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David Libi, a 19-year-old from the Hava Mitzpe Michal outpost in the West Bank, was killed on Thursday after stepping on an explosive device in the northern Gaza Strip. Libi, an engineering equipment operator working for the Ministry of Defense through a private contractor, is the third non-enlisted civilian contractor to die in Gaza since the start of the war

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched airstrikes this evening on Hezbollah-linked targets in Dahiyeh, a southern suburb of Beirut, and a known stronghold of the terrorist organization. The military said the strikes targeted underground drone production infrastructure situated within civilian residential areas

Israel’s energy infrastructure is facing mounting pressure following a deadly attack on the Bazan refinery complex in Haifa, which killed three employees, damaged a power station, and forced a complete shutdown of the country’s largest fuel producer. Bazan is responsible for 60% of Israel’s diesel and about half of its gasoline output

Four days after two Iranian ballistic missiles struck the grounds of the renowned Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, the extent of the destruction is becoming heartbreakingly clear. Entire buildings dedicated to cutting-edge cancer, brain, environmental, and earth sciences were reduced to rubble, and decades of irreplaceable research have been erased

The planned 12% hike in public transportation fares, scheduled for July 1, has been postponed by six months, keeping the cost of a standard city trip at NIS 8 instead of rising to NIS 9. Despite the delay, public transit users have already experienced a 45% increase in fares over the past year—without any notable improvement in service