World Dec 26 Israeli attorney general orders probe into allegations that Sara Netanyahu harassed opponents Israel’s attorney general has ordered police to open an investigation into Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s wife on suspicion of harassing political opponents and a witness in the Israeli leader’s corruption trial.
World Dec 26 Israel targets Houthis in airstrikes on Yemen’s capital and ports A new round of Israeli airstrikes in Yemen have targeted the Houthi rebel-held capital of Sanaa and multiple ports.
World Dec 03 Palestinian officials say Hamas and Fatah near agreement on overseeing postwar Gaza Palestinian officials say Fatah and Hamas are closing in on an agreement to appoint a committee of politically independent technocrats to administer the Gaza Strip after the war.
World Nov 26 Netanyahu says he supports cease-fire agreement with Lebanon’s Hezbollah Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he will recommend his Cabinet adopt a United States-brokered ceasefire agreement with Lebanon’s Hezbollah.
World Nov 05 Israel’s Netanyahu dismisses his defense minister as wars rage. Protests erupt across country While Netanyahu has called for continued military pressure on Hamas, Gallant had taken a more pragmatic approach, saying that military force has created the necessary conditions for a diplomatic deal that could bring home hostages held by the militant group.
World Sep 30 Israel begins ‘limited’ ground offensive against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon The move by Israeli ground forces marked a significant escalation of an offensive against Hezbollah and opening a new front in a yearlong war against its Iranian-backed adversaries.
World Sep 01 Six more hostage deaths in Gaza spark grief, protests and anger against Netanyahu in Israel Israel’s largest trade union called a general strike for Monday to pressure the government for a cease-fire in Gaza after Israel said it had recovered the bodies of six hostages, including a young Israeli-American man held by Hamas.
World Aug 25 Israel and Hezbollah exchange heaviest cross-border fire in months before pulling back Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah traded heavy fire early Sunday but backed off from sparking a widely feared all-out war, as both sides signaled their most intense exchange in months was over.
World Jul 21 Israel shoots down a missile fired from Yemen hours after carrying out airstrikes on Houthi rebels The Israeli military said it intercepted a missile fired from Yemen early Sunday, hours after Israeli warplanes struck several Houthi targets in the Arabian Peninsula country.
World Jul 16 Israeli military warns it will begin drafting ultra-Orthodox men, move that could split government Under long-standing political arrangements, ultra-Orthodox men had been exempt from the draft, which is compulsory for most Jewish men.