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Likud Party lawmaker Amit Halevi attends a National Security Committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, Oct. 15, 2024. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90.

Knesset passes law to immediately fire teachers with terror sympathies

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An Israeli law that will allow Jerusalem's Education Ministry to dismiss teachers who carry out or publicly support acts of terrorism, as well as cut off funding for educational institutions that glorify terror, passed...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defense minister Yoav Gallant at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, in Jerusalem, March 13, 2024. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Netanyahu fires Gallant, names Israel Katz as defense minister

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Tuesday that he fired Yoav Gallant as defense minister and named Israel Katz, the Israeli foreign minister, as the new head of the Defense Ministry. The announcement came...
President Isaac Herzog speaks during a swearing-in ceremony for judges at his official residence in Jerusalem, June 23, 2024. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90.

Herzog to award ‘Presidential Medal of Honor’ to Lauder, Hoenlein, others

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President Isaac Herzog announced on Monday the award of the Israeli Presidential Medal of Honor to eight Jewish and non-Jewish leaders from around the world, in recognition of their long-standing contributions to the State...
Religious soldiers attend their swearing-in ceremony as they join the Orthodox Netzah Yehuda Battalion (previously called the Nahal Haredi Battalion) at Ammunition Hill in Jerusalem on May 26, 2012. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90.

IDF launches first ultra-Orthodox combat brigade

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The formation of a new ultra-Orthodox infantry brigade is advancing despite tensions surrounding the haredi military service exemption bill and ongoing demonstrations by ultra-Orthodox protesters at the Jerusalem recruitment office. The first wave of combat...

Freed Israeli hostage shares photo from Gaza captivity

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"Sitting there in a Gaza tunnel, captured on camera, pleading to return home"—with these words, Agam Goldstein-Almog, a survivor of Hamas captivity, opened her poignant post shared on Sunday, nearly a year after her release. Goldstein-Almog,...
Palestinian supporters of Hamas protest against the U.S. Middle East peace plan front of the main headquarters the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in Gaza City on Feb. 20, 2020. Photo by Ali Ahmed/ Flash90.

Israel cancels agreement recognizing UNRWA

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Israel has terminated the 1967 agreement outlining the terms of its relations with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), a week after the Knesset passed legislation banning the organization's operations in the...
Amos Schocken speaks at the conference, "Israel After October 7: Allied or Alone?," in London, Oct. 27, 2024. Credit: YouTube/Haaretz.

Israel’s Interior Ministry cuts ties with ‘Haaretz’ over owner’s ‘Nakba’ comments

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Israel's Interior Ministry announced on Thursday it will no longer publish in the Hebrew daily Haaretz following anti-Israel comments by Amos Schocken, the paper's publisher, at a London conference on Oct. 27. Ministry Director-General Ronen Peretz stated...
Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, Feb. 6, 2016. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Israeli couple to be charged with spying on Mossad HQ for Iran

Israeli authorities have arrested a married couple from central Israel on suspicion of carrying out espionage for the Islamic Republic. Rafael and Lala Guliyev, both 32 years of age, from Lod, were taken into custody...
The Knesset House Committee meets to debate a bill to cancel the citizenship or residency of first-degree relatives of terrorists, Oct. 29, 2024. Credit: Knesset Channel.

Knesset committee advances bill to deport terrorists’ families

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Knesset House Committee members voted 9-to-2 on Tuesday to advance a bill seeking to deport families of terrorists living in Israel under certain circumstances. The proposed law is meant as a deterrent. Israel's National Security...

IDF kills deputy commander of Hezbollah’s Radwan Force

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The IDF announced on Wednesday that Mustafa Ahmad Shakhadi, deputy commander of Hezbollah's Radwan Force, had been killed in an Israeli airstrike near Nabatieh in Southern Lebanon. https://twitter.com/IDF/status/1851601556963016868 The IDF emphasized that his removal from the...