A week after the euphoria of the hostages' return, Israel is facing grim realities: the slow retrieval of bodies, Hamas' brutal control, and Trump's tightening grip on postwar diplomacy. Gaza's ruins now expose both Hamas' savagery and Israel's loss of control

The Democratic candidate for New York City mayor leads in the polls among voters who align more with his stance on Israel. Mamdani would be the city's first Muslim mayor if elected in the general election on November 4

Netanyahu's choice to head the Israeli security service, David Zini, who began his tenure this month, met on the eve of his appointment with a Shin Bet reservist suspected of leaking secret information, who is now facing criminal charges

When counseling Israeli Arab families whose relatives were victims of homicide, social worker Safa Younes encountered a world she wasn't prepared for

The steamroller that almost ran over Netanyahu, the man made of steel and the ecstasy in Tel Aviv. It was a week of release, in more ways than one

A foreign official told Haaretz that Israel was aware Hamas would struggle in locating the bodies and that recovering them is expected to take months. Meanwhile, Jerusalem is eyeing sanctions, including delaying the entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza

The Houthis did not specifically blame Israel for the killing of Maj. Gen. Karim al-Ghamari in their statement. Shortly after their announcement, Israeli PM Netanyahu said: 'Another chief of staff has been eliminated in the line of terrorist commanders who sought to harm us'

At least 38 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire since last Friday's U.S.-brokered cease-fire, while clashes between Hamas and local militias escalate amid widespread destruction and a mounting humanitarian crisis