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Poll: Likud would win most seats if elections were held today, as opposition weakens

Haaretz - 20:58 May 14, 2026

Netanyahu's party gained one seat since the previous survey and sits at 26, while the 'Beyahad' merger party led by Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid lost one seat and sits at 24 – the opposition is unlikely to secure a majority if it continues to boycott Arab parties
At Jewish Democrats' summit, leaders try to hold the line on being pro-Israel and anti-Netanyahu

Haaretz - 20:49 May 14, 2026

'Our coalition needs to keep growing,' said one Democratic strategist said, as leaders mused on how best to maintain support for Israel despite the government's extreme policies

Tags: Israel
Haifa's Arabic speakers say municipality is targeting 'all forms of Palestinian expression'

Haaretz - 20:49 May 14, 2026

From using dubious legal pretexts to target protestors and Arab business owners to harassing journalists and silencing council members, Haifa residents say a pattern of discrimination against the city's Arabic speakers that emerged post-Oct. 7 is worsening

Tags: Arabic
Report: Saudi Arabia proposes Middle East non-aggression agreement with Iran

Haaretz - 20:44 May 14, 2026

U.S.-Iran cease-fire talks have focused on the Strait of Hormuz rather than Iran's weapons supply and proxy militias: key concerns for neighboring countries that fear an increased Iranian military threat after U.S. presence in the region scales back, the Financial Times reports

Tags: Iran
Israel Police arrest nine protesters at Nakba Day rally in Haifa for 'disturbing public order'

Haaretz - 20:40 May 14, 2026

A police officer allegedly threatened protesters with a taser after demonstrators raised Palestinian flags and a banner that reads, in Arabic, 'Stop the ongoing Nakba.' Their lawyer says the officers closed in on demonstrators who wanted to leave the rally

Tags: Nakba
Abe Foxman's death marks the demise of the American Jewish establishment

Haaretz - 19:11 May 14, 2026

The longtime leader of the Anti Defamation League embodied an era when bipartisan support for Israel was a given and Jewish communal organizations had moral authority as arbiters of antisemitism
They gave us the V sign, people were smiling. I was witnessing the terrible reality of war

Haaretz - 18:35 May 14, 2026

Some 44 years after I visited Lebanon with the IDF and witnessed the destruction, I am struck by how little has changed
Israeli broadcaster apologizes to Croatia over Eurovision Henna tattoo joke

Haaretz - 18:32 May 14, 2026

Croatia's Lelek, whose song 'Andromeda' references Catholic women preserving their identity under Ottoman rule, accused Kan of showing a 'complete lack of empathy and respect for the suffering of others' after joking the singers looked like 'Henna-tattooed tourists'
Trump: China's President Xi pledged not to supply Iran with military equipment

Haaretz - 18:22 May 14, 2026

Trump said China's president would 'like to see a deal made' between the U.S. and Iran as Beijing promised it would not provide Iran with military equipment, even though it would like to continue purchasing Iranian oil

Tags: Iran China's Trump
Netanyahu testifies his health is 'top decile' in libel suit over cancer reports

Haaretz - 17:57 May 14, 2026

The prime minister testified in court after he sued an anti-government activist and two journalists over reports on his health. In April, a medical report revealed Netanyahu had been diagnosed with prostate cancer and underwent radiation therapy without informing the public in real time

Tags: Netanyahu
Trapped by mobs on Jerusalem Day: Far-right Jewish rage didn't spare journalists

Haaretz - 17:36 May 14, 2026

I thought I was just caught in the crossfire, but hadn't realized that I, wearing my press card, was also a target. When police finally arrived, it was to push reporters away rather than defend us. 'Go, get out of here!' shouted a border policeman as he shoved me
Welcome to the most shameful day in the Jewish calendar

Haaretz - 17:02 May 14, 2026

The victorious elation and hopes for peace in the immediate aftermath of the Six-Day War have given way to more than half a century of brutal occupation. Marking Jerusalem's still-mythical 'unification' with an annual pogrom against Palestinians compounds the original crime
Roman Gofman is just the man to lead the Mossad

Haaretz - 16:37 May 14, 2026

The heroes of enlightened Israel deem it improper for someone who exploited a minor to head the Mossad, but the organization is not connected in any way to morality. You might think that he was being named director of an orphanage, not director of a slaughterhouse

Tags: Mossad
Tensions flare near Strait of Hormuz as ship seized, another stuck

Haaretz - 16:09 May 14, 2026

After a ship was reportedly seized near the UAE and another attacked off Oman, a senior Iranian official said Tehran would not give up the Strait of Hormuz 'at any price,' while Iran's judiciary defended seizing U.S.-linked oil tankers in the strategic waterway

Tags: Strait Hormuz
U.S. federal judge temporarily blocks U.S. sanctions against Francesca Albanese

Haaretz - 15:56 May 14, 2026

Citing First Amendment protections that she's afforded despite not living in the United States, a federal judge blocked the sanctions issued by the Trump administration in 2025
Incoming Mossad chief attempted to meddle in matter affecting officer set to testify in High Court case

Haaretz - 15:39 May 14, 2026

Israel's Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara told the High Court that Roman Gofman twice discussed continuing the employment of a senior intelligence officer expected to testify in the case challenging his nomination, even though he is set to end his service in the next coming months

Tags: High Court
Israel preparing to sue New York Times over column alleging widespread sexual abuse of Palestinians by Israeli authorities

Haaretz - 12:57 May 14, 2026

Netanyahu's office called the column 'one of the most hideous and distorted lies ever published against Israel in the modern press' ▪ A constitutional law professor told Haaretz: 'The burden of proof on the plaintiff in a case like this is extraordinary'

Tags: Israel
Three civilians wounded, one critically, from Hezbollah drone attack in northern Israel

Haaretz - 11:57 May 14, 2026

Medical authorities said one person is in critical condition after an explosive drone struck a parking lot in northern Israel. Two others were moderately and lightly wounded. Regional council head: Border communities 'not the country's human shield'

Tags: Israel
Despite war and unrest, how is Israel's economy still thriving?

Haaretz - 11:31 May 14, 2026

For over three years, economists have been predicting a looming financial crisis in Israel due to the judicial overhaul and forever war. How come they were all wrong?
Even after four were killed, Israeli soldiers in south Lebanon find themselves vulnerable to drones

Haaretz - 11:26 May 14, 2026

Touring south Lebanon, soldiers said that netting offers no guarantee of protection against drones, which have claimed the lives of four soldiers. When one soldier noted the widespread destruction of homes, an officer corrected him: 'destruction of infrastructure'

Tags: Lebanon

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