The State Prosecutor’s Office on Monday submitted an indictment to the Haifa District Court against the four suspects who fired flares at Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s home in Caesarea last month, causing a fire. Rear Adm. (res.) Ofer Doron, 63, his son Gal Doron, 27, from Zichron Yaakov, Itay Yaffe, 62, from Pardes Chana, and Amir Sadeh, 62, from Haifa, were charged with acts of terror, reckless use of fire, and attempted arson after they fired marine flares in the area of the Prime Minister’s residence in Caesarea. Doron and his son were also charged with obstructing judicial proceedings and the prosecution requested their detainment until the end of the proceedings against them.

The Shin Bet and the Courts Administration on Monday recommended that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s testimony in his trial next week be moved from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv. Netanyahu was scheduled to take the stand next week in his corruption trial at a courthouse in Jerusalem but “following highly classified information” about security issues, the case will likely be moved to a fortified underground room at the Tel Aviv District Court.

Hezbollah fired two rockets at the Mount Dov area on Monday afternoon for the first time since the ceasefire came into effect last week. The fire was likely directed at IDF positions on Mount Dov. There were no casualties. The projectiles landed in open areas. The IDF confirmed that “the terrorist organization Hezbollah carried out two launches a short time ago towards the Mount Dov area which landed in open areas. There are no casualties.” Meanwhile, as Hezbollah repeatedly violates the ceasefire, the Biden administration and France have accused Israel of violating the truce.

The Biden administration warned Israel it is violating the Lebanon ceasefire agreement, Ynet reported on Monday, a day after France issued the same message to Israel. According to the report, the message was conveyed to Israel by US envoy to the Middle East Amos Hochstein Hochstein delivered a message from the White House saying that “the visible and audible return of Israeli drones to the skies over Beirut constitutes a violation of the terms.” He also said that “both Israel and Lebanon need to show restraint.” Foreign Minister Gideon Saar spoke to his French counterpart Jean-Noël Barrot on Monday morning and explained that Israel was not violating the cease-fire agreement in Lebanon but enforcing it due to Hezbollah’s violations.

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir has confirmed plans to enforce restrictions on mosques using loudspeakers to broadcast the Adhan, the Islamic call to prayer. The measure, first reported by Channel 12, grants police the authority to enter mosques, seize loudspeaker equipment, and issue fines for violations. Ben Gvir defended the policy in a post on X, stating he is “proud” of the initiative, which he claims will eliminate “unreasonable noise from mosques, which have become a hazard for the residents of Israel.” The decision has drawn sharp criticism from opposition leaders.

Former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant excoriated former Defense Minister Moshe “Bogie” Ya’alon for claiming that Israel is carrying out “ethnic cleansing” in the northern Gaza Strip. “Ya’alon’s words are lies that aid our enemies and harm Israel,” Gallant stated on Sunday. “I saw the IDF soldiers and commanders up close when I led the difficult war against Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran. The IDF operated according to the highest standards applicable in the complex and difficult war forced on us. Orders and directives were always given in accordance with the law and the spirit of the IDF.” “I suggest to Ya’alon not to disgrace his security past, learn the facts, retract his statements, and apologize to the IDF soldiers,” Gallant concluded.

The IDF on Monday morning announced that Cpt. Omer Maxim Neutra, H’yd, 21, a lone soldier from New York,  was murdered on October 7 and his body is being held hostage in Gaza. Omer, z’l, served as a tank platoon commander in the 77th Battalion of the 7th Armored Brigade. One of the most disturbing images from October 7 shows Nukhba terrorists brutally pulling IDF soldiers from a tent they set on fire. Omer was the commander of that tank and was abducted along with his tank crew. Omer was thought to have been abducted alive but after new intelligence information recently came to light, the Military Rabbanut declared his death. Omer, H’yd, is survived by his parents, Ronen and Orna, and his brother Daniel. (YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)

Former Israel Defense Minister Yoav Gallant visited Chabad World Headquarters at 770 Eastern Parkway on Sunday night, as the annual Kinus Hashluchim concluded. “I come here to Brooklyn, to 770, for the first time since the difficult war forced upon us,” Gallant said. “And I want to say to you that this war brought us to unprecedented achievements in the zechus of two things – the zechus of the IDF soldiers and the zechus of the neis of Hakadosh Baruch Hu.” “This is not something to be taken for granted. We began this war on Simchas Torah, one of the hardest days that Am Yisrael endured since the Holocaust. Our enemies thought they would defeat us. We saw this in the documents we found on their computers in Gaza.

A senior Syrian rebel official has revealed that last week’s surprise offensive against Syria’s military coincided with the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon, and the timing, according to the rebel leader—identified by Israel’s Channel 12 only as “Y”—was calculated to counter the anticipated movement of Iran-backed Hezbollah fighters fleeing from Lebanon into Syria. The rebel official said that the renewed offensive against Syrian President Bashar Assad’s forces aims to prevent Hezbollah from establishing a permanent presence in the region. “We will not allow Iran’s proxies to entrench themselves in our liberated areas,” he said, referring to territories under rebel control in provinces like Idlib and Aleppo.

The White House is actively working on a potential ceasefire and hostage release agreement in Gaza, though no deal has been finalized yet, US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan told NBC. The announcement comes amid ongoing violence and high-level regional discussions about the crisis. “We are working actively to try to make it happen. We are engaged deeply with the key players in the region, and there is activity even today,” Sullivan said, according to an NBC transcript. “There will be further conversations and consultations, and our hope is that we can generate a ceasefire and hostage deal, but we’re not there yet,” he added. Sullivan emphasized President Joe Biden’s close coordination with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the matter.