Israel

10 June 2023; MEMO: Following last week's attack on the Egyptian border that killed three Israeli soldiers from the mixed-gender Bardelas Battalion, soldiers are refusing military services in the area, Walla news website revealed on Friday.

The soldiers, according to Walla, have several conditions, including the reduction of service hours from 12 to eight.

08 June 2023; MEMO: The Speaker of Israel's Knesset (parliament), Amir Ohana, said Thursday he is confident Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will soon recognise Morocco's sovereignty over the disputed Western Sahara region, Anadolu Agency reports.

08 June 2023; MEMO: A lawyer from the Racism Crisis Centre submitted a compensation request to Israel's Arkia airline on behalf of two Palestinian women who say they suffered humiliation and racism upon their return to Tel Aviv from Istanbul.

HARISH, Israel (AP) — The sound of children and music echoed down a narrow basement hallway in Israel as they scrambled in a pool of balls, climbed on a jungle gym, munched popcorn and laughed.

JERUSALEM (AP) — Five people were killed in a shooting Thursday in an Arab town in northern Israel, police said, the latest in a wave of criminal violence tearing through the country’s Palestinian communities.

Israel’s Haaretz newspaper said a gunman arrived at a car wash in the town of Yafa an-Naseriyye, near the city of Nazareth, and opened fire. Police said they believed the shooting was connected to a dispute between organized crime families.

07 June 2023; MEMO: An army base in the south of Israel was robbed yesterday with some 20,000 bullets taken from the site.

An army spokesperson said that ammunition was stolen from a military bunker at the base in the south of Israel and that more than 20,000 bullets were missing.

He added that the police and military police had opened a joint investigation to uncover the details.

07 June 2023; MEMO: Israel's government will approve a law that requires new immigrants to settle in Israel for a year before being granted a passport, reported the Times of Israel.

The goal of the legislation is to reduce the number of those who qualify for citizenship under the country's Law of Return, but do not intend to settle in Israel long term.

JERUSALEM, June 7 (Xinhua) -- Israel's Foreign Minister Eli Cohen rebuked on Wednesday U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris for speaking out against the government's contested judiciary overhaul plan.

In an interview on Israel's state-owned Kan Bet Radio, Cohen chided Harris, saying that he believes she has not read the reform's bills. "I can tell you that if you ask her what bothers her about the reform, she won't be able to tell you even a single thing," he said.

06 June 2023; MEMO: Israel's Defence Minister Yoav Gallant threatened on Tuesday to send Lebanon back to "the Stone Age" in a war with Hezbollah, local media have reported.

"I hear our enemies boasting about weapons they are developing," said Gallant. "For any such development, we have an even better response — by air, by sea and on land and through other means of attack and defence."

07 June 2023; MEMO: Media analysts and commentators in Israel have been discussing Iran's new hypersonic missile that was unveiled on Tuesday by the Commander-in-Chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Major General Hossein Salami. It is said that the Fattah missile gives Iran a "significant" military edge in the region.