Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh said Wednesday that the threats of Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz against the Gaza Strip are not accepted, amid rising tensions after Israeli soldiers arrested an Islamic Jihad leader. Haniyeh made [Read More]
National monitoring carried out by Israel found deterioration in the state of the sensitive ecosystem at the Gulf of Aqaba in the northern Red Sea, Israel’s Ministry of Environmental Protection said on Wednesday. A monitoring [Read More]
Israel has detected mosquitoes infected with the deadly West Nile virus at its southernmost border crossing with Jordan, Israel’s health and environmental protection ministries said on Tuesday. Following the detection at the Israeli terminal at [Read More]
– Israeli forces were on high alert near the Gaza Strip on Tuesday for fear of escalation following the killing of a Palestinian man and the arrest of an Islamic Jihad leader in the West [Read More]
A nationwide vaccination campaign against COVID-19 for children aged six months to five years was launched in Israel on Sunday. The vaccination will provide children “with an important protection layer against serious illness and post-COVID [Read More]
A large fire started near a military base Saturday and was raging near the central Israeli city of Modiin, the country’s fire and rescue services said. The military base of the Israeli Defense Forces, named [Read More]
Israeli football clubs Maccabi Tel Aviv and Hapoel Beer Sheva advanced to the third qualifying round of the UEFA Conference League while Maccabi Netanya was eliminated on Thursday. After winning 3-0 in the first leg [Read More]
The Israeli Electricity Authority on Thursday announced an 8.6-percent increase in the electricity rate for domestic consumers starting Aug. 1. The price per kWh will rise to 0.4906 shekels (0.14 U.S. dollars), the authority said [Read More]
Israel has launched a plan to rebuild Tiberias, a northeastern resort city by the Sea of Galilee that was shattered in a storm in May, the Ministry of Tourism announced Monday. The Israeli government has [Read More]
Iranian security forces have arrested “all members of an Israeli spy network” in the country, the official news agency IRNA said on Saturday. The members were sent to Iran to “carry out terror operations, but [Read More]
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