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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…

The United States, Israel, and Lebanon signed a framework agreement in Washington on Friday, June 26, following several days of talks aimed at ending the fighting between Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced the framework, cautioning that there is a great deal of work still ahead. He said the agreement establishes a clear process to restore Lebanon’s sovereignty, disarm Hezbollah, and dismantle its infrastructure. Israel’s Ambassador to the United States, Yechiel Leiter, described the trilateral framework as performance-based. The agreement allows Israel to return to its borders once the threat to its citizens has been…

“Before we continue, I have an announcement,” Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin told ministers during a Cabinet meeting. “An Air France aircraft has apparently been hijacked.” Fifty years have passed since June 27, 1976. The Israel State Archives, under the Prime Minister’s Office, released, for the first time on Friday, the classified protocols from Cabinet meetings, Security Cabinet discussions and the special ministerial team established to manage the crisis. They reveal the dramatic debate over whether to negotiate with the hijackers, Israel’s deception and diplomatic maneuvering ahead of Operation Entebbe, the detailed presentation of the rescue plan to ministers, as well…

The US, Cyprus, Greece and Israel have agreed to launch a new energy partnership intended to support natural gas development and protect energy infrastructure in the eastern Mediterranean. US energy secretary Chris Wright signed a declaration of intent with Cypriot energy minister Michael Damianos, Greek environment and energy minister Stavros Papastavrou and Israel’s ambassador to Washington, Yechiel Leiter. The initiative will be anchored by a new Eastern Mediterranean Energy Center at Rice University in Houston. The center is intended to serve as a forum for government, industry and academic co-operation, with a focus on gas development, US liquefied natural gas…

Israel is making “immediate preparations” for the possible deployment of an aid delegation to Venezuela, the Foreign Ministry said Thursday, as thousands of people are potentially missing following powerful earthquakes in the South American country. Separately, a number of Israeli nonprofits said they were mobilizing to respond to the devastating quake in Venezuela, with at least 164 people declared dead and many more feared trapped under the rubble. The Foreign Ministry said it is “conducting a situational assessment with the relevant authorities in Israel and is examining possible avenues for assistance.” Continue reading this article on timesofisrael.com