Staff Sgt. Tuval Yosef Lifshitz, 20, from Beit She'an, a fighter in the Golani Brigade's 13th Battalion, was killed yesterday in battle in southern Lebanon. An officer and four other soldiers were wounded in the same incident.
VP J.D. Vance is headed to Pakistan to meet an Iranian delegation as Tehran reopens the Strait of Hormuz; Trump touts no uranium enrichment and threatens 50% tariffs on arms suppliers. Later, Iran alleges violations.
At the Sderot military cemetery, Capt. Noam Madmoni, a team commander in Sayeret Nahal, was laid to rest after falling in combat in Lebanon. Three other fighters from the unit were killed as well.
President Donald Trump blasts European countries for staying out of the war and slams France for blocking arms flights to Israel: 'The U.S. will remember this.'
In a 62–48 vote with one abstention, lawmakers approved National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir’s bill in its final readings. Netanyahu supported it; most opposition leaders voted no, except Avigdor Liberman.
The IDF says it eliminated Hamza Ibrahim Rakhin, deputy commander of Unit 1800, along with the unit's operations chief; more than 100 Hezbollah-linked towers across Beirut were also destroyed.
Magen David Adom releases casualty data one month into the fighting: of 2,050 people treated, 504 were hit by rocket fire (19 killed); 1,122 were hurt while heading to shelter; and 22 were injured in traffic accidents when they pulled over during sirens.
Assuta Ashdod Medical Center says an X-ray found the battery lodged in the toddler's esophagus. The pediatric team gave honey to limit tissue damage and rushed the child into an urgent gastroscopy. The child is recovering and expected home soon.
After reports that Iran hit Haifa's oil refineries, the U.S. president hinted at his coming response. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the U.S. won't recognize Iranian sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz. Separate reports say two senior Iranian officials were killed in Tehran.
Tehran issued a statement responding to the U.S. proposal to end the war. Pakistan and Turkey again offered to mediate between Iran and the U.S., and Egypt joined the call on Washington to end the fighting.
Revealed Sunday: IDF Alpine Unit soldiers completed a snow-climb, cross-border mission from the Syrian side of Hermon to the Har Dov area in southern Lebanon to sweep the terrain, gather intelligence, and track down terror infrastructure along the Lebanon–Syria frontier.
About 5,000 Marines have already arrived in the region, with another 5,000 expected this week, according to U.S. reports. President Donald Trump has not yet decided whether to authorize broad or targeted ground operations in Iran.
Three other soldiers were moderately wounded, including a lieutenant colonel from the Yahalom unit. Katz, a ChabadHasid who lived in New Haven, Connecticut, made aliyah to enlist.
IDF troops from the Samaria Brigade demolished the Nablus apartment of the driver who killed Staff Sgt. Einbar Avraham Kab, HY"D, in a September 28, 2025 ramming at the Jit Junction; the assailant was killed during the attack. Arab media also reported a targeted strike in western Khan Younis that killed six terrorists, as Hamas vows it will not disarm.
Two IDF officers were seriously and moderately wounded by an anti-tank missile in southern Lebanon. In a separate incident, an officer was seriously wounded and six soldiers were moderately wounded by rocket fire. The IDF says it killed Ali Hassan Shaib, an Al-Manar 'journalist' it calls a "Radwan Force" operative who exposed IDF positions.
On Shabbat morning, Israel's air defenses shot down a ballistic missile fired from Yemen; by late morning, a cruise missile was also intercepted. That evening, sirens in Eilat warned of a hostile aircraft. The Iran-aligned group says it is joining the war and threatens to close the Bab el-Mandeb strait.
Over the past day, the Israeli Air Force launched multiple waves of strikes across Iran, hitting weapons-production hubs in Tehran and central Iran, including a plant that casts and fills warheads with explosives and a site that makes components for ballistic missiles.
President Donald Trump tells reporters Iran is 'begging for a deal' but says he is not sure it will happen; Secretary of War Pete Hegseth vows the 'War Department' will 'keep negotiating with bombs.'
The IDF says its forces are conducting wide-ranging offensive operations in southern Lebanon. Dozens of Hezbollah terrorists have been killed in recent clashes with Israeli troops.
Indiana University has opened a formal investigation into a Muslim initiative housed at its Lilly Family School of Philanthropy amid suspicions it funneled money to Hamas under the guise of "charity."
