Knesset Finance Committee approves raising VAT to 18% to cover wartime shortfall

According to reports, the would-be arsonist was also brandishing weapons and was killed by police after threatening them with his knife.

The IDF struck a chain of compounds used by Hezbollah's Aeriel Defense Array against Israeli aircraft in southern Lebanon.

The Air Force struck some 60 targets in the Gaza Strip, including weapons warehouses, terrorist squads, and various terrorist infrastructures.

During under a week of operations, the IDF has eliminated over 60 terrorists and destroyed a large weapons warehouse containing multiple rockets.

IDF Spokesperson Daniel Hagari also addressed the serious incident in Jebaliya, in which soldiers were killed by friendly fire, saying "we will learn the lessons."

The need to avoid the Red Sea and go around the African continent has greatly increased the number of ships needed - more than companies currently have.

The movement, which disrupts or tries to block aid going into Gaza while there are still hostages, says it intends to keep going: "The nation has awoken and is unwilling to supply goodies to Nukhba terrorists at the expense of our hero fighters."

In addition to individual launchers, the IDF discovered an extensive rocket firing system with connected launchers in the Rafah area.

In addition, the IDF located and destroyed a number of launchers and located dozens of rockets, some of them long-range rockets.

While the pier itself was put together at Ashdod, the IDF's engineering unit worked with COGAT to make the needed preparations on land.

Israel's Public Diplomacy Directorate published data summarizing 223 days of fighting in the north and south, including the dead - over 800 civilians and 600 IDF soldiers.

After a sharp decline in annually calculated GDP in the last quarter of 2023 (23%), economic activity bounced back and increased by 14% the following quarter.