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Israel's cabinet will this evening discuss approval of a deal to release about 50 hostages held by Hamas in Gaza. The hostages, mainly women and children, will be exchanged for about 150 security prisoners, women and…

© Reuters. United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk speaks during a press conference in Amman, Jordan November 10, 2023. REUTERS/Alaa Al Sukhni By Suleiman Al-Khalidi and Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber AMMAN/GENEVA…

764,000 Israeli employees are not in their jobs because of the war, the Ministry of Labor reports. This puts a considerable burden on the war economy, and it was one of the considerations that persuaded the Ministry of…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Benjamin Netanyahu was forced to apologise on Sunday after a furious backlash from across the political spectrum over…

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Smoke is rising after an Israeli strike on Gaza seen from a viewpoint in Southern Israel October 24, 2023. REUTERS/Violeta Santos Moura/File Photo (Reuters) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said that…

It’s a familiar story: a senior executive in a secure job with pampering conditions in a prosperous company leaves in favor of the adventure of leading a promising, lively venture that seeks to snipe at the traditional…

S&P Global Ratings announced last night that it is lowering Israel's credit outlook from stable to negative. The credit rating itself remains unchanged at AA-. S&P unexpectedly brought forward the…

In recent days, social networks have been abuzz about a video shared thousands of times showing rockets fired from Gaza intercepted by a mysterious laser beam. The scene looked as though it was taken from a Star Wars…

Annual inflation is falling, and housing prices fell for the fifth consecutive month, the Central Bureau of Statistics reports. Israel’s Consumer Price Index (CPI)…

SlavkoSereda/iStock via Getty Images Energy stocks enjoyed their best week since June, with the S&P 500 Energy Index +4.5%, as oil prices surged ahead of Israel's imminent advance into Gaza that could cause violence to spill over…