Netanyahu holds emergency meeting on hostage deal
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened an emergency meeting at Israel Defense Forces headquarters in Tel Aviv on Sunday evening to discuss efforts to free the captives still being held by Hamas in the...
Israeli president cancels Azerbaijan visit after Erdoğan closes airspace
Israeli President Isaac Herzog canceled a scheduled visit to the COP29 climate conference in Baku, Azerbaijan, after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan refused to allow the Wing of Zion state plane to pass through...
Afghanistan’s last Jew arrives in Israel
Zebulon Simantov, Afghanistan's last Jew, who was rescued from Kabul in September 2021, arrived in Israel last week.
Simantov initially went to Turkey, spending three years in Istanbul, and would have continued there but was prompted to...
Dermer talks Hezbollah truce amid pressure in Israel to keep fighting
Israel's Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer met with President-elect Trump during a visit to his Florida estate on Sunday, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday.
Sunday's discussions at Mar-a-Lago centered on an Israeli ceasefire in Lebanon that involves Western and...
Israel denies Erdoğan claim of end to diplomatic relations
Israel's Foreign Ministry denied a change in its diplomatic relationship with Turkey on Wednesday, just hours after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan claimed that he had cut all ties with Jerusalem.
The ministry "is not...
Rocket found near Tel Aviv airport contained rare powerful explosives
Palestinian terrorists in western Samaria for the first time tried to fire a rocket with powerful explosives at Israel's heavily populated central region.
The terrorist rocket, whose warhead contained high explosives with the potential to...
Islamic Jihad releases video of Russian-Israeli hostage
Palestinian Islamic Jihad released a proof-of-life video on Wednesday of Russian-Israeli hostage Alexander ("Sasha") Troufanov, who was abducted from his family home during the Hamas terrorist attacks in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023,...
Katz: ‘There will be no ceasefire and no pause’ in Lebanon
"There will be no ceasefire and no pause" in the fight against Hezbollah in Lebanon, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said on Tuesday.
Following his first meeting on Monday with the IDF General Staff Forum,...
‘Fake news’ behind criminal probes into PMO, says Netanyahu
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday night slammed the "media's fake news" as being responsible for the mounting probes into alleged misconduct by officials in his office.
"In recent days, my office has been subjected to wild and...
Netanyahu among first leaders to call Trump following election win
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke with Donald Trump on Wednesday, becoming one of the first world leaders to congratulate the U.S. president-elect.
Wednesday morning's phone conversation, which lasted some 20 minutes, was described as...