Israel Today: Ongoing War Report - Update from 2026-05-11 at 09:01

HEADLINES
Drone attack wounds three; second helicopter evacuated
Hezbollah drone targets Iron Dome amid tensions
Haddad pursues new party; four seats forecast

The time is now 9:01 AM in New York, I'm Noa Levi and this is the latest Israel Today: Ongoing War Report.

In Regional Impacts, the Israel Defense Forces say a second helicopter was scrambled to evacuate three wounded soldiers after a first helicopter experienced a technical malfunction while preparing to evacuate them in southern Lebanon. The aircraft had not been hit by enemy fire, the military clarified, and it was able to take off again after field repairs. The three soldiers were wounded when a drone carrying explosives detonated near their position, and their families were notified. Earlier, the IDF reported the death of First Sergeant (Reserve) Alexander Glovanyov, 47, from Petah Tikva, who was killed after a Hezbollah drone hit the tank carrier he was driving near the Israel-Lebanon border; a preliminary investigation indicated Hezbollah had launched a fiber-optic drone toward Israel. In Kalandiya, Border Police officers killed a terrorist who opened fire on troops with an M-16 equipped with a telescopic sight during operational activity in the village; the terrorist emerged from a vehicle and fired, prompting officers to return fire. No officers were injured, and the weapon was seized at the scene. Border Police Commander Brigadier General Yitzhak Barak praised the officers’ quick, precise response and reaffirmed support for their actions.

In the Conflict with Iran and its Regional Proxies, Noam Bettan prepares for Eurovision as Hezbollah drone strike targets Iron Dome.

In Israeli Domestic Politics, left-leaning Israelis who object to settlement policies or to the Gaza and Lebanon wars are often accused by right-wing voices of not being Zionists or of being anti-Zionists, a dynamic that has surfaced in past debates including remarks by former senior officers in 2016 and the ensuing backlash. Israeli-Arab activist Yoseph Haddad is pursuing a new party bid for the upcoming elections, working with former Jerusalem deputy mayor Fleur Hassan-Nahoum, with general elections due no later than October; a Midgam Institute survey previously suggested a Haddad-led party could win about four Knesset seats, and Haddad observers say all options are on the table. Separately, a Prime Minister’s Office employee received compensation from the state and a human resources firm after alleging two years of harassment by Sara Netanyahu; the case, filed in the Jerusalem Labor Court, involved multiple incidents including one during a breakfast service, with the plaintiff claiming humiliation and insults; the settlement amount was tens of thousands of shekels, and no comment was provided from Netanyahu’s side.

In Antisemitism and Anti-Jewish Hate, Palestine Action’s online map publicly targets Israeli civilians, listing companies connected to Israel’s defense industry and providing guidance to supporters on organizing; the group has been banned in Britain since February, while B’nai Brith Canada has urged Ottawa to consider listing Palestine Action as a terrorist entity, citing material shared by a Canadian chapter and available for public access.

In Israeli Economy and Business, Cellular Intelligence has acquired global rights to Novo Nordisk’s clinical-stage cell therapy program for Parkinson’s disease, with Novo Nordisk taking an equity stake and potential milestone payments and royalties; financial terms were not disclosed. Cellular Intelligence plans to apply its AI foundation model, trained on cellular perturbation data, to accelerate development and manufacturing of the therapy and to shorten timelines and reduce production costs, while gaining control of an allogeneic, pluripotent stem-cell therapy program as part of the arrangement.

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