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Meuhedet launches AI-powered service for members

This new service enables members to ask questions, receive information, and perform medical-related tasks explained in simple terms, without navigating complex menus

 Meuhedet launches new AI system to help members interact with their HMO.

Court charges Jewish father, son with breaking in, assaulting Palestinian family in West Bank

 Jewish settlers at the illegal West Bank settlement outpost of Ramat Migron, on September 8, 2023.

IDF reportedly carries out strikes in Gaza, begins operation in West Bank

 IDF operating in the Gaza Strip, July 1, 2025.

Netanyahu visits grave of brother Yoni, killed during 1976's Operation Entebbe

 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits the grave of his brother Yonatan "Yoni" Netanyahu on Wednesday, July 2, 2025.

'Vile, despicable, you are scum,' victim of Bnei Brak alleged assailant details assault

"He’s like the ultra-Orthodox chief of police. I served three years in a commanding position in the army—and no one believes or helps me," the man said.

 Haredi men at a court hearing on accusations of sexual abuse, Tel Aviv, 2016; illustrative.

'Moment for bold action,' former hostages, families tell US Treasury Secretary Bessent

“We will do everything in our power to secure the release of the hostages," Bessent said during the meeting. 

 Former hostages and family members meet with US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Wednesday, July 1, 2025.

IDF pilots used excess munitions from Iran strikes on Hamas targets in Gaza

The air force reported that pilots who were sent on the first day of the operation in Iran suggested dropping excess munitions on targets in Gaza.

Israel Air Force fighter jets on their way to the waves of strikes in Iran

New suspect in Qatargate case, Maj.-Gen. (res.) Poli Mordechai, brought in for questioning

Mordechai is suspected of transferring hundreds of thousands of shekels from his business to Yonatan Urich, the main suspect in the Qatargate case.

MAJ.-GEN. YOAV (POLY) MORDECHAI (left) shakes hands with Palestinian Authority Civil Affairs Minister Hussein al-Sheikh after agreeing to renew activities of the Joint Water Committee.

Sa'ar tells Estonian officials there are positive signs for a breakthrough in hostage talks

Sa'ar also announced that Israel has decided to open its first embassy in Estonia.

 Estonian Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna speaking with Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar in Estonia, July 2, 2025.

Former Hamas hostage Edan Alexander to meet with President Trump

Alexander’s release was seen as a ‘gesture’ from Hamas to Trump, and the two spoke over the phone shortly after his return to Israel.

 Edan Alexander, who has been released from captivity by Hamas, after he had been kidnapped during the deadly October 7, 2023 attack on Israel, reacts as he reunites with his parents in Reim, southern Israel, before flying to Tel Aviv May 12, 2025.

Likud ministers call on Netanyahu to apply Israeli sovereignty over W. Bank ahead of Trump visit

"The October 7 massacre proved that the doctrine of settlement blocs and the establishment of a Palestinian state in the remaining territory is an existential danger to Israel."

 Jewish settlers set up tents and Israeli flags outside the village of Bruqin, west of Salfit, in the northern West Bank, May 23, 2025.

IDF elite unit 504 interrogations lead to bust of Iranian terror cell operating in southern Syria

The elite IDF unit 504 provided intelligence that led to the arrests of multiple members of an Iranian terrorist cell in southern Syria.

 IDF soldiers seen operating in southern Syria, in pictures dated to March 2025

Eisenkot walks out, Gantz leads in - and bets on compromise - analysis

Gadi Eisenkot's dramatic exit forces Israeli politics to choose between confrontational alliances to defeat Netanyahu or Gantz's revolutionary pivot toward compromise.

 National Unity MKs Benny Gantz and Gadi Eisenkot speak in the Knesset, in Jerusalem, March 24, 2025

Israel's Iran strategy heavily banks on US getting good nuclear deal, sources say - analysis

Israel also hopes that Trump can successfully place limits on Iran's ballistic missile supply, but this is even more uncertain.

 Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and US President Donald Trump (illustrative)