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A news update and briefing from Mr. David Mencer, Spokesperson at The National Public Diplomacy Directorate.

Wednesday morning, extremist ultra-Orthodox men protested near the IDF's Jerusalem recruitment office. Officers used force to get the protestors off the streets, police said. Demonstrators also repeatedly tried to breach police roadblocks while clashing with cops and hurling insults at them, calling them ?Nazis? and ?Hezbollah.? Media reports from the scene said they chanted anti-enlistment slogans, including ?We would rather die than enlist? and ?[We choose] prison and not the army.? National Security Expert with the University of New Haven was with LiveNOW from FOX as the breaking news unfolded.

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken has arrived in Egypt to push forward talks to end the ten month Gaza war and release the hostages. This comes after Blinken said Monday that Israel has accepted a proposal to bridge the differences holding up a cease-fire and hostage release in Gaza, and he called on Hamas to do the same. ?In a very constructive meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu today, he confirmed to me that Israel supports the bridging proposal,? Blinken told reporters. ?The next important step is for Hamas to say ?yes.??

At least one person was killed and another injured as a bomb exploded in Tel Aviv Sunday evening, according to Israeli police. Former Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem Fleur Hassan-Nahoum joined LiveNOW from FOX to help break down the latest developments.

Moscow has announced Ukraine has struck and destroyed a third bridge in the Kursk region as Kyiv forces to expand within Russian territory. James Talberg, junior political analyst working with the Ukrainian Institute of Politics, joined LiveNOW from FOX to help detail the latest.

A luxury sailboat carrying foreign tourists off the coast of Sicily capsized and sank due to bad weather early Monday. A body was found, six people were missing and 15 people were rescued, authorities say.

A bomb blast that shook Tel Aviv late Sunday night has been confirmed as a terrorist attack, Israeli police said on Monday. The man carrying the bomb that exploded near a synagogue was killed and a passerby was injured, according to police. National Security Expert with the University of New Haven Ken Gray joined LiveNOW from FOX to detail the latest information.

Enia Krivine with the FDD joins LiveNOW's Josh Breslow to break down where Middle East tensions stand. Meantime, Hezbollah has released video showing a terror tunnel network.

Army intelligence veteran Kervin Aucoin with Aucoin Analytics joins LiveNOW's Stephanie Coueignoux to discuss the latest on Middle East tensions as the region braces for a potential attack from Iran on Israel.

President Biden claims a cease-fire deal in the Middle East is closer than ever. LiveNOW's Andrew Craft discussed cease-fire talks with former Marine Corps intelligence officer Hal Kempfer.

Dozens of Israeli settlers devastated a Palestinian town in the West Bank as they fired bullets and tear gas at residents and several homes. The Palestinian Authority?s Ministry of Health confirmed a 23-year-old Palestinian died from a chest injury. John Strawson with the University of East London joined LiveNOW from FOX to break down the latest details.

National security analyst Hal Kempfer joins LiveNOW's Austin Westfall to weigh in on Ukraine's advances in Russia's Kursk region.

Dual Russian-American citizen Ksenia Karelina was sentenced to 12 years in prison on Thursday after a Russian court found her guilty of treason for donating money to a charity supporting Ukraine.

Tufts University Professor Alon Burstein joins LiveNOW's Austin Westfall to break down the latest round of Israel cease-fire talks happening in Qatar this week.

According to the Associated Press, U.S.-Russian dual national Ksenia Khavana was convicted Thursday of treason in a Russian court and sentenced to 12 years in prison on charges stemming from a $51 donation to a charity aiding Ukraine. Khavana, identified by Russian authorities by her maiden name of Ksenia Karelina, was arrested in the Ural Mountains city of Yekaterinburg in February and pleaded guilty in a closed trial last week, news reports said. Khavana, a 33-year-old former ballet dancer, reportedly obtained U.S. citizenship after marrying an American and moving to Los Angeles. She had returned to Russia to visit her family.