Government

The first indications emerging from the White House meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu suggest that, despite the close strategic alliance between the two countries, differences over Iran and broader regional policy remain significant

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz has announced his decision to replace Maj. Gen. Avi Bluth as head of the Israel Defense Forces' Central Command, appointing Maj. Gen. Dado Bar Kalifa, the current head of the IDF Personnel Directorate, in a move that has sparked an unprecedented confrontation between Israel's political and military leadership

Mossad Director Roman Gofman has removed two of the intelligence agency's most senior officials, sparking unusually sharp criticism from current and former security figures after reports that they were responsible for developing a plan to facilitate regime change in Iran

Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine has privately told senior Trump administration officials that the United States needs to find a way to end its war with Iran, warning that the military options available for further escalation could produce the opposite of the intended result

Yair Golan, chairman of Israel's Democrats party and a former IDF major general, called on Saturday for a fundamental political shift in Israel, telling a large rally in Kfar Saba that the party's mission is not merely to replace the current government but to change the country's political direction

The Trump administration has brokered a secret understanding with Israel and Syria under which the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is expected to remove nuclear material stored at a previously undisclosed Syrian site, according to U.S. and Israeli officials cited by Axios

The Israel Defense Forces on Tuesday strongly condemned Israeli settlers who established an unauthorized outpost in the yard of a Palestinian family in the West Bank village of Qusra, near Nablus, while the settlers remained at the site

With the new school year set to begin in just one week, Israel’s education system is facing a growing gap between the enormous resources invested in it and the educational outcomes delivered to students

Dozens of Israeli extremists attacked the Palestinian village of Qusra in the northern West Bank over the weekend, throwing stones at Palestinian residents and reportedly barricading themselves inside a Palestinian-owned home. The incident drew sharp condemnation from Israel’s political leadership and renewed concerns over escalating Jewish nationalist violence in the West Bank

Approximately 2.6 million Israeli students are expected to return to schools and kindergartens across the country on Tuesday for the opening of the 2026–27 academic year, including some 180,000 first-graders