Entities from Israel
73 entities tracked across Lowdown briefings.
People
16Amos Harel
Haaretz military affairs correspondent; senior Israeli journalist covering the IDF and Lebanon front.
Assaf Orion
Israeli retired Brigadier-General and INSS senior researcher specialising in Israel-Hezbollah conflict.
Basim Sheikh Suliman
Israel Football Association vice-president; subject of Rajoub's handshake refusal at Vancouver FIFA Congress.
Benjamin Netanyahu
Israel's longest-serving prime minister; prosecuting a multi-front war while fracturing his alliance with Washington.
Benny Gantz
Israeli opposition leader and former Defence Minister; led the National Unity party and served briefly in the emergency war cabinet before resigning.
Bezalel Smotrich
Israeli Finance Minister and Religious Zionism party leader; far-right coalition partner in Netanyahu's government who rejected the Islamabad MOU.
Effie Defrin
IDF chief spokesman who publicly named the Iranian Supreme Leader as an assassination target.
Elyanna
Elyanna is a Palestinian singer confirmed to perform at Canada's Toronto 2026 FIFA World Cup opening ceremony on 12 June, a politically resonant booking at a tournament overshadowed by human rights concerns.
Eyal Zamir
IDF Chief of Staff since March 2025; prosecuting Israel's simultaneous wars in Iran and Lebanon.
Israel Katz
Israeli Defence Minister directing Lebanon operations and authorising targeted killing orders.
Itamar Ben-Gvir
Israeli National Security Minister; far-right coalition member who rejected the US-Iran deal as not binding on Israel.
Lt. Col. Nadav Shoshani
Israeli military spokesman who confirmed IDF forces operating in southern Lebanon on March 3, 2026.
Menachem Begin
Israeli Prime Minister 1977–1983; Nobel Peace Prize laureate and architect of the pre-emptive Begin Doctrine.
Ron Arad
Israeli Air Force navigator missing since 1986; his fate is Israel's most emotive unresolved MIA case.
Yechiel Leiter
Israeli Ambassador to the United States since January 2025; leads the Israel-Lebanon talks.
Yoram Dinstein
Israeli international law scholar at Tel Aviv University; leading authority on laws of armed conflict.
Organisations
20Aqua Security
An Israeli cloud-native security vendor and publisher of the Trivy open-source vulnerability scanner.
Bar-Ilan University
Israeli research university in Ramat Gan; home of the BESA Center for Strategic Studies on Iran.
Begin Capital
International seed fund backing B2B software founders across Europe and Israel.
Check Point
Israeli network-security vendor; its Remote Access VPN carried CVE-2026-50751, a CVSS 9.3 auth bypass exploited a month before the June 2026 hotfix.
Check Point Research
Check Point's threat-research division; gained C2 visibility into The Gentlemen's 1,570+ victim network.
Elbit Systems
Israel's largest private defence electronics company; manufactures F-35I avionics, drones, and electronic warfare systems.
Haaretz
Israel's oldest daily newspaper; editorially independent left-of-centre broadsheet with strong investigative and military-affairs coverage.
Investing.com
Israeli-founded financial markets data platform; cited source for Brent crude pricing in U#105.
Israel Football Association
Israel's football governing body; fined $191,000 by FIFA; subject of PFA's CAS appeal over West Bank clubs.
Israel Hayom
Israeli free daily newspaper with right-wing editorial line; primary source for Khamenei medical reporting in April 2026.
Jerusalem Post
Israel's oldest English-language daily, founded 1932; centre-right, with hawkish security coverage.
Knesset
The parliament of the State of Israel, a 120-seat unicameral legislature that enacts law and oversees the government.
Mossad
Israeli foreign intelligence service; Iran executed an alleged Mossad asset in its atomic energy agency on 22 April 2026.
Sentrycs
Sentrycs is a counter-drone detection and defeat company acquired by Ondas Holdings in 2026 and selected to provide C-UAS coverage for the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
Shabtab News
Israeli Hebrew-language news outlet; first to report the execution of an alleged Mossad asset inside Iran's atomic energy agency.
Sygnia
Tel Aviv-based cybersecurity firm; incident-response professional Ryan Goldberg pleaded guilty to using ALPHV/BlackCat against clients while employed there.
The Times of Israel
English-language Israeli daily; primary transmission channel for Israeli official positions to an international audience.
Windward
Israeli maritime AI company tracking AIS evasion, dark-fleet movements, and sanctions breaches at scale.
WSC Sports
Israeli sports-video automation vendor whose AI auto-cuts and distributes broadcast highlights.
Ynet
Leading Israeli news website; corroborated Israel Hayom's Khamenei medical reporting and added Pezeshkian clinical involvement detail.
Nations & Places
24Arad
Israeli Negev city near Dimona struck by Iranian missiles in April 2026, injuring over 100.
Ashdod
Israeli Mediterranean port city targeted by Hezbollah missile, triggering air raid sirens.
Ben Gurion Airport
Israel's principal international airport, closed and targeted during the Iran-Israel conflict.
Bnei Brak
Israeli ultra-Orthodox city east of Tel Aviv; struck by Iranian cluster-warhead ballistic missiles in March 2026.
Dimona
Israeli desert city housing the nuclear research centre struck by Iran in 2026.
Filon
IDF base east of Safad, northern Israel; struck by Hezbollah jet drone in March 2026.
Galilee
Northern Israeli region bordering Lebanon; the territory every Lebanon war is fought to defend.
Haifa
Israel's largest port city; Bazan refinery struck by Iranian missiles in 'oil for oil' exchange, March 2026.
Holon
Israeli city south of Tel Aviv, struck by Iranian cluster missiles as air defences failed.
Israel
State fighting Iran and Hezbollah on multiple fronts amid a contested Lebanon ceasefire.
Jaffa
Historic port district of Tel Aviv-Jaffa; struck by Houthi rockets on 8 June 2026, first since the April ceasefire.
Kiryat Shmona
Israeli border town 3 km from Lebanon; hit by Hezbollah rockets on 9 April 2026.
Metula
Israels northernmost town, on the Lebanese border, exposed to Hezbollah rocket fire since October 2023.
Negev
Southern Israeli desert region housing the Dimona nuclear facility, now under direct missile attack.
Ramat David Airbase
Israeli Air Force base in the Jezreel Valley, northern Israel
Ramat Gan
Israeli city in the Tel Aviv District, now a target in Iran's missile campaign.
Ramon Airport
Airport in southern Israel used partly for US refuelling aircraft deployed during the Iran conflict.
Rishon LeZion
Israel's fourth-largest city; an early Zionist settlement now struck by Iranian cluster munitions.
Safad
Northern Israeli city near Lebanese border; historic centre of Jewish Kabbalah mysticism.
Savidor Central
Tel Aviv main railway station, damaged by Iranian missile strike forcing rail suspension.
Shimon Peres Negev Nuclear Research Centre
Israel's nuclear research facility at Dimona, struck by Iranian ballistic missiles.
Shoham
Planned Israeli town near Ben Gurion Airport, struck by Iranian cluster missiles in 2026.
Tel Aviv
Israel's economic capital on the Mediterranean; primary civilian target in the Iran-Israel war.
Western Wall
Judaism's holiest prayer site, 400 metres from an Iranian missile strike crater.
Armed Groups
436th Armoured Division
IDF armoured division in southern Lebanon; deputy commander wounded in Hezbollah IED on 18 June, first IDF death since MOU.
98th Division
IDF division deployed to southern Lebanon during the 2026 conflict.
Givati Brigade
Israeli infantry brigade; suffered the death of a female soldier in a Hezbollah drone attack on a south Lebanon border position.
Israel Defense Forces (IDF)
Israel's national military; fighting in Lebanon and Iran simultaneously since February 2026.
Concepts
2Events
3Israeli operations in Lebanon (June 2025)
Continuous IDF operations against Hezbollah in Lebanon throughout June 2025.
Israeli strikes (28 February 2026)
Joint US-Israeli opening salvo on 28 Feb 2026 that triggered the Iran war.
Operation Litani
1978 Israeli military operation into southern Lebanon; the historical precedent for the Litani River as a buffer-zone boundary in current ceasefire architecture.
Products
1Technology
3Arrow-3
Israel's exo-atmospheric ballistic missile interceptor, now critically depleted by sustained Iranian salvos.
F-35I
Israeli Air Force variant of the F-35A Lightning II; subject of a $34m range-extension contract awarded to Elbit, May 2026.
Iron Dome
Israeli short-range missile defence that is failing to stop Iran's evolving barrage tactics.