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A chill has set in between much of Europe and Israel recently over its policies toward Palestinians, but the Alpine nation of Slovenia is bucking the trend. Under nationalist Prime Minister Janez Janša, Slovenia is launching a diplomatic reset of its relationship with Israel, which will send Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar to open its first embassy in Ljubljana on Wednesday. It is an about-face from the policies of the previous center-left government, which had been one of the EU’s most critical voices on Israel’s military offensive in Gaza, which it described as “genocide.” The offensive began after the Hamas-led October…

Iran is preparing for a broad, coordinated attack against Israel on several fronts at once, Israeli assessments indicate, in a scenario resembling a future October 7-style assault but designed from the outset to bring together every component of the Iranian axis. Tehran is seeking to combine its own forces with Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas, the Houthis in Yemen, and pro-Iranian militias in Iraq in a single campaign. On October 7, 2023, Hamas launched its attack without the other fronts opening simultaneously and under full coordination. The idea of a broad regional war against Israel had surfaced even earlier. Internal Hamas…

Israel and Greece signed a €3 billion ($US 3.48 billion) agreement on Monday for Israel to build an integrated air and missile defense system for Greece, based on technologies Israel has used to defend itself against missile and drone attacks in recent conflicts. The project is expected to take 35 months to complete. Under a separate €26 million agreement, Israel will also supply Greece with Iron Dome systems designed to defend against drones. The deals represent a major step in Greece’s planned “Achilles Shield” air and missile defense network, which will integrate existing systems, including U.S.-built Patriot batteries, with Israeli…

Israeli intelligence officials uncovered a planned Iranian assassination plot against Yair Netanyahu, the son of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, with a US official confirming that the operation was to be carried out on American soil. The plot targeted the younger Netanyahu in Florida, where he was living in Hallandale Beach, near Miami. Israeli intelligence exposed the scheme in December 2025. A cell acting on behalf of the regime in Tehran had already arrived in the Miami area and remained in Netanyahu’s vicinity, conducting extensive surveillance and monitoring of both his residence and his daily routine. Once the scale of the…

Israel is considering an unlikely candidate to provide a foreign force to supervise implementation of the agreement in Lebanon: Switzerland, sources familiar with the talks told i24NEWS on Saturday. On Thursday, the last round of negotiations between Israel and the Lebanese government in Rome was completed. After the talks, Israel said that there would be no expansion of the pilot zones before examining how the existing zones work. The Israeli side said at the end of the round of talks that several options were considered, and that a country that acts against Israel in the international courts in The Hague would not…

Pakistan’s Defense Minister Khawaja Asif declared on Saturday, August 8, that “Israel is a threat to the entire Muslim world” and called for “a united military front” against it, just one day after Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey signed a joint defense agreement. “In the context of Israel, all Muslim countries must unite. I have no doubt about this,” Asif told an outlet in his country. Asif called Israel “a product of the Balfour Declaration, which was established in the 1940s as an illegitimate state,” and asserted that it could pose a direct threat to any country in the region.…

When India and Pakistan went to war in the Himalayas in the summer of 1999, Israel had only recently established full diplomatic relations with New Delhi and the two countries’ defense relationship was still in its infancy. Now, more than a quarter-century later, two Israelis who helped integrate advanced targeting systems onto Indian fighter jets are revealing new details about the emergency effort they say helped transform India’s air campaign during the Kargil War—and cemented what has since become one of Israel’s closest strategic partnerships. Speaking to India’s NDTV on Monday, former Rafael program manager Ami and retired Israeli Air…

Six Israeli travelers fought off a violent, apparently antisemitic assault in northern Mongolia, driving away a group of attackers who came at them with knives and hatchets. The confrontation unfolded on the evening of Monday, July 13, at a remote campsite where the three men and three women had stopped for the night. As a group of men of Kazakh Muslim origin approached, the Israelis sensed danger, put on closed shoes, and braced for a fight. The assailants began striking at them while shouting “Heil Hitler” and “Get out of here,” but the travelers refused to be victims. One repelled…

Hamas terrorists on Saturday forcibly entered a World Food Programme (WFP) food distribution site in Jabaliya, forcing the suspension of distributions that had provided daily assistance to thousands of families. According to United Nations Deputy Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Humanitarian Coordinator Dr. Ramiz Alakbarov, humanitarian workers were forced to halt food distributions after armed personnel affiliated with Hamas authorities forcibly entered the Abu Rashid food distribution point in Jabalyia, northern Gaza. “The forces also entered a WFP warehouse and reportedly assaulted two truck drivers who were delivering humanitarian supplies,” he said. Continue reading this article…

After a long 25-hour journey, all members of the Israeli delegation arrived in Venezuela. The 32 professionals, including structural engineers and Home Front Command experts, gathered in the coastal area of La Guaira, which was hit by two powerful earthquakes, and began surveying the many buildings ahead of reconstruction efforts. Brig. Gen. Elad Edri, chief of staff of the Home Front Command and commander of the delegation, said that “after touring the area, we understood that we could do much more than we had planned. We proposed a comprehensive plan to rehabilitate the area.” The double earthquake struck Venezuela on…