The Tekuma Directorate has approved a budget of NIS 180 million ($48 million) to rebuild Kibbutz Kfar Aza, one of the communities hardest hit by the October 7 Hamas terror attack. The announcement, made on Monday, marks a significant step in the rehabilitation of Gaza border communities devastated by the violence.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened an urgent meeting at the Israel Defense Forces headquarters in Tel Aviv to address the ongoing hostage crisis in Gaza. The meeting on Sunday evening came after Hamas rejected all existing proposals for the captives’ release, according to Israeli security officials.

Archaeologists in Jerusalem have unearthed what is being hailed as the “most beautiful seal from the First Temple period ever discovered in ancient Jerusalem,” according to Navot Ram, excavation director at the Israel Antiquities Authority. The artifact, found in the historic City of David, features a striking winged figure alongside an inscription in paleo-Hebrew script. Experts believe the seal was used by a high-ranking official in the Kingdom of Judah to sign documents, a practice that was common among administrative elites during the First Temple era, which dates back to the 10th-6th centuries BCE.

Amazon and Google are vying for an $80 million (NIS 300 million) contract to build Israel’s first artificial intelligence (AI) supercomputer. Spearheaded by the Israel Innovation Authority, the ambitious project is set to equip the nation with cutting-edge AI capabilities, funded equally by the government and the selected tech giant. The initiative, developed by Chief Scientist Dr. Orna Berry, will utilize between 1,000 and 2,000 Nvidia H100 graphics processors. These processors are designed to train sophisticated language models, offering computational power far beyond conventional systems.