Politics

Thousands gathered Saturday evening at Kidnapped Square in Tel Aviv to call for the return of the remaining captives held in Gaza. The rally came hours after Hamas claimed to have located the body of Captain Hadar Goldin in a tunnel in Rafah — a claim Israeli security officials believe is likely accurate. Goldin has been held in Gaza since 2014

The Prime Minister’s Office announced on Saturday that the abducted man returned to Israel overnight has been identified as Lt. Col. (res.) Lior Rodaif, who was killed defending Kibbutz Nir Yitzhak during the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023. The identification was completed by the National Center for Forensic Medicine, in coordination with the Israel Police and the Military Rabbinate

State Comptroller Matanyahu Engelman published a scathing report on Tuesday criticizing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and successive Israeli governments for failing to develop and approve an official national security concept, a deficiency he says contributed directly to the October 7 disaster.According to the report, the Hamas attack exposed a long-standing systemic failure: for decades, Israeli governments “did not fulfill their responsibility to ensure that the State of Israel is prepared for changing security challenges based on a systematic, updated, and officially approved...

Defense Minister Israel Katz announced on Wednesday that he intends to bring a government resolution to close Israel Defense Forces Radio (Galei Tzahal) by March 1, 2026, following the recommendations of a committee he appointed earlier this year. The popular music channel Galei Galatz would be excluded from the closure

The body of kidnapped victim Manny Goddard, 73, from Kibbutz Be’eri, was returned to Israel on Thursday night — more than two years after he was murdered and abducted to Gaza during the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack. His wife, Ayelet, was also murdered that day after fleeing their burning home

The UN Security Council on Monday night adopted a U.S.-sponsored resolution calling for the deployment of an international stabilization force in the Gaza Strip, the disarmament of Hamas, and the creation of a “pathway toward the establishment of a Palestinian state