Israel news feed
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Haaretz - 20:28 Jun 04, 2025
The looming collapse of Netanyahu's coalition isn't just about religion and state. It's a reckoning over the Gaza war, that can't continue without new recruits and with an ultra-Orthodox public unwilling to send its sons to fight it -
Haaretz - 20:10 Jun 04, 2025
While the Israeli army has rejected most of the allegations that troops opened fire on Palestinian civilians near food distribution sites, it has decided to set up the mounds due to the international attention recent incidents have drawn -
Haaretz - 19:30 Jun 04, 2025
In footage captured of the event, residential homes and vehicles can be seen burning with clouds of smoke rising from the blaze, while in the background, residents can be heard yelling frantically -
Haaretz - 19:29 Jun 04, 2025
As Netanyahu faced cross-examination in his corruption trial for the first time this week, most Israelis looked away. His misjudgments and wrongdoings before and during the war mean the criminal charges against him now pale in comparison -
JPost.com - Antisemitism - 19:18 Jun 04, 2025
“After October 7, 2023, Columbia University’s leadership acted with deliberate indifference towards the harassment of Jewish students on its campus," said the US Education Secretary.
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Haaretz - 19:00 Jun 04, 2025
A survey commissioned by JSpaceCanada found that 53 percent of Canadian Jews voted for the Liberals, the New Democratic Party and the Greens in the recent federal elections, and were more inclined to vote for these three parties than the general population -
JPost.com - Business & Innovation - 18:52 Jun 04, 2025
Facing inflation and sanctions, Iranians are turning to gold to protect their wealth—sending demand soaring and shaking up global bullion markets amid deepening economic turmoil.
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Haaretz - 18:31 Jun 04, 2025
The women described years of abuse, including rape and torture, masked as spiritual rituals, as well as systemic silencing and neglect from authorities. As the Knesset members listened to the survivors' testimony, a number appeared visibly shaken -
JPost.com - Antisemitism - 18:27 Jun 04, 2025
A swastika mowed into a front lawn in the Illinois town of Alhambra prompted a hate-crime investigation by Madison County authorities last week.
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Haaretz - 18:18 Jun 04, 2025
According to the draft proposal Levin published, the government would be authorized to terminate the attorney general's tenure even without a decision by the committee, as long as three-quarters of the ministers vote in favor of the decision -
Haaretz - 18:13 Jun 04, 2025
After coalition leaders under Netanyahu failed to reach a compromise on legislation exempting ultra-Orthodox men from mandatory IDF service, a Lithuanian-Haredi leader instructed his party to support a motion that could collapse the coalition and trigger new elections – which Shas, another Haredi party, has said it will support -
Haaretz - 18:02 Jun 04, 2025
'Now we can move forward': Netanyahu was heard saying that he could not advance the draft exemption law for the ultra-Orthodox because the former IDF chief and defense minister opposed it – but now that they have been replaced, the legislation could be promoted -
Haaretz - 18:01 Jun 04, 2025
Meet 'Enoch,' an artificial intelligence trained to estimate when the Dead Sea Scrolls were written, and which suggests some of the manuscripts were penned up to a century earlier -
JPost.com - Antisemitism - 17:58 Jun 04, 2025
Barbra Steinmertz, 88, was one of 12 injured while walking to raise awareness of the remaining hostages in Gaza.
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Haaretz - 17:24 Jun 04, 2025
Since launching operations last week, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has appointed a new leader, lost its contract with a major U.S. consulting firm and halted aid delivery for a day, all while facing reports of deaths by IDF fire at its distribution sites -
Haaretz - 17:10 Jun 04, 2025
Fletcher also stressed that the UN must be allowed to do its job and that the UN has 'the teams, the plan, the supplies and the experience' to carry out aid operations -
Haaretz - 16:40 Jun 04, 2025
Norway's minority Labour government has for months been resisting pressure from pro-Palestinian campaigners to instruct the fund to divest from all firms with ties to Israeli companies operating in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip -
Haaretz - 16:31 Jun 04, 2025
This week, during Netanyahu's trial, it was revealed that Israel's prime minister said "I don't remember" no fewer than 1,788 times during his investigations. Haaretz's archive takes a journey through his most notable memory lapses