Israel Today: Ongoing War Report - Update from 2026-04-24 at 20:01

HEADLINES
Israel Links Lebanon Talks to Neighborly Love
Syria Foils Hezbollah Plots Breaks With Assad
US Sanctions Iran Oil Trade Hengli Refinery

The time is now 8:01 PM in New York, I'm Noa Levi and this is the latest Israel Today: Ongoing War Report.

In the Conflict with Iran and its Regional Proxies, Israel's ambassador to the United States, Yechiel Leiter, says this week's Torah portion commands us to love our neighbors and that this aligns with talks with the State of Lebanon about peace, while insisting that security must not be compromised. Shabbat Shalom. Syria has accused Hezbollah-linked cells of plotting attacks inside Syria and across its borders, signaling a break from the Assad-era alliance. Damascus says security operations centered in and around Damascus have led to arrests and the seizure of weapons and explosives, and it says plots involving rocket launches, drones, and assassination attempts were foiled, with some of the cells receiving training abroad.

In the US Policy Concerning Israel, the US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control announced a new round of sanctions Friday targeting the Iranian Oil Trade and Shadow Fleet, levying sanctions against the China-based independent teapot refinery Hengli Petrochemical (Dalian) Refinery Co., Ltd., along with 19 tankers and a number of crypto wallets utilized by the Central Bank of Iran.

In Israeli Domestic Politics, The judge, the nudity and the strangest beauty contest Israeli theater ever brought before a court. In 1973, actress Lily Avidan sued after being fired from a hit Israeli stage comedy, claiming her replacement damaged her reputation; the theater offered the judge an extraordinary way to settle the dispute: watch both women perform nude.

In Antisemitism and Anti-Jewish Hate, Leo Terrell’s civil rights roots fuel his fight against antisemitism. A longtime civil rights veteran, Terrell—senior counsel to the assistant attorney general for the Civil Rights Division of the US Department of Justice—says fighting antisemitism is personal to him, and he leads a federal task force targeting threats to the Jewish community. He recalls growing up in Los Angeles in a multicultural environment, with Jewish professionals in his life, and says those experiences helped shape his commitment to equal rights.

Thank you for tuning in to this Israel Today: Ongoing War Report update.
I'm Noa Levi. Stay safe and informed.
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https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-893820