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Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett leads a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on July 4, 2021. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90

Israel will reportedly loan Palestinians money after highest-level talks in years

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Israel is going to lend the Palestinian Authority more than $150 million after Defense Minister Benny Gantz met with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday in Ramallah, Israeli officials said on Monday. An unnamed source close to...
The head of Israel's Religious Zionist Party Bezalel Smotrich speaks during a conference in Jerusalem, on Aug. 2, 2021. Photo by Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90.

Gantz-Abbas meeting irks Israeli right and Hamas alike

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Right-wing Israeli officials and Gaza’s Hamas rulers alike expressed outrage on Monday over news that Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz and Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas met in Ramallah on Sunday. Sources in the Prime Minister’s Office...
Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz leading a Blue and White party meeting at the Knesset on July 26, 2021. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90

Israeli defense minister meets with Abbas in Ramallah, offers to bolster PA economy

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Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz met with Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah on Sunday evening, in the first official high-level talks between Israeli and Palestinian leaders since 2010. Gantz told Abbas that “Israel...
Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz speaks during a press conference at the IDF headquarters in Tel Aviv, April 22, 2021. Photo by Tomer Neuberg/Flash90.

Gantz condemns Kabul terror attacks: ‘We stand with our American partners’

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Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz condemned the terror attack at the international airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Thursday, reiterating that Israel “stands with our American partners.” “My thoughts and prayers are with the U.S. troops...
Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz leads a faction meeting in the Knesset on June 21, 2021. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90.

Gantz decries use of Nazi symbols by Palestinian protesters

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Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz on Monday called on the international community and the Palestinian Authority to condemn the use of Holocaust images by Palestinian protesters. “The use in protests in Judea and Samaria of symbols from the...
Israeli soldiers on guard near Metula, on the border between Israel and Lebanon, on May 15, 2021. Photo by Basel Awidat/Flash90.

Gantz visits Lebanon border, warns of regional aggression promulgated by Iran

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Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz warned on Tuesday that Israel “will not stand by while Iran advances its nuclear program” during a tour of the Israel Defense Forces’ Northern Command. “Just as we saw in...
The Israeli-managed "Mercer Street" oil tanker, struck by what U.S. experts say was an Iranian drone in the Arabian Sea on July 29, 2021. Credit: Johan Victor/MarineTraffic.

Report: Israel to present intelligence linking Iran to oil tanker attack

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Israel will present ambassadors from United Nations Security Council member states on Wednesday with intelligence information linking Iran to the fatal attack last week on an Israeli-managed oil tanker off the coast of Oman, according to...
Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz, seen here on July 12, 2021, updated his French counterpart on an initial assessment of NSO Group. Source: Flash90

Israel tells France it is investigating NSO spyware allegations

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Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz told his French counterpart Florence Parly in Paris on Wednesday that Israel was looking into allegations that spyware developed by Israeli company NSO Group was used against French President...
Israeli Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman (left) and Defense Minister Benny Gantz in Ramat Gan on March 9, 2020. At the time, Lieberman was a member of Knesset and Gantz was head of the opposition. Photo by Tomer Neuberg/Flash90.

Israeli government agrees on increased defense budget for 2022

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Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman and Defense Minister Benny Gantz have agreed on a defense budget to be passed as part of the state budget for 2022: 58 billion shekels...
Israeli Minister of Defense Benny Gantz attends a conference for retired Israelis in the Eshkol region in southern Israel, on July 13, 2021. Photo by Flash90.

Gantz in holiday greeting to Palestinians: Hamas has no desire to see Gazans prosper

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Defense Minister Benny Gantz said on Monday that while Israel wants to see a peaceful and prosperous Gaza Strip, the Hamas terror organization that rules it seeks the opposite. In a video address posted on...