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13+ hour, 22+ min ago  (149+ words) Centrist Yair Lapid, right-wing Avigdor Lieberman and center-left Democrats chairman Yair Golan gathered in Jerusalem to debate what it means to live in a Jewish and democratic state " while acknowledging its inherent contradictions United Against Netanyahu, His Rivals Show Divisions…...

1+ hour, 4+ min ago  (385+ words) May 12, 2026, 5: 21 AM The comments by Mike Huckabee underline the growing defense relationship between Israel and the UAE, countries long suspicious of Iran, as a shaky ceasefire still holds in the Iran war. It represents the first publicly acknowledged deployment of…...

58+ min ago  (540+ words) Patrick T. Fallon / AFP via Getty Images Laurence D. Fink (R), co-founder, chairman and CEO of Black Rock, speaks next to Milken Institute chairman Michael Milken during the 29th annual Milken Institute Global Conference at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California on May…...

2+ hour, 24+ min ago  (237+ words) Following the growing threat from Hezbollah's fiber-optic drones in southern Lebanon, the IDF decided to establish an independent production plant within the Technology and Logistics Branch. Galei Tzahal reports that the new plant is intended to turn production of lethal…...

1+ hour, 5+ min ago  (309+ words) Hezbollah Secretary General Naim Qassem threatened that his organization would turn the battlefield into hell for Israel and said Hezbollah would continue confronting Israel and responding to what he described as aggression and violations. "We will not leave the battlefield,…...

1+ hour, 46+ min ago  (232+ words) The IDF published footage on Tuesday from the covert mission that was revealed earlier in the day to establish operational control in the area of the Litani River. Special forces from the IDF's Egoz Unit and Golani Reconnaissance Unit crossed…...

1+ hour, 55+ min ago  (173+ words) The Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) sent a strategic warning to the political echelon recently, according to which the scope of the humanitarian aid entering the Gaza Strip is double what is required and, in effect, fuels…...

3+ hour, 1+ min ago  (252+ words) Rabbi Alain Shlomo Senior, the veteran rabbi of the town of Cr'teil in the suburbs of Paris, has been elected Chief Rabbi of Paris and the metropolitan area. The vote was held at the offices of the Paris Jewish Consistory,…...

1+ hour, 10+ min ago  (220+ words) Yesterday (Monday), in three different incidents, IDF troops operating in the northern Gaza Strip identified five terrorists who were carrying out suspicious activity on the ground, and a terrorist who monitored IDF troops and posed an imminent threat to them....

1+ hour, 34+ min ago  (40+ words) A photo circulated on social media of a young man who was arrested at Ben-Gurion Airport a year ago and whose arrest prompted protests calling for his release, shows him vacationing in Thailand. 'Imprisoned scholar' spotted vacationing in Thailand...