by Michael Wilkins | Dec 10, 2025 | News
Storm Byron reached Israel after sweeping through Greece and Cyprus, bringing powerful winds, severe rainfall, and widespread flood risks across the country. Authorities were also searching for a yacht carrying five people — four Israelis — that departed Ashdod for...
by Michael Wilkins | Dec 10, 2025 | News
Defense Minister Israel Katz appeared to ease his standoff with IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir on Wednesday, retreating from his demand for a full independent re-investigation of the military’s October 7, 2023 failures. After meeting with Zamir, Katz announced...
by Michael Wilkins | Dec 9, 2025 | News
For more than a decade, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has treated his relationship with Russia as a central pillar of Israel’s foreign-policy strategy. While Israel’s closest and most vital ally has always been the United States, the geopolitical reality of the...
by Michael Wilkins | Dec 9, 2025 | News
The IDF launched a wave of airstrikes on southern Lebanon, targeting what it described as key Hezbollah infrastructure, including a training compound used by the group’s elite Radwan Force. The military said the site served as a planning and training hub for attacks...
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....
