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Days after its official inauguration, hundreds of Israel Defense Forces reservists have already volunteered to serve in a new elite counterterror unit created to protect Gaza border towns, the army said on Wednesday.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
The Spanish government’s plan to open an embassy in Ramallah has hit a snag as Spanish diplomats based in Israel are refusing to move to the city, according to Spanish media.
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Nine Israeli soldiers were injured on Tuesday night, two seriously, by an explosion at a base in the south of the country, according to the Israel Defense Forces.
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Iranian media said an IRGC general was killed in an early Monday Israeli strike on Syria’s northern city of Aleppo, which a war monitor said killed 16 members of pro-Iran groups.
Read more: The Times of Israel
Israeli forces on Tuesday started targeted operations in two areas of the central Gaza Strip based on intelligence indicating terrorist activity there—Bureij and eastern Deir al-Balah.
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned on Wednesday that Israel was prepared with an “extremely powerful” response to attacks from Hezbollah in Lebanon, which have escalated significantly in recent days.
Read more: The Times of Israel
A date for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to Congress remains uncertain after one date initially floated was ruled out because it fell on a Jewish holiday.
Read more: CNN
France, Britain and Germany (the E3) submitted a draft resolution to the International Atomic Energy Agency’s Board of Governors on Monday pressing Iran on uranium traces at undeclared sites and the barring of inspectors, according to text seen by Reuters.
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Iran’s hard-line parliament speaker emerged on Monday as the most-prominent candidate from within the country’s Shiite theocracy in the race for the June 28 presidential election to replace the late Ebrahim Raisi, killed in a helicopter crash last month.
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Shrapnel fragments from Israeli interceptors moderately injured an IDF soldier on Tuesday morning, while also sparking a fire near the northern Israeli city of Safed.
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Israeli authorities earlier this year thwarted a large-scale suicide bombing attack directed by Hamas’s terrorist headquarters in Turkey, the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) revealed on Monday.
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Authorities are investigating the fire that broke out in Jerusalem’s Valley of the Cross as suspected arson, Hebrew media reported on Monday.
The fire started in the valley around 12:40 p.m. on Sunday. Investigators have identified at least three locations from which the fire is believed to have started, according to the Kan public broadcaster….
In dozens of northern Israeli towns and villages that were evacuated under fire from the Iranian-backed Hezbollah terror group in Lebanon, officials hope daily rocket warning sirens will give way to school bells by the time the academic year starts on September 1.
Read more: The Times of Israel
On Friday, as many Israelis were enjoying their post-Shabbat-dinner slumber, US President Joe Biden stepped up to the microphones in the White House State Dining Room to deliver a potentially game-changing address.
Read more: The Times of Israel
Interim Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani arrived in Lebanon on Monday for his first official visit. His predecessor Hossein Amir-Abdollahian was killed in a helicopter crash last month, along with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi.
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Following Sunday’s escalation during which Hezbollah fired barrages of rockets at Katzrin, causing major fires in the area, the Israel Nature and Parks Authority reported that approximately 2,500 acres of land were engulfed in flames in the attack. According to estimates, the recovery of some of the areas completely burned in the large fire -…
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday accepted an invitation to address a joint session of Congress.
He said that he was “excited for the privilege to present in front of the representatives of the American people and the entire world the truth about our just war against those who wish to kill us.”
Read more: The Times of Israel
France is canceling the participation of Israeli companies in the Eurosatory defense exhibition, the organizer said Friday.
Read more: i24 News