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Eurovision voting rules changed following audience votes winning Israel second place

Haaretz - 22:23 Nov 21, 2025

Public broadcasters urged a review of Eurovision's voting process after Israel's Yuval Raphael placed second in 2025, and the competition's director announced Friday that votes will be cut from 20 to 10, stressing, 'governments don't participate in Eurovision, artists do'

Tags: Eurovision
Explained: The Netanyahu government's multifront war on Israeli and foreign media

Haaretz - 21:45 Nov 21, 2025

What is the difference between the Al Jazeera law and the broadcast law in the Knesset? Why does Israel want to shutter its own Army Radio? Why are press freedom advocates sounding the alarm in Israel? Haaretz explains
Analysis | The ultra-hawkish right and anti-Zionist left have drowned the American Jewish middle

Haaretz - 21:44 Nov 21, 2025

Every U.S. politics pathology is reproduced in Jewish politics. That's bad for a democratic Israel and a free Palestine
Netanyahu's opportunistic duo buoys the boss, but when's their next betrayal?

Haaretz - 18:42 Nov 21, 2025

Gideon Sa'ar and Zeev Elkin, former defectors from Likud, are now back trying to whitewash the prime minister's blame for October 7. Netanyahu wields a policy of welcoming back renegades who save his government
Israel bars U.S. surgeon from entering Gaza to help thousands despite initial approval

Haaretz - 18:20 Nov 21, 2025

Dr. Feroze Sidhwa, an American specialist in abdominal injury rehabilitation, has already visited Gaza twice and received preliminary approval from the IDF to enter again. However, when he arrived in Jordan about a week and a half ago, he was informed that his entry was prohibited – and has been waiting there ever since

Tags: Gaza
Mamdani faces backlash for saying aliyah event at NY synagogue promotes 'violation of international law'

Haaretz - 17:12 Nov 21, 2025

After anti-Israel activists demonstrated outside a synagogue holding an event promoting Jewish immigration to Israel, also known as aliyah, the protest – which included chants of 'death to the IDF' and 'globalize the intifada' – was widely condemned
Singapore sanctions four far-right Israeli activists over violence against Palestinians

Haaretz - 15:07 Nov 21, 2025

Singapore is the latest country to sanction far-right Israeli settler activists amid the surge in West Bank violence. While it singled out individuals 'jeopardizing prospects for a two-state solution,' it stopped short of recognizing a Palestinian state or sanctioning officials like Ben-Gvir

Tags: Israeli Singapore
As it prepares for multifront wars of attrition, the IDF faces a manpower crunch and spiraling costs

Haaretz - 13:57 Nov 21, 2025

It's clear that the IDF can't return to the pre-October 7 model of routine border security. You don't need classified information to see Israel's need to replenish vast quantities of munitions and interceptor missiles
IDF soldiers seize cattle from Palestinian family, give them to Israeli settlers

Haaretz - 13:40 Nov 21, 2025

Israeli soldiers assaulted a Palestinian family in the West Bank and took their cows without presenting a written order, according to a petition filed on the family's behalf. The animals were then transferred to Israeli settlers, who claim the herd was theirs all along

Tags: Israeli Palestinian
Washington's mixed signals leave Beirut caught between Hezbollah and Israeli demands

Haaretz - 13:00 Nov 21, 2025

Conflicting messages from U.S. politicians and military commanders complicate Lebanon's efforts to curb Hezbollah, manage Israeli escalation and avert a return to war

Tags: Israeli Hezbollah
Miriam Feirberg, one of Israel's longest-serving mayors, dies at 74

Haaretz - 11:06 Nov 21, 2025

Feirberg served in various positions in the Netanya municipality since the 1970s. In 1998, she was elected mayor and remained in office until her death, serving five consecutive terms
Settlers vandalize, torch Palestinian property in West Bank overnight, sources say

Haaretz - 10:23 Nov 21, 2025

Palestinian sources also reported that settlers beat an 85-year-old man in Wadi Rahim in the South Hebron Hills, near the settlement of Susiya

Tags: Palestinian
'Jews were taken hostage before, too': Shin Bet chief defends death penalty as 'deterrent'

Haaretz - 09:16 Nov 21, 2025

Likud Minister Gila Gamliel warned that 'Jewish citizens may also get executed' under the new death penalty bill, to which National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir replied that only those who 'act against the revival of the Jewish people' would be executed
Israeli mentality 101: How films became a survival guide for these new immigrants

Haaretz - 08:25 Nov 21, 2025

In Haifa, a film club screening Israeli movies helps new Russian immigrants make sense of their strange new country – and find community

Tags: Israeli
'In the U.S. life is too easy. So I'm moving to Israel, where every day is a challenge'

Haaretz - 07:58 Nov 21, 2025

This week at Ben-Gurion Airport: A Floridian transplant who owns two guns back home because he doesn't trust the government, and an Israeli psychedelic groove band whose members believe suffering is essential to making good art
Two East Jerusalem teens killed by Israeli forces, Palestinian officials report

Haaretz - 07:51 Nov 21, 2025

According to the Ramallah ministry's statement, the two killed were Amro Khaled Ahmad al-Marbu'a, 18, and Sami Ibrahim Sami Mashaikh, 16
How would the Bible tell the story of Netanyahu and the Gaza war?

Haaretz - 06:39 Nov 21, 2025

The Bible is not necessarily an homage to military victories in antiquity, but rather a complex tale relating to the human psyche – and to those who stubbornly held up a mirror to it
The Israeli 'treatment' for a seriously ill teen: Threats of deportation to Gaza

Haaretz - 05:10 Nov 21, 2025

Yamen Al-Najjar, a 16-year-old with a severe blood disorder, has been hospitalized in East Jerusalem for two years. This week, Israel sought to deport him to Gaza, where his family lives in a tent after their home was destroyed. His mother is certain he wouldn't survive a day if returned

Tags: Gaza
Netanyahu will swallow whatever humiliation Trump hurls at him – and to hell with Israel

Haaretz - 04:01 Nov 21, 2025

In exchange for pushing for a pardon and aid in his election effort, Netanyahu will say yes to whatever the American president wants ■ The more the October 7 committee looks like a caricature, the more the public will relate to it accordingly ■ What should the opposition leaders be doing as the election less than a year from now approaches?

Tags: Netanyahu
All signs point to imminent Israel-Hezbollah escalation along Lebanon border

Haaretz - 04:01 Nov 21, 2025

IDF officers have once again begun discussing the possibility of a brief period of focused clashes with Hezbollah, as the military now believes Hamas has between 20,000 and 25,000 armed operatives in Lebanon

Tags: Lebanon

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