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• Mamdani meets critics, seeks allies in bid for affordable NYC agenda

  Haaretz - 01:56 Dec 13, 2025
  

  Mamdani's outreach to Jewish leaders, including past opponents, underscores the tightrope he must walk: pushing an ambitious affordability agenda while calming fears over his Israel rhetoric before January 1

• Biden administration briefly withheld some intelligence from Israel during Gaza war, sources say

  Haaretz - 23:41 Dec 12, 2025
  

  U.S. intelligence officials briefly withheld live drone feeds and limited Israel's use of some targeting information during the Gaza war over concerns about civilian casualties and alleged mistreatment of Palestinian prisoners, resuming sharing only after Israel provided assurances

  Tags: Gaza Israel

• UN passes resolution calling on Israel to cooperate with UNRWA, prompting Israeli pushback

  Haaretz - 20:43 Dec 12, 2025
  

  Israel's Foreign Ministry condemned the UN resolution, saying it 'proves once again that it is a morally distorted body' and calling the UN a 'cynical political machine.' Earlier this week, Israeli forces raided the UNRWA headquarters in East Jerusalem

  Tags: UNRWA Israeli

• Murder of four Arab Israelis raises community's annual crime death toll to 241

  Haaretz - 19:09 Dec 12, 2025
  

  Two weeks ago, police arrested 23 suspects from the Hariri and Abu Latif crime organizations, suspected of collecting protection money, taking over businesses, extortion, intimidation, and involvement in several homicides in recent years

• Lebanese foreign minister reportedly says Israel planning major attack on Lebanon

  Haaretz - 18:09 Dec 12, 2025
  

  Lebanese Foreign Minister Youssef Rajji also criticized Hezbollah and Iran, saying that Tehran's regional policy 'is a source of instability' and its influence on Lebanon is negative. He urged Iran to 'stop financing an illegal organization'

  Tags: Lebanon

• Get ready for a Netanyahu-friendly probe bashing the IDF just before the election

  Haaretz - 16:37 Dec 12, 2025
  

  The investigation by Israel's state comptroller will suffice with minor reprimands of political leaders while focusing on the security establishment's blunders. Until then, related witch hunts and harassment efforts will escalate

• Iron cage, hunger, meeting top Hamas official: Freed hostage reveals new details of Gaza captivity

  Haaretz - 15:58 Dec 12, 2025
  

  Eitan Mor, who was among the 20 Israeli hostages released as part of the U.S.-brokered Gaza cease-fire deal in October, told an Israeli news site that the hunger in Gaza City began 'about a month' after October 7 – creating especially difficult conditions in the tunnels – and that he met the current leader of Hamas in Gaza twice

  Tags: Gaza Hamas

• Maccabi Tel Aviv seeks fresh start as EuroLeague basketball returns to Israel after two years

  Haaretz - 15:45 Dec 12, 2025
  

  The game's main guest was released hostage Omri Miran, who celebrated his return in an emotional ceremony as fans packed the home court and the team's power forward delivered a record-setting performance to mark European basketball's comeback to Israel. 'This is a return to normalcy,' coach Oded Kattash said

  Tags: Israel

• On both climate and security, Israel mistakes the absence of an existential threat for stability. It's wrong

  Haaretz - 14:54 Dec 12, 2025
  

  The climate is changing, reshaping our landscape, our economy, and our way of life, creating new risks and intensifying old ones. We must plan for this change, strengthen our emergency and rescue services, and stop wasting resources on West Bank settlements and on blind vengeance in Gaza

• Thirteen Gazans, including three children, killed by hypothermia or building collapses amid storm Byron; one man dies in Israel

  Haaretz - 13:46 Dec 12, 2025
  

  Israel's Meteorological Service called the rainfall 'exceptional,' as humanitarian aid organizations in Gaza warned the storm would have a dire effect on the health of displaced persons residing in tents and buildings weakened by the war

• Trump pushes Israel and Hamas out of his way, impatient to start Stage Two of Gaza cease-fire

  Haaretz - 13:27 Dec 12, 2025
  

  Trump administration pressures mediators for Hamas disarmament and Israel to forgo the Yellow Line border, to secure Board of Peace's ability to govern the entire Strip and deploy the international stabilization force

  Tags: Hamas Israel Trump

• Analysis | An undemocratic Israel poses a grave threat to Diaspora Jews

  Haaretz - 12:36 Dec 12, 2025
  

  As the presumed compatibility of 'American interests' and 'Jewish aims' collapses, and Israel increasingly rejects democratic principles, Jewish communities face a new reality

  Tags: Israel

• Saudi and Emirati power struggles in Yemen and Sudan show dangers of relying on 'friendly' forces in Gaza

  Haaretz - 12:35 Dec 12, 2025
  

  Saudi Arabia and the UAE, both partners of the coalition seeking to be involved in Gaza's future, have yet to settle their local conflicts in Yemen and Sudan, which have taken hundreds of thousands of lives. For now, it seems the United States will continue to take a neutral stand

  Tags: Sudan Yemen

• Likud minister twisted Arab leaders' letter to police, claiming they endorsed Shin Bet budget transfer

  Haaretz - 12:03 Dec 12, 2025
  

  The Social Equality minister used a letter written to police by the Arab mayors' council head expressing general support in the fight against Arab community crime as evidence that Arab leaders supported her diverting funds to the Shin Bet to combat crime

  Tags: Arab Shin

• U.S. Jews and Israel 'are no longer exceptional': Dahlia Lithwick and Joshua Leifer on being 'Trump's chess pieces'

  Haaretz - 11:19 Dec 12, 2025
  

• Poll: Netanyahu's Likud largest party in Knesset, but coalition still lacks majority in case of elections

  Haaretz - 09:50 Dec 12, 2025
  

  Likud remains the largest in the Knesset with 27 seats, two up from last week, a Channel 12 News poll finds. Former PM Naftali Bennett's party gains one seat to reach 22, while Yair Golan's Democrats party drops one seat to 11 and Smotrich's Religious Zionism party falls below the threshold

  Tags: Knesset Likud

• Just one thing is stalling Stage Two of Trump's Gaza plan: reality

  Haaretz - 04:01 Dec 12, 2025
  

  Hamas controls the enclave with an iron fist, no one has volunteered to disarm it and Netanyahu is in no hurry to press on – but the U.S. president wants a win ■ On the northern front, Hezbollah's new motto has become 'Survival is victory'

• No confession, no retirement: Why is Israel's president even considering Netanyahu's pardon request?

  Haaretz - 04:00 Dec 12, 2025
  

  There can no longer be any doubt: The conduct of Israel's president is a national disgrace ■ Does anyone really believe that after a pardon, Netanyahu will roll back his assault on democracy? ■ Galit Distel Atbaryan, a modern-day Joseph McCarthy

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• Father of returned slain hostage calls for solidarity with family of last remaining captive

  Haaretz - 02:28 Dec 12, 2025
  

• With a mass Jewish-Arab movement behind him, Alon-Lee Green is reshaping the Israeli left

  Haaretz - 23:07 Dec 11, 2025
  

  With thousands of members, a quarter-million social media followers, and a spot on TIME's list of emerging leaders, 'Standing Together' co-founder Alon Lee-Green is charting a new course for Israel's fractured political opposition

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