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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rushed to the scene of the deadly terrorist attack near Hebron on Friday, October 23, in which Staff Sgt. Ron Yonatan Roytman and Sgt. Yuval Shai Svilem were murdered. Standing at the site, he announced that the IDF had prepared plans for a sweeping operation in Judea and Samaria “unlike anything carried out since the Six-Day War.” “It’s coming,” he emphasized. The Judea and Samaria operation is not the only front the prime minister has pointed to. He has also made clear his intention to lead Israel into another round of war with Iran, and he…

President Isaac Herzog on Wednesday, October 7, 2026, attended and addressed the memorial ceremony at the site of the Nova music festival near Re’im, where hundreds of festival-goers were murdered and abducted during the Hamas-led October 7 massacre three years earlier. Before the ceremony, Herzog delivered a statement to the international media from the site, recalling the thousands of young people who had gathered there to celebrate before the attack. “Here at the Nova Musical Festival, thousands of young people came to sing and to dance, to celebrate life. People of 36 nationalities, from all over the world and from…

Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) will showcase its latest defense technology at the annual meeting of the Association of the United States Army (AUSA) in Washington, D.C., this week, including a new radar system designed to help ground forces detect low-flying drones, aircraft and other threats. The system, called POINT@AIR, uses a compact, tethered helium-filled balloon to elevate a radar above the battlefield, giving deployed forces a mobile, elevated view of potential threats. IAI is among dozens of American and international defense companies exhibiting their technologies at the event. According to IAI, POINT@AIR mounts an active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar on…

Some 24 Israeli teachers and schoolchildren were wounded, including one who succumbed to his wounds, when an unexploded submunition left over from a Hezbollah rocket exploded near the Lebanese border on Tuesday. Among the wounded were two in serious and three in moderate condition, with at least another 15 of the injured in good condition, according to the Magen David Adom ambulance service. The police later updated that 24 people overall were injured to varying degrees. “Following the explosion in northern Israel, an initial review by IDF soldiers at the scene indicates that the explosion was likely caused by an…

Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has announced the launch of HawkGuard, a new active protection system designed to intercept hostile drones and other aerial threats, which will be unveiled at the Association of the United States Army (AUSA) Annual Meeting & Exposition in Washington, DC. The new system expands IAI’s multi-layered Counter-Unmanned Aircraft Systems (C-UAS) defense architecture, adding a kinetic interception capability to its existing detection, identification, electronic warfare, and command and control technologies. HawkGuard combines radar and electro-optical sensors with AI-enabled command and control technology to detect and track aerial threats. It then deploys interceptor drones to neutralize hostile targets…

Egyptian media channels widely aired threats against Israel, Tel Aviv, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this week as they reacted angrily to Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich’s warning Monday that Israel would destroy Sinai if Egypt attacked Israel, delivered during an interview with the haredi (ultra-Orthodox) news site Hashtiblach. “What will cause Egypt not to attack us? They know that if they attack, there will be no Sinai,” Smotrich told the channel. “It won’t happen again. There is no [Menachem] Begin.” Then-prime minister Menachem Begin made peace with Egypt by signing the historic Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty on March 26, 1979. Under the treaty, Israel…

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Sunday, October 4, that he intends to expand Israel’s naval capabilities after hearing from defense officials about the navy’s need for additional submarines, ships, and more during a visit to the Ashdod Naval Base. Netanyahu was accompanied by Defense Minister Israel Katz. The Naval Chief of Staff and the commander of the Ashdod base briefed them on the challenges in the naval arena and the operations of forces in the southern sector, including the patrol squadron and the landing craft company. During the visit, the prime minister and defense minister were also presented with…

New details from the interrogation of Hamam al-Hammami, the Flydubai co-pilot who attempted to hijack a flight from Dubai to Israel, indicate that the terrorist intended to crash the plane into Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport and cause mass casualties, Israeli officials said on Sunday, October 4. For this reason, the officials said, al-Hammami began his hijacking attempt only over Jordan, planning to continue toward Israel so the flight would appear routine. The terrorist is suspected of having planned to approach landing as usual and, only in the final seconds—once it was impossible to intercept the plane—crash it into the terminal.…

With Israel’s sixth submarine now docked at Haifa Naval Base and formally joining Shayetet 7, the Israeli Navy’s submarine flotilla, ynet was given a rare look inside one of the military’s newest and most secretive weapons platforms: INS Drakon. Packed with pipes, intelligence screens, machinery, command systems and narrow passageways, the roughly 70-meter submarine is designed to operate for extended periods far from Israel while remaining almost entirely concealed. INS Drakon arrived in Israel last week after a 24-day voyage from Kiel, Germany. The Navy says the submarine brings with it some of the most advanced technology in its arsenal.…

Recently, a controversial film was released overseas and even won an award at the Venice Film Festival. The film, “The Causality of War,” portrays IDF soldiers and the State of Israel in an extremely negative light, without providing evidence that can be independently examined. The movie is relying, among other things, on anonymous interviews allegedly conducted with 24 low-ranking intelligence soldiers. The film accuses Israel of genocide and of disregarding human life in the Gaza Strip. It focuses on intelligence personnel who provide targets to the air, ground, and naval forces that use this precise intelligence to eliminate immediate terrorist threats to…