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.

Hundreds of ultra-Orthodox Jewish men blocked major roads in Jerusalem to protest against a controversial Israeli conscription bill that would end exemptions from military service. The demonstrations follow the arrest of three men accused of desertion and come as the Israeli army begins sending draft notices to 54,

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.

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,

On Friday, Israeli officials told The Jerusalem Post that Israel still believes Hamas is ultimately interested in a deal, “but they’re trying to squeeze every possible advantage, provoking and appeasing all the extremist factions within Gaza.

Like last year, the directors were mostly women, many of whom focused on strong female characters in movies that will have a universal appeal. This year’s crop of eight new Israeli feature films that had their Israeli premieres in the Haggiag Competition were,