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Israelis protest outside the Ministry of Defense in Tel Aviv for the immediate release of the hostages held by Hamas in Gaza, Sept. 1, 2024. Photo by Gili Yaari/Flash90.

Netanyahu holds emergency meeting on hostage deal

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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...
The official Israeli government jet, Wing of Zion, at Ben-Gurion International Airport, Oct. 20, 2020. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90.

Israeli president cancels Azerbaijan visit after Erdoğan closes airspace

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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...
Rabbi Mendy Chitrik, chairman of the Alliance of Rabbis in Islamic States, greets 62-year-old Zebulon Simantov, “Afghanistan’s last Jew,” at the airport in Istanbul, September 2021. Source: Twitter.

Afghanistan’s last Jew arrives in Israel

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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...
Israeli soldiers near a public shelter in Nahariya, northern Israel. Nov. 12, 2024. Photo by David Cohen/Flash90.

Dermer talks Hezbollah truce amid pressure in Israel to keep fighting

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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...
Gideon Sa'ar speaks at his inauguration as foreign minister at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Jerusalem, Nov. 10, 2024. Credit: MFA.

Israel denies Erdoğan claim of end to diplomatic relations

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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...
The Tel Aviv skyline as seen from western Samaria, June 17, 2020. Photo by Menahem Kahana/AFP via Getty Images.

Rocket found near Tel Aviv airport contained rare powerful explosives

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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...
Russian-Israeli captive Alexander “Sasha” Trufanov seen in an undated video released by Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Source: Screenshot/X.

Islamic Jihad releases video of Russian-Israeli hostage

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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,...
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz, center, addresses the IDF General Staff Forum on Nov. 11, 2024. Source: @Israel_Katz/X.

Katz: ‘There will be no ceasefire and no pause’ in Lebanon

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"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,...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a memorial ceremony at the Knesset in Jerusalem for the victims of the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre, Oct. 28, 2024. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90.

‘Fake news’ behind criminal probes into PMO, says Netanyahu

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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...
President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at U.N. headquarters in New York on Sept. 26, 2018. Photo by Avi Ohayon/GPO.

Netanyahu among first leaders to call Trump following election win

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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...