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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's leadership is under scrutiny after a fresh rocket barrage from Gaza resulted in injuries and damage in southern Israel. This marks the heaviest firing since the resumption of hostilities, with at least three individuals reported injured in Ashkelon. Despite the new violence, Netanyahu's immediate response focused more on internal political tensions than the ongoing threat from Hamas

US President Donald Trump, at the conclusion of his meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on Monday evening, revealed that the US would hold direct talks with Iran on Saturday to address the ongoing nuclear issue. Trump stated that the talks would be held at a high level, emphasizing the importance of diplomacy in resolving the issue. "If the talks do not succeed, Iran will be in great danger because it must not have nuclear weapons," Trump warned. "This is not a complicated formula."

Hamas released a video on Saturday showing kidnapped IDF soldier Idan Alexander, who has been held in captivity in Gaza for over a year. This marks the second video of Alexander since he was abducted during the October 7 attack. The release comes just hours before Passover celebrations begin, intensifying the pain for his family and supporters

The IDF has updated Cellcom on the extension of the contract with the company, as part of which it will continue to provide cellular services to tens of thousands of military personnel and employees of the Ministry of Defense. Cellcom has been providing cellular services to the IDF for nearly a decade. Now, as part of a tender held by the Ministry of Defense's Procurement Administration, an agreement has been signed for another two years. In the past month, the company has faced one of the biggest crises in its history - calls for a consumer boycott of it during Operation Wall Guard. The...

Heavy fighting continues across the Gaza Strip as Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) intensify ground and air operations in the southern region. On Friday, an IDF spokesman reported that a soldier from the 12th Battalion of the Golani Brigade was seriously wounded during an operation in southern Gaza. The soldier, who was struck by gunfire, was evacuated to a hospital for treatment. His family has been informed, according to the military

The Omani Foreign Ministry announced Saturday evening that the United States and Iran have agreed to move forward with the next phase of nuclear negotiations following a four-hour meeting in Rome. The second round of talks between U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi concluded at the residence of the Omani ambassador in the Italian capital, with both sides reportedly optimistic about continued dialogue.

An Israeli soldier was killed Saturday in the northern Gaza Strip, marking the first military fatality in over three months and since the collapse of the ceasefire with Hamas. The IDF confirmed that Sergeant Major Ghalb Suleiman al-Nassara, 35, from Rahat, was killed during an operation near Beit Hanoun aimed at locating and destroying Hamas attack tunnels close to the Israeli border

In a dramatic turn of events, Israeli tech startup PROMAI has filed a NIS 10 million lawsuit against its former CEO, Erez Ben Yishai, accusing him of fabricating a vast web of lies and forgeries that misled the company, its employees, and investors. The civil suit, filed yesterday in the Tel Aviv District Court, outlines a staggering scheme involving forged documents, fake contracts with global corporations, impersonation of military personnel, and the use of AI tools such as ChatGPT to bolster the fraud

A seismic moment in Israeli political and legal history unfolded Monday as the head of the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet), Ronen Bar, submitted an affidavit to the Supreme Court that stunned the nation and sent shockwaves through the political establishment

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced on Friday that Sergeant Major. (res.) Assaf Kafri, 26, from Beit Hashmonai, was killed on Thursday afternoon during combat operations in the northern Gaza Strip. Kafri, a tank driver in the 79th Battalion of the 'Ha-Machetz' Brigade (14), was fatally struck in a combined terrorist attack near an IDF outpost