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<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy spoke on Friday with US Vice President JD Vance, a source familiar with the details told <i>Reuters</i>.</p><p><i>(Arutz Sheva-Israel National News' North American desk is keeping you updated until the start of Shabbat in New York. The time posted automatically on all Israel National News articles, however, is Israeli time.)</i></p>

<p>A motorcyclist, a resident of Ramla in his 20s, was pronounced dead on Friday evening after being hit by a vehicle on Highway 44 near Tzirifin, the police said.</p><p>An investigation into the circumstances of the accident has been launched.</p><p><i>(Arutz Sheva-Israel National News' North American desk is keeping you updated until the start of Shabbat in New York. The time posted automatically on all Israel National News articles, however, is Israeli time.)</i></p>

<p>Lebanese media reported on Friday evening that a vehicle traveling in the village of Faroun, near the Beaufort ridge in the south of the country, was attacked by a drone.</p><p>According to the reports, one person was killed in the strike.</p><p><i>(Arutz Sheva-Israel National News' North American desk is keeping you updated until the start of Shabbat in New York. The time posted automatically on all Israel National News articles, however, is Israeli time.)</i></p>

<p>IDF commanders assessing the Rafah area after 15 terrorists tried escaping tunnels. Footage shows them running among ruins. One captured terrorist: “We went out of the tunnel in search of food and water”.</p><p><i>(Arutz Sheva-Israel National News' North American desk is keeping you updated until the start of Shabbat in New York. The time posted automatically on all Israel National News articles, however, is Israeli time.)</i></p>

<p>The IDF and Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) announced on Friday evening that, in operational activities conducted simultaneously in three areas in the Menashe and Samaria Regional Brigades, the security forces eliminated a terrorist and apprehended terrorists who fired toward IDF soldiers.</p><p>In Tell, near Shechem (Nablus), Yamam forces guided by the ISA eliminated the terrorist who fired at and injured a reserve combat soldier during operational activity on Thursday. The terrorist was an operative in the Palestinian Authority police.</p><p><a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/418160"><strong>Read more</strong></a></p><p><i>(Arutz Sheva-Israel National News' North American desk is keeping you updated until the start of Shabbat in New York. The time posted automatically on all Israel National News articles, however, is Israeli time.)</i></p>

<p><i>Channel 13 News</i> reports Iran has renewed most of its missile arsenal and may reach 2,000 rockets within months. Israel monitors the buildup as Tehran restores nuclear sites. </p><p><i>(Arutz Sheva-Israel National News' North American desk is keeping you updated until the start of Shabbat in New York. The time posted automatically on all Israel National News articles, however, is Israeli time.)</i></p>

<p>Security Cabinet ministers warn that Hamas’s growing power could trigger another Gaza operation. Israel also tracks Hezbollah’s rise in Lebanon, continuing strikes in the south while holding off Beirut at US request.</p><p> </p><p><i>(Arutz Sheva-Israel National News' North American desk is keeping you updated until the start of Shabbat in New York. The time posted automatically on all Israel National News articles, however, is Israeli time.)</i></p>