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US Vice President JD Vance (L) meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the prime minister's office in Jerusalem on October 22, 2025. Vance on October 22 cautioned there were challenges ahead both in terms of disarming Hamas and rebuild Gaza as part of a US-brokered ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinian militant movement. (Photo by Nathan HOWARD / POOL / AFP) (Photo by NATHAN HOWARD/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

JD Vance visits Netanyahu to build on ceasefire deal in ‘days of destiny’

Vice President JD Vance is on a three-day trip to Israel with Second Lady Usha Vance to meet with Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu.

JERUSALEM - OCTOBER 13: U.S. President Donald Trump arrives to address the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, with Amir Ohana, Speaker of the Israeli Knesset, and Israeli President Isaac Herzog on October 13, 2025 in Jerusalem. President Trump is visiting the country hours after Hamas released some of the remaining Israeli hostages captured on Oct. 7, 2023, part of a US-brokered ceasefire deal to end the war in the Gaza Strip. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Trump: ‘This is the historic dawn of a new Middle East’

While addressing the Knesset, President Donald Trump hailed the historic peace deal as “an incredible triumph for Israel and for the world.”

An Israeli and a Palestinian flag hang on an installation set up by members of the Brazilian NGO Rio de Paz at Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on October 4, 2025, featuring photos of Israeli children killed in the bloody October 7, 2023, attack by Hamas on Israel, Palestinian children killed in Israeli bombardments of the Gaza Strip in retaliation, and Brazilian children killed by stray bullets during police operations. The demonstration, featuring 200 photos of Israeli, Palestinian and Brazilian children, denounced the violence that cuts lives short and steals childhoods. (Photo by Pablo PORCIUNCULA / AFP) (Photo by PABLO PORCIUNCULA/AFP via Getty Images)

Israel drafts hostage release plan as Trump suggests possible deal by this weekend

Israel is actively drafting a hostage release proposal, and officials indicate that a hostage and ceasefire agreement could be finalized as soon as Friday, October 10th.

Families of Israelis held hostage in the Gaza Strip since October 2023 demonstrate in Tel Aviv's 'Hostage' square during US envoy Steve Witkoff's visit on August 2, 2025. Witkoff met the families of hostages on August 2, according to the main association representing them, with a cellphone video posted online showing the Washington negotiator arriving at the square in Tel Aviv square that has become known for protests by supporters of the hostages' families, and being greeted with applause and pleas for help. (Photo by Jack GUEZ / AFP) (Photo by JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images)

Witkoff meets with families of Israeli hostages to detail new ‘comprehensive’ plan to end war in Gaza, free remaining hostages

Steve Witkoff, President Donald Trump’s Special Envoy to the Middle East, met with families of Israeli hostages on Saturday to announce he is working with the Israeli government on a “comprehensive” plan to end the war in Gaza and free the hostages.

TOPSHOT - US ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee (C) and the Palestinian mayor of the village of Taybeh, Suleiman Khourieh (L), tour the fifth-century Church of St George in the Palestinian Christian village of Taybeh, northeast of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, on July 19, 2025. In the villages and communities around Taybeh, Palestinian authorities have reported that settlers had killed three people and damaged or destroyed multiple water sources in the past two weeks alone. The July 7 arson attack on the remains of the Church of Saint George, which date back to the 5th century, was the last straw for many villagers, who blame Israeli settlers for a spate of recent attacks. (Photo by JAAFAR ASHTIYEH / AFP) (Photo by JAAFAR ASHTIYEH/AFP via Getty Images)

Huckabee visits West Bank Palestinian Christian church to denounce Israeli settler arson attack as ‘act of terror’

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee visited the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Saturday to condemn the attack on an ancient Palestinian church, which was reportedly perpetrated by Israeli settlers.

Smoke rises from locations targeted in Tehran amid the third day of Israel's waves of strikes against Iran, on Sunday, June 15, 2025. (Photo by Khoshiran / Middle East Images via AFP) (Photo by KHOSHIRAN/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)

U.S. State Dept temporarily closes U.S. Embassy in Israel, Iranian Supreme Leader responds to Trump’s warnings

The U.S. State Department has announced that the United States Embassy in Jerusalem will be closed from Wednesday through Friday — due to the increasing security threat stemming from the ongoing Israel-Iran war.