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Iran is planning a “strong and complex” attack on Israel that will involve more powerful warheads and other weapons not used in its previous two assaults on the Jewish state this year, The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
The Foreign Ministry on Monday officially informed the United Nations that Israel is withdrawing from the 1967 agreement recognizing the Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA after the Knesset passed legislation to severely limit the operations of the agency in Israel and in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Read more: The Times of Israel
U.S. Air Force B-52 Stratofortress bombers have arrived in the Middle East to deter Iran and its proxies, the U.S. military announced Nov. 3. It is the first time that B-52s have deployed to a base in the region since 2019.
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Two Hezbollah commanders, including a member of the terror group’s elite Radwan Force, were killed in recent airstrikes in southern Lebanon, the IDF says.
Read more: The Times of Israel
Authorities in Iran on Monday executed a Jewish man, Arvin Nathaniel Ghahremani, who had been sentenced to death for murder, Iranian media reported.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
A U.N. military base in Lebanon where hundreds of Irish troops serve was hit by a rocket likely fired by Hezbollah terrorists at Israel, according to Ireland’s army.
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A U.S. envoy this week asked Lebanon to declare a unilateral cease-fire with Israel as part of an effort to help negotiations to reach a resolution for the more than year-long conflict, a senior Lebanese political source and a senior diplomat told Reuters on Friday.
Read more: Ynet News
Chicago is adding one felony count each of terror and hate-crime charges to the 14 felony charges it has brought against Sidi Mohamed Abdallahi, 22, who is accused of shooting a 39-year-old Jewish man who was walking to synagogue on Shabbat, Chicago Police superintendent Larry Snelling announced on Thursday.
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Iran’s supreme leader has instructed the country’s Supreme National Security Council to prepare for another assault on Israel, The New York Times reported on Thursday.
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Republicans on the House Committee on Education and the Workforce released the findings of their year-long investigation into campus antisemitism on Thursday, writing that universities offered “shocking concessions” to anti-Israel protesters.
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IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi said the IDF should be bigger during a situational assessment in the Western Galilee on Wednesday.
“The IDF needs to be larger, both in regular forces and reserves, and therefore, we’re building more forces,” he said.
Read more: The Jerusalem Post
Citing constitutional principles of equality, a Paris court on Wednesday reversed a decision to ban Israeli firms from the Euronaval Defense Exposition.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Despite Hezbollah’s declarations throughout the war, the terrorist organization has agreed to drop its demands and is ready to withdraw beyond the Litani River, Lebanon's MTV website, which is associated with Hezbollah opponents, reported Wednesday night.
Read more: The Jerusalem Post
A treaty that Russia and Iran intend to sign shortly will include closer defence cooperation, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Thursday. Military ties between the two countries are a source of deep concern to the West as Russia wages war in Ukraine while Iran and Israel have exchanged missile and air strikes in the Middle East.
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Iran will deliver a “definitive and painful” response to Israel’s recent attack on its territory, likely before the US presidential election on November 5, CNN reported Wednesday, citing an anonymous senior source.
Read more: The Times of Israel
Seven people were killed and one person was seriously wounded on Thursday in two separate Hezbollah rocket attacks on Israel’s north.
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A drone fired from Lebanon hit an aviation plant in northern Israel, and Israel warned residents of a Hezbollah stronghold deep inside Lebanon to flee ahead of airstrikes, as Israel and the terror group continued to trade blows ahead of the arrival of senior US officials hoping to halt the deadly fighting.
Read more: The Times of Israel
The United States is offering a $5 million award for information leading to the arrest of any individual who abetted the 1994 bombing of a commercial flight in Panama believed to have been carried out by Hezbollah, the U.S. State Department announced on Tuesday.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
German prosecutors have charged a 25-year-old man with planning a terrorist attack on a Jewish institution. The suspect, whose identity remains undisclosed due to privacy laws, was arrested in May.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Two senior White House officials are traveling to Israel this week to discuss a potential ceasefire agreement between Jerusalem and the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah.
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