Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (NOA) using AI narration. On Tuesday evening, a political earthquake shook Israel: In the midst of war, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dismissed his defense minister, Yoav Gallant. The quake was inevitable ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has dismissed his popular defense minister, Yoav Gallant, in a surprise announcement that came as the country is embroiled in wars on multiple fronts across the region.

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin called former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on Thursday, just two days after he was fired by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Austin told Gallant that he was “a trusted partner and friend” and one whose “expertise,

Across Israel, a country battered by its longest-ever war and roiled by internal crises, many breathed a sigh of relief after Trump’s sweeping triumph.

Netanyahu has previously called Trump the "best friend Israel has ever had in the White House". Trump previously won favour here by scrapping an Iran nuclear deal that Israel opposed, brokering historic normalisation agreements with several Arab countries and upending decades of US policy - and international consensus - by recognising Jerusalem as Israel's capital.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that Yechiel Leiter will become the country's new ambassador to the United States just days after Donald Trump won re-election as president.