Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu pushed back against comments made by coalition allies over the weekend regarding the role of religious law in the State of Israel, saying that the country would not become a theocracy.
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Two projectiles were launched Saturday from Syria towards Mount Hermon, the IDF reported. The IDF retaiated by attacking a munitions site in Alken, Syria in South West Damascus.
A man was very seriously wounded in a stabbing attack on Friday morning in an area in the Muslim Quarter of Jerusalem. The man was stabbed in his upper body and Magen David Adom paramedics are making efforts to save his life. A short time later, reports were received about an 18-year-old who was lightly wounded in a stabbing attack in the vicinity of the Hurva Synagogue.
The IDF, in an effort led by the Northern Command and the 91st Division, completed the destruction of an attack tunnel that was dug by the Hezbollah terror organization, crossing into Israeli territory from Lebanon. The attack tunnel was dug from the Shi’ite village of Ramiyeh and was exposed by the IDF last January as part of Operation “Northern Shield”.
The 21st Knesset has been dissolved, less than a month after it was sworn in. The Knesset approved the Knesset Dispersion Law on Wednesday evening by a majority of 74 to 45.
Russia on Tuesday rejected the US peace plan for Israel and the Palestinian Arabs. The Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement that the upcoming economic conference in Bahrain is an attempt by the US “to substitute the genuine peace process with imposed economic incentives.”
The special committee discussing the dissolution of the Knesset determined on Monday evening that the elections for the 22nd Knesset will take place on Tuesday, September 17, 2019.
A family of five, parents and their three children, who went missing in the Kinneret (Sea of Galilee) was located overnight Sunday after several hours of searches.
An Israeli community founded by Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach has been almost completely destroyed by fire, local authorities said, as a rash of wildfires ravaged the area.
Elad Frizat, 3, passed away Saturday in a Tzfat fire. The fire injured eighteen others, including a 4-year-old boy who suffered burns and a 14-year-old girl who was having difficulty breathing. The other victims suffered from smoke inhalation.
The commander of the Lev Birah police station in Jerusalem and Israel Police Chief Rabbi Rami Barkiahu met with Yaakov Druck, director of housing at Seeach Sod, the haredi special education school where the autistic teenager who was beaten by police yesterday is enrolled.
A series of wildfires have broken out in central Israel as the country suffers from a major heat wave. The hot, dry weather has created perfect conditions for wildfires, and firefighting teams are currently deployed at several places across the country to contain the blazes.
Six people were lightly injured from smoke inhalation as a large fire broke out Thursday afternoon near the Judea town of Beit Haggai, and firefighters are battling the fire. About 30 of the houses were evacuated, and the flow of electricity was also stopped.
A bus carrying students from a girls’ religious high school back home after Shabbat was hit by a firebomb Saturday night, setting the vehicle on fire. The incident occurred after the bus dropped off several girls from the Oriyah Ulpana school at Pnei Kedem, an Israeli town northwest of Hevron, in Judea, south of Jerusalem.
Sounds of explosions were reportedly heard in the vicinity of the Syrian capital Damascus on Friday evening. Syrian media claimed the explosions were the result of an Israeli air strike on the country.
The firing of incendiary balloons from Gaza has increasing dramatically. At least four fires have broken out since the morning hours in the Gaza perimeter – in the Be’eri and Shokeda forests and near Kibbutz Nahal Oz. A major blaze near Ashkelon is also believed to have been started by a balloon.
An earthquake was felt in central Israel, including Jerusalem, Wednesday night. The Geophysical Institute reported that the epicenter of the earthquake was at sea, between Hadera and Haifa, about 200 kilometers (125 miles) from the Israeli coast. The quake struck Israel at 7:53 PM. No injuries or damage has been reported in the wake of the 4.6 magnitude quake.
US space agency NASA published on Wednesday first images it said may show the crash site of Israeli spacecraft Beresheet.
A synagogue in the central Israeli city of Lod was vandalized overnight, worshipers discovered Wednesday morning. The synagogue, which is home to an Indian-Jewish congregation, was targeted by vandals who broke into the building and trashed the interior of the synagogue.
100 terrorists who were released as part of the Shalit deal who returned to terror activities, were tried and returned to serve the rest of the prison sentences imposed on them prior to the prisoner exchange.
A synagogue and cemetery in a central Israeli town were the targets of arson and vandalism Friday, Israel Police said. Fires were set inside a synagogue and cemetery in Bnei Ayish, near Gedera, Friday. Both the synagogue and cemetery were also vandalized, with graffiti spray-painted.
Four people, about 40-years-old, were killed today in a car accident in which a minibus collided with a security fence on Route 443, near the entrance to Modi’in.
