Lebanon and Israel delineated their maritime borders in 2022 under a U.S.-brokered deal, and Syria is the final country with which Lebanon has yet to delineate its sea border. Lebanon hopes offshore gas and oil discoveries could help reverse a 2019 financial collapse

Dror Or, from Kibbutz Be'eri, set out to transform his kibbutz's dairy industry, traveling to Europe to refine his craft. 'He was one of those Israelis we love to love, the kind the country is so desperately missing,' says Dafi Cramer, a culinary tour guide in the Gaza-border region

Three recent rulings show how the court's more conservative jurisprudence since Netanyahu retook office and amid the Gaza war has given the government greater leeway, even for legally questionable actions. 'Israel's factionalism and polarization also seep into the Supreme Court,' said one legal expert