Israel news feed
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Haaretz - 19:57 Oct 05, 2025
One small café in Tel Aviv's Carmel Market has become a culture center for Israeli dissidents. Meanwhile, portraits of Israelis transforming October 7 trauma through surfing are showcased at Eretz Israel Museum, and a new film festival in Jaffa pairs silent films with live music from Israeli composers -
Haaretz - 19:29 Oct 05, 2025
A key sticking point remains Israel's demand for veto power over the selection of Palestinian security prisoners to be released. Netanyahu has said Israel will not release terrorists from Hamas' elite Nukhba force who participated in the attacks on Israel on October 7, 2023 -
JPost.com - Antisemitism - 18:39 Oct 05, 2025
Multiple anti-Israel organizations across the globe are planning to hold protests and marches on October 7.
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JPost.com - Antisemitism - 18:12 Oct 05, 2025
Organisers estimated that around 250,000 people joined the demonstration.
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Haaretz - 17:55 Oct 05, 2025
A source also told Al Arabiya that Hamas had informed U.S. representatives that it agreed to transfer its weapons to a Palestinian‑Egyptian body under international supervision – a report that Hamas later denied -
Haaretz - 17:40 Oct 05, 2025
Gaza officials report 63 deaths in past day despite Israel's announced pause in offensive operations
One Gaza City resident said that while the intensity of IDF bombardments has decreased, airstrikes continue, primarily in eastern neighborhoods where Israeli forces remain present. The death toll in Gaza from the war has reached 67,139, with 169,583 people wounded, according to the Health Ministry -
Haaretz - 17:24 Oct 05, 2025
From his paralyzing shell-shock in the first hours of the Hamas assault to bombastic claims of 'total victory': This is how Netanyahu, eying elections, is already drafting an alternative history of the Gaza war, the tragedy of so many Israelis and Palestinians be damned -
JPost.com - Antisemitism - 17:09 Oct 05, 2025
Following the terror attack against a Manchester synagogue, a UK newspaper calls for Jews to avoid future attacks.
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JPost.com - Antisemitism - 16:34 Oct 05, 2025
The Israeli legal expert argues that European governments, by aligning with Hamas and failing to curb incitement, have left Jewish communities exposed to a wave of antisemitic terrorism.
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Haaretz - 16:16 Oct 05, 2025
In the Netherlands, an estimated 250,000 people, most dressed in red, gathered in Amsterdam to press the government to take tougher action against Israel. In Spain, a group of women marched carrying white bundles symbolizing the bodies of children killed in Gaza -
Haaretz - 15:31 Oct 05, 2025
While girls their age across the world post videos of themselves opening gifts, girls in Gaza document a different reality – which includes hunger, loss and shortages. This documentation, beyond being a tool for collecting donations, also has a therapeutic effect -
Haaretz - 15:31 Oct 05, 2025
Arguably the most obscure of Jewish customs, during Sukkot, Jews shake a closed date frond, some myrtle boughs, a few willow twigs and a citron fruit as part of the daily prayer service – but why and where did this begin? -
Haaretz - 15:28 Oct 05, 2025
Famed stand-up comic Chappelle used his set at the controversial Riyadh Comedy Festival as a critique of U.S. free speech limits, including on Israel and Charlie Kirk. He jokingly promised to use a code phrase to signal censorship: 'It's got to be something I would never say in practice' -
Haaretz - 15:24 Oct 05, 2025
Scholars have come up with various alternatives to the religious theory for the origin of the huts, from families moving into the fields during harvest season and living in the huts to them once serving as housing for pilgrims coming to Jerusalem for the harvest festival -
Haaretz - 15:22 Oct 05, 2025
The first weeks of Israel's war in Gaza were the most critical of the prime minister's career. Sources close to him tell Haaretz how he reached across the political divide to save his political life -
Haaretz - 15:19 Oct 05, 2025
During the time of the First Temple, Sukkot was considered the most important holiday – with the Torah referring to it simply as 'the holiday' and historian Josephus describing it as the 'most holy and important feast' -
Haaretz - 14:54 Oct 05, 2025
The state expects survivors of the Nova festival to recover, but with hostages still in Gaza and the war dragging on, the personal tragedy persists. 'I knew we had an army, we hade a police force; I believed in them, and this is the main thing that has been screwed up with me. We're living it now' -
Haaretz - 14:52 Oct 05, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump's 'day after' plan for Gaza, if effectively executed, could offer stability and security to the Middle East. But the deal's ability to survive rests on whether Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Hamas move on what previously were hardline demands -
Haaretz - 14:39 Oct 05, 2025
Dave Chappelle, Kevin Hart and others are taking the stage in Riyadh's 'world's biggest comedy festival,' which human rights groups call a whitewashing of repression -
Haaretz - 14:37 Oct 05, 2025
Israel's three largest airlines – El Al, Israir and Arkia – nearly doubled their market share since the war in Gaza began. Smaller airlines have replaced the foreign legacy carriers and low-cost giants have disappeared, and Ben-Gurion Airport expects to see 2.1 million passengers over the holidays