<p>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu commented on the death of the Houthi Chief of Staff: "Another chief-of-staff in the line of terror chiefs who aimed to harm us was eliminated. We will reach all of them."</p>

<p>Microsoft’s annual cyber report reveals that Israel was the third most targeted country in the world for cyberattacks during the first half of 2025.</p><p>According to the report, about 64% of the offensive activity attributed to Iran was directed against targets in Israel, with a noted trend of expansion in Iran’s range of attack targets.</p>

<p>The police reported that a police officer who was stationed outside the Egyptian Embassy in Tel Aviv opened fire a short time ago at a suspicious vehicle that approached the facility.</p><p>The vehicle was found by forces that were dispatched to the scene and it is being inspected. No injuries have so far been reported.</p>

<p>Many residents of Kfar Saba came to the street where Eitan lives with his mother, Ruthie Strom, and welcomed him with balloons, flags, signs and warm greetings.</p>

<p>A short a while ago, with the guidance of IDF intelligence, the IAF struck and dismantled underground Hezbollah terrorist infrastructure in which weapons were stored in the area of Beqaa and southern Lebanon.</p>

Captive survivor Segev Kalfon watched Ohad Ben Ami being released from captivity and imagined how he would shout the Shema prayer if he was released in the same manner.

<p>The funeral for Executive Vice President of the Orthodox Union, Rabbi Moshe Hauer, will take place on Friday, 25 of Tishrei (17/10) at 1:30 PM at Kehilat Yerushalayim, Har Hamenuchot</p><p>The family will be sitting shiva on Motzei Shabbat, 25 Tishrei (October 18) at the OU Israel offices (Hartom 7, Yerushalayim) between the hours of 8:30pm-11:00pm.</p><figure class="image"><img src="/files/picturebase/674505.jpg" /><figcaption> </figcaption></figure>

Footage obtained by Arutz Sheva shows hundreds of worshipers at the Yosef Abad Synagogue in Tehran marking the end of the holiday season with 'Second Hakafot'.