President Reuven Rivlin on Wednesday chose Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s strongest rival, to try to form a new government. Lapid’s path to success is still uncertain. Netanyahu, Israel’s longest serving leader, has been fighting to hold onto office through four inconclusive elections since 2019. His 28-day mandate to put together […]

The Shin Bet, in cooperation with the Israel Police and IDF, uncovered a mechanism to use humanitarian assistance from the European Union to finance the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP} terrorist organization. The investigation revealed that the funding was transferred to institutions and organizations in Judea and Samaria, which actually belong to […]

The Samaria Regional Council plans to sue the left-wing NGO B’Tselem for slander after it alleged that settlers from Yitzhar had set fire to fields near the Palestinian village of Burin. B’Tselem tweeted a dramatic nighttime photo of the village with the flames burning in the background. In the tweet it stated, “settlers torched Palestinian […]

Three 19-year-old yeshiva students were injured, two of them seriously, in a drive-by shooting at a bus stop at Tapuah Junction on Sunday evening, Israeli authorities said. The shots were fired from a passing car at the Tapuah Junction south of Nablus. The victims were all civilians, according to the Israel Defense Forces. All three […]