The Israel Defense Forces along with other security forces are continuing the investigation of an incident that took place at the beginning of the week near Megiddo on a highly trafficked road in the north of the country. Late Wednesday, the IDF announced that it was indeed a terrorist attack, carried out by a terrorist who infiltrated Israel from Lebanon and was neutralized by IDF and Shin Bet soldiers.

16 March 2023

Read more: Deadly Explosion At Megiddo Intersection Resembles Hezbollah's Work

In an extensive operation by the Israeli police and the Civil Administration of Judea and Samaria, an operation to combat the illegal burning of polluting waste that has been ignored by the Palestinian Authority in Judea and Samaria is taking place. Dozens of trucks were located Tuesday smuggling garbage from Arab villages into the Palestinian Authority territories to the burning sites, which causes dangerous pollution from which Arab and Jewish residents suffer alike.

15 March 2023

Read more: Israel Approves Initiative To Tackle Illegal Palestinian Landfill Fires

In his lengthy report touching many topics released earlier this week, including one reported earlier today about the danger Israel's aging infrastructure poses, Israeli ombudsman Metanyahu Englman slammed the Israeli government for its failed COVID vaccine development program and recommended that the way health emergencies are dealt with be completely reevaluated. Almost a billion and a half NIS were invested in the development of the Israeli vaccine against COVID, which was named “BriLife”. 

15 March 2023

Read more: Comptroller Slams Government's Expensive And Failed COVID Vaccine Program

The Israeli Ombudsman, Matanyahu Englman, published a new report on Tuesday dealing with the readiness of the State of Israel for future severe earthquakes, and the data that emerges from it is disturbing. Based on his conclusions of the report, it appears that there has been a long-standing failure in the preparation of the state and all the professional authorities for earthquakes, and in particular in northern peripheral cities located near and along The Syrian-African rift; cities like Beit She'an, Tiberias, Safed, Hazor HaGalilit and Kiryat Shemona.

15 March 2023

Read more: Ombudsman Blasts Government's Inaction On Earthquake Preparedness

Early Monday, Israel released an 83-year-old Fatah official, Fuad Shubaki, the oldest of the security prisoners in Israeli prison, after spending 17 years behind bars. Shubaki served as the head of the finance department of the General Security Mechanism in the Palestinian Authority as well as As the financier of the former chairman of the Authority, Yasser Arafat, who somehow died with over eight billion dollars in his bank.

13 March 2023

Read more: Yasser Arafat's Finance Man Released From Prison At Age 83