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• Police tear gas Bedouin community elementary school in southern Israel

  Haaretz - 17:43 Feb 16, 2026
  

  A school employee said children in Tarabin had difficulty breathing and some began choking as a result of a police search underway in the area. The incident comes a month after a two-week long police raid in Tarabin saw the arrest of 30 suspects, but no charges were pressed

• Why did Muslim nuclear power Pakistan join Trump's Gaza Board of Peace, alongside Israel?

  Haaretz - 17:12 Feb 16, 2026
  

  By signing up to the Board of Peace for Gaza, Pakistan effectively endorsed a quieter form of normalization with Israel, marked not by grand declarations but a slow erosion of taboos and shared frameworks. But Pakistan's real motivations lie in D.C. – and the Gulf

  Tags: Pakistan Peace Israel

• Johannesburg private school sparks furor for canceling tennis match with Jewish girls' team

  Haaretz - 17:07 Feb 16, 2026
  

  While Roedean School initially claimed the match with King David High School's girls team was canceled due to players having 'academic commitments,' a Roedean School official admitted in a leaked call that parents were pressuring the team 'because of the stance that the South African government took' against Israel

• Your car is spying on you – and Israeli firms are leading the surveillance race

  Haaretz - 16:53 Feb 16, 2026
  

  From hands-free systems to tire-pressure data, a new field known as CARINT turns vehicles into powerful intelligence tools

• Three Israelis arrested for crossing into Syria in demand of Jewish settlements

  Haaretz - 16:42 Feb 16, 2026
  

  The right-wing activists are set to be brought for a custody hearing on Monday. After crossing into Syria in August, one of the activists said 'it was a bit of a surprise that it took the IDF so much time to get here, but ... the fence was simply open'

  Tags: Syria

• State Prosecution: Unknown when former Likud adviser Srulik Einhorn will be brought to Israel for trial

  Haaretz - 16:24 Feb 16, 2026
  

  At a hearing the witness-harassment case of Shlomo Filber, the state prosecution submitted classified documents outlining the efforts to bring Israel Einhorn from Serbia to Israel. The court ordered prosecutors to explain the trial will continue without him

  Tags: Israel

• The settlement movement owes its success in expelling West Bank communities to the Oslo accords

  Haaretz - 15:48 Feb 16, 2026
  

  The temporary division of the West Bank, made by the Oslo accords as a guideline for the gradual military deployment, was meant to expire by 1999. But the temporary has become eternal

  Tags: Oslo West Bank

• Bye-bye, Zim: Another Israeli icon sails off into the sunset

  Haaretz - 15:43 Feb 16, 2026
  

  Most of Zim's assets are being sold overseas, with just a handful of vessels remaining under Israeli control. Should Israel's government allow it?

• Iran meets UN nuclear watchdog before second round of U.S. talks

  Haaretz - 15:20 Feb 16, 2026
  

  Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi met with the IAEA chief in Geneva, saying he seeks a 'fair and equitable deal' without yielding to threats. Ahead of Tuesday's U.S.-Iran talks, Tehran launched naval exercises in the Strait of Hormuz, signaling defiance amid Washington's military buildup

  Tags: Iran

• 52 killed in 45 days: Three Arab Israelis fatally shot in one day, police say

  Haaretz - 13:57 Feb 16, 2026
  

  Abdel Karim, 22, and Ahmed Abu Ghazaleh, 46, were shot inside a car, causing it to flip, and a man was fatally shot a few hours later in a suspected revenge killing over a shooting last week that killed a 40-year old woman in the northern Israeli Arab town of Tamra. Of those murdered since the start of 2026, 47 have been Arab citizens of Israel

• 'A bigoted litmus test': Campaign targeting Jewish children's summer camps in Canada condemned as antisemitic

  Haaretz - 12:06 Feb 16, 2026
  

  The campaign urged revoking accreditation from camps that employ current or former IDF soldiers and accused camps association director Joy Levy of anti-Palestinian racism; the association said these campaigns have 'no place in camp culture or elsewhere'

• 'The dybbuk exists in every person': What possesses Israeli society?

  Haaretz - 12:01 Feb 16, 2026
  

  A new Hebrew opera based on S. An-sky's play premieres at the Israeli Opera for a limited five-performance run, a documentary in Jaffa follows Arab women creating their own space and this year's Rappaport Prize winners are announced

• Israeli citizen accused of gathering intel on former Defense Minister Gallant for Iran

  Haaretz - 10:29 Feb 16, 2026
  

  Fares Abu Al-Hija, 32, from an Arab town in northern Israel, was charged with contacting a foreign agent and arrested last month after taking photos of the streets around Gallant's home and sending them to an Iranian official, who paid him $3,600

• Ancient factory for stone 'Jewish' kitchenware discovered in Jerusalem while capturing looters

  Haaretz - 09:32 Feb 16, 2026
  

  Excavation in Jerusalem's Mount Scopus was noticed where none should be. Antiquities inspectors waited for nights and caught thieves red-handed

• Producer of hit Israeli TV show 'Tehran' found dead in Athens hotel

  Haaretz - 07:57 Feb 16, 2026
  

  Greek media reported that suspicious bruising was found on Dana Eden's body, prompting authorities to examine a possible murder. Eden's production company published a statement saying that 'rumors suggesting a criminal or politically motivated death are false and unfounded'

• Suspect in mass shooting at Sydney's Bondi Beach appears in court

  Haaretz - 07:15 Feb 16, 2026
  

  Naveed Akram, accused of killing 15 people in a mass shooting at a Hannukah event in December, did not enter pleas to the charges against him, including murder and committing a terrorist act

• Huckabee: 'Legitimate doubt' Iran will compromise; Graham: Intervention 'within weeks'

  Haaretz - 04:56 Feb 16, 2026
  

• Trump's condemnation will not stop Israel's right from West Bank annexation

  Haaretz - 04:21 Feb 16, 2026
  

  Even though Trump has said he is 'against annexation,' the Israeli right will not stop until it has claimed sovereignty over what was affectionately known as an 'occupation,' but is in reality a mass expulsion

• A Bennett-led party won't end the occupation, but at least it could end Bibi-ism

  Haaretz - 04:19 Feb 16, 2026
  

  After the October 7 massacre, most Israelis shifted further right, justifying depriving another people of its human dignity. But these people are also eager to free the country from Bibi, and if they want to succeed, they need a political home too

• Dear Jewish citizens: Learn from a bereaved Arab mother

  Haaretz - 03:57 Feb 16, 2026
  

  If an Arab mother whose son was murdered in front of her home can organize and protest against the very system that killed her child, then Jewish Israelis can join her, because the battle for democracy and citizenship needs everyone

  Tags: Arab

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