Category: 3. Middle East

For the first time since the October 7, 2023, onslaught, Defense Minister Israel Katz on Monday ruled that the emergency situation declared in southern Israel will be lifted.

The “special situation” allowed the military’s Home Front…

The families of Israeli hostages on Monday demanded that the next steps in the US-brokered Gaza ceasefire be put on hold until Hamas returns the remaining bodies of dead captives.

“Hamas knows exactly where every one of the deceased…

British Airways cut its sponsorship of British journalist Louis Theroux’s podcast on Saturday after he released an interview with anti-Israel band Bob Vylan’s frontman, Pascal Robinson-Foster, which veered into antisemitism and…

Welcome to The Times of Israel’s Daily Briefing, your 20-minute audio update on what’s happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world.

Diplomatic correspondent Lazar Berman joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan for today’s…

ANKARA, Turkey — British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is expected to discuss the pending sale of 40 Eurofighter Typhoon jets to Turkey on Monday when he meets Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara.

The visit, Starmer’s first…

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Monday that Washington does not view a Saturday strike in which Israel said it targeted a terror operative in Gaza as a violation of the US-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.

Rubio’s…