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11+ min ago (493+ words) ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 796 A bill enabling the justice minister to appoint a prosecutor in the event that the attorney general or the state attorney is suspected of a crime was approved in a preliminary reading in the Knesset on Wednesday. According to the bill, the police would turn directly to the justice minister in such circumstances, and the minister would appoint a prosecutor to manage the investigation. That prosecutor would be granted all the powers enjoyed by the attorney general and the state attorney, meaning they would have the power to decide whether to file indictments once the investigation was concluded. The bill was submitted by Religious Zionism MK Simcha Rothman and Otzma Yehudit MK Zvi Sukkot, and was passed by a vote of 56-44. The explanatory text of the bill stated that it is designed to fill a lacuna…...

11+ min ago (497+ words) ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 796 GENEVA, Switzerland (Reuters) " Israeli Druze leader Sheikh Muafak Tarif urged the United States to guarantee the security of the Druze community in Syria to prevent a recurrence of intense violence earlier this year in Sweida, a Druze-majority province in Sunni-dominated Syria. Washington needed to fulfill its "duty" to safeguard the rights of Syria's minorities in order to encourage stability, Tarif told Reuters on Tuesday during an official visit to the UN in Geneva, adding that US support would also remove the need for Israeli intervention in Syria's south. "We hope that the United States, President Trump, and America as a great power, we want it to guarantee the rights of all minorities in Syria " preventing any further massacres," he said. US President Donald Trump vowed in November to do everything he can to make Syria successful…...

12+ min ago (682+ words) ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 796 Zev Stub is the Times of Israel's Diaspora Affairs correspondent. It's a move that would mark a significant shift from energy regulations dating back to the 1980s that made solar water heaters a mandatory fixture on Israeli homes. While this system was advanced for its time, more efficient technologies are now available, the ministry said. "After 50 years, the time has come to move on from these old methods," the ministry stated in its announcement. Regulations for new non-residential buildings and single-family homes go into effect Thursday, while a proposal to do the same for multistory residential buildings is open for public comment for the next two months, with hopes that it will go into effect sometime during 2026, a spokesman for the ministry clarified. The ministry hopes to offer incentives for existing buildings to upgrade to the new…...

15+ min ago (382+ words) Footage published by Palestinian channel Al-Quds has revealed Syrian forces under Ahmed al-Sharaa using identical battle chants to Hamas terrorists, raising concerns about ideological alignment as armed convoys bypass IDF troops with hostile anti-Israel slogans along the southern Syria border. The post 'Zionist enemy': Slogan expose link between Hamas, Syria appeared first on www.israelhayom.com. The Palestinian channel Al-Quds published footage on Tuesday night showing two military parades featuring the exact same slogan. The first video showed a Hamas parade in Gaza in February 2025 during the second ceasefire in the war, and the second showed a parade by Syria's new army this week marking the anniversary of the fall of Assad's regime in Damascus. In both videos, fighters from the two armies chanted, "Gaza, Gaza, bombing and destruction. I am coming to you, my enemy." The footage joins a…...

16+ min ago (250+ words) Attorney Hagai Harosh, senior assistant to Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara, refrained from handling the Chief Military Advocate General's case from the outset, due to the Attorney General's Office being involved in several aspects of the affair - including responses to the High Court of Justice and the investigation into the leak of the Sde Teiman video. However, according to a report by Avishai Grinzaig on i24 News, when Baharav-Miara asked the Ministry of Justice's legal adviser, Attorney Yael Kotik, to assess whether she herself had a conflict of interest, she did not disclose that her senior assistant had already stepped aside. The recusal of Deputy State Attorney Adv. Altman was also not mentioned. The request for Kotik's opinion was submitted only after warning letters and petitions had already reached the High Court. Even earlier, the Attorney General refused to withdraw from the…...

21+ min ago (512+ words) Throughout the summer of 2025, doctors in Gaza repeatedly warned that babies were going hungry due to a shortage of infant formula. These claims were amplified across global media and social platforms, often delivered in dramatic appeals for urgent international intervention. Over time, the narrative became one of the most prominent humanitarian storylines of the season. The New York Times wrote that "Parents in Gaza Are Running Out of Ways to Feed Their Children," and The Guardian urged action as babies were "at risk of death from lack of formula." Perhaps most widely known were the stories of malnourished children in Gaza whose gaunt images dominated front pages around the world. Families of these young children pleaded for international intervention, saying they had "no formula, no supplements, no vitamins" to feed their babies. Although some of these children were later reported…...

24+ min ago (44+ words) After a tense internal meeting with senior rabbis, the party agreed to push for changes but appears ready to back the government's draft bill despite public criticism. Religious Zionists to vote for draft exemption bill Religious Zionists to vote for draft exemption bill...

38+ min ago (866+ words) The US president has called Europe "weak" and "pathetic," and seems to prefer the company of "strong" Middle Eastern leaders. That may be because he has more in common with them than traditional US ......

38+ min ago (79+ words) [Leket Founder Says Israel Needs To Rethink the Culture of Food Waste (photo credit: Courtesy Leket)]Cultural habits that prize overflowing tables are driving widespread household food waste even as hundreds of thousands of Israelis struggle to secure enough to eat. Leket founder says Israel needs to rethink the culture of food waste - interview Cultural habits that prize overflowing tables are driving widespread household food waste even as hundreds of thousands of Israelis struggle to secure enough to eat....

39+ min ago (85+ words) [International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) logo and Iranian flag is seen in this illustration taken June 16, 2025. (photo credit: REUTERS/DADO RUVIC/ILLUSTRATION/FILE PHOTO)]Kamalvandi stated that Iran is seeking new, binding assurances from the agency to prevent any misuse of data before it restores fuller cooperation. Iran says IAEA safeguards not built for wartime after strikes on nuclear sites Kamalvandi stated that Iran is seeking new, binding assurances from the agency to prevent any misuse of data before it restores fuller cooperation....