Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar announced his resignation Monday, saying he will formally step down June 15.
War in Israel
Israeli President Isaac Herzog called on Israel to rise above political wrangling, especially during the national Memorial Day, at a candle-lighting ceremony in Jerusalem.
Israeli jets struck Beirut’s southern suburbs after issuing a warning about an hour earlier, marking the third Israeli strike on the area since a ceasefire took effect in late November.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday named a veteran aide and confidant as his new vice president.
Hamas said Saturday that it had sent a high-level delegation to Cairo to try and get a ceasefire with Israel back on track.
The World Food Program says its food stocks in the Gaza Strip have run out under Israel’s nearly 8-week-old blockade.
At the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon as “the main lesson of the Holocaust.”
Mahmoud Abbas, who heads the Western-backed Palestinian Authority, has no influence over Hamas but seeks a role in postwar Gaza.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Trump spoke by phone Tuesday, two weeks after the two met in Washington.
Lebanese authorities detained several people who were allegedly planning to launch rockets into Israel and seized the weapons, the military said Sunday.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced again Saturday that Israel has “no choice” but to continue fighting in Gaza.
U.S. Ambassador Mike Huckabee visited the Western Wall on Friday, the holiest Jewish prayer site in Jerusalem’s Old City.
The Lebanese military said it has detained a group of people linked to firing rockets into Israel last month.
The reunion brought a rare touch of joy in Israel after 18 months of devastating war.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a surprise visit to troops in northern Gaza on Tuesday, his office said.