Israel news feed
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JPost.com - Banking & Finance - 21:00 Dec 18, 2025
“The new dashboard is another step toward full transparency and toward sharing with the public the information that drives our decision making."
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Haaretz - 20:54 Dec 18, 2025
The collapse of the ideological consensus around Israel in Washington has illuminated a myth prevalent among American Jewish communal leaders: That they were capable of wielding immense power to defend Jewish interests and, in particular, Israel -
Haaretz - 20:50 Dec 18, 2025
Over recent days, several yeshiva students were arrested for draft dodging, while several attempted arrests failed due to local protests. Earlier on Thursday, hundreds of ultra-Orthodox protesters clashed with police in Jerusalem and even overturned a police vehicle -
JPost.com - Antisemitism - 20:42 Dec 18, 2025
As investigations continue, the digital aftershocks of Bondi’s attack show how quickly local violence is absorbed into global ideological battles.
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Haaretz - 20:28 Dec 18, 2025
The Hasmoneans: The Jewish dynasty that gave us Hanukkah is a symbol of murder, not heroism and hope
Israelis glorify the Hasmoneans for purifying the Temple and liberating Jerusalem, but they were actually a bloodthirsty clan whose members turned on each other. The Romans put them out of everybody's misery -
Haaretz - 19:59 Dec 18, 2025
Relations between Netanyahu and al-Sissi have deteriorated significantly since the outbreak of the war in Gaza, but the $35 billion gas deal between the countries makes such a summit possible. However, a senior Egyptian official stressed that the deal is 'purely commercial' -
Haaretz - 19:44 Dec 18, 2025
'The Islamic State has not yet had an opportunity to engage in a direct showdown with the Jews, but supporters have not stopped their attempts to strike against Jews everywhere,' the ISIS newsletter read, calling the antisemitic killing spree in Australia that left 15 dead 'a source of pride' -
JPost.com - Antisemitism - 19:39 Dec 18, 2025
Hanukkah is arguably the best-known of all the Jewish holidays, despite not being one of the high holidays. This year, however, Hanukkah has been in the news for more harrowing reasons.
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Haaretz - 19:25 Dec 18, 2025
Despite some giving sunny outlooks for the Gaza cease-fire, a closer look suggests otherwise. There are numerous Mideast actors with a great interest in restarting wars, still heavily armed, even poised to go -
Haaretz - 19:05 Dec 18, 2025
With growing fear that the U.S.-brokered cease-fire between Israel and Lebanon could unravel, the Paris meeting also aimed to dissuade Israel from escalation, diplomats said. A French diplomat said that France condemns the Israeli strikes in the country -
Haaretz - 19:05 Dec 18, 2025
Israel's government could always count on Germany's support. No longer. According to Jan van Aken, the head of Germany's Die Linke party, Israelis do not grasp the magnitude of the shift taking place in public opinion in his country -
Haaretz - 18:38 Dec 18, 2025
Five years before his murder, the retired civil engineer, who authored two books on Jewish history, described his growing concerns for Australian Jewry. 'There are more photos of desecrated cemeteries and swastikas on the walls of synagogues. We must be strong' -
Haaretz - 18:36 Dec 18, 2025
The police chiefs of London and Manchester said the Bondi Beach attack and the Yom Kippur attack at a Manchester synagogue 'increased fear in Jewish communities,' necessitating 'an enhanced response' ■ German court rules 'from the river to the sea' constitutes support for terrorism -
JPost.com - Christian World - 18:00 Dec 18, 2025
The pope expressed his pride in Israel’s diverse and thriving Christian communities, who will gather at the President’s Residence in Jerusalem for an annual festive meeting in the coming weeks.
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Haaretz - 17:42 Dec 18, 2025
Rubio said that the two judges had 'directly engaged in efforts by the ICC to investigate, arrest, detain, or prosecute Israeli nationals, without Israel's consent,' and were involved in the ICC's decision to reject an Israeli appeal against the arrest warrants issued for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant -
Haaretz - 17:08 Dec 18, 2025
New survey illustrates stark generational divide over antisemitism, Netanyahu's favorability and U.S.-Israel relations -
Haaretz - 17:07 Dec 18, 2025
A rights group requested an urgent hearing to remove a ban on a popular Hapoel Tel Aviv fan shirt that calls police and far-right activists 'scum.' Haaretz learned that Israeli authorities were unsure whether the ban could survive the petition, but police maintained the shirt is a threat to public order -
JPost.com - Antisemitism - 16:37 Dec 18, 2025
Islamic State praised the Bondi Jewish festival shooting but gave no claim of responsibility.
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Haaretz - 15:45 Dec 18, 2025
Peter Beinart declared he wanted to 'challenge Jewish supremacy' by speaking at Tel Aviv University. Twelve hours later, he executed a whiplash-inducing apology, conceding to the BDS movement's purity tests. His reversal only benefits the most absolutist pro-Palestine voices that dismiss Israelis wholesale as monsters -
Haaretz - 15:42 Dec 18, 2025
Members of the Israeli Nachala settlement movement headed by Daniella Weiss crossed the border in their push to resettle the Gaza Strip in light of October 7, and were removed by IDF troops. MK Gilad Kariv warned Defense Minister Katz that the event could cause international political damage