The Israeli military has reduced the mandatory service for male draftees Wednesday, effective immediately. The change, which was announced Wednesday, comes as part of the army service reform plan, which was passed into law in December 2016.
El Al canceled two passenger flights and four cargo flights scheduled for Wednesday. According to Globes, El Al CEO Gonen Usishkin ordered all the company’s planes to return to Israel, including those which are doing cargo distribution abroad.
Coronavirus symptoms can persist for months after patients have ‘recovered’ from the disease, according to a preliminary study published by the Pulmonary Institute at Shaare Zedek Medical Center Sunday morning.
The Red Color siren was heard in communities located near the Gaza border on Friday evening. The IDF confirmed that two rockets were fired from Gaza toward the area.
Two suspected terror attacks near Jerusalem left one person dead Tuesday. Earlier, one person was killed and three more wounded in a shooting, and a second attack took place in the area of Ma’aleh Adumim.
Israel’s defense exports amounted to $7.2 billion in 2019, slightly down from $7.5 billion the previous year, the government said Monday. As in 2018, the bulk went to Asia and the Pacific region, according to a defense ministry statement.
A few weeks ago, the Israeli Navy thwarted a naval smuggling attempt of weapons into the Gaza Strip from the coast of northern Sinai. The intelligence and operational activity was conducted following joint operational and intelligence efforts of the Israeli Navy and the ISA along with the IDF Intelligence Directorate.
Health Ministry Public Health Services Director Professor Sigal Sadetski on Tuesday spoke to the Knesset’s Coronavirus Committee about how Israel is handling the outbreak. He announced that the virus is back with a second wave.
In 2016, Russia was willing to block former US President Barack Obama’s anti-Israel resolution in the United Nations (UN) Security Council, one that would have forced Israel to create a Palestinian state along the 1948 armistice lines.
The Israeli Cabinet on Sunday approved the proposal to establish the community of Ramat Trump in the northern Golan Heights.
Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has received a $350 million contract from a European country for special mission aircraft, the state-controlled company said on Monday.
Chabad Rabbonim in Israel have called on Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu not to endorse President Donald Trump’s Middle East peace plan as it goes against the Rebbes instructions.
Military censors have cleared for publication the arrest, which took place several weeks ago, of Nizmi Abu Bakr, a 49-year-old Palestinian Authority resident of the town of Ya’bad, west of Jenin, in northern Samaria. Abu Bakr is suspected of dropping a block on 21-year-old IDF soldier Amit Ben Yigal from the roof of his building in Ya’bad, during an arrest operation.
The headquarters of Iranian militias in the M’eizileh base in Deir Ezzor in eastern Syria were struck by “unidentifiable drones” overnight. The base was targeted by eight airstrikes, killing a total of twelve Iranian-backed fighters.
Former Dubai police chief Dhahi Khalfan Tamim, who currently serves as the force’s deputy chief, called for the normalization of his country’s ties with Israel.
An attempted terrorist attack was foiled at the Hashmonaim Crossing on Wednesday evening. A terrorist tried to stab a security guard who was at the site and was neutralized by the security forces stationed at the crossing.
The Iranian hackers who in early April targeted Israel’s water system tried to trick the computers into increasing the amount of chlorine added to the treated water that flows to Israeli homes.
