Move reportedly being discussed in retaliation for European criticism of Israeli settlement policy; Dutch and Spanish representatives have already been removed from the US-led postwar coordination center

Otzma Yehudit activists have been told to distribute the new book outside schools nationwide on September 1, with tens of thousands of shekels spent on a child-friendly account of the minister’s record and political battles

Likud spokesman Guy Levy says the party hopes to approve the controversial ultra-Orthodox draft law immediately after the election, before a new coalition is formally established

Nepal-Tibet border floods kill 160, with 403 missing, including 341 foreigners and one Israeli; a survivor says the waters swept away his wife; satellite data points to a glacier collapse after rapid snowmelt, possibly linked to climate change

Investigators used decades-old intelligence, covert operations and the hunt for a specific Israeli tank to trace the missing IDF soldier, building on breakthroughs that led to the recovery of Zachary Baumel and Zvi Feldman

Threats to offshore gas fields, Red Sea shipping and Mediterranean trade have reportedly pushed Israel to expand its fleet and invest in unmanned surface vessels after years of treating the navy as a secondary force

Hazem Mousa and Razek Sahil Suleiman Abu Shahma, who served as slain Hamas leader's bodyguard, killed in separate Khan Yunis strikes; both took part in the infiltration of the Re’im military base on October 7