Final Results The final election results were released yesterday, after roughly 200,000 votes of soldiers, diplomats and a few other groups were counted. The newly counted votes gave Likud another seat and caused UTJ to lose one. Naftali Bennett and Ayelet Shaked had hoped that their party would be pushed over the threshold, but they […]
Election Results With 97% of the votes counted, here are Israel’s election results, indicating the number of Knesset seats each party won: Likud (Netanyahu) – 35 Blue White (Gantz) – 35 Shas (Ultra Orthodox) – 8 UTJ (Ultra Orthodox) – 8 Hadash-Ta’al (Left) – 6 Labor (Left) – 6 Yisrael Beytenu (Right) – 5 United […]
Annexation Pledge During an interview with Israel’s Channel 12 TV news, the Prime Minister was asked why he had not annexed some of the larger settlement blocks during his current term. Netanyahu answered, “The question you are asking is an interesting question, whether we will move to the next stage and the answer is yes. […]
Laid to Rest Zachary Baumel, the IDF soldier who went missing in action during the 1982 Lebanon war, was laid to rest at the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem Thursday. His body was returned to Israel a few days ago after Russian troops located them in the Palestinian refugee camp Yarmouk in Syria. […]
Terrorist Stopped A terrorist with a knife attempted to stab an Israeli man sitting in his car with his daughter at a junction on Rt. 60 near the village of Hurawa, close to Nablus (in Samaria). The driver, Yehoshua Sherman, exited his vehicle and fired at the terrorist. A nearby Israeli truck driver also fired […]
Islamic Jihad Sources in the security forces are reporting that the Gaza terror group Islamic Jihad is preparing a “significant” terror attack in the coming hours or days in order to undermine a possible ceasefire arrangement between Israel and Hamas. Security forces along the Gaza border have noticed unusual activity by Islamic Jihad forces. The […]
Gaza Update PM Netanyahu said yesterday that Israel will launch a ground operation into Gaza only if all other options fail. Hamas is planning a “million man march” for Saturday along the Gaza border with Israel, which could lead to violence and an escalation in the already fragile situation along the border. The IDF Spokesman’s […]
Gaza Update The ceasefire was broken last night when a rocket was fired from Gaza at the Israeli communities near the Gaza border. There were no casualties or damage. In response to the rocket fire, Israeli jets carried out airstrikes against Hamas positions in Gaza. More rockets were fired from Gaza at the major Israeli […]
Gaza Update A ceasefire has been reached between Israel and Hamas. It comes after over 100 rockets were fired into Israel from Gaza, at least 30 of which were fired after the truce was called. Over the last day Israeli aircraft and naval vessels struck hundreds of Hamas targets in Gaza including the Hamas military […]
Rocket Hits A rocket fired from Gaza at 5am today hit a house on Moshav Mishmeret, north of Kfar Saba (which is north of Tel Aviv). The house was destroyed, seven people (including 2 children) were injured and 4 family dogs were killed. The Iron Dome missile defense system was not operational in that area. […]
