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Parashat Beshalach's lessons on unity, shared risk, and IDF service

A segment of Israeli society – largely comprising traditional, Religious-Zionist, and secular Jews – carries the overwhelming weight of military service.

|ByMICHAEL FREUND
A STATUE of Deborah dated 1792 stands in Aix-en-Provence, France.
IDF works to identify body of St.-Sgt.-Maj. Ran Gvili, January 26, 2026.

‘It felt like victory’: IDF dentist on identifying last Gaza hostage Ran Gvili - interview

“We started hearing [celebratory] shouts from soldiers all around. It was indescribable, a significant moment,” 'L' recalled. “There wasn’t a single dry eye.”

|ByMIRIAM SELA-EITAM
THE BIG question, postwar, is how Israelis will respond at the ballot box to the trauma. Here, political opponents Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and opposition leader Yair Lapid shake hands during a special session in honor of Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama, at the Knesset on Monday.

Middle Israel: Entering the post-war political era - opinion

Israeli voters emerged from Israel’s most costly war imbued with the kind of wrath, humiliation, and resolve that makes decadent establishments fall, and their successors rise.

|ByAMOTZ ASA-EL
Hamas members stand at the funeral of Marwan Issa, a senior Hamas deputy military commander who was killed in an Israeli airstrike during the conflict between Israel and Hamas, in the central Gaza Strip, February 7, 2025.

IDF strikes eight terrorists emerging from tunnel in Rafah, kills three

Later in the morning, additional strikes were made against the areas to which the remaining terrorists attempted to escape. The results from these strikes are currently under review.

|ByTZVI JASPER, SHOSHANA BAKER

Israel plans large camp for Palestinians in southern Gaza, retired general says

He does not speak on behalf of the IDF, which declined to comment. The Prime Minister's Office did not immediately provide comment on any plans to build a camp in Rafah.

JANUARY 27, 2026ByREUTERS, JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Tents sheltering displaced Palestinians in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.

Suspected terror infiltration determined false alarm, was Jordanian Border Police operation

The red alert in Paran was the result of Jordanian border police officers chasing criminals into Israeli territory.

JANUARY 27, 2026ByMIRIAM SELA-EITAM
An Israeli soldier walks next to the border fence between Israel and Jordan, in southern Israel near Eilat February 9, 2016.

Netanyahu claims IDF Gaza losses due to lack of ammunition, Trump improved situation

At a joint conference with Hostage Coordinator Gal Hirsch, Netanyahu pointed out that, for the first time in 12 years, there are no hostages being held in the Gaza Strip. 

JANUARY 27, 2026ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to the press following Ran Gvili's return to Israel on January 27, 2026.

Former IDF officer says key to AI is still 'person behind the algorithm' at Cybertech conference

Speaking at Cybertech in Tel Aviv, Kogan Ehrlich debated with other former Unit 8200 officials about what people should focus on learning, such as "knowing a lot or knowing how to learn fast."

JANUARY 27, 2026ByYONAH JEREMY BOB
UNIT 8200 soldiers in action – working with data.

Ramadan will show if clan clashes are really over, say Hebron residents

Sources noted that representatives of several families offered to “take measures against any member who acts independently or takes the law into their own hands.

JANUARY 27, 2026ByDANA BEN-SHIMON
Israeli security forces investigate a ramming attack in Hebron, December 6, 2025; illustrative.

WATCH: IDF releases footage, pictures from Ran Gvili rescue mission

The IDF found the remains of the last Israeli hostage from the October 7 invasion, St.-Sgt.-Maj. Ran Gvili, on Monday at around 2:00 p.m. at al-Batesh cemetery in northern Gaza

JANUARY 27, 2026ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
IDF troops surround slain hostage Ran Gvili's remains.

WATCH: IDF strikes Hezbollah terrorists, underground terror infrastructure, in southern Lebanon

Earlier on Tuesday, the IDF killed another Hezbollah operative in the Deir Qanoun area of southern Lebanon who was also acting in violation of the ceasefire.

JANUARY 27, 2026ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
(Illustrative) Smoke rises from southern Lebanon following Israeli airstrikes, as seen from the Israeli side of the border, on January 16, 2026.

'No reasonable person can get used to it': IDF commander on recovering Gvili's remains - interview

Gvili was killed in battle fighting infiltrating Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023, after saving the lives of partygoers fleeing the Nova music festival in Re’im and defending Kibbutz Alumim.

JANUARY 27, 2026ByMAYA ZANGER-NADIS
Israeli military forces search for the remains of St.-Sgt.-Maj. Ran Gvili in a Gaza City cemetery on Jan. 25, 2026.

PIJ knowingly fired faulty rockets in Gaza, killing 'a thousand' Palestinians, document reveals

"We are at war. And even if a thousand people are killed by friendly fire, that is the price of war," PIJ's Akram al-Ajouri reportedly said.

JANUARY 27, 2026BySAM HALPERN
A salvo of rockets is fired by Palestinian terrorists from Gaza as an Israeli missile launched from the Iron Dome defence missile system attempts to intercept the rockets, fired from the Gaza Strip, over the city of Netivot in southern Israel on October 8, 2023.

Ukrainian soldiers urge Israel to embrace drones, robotics as future of warfare

A Ukrainian Jewish reconnaissance drone operator, who had worked in several different military disciplines before the role, said that “the future of war is drones.”

JANUARY 27, 2026ByMICHAEL STARR
An Israeli army soldier launches an Elbit Skylark miniature unmanned aerial vehicle (mini UAV) used for surveillance, from an army deployment area near the border with the Gaza Strip in southern Israel on September 30, 2025.