Israel news feed
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Haaretz - 21:28 Nov 12, 2025
Aviva Siegel, who was released in November 2023, told the UN anti-torture committee that the Hamas captors sexually abused the girls she was held with. Keith Siegel said he was 'denied the most basic of human rights. More than once, young terrorists forced me to strip in front of them and shaved my body' -
Haaretz - 21:21 Nov 12, 2025
Political commentator and writer Schlossberg, whose work has appeared in The Washington Post, Politico, and Time, joins a crowded field vying for the 12th Congressional District seat as Democrats aim to regain the House in the 2026 midterms -
Haaretz - 20:27 Nov 12, 2025
13-year-old Issam Jihad Ma'ala began convulsing and suffocating when the IDF started dispersing olive pickers with gas grenades, despite eyewitnesses saying the pickers posed no danger to the soldiers. 'They simply threw gas in every direction,' one eyewitness said -
Haaretz - 20:07 Nov 12, 2025
Trump's intervention in Netanyahu's trial, breaking all bounds of U.S. involvement in Israeli politics, is a cause for celebration for the prime minister, proving Trump is doing all he can to shield him from the consequences of his own actions -
Haaretz - 19:59 Nov 12, 2025
The officer, 46-year-old Vital Mishayev, had long been recognized within the Defense Ministry's rehabilitation department as struggling with both physical and mental health issues, including post-traumatic stress -
Haaretz - 19:46 Nov 12, 2025
According to police sources familiar with the case, the officer, who holds a key and sensitive position overseeing national police units, is suspected of intervening in an investigation and making decisions to benefit a person close to him -
Haaretz - 19:28 Nov 12, 2025
Israeli settlements classified as 'under threat' would receive a 25 percent addition in the total scoring for tax benefits. The bill 'joins the revolution in Judea and Samaria, which effectively consolidates Israeli sovereignty,' settler councils said -
Haaretz - 19:19 Nov 12, 2025
Rape is not about sexuality, but about power, whether committed by Hamas on October 7 or by Israeli soldiers at the Sde Teiman detention center. In Israel, the furore over a leaked video of sexual torture, and its politicization by Netanyahu, is overshadowing what's really at stake -
Haaretz - 18:57 Nov 12, 2025
Opening the northern checkpoint will enable larger quantities of aid to enter the Strip. However, the UN claims that Israel still heavily restricts the entry of aid. On Tuesday, UNICEF said it was denied by Israel from bringing syringes needed for a children's vaccination efforts -
Haaretz - 18:50 Nov 12, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump has vehemently and consistently denied knowing about Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking. He has said that he and Epstein, who died by suicide in a Manhattan jail cell in 2019, were once friends before having a falling out -
JPost.com - Antisemitism - 18:39 Nov 12, 2025
The fundraiser, rife with antisemitic rhetoric, claimed that the rally for McClintock was motivated by a desire to defend free speech rights from Jewish 'tyranny'.
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JPost.com - Christian World - 18:26 Nov 12, 2025
In a new instruction approved by Pope Leo, the Vatican's top doctrinal office said stories of appearances by Jesus in the town of Dozule, in Normandy, shouldn't be considered genuine.
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Haaretz - 18:23 Nov 12, 2025
At the Knesset, Deputy Speaker Nissim Vaturi praised Rabbi Meir Kahane, who called for expelling Arabs and was later designated a terrorist by Israel and the U.S. When Kahane served in the Knesset, lawmakers across the spectrum, including Likud members, often left the chamber in protest -
Haaretz - 17:53 Nov 12, 2025
The prime minister is trying to convince the Israeli public that they don't want an independent state commission of inquiry to investigate the events of October 7, when all polls show that they do. Can it work? -
Haaretz - 17:39 Nov 12, 2025
The IDF chief said the settler attacks are distracting Israeli soldiers from 'protecting settlements and carrying out offensive operations,' amid the sharpest rise in almost two decades in incidents of settler violence. While the IDF is trying to cope with the violence, it largely places responsibility on the Israel Police -
Haaretz - 17:27 Nov 12, 2025
An official document states that the Israeli defense company will help Albania, a member of NATO, establish an independent defense industry. Meanwhile, Haaretz has learned that despite Brazil's pro-Palestinian stance, it extended a multimillion-dollar contract with Elbit Systems -
Haaretz - 16:53 Nov 12, 2025
Two buildings and 37 acres of Palestinian agricultural land are designated to be expropriated for a planned waste incineration plant expected to reduce the amount of garbage sent to landfills in Israel. 'I worked all my life to build this house,' a resident facing eviction told Haaretz -
JPost.com - Tech & Start Ups - 16:50 Nov 12, 2025
“iPhone Pocket explores the joy of using the iPhone your way,” said Yoshiyuki Miyamae, design director at Miyake Design Studio.
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JPost.com - Business & Innovation - 16:50 Nov 12, 2025
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JPost.com - Real Estate - 16:35 Nov 12, 2025
Who said urban planning is boring? At the "Women Build the Nation" panel, six senior women shared ideas on community, equality, and a new social contract, envisioning Israel in 20 years.