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Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar decided to appoint Knesset Deputy Speaker MK Michel Buskila (New Hope-United Right) as Deputy Foreign Minister on Wednesday, with the approval of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Former deputy foreign minister Sharren Haskel announced on Wednesday that she is launching a new right-wing political party called Israel First.
Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) chief David Zini has accepted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's request to grant Sara Netanyahu lifelong security, Ynet reported on Wednesday evening.
The number of violent incidents conducted by extremist Israelis targeting Palestinians in the West Bank has fallen by approximately 25% compared with March, when such incidents reached their peak, new data presented to Israel's leadership on Wednesday shows.
US and Iraqi officials are set to conclude a major energy deal as part of Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi’s visit to Washington this week, according to Iraqi officials cited by AP Wednesday.
The United States military has launched hundreds of air attacks across Iran over the past week, killing at least 35 people and wounding 300, according to Iranian health officials.
Five months of U-turns and false boasts leave Donald Trump in worse position than when he started
Officials from the Transportation Ministry, led by Minister Miri Regev, are “unofficially” discussing limiting flights to prevent Israelis from reaching the country in time to vote, a source with knowledge of the matter told Haaretz on Wednesday.
The U.S. missile attack on Greater Tunb island in the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday struck at the heart of a longstanding dispute between Iran and the United Arab Emirates.
The Central Lod District Court sentenced Itay Levy to ten years in prison on Wednesday, after he was convicted of committing sex offenses and privacy violations against minors aged 4-12.
The IDF is racing to finish eliminating Hezbollah terror infrastructure in 52 southern Lebanese villages in the coming weeks before the US presses Israel for a wider withdrawal, IDF sources said on Wednesday.
Senior Israeli military officials told the Security Cabinet on Tuesday that the IDF now controls between 67% and 70% of the Gaza Strip, according to two Israeli sources.
Lebanon and Israel concluded US-brokered talks in Rome on Wednesday, which further reinforced that both countries were in agreement on the need to dismantle and disarm Hezbollah, an Israeli official told The Jerusalem Post.
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CAIRO/WASHINGTON, D.C./BEIRUT — Tehran threatened on Wednesday to shut off more regional energy exports after the United States reimposed a naval blockade of Iran’s ports and both sides launched more strikes as they vie for control of the Strait of Hormuz.
A motorcade arrives at the United States’ Embassy in Rome, Italy, where ambassadors-level talks between Israel and Lebanon are expected to take place, Tuesday, July 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
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CANNES, France — The Gulf ceasefire lasted barely three weeks. After Iran attacked three commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz, the United States struck more than 80 targets, revoked Iran’s oil-sanctions waiver and declared their memorandum of understanding (MOU) “over.” Yet the market response was telling: Bren…
RIYADH — Saudi Arabia and Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis appeared on the brink of renewed war after the fighters claimed their first large-scale strikes on the kingdom since 2022, analysts and a Gulf source said.
Nvidia has partnered with developers aiming to create sovereign AI systems in Europe, the Middle East and elsewhere. (Nikkei montage/Source photos by Reuters and Nikkei)
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Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said the influencer Clavicular should be informing his followers about the plight of Palestinians, in a sign of how widely Clavicular’s trip this week to Tel Aviv has registered among both Israelis and Israel’s critics.
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich is the true architect of the draft evasion law, former prime minister Naftali Bennett said in an interview with 103FM on Wednesday.
Former Iranian foreign minister and current member of parliament Manouchehr Mottaki said that Iran should launch a ground war, infiltrate and seize a US military base in the Middle East, and take thousands of US military personnel hostage in Iran during an interview broadcast on Iranian state media on Wednesday.
A global campaign in support of captive Palestinians has urged the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to immediately resume independent visits to Palestinians held in Israeli prisons, warning that Israel has yet to implement a Supreme Court ruling overturning its ban on humanitarian access.
Days of back-and-forth strikes by the US and Iran have shaken the Middle East. The interim deal to end the conflict is in tatters. Now there are fears the region could tip back into all-out war.
Over 80 British MPs and lords have called on their government to impose comprehensive sanctions on Israel, as a collection of charities slammed outgoing prime minister Keir Starmer's legacy on Palestine.
Renewed strikes put Washington’s appetite for a prolonged war to a familiar historical test, analysts say
Renewed strikes put Washington’s appetite for a prolonged war to a familiar historical test, analysts say
The Israeli government announced on Tuesday that it had approved a budget of approximately 1.3bn shekels ($434m) to fund the establishment of 34 new settlements in the occupied West Bank.
Cross-party MPs have demanded an urgent, independent investigation into the British Museum’s erasures of “Palestine", “Palestinian” and “Israelite occupation” from displays, citing fears of political interference and misleading statements by the national institution.
Russia’s Foreign Ministry on Wednesday warned its citizens in Gulf countries to exercise caution after an interim deal to end the war in the Middle East fell apart and Iran and the United States exchanged back-and-forth strikes.
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, July 14, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
The Israel-Lebanon framework is not workable in its current form and cannot become a binding agreement without approval from the Lebanese government, Deputy Prime Minister Tarek Mitri has told Middle East Eye.
Fiji established an Israel Allies Caucus in its parliament as part of an effort to strengthen ties with Israel and promote regional support for moving national embassies to Jerusalem.
The IDF on Tuesday killed a Hamas terrorist responsible for taking the remains of three IDF soldiers hostage into the Gaza Strip during the October 7 massacre, the military confirmed on Wednesday.
The United States’s blockade of the Strait of Hormuz can be legal, even if the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) demands unimpeded passage through the vital waterway, so long as it respects the terms of the San Remo Manual, Adv. Yoav Harris of Harris & Co. Maritime Law Office explained to The …
The US has announced the end of its 23-year military presence in Iraq, as it shifts its focus to expanding the war against Iran.
The US has announced the end of its 23-year military presence in Iraq, as it shifts its focus to expanding the war against Iran.
Israeli forces briefly closed one of the gates to Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem on Tuesday, citing military exercises.
When the US resumed strikes on Iran after the ceasefire collapsed on July 8, the targets extended beyond nuclear sites to a series of locations along the southern Iranian coast.
Over 80 British MPs and lords have called on their government to impose comprehensive sanctions on Israel, as a collection of charities slammed outgoing prime minister Keir Starmer's legacy on Palestine.
The Israeli government announced on Tuesday that it had approved a budget of approximately 1.3bn shekels ($434m) to fund the establishment of 34 new settlements in the occupied West Bank.
Iran has concentrated its firepower on Jordan’s military bases in a potential “shaping operation” to knock out air defences for a renewed assault on Israel, The National can disclose.
Whoever wins the election in Israel later this year must rein in defense-led state spending that has grown in recent years and invest more in education, infrastructure and other growth engines, Bank of Israel Governor Amir Yaron said on Wednesday.
ICJ Palestine has been ordered by a UK judge to pay full legal costs of £82,130 to a British-Israeli dual national it tried to prosecute for serving in the IDF.
The family of British couple Craig and Lindsay Foreman, who are serving a 10-year prison sentence in Iran on espionage charges that they deny, said on Wednesday that a judge had extended Craig Foreman's sentence by two years for speaking to the media.
The fragile calm that has defined relations between Saudi Arabia and Yemen's Houthi rebels since a 2022 truce is facing its most serious test, with a recent military exchange threatening to pull both sides back towards confrontation.
Anna Liedtke files criminal complaint in Israel over alleged attack by female guards and says abuse was intended to silence campaigners