Government must okay $4.2 billion deal with Hapag-Lloyd, but officials raise red flags over German firm's Gulf backers and worry non-Israeli owners could leave country without vital strategic lifeline

Google exec tells government panel looking into the terror attack that decision to allow clip calling Arsen Ostrovsky an 'intel asset' to remain online was made at 'quite senior levels'

Newspaper files police complaint, ups security at building in Tel Aviv; media organizations warn of escalating violence, blame government for hostile attitude to news outlets

Editor David Horovitz on Israel's existential need to maintain air supremacy in the region, the revved-up coalition push to pass legislation, and a nail-biting World Cup match

Justice minister says Michael Rabello should take up the post of independent watchdog despite court's order to hold a new election because the last one was illegal; Eisenkot calls Levin enemy of Israeli democracy

Survey finds younger Jews less likely to see Israel as important to their Jewish identity; about 4 in 10 religiously unaffiliated Jews say Israel committed genocide; US Jews are mostly Democrats

US president complains pact's members didn't help in war with Iran, says he still wants to take Greenland, declares Madrid 'hopeless'

US president fumes at regime as military hostilities resume; says he thinks truce has ended, may look to 'do it without a deal'; Khamenei funeral heads to Iraq's Najaf