by Michael Wilkins | Dec 9, 2025 | News
Maj. Gen. (res.) Nitzan Alon, the IDF’s former point man for hostage negotiations, says Hamas faces “objective difficulties” locating the body of Ran Gvili, the final deceased hostage still held in Gaza. Alon told Ynet that chaotic conditions inside Gaza after the...
by Michael Wilkins | Dec 9, 2025 | News
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a forceful defense of the government’s new Haredi draft bill during a heated Knesset debate, calling it a “historic process” that would both regulate yeshiva student exemptions and increase ultra-Orthodox enlistment....
by Michael Wilkins | Dec 7, 2025 | News
Israel has told international mediators that Gaza terror groups know how to retrieve the body of Master Sgt. Ran Gvili, the final hostage held in the Strip since October 7, 2023. A delegation led by hostage envoy Gal Hirsch met Egyptian officials in Cairo on Thursday...
by Michael Wilkins | Dec 7, 2025 | News
President Isaac Herzog said Saturday that while he respects US President Donald Trump’s call to pardon Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the decision must be guided solely by “the well-being of the Israeli people.” Netanyahu, charged with bribery, fraud, and breach...
by Michael Wilkins | Dec 4, 2025 | News
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Thursday that his military secretary, Major General Roman Gofman, will become the next director of Israel’s Mossad. Gofman, 49, is a decorated career officer who rose through the ranks of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF),...
by Michael Wilkins | Dec 4, 2025 | News
Israeli officials confirmed that the body recovered from Gaza on Wednesday was that of Sudthisak Rinthalak, a 43-year-old Thai agricultural worker kidnapped and murdered during Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attack. Rinthalak, a fatherless farm worker from northeastern...