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Ship traffic stalls in Hormuz as Iran tensions rise and oil prices climb on ceasefire fears

Just one ship exited the Gulf through the strait while two entered in the space of 12 hours, ship tracking data showed on Monday, a fraction of what is usually about 130 vessels per day.

3D printed oil barrels, rising stock graph and words "Oil Stocks" are seen in this illustration taken March 23, 2026.
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump welcomes Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House earlier this month. Expect Trump to quietly approve some advanced US arms for Ukraine, but not nearly enough to meet Kyiv’s demands, say the writers.

Ukraine agrees to US peace proposal to end Russia war, officials say - report

Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R)

Ex-IDF intel. officials: Balanced Israeli combativeness can cause Russia to reduce hostility

 Sasha Troponov meets with the chief rabbi of Russia the morning after his release.

Ex-hostage Sasha Troufanov wraps tefillin with Russian chief rabbi day after release


Report: Israeli beaten to death in St Petersburg

The 27-year-old was evacuated to the hospital five days earlier with a serious brain injury, fractured ribs and bones and injuries to his spleen, liver and face.

A general view shows the Saint Isaac's Cathedral in St. Petersburg, Russia

J’lem mum on Putin's remarks on possible Jewish meddling in U.S. elections

Neither the Prime Minister’s Office nor the Foreign Ministry would respond Sunday to the comments, apparently because of the extreme sensitivity of Israel's relations with Russia.

Netanyahu and Putin

Jewish businesses are on the rise in Russia

It is fair to assert that antisemitism in Russia has witnessed a sharp decline over the past years.

Emergency personel stand outside Domodedovo International Airport on February 11, 2018. A Russian passenger plane carrying 71 people crashed outside Moscow after taking off from the capital's Domodedovo airport

Russia and deterrence

Russia must take a more proactive role. Instead of warning Israel, Moscow needs to stop Iranian belligerence before it’s too late.

Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with Syrian President Bashar Assad in Sochi, Russia, November 2017

Netanyahu heads to Moscow, will discuss Syria

A statement at the conference will call for the lifting of unilateral sanctions and urge the West to help in the reconstruction of Syria.

Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Sochi, Russia August 23, 2017.

Netanyahu to fly to Moscow on Monday for snap meeting with Putin

The meeting is expected to deal with Iran and its involvement in Syria.

Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a meeting in Sochi, Russia August 23, 2017.

PM indirectly confirms Israel caused Trump intel leak to Russia

Speaking to a conference of NATO ambassadors on Tuesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu all but spelled it out.

RUSSIAN PRESIDENT Vladimir Putin addresses servicemen as he visits the Hmeymim air base in Latakia Province, Syria

US, Russia commit to expelling Iranian forces from Israeli-Syrian border

Israeli officials have repeatedly voiced concerns over the growing Iranian presence on its borders and the smuggling of sophisticated weaponry to Hezbollah from Tehran to Lebanon via Syria.

IDF tanks are seen along the Golan Heights border with Syria

Middle Israel: Was the Bolshevik Revolution a Jewish plot?

Russian Jewry went to the Jewish state because here they would be free to study what they wish.

FROM LEFT, Joseph Stalin, Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky.

Why Ukraine’s hidden conflict in Donbass matters

On the larger geopolitical level, what is happening in eastern Ukraine matters, because it knits together a series of conflicts in the post-Soviet period.

An army poster hangs in Kiev