Israel news feed
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Haaretz - 00:17 Jan 26, 2026
Superintendent Rinat Saban stood alone in the courtroom on Sunday, challenging one of the most powerful people in the country and his refusal to approve her promotion. Her boss, Police Commissioner Danny Levy, left her to fight alone -
Haaretz - 21:51 Jan 25, 2026
Rümeysa Öztürk was detained after co-authoring an op-ed urging her university to 'acknowledge the Palestinian genocide' and divest from Israel-linked companies. Newly unsealed documents show Marco Rubio recommended deporting five foreign students over Gaza war activism despite free speech concerns -
Haaretz - 21:27 Jan 25, 2026
Mobile phones, vehicles and weapons have recently been seen in Gaza, with the military acknowledging most originate in Israel. As markets overflow with smuggled goods and financial channels go unchecked, IDF officials warn: 'We may end up funding Hamas' rebuilding, truck after truck' -
Haaretz - 20:43 Jan 25, 2026
Israel's inclusion of European parties with openly antisemitic pasts in an international antisemitism conference in Jerusalem this week grants them symbolic rehabilitation. But a deeper danger lies in this calculated move -
Haaretz - 20:43 Jan 25, 2026
Israel's inclusion of European parties with openly antisemitic pasts in an international antisemitism conference in Jerusalem this week grants them symbolic rehabilitation. But a deeper danger lies in this calculated move -
JPost.com - Antisemitism - 20:42 Jan 25, 2026
Through the early 2000s, CUNY regularly had close to, or above, double-digit numbers of campus presidents who were Jewish. By March 2023, there was not a single Jew among the 80 leadership positions
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Haaretz - 19:12 Jan 25, 2026
A daring new children's book about mortality leads this week's Israeli culture highlights, alongside a major memoir release and an Israeli film festival in Los Angeles -
Haaretz - 19:12 Jan 25, 2026
In 'Nevermore,' out this month, a granddaughter embarks on a journey to spare her grandmother from death. Meanwhile, 'Upside-Down Love: A Memoir in Two Voices,' by Sari Bashi is out in English and the 37th Israeli Film Festival in Los Angeles takes place at theaters across the city -
Haaretz - 18:23 Jan 25, 2026
A senior investigator, Rinat Saban, who testified in the Netanyahu corruption trials, petitioned against the far-right minister's refusal to promote her, warning that the move is a 'threat come true' and sends a message to investigators: 'If you handle certain cases, this is the price you must pay' -
Haaretz - 18:09 Jan 25, 2026
An acquaintance's unresolved questions led a writer across the Balkans to understand who saved – and betrayed – a Jewish family from Sarajevo. The fruitful journey has led to a new quest: obtaining official recognition from Yad Vashem for the Righteous Among the Nations -
Haaretz - 17:43 Jan 25, 2026
Gvili, the last Israeli hostage still held in Gaza, was killed on October 7. According to Netanyahu's office, Israel launched a large-scale operation over the weekend, centered on a cemetery in Gaza City's Tuffah neighborhood -
Haaretz - 17:36 Jan 25, 2026
Some Jewish Israelis see the gun violence in the Arab community – an issue the police are unable or unwilling to address – as a 'them' problem. It is, however, a problem for all Israelis -
Haaretz - 16:56 Jan 25, 2026
Three Palestinians were killed in two separate incidents, as medics said four were wounded by an Israeli drone. Top U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner met with Netanyahu on Saturday in Jerusalem to advance phase two of Trump's 20-point plan -
JPost.com - Antisemitism - 16:51 Jan 25, 2026
"I prefer my people above my career. And I will never say untrue things about my people, say we rape and starve and commit genocide," Guy Hochman said.
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Haaretz - 16:40 Jan 25, 2026
While open-source tracking shows several fighter jets deployed to protect Israel from Iranian strikes have landed in Jordan, and a heavily equipped aircraft carrier strike group is expected near Iran, the current U.S. deployment appears, for now, smaller than in previous rounds of conflict -
Haaretz - 16:26 Jan 25, 2026
Government-sponsored violence by Israeli settlers, 'apartheid roads' and Palestinians being displaced from their homes. Peace Now provides a somber day trip in the occupied West Bank -
Haaretz - 16:17 Jan 25, 2026
David Ben-Gurion called Ze'ev Jabotinsky 'Vladimir Hitler,' a journalist called Itamar Ben-Gvir a 'dirty Nazi,' and Yair Golan implied that the whole country was going Nazi. Now a settler and a law professor are keeping the quarrel going -
Haaretz - 16:02 Jan 25, 2026
Hochman, who has filmed several satirical videos of himself as an Israeli reservist fighting in the Gaza Strip during the war, was set to perform in Los Angeles on Monday, but the venue manager canceled the show and later apologized for the decision -
Haaretz - 15:59 Jan 25, 2026
Braverman is suspected of obstructing the investigation into the leak of classified information in 2024, and says that the search warrant granted by the court, allowing police to read correspondence with three contacts on certain dates and search dozens of keywords, is disproportionate -
Haaretz - 15:39 Jan 25, 2026
More than two years after his son Liam Or was freed from Gaza captivity, Ramzy Nassar said he chose not to disclose his Arab identity to protect him. 'It's not something that Hamas would take well,' he said, warning his son could have been seen as 'a traitor, the son of a traitor'