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Oren Levi

Oren Levi

Oren Levi joined Mena Today earlier this year. Based in Tel Aviv, he has worked for several Israeli newspapers and television channels. He covers news in Israel and the Palestinian territories

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El Al's survival equation

Israel

El Al's survival equation

It has been one crisis after another. The Covid pandemic. The Hamas massacres of October 7, 2023. The twelve-day war against Iran last June. 

Iran's two largest steel mills shut down after Israeli-American strikes

Israel

Iran's two largest steel mills shut down after Israeli-American strikes

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Friday that Israeli air strikes have destroyed 70% of Iran's steel production capacity, a claim that followed the shutdown of the country's two largest steel companies, both crippled by coordinated Israeli-American strikes.

Israel blacklists France as defense partner

Israel

Israel blacklists France as defense partner

Israel has cut its military purchases from France to zero. Not reduced. Not suspended. Zero. The funds will be redirected toward domestic Israeli procurement or purchases from "allied countries", a category from which France has now been explicitly excluded.

IDF hits IRGC's top military university in Tehran

Iran

IDF hits IRGC's top military university in Tehran

The Israeli military announced Monday it had struck a major facility inside Imam Hossein University in Tehran, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' premier military academic institution , targeting what it described as a covert weapons research and development operation hidden behind civilian cover.

Israel expands its Lebanese footprint

Lebanon

Israel expands its Lebanese footprint

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday he had instructed the military to further expand the existing security buffer zone in southern Lebanon, vowing to fundamentally change the security situation there.

Israel widens its war on Iran

Israel

Israel widens its war on Iran

Defense Minister Israel Katz announced Friday that the Israeli military will expand and intensify its strikes against Iran in direct response to Tehran's continued missile bombardment of Israeli civilians.

IRGC Navy chief dead

Iran

IRGC Navy chief dead

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz announced Thursday that Israel had eliminated the Navy commander of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), holding him "directly responsible for the terrorist act of bombing and blocking the Strait of Hormuz."

Israel's 36th Division intensifies ground operations in South Lebanon

Lebanon

Israel's 36th Division intensifies ground operations in South Lebanon

Ground fighting between the Israeli Defense Forces and Hezbollah continued through the night of Saturday to Sunday in South Lebanon, with the most intense clashes concentrated in the eastern sector of the border, particularly around the towns of Taybeh and Khiam.

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