Israel news feed
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Haaretz - 22:06 Feb 24, 2025
In a rare move, Barnard College expelled two students for disrupting a class on Israeli history. 'Expulsion is always an extraordinary measure. At Barnard, we always do what is right, not what is easy,' a university statement read -
Haaretz - 22:04 Feb 24, 2025
The demand is part of the behind-the-scenes negotiations taking place to solve the crisis caused by Israel's refusal to release the Palestinian prisoners. The freeze was intended to show Israel's revulsion to the horrific murders of the Bibas family and humiliating treatment of hostages -
Haaretz - 21:47 Feb 24, 2025
Biden's national security memorandum was one of the few measures his administration adopted in response to Israel's actions against Palestinians in Gaza and West Bank -
JPost.com - Business & Innovation - 21:33 Feb 24, 2025
Goldman Sachs raised its 2025 gold forecast to $3,100/oz, up from $2,890, citing expectations of sustained central bank demand and market dynamics.
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Haaretz - 20:55 Feb 24, 2025
Axios correspondent Barak Ravid reported that Israel's foreign ministry has begun outreach to far-right parties in France, Spain and Sweden that have until now been officially boycotted by Israel -
Haaretz - 20:28 Feb 24, 2025
Ironically, U.S. President Donald Trump's chaos-inducing rhetorical tantrums on the EU, NATO, tariffs, Greenland and, especially, Ukraine, could end up having a positive effect on Europe by providing a necessary wake-up call -
Haaretz - 20:24 Feb 24, 2025
While Friedrich Merz, the politician set to be Germany's next chancellor immediately sidelined the far-right AfD after his party won Sunday's election, Israel's PM Benjamin Netanyahu embraced extremists in late 2022 and then gave them the keys to the state -
Haaretz - 20:24 Feb 24, 2025
Palestinians in Bardala, who depend on their crops, say settlers are blocking the path to fields and waving guns near the village's homes. 'We can't work inside Israel, and then they bring a settler to my only piece of land. It'll cause people to resort to extremes,' a farmer says -
Haaretz - 20:12 Feb 24, 2025
Freidrich Merz, Germany's chancellor-elect, said that it is 'absurd' that an Israeli prime minister cannot visit Germany, and that he would find 'ways and means' for Netanyahu to visit and leave without being arrested -
Haaretz - 20:10 Feb 24, 2025
As more hostages come home and join the struggle to free their brothers and sisters, will they too be told that they're hurting their cause? -
Haaretz - 19:47 Feb 24, 2025
Reform Jewish leader Rabbi Pesner raised concerns over Mike Huckabee's nomination in a letter to the Senate, questioning whether his religious beliefs would influence state policy. Vocal pro-Trump Jew Morton Klein accused him of 'maligning millions of evangelicals and Christian Zionists' -
Haaretz - 18:58 Feb 24, 2025
In an interview with the New York Times, Mousa Abu Marzouk, a Qatar-based member of Hamas' political bureau, said despite the consequences, Hamas' survival after months of fighting is itself a 'kind of victory' -
Haaretz - 18:33 Feb 24, 2025
Katz took the unusual step of withholding his signature on necessary court documents in the so-called BibiLeaks case, in which his old adviser Israel 'Srulik' Einhorn allegedly leaked classified information -
Haaretz - 17:46 Feb 24, 2025
Freed IDF spotter Liri Albag saw Hostage Square with her own eyes, American Keith Siegel returned home to Kibbutz Kfar Azza, Omer Wenkert vows to return his 'brothers' who were kidnapped with him from Nova -
JPost.com - Antisemitism - 17:15 Feb 24, 2025
Hassan called for boycotting companies operating in Israel, participated in boycotting Israel, and published content encouraging the imposition of sanctions. She also attended pro-Hamas rallies.
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Haaretz - 16:59 Feb 24, 2025
A bill, intended to restrict NGOs critical of the government, brings into question the rule of law and replaces it with the corrupt politics of discrimination. The false claims surrounding the bill are unsurprising, but the silence of the opposition is another sign of a disintegrating democracy -
Haaretz - 16:24 Feb 24, 2025
Israel delayed the release of Palestinian prisoners on Saturday over alleged Hamas cease-fire violations, and calls the Arab media reports 'incorrect.' Palestinian sources say Israel may agree to release more prisoners in exchange for the return of the bodies