Since an Israel-Hamas cease-fire deal came into effect, the U.S. effort to sustain it appears to have constrained Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

An apparent effigy of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seen dangling from a construction crane in north-eastern Turkey has caused outrage in Israel. Photos published by the pro-government newspaper Yeni Safak showed a figure hanging from a crane in the Black Sea city of Trabzon.

Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reaffirmed Israel’s sovereignty over its national security decisions, saying the country alone will determine which foreign forces to work with. Netanyahu on Sunday,

Israeli forces carried out a “targeted strike” on a person in central Gaza on Saturday, Israel’s military said, the latest incident since the ceasefire went into effect.

The 20-point truce deal envisages an international task force to monitor the ceasefire but does not mention which countries would provide the troops.

Israel has become “the strongest power in the Middle East,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says, speaking at a ceremony for outstanding employees of the Shin Bet security agency.

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — U.S. Vice President JD Vance sought Wednesday to ease concerns in Israel that the Trump administration was dictating terms to its closest ally in the Middle East, as he and other top U.S. envoys visit Israel this week to support the Gaza ceasefire agreement.

Netanyahu tells CBS News he's giving "peace a chance," but despite Trump's assertion the war is over, Israel's leader talks of change over generations.

Two years ago, after Hamas killed and kidnapped its way across southern Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seemed finished. “Mr. Security,” as he billed himself, would either resign in shame or be driven out by a devastated public.

A reporter asked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Vice President JD Vance during Vance's visit this week to Jerusalem whether the U.S. pressuring Israel to make a peace deal with Hamas makes it an American "vassal state or protectorate.

JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday Israel would determine which foreign forces it would allow as part of a planned international force in Gaza to help secure an end to its war under U.