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Israel Today: Ongoing War Report - Update from 2026-06-01 at 08:02
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- Jun 1, 2026
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HEADLINES IDF seizes Beaufort Ridge Lebanon outpost Supreme Court head warns of delegitimization Israel hi tech fuels 58 percent exports The time is now 8:01 AM in New York, I'm Noa Levi and this is the latest Israel Today: Ongoing War Report. In Regional Impacts, the IDF announced it had captured the Beaufort Ridge outpost in southern Lebanon as part of ongoing operations to remove the threat Hezbollah poses to communities in northern Israel. Photos released by the military show a commanding set of ruins perched atop an outcrop overlooking the Litani River, a vantage point that offers a view of the surrounding terrain and any approaching forces. Beaufort Castle, known locally as Qal'at al-Shaqif, was captured in 1139 by Crusader forces led by Fulk the Younger, who ruled from Jerusalem with his wife Melisende, a historic first female ruler in the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem. Aside from a smaller fortification at the site of the current Beaufort Castle, believed by some to date from the late Roman or Byzantine period, little is known about the site prior to its capture by Fulk and Melisende’s forces. After the capture, the castle was gifted by Fulk to the lords of Sidon, and construction of the stone fortress is estimated to have followed. In Israeli Domestic Politics, Supreme Court President Isaac Amit warned that public discourse surrounding Israel’s judiciary had sunk to an unprecedented low, with incitement, fake news, and personal attacks on judges becoming normalized and threatening the court system’s ability to function. Speaking at the Israel Bar Association’s annual conference in Eilat, Amit said some judges were afraid to answer phone calls from unknown numbers because of threats and harassment, a development he described as detrimental not only to judges as…