Prime Minister Ehud Olmert warned that the proposed “humanitarian city” in Gaza would amount to a concentration camp and risk ethnic cleansing. The plan, pushed by Defence Minister Israel Katz, has sparked fierce criticism and threatens to derail Israel-Hamas truce efforts.

United Torah Judaism said it was quitting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's ruling coalition due to a long-running dispute over failure to draft a bill to exempt yeshiva students from military service.

Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett dismissed the allegations as part of "a vicious wave of slander."

DeSantis, at Sarasota press event on religious liberty, declines comment on reported West Bank murder of Florida resident, formerly of Port Charlotte.

The Syrian government announced a ceasefire Tuesday after it intervened to quell the deadliest outburst of sectarian violence since March, clashes that prompted Israeli airstrikes. The ceasefire, however,

The accusation that Jeffrey Epstein somehow worked for Israel or the Mossad running a blackmail ring is categorically and totally false,” wrote Naftali Bennett.

In a statement issued on behalf of the party's spiritual leader, Rabbi Dov Landau, the decision was framed as a response to what he described as systematic efforts to marginalize Torah scholars

The coalition accused Shas Chairman Aryeh Deri of trying to disband the government while blaming it on the UTJ party.