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Report claims ex-Mossad chief tried to pressure Fatou Bensouda into abandoning a 2021 war crimes probe.

Israeli warplanes pound southern Gaza as mediation efforts to end Israel’s war on the enclave appear to be stalling.

An endangered Mediterranean monk seal swam onto a beach in Jaffa, south of Tel Aviv, to rest on the beach and shed her skin, drawing an excited crowd to watch.

Benjamin Netanyahu planned to remake Israel's justice system to give the government greater powers to appoint judges to the Supreme Court. But the public response plunged Israel into its worst upheaval in decades.

Demonstrations are expected to intensify after what protest organisers dub a day of disruption.

Tens of thousands of protesters returned to the streets of Israel on Saturday night to fight a plan to overhaul the country's court system that the justice minister said he is determined to carry out.

Tens of thousands of Israelis took to the streets on Saturday for a fifth week of protests against judicial overhaul plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's new government which critics say threaten democratic checks on ministers by the courts.

Israelis are as fed-up with soaring prices as they are with the country's seemingly never ending elections. In the Nov. 1 ballot - a fifth in less than four years - steep living costs, exacerbated by record inflation, are top priority for voters.

A Turkish warship has docked in Israel for the first such visit in more than a decade as relations between the U.S. allies improve following fierce feuding over the Palestinian cause.