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US and Hamas officials this week held their first direct talks since the start of the Gaza ceasefire in October last year, CNN reported Wednesday.
Read more: The Times of Israel
A total of 170 soldiers were killed during their military service since Israel’s last Memorial Day, according to figures released by the Defense Ministry on Thursday.
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Israeli forces have uncovered major Hezbollah weapons caches and destroyed dozens of terrorist positions in and around the Southern Lebanese town of Bint Jbeil, as Israel’s ground offensive in the area intensifies, the Israel Defense Forces said on Thursday.
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Iran secretly obtained a Chinese-made reconnaissance satellite in late 2024 and used it to help target U.S. military positions across the Middle East during the recent conflict, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday.
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Israel’s Ambassador to the United States, Yechiel Leiter, met on Tuesday with Lebanon’s Ambassador to the United States, Nada Hamadeh, in what is being described as a historic meeting.
Read more: The Jerusalem Post
A man was lightly injured on Wednesday morning in one of several Hezbollah rocket barrages on northern Israel, in which the Iran-backed terror group fired over 40 rockets.
Read more: The Times of Israel
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas on Monday evening awarded a medal posthumously to the late overseer of the P.A.'s so-called “pay-for-slay” program, through which Ramallah provides stipends to terrorists imprisoned in Israel and to the families of dead terrorists.
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The U.S. military has fully implemented a blockade of Iranian ports, halting maritime trade in and out of the country within 36 hours, the commander of U.S. Central Command said on Wednesday.
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Israel will fight antisemitism wherever it rears its ugly head, because “we have a state, we have an army and are capable of standing against anyone who seeks to harm us,” Israeli Education Minister Yoav Kisch told JNS on Tuesday, speaking ahead of the International March of the Living in Poland.
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Negotiating teams from the US and Iran could return to Islamabad this week, four sources said on Tuesday, days after the highest-level talks between the two countries since the 1979 Islamic Revolution ended in the Pakistani capital without a breakthrough.
Read more: The Jerusalem Post
The US military on Monday detailed the boundaries of its Strait of Hormuz blockade, saying it would extend east to the Gulf of Oman and Arabian Sea, while ship-tracking data showed two ships turned around in the strait as the blockade went into effect.
Read more: The Times of Israel
Hezbollah Secretary-General Naim Qassem on Monday urged Lebanese President Joseph Aoun to reverse his decision to outlaw the Iranian-backed terrorist group, which he described as “stabbing the resistance in the back.”
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Israel Defense Forces Master Sgt. (res.) Ayal Uriel Bianco, 30, from Katzrin, was killed in action in Southern Lebanon, the military said on Tuesday.
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The IDF on Monday said that once it completes its operation against Hezbollah in Bint Jbail in southern Lebanon in the coming days, there will not be any remaining major fights for it to undertake in the area.
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The year 2025 saw an alarming surge in violent attacks against Jews in a year when more Diaspora Jews were murdered in antisemitic incidents than in any other year in the previous three decades, a report published Monday by Tel Aviv University said.
Read more: The Times of Israel
U.S. Central Command said on Sunday that its forces will begin blockading all maritime traffic entering or leaving Iranian ports on Monday, in line with a presidential directive.
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“The lessons of Jewish history teach that when our existence is threatened, we must take our fate into our own hands,” Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir said in a letter to the military ahead of the Jewish state’s Holocaust and Heroism Day, which is observed from Monday evening into Tuesday.
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US Vice President JD Vance on Friday warned Iran not to “play” the US as he headed to Pakistan for high-stakes negotiations aimed at ending their war.
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Israel and Hezbollah continued to exchange fire into Friday, despite Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s announcement of peace talks with Lebanon, which had continued to reel from major Israeli strikes two days earlier.
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Indiana University Indianapolis told eight state representatives that its Muslim Philanthropy Initiative is no longer working with the Istanbul-based Hayat Yolu Association, which the U.S. Treasury Department designated as a “sham charity” that supports Hamas last month.
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