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Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a press conference with his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi, in Jerusalem, Thursday, Feb. 26, 2026. (Gil Cohen Magen/Pool Photo via AP)

Read Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s full statement on Iran

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Israeli police and security personnel stand next to a destroyed bus at the site of a bombing in Tel Aviv, Israel, Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2012. A bomb ripped through an Israeli bus near the nation's military headquarters in Tel Aviv on Wednesday, wounding several people, Israeli officials said. The blast came amid a weeklong Israeli offensive against Palestinian militants in Gaza. Israeli authorities on Wednesday arrested a suspected terrorist accused of being behind a Feb. 20, 2025, bombing attack targeting buses in the Tel Aviv suburbs of Bat Yam and Holon, Israeli Defense Forces officials said. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)

Israeli police arrest suspected Tel Aviv-area bus bomber

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Smoke rises from the area around the International Airport following an airstrike, as seen from Sanaa, Yemen, Thursday, Dec. 26, 2024. The Israeli military reported targeting infrastructure used by the Houthis at the Sanaa International Airport, as well as ports in Hodeida, Al-Salif, and Ras Qantib, along with power stations.(AP Photo/Osamah Abdulrahman)

Israel strikes Yemen in retaliation for Iran-backed Houthi rebels’ drone, missile attacks

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Smoke rises following an Israeli bombardment in southern Lebanon as seen from northern Israel, Friday, Oct. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Baz Ratner)

Israel presses on in Lebanon as Hezbollah rocket barrages rain down

By Seth J. Frantzman - Special to The Washington Times

Jonathan Feldstein, right, prays over his youngest son who joined the IDF this week amid a war on several fronts in Israel. Photo Courtesy of Jonathan Feldstein.

War in Israel: My youngest son joined the IDF to fight for the future of Israel, all Jews

By Jonathan Feldstein – Special to Higher Ground

In the raucous U.S. debate over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Sam Fried offers a rare on-the-ground assessment — from the very front lines of the brutal fight in Gaza. The New York native, who had already volunteered to serve a two-year hitch with the Israeli Defense Forces as a paratrooper that ended in 2022, recalls that he was visiting friends in the city when Hamas launched its Oct. 7, 2023 rampage into southern Israel that killed more than 1,200 people — mostly civilians — while taking hundreds of others hostage. (Photo courtesy of Sam Fried)

From New York to the front lines in Gaza: An American IDF veteran tries to tell Israel’s story

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Israeli police investigate the scene of an explosive drone attack in Tel Aviv, Israel, Friday, July 19, 2024. Yemen's Houthi rebels claimed responsibility for a drone believed to have exploded above Tel Aviv early Friday morning, leaving one dead and at least 10 injured. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Nine things to know about the Houthi’s attack on Israel

By Jonathan Feldstein – Special to Higher Ground

Daniel Kapilov with the Israel Defense Forces recovers from his war injuries at Sheba Medical Center in Israel in this April 2024 photo. (Cheryl Chumley/The Washington Times)

WATCH: Meet the true victims of Hamas terror — and it ain’t Palestinians

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Israeli tanks take position along the Israeli border with the Gaza Strip, as seen from southern Israel, Sunday, Oct. 29, 2023. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Israeli forces engage in gunbattles in northern Gaza as invasion questions loom

By Seth J. Frantzman

Palestinians fleeing from northern Gaza to the south after the Israeli army issued an unprecedented evacuation warning to a population of over 1 million people in northern Gaza and Gaza City to seek refuge in the south ahead of a possible Israeli ground invasion, Friday, Oct. 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

Israel launches first ground raids in Gaza

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Illustration on the FBI and Israeli Defense Force by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Why sic the FBI on the Israeli Defense Force?

By Clifford D. May

Colleagues and friends react as the Palestinian flag-draped body of veteran Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh is brought to the news channel's office in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Wednesday, May 11, 2022. U.S. officials have concluded that gunfire from Israeli positions likely killed Abu Akleh but that there was “no reason to believe” her shooting was intentional, the State Department said Monday, July 4, 2022. (Abbas Momani/Pool via AP) **FILE**

U.S.: Israeli bullet ‘likely’ killed Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

KEENE: The lone soldier

By David Keene - The Washington Times

Israeli soldiers carry the coffin of Sgt. Max Steinberg during his funeral at the military cemetery in Jerusalem, Wednesday, July 23, 2014. (Associated Press)

30K Israelis mourn American who died fighting Hamas in Gaza

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

Illustration on "Lone Soldiers" fighting for Israel by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

KEENE: The lone soldier

By David Keene - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Israeli soldiers of the Golani brigade during an exercise in the Golan Heights, Monday, May 6, 2013. Israel’s weekend airstrike on a military complex near the Syrian capital of Damascus killed dozens of Syrian soldiers, a group of anti-regime activists said Monday, citing information from military hospitals. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Israel returns fire, hits Syrian post

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times