Israeli PM Netanyahu is advancing a compromise that would save his coalition without fixing the existing imbalance in the burden of IDF service. The main obstacle remains Defense Minister Gallant, but sources in Likud say Netanyahu won't hesitate to replace him if he doesn't fold

A year after Oct. 7, Israel is caught up in a multi-front war and must develop a coherent strategy for the 'day after'

Brig. Gen. Yuval Bazak grasped long ago that Israel was moving toward a broad regional confrontation, but the defense hierarchy didn't heed his warnings. On October 7, he lost his son in the war that he foresaw

Danny Elgarat, whose brother Itzhak Elgarat was abducted from his home in Kibbutz Nir Oz, has been hunger striking for 17 days in an effort to rouse the public to join the battle for the hostages. He fears for his brother's life

The two were arrested by Israeli soldiers while helping Palestinians with olive harvesting in the West Bank. They face charges of entering a closed military area and identifying with a terrorist organization. The activists claim the soldiers lacked an order designating the area as a closed military zone

Five members of Kibbutz Kfar Azza are still being held captive by Hamas in Gaza. This Sukkot, their friends are refusing to forget or abandon them: 'The whole country needs them back so that Israel can be whole again'

More than 50 rockets fired at Israel from Lebanon in overnight barrage; no injuries reported ■ IDF downs Hezbollah drone near the Sea of Galilee, another east of Israel ■ U.S. warns Israel: Arms sales at risk if Gaza humanitarian crisis not improved in 30 days ■ Policeman killed, four wounded in shooting attack in south Israel ■ Interim Hezbollah chief: Can't separate Lebanon and Palestine, will fight Israel until Gaza truce ■ UN says over 400,000 children in Lebanon have been displaced by war

When the U.S. threatens to suspend arms sales to the IDF and, at the same time, it has deployed batteries of air defense systems across Israel because of a lack of local interceptors, the boundaries of Israeli independence are being tested ■ Israeli obstacles to the transfer of aid to Gaza raises suspicions that the plan to force hundreds of thousands of people from the north of the Strip to the south is being implemented in secret