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Israel and Lebanon extended a shaky ceasefire by three weeks, President Donald Trump said on Thursday, as the United States remained at a standstill in negotiations with Iran to end the Middle East war. Trump announced the truce extension as he met with ambassadors of the two countries and despite recent Israeli strikes in Lebanon and fresh rocket fire from Hezbollah, which was not part of the talks in Washington. “I think there’s a very good chance of having peace. I think it should be an easy one,” Trump told reporters on Thursday. The initial truce had been set to expire on Sunday. Still, the US president said earlier he was in no rush to end the war with Iran, adding that “the clock is ticking” for the Islamic republic as a third American aircraft carrier arrived in the Middle East. Iranian media reported blasts over the capital Tehran, a first since the ceasefire in the Middle East war came into effect two weeks ago. It was not clear what caused the explosions, though an Israeli security source told AFP ...

The findings follow a Pew Research Center survey earlier in April that found 70% of Americans aged 18 to 49 held a somewhat or very negative opinion of Israel.

The 70th Eurovision Song Contest will be held in Vienna, with over 1,000 musicians calling for a boycott of the event in protest of Israel’s participation.

In an interview with Haaretz ahead of the release of 'Israel: What Went Wrong,' renowned genocide studies scholar Omer Bartov talks about trading letters with Yitzhak Rabin as a young soldier, what's wrong with Holocaust-Hamas comparisons and why he thinks Israelis, too, need to ditch Zionism

There have been 102 homicides recorded across Israel in 2026, a sharp rise in comparison to the 93 who were killed during the same time last year

Speaking to Haaretz, Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide said his country hopes cooperation with the Trump-led Gaza Board of Peace will help pressure Israel to transfer the tax revenues it collects for the Palestinian Authority

There are children with special needs who are incapable of independence. Israel is like that. Take away its reliance on the U.S., its babysitter, and a disaster worse than the ones it has brought upon itself will occur

Police said the killing is under criminal investigation. The victim was found inside a vehicle in Ein al-Asad, a Druze village in northern Israel, with gunshot wounds and pronounced dead at the scene

The members said that 'settling the Bashan will bring security to the Golan and to all of Israel.' In a separate incident, three Israelis crossed the fence and moved several dozen meters into Lebanon, the military said

So many have written off Israel and its people. But story after story reveals not just its potential, but the light already within it

Indonesia on Wednesday accused Israel of flying a “propaganda” banner over the ruins of a hospital that had been built in Gaza with Indonesian funding. The Indonesia Hospital, in the north of the Gaza Strip near the fortified border with Israel, was opened in late 2015 after Indonesia’s Medical Emergency Rescue Committee, a humanitarian NGO, raised approximately $7.3 million in donations for its construction, according to state news agency Antara. It has since been destroyed, and Jakarta on Wednesday objected to the raising of a banner over the ruins that alluded to Israel’s 12-day “Rising Lion” military operation against Iran last year. “The use of military symbols and propaganda over the ruins of a destroyed hospital, especially when linked to a specific military operation, is a highly provocative act and cannot be justified,” the foreign ministry said in a statement posted on X. “This act is an insult to a humanitarian facility built from the solidarity of the Indonesian people for the Palestinian people.”...

The announcement formalized a political evolution for Dershowitz, who defended Trump during his first impeachment and has increasingly broken with Democrats over Israel in recent years.

Italy's rejection of the suspension of the EU Association Agreement comes after weeks of increased tensions with Israel, particularly concerning Israel's war against Hezbollah in Lebanon

Netanyahu's Israel is a broken, divided and ostracized country and desperately needs fundamental change. It needs a leadership that will seek compromise, that promotes peace with its enemies and peace at home for all its citizens

The talks will be the first since a ten-day U.S.-brokered cease-fire took effect after weeks of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah • Regional source to Haaretz: Potential meeting between Netanyahu and Aoun could take place in a month, pending both parties' consent

Rahm Emanuel, a U.S. presidential hopeful and pro-Israel hawk, has called for rethinking U.S.-Israel ties, reflecting a shift in the Democratic consensus. Will that be enough for those outraged by the Netanyahu government and its actions in Gaza?

A long-running dispute between an unauthorized Bedouin village and Israel continues without housing solutions. Residents call the demolitions unjustified, while authorities cite repeated court rulings against the illegal settlement

The main point of contention is the Board of Peace's demand that Hamas give up its arms, with the Gaza militia insisting on reciprocal moves from Israel. Meanwhile, the Palestinian Authority is facing a deepening economic crisis in the West Bank, with its public servants paying the price

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the foreign minister and the military on Monday condemned the desecration of a crucifix after it was smashed by an Israeli soldier in a Christian village in southern Lebanon. A photo that emerged online over the weekend shows a soldier taking the blunt side of an axe to a fallen sculpture of Jesus on the cross. It was posted by Younis Tirawi, who describes himself as a Palestinian reporter and has also posted images of Israeli soldiers’ misconduct in Gaza. Reuters verified the location of the image as Debel, one of the few villages in southern Lebanon where residents remained through an Israeli military campaign against Hezbollah that began on March 2. The cross was part of a small shrine in the garden of a family living on the edge of the village, said Fadi Falfel, a priest in Debel. “One of the Israeli soldiers broke the cross and did this horrible thing, this desecration of our holy symbols,” he said. Netanyahu said that the soldier’s actions went against Jewish ...

Sprijinul tradițional al Statelor Unite pentru Israel traversează o perioadă de declin accentuat, pe fondul tensiunilor generate de războiul cu Iranul și de politicile premierului israelian Benjamin Netanyahu.