Category: 3. Middle East

Education Minister Yoav Kisch informed US President Donald Trump via phone call on Monday that he would be granting him the Israel Prize, considered the country’s highest honor.

Kisch spoke with Trump during the president’s meeting in…

Iran’s largest protests in three years erupted Monday after the country’s currency plummeted to a record low against the US dollar, and the head of the Central Bank resigned.

State TV reported the resignation of Mohammad Reza Farzin,…

The Israel Defense Forces is preparing to launch a broad series of investigations into its ground maneuver during the over two-year war against Hamas in Gaza, following the completion of probes into the failures surrounding the October 7,…

By Andrea Shalal

PALM BEACH, Florida, Dec 29 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday that Israeli President Isaac Herzog had told him a pardon for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was “on its way,” an assertion Herzog’s…

MOSCOW/KYIV – Russia accused Ukraine on Monday of trying to attack President Vladimir Putin’s residence in northern Russia, although it provided no evidence to back up an assertion that Kyiv dismissed as baseless and designed to…

A law prohibiting the provision of electricity or water to facilities owned by or operated on behalf of UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees and their descendants, passed its third and final reading 59-7 in the Knesset on…

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