Israeli Military chief Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi said on Thursday morning there is “no substitute” for the so-called “people’s army” model — one in which all Israelis are meant to serve — amid plans by the government to lower the age at which ultra-Orthodox men can gain permanent exemptions from ...
Scores of people were killed or injured in a stampede that broke out during a charity distribution at a school in Yemen’s capital Sanaa, just days before the Eid al-Fitr festival. Sanaa-based health officials told AFP on Thursday that at least 85 were killed and 322 were injured following the incident ...
