The Advisory Committee for the Appointment of Senior Officials approved Gofman’s candidacy, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signed the appointment letter. Gofman is set to take office in June for a five-year term. Despite the approval, committee chairman former Supreme Court President Asher Grunis remained in the minority and issued a sharply critical opinion, writing: “It is not appropriate to appoint him.”
New details cleared for publication reveal how Iranian intelligence turned a young Israeli into an assassination operative, paying him in digital currency to photograph the Haifa port and manufacture explosives.
The announcement of a ceasefire between Iran and the US has rendered the frameworks the Israeli education system had prepared for wartime schooling moot. The assessment is that classes will fully resume at the start of next week, though schools could reopen as early as tomorrow.
The four are being investigated by the Shin Bet and police. It is the third case involving Israelis allegedly working for the Iranian regime to be made public in the past 24 hours.
Lena Ostrovsky, a voice coach at the Nissan Nativ Acting Studio in Jerusalem, was killed alongside her husband, son and daughter-in-law.
A father released from Rambam's underground ward was killed alongside his wife, son, and son's partner when a missile struck their home.
At Israel Hayom's request, a Magistrate's Court in Ashkelon authorized publication of new details Sunday in a serious security investigation being conducted by the Shin Bet and the International Crime Investigations Unit.
Firefighters and a district hazardous materials unit were called to the airport after a package at the shipping complex began emitting smoke. Workers were evacuated immediately over fears of exposure. The incident ended without injuries.
A battery commander gathered his troops to warn them about a wave of espionage cases within the corps, as the Israeli Air Force quietly tightened its information security protocols.
An Iranian cluster munition and ten rockets from Lebanon hit the Haifa region Monday, striking a tanker near the oil refinery complex that was directly hit just two weeks ago.
