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Thu, 18 Dec 2025 14:22:48 GMT
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Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men clash with police during a protest following the issuance of a parking ticket in Jerusalem, December 18, 2025 (photo credit: YONATAN SINDEL/FLASH90)
Rioters hurled stones, vandalized a police vehicle and property, and threw trash cans at officers after police tried to issue a routine parking ticket in Jerusalem.
Thu, 18 Dec 2025 17:51:18 GMT
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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio represents one outlook of Republican Christian constituents, while others adhere to
"These individuals have directly engaged in efforts by the ICC to investigate, arrest, detain, or prosecute Israeli nationals, without Israel's consent," Rubio said.
Thu, 18 Dec 2025 18:40:24 GMT
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Diaa Rashwan, head of Egypt
"The deal serves a strategic interest to enhance Egypt's position as the only regional center for gas trading in the Eastern Mediterranean," official Diaa Rashwan said.
Thu, 18 Dec 2025 18:01:30 GMT
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US Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff looks on as he attends a meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi ahead of a world leaders
US envoy Steve Witkoff will meet Qatari, Egyptian, and Turkish officials in Miami to discuss the Gaza deal.
Thu, 18 Dec 2025 16:37:54 GMT
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A rebel fighter takes away a flag that belonged to Islamic State militants in Akhtarin village, after rebel fighters advanced in the area, in northern Aleppo Governorate, Syria, October 7, 2016 (photo credit: REUTERS)
Islamic State praised the Bondi Jewish festival shooting but gave no claim of responsibility.
Thu, 18 Dec 2025 12:46:45 GMT
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Suspects are arrested in connection with a planned violent act,  in southern Sydney, Australia, December 12, 2025. (photo credit: SCREENSHOT/X, SECTION 27A COPYRIGHT ACT)
The men were en route to Bondi Beach, but police noted that they had not yet connected the arrests to Sunday's terrorist attack.
Thu, 18 Dec 2025 16:22:00 GMT
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THE HISTORY of Jewish-Persian friendship goes back over 2,500 years, and it is unlikely there is any other example of two civilizations enjoying such a long and prosperous relationship. Here, anti-Iranian regime protesters wave the Iranian Lion and Sun flag before the 1979 revolution and Israeli fla (photo credit: Photo by BEN STANSALL/AFP via Getty Images)
Today, the friendship between Jews and ordinary Iranians is alive and well, with Iranians taking to social media to express support for Israel after the Bondi attack. We must stand with them in turn.
Thu, 18 Dec 2025 17:42:45 GMT
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Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men clash with police during a protest following the issuance of a parking ticket on Bar-Ilan Road in Jerusalem, on December 18, 2025. (photo credit: CHAIM GOLDBERG/FLASH90)
Soldiers tried to help the police disperse the rioters, but were forced to go back inside the bus violently. The police had to use stun grenades to disperse the rioting crowd.
Thu, 18 Dec 2025 17:52:08 GMT
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An ultrasound image of a tumor seen on a fetus (illustrative) (photo credit: SHUTTERSTOCK)
Checkups following the surgery showed “normal healing” and the baby will continue to have follow-ups until her teeth come in, the hospital said.
Thu, 18 Dec 2025 17:38:02 GMT
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People stand in front of the Arrow 3 shield system during an event of the German Air Force to declare the Initial Operating Capability for the Arrow Weapon System for Germany at the Annaburger Heide Air Base in Schoenewalde / Holzdorf, eastern Germany, on December 3, 2025. (photo credit: RALF HIRSCHBERGER/AFP via Getty Images)
The latest deal is considered to be of historic scope, and joins a series of huge deals signed by Israeli defense companies in recent years.
Thu, 18 Dec 2025 17:11:18 GMT
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 Hezbollah and Syrian flags flutter on a military vehicle in Western Qalamoun, Syria August 28, 2017.  (photo credit: REUTERS/OMAR SANADIKI)
Despite Israel’s remarkable military victory a year ago, questions regarding the jihadist narrative in Syria and Hezbollah's military capabilities remain.
Thu, 18 Dec 2025 15:29:37 GMT
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Israeli settlers from the Nahala movement seen in Gaza after infiltrating across Israel
The Nahala group said in a statement that "the Israeli flag was raised for the first time since the October 7 massacre in Gaza," and demanded that it must only be controlled by Israeli forces.
Thu, 18 Dec 2025 11:57:33 GMT
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DUBI WEISSENSTERN, CEO of ZAKA with NYPD Deputy Chief Richie Taylor (photo credit: ZAKA)
Building a fortress of resilience together, against those who seek to harm
Thu, 18 Dec 2025 11:18:06 GMT
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Smoke rises from the site of a series of Israeli airstrikes that targeted the outskirts of the southern Lebanese village of al-Katrani on December 18, 2025. (photo credit: Rabih DAHER / AFP via Getty Images)
In the earlier attacks, including some which the IDF said were deep inside Lebanon, it struck Hezbollah rocket launch sites, weapons storage facilities, and a military training camp.
Thu, 18 Dec 2025 11:46:14 GMT
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This photograph taken during a press tour organised by the Lebanese army shows a military convoy heading to an abandoned tunnel (unseen) said to have been used by Hezbollah, in a mountainous valley on the outskirts of the southern village of Zibqin, on November 28, 2025. (photo credit: Anwar AMRO / AFP via Getty Images)
Israel and Lebanon agreed to a US-brokered ceasefire in 2024, ending more than a year of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah that severely weakened the Iran-backed terrorists.
Thu, 18 Dec 2025 09:05:01 GMT
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Displaced Palestinians walk through floodwaters near their tents following heavy rains in Gaza City on December 15, 2025. (photo credit: Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP via Getty Images)
The source told Ynet that "efforts to locate Ran are continuing through other means."
Thu, 18 Dec 2025 10:02:33 GMT
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 2nd Brigade troops operate in Gaza along the Yellow Line. (photo credit: IDF SPOKESPERSON UNIT)
Some of the weapons the brigade destroyed included explosive devices, mortars, shells, mines, rocket launchers, and rockets.
Thu, 18 Dec 2025 00:47:54 GMT
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 An Israel Navy Vessel seen outside the Ashdod port in southern Israel, June 9, 2025 (photo credit: YONATAN SINDEL/FLASH90)
According to the report, Greece is analysing implementing Israeli measures, as well as offering a coordinated response mechanism to possible threats by enemy states.
Thu, 18 Dec 2025 18:00:50 GMT
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President Isaac Herzog meets with Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican, September 4, 2025. (photo credit: Vatican Media)
The pope expressed his pride in Israel’s diverse and thriving Christian communities, who will gather at the President’s Residence in Jerusalem for an annual festive meeting in the coming weeks.
Thu, 18 Dec 2025 15:18:32 GMT
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 Fire at illegal trash dumping ground caused dangerous air pollution level in Binyamin region of the West Bank, on August 7, 2023. (photo credit: TOVAH LAZAROFF)
Reportedly, the Palestinians lack sufficient local landfills, and the arrangement is supposed to involve them using trucks to transport their trash to other locations.
Thu, 18 Dec 2025 15:52:13 GMT
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Drone being remotely controlled (photo credit: SHUTTERSTOCK)
Defense Minister Israel Katz approved the administrative detention despite having ended the practice for Jewish-Israelis, even for violent offenses.
Wed, 17 Dec 2025 20:18:27 GMT
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 Eyal Zamir is seen signing a many-billion-euro deal with Germany to provide Israel’s Arrow 3 missile defense system, 2023 (as Defense Ministry director-general). (photo credit: IDF SPOKESPERSON
Germany's defense ministry said that it and the BMVg "have agreed to significantly increase the production rate of Arrow 3 interceptors and launchers to be supplied to Germany."
Thu, 18 Dec 2025 10:52:54 GMT
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a 40 signatures debate, at the plenum hall of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on December 8, 2025. (photo credit: CHAIM GOLDBERG/FLASH90)
The team, which is meant to determine the mandate of the committee expected to be established, will convene this coming Monday.
Thu, 18 Dec 2025 11:18:22 GMT
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Author, journalist and commentator Ben Shapiro speaks at a Buckley Institute event, How October 7 Broke America
“A conservatism that treats Tucker Carlson as a thought leader is no conservatism,” Shapiro said.
Thu, 18 Dec 2025 07:00:36 GMT
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 Chairman of the International Union of Muslim Scholars Youssef al-Qaradawi (R) speaks during a news conference in Doha June 23, 2014. (photo credit: Mohammed Dabbous/Reuters)
The Muslim Brotherhood’s long-term strategy exploits democracy itself, and Europe is still refusing to confront the threat.
Thu, 18 Dec 2025 15:59:49 GMT
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Belarusian citizen Sergei Yeremeyev, who is accused of carrying out an act of terrorism and of planting explosives on two freight trains in Russia
A Russian military court jailed a Belarusian man for 22 years over two 2023 bomb attacks on freight trains in Siberia that Moscow says were ordered by Ukraine’s intelligence services.
Thu, 18 Dec 2025 16:15:32 GMT
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Trump on Tuesday ordered a "blockade" of all sanctioned oil tankers entering and leaving Venezuela as Washington tries to increase pressure on President Nicolas Maduro's government.