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Israel’s Knesset is preparing for a full week of parliamentary activity, with an intensive schedule that includes approximately 15 meetings across four different committees to advance a series of bills dealing with the judicial system and the communications sector.

The legislative agenda includes several key proposals, among them a bill to split the position of the attorney general and create a separate role of general prosecutor, legislation to change the authority overseeing the Police Internal Investigations Department, and a number of initiatives aimed at reforming the broadcasting market and regulating media outlets.

Despite the ongoing war and the tense security environment, the Knesset continues to carry out routine legislative work. Alongside discussions addressing the security situation and government assistance for citizens and businesses affected by the conflict, committees and the Knesset plenum are also expected to move forward with structural legislation related to the legal system and the communications industry.

At the instruction of Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana, additional rooms within the Knesset building have recently been prepared as protected spaces. The move is intended to allow committee meetings to continue even under security threats and to ensure that the Knesset’s work can proceed despite the current emergency conditions.

Opposition leader Yair Lapid criticized the decision to continue legislative activity on these issues during wartime.

“Amir Ohana and all the extremists don’t care that Israel is at war. He doesn’t care about the unity of Israel. The Knesset under his leadership will continue to discuss the most divisive and extreme laws, even under fire. While the entire country is standing together, the coalition is advancing its extremist agenda and stealing money for political purposes. They have learned nothing from the past years, and they continue to weaken Israeli society every single day. This is the most shameless and dangerous government in the history of the State of Israel.”

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Israel’s military announced that it has eliminated two senior Iranian intelligence officials in a targeted strike in Tehran — just days after they were appointed to replace their predecessor who was killed earlier in the war. According to the Israel Defense Forces, the Israeli Air Force carried out the strike using precise intelligence provided by […]

A young girl born without a complete inner-ear system cannot hear at all. HaGaon HaRav Yitzchak Ezrachi, Rosh Yeshiva of the Mir, knows the family personally. She has a chance to restore her hearing through a specialized surgery in the United States, costing approximately $80,000. Her father learns and teaches in the Mir Yeshiva, and […]

Over the past week, forces from the 7th Brigade Combat Team under the 36th Division conducted targeted raids in southern Lebanon to dismantle Hezbollah terrorist infrastructure, killing dozens of terrorists and destroying sites, including a weapons depot, a command center, and observation posts belonging to Hezbollah.

Hamas called on Iran Saturday to avoid launching attacks against neighboring countries after the Islamic Republic fired missiles across the region in response to the joint US-Israeli bombing campaign. Some of the strikes targeted countries such as Qatar and Turkey, both of which are also major state backers of the Palestinian terror group.

The statement from Hamas urged an end to what it described as “American-Zionist aggression” against Iran. The announcement came as Palestinian media outlets reported that at least three people in Gaza were killed by Israeli gunfire on Saturday. The Israel Defense Forces said it had killed three Palestinian gunmen since Friday but did not immediately address the specific reports, and the military frequently says such incidents occur after Hamas violates ceasefire arrangements.

In its first public appeal of this kind directed at Tehran, Hamas said that, “while affirming the right of the Islamic Republic of Iran to respond to this aggression by all available means in accordance with international norms and laws, the movement calls on the brothers in Iran to avoid targeting neighboring countries.”

A Hamas representative told AFP that the organization has been in communication with Iranian officials regarding the matter.

“The Israeli occupation seeks to sow discord between Iran and its Arab and Islamic neighbors,” the source said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to brief the media.

“Hamas’s leadership has also reached out to officials in several countries, including Qatar, Turkey, and Iraq, urging them to work toward halting the American and Zionist aggression against the Islamic Republic of Iran,” he added.

Iran has launched hundreds of missiles and drones toward more than a dozen countries across the Middle East, including Israel, since Israel and the United States began a bombing campaign against the Islamic Republic on February 28. The strikes were intended to weaken the regime and dismantle its nuclear and ballistic missile capabilities.

Qatar said on Saturday that it intercepted two incoming missiles after explosions were heard in the capital, Doha, prompting authorities to evacuate certain areas. Meanwhile, Turkey reported on Friday that a ballistic missile fired from Iran was intercepted in Turkish airspace by NATO forces.

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Spring breakers and anyone flying may see longer-than-usual wait times and staffing shortages as TSA workers are going without pay amid the partial government shutdown.

HISTORIC RETURN: The American flag was raised at the U.S. Embassy in Caracas on Saturday for the first time since 2019, “exactly seven years after it was lowered,” the U.S. Embassy team announced. “A new era for U.S.-Venezuela relations has begun.”

A mail truck pushes through flooded roads in Oahu as a powerful kona storm drenches Hawaii, bringing torrential rain, flash flooding and wind gusts over 100 mph across the islands.

export facility, stating that although Tehran appears interested in negotiating an end to the conflict, the conditions currently on the table remain unacceptable.

Trump said the recent American strikes had already inflicted massive destruction on the key oil terminal, declaring that the operation had “totally demolished” much of Kharg Island. At the same time, he told NBC News that additional attacks remain possible, remarking that “we may hit it a few more times just for fun.”

Kharg Island sits roughly 30 kilometers (19 miles) off Iran’s southern coastline and about 500 kilometers (300 miles) northwest of the Strait of Hormuz. The facility is critically important to Iran’s economy, serving as the main export hub for approximately 90 percent of the country’s oil shipments.

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A pilot from Alabama had just been promoted to major in January and had been deployed less than a week when the refueling aircraft he was aboard crashed in Iraq this week, killing him and five others, his brother-in-law said Saturday. Alex Klinner, 33, leaves behind three small children: 7-month-old twins and a 2-year-old son, […]

Protests turned violent in Cuba as demonstrators attacked a Communist Party office, expressing anger over worsening blackouts that have been exacerbated by a US oil blockade

As New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani faces $7 billion budget hole, free parking may be history •⁠ ⁠New York City is facing an estimated $7 billion budget gap and while new Mayor Zohran Mamdani would prefer to tax the rich, his administration has conceded high property taxes and charging much more for parking are among ideas […]

Q: “When will the Navy start escorting tankers through the Strait of Hormuz?” POTUS: “It’ll happen soon — very soon.”

The U.S. Embassy in Caracas, Venezuela raised the American flag for the first time in seven years following the resumption of diplomatic relations.

The Senate is set to vote Wednesday on the SAVE America Act. Majority Leader John Thune said the vote will proceed without a talking filibuster.

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President Trump said Iran must “surrender” to bring an end to the ongoing war, while suggesting the country’s newly installed supreme leader may already be dead. Speaking with NBC News, Trump said he has been hearing reports that Mojtaba Khamenei may no longer be alive. “I’m hearing he’s not alive, and if he is, he […]

Earlier today, IDF forces demolished in the city of Dura, in the Yehuda Brigade sector, the home of the terrorist Azmi Nader Abu Halil. The terrorist carried out the shooting attack on an Israeli bus at the Al-Khadr junction, in which Yehoshua Aharon Tuvia Simcha, aged 12, was murdered, and three additional Israeli civilians were […]

CENTCOM: U.S. forces dominate in the skies by launching from the sea.

The Trump administration has turned down efforts by Middle Eastern allies to open diplomatic negotiations aimed at ending the war with Iran, according to Reuters. •⁠ ⁠A senior White House official said President Trump wants military operations to continue in order to further degrade Iran’s capabilities and is not interested in talks at this time. […]