Israel news feed
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Haaretz - 20:13 Oct 23, 2025
In the New York mayoral race, Zohran Mamdani's views are not fringe. He is articulating what many Americans already believe. So when his critics attack him on Israel, they are out of touch, to say the least -
Haaretz - 20:02 Oct 23, 2025
Angrest, an avid athlete and a die-hard fan of the Maccabi Haifa soccer team, was kidnapped on October 7 from his tank while serving in the IDF. Two years later, thousands crowded the streets of northern Israel's Kiryat Bialik to witness his return, breaking into Maccabi Haifa chants and waving flags -
Haaretz - 19:33 Oct 23, 2025
Smuss joined the Jewish resistance in the ghetto, throwing Molotov cocktails at the Nazi soldiers from the rooftops of the ghetto. He was also one of the few resistance fighters to survive the almost one month of fighting -
Haaretz - 19:25 Oct 23, 2025
A woman who charged a member of Netanyahu's party with rape has vanished in Russia. The Israeli PM himself is managing a trial in which key witnesses who have retracted their testimony are rewarded by his Likud party. A former senior law enforcement official admits: 'Undoubtedly, we've been deterred' -
Haaretz - 19:05 Oct 23, 2025
The 'operational backbone' of the proposal would be a so-called 'Gaza Humanitarian Belt' – 12-16 humanitarian hubs positioned along the line to which Israeli forces have withdrawn within Gaza. However, one senior aid official said the hubs 'are very concerning as they resemble GHF sites' -
Haaretz - 18:48 Oct 23, 2025
Speaking at David Zini's inauguration ceremony at his office in Jerusalem, Netanyahu slammed claims that the U.S. is determining Israel's security policy: 'As both I and Vance said yesterday, we are partners, we work together' -
Haaretz - 18:07 Oct 23, 2025
Visiting Israel, Kushner articulated a scenario suggesting the West Bankification of Gaza, just as Israel's Knesset voted to progress a bill to annex the West Bank. That 'vision', with Netanyahu still in power, would be a tremendous regression, a disaster for the Palestinians as well as for Israel -
Haaretz - 17:45 Oct 23, 2025
Israeli defense sources say that senior American officials have said that they will not tolerate any surprises from Israel that could jeopardize the cease-fire in Gaza. In practice, the U.S. is taking over certain security authorities from Israel -
Haaretz - 16:39 Oct 23, 2025
Ohad Naharin will hold a virtual class on Gaga, his globally renowned dance and pedagogy, where proceeds will support Standing Together, a Jewish-Arab grassroots peace group in Israel: 'It unites people – a real online community has formed, with people from the UAE, Iran, Lebanon and Egypt' -
Haaretz - 16:18 Oct 23, 2025
Onlookers expressed disgust at the provocative chants, which included 'every soldier is a partner to murder,' sometimes shouting at the group and at other times approaching to argue with members of the marching crowd. Some onlookers were shouting 'shame on you!' and 'go to Gaza!' at the marchers -
Haaretz - 15:39 Oct 23, 2025
Michael Ben-Gad, an economics professor at the University of London, reportedly said protesters who'd stormed his class threatened to have his 'head chopped off' over his IDF service during the first Lebanon War. A petition to remove him from his position has garnered 400 signatures -
JPost.com - Antisemitism - 15:05 Oct 23, 2025
When Holocaust survivors and survivors of October 7 walked together at the March of the Living, a bridge was formed between past and present.
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Haaretz - 14:55 Oct 23, 2025
Before leaving Israel, U.S. Vice President JD Vance said Trump's policy remains that the occupied West Bank won't be annexed by Israel. Vance added that he took 'some insult' at the situation and, if it were true that it was merely a political stunt – as he said he had been told – then 'it was a very stupid political stunt' -
JPost.com - Antisemitism - 14:30 Oct 23, 2025
Anti-Israel activists disrupt a lecture at City, University of London, demanding Professor Michael Ben-Gad's dismissal over his IDF service.
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Haaretz - 14:15 Oct 23, 2025
As of yesterday, Israel had returned 195 bodies to the Gaza Strip, but only 57 had been identified by their families. A doctor in Gaza described some bodies returning with their hands tied or shot in the head or chest at close range, while one had a rope around the neck -
JPost.com - Business & Innovation - 14:10 Oct 23, 2025
Israeli researchers discovered diverse, nutrient-rich seaweeds in the Mediterranean that could power future innovations in food, medicine, cosmetics, and climate solutions.
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Haaretz - 14:08 Oct 23, 2025
After studying the testimonies of several dozen hostages who were released from captivity in Gaza, Prof. Inbar Levkovich insists that the struggle to return all of the deceased hostages is important for former captives, who see all of those who were in Gaza 'on a family level, like siblings' -
Haaretz - 13:58 Oct 23, 2025
The president put significant pressure on Israel's prime minister to end the war in Gaza, telling Netanyahu that he 'can't fight the world' and going on a 'profanity-laced tirade' when the Israeli prime minister pushed back -
Haaretz - 13:53 Oct 23, 2025
Rania is raising her children in a single overcrowded room. Anas buried his father alone in Rafah. Maha is unemployed. And Aisha escaped to Egypt and refuses to return. All five Gazans are left asking the same question: How do you rebuild a life after this?