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Israel’s cabinet approves 2026 budget with a hefty $35 billion for defence

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Israel’s cabinet approves 2026 budget with a hefty billion for defence

Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz | Photo Credit: Reuters Israel’s cabinet has approved the 2026 state budget, the Prime Minister’s office said on Friday (December 5, 2025), including 112 billion shekels ($35 billion) for defence, an increase from the 90 billion shekels budgeted in an earlier draft. The budget now heads to parliament for an…

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Ultra-Orthodox military conscription row reignites in Israel

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Ultra-Orthodox military conscription row reignites in Israel

A new draft law on conscripting ultra-Orthodox Jews, whose support is crucial for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, has sparked uproar in Israel, with the opposition denouncing it as a special privilege for “draft-dodgers”. Under a ruling established at the time of Israel’s creation in 1948, men who devote themselves full-time to studying sacred Jewish…

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Trump seems more in control of Israel than Hamas

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Trump seems more in control of Israel than Hamas

A drone view shows an installation representing U.S. President Donald Trump thinking about a depiction of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with the word “liability”, on the beach near the U.S Consulate in Tel Aviv on October 24, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters The Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal is facing a tough test as Hamas is…

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Israel, Hamas trade blame over truce violations, Rafah border reopening eyed but no date set

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Israel, Hamas trade blame over truce violations, Rafah border reopening eyed but no date set

Israel said on Thursday (October 16, 2025) it was preparing for the reopening of Gaza’s Rafah crossing with Egypt to let Palestinians in and out, but set no date as it traded blame with Hamas over violations of the U.S.-mediated ceasefire. A row over the return of bodies of hostages held by Hamas in Gaza…

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Watch: Netanyahu’s warning to UK, Canada, Australia after Palestine state recognition

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Watch: Netanyahu’s warning to UK, Canada, Australia after Palestine state recognition

Canada recognised a Palestinian state on Sunday (September 21, 2025) despite opposition from the U.S, with the hope it paves the way for peace based on two states living side by side. The move comes ahead of the U.N. General Assembly this week, where other nations, including Australia and France, are also expected to recognize…

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Israel attacks Sanaa, al-Jawf in latest strikes on Houthis

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Israel attacks Sanaa, al-Jawf in latest strikes on Houthis

Smoke billows following an Israeli airstrike in Sanaa, Yemen, on September 10, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters Israel struck the Yemeni capital Sanaa and the northern province of al-Jawf on Wednesday (September 10, 2025), with Houthi media saying the attacks had killed and wounded several people. The strikes are the latest in more than a…

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Finland to sign declaration on two-State solution for Israel, Palestinians

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Finland to sign declaration on two-State solution for Israel, Palestinians

Finnish Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Finland said on Friday (September 5, 2025) it would sign a French-Saudi declaration on a two-state solution between Israelis and the Palestinians but stopped short of announcing a date for recognising Palestinian statehood. “The process led by France and Saudi Arabia is the most significant…

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Israel kills Hamas spokesperson as hospitals report dozens killed in Gaza City

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Israel kills Hamas spokesperson as hospitals report dozens killed in Gaza City

Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz announced on Sunday (August 31, 2025) that a spokesperson for Hamas’ armed wing, Abu Obeida, was killed in Gaza over the weekend. Obeida’s last statement was on Friday as Israel began the initial stages of a new military offensive in Gaza City, declaring the area a combat zone. Hamas has…

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Israel Gaza war: what is a famine

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Israel Gaza war: what is a famine

Jana Ayad, a malnourished Palestinian girl, during treatment at the International Medical Corps field hospital, in Deir Al-Balah in the southern Gaza Strip, June 2024. (File photo) | Photo Credit: Mohammed Salem A. On August 22, 2025, the United Nations-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) confirmed that conditions in Gaza Governorate, including Gaza City,…

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