10+ min ago (84+ words) [ Committee Chairman Meirav Cohen leads status of Women and Gender Equality committee meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem on November 25, 2025. (photo credit: YONATAN SINDEL/FLASH90)]The findings show a sharp rise in femicide, alarming enforcement gaps - particularly affecting Arab women - and repeated missed warning signs. Knesset report: Over 300 women murdered since 2015 as enforcement bodies skip hearing The findings show a sharp rise in femicide, alarming enforcement gaps - particularly affecting Arab women - and repeated missed warning signs....

37+ min ago (38+ words) Former PM tells i24NEWS that he hopes the International Criminal Court will withdraw its arrest warrants against Israeli leaders, accuses Israel of war crimes "every day" in Judea and Samaria. Ehud Olmert: 'Crimes were committed, but not genocide'...

37+ min ago (236+ words) Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert stated that he hopes the International Criminal Court will withdraw its arrest warrants for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, stating that while he believes that crimes were committed in Gaza, those alleged crimes do not rise to the level of genocide. "I very much hope that they (the ICC) will remove the arrest warrants from the Prime Minister and Minister Galant," Olmert said in an interview with i24NEWS. "We may have committed crimes, and I said it, and I accused the State of Israel for doing it. And this is not something that can be ignored or wiped out." The former Prime Minister asserted that the "obvious appearance" of the war in Gaza is that thousands of innocent Gazans are being killed, as well as many Israeli soldiers. "From every point…...

41+ min ago (679+ words) ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 781 The United Nations human rights office on Tuesday said at least 127 civilians had been killed in IDF strikes in Lebanon since the Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire took effect a year ago, and called for an investigation and for the truce to be upheld. "Almost a year since the ceasefire between Lebanon and Israel was agreed, we continue to witness increasing attacks by the Israeli military, resulting in the killing of civilians and destruction of civilian objects in Lebanon, coupled with alarming threats of a wider, intensified offensive," said Thameen Al-Kheetan, spokesperson for the UN human rights office, at a Geneva press briefing. He said the number reflected deaths it had verified based on its own strict methodology but that the real toll could be higher. The November 27, 2024, ceasefire agreement required both Israel and Hezbollah to vacate southern Lebanon,…...

46+ min ago (40+ words) The military arms of the Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror organizations announced on Tuesday that at 4:00 p.m. they would return the body of a hostage to Israel. Red Cross on way to receive body of hostage...

48+ min ago (283+ words) For the first time in 10,000 years, a volcano in Ethiopia has awakened, launching dense smoke and ash plumes high into the atmosphere and disrupting air travel thousands of miles away, CNN reported. Sunday witnessed Hayli Gubbi volcano in Ethiopia's northeastern Afar region burst into activity after millennia of silence, blanketing surrounding villages with dust and presenting obstacles for agricultural workers, according to CNN. Local inhabitants recounted experiencing a frightening explosion at the onset of the eruption. "It felt like a sudden bomb had been thrown with smoke and ash," local resident Ahmed Abdela told the news agency. Satellite'imagery captured the eruption's plumes, with NASA imagery showing substantial dust plumes rising into the sky and spreading across the Red Sea. The eruption's volcanic clouds traveled over Yemen and Oman and into Pakistan and India, the Toulouse Volcanic Ash Advisory Center confirmed,…...

58+ min ago (31+ words) Prime Minister Keir Starmer tells Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that Britain's commitment to deploy troops after a ceasefire "remains," despite Russian objections. Britain reaffirms readiness to deploy forces to Ukraine...

1+ hour, 5+ min ago (34+ words) Real time news brief - Bill Maher, a stand-up guy for Israel - Israel National News flashes around the clock are waiting for you on the site Bill Maher, a stand-up guy for Israel...

1+ hour, 5+ min ago (634+ words) A reader writes: "Dear Mr. Engelhard. I happen to be a big fan of Bill Maher and always felt that he never got his due among us Conservatives. "Until I came across your brilliant piece about him in the collection of your op-eds in Writings. "Please, for the sake of Israel, get your article published again to assure a wider audience." Okay, as follows'Let us now praise Bill Maher'by Jack Engelhard'June 1, 2021 Bill Maher at his best - "Hamas negotiating position is, you all die." One clip here, another one here, and you will find Maher roundly critical of the media, and in full support of Israel. This gets a nine-point Wow. Ten points when he tells his audience, "Israel did not steal anybodys land." Then adds that the Jews have been in Israel for centuries. Weve been waiting for a breakaway…...

1+ hour, 14+ min ago (36+ words) Real time news brief - New Prison Service unit to target violence against women - Israel National News flashes around the clock are waiting for you on the site New Prison Service unit to target violence against women...