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Israeli war cabinet member Benny Gantz has resigned from Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, delivering a blow to the prime ...

Mr. Gantz was Israel’s minister of defense and is the chairman of the National Unity Party. Oct. 7, 2023, marked the worst tragedy for the state of Israel and the Jewish people since the Holocaust.

Former Israeli military chief Benjamin "Benny" Gantz is a newcomer to politics who is poised to become the country's next prime minister. The leader of the centrist Blue and White party came ...

The El Niño weather phase, which began in summer 2023, has now come to an end, the Australian Bureau of Meteorology says. It helped to boost global temperatures to record levels in recent months ...

El Niño has important effects on the world’s economies—and not all of them are bad The current El Niño (Spanish for “The Boy”)—a band of above-average ocean surface temperatures that develops every 3 ...

(JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Benny Gantz, a centrist opposition party leader, have formed an emergency unity government to prosecute Israel’s war against Hamas.

Benny Gantz, Israel’s former defense minister, compared the October 7 massacre perpetrated by Hamas to the recent rocket ...

A recent, rapid heating of the world's oceans has alarmed scientists concerned that it will add to global warming. This month, the global sea surface hit a new record high temperature. It has ...