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Hezbollah rocket kills one in Ma’alot-Tarshiha

One person was killed in the northern Israeli town of Ma’alot Tarshiha on Tuesday by a Hezbollah rocket fired from Lebanon.

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Knesset bans UNRWA, outlaws all official contact

Israel’s Knesset on Monday made it illegal for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) to operate in Israeli territory, and for state officials to cooperate with the agency.

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Cabinet weekly sessions moved underground amid war threats

The Israeli government took the extraordinary step Monday of convening its weekly cabinet meeting in a fortified underground facility in Jerusalem, marking what security officials called a “new reality” in protecting the country’s senior leadership. The unprecedented relocation from the cabinet’s traditional chamber at the Prime Minister’s Office…

Rebuffing ban claim, Germany OKs $100m arms sales to Israel

Germany has approved $102 million in arms sales to Israel since August, officials in Berlin revealed on Thursday.
The German Foreign Ministry announced the figures after a far-left lawmaker in the country’s federal parliament sought clarification regarding recent reports that Germany was holding up arms exports to the Jewish state, according to…

Iron Beam laser interceptor gets massive boost toward final phase

In a significant advancement toward completing its high-powered laser interception system, the Israeli Defense Ministry announced Monday morning the signing of a $550 million deal to expand its laser-defense capabilities through the Iron Beam program, partnering with lead developer Rafael Advanced Defense Systems and Elbit Systems.

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IDF chief on Israel’s attack in Iran: ‘We have the ability to do much more’

The head of the Israel Defense Forces has said Israel restrained itself in its weekend attack on Iran, in comments published Sunday, as the country girds for a possible response from Tehran.

Read more: The Times of Israel

Five soldiers killed in Lebanon are mourned, including 3 religious Zionist teachers

Friends and colleagues paid tributes Sunday to five soldiers who died in battle against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon the previous evening, including teacher Cpt. (res.) Rabbi Avraham Yosef Goldberg, the beloved rabbi of a Jerusalem high school, as well as two other religious Zionist educators.

Read more: The Times of Israel

IDF still battling Hamas across Gaza a year after launch of ground op

A year and a day after launching ground operations against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Israeli forces on Monday continued to engage terrorist forces across the coastal enclave.

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Russia provided Houthis with tracking data to target ships in Red Sea

Russia earlier this year provided satellite data to help Yemen’s Houthi rebels strike ships in the Red Sea, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.

The US daily — citing “a person familiar with the matter” and two anonymous European defense officials — reported that the data was transmitted by members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard…

Mossad Chief to travel to Qatar, renew hostage negotiation talks

An Israeli delegation, led by Mossad Chief Dedi Barnea, is expected to travel to Qatar on Sunday to renew negotiations for a hostage deal, the Prime Minister’s Office confirmed Thursday evening. In response, the families of the hostages demanded that Netanyahu grant the delegation full authority to secure an agreement for the return of all…

Five IDF reservists killed in rocket attack on troops in southern Lebanon; 19 injured

Five Israeli reserve soldiers were killed during fighting with Hezbollah operatives in southern Lebanon on Thursday night and 19 others were wounded, some of them seriously, the IDF said on Friday,

The slain IDF reservists were named as:

Maj. (res.) Dan Maori, 43, from Beit Yitzhak-Sha’ar Hefer.
Cpt. (res.) Alon Safrai, 28, from…

Iran prepares for war with Israel if strike significant

The Times said Khamenei instructed the military to prepare different plans to respond to an Israel strike on Iran. Four officials in the Islamic Republic told the paper that if an Israeli attack would cause substantial damage, Iran would respond but if the attack is limited to military installations and weapons stores, there may be no Iranian…

UNRWA confirms terrorist killed by IDF who led Re’im shelter massacre was a staffer

UNRWA on Thursday confirmed that one of its staffers was killed by an Israeli strike in Gaza a day earlier, after Israel named him as a Hamas Nukbha force commander.

Read more: The Times of Israel

3 arrested in Sri Lanka over threats to Israelis; Chabad House named as potential target

Three people have been arrested in Sri Lanka amid terror threats against Israelis in the Arugam Bay area and other beaches in the island’s south and west, a government minister said Thursday.

Read more: The Times of Israel

IDF pounds Beirut after Hezbollah’s Simhat Torah eve rocket fire at central Israel

Lebanon state media reported 17 Israeli strikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs, with six buildings leveled and the vacated offices of a Hezbollah-linked broadcaster hit on Wednesday, after the Lebanese terror group fired rockets at central Israel as the country began marking the Simhat Torah holiday.

Read more: The Times of Israel

Senate Republicans threaten UN funding if global body sidelines Israel

Sen. Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and 27 other Republican senators introduced legislation on Tuesday that would cut off U.S. funding to the United Nations and its subsidiary agencies if they downgrade Israel’s status.

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Iran to direct majority of oil, gas revenue to IRGC, report reveals

Iran’s upcoming budget plan reveals that more than half of the revenue from oil and gas exports will be allocated to the nation’s armed forces, according to a report by Iran International on Thursday.

Read more: The Jerusalem Post

IDF raids Hezbollah Radwan Forces underground bases, discovers massive cache of weapons

IDF sodiers have raided several underground bases belonging to Hezbollah’s special unit, the Radwan Forces, the military announced on Thursday.

Troops of the 646th Brigade conducted ” limited, localized, targeted ground raids” against several bases.

Read more: The Jerusalem Post