Israel news feed
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Haaretz - 10:40 Apr 20, 2026
The condemnations and apologies came after a video showed an Israeli soldier smashing a statue of Jesus in Debel, southern Lebanon, prompting an IDF investigation. U.S. Ambassador Huckabee called for swift punishment -
Haaretz - 10:38 Apr 20, 2026
Cultural diversion works when economic pain can be blamed on outsiders, but Hungary's Victor Orbán had no one to point at. The same mechanism could just as easily punish the man who ousted him -
Haaretz - 09:59 Apr 20, 2026
For 40 years, the assassination of Sweden's prime minister, Olof Palme, has remained unsolved. Now, some are revisiting a dark possibility: not a lone gunman, but a covert network embedded deep within Swedish society – part of a secret Europe-wide effort to resist a Soviet invasion -
Haaretz - 09:18 Apr 20, 2026
Avdija's historic season continued with the announcement that he is one of three finalists for the prestigious award ■ He scored 30 points and recorded 10 rebounds in a loss to San Antonio on Sunday -
Haaretz - 09:08 Apr 20, 2026
Among competent rulers, Rome also produced celebrity-obsessed narcissists who treated the imperial treasury like a piggy bank and the law like a suggestion. -
Haaretz - 08:40 Apr 20, 2026
After 50 days, elementary school students at Kibbutz Kfar Giladi returned. 'Of course we missed it,' one girl says. Parents are anxious: 'This war ended the way it started. There still isn't enough security here. It's a feeling of distrust' -
Haaretz - 08:12 Apr 20, 2026
The nanny – convicted for attempting to poison the Jewish family she worked for – told police: 'Because they have money and power, I should never have worked for a Jewish woman.' French Jewish leader Yonathan Arfi said the ruling is 'incomprehensible' -
Haaretz - 08:07 Apr 20, 2026
The attack was the latest in a series of arson incidents targeting Jewish sites across the capital in recent weeks: counter-terrorism officers said they are probing possible links the wave of attacks on Jewish targets and Iran -
Haaretz - 07:09 Apr 20, 2026
Iran said it would not participate in a second round of negotiations in Pakistan before the cease-fire expires on Tuesday, as the U.S. has maintained a naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz and seized an Iranian vessel, while both countries have exchanged military threats -
Haaretz - 01:21 Apr 20, 2026
'Killing tens of thousands of people makes you pretty damn evil,' El-Sayed told CNN congressional reporter Manu Raja on the network's Inside Politics program. 'It's not how evil is this one versus that one – Hamas: Evil, Israeli government: Evil. We can say both' -
Haaretz - 00:54 Apr 20, 2026
To Israelis, the words 'security zone' evoke difficult memories of 18 years in the Lebanese quagmire and continuous friction that exacted a heavy price. Today, it seems the only thing that has changed is the terminology -
JPost.com - Antisemitism - 00:45 Apr 20, 2026
Tony Greenstein, suspended from the Green Party over antisemitism allegations, disputes the accusations in an interview with The Jerusalem Post, vowing to retain his membership.
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Haaretz - 00:16 Apr 20, 2026
Had Israel acted rationally following the cease-fire in late 2024, it would have refrained from hunting down Lebanese, coordinated a withdrawal from the territory it had occupied with the Lebanese government and opened the way for the country's reconstruction. But obviously that sounds like a sorry joke -
Haaretz - 23:49 Apr 19, 2026
The encounter between Mordechai David and comedian Idan Alterman is a watershed moment. Here then is the true watershed: it revolves around the question of who is a hero, and who looks into the mirror and lowers his eyes when he sees what's there -
Haaretz - 23:25 Apr 19, 2026
According to National Insurance Institute data, since 1851 – the date chosen as the beginning of the pre-state Jewish community in what is now Israel – 5,313 civilians have been killed. Of these, 3,762 have been killed since the War of Independence in 1948, including 1,017 who were killed since the October 7 attack -
Haaretz - 22:58 Apr 19, 2026
The IDF said that an initial examination determined that the photograph is authentic, adding that 'the soldier's conduct is wholly inconsistent with the values expected of its troops.' Israeli strikes have reportedly hit many religious sites in Lebanon -
Haaretz - 22:07 Apr 19, 2026
A project in Zambia to replace leopard pelts with synthetic fur in ceremonies, such as the annual migration of the Lozi King, is showing results, a new paper claims -
Haaretz - 21:26 Apr 19, 2026
The joint Israeli-Palestinian Memorial Day ceremony is now in its 21st year. One of its organizers says that people are now joining faster after the loss of their loved ones, understanding 'they can't remain indifferent' -
Haaretz - 21:17 Apr 19, 2026
Levin has delayed the appointment of some 150 judges at a time when roughly 15 percent of judicial positions remained unfilled. In the absence of judges, the public has had to wait months or even years for verdicts and other rulings