Road closures and a "significant" police presence that includes undercover officers can be expected around the United Jewish Appeal's (UJA) annual Walk with Israel event Sunday, police say.

Israel secretly deployed military forces across the Middle East during the war with Iran, four sources familiar with the matter told CNN. CNN’s Oren Liebermann explains where troops were positioned, and what purpose they served.

By Laila Bassam, Steven Scheer and Ahmed Elimam BEIRUT/JERUSALEM, June 4 (Reuters) - Hezbollah rejected a ceasefire plan agreed by the Lebanese and Israeli governments in U.S.-mediated talks, as Israel kept up strikes in southern Lebanon on Thursday and said it wouldn't be withdrawing from the south.

Iran says there's been no progress in talks with the U.S. after tit-for-tat strikes, as Hezbollah rejects new Israel-Lebanon ceasefire.

In international route news, Israel’s El Al Airlines announced plans to offer nonstop service from San Francisco International Airport to Tel Aviv starting Oct. 25, restoring its first Bay Area flights since 2020.

The Pentagon has classified Israel, America's most significant Middle Eastern ally, as its highest counterintelligence threat, raising the alarm level to 'critical' amid a deepening rift over the Iran war.

The Pentagon has reportedly raised Israel's counter-intelligence threat rating to critical amid concerns about surveillance of senior US officials. The assessment has surfaced days after Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu clashed over the Iran war.

The US military said it shot down Iranian ballistic missiles and drones near the Strait of Hormuz while striking back at Iran's coastal surveillance sites, as tensions across the Gulf deepen.