Reuters: Senior Hezbollah commander killed in alleged Israeli strike in Lebanon ■ Hamas said its 'positive' response to a U.S. cease-fire plan for Gaza opened a 'wide pathway' to reach a deal ■ Blinken meet families of eight American-Israeli hostages ■ U.S. Ambassador to the UN: Israel is ready to move forward with cease-fire hostage deal ■ U.S. State Dept: U.S. to add $404M in aid for Palestinians in Gaza, West Bank

Netanyahu government likely to attack both the report and its central author – a South African jurist it once accused of antisemitism

U.S. National Security Advisor tells American Jewish Committee that any disagreements between Washington and Jerusalem demonstrate the close relationship between the two allies

The governing coalition's advancing of a bill to exempt ultra-Orthodox men from the draft hurts Israel in a number of ways

The wide-scale attack followed the killing of Hezbollah's highest-ranking casualty in the conflict. IDF officials say Israel has not yet decided on a large-scale military response in Lebanon

Sinwar's demand of ending the war is one that Netanyahu has no intention of meeting, and this leaves the Biden administration at a loss ■ Israel steps up targeting of high-ranking Hezbollah leaders without a clear strategy, while Nasrallah escalates retaliatory attacks

Analysis of remains at Tel Tweini reveals what they ate more than 3,000 years ago, and how they overcame the climate change and chaos that overwhelmed great empires