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The leaders of the four Jewish opposition parties held a meeting in Herzliya on Tuesday during which they agreed to immediately launch coalition negotiations and coordinate their parliamentary strategy ahead of the new Knesset’s swearing-in next week.

They did not, however, give an indication of how they intend to form a government without the Arab parties, which most of the Jewish opposition parties have ruled out as coalition partners.

While Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s bloc lost its parliamentary majority in last week’s election, the Jewish opposition parties hold just 48 seats to his 53. They can command a majority only with the support of the two Arab parties, which won a combined 19 seats, leaving the route to forming a new government uncertain.

President Donald Trump said Tuesday that U.S. aid to Israel would end at the close of the year, arguing that the country no longer needs the assistance and can purchase its own weapons.

"We were giving them $4 billion – we are – but it gets cut off at the end of the year," Trump told "Fox & Friends" on Tuesday in an Election Day morning announcement.

Trump acknowledged the political nature of the news, pointing to Michigan's battleground Senate race between Democrat Abdul El-Sayed and Republican Mike Rogers.

He said he and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had discussed ending the assistance for years, adding that Netanyahu raised the idea.

A former Israeli Mossad officer who later became a US citizen helped Senator Flávio Bolsonaro leave Brazil despite a court order prohibiting him from traveling abroad, CNN Brasil reported Friday.

The network’s investigation, citing findings by Brazilian security agencies, said the operation involved assistance from individuals in Argentina and the United States. Bolsonaro, the son of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, reportedly traveled overland from Brasília to Argentina before boarding a private jet with his family bound for the United States.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on parties that oppose terrorism to sit with Likud and form a “broad national government” in a social media post on Monday night.

“The Israeli public does not want a government that depends on Ra'am and the Joint List, parties that support terrorism and reject the existence of the Jewish state,” Netanyahu wrote.

He added that “from day one, we have extended our hand toward the formation of a broad national government.”

Israeli President Isaac Herzog on Sunday urged Knesset factions to approach upcoming consultations with “an open heart” and seek ways to prevent another election.

Speaking at the state memorial ceremony for Israel’s first president, Chaim Weizmann, at Weizmann House in Rehovot, Herzog said he would receive the official election results on Wednesday from Central Elections Committee Chairman Justice Noam Sohlberg, deputy president of the Supreme Court. He said he would then begin consultations at the President’s Residence.

President’s Residence Director General Eyal Shviki on Sunday invited representatives of all factions elected to the Knesset to consultations beginning Wednesday. Herzog has instructed that the meetings be broadcast live to ensure transparency, his office said.

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Jeff Gregory, the pilot of the Learjet 60 that tragically crashed in Palm Beach County on Sunday, has been pictured after police released the identities of the 9 victims killed in the crash.

"Jeff Gregory has a beautiful family; he was an extremely experienced pilot, and he was a devout Christian man," ... "It is being reported that the Palm Beach County area received 17 inches of rain in 6 hours yesterday. This was during the exact time Jeff Gregory and his co-pilot, Nathalia Gadelha Filgueiras were flying. It is being described as a 'once in one thousand year storm'"

Cockpit audio reveals Gadelha providing information to air traffic control just seconds before plunging thousands of feet and crashing into the ground. A male voice, presumably Gregory, could be heard reciting parts of the Lord’s Prayer during the aircraft’s final moments.

[Gregory attended at Limerick Chapel, a non-denominational Bible church in Pennsylvania.]

Minutes before the crash, the pilot of the plane reported ice accumulating on the aircraft, an outside air temperature of -47 degrees Celsius, and moderate turbulence, bouncing the plane by up to 700 feet, according to a recording of air traffic control radio calls captured by LiveATC.net.

“We have light, clear ice that is manageable and moderate turbulence,” the pilot radioed the Miami Air Route Traffic Control Center.

But moments later, after reporting precipitation started to fall and requesting to climb, they declared an emergency.

“We’re descending 8,000 – mayday, mayday - we’re descending 10,000 feet per minute,” the pilot said. “We are in an overspeed condition descending 20,000 feet per minute … We’re going to crash into the ground.”

The jet descended 27,000 feet over the course of one minute, just before flight tracking data cut off, the website ADS-B Exchange shows.

A private jet carrying nine people slammed into a South Florida neighborhood Sunday afternoon, erupting into a massive fireball around nine miles from Mar-a-Lago. 

In a statement, the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) confirmed that the plane crashed in a residential area near Cresthaven, Florida, around 12:50 p.m. local time on Sunday, Nov. 1.

"Nine people were on board," the FAA said.

"The aircraft departed Austin-Bergstrom International Airport in Texas and was headed to North Eleuthera Airport in the Bahamas.

Yashar chairman Gadi Eisenkot laid out four principles for joining his proposed coalition on Saturday, saying that “any MK” willing to accept them could become a partner in forming the next government.

The White House believes Mohsen Rezaei, one of the Iranian regime’s staunchest hardliners, could be the key to an agreement that would prevent renewed war between the US and Iran, Washington Post columnist David Ignatius reported Thursday evening.

Ignatius, a veteran Washington journalist who covers foreign affairs and national security, cited conversations with a US official familiar with the negotiations, providing new details about the Trump administration’s latest effort to reach an agreement with Tehran.

Previous reports revealed that Vice President JD Vance sent a personal letter last week to Rezaei, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council and a former commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. In the letter, Vance expressed willingness to meet with him personally to discuss ending the war through negotiations.

The United States ordered non-emergency government employees and their family members to leave Saudi Arabia effective October 23 due to safety risks, the US embassy in Riyadh said on Friday, citing Houthi attacks on civilian airports and other critical infrastructure.

US government employees require special authorization to use Saudi airports following recent missile and drone attacks, the embassy said, warning US citizens of potential further attacks, airspace closures, flight cancellations and other travel disruptions.

The fighting between Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis and the Saudi-led coalition backing Yemen's government has intensified in recent weeks, opening a volatile new front in the wider US-Israeli war on Iran.

sraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing bloc won 53 Knesset seats in Tuesday’s national election, ahead of Gadi Eisenkot’s opposition bloc with 48, according to final results published Friday by Israel’s Central Elections Committee.

The result leaves Netanyahu eight seats short of the 61 needed for a governing majority in the 120-member Knesset.

Likud emerged as the largest party with 27 seats, followed by Eisenkot’s Yashar with 21 and Together (B’Yachad) with 12. The Joint List won 11 seats, The Democrats and Ra’am eight each, Yisrael Beiteinu, United Torah Judaism and Otzma Yehudit seven each, and Shas and the Religious Zionist Party six each.

According to the Central Elections Committee, 5,716,665 ballots were cast, for a final turnout of 77.9%, the highest since 1999. Of those, 5,690,778 were valid and 25,887 invalid.

(photo: Anadolu via Getty Images)

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's governing coalition remained well short of a parliamentary majority Thursday as newly counted ballots showed a dramatic surge in support for Arab parties, potentially giving the opposition enough votes to challenge his control of parliament.

With 93.8% of ballots counted as of 4 a.m. ET Thursday (10 a.m. local time in Israel), including votes from the double-envelope count, Netanyahu's right-wing and religious bloc was projected to win 53 seats in Israel's 120-member Knesset, compared with 48 for the opposition bloc led by former military chief Gadi Eisenkot. The two predominantly Arab parties were projected to secure a combined 19 seats, bringing the potential anti-Netanyahu parliamentary majority to 67.

The updated figures showed Netanyahu's Likud remaining the largest individual party with 26 seats, followed by Eisenkot's Yashar party with 21 and former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett's Beyachad party with 12. The figures remain preliminary.

Counting in Israel’s parliamentary election concluded Thursday, including ballots cast in double envelopes, leaving neither Netanyahu’s bloc nor the opposition with the 61 seats needed for a Knesset majority.

A majority of voters for Israel's four main change-bloc parties support a government led by Gadi Eisenkot that includes the Arab Ra'am party, according to a survey conducted by the Hebrew University's Accord Center on Tuesday evening, as polls were closing in the Knesset election.

(photo: Yonatan Sindel, Flash90)

Israeli President Isaac Herzog urged political leaders on Wednesday to approach coalition talks with an open mind, warning against another election as partial results showed neither of the two main blocs securing a majority.

“We must do everything to avoid new elections,” Herzog said a day after the legislative vote.

Herzog is due to receive the official results next week from Central Election Committee chairman Judge Noam Sohlberg. He will then consult representatives of each party elected to the Knesset as the process of forming a government begins.

Brazilian presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro and his family arrived in Miami on Wednesday, after he refused to concede to President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva then fled the country.

In a circuitous journey, Bolsonaro left for Argentina on Tuesday with his wife and two daughters, then traveled to Ecuador, according to Argentina officials and flight data. The 45-year-old senator and his family arrived in Florida a day after the Trump administration granted them United States visas. Bolsonaro, an ally of U.S. President Donald Trump, visited the White House in May.

Bolsonaro’s father, Jair Bolsonaro, also fled to Florida after losing the 2022 presidential election to Lula before returning to Brazil three months later.

No clear winner emerged in Israel’s election, according to exit polls published by Channels 11, 12, and 13 on Tuesday night, all of which showed both Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s bloc and the opposition bloc seeking to replace him falling short of a 61-seat Knesset majority.

Eisenkot's party opposes bid * Turnout at 66.7% as of 6 p.m., highest in recorded history for this hour * Election committee says polling stations will stay open after 10 p.m. if people are waiting in line * Netanyahu warns once again of Arab voters ‘racing to the ballots,’ drawing racism accusations

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has not had access to key nuclear facilities in Iran since Israel, joined by the United States, launched a 12-day conflict in June 2025 that included strikes on nuclear sites.

Nuclear facilities have also been hit in the latest war, which erupted on February 28, and the IAEA has repeatedly called for access.

"I invite Iran to work with the IAEA without any further delay to clarify outstanding safeguards questions and to give the IAEA the information and access the agency requires, so that it can verify all relevant facilities and material, as is Iran's legal obligation," Grossi said.