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  Security2026-11-03Updated

  Israeli Navy chief consults Greece over bomb threat to cruise ship at Syros

  Navy commander Eyal Harel spoke with Greek security counterparts, Shin Bet and Mossad as the Haifa-bound Crown Iris was held at Syros after a bomb threat.

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  Courts & Crime2026-11-03

  High Court fines Knesset Speaker Ohana 10,000 shekels but won't order comptroller vote

  Israel's High Court rejected a bid to force Amir Ohana to rerun the state comptroller vote, while ruling he had seriously harmed governance by ignoring an earlier order.

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  Education2026-11-02Updated

  Shas formally recommends Netanyahu after pledge on yeshiva students' status

  Shas's rabbinical council backs Netanyahu for prime minister after his commitment on yeshiva students; Ynet says United Torah Judaism may recommend no one.

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  Courts & Crime2026-11-03

  Attorney general rejects Likud claim she is stalling election tampering probe

  Likud accused the attorney general of letting a probe into Arab lawmakers and their aides fade; she called that false and said a joint Shin Bet and police team now leads it.

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  Elections2026-11-03

  Eisenkot says change bloc will move fast on emergency government and Knesset

  After a meeting of opposition party leaders, Gadi Eisenkot set out two aims: a national emergency government and a new Knesset speaker, aimed at averting further elections.

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  Elections2026-11-03

  Yair Golan says Netanyahu is to blame as Trump moves to halt US security aid

  The Democrats leader said ending American security aid would leave Israelis to carry defence costs themselves, and accused the prime minister of endangering the country.

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  Government2026-11-03

  Likud says opposition talks with Arab parties are a 'knife in the back'

  After opposition leaders met in Herzliya, Netanyahu's Likud attacked any reliance on Arab or ultra-Orthodox parties, including a Knesset speaker vote backed by Arab lawmakers.

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  Elections2026-11-03

  Netanyahu holds first post-election call with UTJ chairman Yaakov Asher

  Benjamin Netanyahu spoke with United Torah Judaism's leader for the first time since the election, a move N12 linked to efforts to hold his political bloc together.

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  Security2026-11-03

  Shin Bet Unit 730 to guard Gadi Eisenkot after 'traitor' shouts at his home

  Israel's security service will take over protection of Yashar leader Gadi Eisenkot, replacing private guards weeks after it declined to assign him its own detail.

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  Economy2026-11-03

  Shekel slides to its weakest level against the dollar in seven months

  The dollar's official rate rose 0.67% to 3.157 shekels, as Globes pointed to political and geopolitical uncertainty in Israel and a falling Wall Street.

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  Security2026-11-03

  Syria says it stopped a Hezbollah cell plotting to bomb the Homs refinery

  Syrian internal security forces say a cell arrested on Sunday belonged to Hezbollah and was carrying explosives meant for the oil refinery in Homs.

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  Health2026-11-03

  Health Ministry chief Moshe Bar Siman Tov to step down after about 9 years

  The director-general who led Israel's health system through the coronavirus crisis and the Swords of Iron war plans to join Columbia University as a research fellow.

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  Security2026-11-03

  Qatar says US and Iran still trading proposals as Tehran reportedly braces for war

  Qatar's foreign ministry says Washington and Tehran remain in talks through its mediators, while Arab outlets report Iranian pessimism and a rejected direct channel.

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  Security2026-11-03Updated

  Jenin cell leader confessed, says rocket tests succeeded, Israel says

  Shin Bet and police say the main suspect in a six-man Jenin cell admitted founding it and claimed its test launches showed improving power and range.

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  Elections2026-11-03

  Lapid warns of attempt to undermine election, urges a government without Netanyahu

  Arriving at a meeting of change bloc leaders, Yair Lapid said the vote result faces a dangerous challenge and called for a government that removes Netanyahu from office.

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  Security2026-11-03

  US strikes Iran's Qeshm Island after Iranian missile fire at American aircraft

  US officials describe limited, defensive strikes on the island in the Strait of Hormuz, and say they do not mark a return to major combat with Iran.

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  Security2026-11-03

  Senior Iranian official tells Reuters a deal with the US is still far off

  An unnamed official said Tehran will not accept Washington's "excessive demands", as Qatar mediates and US strikes on Qeshm island raise tensions.

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  Security2026-11-03Updated

  Trump says US could strike Iran's Pickaxe Mountain if diplomacy fails

  In a Fox interview, Trump said the US could hit the Iranian site within an hour if talks fail, and called the conflict a very low intensity war, Israeli outlets reported.

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  Government2026-11-03

  Israel asks Lebanon, via US mediators, to set up Hezbollah roadblocks

  Israel wants Lebanese troops to block Hezbollah from joining any renewed war with Iran, and a separate report says Marco Rubio warned President Joseph Aoun directly.

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  Government2026-11-03

  Vance says US feels good about Iran deal as Qatari mediators leave Tehran

  Washington signalled on the eve of the US midterms that an agreement with Iran was within reach, as a Qatari delegation wrapped up a brief visit to Tehran.

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  Security2026-11-03

  Iran executes two men over deaths of four police in Isfahan protests

  Fars reports that two men convicted over the killing of four officers during January's unrest in Isfahan have been executed after the Supreme Court upheld their sentences.

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  Courts & Crime2026-11-03

  Afula barber, 17, indicted over stabbing in dispute about customers

  A teenage barber from Afula is charged with seriously wounding a man; one report says the victim was the father of a rival young barber.

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  Government2026-11-03

  US to mediate Russia-Ukraine talks in Abu Dhabi on November 10 and 11

  Steve Witkoff, President Trump's special envoy, says working-level talks will cover post-war security and humanitarian steps, after a Brussels meeting with European allies.

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  Security2026-11-02Updated

  US official says jet destroyed Iranian missile launcher on Qeshm Island

  US officials describe a self-defence strike on a surface-to-air missile launcher on Qeshm after the IRGC fired at American aircraft; Iran claims drones downed.

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