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Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said on Monday that plans to establish three Israeli settlements in the northern Gaza Strip had been completed and were awaiting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s green light before implementation could begin.
On Tuesday, President Donald Trump’s envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff arrived in Doha, Qatar, to continue negotiations with Iran.
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El presidente de Turquía, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, escucha al presidente de Somalia, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, habla durante una conferencia de prensa en Estambul, Turquía, el 30 de diciembre de 2025. (AP Foto/Khalil Hamra, Archivo)
The US administration has signed two mutually contradictory deals to end its war on Iran.
Iran responds to US homeland security secretary comments
El ex jefe del ejército israelí Gadi Eisenkot en Ramat Gan, Israel, el 14 de agosto del 2022. (AP foto/Tsafrir Abayov)
The US and its partners in the Gulf on Tuesday announced co-ordinated sanctions on five companies and 16 people linked to Hezbollah, the Treasury Department said.
Why are officials trying to throw both the Mossad and its new director, Roman Gofman, into the Gaza predicament, where the spy agency has little involvement and no expertise?
Former IDF chief Gadi Eisenkot announces his election bid in Ramat Gan, Israel, Sunday, Aug. 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov, File)
Iran and Oman are looking to jointly impose a service fee for use of the Strait of Hormuz, despite open US objections, The New York Times reported on Tuesday, citing an Iranian official and four diplomats.
Sorin Hershko, the soldier who was most severely wounded in Operation Entebbe, received an award of recognition from the Peres Center for Peace and Innovation during an event commemorating 50 years since the operation.
Fans greet members of the Iran World Cup soccer team as they leave their hotel for the airport Tuesday, June 30, 2026, in Tijuana, Mexico. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan listens as Somalia’s President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud speaks during a joint news conference in Istanbul, Turkey, on Dec. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra, File)
US envoy Steve Witkoff and President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner have arrived in Doha and will meet Qatari mediators to discuss US-Iran negotiations, but will not be holding talks with Tehran's representatives, a Qatari official has said.
Meta’s Oversight Board on Tuesday said it was considering investigating how the social media company has dealt with content supportive of Iran's ruling regime.
Ability Computer and Software Industries and two company officials were indicted in the Rishon Lezion Magistrate’s Court under a plea agreement over alleged violations of Israel’s defense-export controls involving approximately NIS 35 million.
A 28-year-old man is in serious condition after being struck by a train at Ra’anana South Station on Tuesday afternoon, according to Magen David Adom.
The Health Ministry conducted an earthquake exercise for the National Health Emergency Operations Center on Monday, the ministry announced in a statement.
The pro-Palestinian Hind Rajab Foundation (HRF) said that it had petitioned Lithuania’s Constitutional Court on Monday after authorities rejected its request to investigate an Israeli dental student in Kaunas, Lithuania.
Canadian Heritage Minister Marc Miller apologized for the Canadian Museum for Human Rights not referring to Hamas as a terrorist organization in its new Nakba exhibition.
IDF fighter jets were scrambled after airport authorities at Ben-Gurion Airport lost contact with a commercial flight on its way to Israel, the military said on Tuesday.
Iraq is moving to “repair” relations with Gulf states following tension caused by the Iran war, Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein said on Monday, after hosting Jasem Al Budaiwi, the Gulf Co-operation Council's Secretary General, in Baghdad.
Earlier this month, Israeli ministers had described their expanding colonial project in the language of intent – with Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich announcing the “cancellation” of the Hebron Accords, and Israeli broadcasters reporting on the government cabinet’s intended “quiet annexation” of Gaza. This week, t…
Iran has remained on message in the last several weeks despite a few serious flare-ups in tit-for-tat fighting and missile and drone exchanges with US forces, also including Iranian strikes on at least two foreign shipping vessels which refused to heed Tehran's 'rules'.
TEHRAN — US President Donald Trump said Iran requested a meeting on Tuesday in Qatar, despite Tehran denying any direct negotiations were planned with Washington on the deal aimed at ending the Middle East war.
Donald Trump was warning about the need to bomb Iran before Benjamin Netanyahu made the issue central to his own public career, American businessman and pro-Israel advocate Harley Lippman said in an interview at The Jerusalem Post studio in Jerusalem on Monday.
Two sides yet to have face-to-face meeting since signing deal to reopen strait of Hormuz
The Israeli government has “fulfilled its moral duty” in recognizing the Armenian Genocide, a move that is appreciated by the Armenian community both in Israel and abroad, Bishop Koryun Baghdasaryan told The Jerusalem Post on Monday.
For many young New Yorkers, the Democratic primaries were about far more than housing, affordability or public safety.
Mediators have drawn up a new proposal for the disarmament of Hamas that includes Israeli-backed militias in Gaza giving up their weapons and the rehabilitation of about 10,000 members of the territory's Hamas-linked police force to continue maintaining law and order in the war-devastated enclave.
The families of October 7 victims, along with the October Council, announced on Tuesday that they will gather on Thursday in the Gaza envelope communities to commemorate the 1,000 days since the October 7 Massacre and demand an investigation into the failures that led to the attack.
An American citizen in his 20s was arrested on suspicion of maintaining contact with Iranian intelligence operatives and carrying out paid assignments that included photographing sensitive sites in Israel, the Israel Police and Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) announced on Tuesday.
Israeli officials have told Lebanon that leaving the two designated “pilot zones” occupied by their troops will take time, a Lebanese military official said, in what would delay the implementation of an agreement between the two countries.
The destruction of villages in southern Lebanon was inevitable from the beginning of Israel’s invasion, an Israeli minister openly admitted on Monday.
Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan met Chinese Vice President Han Zheng on Tuesday in Beijing, where the two men asserted their commitment to boosting economic and investment ties.
The US-brokered framework agreement signed by Lebanon and Israel in Washington on 26 June has triggered widespread political opposition in Lebanon, raising questions over sovereignty, accountability and the balance of obligations imposed on both sides.
Following one of the deadliest days the Arab community has experienced in recent months, Israel Police Commissioner Daniel Levy will convene a special meeting on Monday evening with the police’s senior command staff to assess the continued fight against criminal organizations and the wave of violence in Arab society.
The US House of Representatives will vote today on an amendment to block taxpayer funding to Israel’s military.
Iran were treated badly while two countries were debutants, but Saudi Arabia and South Korea should have done better
For jazz aficionados, the title of the movie, Köln 75, says it all. They will know that it refers to a concert by Keith Jarrett, an improvisation that was recorded and became the bestselling solo jazz record of all time.
China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi has called for maintaining the momentum of negotiations between the US and Iran in a meeting in Beijing with his Saudi counterpart, Chinese state-run news agency Xinhua reported.
BELGRADE, Serbia — Feliks' journey resembles a Hollywood movie script, with kidnappers, smugglers and clandestine border crossings.
One person was killed after a car exploded in Kiryat Haim, northern Israel, on Tuesday, Magen David Adom and Israel Police said.
The Knesset House Committee voted on Tuesday to advance the haredi (ultra-Orthodox) parties' controversial bill that seeks to enshrine Torah Study in the country's Basic Law ahead of its first reading in the plenum.
Freed hostage Rom Braslavski thanked the IDF for "killing the man who did him the most harm," after the military confirmed to him that they killed the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist who held him captive in Gaza, in a video shared by Braslavski on Tuesday.
“Europe can't join a war when it is uncertain of the consequences for international law,” German politician Max Lucks, the rapporteur on Iran for the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, told The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday when asked whether greater international involvement would have given Europe more i…
A hiring sign is seen outside of a company in Wheeling, Ill., Monday, June 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
By Michael Every of Rabobank
US envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff took part at the first round of talks with Iran in Switzerland