The Defense Ministry announced on Tuesday it had purchased advanced drones and autonomous systems from Elbit Systems Ltd. משרד הביטחון ממשיך בחיזוק עצמאות הייצור 'כחול לבן' ורוכש ׳מאלביט מערכות’ רחפנים מתקדמים ומערכות אוטונומיות בכ-150 מיליון ש"ח (כ- 40 מיליון דולר).>>— Ministry of Defense (@Israel_MOD) December 3, 2024The systems are set to "upgrade the operational capabilities of the forces on the ground," the ministry stated.

US President-elect Donald Trump said on Monday he had picked businessman Warren Stephens to be ambassador to Britain.Trump made the announcement in a post on social media.Stephens is chairman, president, and CEO of Stephens Inc., a privately owned financial services firm headquartered in Little Rock, Arkansas, according to the firm's website.

The Home Front Command will conduct a siren test on Tuesday at 10:05 a.m. in the city of Ariel, the IDF announced on Tuesday morning.The IDF emphasized that if an actual alert occurs during the test, an additional siren will sound, accompanied by alerts through the Home Front Command application and other notification systems.

An Israeli delegation is set to head to Cairo for hostage deal talks in the coming days, Israeli media reported on Tuesday, citing the Hezbollah-affiliated newspaper Al-Akhbar. This is a developing story.

Canada added the Houthis to its list of terrorist organizations, the Canadian government announced on Tuesday."Ansarallah is a militant group that has waged an insurgency in Yemen since the early 2000s seeking to unseat the internationally recognized government of Yemen," the statement read. "As a now-listed entity, Ansarallah has met the definition of a “terrorist group” under Canada’s Criminal Code. The Criminal Code prohibits certain actions in relation to terrorist groups, including those related to terrorist financing, travel and recruitment," the statement added.

The Tikva Forum, a forum of some hostage families who have pushed for military pressure against Hamas, called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the security establishment to take responsibility for humanitarian aid entering the Gaza Strip, in a statement on Tuesday. The forum noted that the statement came following the comments made by President-elect Donald Trump on Monday.

Cmdr. Avishai Moalem was named as the additional senior police official under investigation for bribery on Tuesday.This comes a day after it was announced that IPS chief Kobi Yaakobi was under investigation for suspicion of obstruction of justice and breach of trust.

Russian Navy frigates equipped with new generation hypersonic cruise missiles have conducted drills in the eastern part of the Mediterranean Sea, the Russian Defence Ministry said on Tuesday.The crews of the frigates fired Zircon (Tsirkon) hypersonic anti-ship missiles, while a Russian submarine launched a Kalibr cruise missile, another weapon capable of carrying a nuclear warhead, the ministry said.On the coast nearby, a missile system carried out a live launch of an Onyx anti-ship missile, it said.