Maj. Gen Aharon Haliva admits 'intelligence failure' in not alerting to coming assault; national security adviser says country's leaders, past and present, failed

Group of former advisers, including close confidante of Netanyahu Yossi Cohen, warns social and political divides are 'endangering national resilience' and call for dialogue

Longtime ally and former minister recently said incoming PM would strike Islamic Republic if US failed to stop Tehran's nuclear program

After Biden meeting, Hulata says 'Israel will act as it sees fit,' and has done 'quite a lot in Iran over past year'; on potential peace with Saudi Arabia: Israel's 'working on it'

NSC head will leave position at end of August; PM Bennett thanks Netanyahu appointee for 'many years of contributing to Israel's security in a professional and successful manner'

Testimony by Hollywood mogul Arnon Milchan to police said to reveal Cohen urged him to lobby premier to give him the national security adviser job in 2013

Visiting Jerusalem, US National Security Adviser O'Brien says Israel's Morocco normalization deal even more remarkable than other agreements with Arab states

Appointment of Robert C. O'Brien, special presidential envoy for hostage affairs at the State Department, announced on Twitter

US president doesn't offer any names, explains that while he 'got along very well' with his ex-national security adviser, the hawkish diplomat also made some 'very big mistakes'

Arabic newspaper quotes western diplomats on offer to recognize Syrian president to be proposed at upcoming meeting in Jerusalem of US, Israeli, Russian national security advisers