Israel At War Thursday July 18

 Israel at war day 286

 

Update  explosive drone in Tel Aviv was likely launched from Yemen. 1 killed 7 injured 

- UAV drone explosion in Tel Aviv 2 injured. Possibly fired by Hezbollah tonight 

- Israel expecting retaliation from Hezbollah on Northern border after killing commanders and other terrorists in Lebanon 

- Top commander in Hezbollah’s elite Radwan forces said killed in south Lebanon strike

- Netanyahu visited Rafah, in the Gaza Strip, and received comprehensive briefings from the Head of the IDF Technological and Logistics Directorate and from the Commander of the IDF 162nd Division on the activity of the division in the sector.

- Israeli intelligence recorded a phone conversation between two Gazan civilians on July 13. They praised the elimination of Muhammed Deif and expressed hope that the same fate would befall Yahya Sinwar, the Hxmas leader in Gaza.

- The Knesset late Wednesday voted overwhelmingly to pass a resolution rejecting the establishment of a Palestinian state.

- An Israeli soldier seriously wounded in a Hezbollah drone attack on a military base in northern Israel last month succumbed to his wounds on Thursday, The slain soldier was named as Efraim Ben Amram, 25,  from Yesud HaMa’ala.

- Giyus: A Shas spokesman  quoting leading rabbinic figures calling on Haredi men not to comply with enlistment orders. The rabbis have “ordered emphatically that as of now, when a new law regulating the status of yeshiva members has not yet been settled, one should not respond to any draft order or summons, not even to the initial order, and therefore should not report to the draft offices at all,” the spokesman said.