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Hezbollah rocket hits Ben-Gurion Airport

Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon on Wednesday fired two barrages of rockets toward central Israel, setting off sirens in several cities, including Tel Aviv.

Read More: Jewish News Syndicate

Increased security for Israeli airbase commander targeted by Iran

The commander of the Nevatim Airbase near Beersheva in southern Israel was placed under increased security after an assassination plot against him was thwarted, Iran International reported on Monday.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

Russia launches Soyuz rocket with dozens of satellites, including two from Iran

Russia launched a Soyuz rocket early on Tuesday carrying two satellites designed to monitor the space weather around Earth and 53 small satellites, including two Iranian ones, Russia's Roscosmos space agency said.

Read more: Reuters

Blinken: Hamas rejects Egyptian ceasefire proposal

The Hamas terrorist group in Gaza has rejected an Egyptian proposal for a short-term ceasefire in exchange for the release of four Israeli hostages, according to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

Iran-backed Iraqi militia attacks Haifa, Israel with drones

An Iran-backed Iraqi militia launched a drone attack in northern Israel early Tuesday, according to Iranian state media.
The Islamic Resistance in Iraq claimed several of its drones targeted Haifa, a port city in northern Israel, in response to Israeli military action in Gaza and Lebanon, the state media said.
Read more: Fox News

More than 60 PFLP terrorists arrested in Judea and Samaria

More than 60 members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) were arrested during a recent counter-terror operation in Judea and Samaria, the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) and Israel Defense Forces announced in a joint statement on Tuesday.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

Iran to use bigger warheads in attack on Israel

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

Israel informs UN that 1967 agreement recognizing UNRWA is void

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

B-52 Bombers Deploy to Middle East to Deter Iran, More F-15E Fighters to Come

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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IDF says it killed 2 Hezbollah commanders, including chief of elite anti-tank missile unit

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

Iran executes Jewish man for fatal stabbing

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

Israel-bound rocket hits UN base in Lebanon with Irish troops

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.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

‘Akin to surrender’: Lebanon denies US proposal for unilateral cease-fire

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 Police announces hate crime, terror charges against gunman accused of shooting Orthodox Jew

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.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

Iran’s Khamenei orders third direct attack on Israel

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.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

House ed panel: ‘Shocking’ college concessions to anti-Israel protesters

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.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

‘The IDF should be bigger,’ Halevi says during situational assessment in Western Galilee

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

French court overturns ban on Israeli firms at arms expo

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

Hezbollah reportedly agrees to withdraw beyond Litani River, Lebanese reports claim

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

Russia’s ‘comprehensive’ treaty with Iran will include defence, Lavrov says

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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