Tunnel shaft found in Khan Yunis City Hall was Hamas gathering point

Israeli soldiers continued pressing attacks on Hamas across the Gaza Strip over the weekend, the Israel Defence Forces said on Sunday morning, including strikes on a tunnel shaft discovered in the Khan Yunis city hall and a UNRWA school used by the terror group as a command centre. Read more

Israel’s Chief Rabbis step down without successors in sight

A political struggle has left Israel without chief rabbis for the first time in the country’s history. Read more

Israel strikes Hamas terrorists holed up in two UN schools

Israeli aircraft struck terrorists operating from United Nations schools in the area of Gaza City on Thursday, the Israel Defence Forces said. Read more

Israel strikes counter Hamas efforts to re-establish itself in Shejaya

Israel pressed its offensive against Hamas’s efforts to re-establish itself in the northern Gaza town of Shejaya, the Israel Defence Forces said on Wednesday morning. Read more

Gruenfeld’s Gambit: Israeli chess master wins deaf world title

In a triumph for Israeli chess, Yehuda Gruenfeld clinched the title of World Champion for the Deaf in Belgrade on Sunday. Read more

Polarized society raised probability of October 7 attack

Seventy-two per cent of Israelis believe internal divisions over judicial reform increased the likelihood of Hamas’s October 7 attack, according to a survey released on Thursday. Read more

Israel releases photos of doctor in Islamic Jihad uniform following aid group’s denials

The Israel Defence Forces released photos of Palestinian Islamic Jihad rocket specialist Fadi al-Wadiya wearing the terror group’s uniform after Doctors Without Borders confirmed he was a staffer but denied he was a terrorist. Wadiya was killed in an airstrike in northern Gaza on Tuesday while bicycling to work. Read more

Former Jerusalem mufti indicted for inciting terror

Israeli prosecutors filed an indictment in the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday against the former Mufti of Jerusalem, Sheikh Ekrima Sabri, for inciting terror in remarks praising terrorists. Read more

New Israeli MRI technique offers hope for early pancreatic cancer detection

Pancreatic cancer is notorious for its late detection and high mortality rate, but a new Israeli approach to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) that illuminates pancreatic tumours offers hope for earlier diagnoses and treatment. Read more

Did Islamic Jihad rocket specialist also work for Doctors Without Borders?

Doctors Without Borders said on Tuesday that a Palestinian Islamic Jihad rocket specialist killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza had worked for the humanitarian aid group. Read more

Israeli High Court orders state to conscript yeshiva students

Israel’s High Court of Justice unanimously ordered the state to begin drafting yeshiva students into army service on Tuesday in a verdict that could potentially topple the governing coalition. Read more

October 7 victims file US$1 billion lawsuit against UNRWA

More than 100 survivors of Hamas’s October 7 attacks filed a $1 billion lawsuit against the United Relief and Works Agency for “aiding and abetting” Hamas on Monday. Read more

Israel strikes UNRWA facility taken over by Hamas

The Israeli military struck buildings used by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad that previously served as headquarters for the UN Relief and Works Agency in northern Gaza, the Israel Defence Forces said on Sunday. Read more

Israeli self-repairing glass might revolutionize satellites, biomedicine and more

Israeli researchers have unveiled a highly transparent, self-repairing adhesive glass that forms spontaneously upon contact with water. Read more

Hero policeman’s name tag returned to family amid emotional ceremony

In a poignant ceremony, the name tag of a hero police officer was returned to his grieving family after it was recently discovered on the body of a Hamas terrorist killed on October 7. Read more

Israel presses UN to ‘scale up’ efforts as undelivered aid piles up at crossings

Israel called on the United Nations to “scale up” its efforts to distribute humanitarian aid on Thursday as goods continued piling up at Gaza’s border crossings. Read more

Orthodox parties threaten to topple government over ‘Rabbis Bill,’ yeshiva deferments

Two Orthodox parties on Wednesday threatened to topple the Israeli government after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu withdrew a controversial “Rabbis Bill” from the Knesset agenda the previous day. The governing coalition is already strained by the contentious legislation to grant deferments to yeshiva students. Read more

UN: ‘No supporting evidence’ of famine in northern Gaza

A UN committee of experts said in a recently released report that there is “no supporting evidence” to conclude that there is a famine in Gaza. Read more

Israeli excavation reveals first evidence of little-known Gallus revolt against Rome

The discovery of a large, 1,650-year-old public building and a hoard of coins at an excavation in Lod provides the first compelling evidence of the little-known Gallus Revolt against Rome, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced on Sunday. Read more

Israeli High Court suspends state comptroller’s probe into Oct 7 failures

Israel’s High Court of Justice on Sunday ordered State Comptroller Matanyahu Englman to suspend his investigation into the failures the security services of October 7 pending a hearing on the matter in July. Read more

Israel directs $35 million in Palestinian Authority funds to terror victims

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich ordered 130 million shekels ($35 million) in tax revenue collected for the Palestinian Authority be redirected to terror victims, Smotrich said on Thursday morning. Read more

Uncovering history: British nobility coats-of-arms found in Jerusalem hospital

The walls of a historic Jerusalem building have revealed a rich tapestry of early 20th-century British nobility and royal insignias, thanks to new research conducted by the Israel Antiquities Authority. Read more

Israeli High Court orders government to explain ban on Al Jazeera

Israel’s High Court of Justice has ordered the government to respond to a petition demanding that the Al-Jazeera Law — which allows for foreign news services to be temporarily shut down — be annulled. Read more

Israel strikes Hamas, Islamic Jihad Squads hiding in UNRWA school

Israeli aircraft struck a compound inside a UN Relief and Works Agency school in Gaza where Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists were hiding, the Israel Defense Forces said on Thursday morning. Read more

Israel-Arab arrested for impersonating soldier, spreading fake news of massacres

An Israeli-Arab man who posed as a soldier and said in an interview on social media that the troops deliberately killed Palestinian women and children in Gaza daily was arrested, Israeli Police said on Wednesday morning. Read more

Innovative ‘Metamaterial’ could revolutionize development of smart materials

A collaborative team of Israeli and American researchers have made a significant breakthrough in materials science by developing a mechanical metamaterial capable of remembering the order of actions performed on it. Read more

Israeli Government divided by US ceasefire proposal

The Israeli government is divided over a US proposal for a ceasefire, with leaders of the Orthodox religious parties voicing support on Tuesday while far-right leaders threaten to quit the coalition. Read more

400,000-year-old tools reveal early human adaptation to changing prey

Tel Aviv University researchers have identified the earliest known instance of specialized stone tools designed for butchering fallow deer, dating back 400,000 years. Read more

Remains of Israeli medic missing since October 7 recovered near Kibbutz Nir Oz

The remains of a volunteer Israeli medic who was thought to have been abducted on October 7 were discovered near Kibbutz Nir Oz, the Israel Defence Forces announced on Monday morning. Read more

Jerusalem population doubles Tel Aviv

More than one million people live in Jerusalem, more than double the number living in Tel Aviv, according to an annual report released on Sunday, ahead of Jerusalem Day. Read more

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