Israel news feed
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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 -
Haaretz - 14:36 Jan 15, 2026
The odds are against it. On the other hand, you can be sure the ayatollahs in Tehran, who created the problem, won't even try -
Haaretz - 13:50 Jan 15, 2026
As U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff announces the next phase of Trump's Gaza plan, satellite images reveal the IDF extending the Yellow Line it controls deeper into Hamas-held areas, while Hamas builds tent cities -
Haaretz - 13:41 Jan 15, 2026
As of Thursday, violent crime has taken the lives of 17 people in Israel since the beginning of the year, including 14 in the country's Arab society. The death toll due to violent crime in the country reached an all-time high last year, with 307 people being killed -
JPost.com - Antisemitism - 12:37 Jan 15, 2026
“As part of a robust framework to combat antisemitism, we have industry-leading policies designed with the safety of the Jewish community in mind,” Cutler said.
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Haaretz - 12:24 Jan 15, 2026
Eli Feldstein, a former spokesman for Netanyahu, said the prime minister's chief of staff Tzachi Braverman told him he could 'silence' the investigation into the leak of classified documents. Netanyahu's lawyer urged journalists not to report on Braverman, saying Shin Bet memos undermined Feldstein's credibility -
Haaretz - 11:19 Jan 15, 2026
As protests spread across Iran, Iranians in exile debate regime change, outside intervention and the fate of loved ones back home -
Haaretz - 11:15 Jan 15, 2026
Although the announcement of the committee's formation is ostensibly a significant step in the cease-fire process, real change will require funding, a police force with a clear mandate, and international mobilization to compel Israeli cooperation -
Haaretz - 11:02 Jan 15, 2026
After Qatar and Egypt, for different reasons, pushed for the technocratic committee to govern Gaza, a message was sent to the world's powers that their megalomaniacal ambitions can wait, while an independent Palestinian administration deals with Gaza's health, education and reconstruction