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4+ hour, 6+ min ago  (365+ words) Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich does not want his daughter to serve in the IDF, he said Monday. "I will educate my daughter not to enlist in the army," the chairman of the Religious Zionist Party (RZP) said during his party's…...

6+ hour, 15+ min ago  (532+ words) Opposition leader Yair Lapid vowed that only his Yesh Atid Party would be successful in forming a government to defeat Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the upcoming elections, during his remarks at a Knesset faction press conference on Monday. Lapid…...

6+ hour, 28+ min ago  (851+ words) The violent scenes that unfolded this week in Bnei Brak - police vehicles damaged, officers injured, mass arrests, and fierce confrontations in the streets - shocked many Israelis. But for Eliyahu Berkovits, a researcher at the Israel Democracy Institute's ultra-Orthodox in Israel…...

6+ hour, 38+ min ago  (703+ words) Lod District Court Judge Michael Karshen said Monday that there is "reasonable suspicion" in the investigation into Prime Minister's Office chief of staff Tzachi Braverman. Not only has the suspicion failed to weaken, but it has strengthened, Karshen said during…...

7+ hour, 5+ min ago  (755+ words) Jerusalem Police have completed operational preparations for Ramadan 2026, which begins this week, deploying hundreds of officers across the capital with a particular focus on the Old City and the Temple Mount, officials said Monday. The stated goal is to enable…...

9+ hour, 8+ min ago  (339+ words) The claim that the commanders who were attacked yesterday in Bnei Brak arrived in order to distribute recruitment flyers in the city is incorrect," IDF Spokesperson Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin said. IDF clashes with police over Bnei Brak incident, says…...

10+ hour, 21+ min ago  (189+ words) Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) protesters blocked the main road in and out of Jerusalem on Monday afternoon during a protest against being drafted into the IDF. The protesters initially disrupted traffic both around the entrance to Jerusalem and on Highway 38. Police announced…...

11+ hour, 59+ min ago  (719+ words) PM insists disarming Hamas must include rifles 'used on Oct 7' Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he was "very skeptical" about the prospects of a U.S.-brokered agreement addressing Iran's nuclear program. Speaking in Jerusalem on Sunday at the Conference of…...

12+ hour, 1+ min ago  (160+ words) Last week, IDF troops operating in the southern Gaza Strip identified several terrorists who exited an underground tunnel shaft and fired at IDF troops. Several terrorists were eliminated in close-quarters combat, but forces continued searching the area for additional terrorists....

12+ hour, 47+ min ago  (368+ words) The Israeli father of a three-year-old toddler who was the victim of alleged physical abuse by Irina Rimer, a 53-year-old nurse at the Reuth Rehabilitation Center in Tel Aviv, sharply criticized the court's decision to release her in an interview…...