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What are the odds Deni Avdija will become the first Israeli NBA All-Star player?

Haaretz - 14:02 Jan 08, 2026

Even before his 41-point drop on Wednesday in a game against Houston, Portland's star had more than doubled his votes for the upcoming All-Star Game. If picked, Avdija would be the first Israeli ever selected to play
Veteran pro-Israel Democrat Steny Hoyer to retire after decades in Congress

Haaretz - 13:48 Jan 08, 2026

Rep. Steny Hoyer of Maryland, the longest-serving Democrat in Congress, is the latest senior official stepping down as party members are increasingly critical of Israel's policies. Hoyer would routinely appear at AIPAC conferences to announce pro-Israel legislation

Tags: Congress
Jewish American researcher denied entry to Israel over alleged 'anarchist activity' in West Bank

Haaretz - 13:39 Jan 08, 2026

The researcher's attorney accused the police and Israel's Population Authority of acting in a way that 'is reminiscent of dark regimes with lists of "undesirables,"' after he was deported without the hearing by law for temporary residents
How will the Iran protests end? Arash Azizi says 'This won't be a classic revolution'

Haaretz - 12:40 Jan 08, 2026
UN report urges Israel to eradicate 'racial segregation and apartheid' in West Bank

Haaretz - 12:37 Jan 08, 2026

Israel dismissed the 42-page report as a 'politically driven vilification,' which said tightened movement restrictions on Palestinians have fractured the West Bank, easing Israeli military control and expanding areas accessible only to the army and Jewish settlers

Tags: West Bank Israel
'An attack can happen any second': My eyewitness testimony of rampant settler violence

Haaretz - 12:06 Jan 08, 2026

Masked, mounted and armed with assault rifles: The village of Ras al-Ein offers a grim case study in how settler violence, facilitated by the police and the IDF, is part of a strategy to drive Palestinians out of the Jordan valley
Jerusalem court orders bus driver who ran over and killed protesting ultra-Orthodox teen released to house arrest

Haaretz - 11:47 Jan 08, 2026

The district court judge said that the police's evidence demonstrated that the driver's actions may 'fall somewhere between reckless and negligent homicide', and that there is no need to detain him. The driver's release is suspended until the police decide whether to appeal the district court's decision
'Coercive, threatening and wholly inappropriate conduct': Israel's oldest Reform synagogue in jeopardy

Haaretz - 11:33 Jan 08, 2026

Kehilat Har-El in Jerusalem says the World Union for Progressive Judaism is threatening it with a lawsuit and eviction if it does not withdraw its objection to a development plan on an adjacent lot. WUPJ denies the allegations in an urgent letter sent this week to Reform movement leaders worldwide

Tags: Reform
Leading U.K. Jewish groups demand resignation of police chief over ban on Israeli soccer fans

Haaretz - 10:18 Jan 08, 2026

West Midlands Police Chief Constable Craig Guildford is under fire after citing 'unsubstantiated or erroneous' security concerns to ban Maccabi Tel Aviv fans from a match against Aston Villa. Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch said the police 'capitulated and collaborated with Islamists'
Poll: Netanyahu's Likud party is on top, but bloc still lacks majority to form government

Haaretz - 10:04 Jan 08, 2026

Likud remains the largest party with 26 seats, according to the Channel 13 News poll, but Netanyahu's coalition does not have the majority necessary to form a government. Neither does the opposition, which cannot form a government without the Arab parties

Tags: Netanyahu's Likud
Lebanese efforts to disarm Hezbollah 'encouraging' but 'far from sufficient,' Prime Minister's Office says

Haaretz - 09:31 Jan 08, 2026

Following the Lebanese Army's statement that it has gained 'operational control' of southern Lebanon, Netanyahu's office said that the Shi'ite militant group has been making 'efforts to rearm and rebuild its terror infrastructure with Iranian support'
'I've listened': After delays, Australian PM Albanese announces Royal Commission into Bondi Beach attack, antisemitism

Haaretz - 06:48 Jan 08, 2026

Australia's Prime Minister announced the Royal Commission inquiry after having met with Jewish families and survivors, he said. The inquiry will take place alongside a separate investigation into law enforcement agencies following the attack

Tags: Royal Commission
Born in Transylvania, banned in wartime Hungary and reborn in Israel

Haaretz - 04:00 Jan 08, 2026

With minimal politics and plenty of nostalgia, Jewish Hungarian-language newspaper Új Kelet was relaunched in Tel Aviv – 107 years after it was born
Reports in Gaza: Four killed, including two children, in drone strike on Khan Yunis tent

Haaretz - 03:31 Jan 08, 2026
Former Jerusalem mayor and Yad Sarah founder, MK Uri Lupolianski, dies at 74

Haaretz - 00:31 Jan 08, 2026

Born in Haifa, Lupolianski won several awards and honors, including the Israel Prize and the President's Award for Volunteerism; in 2014, he was convicted of bribery as part of the Holyland affair
A Jerusalem tragedy that contains all the ills of this sick Israeli government

Haaretz - 23:48 Jan 07, 2026
Don't buy into the Qataris' humanitarian trick: using medicine and academia to grow their influence

Haaretz - 23:36 Jan 07, 2026

Qatar is funding hospitals in Jerusalem and the Bethlehem area that are supposed to absorb patients from Gaza, sparking fears that Qatar is using humanitarian aid as cover to move Gazans into the West Bank, including people affiliated with Hamas or other terrorist organizations
What's the point of a trial if Netanyahu's court commentator already knows how it ends?

Haaretz - 23:33 Jan 07, 2026
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Haaretz - 23:23 Jan 07, 2026
Bondi Hanukkah attack hero Ahmed al Ahmed visits Chabad leader's grave in New York

Haaretz - 22:03 Jan 07, 2026

The Muslim man paid homage to Chabad Lubavitch leader Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, ahead of his appearance at Chabad's annual charity gala on Wednesday

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