In November 2024, Defense Minister Israel Katz announced that he had won a years-long battle to get authority to build a new high-tech border fence with Jordan to block smuggling. The IDF’s new security fence with Jordan could be completed as early as the start of 2028, The Jerusalem Post has learned.

The rules for implementing a stricter European Union asylum law in Germany cleared the final hurdle in the upper house of parliament or Bundesrat on Friday. Key points of the reform, which will apply across the EU starting June 12, are mandatory identity checks for people arriving at the EU's external borders.

The Trump administration has made getting an American education more difficult and less appealing, the poll of more than 800 colleges found.