The announcement follows a Haaretz exposé released Sunday, revealing how grain stolen by Russia from the territories it occupies in Ukraine is being smuggled into Israel. Zenziper, a key supplier of Israel's wheat, was set to receive a shipment of what Ukraine says is stolen grain

More than 180 former Shin Bet officials joined an anonymous petition against David Zini's appointment; Deputy Supreme Court President Noam Sohlberg ruled Zini may review their names, but urged him to consider dropping the demand to 'smooth relations'

It once seemed that the Iran war, the Strait of Hormuz crisis and the U.S. blockade would unite the Gulf into a military coalition, or at least create a political cooperation framework, but now it appears that the new strategy is each state taking independent action