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Before summer vacation begins – and with it, the very hot Israeli weather – there is still time to catch another moment of spring.

Nearly 20 months ago, Israeli-American Itay Chen was kidnapped by Hamas while serving in a tank battalion on the Gaza border. Along with around 250 other individuals, at least 10 of whom also had American citizenship, Itay was then brought into Gaza, where he is still being held.

Some Italian cities feel like they've been beautifully embalmed – preserved to be admired by the tourists who consume the gelatos, Aperol spritzes, refrigerator magnets, and rainbow-hued leather goods that support the local economies.

Iran has embarked on a series of high-level phone calls with regional countries during the Eid al-Adha Islamic holiday. The goal is to push for Islamic unity. Iran also wants to use this against Israel. Iran knows that its proxies have been weakened, as evidenced by a recent Israeli airstrike in Beirut targeting a Hezbollah site. Iran is also involved in high-stakes nuclear talks with the US.

Security forces, guided by Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) intelligence, thwarted an imminent terror attack in the Menashe Brigade sector in the West Bank over the past 24 hours, the IDF announced on Saturday.

An Israeli woman has been missing for three days on the Greek island of Crete, and local police, together with volunteers, are conducting a search operation. A professional Israeli search and rescue team is also en route to assist.

The IDF released footage on Saturday showing a Hamas tunnel network discovered beneath the European Hospital compound in Khan Yunis, Gaza.

Hamas military spokesperson Abu Obeida said that the IDF is besieging the area where Israeli hostage Matan Zanguaker is being held and that its operations are endangering his life, in an announcement on Telegram on Saturday.

A fire broke out near Heruvit Forest on Saturday afternoon, and has yet to be contained, local media reported.

Israel Police have located the man who stabbed and killed his 67-year-old mother, the police announced Saturday night.

Security footage from the Supreme Court revealed that around 9:00 p.m. on Friday, during a protest outside the building, one of the court's large panoramic windows was damaged, Israel Police announced on Saturday.

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The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation announced on Saturday that the reason for temporarily pausing operations was due to threats against the organization and its staff by Hamas.

FASHION HAS returned to Ahad Ha'am Street. For several years, there were two stores selling women's attire, plus a hat store. All three were well patronized. The hat store closed first, followed some years later by the larger of the two dress shops, and then a year or two later by the remaining dress shop. That was a few years back.

As inflation concerns mount, silver prices climb, with analysts projecting a potential return to 2011 highs.

The body of the last Thai hostage, Pinta Nattapong, was recovered from the Gaza Strip on Friday during a special operation conducted by the IDF and Shin Bet, they both said in a joint statement on Saturday.

The University of Michigan has come under scrutiny following revelations that it hired private, undercover investigators to monitor pro-Palestinian student groups on and off campus, according to a report by The Guardian on Friday.

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Three Iranian nationals, alleged to be regime spies, appeared before the Old Bailey on Friday over offenses under the National Security Act.

A 72-year-old Jewish man was attacked while hanging up hostage posters in New York City's Upper East Side by young men who shouted pro-Palestinian slogans before they hit him, CBS News New York reported on Monday.

Sergeant Uri Yehonatan Cohen, 20, from Neve Yarak, and Sergeant Major Tom Rotstein, 23, from Ramat Gan, fighters in the Yahalom unit, Combat Engineering Corps, fell in battle in the southern Gaza Strip, the IDF confirmed on Saturday.

Beirut did not respond to Israel's forewarning that it planned to strike terror targets from Hezbollah's Aerial Unit in Dahiyeh, Israeli officials said on Saturday, according to a report from KAN.

Reports have confirmed that Israel has been arming and apparently supporting or working with armed militias in Gaza. Some reports refer to this group as a "gang." Others describe the leader of the group, Yasser Abu Shabab, as a member of a large clan in southern Gaza.

A French woman has filed a legal complaint at Court of Paris' "crimes against humanity" section, accusing Israel of "genocide" and "murder," France24 reported on Friday, citing the woman's lawyer.

Five days after climate activist Greta Thunberg set sail Sunday afternoon along with 11 other activists on a ship carrying aid to Gaza, the group could soon near Israeli waters.

Hossein Shanbehzadeh, an Iranian national arrested in Ardabil last year over allegations he was working as a spy for Israel, confessed to the charges only because the Islamic regime threatened to harm his 6-year-old niece, informed sources told BBC Persian earlier this week.

In 2011, under the mentorship of Prof. Susan Handelman, an eminent scholar and author, I submitted my MA thesis to Bar-Ilan University. Its title was "Performing Ruth: Dramatic Exegesis in Religious Women's Theater Groups, with an Emphasis on the Character of Naomi."

Yasser Abu Shabab has been named as the leader of a Palestinian militia in Gaza that Israeli officials have reportedly armed to attempt to undermine Hamas, the New York Times reported on Friday.

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The Israeli sports world mourned St. Sgt.-Maj.Yoav Raver on Friday, who fell in battle alongside three other IDF soldiers in the Gaza Strip.