Standing on Israel’s northern frontier, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the government has fundamentally changed its security posture toward the border with Lebanon, pledging an aggressive response to threats alongside a sweeping investment plan aimed at stabilizing and revitalizing the region. “There is no containment, no leniency,” Netanyahu said Sunday during a special weekly […]
Iran said Monday it had summoned all of the European Union ambassadors in the Islamic Republic to protest the bloc’s listing of the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard as a terror group. The move came as Turkey tried to organize a meeting between the U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff and Iranian officials, seeking to jump-start talks to ease […]
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Punxsutawney Phil predicted six more weeks of wintry weather Monday, a forecast sure to disappoint many after what’s already been a long, cold season across large parts of the United States. His annual prediction and announcement that he had seen his shadow was translated by his handlers in the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club at Gobbler’s Knob in western […]
Police on Monday morning detained a mayor of a city in southern Israel for allegedly stealing millions of shekels in wartime donations intended for residents of the city during the
US President Donald Trump’s senior envoy Steve Witkoff is expected to arrive in Israel tomorrow for meetings with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir, according to senior Israeli officials. Zamir was in Washington over the weekend for talks with U.S. defense officials focused on Iran. Meanwhile, Iran’s semi-official […]
Conservative populist Laura Fernández won Costa Rica’s presidency, promising to continue the aggressive reorienting of the Central American nation’s politics started by her political sponsor, outgoing President Rodrigo Chaves. Preliminary and partial results showed the Costa Rican president’s handpicked successor captured the win with a resounding first-round victory, eliminating the need for a runoff in […]
Haaretz has agreed to pay 8,000 shekels in compensation to a young shepherd from the Shomron after publishing his photograph in an article with criminal implications without the consent of
House Speaker Mike Johnson faces tough days ahead trying to muscle a federal funding package to passage and prevent a prolonged partial government shutdown as debate intensifies over the Trump administration’s sweeping immigration enforcement operations. Johnson signaled he is relying on help from President Donald Trump to ensure passage. Trump struck a deal with senators to separate funding for the Department of Homeland […]
A group of thugs vandalized a Chabad elementary school in Paris, the public prosecutor’s office said on Sunday. “On Saturday night, several individuals carried out acts of vandalism at the Lubavitch Jewish elementary school, Beit Chana, located in the city’s 20th arrondissement,” the statement said. “Three windows at the school were smashed, and a CCTV […]
Opposition leader Yair Lapid held a small, closed-door meeting in December 2025 with senior Qatari representatives in Paris, without the presence of the families of hostages—contrary to the version he later presented publicly, Kan News revealed on Monday morning. According to the report, the first meeting took place at the Four Seasons Hotel in Paris […]
Three Supreme Court justices issued a conditional order on Monday blocking the government from closing Army Radio and requiring it to explain why its decision to shut down the controversial
Military police arrived at the home of a yeshivah bochur in Or Yehuda early Monday morning in an attempt to arrest him for draft dodging. Peleg Yerushalmi’s ‘Black Code’ system
Iran moved Sunday to tamp down fears of an imminent military flashpoint in the Strait of Hormuz, denying reports that it planned live-fire naval exercises in the strategic waterway. On
Israel’s long-simmering debate over military conscription of Chareidim erupted again this week, after a reported internal summary revealed deep friction between civilian law enforcement and the army over how — and whether — draft laws are being enforced in Chareidi neighborhoods. According to Haaretz, a document presented at a high-level meeting convened by Attorney General […]
Israel is warning Washington that Iran is using nuclear diplomacy as a smokescreen, and that President Donald Trump’s negotiations with the regime would leave Tehran emboldened and closer to a nuclear weapon. According to Israeli officials and reporting by N12 News, senior figures in Israel’s defense establishment are increasingly alarmed that the Trump administration could […]
Former Israeli military intelligence chief Amos Yadlin is urging Israel’s security establishment to plan for the unexpected, warning that Iran may not behave according to conventional strategic logic if tensions with Washington and Jerusalem escalate further. Speaking on Channel 12, Yadlin said that while “Western logic” would suggest Tehran has little incentive to preempt a […]
A federal judge sentenced a Brooklyn man to 15 years in prison this past Wednesday for his role in a murder-for-hire plot orchestrated by Iranian operatives targeting a prominent dissident-journalist on U.S. soil, underscoring Washington’s broader efforts to counter transnational assassination schemes. Carlisle Rivera, 50, a convicted killer with a long criminal history, pleaded guilty […]
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