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'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

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

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

 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)

Israelis hope for potential economic 'peace dividend' after war with Iran

Israel's recent war with Iran dented the economy. Investors and Israelis are hopeful that a ceasefire could bring an economic "peace dividend" with neighboring countries.

 Israel flag with stock market finance, economy trend graph digital technology.

IDF soldier Sgt. Yaniv Michalovitch killed, eight wounded in fighting across northern Gaza

Sgt. Michalovich was killed, and eight were wounded in a series of incidents in the Shujaiya neighborhood in eastern Gaza City that began at around 9:00 a.m., according to Army Radio.

 IDF Sgt. Yaniv Michalovitch, killed in combat in the northern Gaza Strip.

MK Ayman Odeh decries Knesset House Committee as 'fascist' after impeachment vote

"We will stand firm against fascism, against Kahanism, against Jewish supremacy, against the occupation, and against all anti-democratic forces," Odeh said.

 MK Ayman Odeh attends Hadash–Ta'al faction meeting, at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on June 30, 2025.

Detention of senior Bnei Brak public figure extended on sexual assault allegations

The court said that there is reasonable suspicion against the suspect and ruled that he poses "a high level of risk" to society.

Rabbi Chaim Rotter and ultra-Orthodox Jewish members of The Guards, a civilian patrol of volunteers safeguarding the streets of the ultra orthodox city of Bnei Brak at nights, July 5, 2013.

'There will be no Hamastan,' Netanyahu declares as terror group reviews US ceasefire proposal

"There will not be a Hamas. There will not be a Hamastan. We're not going back to that. It's over," he said.

 PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu walks near his office in the Knesset last month. The next stage is elections, but the real question isn’t just who will run; it’s what the campaign will be about, says the writer.