly injuring an infant.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
The United States will soon begin delivering humanitarian aid to Gaza—an urgent priority for President Donald Trump—U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee announced during a press conference on Friday.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Five men, four of them Iranian nationals, were arrested on May 3 just hours before a planned attack on Israel’s embassy in west London. The nationality of the fifth man has not been released.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
The Israel Defense Forces announced on Thursday that it has established a forward mobile triage facility near the Syrian village of Hader, part of a broader humanitarian and security initiative aimed at supporting Syria’s embattled Druze community.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Israeli Air Force fighter jets carried out a wave of airstrikes in southern Lebanon on Thursday, targeting a “significant underground” Hezbollah facility, the military said.
Read more: The Times of Israel
Israel threatened Yemen’s Houthi rebels with “heavy” military strikes and warned the group’s Iranian sponsors that they would suffer the same fate as other regional foes of Israel if attacks on the country did not halt.
Read more: The Times of Israel
Half of Gaza’s residents, or some 1.1 million Palestinians, believe that Hamas’s decision to carry out the Oct. 7, 2023, cross-border massacre in Israel was “correct,” according to an opinion poll published by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research (PSR) this week.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio decided to fully merge the US Office of Palestinian Affairs (OPA) back into the US Embassy in Jerusalem, the State Department announced on Tuesday.
Read more: The Times of Israel
A prominent Houthi spokesperson vowed Wednesday that rocket attacks on Israel would continue, even after U.S. President Donald Trump announced that American forces would no longer strike the Iran-backed group. The comments came as Yemeni authorities reported extensive damage to Sanaa’s international airport following recent airstrikes, with losses…
The head of the Houthi delegation to Yemen said that the ceasefire with the US does not include stopping attacks on Israel, according to an interview he gave with the Houthi affiliated Al-Masirah.
Read more: i24 News
The United Arab Emirates has set up a backchannel for talks between Israel and Syria, three people familiar with the matter said, as Syria’s new rulers seek regional help to manage an increasingly hostile relationship with their southern neighbor.
Read more: The Jerusalem Post
A Hamas commander was killed in an Israeli airstrike in the southern coastal Lebanese city of Sidon early Wednesday morning, the military said.
Read more: The Times of Israel
