<p>A fire broke out on the first floor of a residential building in the Bat Galim neighborhood of Haifa.</p><p>Fire and rescue forces evacuated a man who was lightly injured due to smoke inhalation, along with three dogs. Significant damage was caused to an apartment.</p>

<p>The Palestinian Arab news agency <i>Shehab</i> reported fatalities and injuries in a strike on a house in northern Gaza City.</p><p>Additionally, six people were reported killed and others injured in a strike on a house in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip.</p>

S&P Global Ratings Director Maxim Rybnikov says that Israel's credit rating is unlikely to be upgraded until the Gaza war concludes due to its impact on the economy and fiscal health.

Trump administration orders US embassies worldwide to halt scheduling new student visa interviews. The order follows recent actions against international students, including a blocked order targeting Harvard.

<p><i>The Wall Street Journal </i>reported that Karim Khan, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, planned to request international arrest warrants against Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir before taking administrative leave from his position due to an investigation against him.</p><p>The report stated that the arrest warrants against Smotrich and Ben Gvir were intended to address their involvement in expanding communities in Judea and Samaria, and that the decision has been passed to Khan’s deputies, with uncertainty regarding how they will proceed.</p>

Karim Khan planned to issue arrest warrants for Ministers Smotrich and Ben-Gvir due to their activities to expand Israeli construction.

Foreign NGOs shouldn’t be allowed to harm the Jewish State. Diaspora Jewish organizations would do well to tend to their local antisemites first. Opinion.

Israel will only benefit from leaving the hypocritical and mendacious organization that President Trump is encouraging world leaders to abandon as the US did. Opinion.