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U.S., Israel, Syria set up joint coordination mechanism after Paris talks

Haaretz - 19:14 Jan 06, 2026

A senior Syrian official said the U.S.-led initiative would immediately suspend all Israeli military activity against Syria, calling it a 'historic opportunity' for negotiations and stressing that progress would be impossible without a clear timetable for Israeli withdrawal

Tags: Syria
'We saved the child from drowning': In Gaza, rain makes displacement even more deadly

Haaretz - 18:15 Jan 06, 2026

Wind and rain are tearing apart Gaza's tents, collapsing buildings and flooding streets and shelters. With many winter supplies barred by Israel, black-market merchants are selling tents for up to $1,000. One Palestinian said, 'We don't know where we will sleep the next time it rains'
Rep. Dan Goldman defends pro-Israel stance and attacks Brad Lander as New York primary poised to test Jewish voters

Haaretz - 17:45 Jan 06, 2026

The Democratic congressman used a New York Times interview to affirm his position as a moderate, pro-Israel candidate in contrast to Lander, whom he criticized for his activist tendencies

Tags: Israel
Israeli President Herzog bagged his confidant a job on right-wing Greek election campaign

Haaretz - 17:15 Jan 06, 2026

Haaretz has learned that the company of Moti Sander worked on online influence operations for the Greek ruling party New Democracy's 2023 election campaign through Herzog's connections. Sander has since fallen out with the president and threatened to expose alleged understandings between Herzog and Netanyahu over a pardon

Tags: Greek
Haaretz's Bar Peleg among four Israeli reporters honored for journalistic excellence

Haaretz - 17:11 Jan 06, 2026

The 2025 Award for Journalistic Excellence, granted by the Israel Press Institute, totals 60,000 shekels (about $16,000) and will be divided among the four recipients, Bar Peleg, Roni Singer, Yossi Mizrahi and Doron Kadosh

Tags: Bar Peleg
Arab party leaders call to form joint list, oust Netanyahu 'with our own hands'

Haaretz - 16:59 Jan 06, 2026

United Arab List leader Mansour Abbas said the Arab parties 'need to stand up courageously and admit our mistakes.' Hadash-Ta'al chairman Ayman Odeh said the fight against Netanyahu 'must be one of all citizens about the way we want to live in a democratic society'

Tags: Arab Netanyahu
Should Israel's opposition call Netanyahu a 'traitor'?

Haaretz - 16:56 Jan 06, 2026

The words 'treason,' 'betrayal' and 'traitor' are being lobbed at the Israeli prime minister amid new developments in the Qatargate scandal. But referring to politicians as traitors in Israel has a deadly history
Huckabee takes grandkids to West Bank settlement for archaeological tour, finding 'amazing ancient coins'

Haaretz - 16:25 Jan 06, 2026

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee has been a longtime supporter of Jewish settlements in the West Bank. An Israeli settler leader said the Huckabee family's archaeological discovery is 'the best testimony to our historical right to every part of the Land of Israel'

Tags: West Bank Huckabee
Life in Portugal is cheaper and calmer. But can Israelis survive there?

Haaretz - 15:51 Jan 06, 2026

Israelis who moved to Portugal before and during the war discover a place with a very different mentality, and a much lower cost of life - if you manage to keep your old Israeli job

Tags: Israelis Portugal
'Crude and illegitimate': Arab lawmaker calls for police spokesperson to be investigated over TV interview row

Haaretz - 15:01 Jan 06, 2026

Lawmaker Ahmad Tibi responded to the police's call to consider opening an investigation into him for calling the police spokesperson a 'nobody' and a 'punk' in a Monday televised interview
From Macron to OpenAI's Sam Altman: An Iranian hack opened an Israeli intelligence gold mine

Haaretz - 14:45 Jan 06, 2026

An Iranian-backed hack-and-leak operation that compromised the phones of figures including former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Prime Minister Netanyahu's chief of staff allowed hackers to extract contact lists containing Israeli security officials and world leaders, raising fears of surveillance and intelligence mapping

Tags: Israeli
Maccabi Haifa faces disciplinary action after fans display banner referencing pornographic meme at derby

Haaretz - 13:36 Jan 06, 2026

Maccabi Haifa fans are accused of displaying a banner that was a visual reproduction of a well-known internet meme originating in a pornographic video; Arab-Israeli team Bnei Sakhnin faces charges over chants invoking Jewish supremacist Meir Kahane

Tags: Maccabi Haifa
Bedouin regional council petitions High Court to stop 'heavy-handed' Tarabin police operation

Haaretz - 12:47 Jan 06, 2026

The El-Kassum Regional Council argued that the Israel Police, acting under Ben-Gvir's direction in the southern Israeli town of Tarabin, have carried out what it described as 'unilateral, heavy-handed and disproportionate' actions

Tags: Tarabin
At least 35 killed, 1,200 detained in Iran protests as threat of U.S. intervention looms

Haaretz - 12:35 Jan 06, 2026

According to the U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency, 29 protesters, four children and two members of Iran's security forces have been killed. Demonstrations have reached over 250 locations in 27 of Iran's 31 provinces
With the help of the Shin Bet, Israel launches anti-AI task force ahead of 2026 elections

Haaretz - 12:23 Jan 06, 2026

The team, led by the Shin Bet and Israel's Elections Committee, will work with private companies and vendors in the defensive cybersecurity field and combat threats posed by AI on social media

Tags: Shin
'Spit in the face': Knesset holds event for Oct. 7 families with only pro-Netanyahu groups

Haaretz - 11:47 Jan 06, 2026

The conference was described as 'a salute' to those who uplifted the nation during wartime, but families who opposed the government during the war were not invited. Smotrich told Haaretz it was legitimate to 'elevate certain people that, in our view, were on the right side'
Israeli foreign minister visits Somaliland: 'Unlike "Palestine," it's not a virtual state'

Haaretz - 11:24 Jan 06, 2026

Gideon Sa'ar vowed that mutual embassies would be opened, and the president said he had accepted Prime Minister Netanyahu's invitation to visit Israel. The trip comes about two weeks after Israel became the first UN member state to recognize the republic as an independent state
Trump discussed Turkey's role in postwar Gaza force with Netanyahu in Florida, source says

Haaretz - 10:33 Jan 06, 2026

As Israel and the United States struggle to recruit foreign countries willing to send troops to the international stabilization force in Gaza, Israel continues to strongly oppose Turkey's participation in the initiative

Tags: Gaza Turkey's
How a quiet Bedouin village in Israel's south turned into Ben-Gvir's supremacist playground

Haaretz - 10:07 Jan 06, 2026

'What we saw in Gaza and the West Bank has reached us, too,' says a relative of Mohammed al-Sana, who was fatally shot by Israel Police officers in Tarabin. Residents say the killing shattered hopes in the village, amid arrests of children and what they describe as collective punishment. 'It proved to me that we don't live in a democratic country'
Israeli and Syrian officials hold security talks in Paris with Witkoff and Kushner

Haaretz - 07:51 Jan 06, 2026

According to Syria's state news agency SANA, the Syrian delegation is seeking to advance a security deal that would guarantee a full Israeli withdrawal from positions held in southern Syria since December 2024

Tags: Israeli Syrian

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