Israel News for 8-1-2025
News Update
Israel’s Foreign Ministry instructed most Israeli diplomatic envoys to the UAE and their families to immediately evacuate the country, last night. No reason was given, but it is assumed that it was because of a credible threat. Israel’s national security council issued a travel warning for the UAE earlier in the evening.
Despite reports that President Trump believes that Prime Minister Netanyahu is prolonging the war in Gaza in order to remain in power, the President has made it clear that he blames Hamas for the war and suffering in Gaza and that the only way to end it is for Hamas to surrender and release the hostages.
US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee visited the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) aid distribution site in Rafah on Friday morning.
Slovenia said Thursday that it will ban all weapons trade with Israel over the war in Gaza. It is the first EU country to do so.
Uriel Nuri, an employee of the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo, was mauled to death by a leopard that apparently escaped from the leopard house on an inner courtyard.
