Israel news feed
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Haaretz - 20:06 Jan 15, 2026
Trump's supporters will undoubtedly frame the deceleration of the slide toward conflict as validation of his madman theory of global affairs, in which the power of his threats alone carries more weight than previous U.S. leaders -
Haaretz - 19:34 Jan 15, 2026
David and Ariel Cunio, Argentine citizens, were held by Hamas for nearly 740 days before their release last October. Avinatan Or was freed the same day, while Noa Argamani was rescued in the summer of 2024 -
Haaretz - 19:21 Jan 15, 2026
Two reports, one Israeli and the other American, describe malnourished mothers, underweight babies and pregnant women sharing hospital beds in Gaza, where the healthcare system collapsed as a result of the war: 'Maha can only afford to change her daughter's diaper once a day' -
Haaretz - 18:52 Jan 15, 2026
The footage, originally released by Ben-Gvir's far-right Otzma Yehudit party, was filmed at a year-end event where the minister urged guards to record and share his greetings with their families. The service said it removed the post following a Haaretz inquiry -
Haaretz - 18:28 Jan 15, 2026
Forty-six women were murdered in Israel last year, most by relatives. Yet there isn't even an official definition of domestic violence, and government ministries are mainly busy with excuses -
Haaretz - 18:18 Jan 15, 2026
Gabi Picker was Benjamin Netanyahu's intimate confidant and go-to man for special tasks – the kind that had to be hidden from Sara. Until now, he kept it all to himself. He's no longer willing to stay silent -
Haaretz - 18:12 Jan 15, 2026
She lived her whole life on streets in Tel Aviv's most neglected area. In an interview and in a new documentary, Eileen Nir breaks down the hypocrisy and cruelty of Israeli society -
Haaretz - 18:07 Jan 15, 2026
Sponsored by a Likud minister, a Knesset committee is set to discuss a law that would empower the education minister to control budgets for Israeli higher education institutions, and issue fines and sanctions at will -
Haaretz - 17:58 Jan 15, 2026
In a textbook for the French graduation exam, publisher Hachette framed the onset of the Gaza war as following attacks which led to 'the death of 1,200 Jewish settlers', drawing condemnation from top French government officials and Jewish groups -
Haaretz - 17:55 Jan 15, 2026
Shin Bet's new deputy chief, once subordinate to Netanyahu, to oversee probes into PM's inner circle
A conflict-of-interest loophole: While Shin Bet chief David Zini is barred from probing the Bild and Qatargate scandals, no such restrictions apply to his newly appointed deputy, N. Omitted from the announcement was that N., who had been out of the service for a decade, previously worked under Netanyahu -
Haaretz - 17:41 Jan 15, 2026
An exhibition at the Tel Aviv Museum on Germany's 1920s New Objectivity movement presents a cynical, unsentimental art that confronts reality without idealization. Curator Noam Gal stresses there is no parallel between Germany before Nazism and Israel in 2025, but says the need for critical art is 'very familiar to us' -
Haaretz - 17:30 Jan 15, 2026
While advertisements sell apartments through sleek renderings of modern towers, Shaul Cohen – the designer behind the hostages' solidarity pin – builds painstaking miniatures of old, worn-down Israeli buildings, gaining a devoted following in the process -
Haaretz - 17:14 Jan 15, 2026
An Israeli court ruled that Netanyahu's adviser Yonatan Urich, a central figure in the Qatargate affair, was not connected to the leak of sensitive IDF information to the German tabloid Bild in 2024, and that testimony indicating otherwise was unsupported -
Haaretz - 16:51 Jan 15, 2026
Netanyahu will appoint a member from the Hasidic Agudat Yisrael faction as minister as the coalition pushes an IDF conscription bill, which the party opposes. Under the bill, all draft notices issued since the expiration of the previous legislation in 2023 will be canceled -
Haaretz - 16:34 Jan 15, 2026
Trump said earlier on Wednesday that he had been told killings in Iran's crackdown were easing and that there was no current plan for large-scale executions, as the UN Security Council is set to meet Thursday afternoon to discuss tensions in Iran -
Haaretz - 16:15 Jan 15, 2026
Trump said earlier on Wednesday that he had been told killings in Iran's crackdown were easing and that there was no current plan for large-scale executions, as the UN Security Council is set to meet Thursday afternoon to discuss tensions in Iran -
Haaretz - 16:03 Jan 15, 2026
Khalil, a visible figure and a lead negotiator for protesters during the 2024 Gaza solidarity encampment on the Columbia campus, was arrested by ICE agents at his university-owned apartment in March 2025 and was later released in June -
Haaretz - 15:16 Jan 15, 2026
Two of the activists had refused food for over two months in their efforts to effect a 'permanent shutdown' of all Elbit facilities in the United Kingdom -
JPost.com - Business & Innovation - 15:13 Jan 15, 2026
Glass said the first applications focus on disability, with the goal of enabling an upper-limb amputee to control a robotic arm “as if it’s their natural arm.”
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Haaretz - 14:43 Jan 15, 2026
If the Islamic Republic falls, a civil war could emerge from a fragmented opposition divided over strategy – both on how to topple the regime and on how to form a government to replace it. Despite his knack for public relations, the shah's son, Reza Pahlavi, could be part of the problem