Channel 12 News reported on Sunday evening that the ceasefire negotiations over the war in Lebanon have made progress, citing officials involved in the talks.
Reportedly, Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer secretly traveled to Russia last week, in order to persuade the Kremlin to assist in the negotiations.
Dermer is now scheduled to travel to Washington this week to meet with President Biden and President Elect Trump.
According to the Channel 12 report, multiple sections of an agreement have been drafted.  One of the key issues remaining is a US commitment to allowing Israeli freedom of action in southern Lebanon for when Hezbollah inevitably breaks the agreement.

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Israel has eliminated a Hezbollah commander, who was convicted for the assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafic Hariri.  The terrorist, Salim Jamil Ayyash, was eliminated in a strike inside of Syria over Shabbos, according to Saudi Arabia’s Al-Arabiya network.  Ayyash had a $10 million bounty on his head from the US.

Michael Chelst received a call from the building, in which his kosher restaurant Char Bar is located in downtown Washington, D.C., informing him that someone had smashed the street-facing windows.
The Metropolitan Police Department subsequently told Chelst that someone reported the vandalism, whose damage Chelst estimates to be between $8,000 and $10,000, at about 3:30 a.m. on Saturday, the restaurant owner told JNS.
“Someone else saw it around 8 or 9 in the morning, and they called again,” he said, noting that the attack occurred “sometime between 10 p.m. and 3:30 in the morning.”

The Shin Bet and the Yehuda and Shromron District Police have revealed a foiled Hamas plot to assassinate National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and his son Shovael. The plot was to be carried out by four Hamas-affiliated terrorists from the Chevron area.
An investigation found that the terror cell had attempted to collect intelligence about the minister’s locations, vehicle, and security detail and procedures.
Meanwhile, the cell planned to Shovael Ben-Gvir, who is outspoken on social media, similar to his politician father.
The terrorists surveilled Shovael’s movements in his hometown of Chevron, and studied his security arrangements and if he carried a firearm.

Former New York gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin previews President-elect Donald Trump’s approach to foreign policy.

(VINnews) — The X account of Motti Seligson, the Media Director of Chabad.org, has been suspended by the social media platform.

President-elect Donald Trump spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday, the first phone conversation between the two men since Trump won the election, said several people familiar with the matter.
During the call, which Trump took from his resort in Florida, he advised the Russian president not to escalate the war in Ukraine and reminded him of Washington’s sizable military presence in Europe, said a person familiar with the call, who, like others interviewed for this story, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive matter.
The two men discussed the goal of peace on the European continent and Trump expressed an interest in follow-up conversations to discuss “the resolution of Ukraine’s war soon,” one of the people said.

An Israeli payment processing company was hit by a cyberattack on Sunday, causing disruptions for many people trying to use their credit cards in stores for several hours.
This attack follows a similar incident less than two weeks prior, which also briefly impacted a different credit service provider.
Channel 12 News and Army Radio reported that an Iran-linked hacker group claimed responsibility for the attack, although neither outlet specified sources or provided additional information.