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IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir speaks at a ceremony at Nevatim Airbase, inaugurating the first of six KC-46 aircraft purchased by the Defense Ministry from the United States, May 27, 2026. (Israel Defense Forces)
May 27, 2026, 8:17 pm
Israel gets 1st of new KC-46 refueling planes, greatly boosting long-range capabilities
IDF says new arrival ‘significantly strengthens the air force’s superiority’; plane is 1st of 6 ordered from Boeing, will allow for deeper IAF strikes on Iran without relying on US
By Stav Levaton and ToI Staff
Palestinians inspect the destruction caused by an Israeli strike in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, May 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
May 20, 2026, 12:30 am
IDF says strike in southern Gaza killed Hamas operative who invaded Israel on Oct. 7
Member of terror group, who military doesn’t name, hit in airstrike after posing ‘immediate threat’ to troops; report finds Hamas used early 2025 truce to train new fighters
By Stav Levaton, Emanuel Fabian and Agencies
Smoke rises following Israeli bombardment on the town of Nabatieh in southern Lebanon on May 7, 2026. (Abbas Fakih / AFP)
May 7, 2026, 7:22 pm
IDF cancels events in north amid concern over potential Hezbollah revenge attacks
Three said killed in villages across southern Lebanon as military targets Hezbollah infrastructure; Netanyahu warns no terrorist is safe after Radwan force chief killed in Beirut
By Emanuel Fabian and Lazar Berman
Illustrative: An Israeli Air Force F-35I fighter jet prepares to take off for strikes in Iran, in a handout photo published on March 19, 2026. (Israel Defense Forces)
May 3, 2026, 10:51 am
Israel approves purchase of 2 more squadrons of F-35I and F-15IA fighter jets from US
Defense minister says procurement follows lessons learned from recent Iran war; shipments carrying 6,500 tons of military gear arrive in Israel
By Emanuel Fabian
Footage released by the IDF on June 21, 2025, shows the aftermath of Israeli strikes on Iran's Isfahan nuclear facility. (Israel Defense Forces)
May 1, 2026, 8:55 pm
IDF official says Iran war will be ‘one big failure’ if enriched uranium not removed
Top officer says Islamic Republic ‘can pounce on nuclear program’ if talks don’t see its stockpile taken away; says IDF’s ‘hands tied’ in countering Hezbollah drone threat due to truce
By Emanuel Fabian
Lebanese civil defense workers inspect the rubble at the site of a building destroyed in an Israeli airstrike a day earlier in Beirut, Lebanon, on April 9, 2026, amid Israeli attacks on military infrastructure of the Hezbollah terror group. (AP/Hussein Malla)
April 9, 2026, 2:22 pm
IDF says it killed Hezbollah chief’s secretary as some 70 rockets fired from Lebanon
No injuries or damage reported in repeated attacks on Israeli border towns; IDF: 3,000 projectiles fired from south Lebanon since March 2, proving Beirut ‘lied’ about disarming group
By Emanuel Fabian
Maj. (res.) Asaf Dagan, an air force reservist combat navigator. (Courtesy)
April 6, 2026, 11:25 am
Reservist airman who died by suicide in 2024 recognized as fallen soldier, family says
Family of combat navigator Maj. (res.) Asaf Dagan says Defense Ministry finally accepting their demand that he be acknowledged as a PTSD combat casualty, ‘correcting deep injustice’
By ToI Staff
IDF troops of the 769th 'Hiram' Brigade operate in southern Lebanon, in a handout photo issued by the military on March 29, 2026. (Israel Defense Forces)
March 29, 2026, 10:44 pm
PM says Israel to expand south Lebanon buffer zone as IDF pushes deeper into territory
In visit to Northern Command, Netanyahu promises to ‘definitively thwart’ Hezbollah threat on border; terror group continues to launch rockets as IDF carries out strikes
By Emanuel Fabian and Lazar Berman
A plume of smoke rises from the site of a strike in Tehran early on March 28, 2026. (Atta Kenare/AFP)
March 29, 2026, 2:46 am
IDF says almost done targeting ‘critical’ Iranian military sites as waves of strikes hit Tehran
US VP says Washington will keep war going ‘for a little while longer’ to ensure Islamic Republic is truly ‘neutered’; Israel strikes HQ of Iranian naval weapons and ship producer
By Emanuel Fabian, Jacob Magid and Agencies
A first responder inspects the damaged structure of a residential building hit in an earlier US-Israeli strike in Tehran, March 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
March 27, 2026, 2:40 pm
Katz warns strikes on Iran to intensify as regime keeps up missile fire at Israeli civilian areas
IDF bombs Iran’s key naval arms production site, missile factories; Pentagon said to weigh deploying another 10,000 ground troops; Iran threatens Gulf hotels, hits Kuwait’s ports
By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies
The logo of the prediction market online platform Polymarket is seen outside their new location called "The Situation Room" during its opening day in Washington, DC, on March 20, 2026. (Théo Marie--Courtois / AFP)
March 27, 2026, 10:35 am
Israeli Air Force major charged with using classified info to place bets on Polymarket
The reservist and a civilian accomplice were indicted last month on severe security offenses after allegedly betting on the start and end dates of Israel’s 2025 war with Iran
By Charlie Summers and Emanuel Fabian
Two men walk on a pier at the southern coast of the Caspian Sea in port city of Bandar Anzali, Iran, December 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
March 25, 2026, 3:03 pm
Russian-Iranian arms smuggling route said cut off by Israel’s Caspian Sea strikes
Heavily sanctioned countries regularly transfer arms and food supplies across the inland sea, assisting each other with production of the Shahed drones they both favor in war
By ToI Staff
A fireball rises from the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted the Qasmiya Bridge, located on a main highway linking villages in the Tyre district with others further north, in southern Lebanon on March 22, 2026. (Kawnat HAJU / AFP)
March 23, 2026, 1:39 am
Israel blows up bridge allegedly used by Hezbollah to move troops into south Lebanon
Attack on Litani River’s Qasmiya Bridge sparks fury in Beirut; IDF says 7 troops lightly wounded in northern Israel and south Lebanon, including one by Hezbollah drone
By Emanuel Fabian, Nurit Yohanan, Nava Freiberg and Agencies
Israeli security and rescue forces at the scene where a missile fired from Iran toward Israel caused damage in Petah Tikva, March 22, 2026. (Tal Gal/Flash90)
March 22, 2026, 2:34 pm
15 injured, one seriously, as Iranian cluster munitions impact in central Israel
36 people, 19 of them children, still hospitalized from direct hits in southern cities of Dimona and Arad; at impact site, Netanyahu says, ‘If you’re in a shelter, you’re protected’
By Emanuel Fabian, Diana Bletter and Nava Freiberg
Emergency responders at the scene of an Iranian ballistic missile strike in the southern city of Arad, March 21, 2026. (Israel Defense Forces)
March 22, 2026, 1:54 am
Almost 200 injured, 11 seriously, in Iranian missile strikes on southern cities of Arad, Dimona
Two children in serious condition after air defenses fail to intercept missile fire apparently aimed at nuclear research facility near Dimona; Iran claims salvo was retaliation for US strike on Natanz
By Emanuel Fabian, Diana Bletter, Sam Sokol and Agencies
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