Law

After 903 days in captivity, Israeli-Russian academic Elizabeth Tsurkov has been released by the "Hezbollah Brigades" in Iraq, U.S. President Donald Trump announced late Tuesday night. Tsurkov, a doctoral researcher at Princeton University, had been kidnapped in Baghdad in March 2023 and held hostage since

The Committee for Senior Civil Service Appointments on Thursday approved the nomination of Major General David Zini to serve as the next head of the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency), despite sharp criticism from within Israel’s security establishment and concerns about Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s role in the appointment process

U.S. President Donald Trump announced overnight (Thursday–Friday) that Kazakhstan will join the Abraham Accords, becoming the first country to do so in his current term

Meni Binyamin, commander of Israel’s elite anti-corruption and organized crime unit Lahav 433, was questioned this week by the Police Internal Investigations Department (Mishpat) on suspicion of breach of trust and abuse of office. The investigation centers on claims that Binyamin influenced an internal probe conducted by Lahav 433 in a case in which he allegedly had a personal conflict of interest.

A panel of Supreme Court justices, headed by Court President Yitzhak Amit, ruled on Wednesday that the appointment of retired judge Yosef Ben Hamo—selected by Justice Minister Yariv Levin to oversee the investigation into the leak in the “Yemen Field” affair—was invalid due to significant flaws in the selection process. The affair is also widely associated with Defence Ministry legal adviser Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir published a nine-page unclassified document on Friday outlining, for the first time, his conclusions from the IDF’s internal investigations into the October 7 attacks and the review conducted by Maj. Gen. (res.) Sami Turgeman’s oversight committee. The document both accepts the military’s share of responsibility. It sharply underscores the need for an independent, external, and objective state inquiry into the role of the political echelon before and during the events of 7/10

The UN General Assembly on Friday approved a resolution calling on Israel to cooperate with United Nations bodies, led by the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA). The resolution passed with 139 countries in favor, 12 opposed, and 19 abstentions