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The High Court of Justice unanimously struck down on Thursday an amendment that froze arrest, investigation, and enforcement proceedings against haredi (ultra-Orthodox) yeshiva students who failed to report for mandatory military service, with eight of the nine justices also ruling that the amendment does not meet t…
US Vice President JD Vance on Thursday said the United States is investigating an airstrike that Iran says struck a wedding party in Iran.
The newly formed right-wing Unity party has been considering political alliances to boost its chances of clearing the electoral threshold ahead of the deadline to submit lists next week, party leader and former ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan told The Jerusalem Post in an interview Thursday as he laid o…
Former prime minister and chairman of the B'Yachad party Naftali Bennett presented the main points of his foreign policy platform ahead of the elections on Thursday, placing the restoration of Israel's standing among the American public, stronger ties with Washington, and Israel's return as a central player in the M…
The IDF announced on Thursday that it had completed the clearance of two Hezbollah underground infrastructures on the Ali al-Taher ridge in southern Lebanon and that forces are now working to neutralize them.
On a balmy summer afternoon this week, US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee and his team were scoping out the Museum of Tolerance in Jerusalem ahead of the embassy’s annual Independence Day celebrations set to take place there next week.
Troops escort settlers into al-Mughayyir and raze village outside Hebron as ethnic cleansing of West Bank continues
Gains in big technology stocks and easing bond yields helped lift Wall Street even as oil prices ticked higher amid an escalation in the US war with Iran.
El presidente Donald Trump asiste a un acto con legisladores republicanos en el Jardín de las Rosas de la Casa Blanca, el 2 de septiembre de 2026, en Washington. (Foto AP/Alex Brandon)
The United States House of Representatives has passed a bill to penalise American universities for boycotting Israel or its academic institutions, including those located in the occupied West Bank, a move that critics say violates freedom of expression.
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The US has commended Lebanon and Israel over a plan for the release of five Lebanese citizens detained in occupied southern Lebanon.
The US has commended Lebanon and Israel over a plan for the release of five Lebanese citizens detained in occupied southern Lebanon.
Syria has begun destroying chemical weapon materials identified in co-operation with the global watchdog, its UN envoy said on Thursday.
Sunderland’s Reinildo Mandava, left, and Arsenal’s Gabriel Martinelli fight for the ball during the English Premier League soccer match between Arsenal and Sunderland in London, England, Feb. 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)
Otzma Yehudit chairman and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir on Thursday unveiled "Disengagement 710," a policy plan to encourage Gaza Strip residents to emigrate voluntarily to countries willing to receive them.
Dozens of civil rights and advocacy groups are urging Congress to scrap a defense bill provision that would deepen US-Israeli military technology ties, according to a letter seen by Reuters, at a time of growing US skepticism toward the longtime ally.
Former Biden administration senior adviser Amos Hochstein rejected opposition leader Yair Lapid’s claim that Israel had previously succeeded in blocking a US-Saudi nuclear agreement, saying Washington’s negotiations with Riyadh were conducted independently and only gained momentum after the Bennett-Lapid government …
Senior officials from Arab countries have been holding discussions with people close to former IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot ahead of Israel’s October 27 elections, according to two sources familiar with the talks who spoke to The Jerusalem Post.
Israel has released one Lebanese civilian detainee and has pledged to free five prisoners, the first such handover since the outbreak of the latest Israel-Hezbollah war six months ago.
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Itamar Ben-Gvir claims proposal for illegal forced displacement of 2 million people is ‘realistic’ and ‘concrete’
Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair’s latest reported intervention in the Middle East would be astonishing coming from any supposed mediator.
Syria has begun destroying the remnants of a clandestine chemical weapons programme created under former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Syrian and United Nations officials have said.
United States President Donald Trump has again pushed back on media reports detailing dangerously low munitions stockpiles as the US-Israel war with Iran stretches into its seventh month.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said it has arrested seven people in the northwestern province of Ilam, accusing them of being affiliated with Kurdish separatist groups.
MK Tally Gotliv will move to join Otzma Yehudit, the Likud party announced on Thursday.
President Donald Trump attends an event with Republican lawmakers in the Rose Garden of the White House, Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
The dissection of the war and peace policies that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces from his challengers in the October 27 election is not new: he has failed to achieve diplomatic and lasting strategic changes to make Israel safer, wasting a wide range of large tactical military wins.
The Prime Minister’s Office on Thursday published a record of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s schedule from the morning of October 7, 2023.
Far-right Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir said it was a "realistic" plan to forcibly remove Palestinians from Gaza and send them abroad.
President Trump took to Truth Social on Thursday to rage against US media coverage of the Iran war (not for the first time), following Treasury Scott Bessent giving similar scathing remarks earlier this week.
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Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair’s latest reported intervention in the Middle East would be astonishing coming from any supposed mediator.
Lebanon said it received a man freed from Israeli detention on Thursday, as Israel announced it would release five people detained from the country's south.
WASHINGTON, United States — The US Federal Reserve on Wednesday flagged that while the country’s general economic outlook was positive, heightened uncertainty due to high energy prices, policy issues and the Iran war was weighing on industry and household sentiment.
GOP-backed bill mandates institutions receiving federal funds not impose restrictions on programs related to Israel
Yemeni government forces are engaged in fierce clashes with Houthi fighters across several fronts west of Taiz province, as the Iran-backed group launches a broad offensive along front lines on the western Red Sea coast.
TEHRAN — Iran attacked United States military bases in Kuwait on Thursday, despite President Donald Trump threatening further strikes in a fresh flare-up six months into the Middle East war.
Four Palestine Action activists will appeal their sentencing by a UK court as terrorists for their role in a raid on an Israeli-owned arms factory.
The United States and Iran continue to make competing claims about who has greater control of the critical Strait of Hormuz in the Gulf.
The IDF will begin rolling out changes to strictly kosher food service next week, the military announced in an August statement.
The Islamic regime has come under increasing pressure from hardline media outlets and figures to escalate the conflict by severing the international fiber-optic cables running beneath the Strait of Hormuz and the Arab Gulf.
The High Court of Justice ordered 189 former Shin Bet (Israeli Security Agency) officials who sought to overturn David Zini’s appointment as head of the agency to reveal their identities to him by next Thursday, bringing the latest dispute arising from one of Israel’s most contested security appointments closer to a…
During a settler attack aimed at stealing sheep, the Israeli army killed a Palestinian boy and a young man on Wednesday evening in the village of Al-Mughayyir, east of Ramallah.
London, the UK – Four Palestine Action activists who were sentenced as “terrorists” are appealing against the ruling.
During a settler attack aimed at stealing sheep, the Israeli army killed a Palestinian boy and a young man on Wednesday evening in the village of Al-Mughayyir, east of Ramallah.
US President Donald Trump has congratulated Secretary of War Pete Hegseth over the latest American strikes on Iran, despite one of the attacks hitting a wedding and killing several civilians.
US President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social that Syria acting as an alternative to the Strait of Hormuz would be “great.” He commented after a headline at The Washington Post noted that Syria was “eyeing role as Middle East hub, offers options to bypass Hormuz.” This comes as US and Iran tensions grew this week…