The Education Ministry and the Maimonides Fund's Future Scientists Center proudly announced the final tally as the last three teams of the season returned. Israel's national science teams have concluded the international Olympiad season with an unprecedented haul of 26 medals,

JERUSALEM – Israel was poised Sunday to begin allowing more trucks of food aid into Gaza, and it resumed supplying power to a critical water treatment plant, marking a political turnaround nearly five months after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government started tightly controlling the flow of humanitarian aid to pressure Hamas.

Tensions erupted between Herzog and Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof, following a statement from the Netherlands suggesting punitive European measures against Israel.

Operations in parts of the enclave were put on hold to allow more aid. It was unclear if the move would relieve the hunger crisis, amid rising deaths from starvation.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) began to facilitate increased humanitarian aid to Gaza on July 26, the IDF said, including completing new air drops of assistance, opening new humanitarian corridors, and pausing fighting in areas of the territory during the day.

Netalie Braun’s anti-war drama Oxygen, about a single mother who takes extreme action to prevent her 21-year-old son from returning to the front in Lebanon, scooped the Best Israeli Feature Film award at the 42nd Jerusalem Film Festival on Thursday evening.

The Houthi group in Yemen announced it will target ships doing business with Israel. This action expands their military operations supporting Palestinians. Shipping companies are warned to stop cooperating with Israeli ports.

Approval of the Nurit project is another example of the development momentum Jerusalem has been undergoing in recent years. A survey conducted by "Globes" among construction companies, developers and contractors,