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The Israeli Automobile Importers Association has released vehicle delivery data for the first half of 2025, showing a modest 3% year-over-year increase, with 159,566 vehicles delivered compared to 155,181 in H1 2024. But behind the headline figures lies a complex and somewhat distorted picture of the local car market

A significant new hostage deal between Israel and the terrorist organization Hamas is reportedly nearing completion, with guarantees from former U.S. President Donald Trump that both parties will engage in negotiations aimed at ending the ongoing war in Gaza. According to Qatar’s Al-Arabi channel, the proposed agreement includes long-term security arrangements and a framework for managing “the day after” the war in the Gaza Strip

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF), in coordination with the Defense Minister, announced late Monday night that it had carried out a series of precision strikes on Houthi targets in western Yemen, following repeated missile attacks launched from the region toward Israel. According to the IDF, the targets included key infrastructure used by the Iranian-backed Houthi movement

Intel has initiated a new round of layoffs in Israel, marking the first time in years that employees at the company’s chip manufacturing plant in Kiryat Gat are being affected. According to sources familiar with the matter, employees at the Kiryat Gat site were summoned for hearings beginning Monday, with estimates suggesting the number of layoffs could reach into the hundreds

Six months into the war in the Gaza Strip, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was preparing to halt hostilities. A cease-fire agreement, negotiated through Egyptian mediators, was on the table. The plan, if enacted, would have paused fighting for at least six weeks, led to the release of more than 30 hostages, and opened the door to peace talks with Hamas — and potentially to a historic normalization deal with Saudi Arabia

Former Israeli PM warns of ethnic cleansing as critics condemn forced relocation plan. In one of the most searing critiques from within Israel’s political establishment, former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has described the Israeli government’s plan to relocate Gaza’s population to a so-called “humanitarian city” as tantamount to the creation of a concentration camp