Netanyahu: “On this night, 133 of our dear brothers and sisters are not around the Seder table, and they are still held hostage by Hamas in hellish conditions.”
The move is part of the coalition agreements made with Bezalel Smotrich's party.
Gali Baharav-Miara's representatives met with officials from the National Security Ministry and the Prison Service to clarify the inmates' conditions
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The IDF is calling up reservists to reinforce troops carrying out targeted raids against Hamas terrorists in Gaza.
"Israeli researchers are dealing with issues of boycotts and in order to deal with this it is necessary to think outside the box. This is an existential need for these institutions.”
The first group of Indian workers has already departed for Israel, Indian officials announced.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Additionally, 258 packages carrying hundreds and thousands of meals were airdropped over Gaza.
By Joshua Marks
Jerusalem is vowing to "take parallel measures that will harm the Turkish economy."
The deal wants a US commitment to supporting a Rafah operation in exchange for the ceasefire.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Jewish state "will act according to the simple principle that whoever hurts us or plans to hurt us—we will hurt him," said the premier.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The decision puts on hold deals worth a combined $9.5 billion to procure a squadron of F-15 fighter jets and a squadron of F-35 fighter jets.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich denounced "unprecedented sanctions on Israeli citizens whose entire sin is that they settle in Judea and Samaria."
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Israeli prime minister had asked for another extension—this time for 30 days—so he could reach a political agreement on the issue
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The national security minister told The New York Times that the US president is "enormously mistaken" to pressure Israel over its military campaign against Hamas.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
After breaking up his political alliance with Benny Gantz on March 12, New Hope Party leader Gideon Sa'ar had demanded a spot on the War Cabinet.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
According to Israeli Finance Ministry Director General Shlomi Heisler, the NGO has violated anti-boycott legislation.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"The lack of a decisive victory in Gaza may bring us closer to a war in the north," Gallant said ahead of meetings in Washington.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The United Kingdom’s Tel Aviv embassy lodged a complaint with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office.
By David Isaac
Israeli Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara is employing two sets of rules out of political motives, said the national security minister.
The move represents a marked shift in Israeli policy.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"We expect our friends to act to overthrow the terror regime of Hamas and not the elected government in Israel,” said the official.
Cutting restriction, cutting bureaucracy, cutting regulations...
Smotrich called it "an appropriate Zionist response."
Ten judges and six acting judges were appointed to the District Courts of Haifa and Nazareth and one judge was appointed to the Eilat Magistrate’s Court.
"Israel utterly rejects international diktats regarding a permanent settlement with the Palestinians," the text begins.
The Starlink company, owned and operated by SpaceX.
By Joshua Marks
The Arab Gulf state attacked PM Netanyahu for alleged remarks about Doha's role as a mediator between Israel and Hamas in hostage talks.
António Guterres didn’t mention Benjamin Netanyahu by name, but he criticized the Israeli prime minister harshly in a speech in Uganda over the weekend.
“Only total victory will ensure the elimination of Hamas and the return of all our hostages,” declared Netanyahu.
By David Isaac
The deal is meant to keep the money out of Hamas's hands while also reducing U.S. pressure on Jerusalem.
“First Netanyahu fails Israel by basing a highly-inadequate portion of the IDF near Gaza in the months before Oct. 7. Then he ignores the warnings of Oct. 6. Then this,” wrote Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Calif.).
The government passed the 55 billion shekel ($14.5 billion) budget on Monday.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Some of the captives held in Gaza are in dire need of medical treatment.
The military's largest regular-service armored division exited the Gaza Strip for rest and training.
The announcement came the same day as the government passed Israel’s 2024 state budget
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Ben-Gvir tweeted, “it’s not the time to speak softly with Hamas, it’s time to use that big stick.”
“I understand their passion,” the U.S. president said of hecklers who chanted “Ceasefire now.”
Israel’s government approved Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant’s 9 Billion Shekel ($2.5 billion) plan for aiding military reservists.
By COLlive.com
"Regrettably, many Israeli citizens, including Knesset members and party members, can hardly wait until the war ends and are already now starting the campaign of 'anyone but Bibi.'"
The funding, to provide network reception for shelters within 40 kilometers (25 miles) of a border or within Judea and Samaria, and will include cities such as Tiberias, Karmiel, Nahariya and Ashkelon.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Nukhba terrorists currently receive three meals a day, including one meat-based meal on most days of the week.
Katz and Cohen will be swapping ministerial portfolios.
Arab terrorists in Judea, Samaria and the Jordan Valley have escalated their terror campaigns against Israeli civilians and security forces in the wake of Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh to visit Egypt to hold talks.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
A Foreign Ministry spokesman had no comment on the report about the alleged document.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Israel's president said Israel must first deal with its emotional trauma after Oct. 7 and its need for security.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“This government in Israel is making it very difficult for him to move,” the U.S. president said of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
By David Isaac
"This war will end when it is safe for the children of Be'eri and Nir Oz to sleep in their beds again," the Prime Minister's Office said.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"The difference between Hamas and the Palestinian Authority is only that Hamas wants to destroy us here and now, and the P.A. wants to do it in stages."
Since the war, most foreign workers have returned to their home countries, while Palestinian Authority workers are not allowed to enter Israel for security reasons.
The decision now goes to the Political-Security Cabinet.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"Someone has got confused and forgot who is the enemy and who is the beloved,” Ben-Gvir tweeted.
A few weeks ago, Elon Musk pledged to step in and offer internet services to Gaza from his Starlink, which would help the terror group Hamas continue with its killing of innocent civilians.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Like Qatar’s Al Jazeera network, the Lebanese Al Mayadeen has been accused of serving as a propaganda channel for Hamas.
Netanyahu said there would be total Israeli security control over Gaza.
Netanyahu is not doing what Biden is demanding of him.
By JNS & JewishPress.com News Desk
"When we don’t have that security responsibility, what we have is the eruption of Hamas terror on a scale that we couldn’t imagine."
"Women, men, children, as well as members of the [Bedouin] community serving in the security forces were brutally taken in the war."
The BOI did not clarify, but some wallets and credit cards belonging to victims of the Hamas attacks, or people who were forced to flee in a hurry, may have been stolen for use by terrorists.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The national security minister was excluded from a recent security assessment, and is reportedly frustrated by the coalition's unwillingness to harshen conditions for security prisoners.
By COLlive.com
During the visit, Chikli toured the etrog orchard of the Gorlik family, discovering the secrets of growing the unique fruit for Sukkot.
Two Israeli Arabs and three Palestinian Authority Arabs were working on behalf of Iran to assassinate Itamar Ben Gvir.
By JNS & JewishPress.com News Desk
Israeli officials are "quietly working" with the White House to develop a "US-run, uranium-enrichment operation" in the kingdom.
By Joshua Marks
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the reports "fake news" after National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir warned of "consequences" if reports regarding the transfer were true.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The district planning committee met to advance the project into the final stages.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The plan expands state assistance to communities in the social and geographic periphery.
“I’m here to mark a new beginning in a very robust partnership between NATO and the State of Israel,” said Geoană.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Leftist activists yelled at the minister as he entered the London offices of the Jewish Agency.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"The free market is smarter than the leaders of the barn-burning campaign thought," the finance minister said.
Currently the court president can stack the judicial panels with left-leaning judges, guaranteeing the outcome in advance.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The court has never canceled a Basic Law.
Oversight mechanisms will be deployed to make sure the money doesn't go to criminals, as it has in the past.
By JNS & JewishPress.com News Desk
The Israeli defense minister ordered military officers to increase efforts to seize illegal firearms.
"United Jerusalem is not a slogan, it is a responsibility," said Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The proposal's official objective is to assist communities living under the threat of Arab terrorism.
A tender published by the ministry for AI project proposals comes on the heels of a Cabinet decision to implement state-of-the-art computer-run technology in government ministries.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir reminded the police chief that, "according to the law and the principles of democracy, the people go to the polls and whoever is elected should dictate policy."
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The heads of Israel's security organizations deny report that they planned to bypass the government and go public with judicial reform concerns.
This will be the first time the Supreme Court is interfering with a Basic Law, which they've described as having constitutional authority.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The justices did not indicate when they would rule on the petitions.
A court previously ruled that Pollard didn't meet any of the eligibility criteria for being approved for a gun license.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Former Gantz adviser Ronen Tzur calls for opposition parties to join the government.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Dr. Iddo Netanyahu also said he doesn't believe President Biden is familiar with the details of Israel's judicial reform.
Netanyahu has been released ahead of the vote on the Reasonability clause.
Netanyahu released a video message to the public from the hospital before the procedure.
Netanyahu took aim at those politicizing the army, declaring that government decisions are not made by the hand holding the gun, but by the hand holding the voting slip.
The law was drafted to incentivize foreign workers to leave Israel when their visas expired.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Netanyahu government criticizes Gali Baharav-Miara for failing to indict demonstrators who break the law.
The vote was not unanimous.
Until now, the police confiscated the guns of civilian heroes who shot at terrorists.
The delay comes amid a tense race for the 10-year positions, and reports of back-room wheeling and dealing by Shas Party chairman Aryeh Deri to pave the way for his brother to receive the Sephardic Chief Rabbi position.
Tzachi HaNegbi said the plan will only be implemented if Hamas releases its Israeli hostages.
Iran is holding talks with the US via Oman.
The pro-Israel parade in New York on June 4 should be a time of unity, even as protests are welcome elsewhere, Simcha Rothman told JNS.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Noam Party leader will return to the government as a deputy minister.
Despite the last minute dramas, the Knesset approved in second and third readings, the state budget and economic plan for 2023-2024.
Israel’s Minister of Economy and Industry Nir Barkat has asked the head of the Israel Competition Authority Michal Cohen to resign because Barkat feels that he cannot trust her.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s proposal will add approximately 60 million shekels ($16.5 million) to the five-year project.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"If the conscription law is not passed before the budget, we will withdraw from the government," Yitzhak Goldknopf said.