The IDF says Kerem Hamami is illegal and slated for evacuation, but residents of nearby Halhul say they've tried to reach the vineyards on which their livelihood depends dozens of times, only to be blocked by settlers and soldiers

Rally was first since City Council passed legislation restricting protests around religious institutions; Mayor Mamdani vetoed a similar proposal for places of worship

Suleiman Maswadeh will leave Kan 11, where he served as the public broadcaster's diplomatic correspondent, for Channel 13 – marking the first major appointment by the network's new anti-government ownership. The move has raised questions about shareholders' intervention and broadcasting independence

Pollard, who spent 30 years in a U.S. jail for spying on behalf of Israel, said he favors the forcible transfer of Palestinians from Gaza and resettling the enclave with Israelis. He also said Netanyahu's claims of military victory are 'a cold-blooded lie'

Months of pressure from the Likud party on Orly Ades, director general of the Central Elections Committee, bore fruit. She understood that if she didn't resign, they would do to her what they have done to others – subject her to a campaign of incitement and delegitimization

Orly Ades, who stepped down as head of the Central Elections Committee last week, said in closed-door conversations that she was worried that the right-wing elements who delegitimized chief justice Yitzhak Amit and undermined public faith in the Supreme Court would do the same to her and her committee, sources told Haaretz