Israel news feed
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Haaretz - 13:16 Jan 04, 2026
The transfer of the case to the State Prosecutor's Office also indicates that the police are not planning to investigate American lobbyist Jay Footlik, one of the central figures in the Qatargate affair. Police also requested that Netanyahu aide and suspect Yonatan Urich be barred from Netanyahu's office for an additional 60 days -
Haaretz - 13:00 Jan 04, 2026
Human rights organizations reported that violent clashes overnight raised the death toll to 15 as Iranian authorities have reportedly restricted internet access. On Saturday, Iran's leader distinguished between protesters and rioters while also blaming 'foreign forces' for interference -
Haaretz - 12:40 Jan 04, 2026
Rabbi Menachem Mendel Hager forbids his followers from forming ties outside his Hasidic community, dictates whom they may marry, coerces them to hand over their money and stokes violence against his opponents. In the rebbe's 'holy method,' God takes a back seat -
Haaretz - 12:12 Jan 04, 2026
From upscale Tel Aviv restaurants to El Al flights, Yoel Darwish ranks Israel's public bathrooms – and the internet can't look away -
Haaretz - 12:03 Jan 04, 2026
Only somewhere between 3,000 and 5,000 Jews remain in Venezuela, after thousands have fled in the past quarter-century. A prominent Jewish American organizational leader with close ties to the region sees reasons for cautious optimism following Maduro's capture and imprisonment -
JPost.com - Christian World - 11:52 Jan 04, 2026
A population that once numbered in the thousands has dwindled sharply, with the remaining families are split among three active churches.
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Haaretz - 11:10 Jan 04, 2026
Under Trump's cease-fire deal, the Rafah crossing on the Egypt border is set to reopen, pending formal approval by Netanyahu's government. Gaza residents exiting would be screened remotely, while those entering would undergo physical checks at an additional IDF-controlled post inside Gaza -
Haaretz - 10:55 Jan 04, 2026
Israeli diplomatic officials believe that to survive, the Iranian government will likely implement a series of reforms aimed at appeasing the public – including greater flexibility on the nuclear issue – in an effort to lift the international sanctions that are weighing heavily on its economy -
JPost.com - Business & Innovation - 10:38 Jan 04, 2026
Rebuilding Israel's North will not come from magic solutions, but from long-term thinking and real commitment.
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Haaretz - 10:35 Jan 04, 2026
As Iran grapples with internal turmoil and economic woes, and any external attempts at regime change risk further instability, Trump's harsh stance on Tehran and Venezuela highlights his selective approach to global authoritarianism, with his administration appearing to target certain regimes while ignoring others -
Haaretz - 10:19 Jan 04, 2026
Appointed interim director in 2023, the 80-year-old Landau will depart before a successor is named; the museum says the search for a new CEO is in advanced stages -
Haaretz - 10:01 Jan 04, 2026
Talik Gvili, whose son Ran's body remains in Gaza, said in an interview that Trump told her his team was committed to returning her son to Israel before proceeding to the next stage of the Gaza cease-fire -
Haaretz - 08:39 Jan 04, 2026
They follow people, moving back and forth through the streets and constantly humming, creating a new soundtrack that means one thing to Gazans: You are being watched. Palestinians in Gaza tell Haaretz what it's like to live under a watchful and potentially lethal eye -
Haaretz - 07:27 Jan 04, 2026
The American ouster of a popular nationalist leader in the 1950s and its cementing of the Shah's rule paved the way for the Iranian Revolution in 1979 and the Islamic Republic of today. U.S.-backed regime change has historically proved disastrous -
Haaretz - 04:45 Jan 04, 2026
As of October 7, 2023, the Palestinians had been living under a brutal Israeli apartheid regime for 56 years. It's no wonder that this led to terrorism. Nothing could do more to strengthen Israel than establishing a Palestinian state that has a peace agreement with it -
JPost.com - Antisemitism - 01:38 Jan 04, 2026
Some activists displayed hammer and sickle imagery, while activists from Palestinian Assembly for Liberation-Awda NY/NJ marched with a banner calling for "liberation" and "return."
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Haaretz - 00:54 Jan 04, 2026
Police said a suspect slated for arrest 'threatened the forces' during an elite unit's raid in a Bedouin village in southern Israel. A police source said the man was shot when the forces raided his house overnight, and locals say he died after being shot once -
JPost.com - Antisemitism - 23:20 Jan 03, 2026
Vice President Delcy Rodriguez accused a US operation that struck state sites and led to the capture of President Nicolás Maduro and the first lady of having “Zionist undertones."
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JPost.com - Antisemitism - 23:03 Jan 03, 2026
Author Matt Chun referred to Chabad as a "Zionist Jewish-supremacist organisation" that holds "events to advance settler-colonisation in Palestine amidst the ongoing extermination of Gaza."