Israel news feed
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Haaretz - 19:33 Dec 27, 2025
According to the Palestinian man's testimony, he was held for several hours at an IDF base while handcuffed and blindfolded. He was later released onto the road, where he says he was forced to hobble several hundred meters with his crutches before reaching his family's vehicle -
Haaretz - 17:47 Dec 27, 2025
The IDF said that the reservist's weapon was confiscated and his service in the military has been terminated in light of 'the severity of the incident,' adding that he is also suspected of firing at villagers before continuing to the ramming attack -
Haaretz - 17:35 Dec 27, 2025
Israelis protest nationwide against government amid Qatargate revelations tied to Netanyahu's office
A series of reports and interviews published in Israel this week appear to show how close advisers to Netanyahu manipulated journalists, including by fabricating sources, to promote Qatar's interests while Israel was at war -
Haaretz - 16:42 Dec 27, 2025
Israeli forces are reportedly raiding local homes, and footage from the town shows closed businesses and IDF troops bulldozing local roads and infrastructure. On Friday, a resident of the town killed two people and wounded two more in a string of attacks in northern Israel -
Haaretz - 16:36 Dec 27, 2025
Top Hamas officials Khalil al-Hayya and Khaled Meshal are the main contenders in the group's internal elections. Al-Hayya will likely continue armed confrontation with Israel, while Meshal favors pursuing an Israeli withdrawal from Gaza through political agreements, reduced reliance on Iran, and stronger ties with moderate Arab states -
Haaretz - 16:23 Dec 27, 2025
Participants reflected on the unity and perseverance that characterized their long campaign, vowing to continue advocating for the return of Israel's last hostage, Ran Gvili. 'We fought, and we won – Hadar is home,' said Nahum Sheffer, encapsulating the sentiment of the movement's supporters -
Haaretz - 15:14 Dec 27, 2025
The UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council and the Saudi-backed government in Yemen have been allies for years in the fight against the Iran-allied Houthi rebels. However, the Council has repeatedly defied its partners to control larger areas in war-torn Yemen -
JPost.com - Christian World - 15:06 Dec 27, 2025
Analysts say the pattern is driven by a mix of factors: outward migration, lower birth rates, and increasingly, disaffiliation or conversion.
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Haaretz - 15:02 Dec 27, 2025
Among those arrested was Mohammad Hannoun, president of the Palestinian Association in Italy. In October 2024, the U.S. Treasury announced sanctions against several charities and individuals, including Hannoun, whom Italian prosecutors describe as the head of Italy's Hamas cell -
Haaretz - 12:13 Dec 27, 2025
'The Israeli occupation would be better off recognizing a Palestinian state, which the international community agreed has a right to be established,' the foreign ministry said -
Haaretz - 09:12 Dec 27, 2025
They both came from the same village. One witnessed his friend being shot dead by Israeli soldiers. The next day, just after the funeral, he too was shot and killed, this time by by a settler, while throwing stones at a road -
Haaretz - 08:36 Dec 27, 2025
Freedom of expression is shrinking, and Israel is increasingly resembling a grotesque dictatorship. The case of Yael Levkovitz is a warning sign -
Haaretz - 08:31 Dec 27, 2025
In a self-congratulatory document that the group published to mark the two-year anniversary of its October 7 attack, Hamas doesn't explain how the armed struggle that it says is necessary has never stopped colonialist Israel, as it defines it -
Haaretz - 03:54 Dec 27, 2025
The ex-Netanyahu spokesman told Shin Bet investigators he feared revealing the official's identity would open a 'crazy Pandora's box' and put him at risk. A memorandum noted: 'We will get to the whole truth with or without him,' more than a year before police acted on the claim -
JPost.com - Christian World - 21:31 Dec 26, 2025
The Galilee’s Christian villages, where winter lights, festive traditions, and community bring the holiday season to life
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Haaretz - 20:05 Dec 26, 2025
Netanyahu's cross-examination in his criminal trials has been plagued by unprecedented disruptions. Of nearly 60 scheduled hearings, only 15 went ahead without being canceled or cut short. While Netanyahu has at times offered dubious excuses, his judges also bear part of the responsibility -
Haaretz - 18:36 Dec 26, 2025
However flawed, Fatah operates according to reasoned assessments, while Hamas considers no amount of death, suffering or defeat too great in pursuit of its millenarian ends. Both Hamas and Israel's far-right government must not be allowed to sabotage the Gaza cease-fire -
Haaretz - 17:52 Dec 26, 2025
Maybe the former prime minister prefers a government with Netanyahu to 'betraying' right-wing values, but there is nothing right-wing about racism against the Arab Israeli community