The Knesset’s Economic Affairs Committee will convene on Monday to discuss a request made by airline companies to amend the Aviation Services Law so they can resume their flights to and from Israel.
In the wake of Israel’s more than year-long war on its southern and northern borders, a host of foreign airlines suspended flights to the Jewish state, sharply cutting options for travelers and leading to higher prices for seats on local carriers.
Airline companies complained that the law is causing them great losses, through no fault of their own, and are requesting to suspend it entirely and retroactively from the start of the war.

The US Air Force has recognized the valor of its pilots, aircrews, and support personnel for their critical role in thwarting a large-scale Iranian-led rocket and drone assault on Israel earlier this year. The attacks, which occurred on April 13-14, marked one of the largest air-to-air enemy engagements in over 50 years. The ceremony, held last week at Britain’s Royal Air Force (RAF) Lakenheath station, celebrated the achievements of the 494th Fighter Squadron and the 494th Fighter Generation Squadron. Air Force personnel were lauded for intercepting and neutralizing hundreds of rockets and drones launched from Iran and Houthi-controlled regions of Yemen. Their efforts helped protect Israel during the coordinated strike.

NEW YORK – Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, a highly controversial figure, is widely expected to win re-election next year, despite criticism that he is too lenient on crime—a perception that some say could harm New York City’s reputation, the NY Post reports. So far, no Democratic challenger has emerged for Bragg in the June […]

A man carried out a string of stabbings across a swath of Manhattan on Monday morning, killing two people and critically wounding a third without uttering a word to his victims, officials said. The 51-year-old suspect was in police custody after being found with blood on his clothes and the two kitchen knives he was carrying, authorities said. The suspect’s and victims’ names weren’t immediately released. “Three New Yorkers. Unprovoked attacks that left us searching for answers on how something like this could happen,” Mayor Eric Adams said at a news conference. He called the violence “a clear, clear example” of failures in the criminal justice system and elsewhere.

Opposition leaders Yair Lapid and Avigdor Lieberman shamelessly besmirched Gedolei Yisrael and tried to incite anger against the Chareidi sector on Monday. Lapid spoke at a meeting of the Yesh Atid and Yisrael Beiteinu parties, saying: “The Israeli government is always trying to scare us and warn us about a civil rebellion. There is already a civil rebellion in Israel. When the Yated Ne’eman calls on the Chareidim to refuse to comply with recruitment orders – that is civil rebellion. When the demonstrators in Bnei Brak and Jerusalem shout ‘We would rather die than enlist,’ while IDF soldiers are dying every day, that is civil rebellion.

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara and State Attorney Amit Aisman made a rare appearance in the Knesset on Monday and several MKs and bereaved parents utilized the opportunity to tell the Attorney-General exactly what they think of her and demand she resign. Baharav-Miara only appeared in the Knesset after Simcha Rothman, the chairman of the Knesset Constitution Committee, demanded that she does so, as mandated by law. The government has been trying to advance measures against the soaring crime and murder rate in the Arab-Israeli sector but Baharav-Miara refuses to support the government, thwarting it from passing a bill to allow the use of spyware against organized crime unless it uses it against white-collar crimes as well [which would face separate legal issues].

RAMA GAN – In a tense escalation of violence Monday night, shrapnel from a Hezbollah rocket struc

NEW YORK – Governor Kathy Hochul’s congestion pricing plan for Manhattan gained approval from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) on Monday, clearing the way for tolls that could reach $15 by 2031 for vehicles entering the area south of 60th Street. The MTA board approved the phased-in toll system with a 12-to-1 vote. Janno Lieber, […]

Tehran is telling its Lebanese terrorist proxy Hezbollah that it supports ending the war against Israel amid an American push for a ceasefire agreement, The New York Times reported over the weekend.
Ali Larijani, senior adviser to Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, met with senior Lebanese officials in Beirut on Nov. 15 to discuss the matter.
Two Iranians affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps told the Times that Larijani conveyed messages to Hezbollah from Khamenei that he supported the end of the war and that the regime would assist with rebuilding the terror group’s forces and recovering from the war.