Entries by Arnie Singer

Israel News for 5-21-2026

News Update According to U.S. media reports (including CNN, WSJ, Axios), Prime Minister Netanyahu has been urging President Trump, in several phone calls this week, to resume strikes against Iran, while Trump has been pushing for continuing negotiations. CNN reported that Trump told Netanyahu he wanted to allow several more days for a deal to […]

Israel News for 5-19-2026

News Update Israel is prepared and waiting to renew strikes against Iran when President Trump decides to do so. Trump said yesterday that he had planned to resume the fighting on Tuesday but decided to postpone it for a few days, at the urging of the Gulf states, to give negotiations a little more time […]

Israel News for 5-15-2026

News Update Staff Sergeant Negev Dagan, 20, from Dekel, a combat soldier in the 12th Battalion, Golani Brigade, was killed in a mortar attack in southern Lebanon. He is the 19th soldier to fall in Lebanon since the start of Operation Roaring Lion, and the sixth killed since the start of the ceasefire. The Global […]

Israel News for 5-13-2026

News Update Mossad chief David Barnea and Shin Bet chief David Zinni visited the UAE at least twice during Operation Roaring Lion, in March and April, to coordinate issues regarding the war. Israel also sent Iron Dome batteries to the UAE, along with personnel to operate them. Two IDF soldiers were wounded last night in […]

Israel News for 5-11-2026

News Update Warrant Officer (res.) Alexander Glovanyov, 47, of Petah Tikva, who served as a transport vehicle driver in the 6924th Transport Battalion of the Transportation Center, was killed on Sunday by a Hezbollah FPV drone near the Lebanon border. Three reserve soldiers were wounded Saturday in an FPV drone attack in the Shlomi area […]

Israel News for 5-7-2026

News Update The IDF killed Ahmed Ali Balout, commander of Hezbollah’s elite Radwan Force, in a precision airstrike yesterday in the Dahieh district of Beirut. Several other terrorists were also thought to have been killed in the strike. According to the IDF, seven soldiers were wounded by Hezbollah explosive-laden first-person-view (FPV) drones in southern Lebanon […]

Israel News for 5-5-2026

News Update Israeli municipal officials are preparing their cities and towns for the possibility of renewed hostilities with Iran, after the Iranian missile attacks against the UAE yesterday. President Trump didn’t say that the attacks violated the ceasefire, and seems to want to continue it, along with the blockade against Iranian ports, which is choking […]

Israel News for 4-30-2026

News Update Early today, 12 IDF soldiers were wounded when an explosive-laden first-person-view (FPV) drone directly struck a vehicle in the Shomera area near the Lebanese border. Two of the soldiers were moderately wounded and the others sustained light injuries. The FPV drones are operated via a thin fiber-optic cable, allowing operators to transmit commands […]

Israel News for 4-29-2026

News Update Two soldiers from the Kfir Brigade’s 94th Battalion were wounded overnight when a terrorist stabbed them inside a home in the village of Silwad, in the Binyamin region of Samaria, where troops had entered as part of an operation to locate weapons and dismantle terror infrastructure. Troops opened fire, killing one of the […]

Israel News for 4-27-2026

News Update Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid have joined their factions to form Beyachad, to take on Likud and Prime Minister Netanyahu in the upcoming October elections. Bennett will head the ticket as the candidate for Prime Minister. According to recent polls, Lapid’s center-left Yesh Atid party was only getting 6 or 7 seats. With […]