Close Race for Tel Aviv Mayor

Meanwhile the leader of the Christian Lebanese Forces party said that while he has much criticism for Hezbollah, he will be on Lebanon's side in the event of an all out war.

A new poll Kantar poll for Kann shows the big parties losing seats, but both coalitions holding steady.

Elite IDF forces operated today at the Shin Bet's direction to hunt terrorists in the city of Jenin.

The Prime Minister visited the grave of his brother who led the Entebbe raid in 1976, which freed most of the hostages held by anti-Israel terrorists in Uganda.

The two men running the war are increasingly at loggerheads over the details of the proposed Hamas deal.

The IDF also eliminated dozens of terrorists in Rafah and destroyed a number of booby-trapped buildings in the area.

The Air Force struck some 50 targets throughout the Gaza Strip, including booby-trapped structures, terrorist squads, and launch sites.

A new poll conducted for Maariv by Menachem Lazar shows Avigdor Liberman's party edging out Yair Lapid 14-13.

IDF soldier from Ness Ziona was killed earlier today in the neighbourhood of Shejaiya in Gaza. He was killed while fighting Hamas gunmen with another soldier injured in the same incident.

A suspicious package found in Nablus in the West Bank was taken to a local police station where it detonated, injuring multiple officers in the incident earlier today, channel 14 reports. 

An Israeli man has been hospitalized with fatal brain-eating amoeba found in bodies of water, as the health ministry continues to take water samples from the Sea of Galilee (Kineret).

Magen David Adom services were forced to declare the horrific death of a baby in Ashdod after being left for hours in a car.