❌ ALLEGED BEERSHEBA CAR-BOMB PLOT: A serious indictment has been filed against a Bedouin man from the Negev. The indictment states: “Planned an attack on the Forum nightclub in Beersheba using a car bomb.”
🇮🇱 YEHUDA KATZ RETURNED TO ISRAEL AFTER 44 YEARS: The IDF, led by the Intelligence Directorate and together with the Mossad, returned the remains of SFC Yehuda Yekutiel Katz to Israel and his family.
Katz, an Armored Corps soldier, fell during the Battle of Sultan Yacoub on June 11, 1982, during the First Lebanon War and had remained classified as missing ever since. His remains were located through a joint intelligence effort with the Mossad and brought to Israel.
An identification process was conducted at the Military Rabbinate’s Fallen Soldiers Identification Center in cooperation with the Medical Corps and Israel Police. Katz’s family had been kept informed over the years regarding efforts to locate and return him. His parents, Sarah and Yosef Katz, did not live to receive the news.
His return followed more than four decades of intelligence-gathering and operational activity involving the Prime Minister’s Office Missing and Captive Persons Coordinators, operational units in the Mossad and IDF Intelligence Directorate, the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) and the IDF Manpower Directorate.
Katz’s return follows the recovery of SFC Zachary Baumel in 2019 and SFC Tzvika Feldman in 2025, completing the mission to return all of the missing soldiers from the Battle of Sultan Yacoub.
The IDF and Mossad extended their condolences to the family and said efforts will continue to return all missing persons.
IDF Chief of Staff LTG Eyal Zamir said: “The return of Yehuda Katz , the last fallen soldier from the Battle of Sultan Yacoub, is a significant milestone for the IDF and the State of Israel. Decades have passed, but our obligation to those who fell has not changed – we will leave none of our people behind. Today, we are bringing Yehuda back to an Israeli burial, to his family, and to his homeland, bringing to conclusion, a painful story that began more than four decades ago. The memory of the soldiers who fell at Sultan Yacoub will forever remain part of the IDF’s legacy and our commitment to future generations.”
🔹 LIKUD PRIMARIES: Final voter turnout was 54%, with 76,068 Likud members voting. Prime Minister and Likud Chairman Benjamin Netanyahu said he was very pleased with the results and congratulated those elected to the party list.
Netanyahu said the new list reflects renewal and the integration of new figures near the top of the slate. He said candidates reserved for appointment by him would further strengthen the list and predicted Likud would achieve a major victory and form a broad national government immediately after the elections.
Netanyahu described this as the only way to prevent what he called a left-wing government involving Eisenkot, Yair Golan, Liberman and the Arab parties. He thanked Likud members who, he said, voted based on common sense rather than political deals, and also thanked candidates who did not secure places on the list, saying he intends to involve them in efforts toward a Likud victory.
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