Reports say officials found Abdelaziz Kaddi had no lodging plans, little money and no obvious reason for wanting to visit, but okayed him anyway; days later he knifed four people The post ‘Unclear why he’s here’: Questions mount over how Tel Aviv stabber was let into Israel appeared first on The Times of Israel.

Days into the Gaza ceasefire, the head of Israel's Shin Bet security service has signalled that the country's focus is switching to Palestinian armed groups in the occupied West Bank. Ronen Bar said Israel was in the midst of a multi-front campaign, but that "right now, it's Samaria's [northern West Bank] time".

The Israeli military has recovered the body of slain Staff Sgt. Oron Shaul, whose remains have been held by Hamas since 2014, just before Sunday’s cease-fire deal went into effect.

Hamas commander Hussein Fayyad, who the Israeli military claimed was killed in May, has appeared in a newly published video.

The terrorist who stabbed four people in Tel Aviv’s Nahalat Binyamin neighborhood on Tuesday had passed two security checks by the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency), Walla reported Wednesday.

After the assessments, a decision was made that there were no security reasons to prevent the terrorist from entry into Israel, the statement continued. Shin Bet further stated that the case would ...

Saudi media reported Wednesday that the heads of the Mossad and the Shin Bet security agency agreed with the head of Egyptian intelligence that the Palestinian Authority will manage the Palestinian side of the Rafah crossing, under UN supervision.

Had the Shin Bet checked Abdel Aziz’s social media, they would have discovered multiple posts expressing support for Gaza and hate for Israel.

Police says that the person who attacked four people with a knife in Tel Aviv is a Moroccan national who entered Israel with a US residency permit.

(Gil Cohen-Magen/AP File) Ronen Bar, chief of Israel’s domestic Shin Bet security agency, attends a ceremony marking Memorial Day for fallen soldiers of Israel’s wars and victims of attacks at Jerusalem’s Mount Herzl military cemetery, May 13 ...

Israel and Hamas reached an agreement for the release of hostages from Gaza and a cease-fire, Fox News has confirmed from a source briefed on the matter.

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