IDF ups readiness, cancels tree-planting event near Gaza border and furlough for troops in south; hawkish Tikva Forum urges return of hostages at any price, ‘but Hamas must pay it’
US District Judge George A. O’Toole Jr. said during a hearing in federal court Monday that an emergency order he issued last Thursday, pausing the government’s “deferred resignation” offer, “will continue until I lift it.”