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Israel's population growth rate fell to a dramatic low in 2025, study finds

Haaretz - 11:57 Dec 31, 2025

The estimated 0.9 percent growth rate is 'an unprecedented decline' as Israeli mortality, fertility and migration have changed significantly in recent years, according to a paper by an Israeli think tank. Israel will need to attract large numbers of immigrants even to maintain low growth rates
Israel's High court freezes state watchdog's Oct. 7 probe; Netanyahu minister urges ignoring ruling

Haaretz - 11:15 Dec 31, 2025

The petitioners, including the IDF and an anti-corruption NGO, argued the probe could compromise a future state inquiry and violate interviewees' rights. The court also barred the state comptroller from releasing drafts or materials on the authorities' response to the Hamas attack
NYC Mayor-elect Mamdani taps Mahmoud Khalil's lawyer as top legal adviser

Haaretz - 10:30 Dec 31, 2025

Ramzi Kassem, a former senior immigration policy adviser in the Biden administration who represented pro-Palestinian and anti-Gaza war activists detained under the Trump administration, will serve as Chief Counsel, guiding Zohran Mamdani's legal strategy
The two incarnations of Mohammad Bakri: The actor gave Israelis hope; the director they couldn't handle

Haaretz - 10:02 Dec 31, 2025

On the screen he brought the noble and upright Palestinian to the Israeli audience. Behind the camera Bakri, who died last week at 72, tried to show Palestinian pain and trauma – and paid a price for it
McDonald's keeps control of Israel operations as search for new franchisee drags on

Haaretz - 09:29 Dec 31, 2025

A year and a half after buying back the Israeli franchise amid global backlash over the Gaza war, McDonald's is still searching for a local operator – and some in the industry say it is in no hurry to let go

Tags: McDonald's
Rule of law or rule of criminals? Israel's far-right leaders bet their survival on democracy's demise

Haaretz - 04:00 Dec 31, 2025

Despair and terror are a justified response to the violent incitement and the wave of legislative destruction – but it is also important to pay attention to what lies behind them: electoral pressure and desperate efforts to survive
Somali president: Somaliland has agreed to accept displaced Gazans, report says

Haaretz - 03:16 Dec 31, 2025
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Haaretz - 01:52 Dec 31, 2025
Netanyahu downplays West Bank settler violence in Fox News interview following Trump meeting

Haaretz - 23:46 Dec 30, 2025

Israel PM also praised Trump for pushing for his pardon in his ongoing criminal trials, lamenting what he dismissed as '10 years of bogus investigations and a political trial'

Tags: Trump
Smotrich's attempt to 'run over' the judiciary is no empty threat: it's criminal

Haaretz - 22:24 Dec 30, 2025
Trump is no Mar-a-Lago Santa Claus. His gifts to Netanyahu come at a price

Haaretz - 22:10 Dec 30, 2025

The more a foreign leader leans toward authoritarianism, the more Donald Trump seems to like them, yet he still forced Netanyahu into a cease-fire, an apology to Doha and on a path toward recognizing a Palestinian state

Tags: Netanyahu
The Zionist opposition thinks it can protest dictatorship while ignoring Palestinians

Haaretz - 22:07 Dec 30, 2025

The anti-government demonstrators on Kaplan Street in Tel Aviv look to countries like Hungary to understand the transformation of Israel into an authoritarian regime. But the model for emulation is right under their noses
Israel has joined Iran, Lebanon and Syria as a state sponsor of terror. Just look at the West Bank

Haaretz - 22:05 Dec 30, 2025
Sources close to Netanyahu: Trump seeks to start reconstruction before Gaza demilitarized

Haaretz - 21:35 Dec 30, 2025

The U.S. President heaped praise on Netanyahu and gave him public backing on Iran - but, as Washington readies to move to phase two of the Gaza plan, he failed answer questions of concern to the Israeli side

Tags: Gaza Netanyahu
The Haredi draft-dodge bill is being advanced at full speed, although it's unlikely to pass

Haaretz - 19:59 Dec 30, 2025

Discussions in the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee continue despite criticism from the army, the committee's legal adviser, the Attorney General's Office and coalition members, and although it's unclear whether the Haredi factions will agree to the latest version
A pomp-and-prize loving Trump wins Israel's highest honor. Was there really no Israeli worthy?

Haaretz - 19:03 Dec 30, 2025

Netanyahu's decision to award Trump with this year's Israel Prize raises the question of whether it should be leveraged to pay homage to another country's head of state, on a day dedicated to the country's independence

Tags: Trump
If ministers truly cared about troops, they'd draft Haredim – not shut down the film industry and Army Radio

Haaretz - 18:50 Dec 30, 2025

Ministers are silencing, intimidating, and using their power to undermine the government's critics while falsely worrying about the 'honor of IDF soldiers.' But those who truly care about the troops should first draft the Haredim

Tags: Haredim
As Gaza's children die, the Israel Medical Association mustn't stand idly by again

Haaretz - 18:44 Dec 30, 2025

The IMA says 'a channel has been opened allowing patients from Gaza to be taken to neighboring countries,' not East Jerusalem or the West Bank. But there no evidence that such a channel exists. This means moral collapse
Bondi gunmen acted alone, no evidence they were part of militant cell, Australian police say

Haaretz - 18:20 Dec 30, 2025

'There is no evidence' to suggest the two Bondi gunmen 'were part of a broader terrorist cell,' the Australian Federal Police Commissioner said on Tuesday. Police have previously said Naveed Akram and his father, Sajid Akram, were inspired by Islamic State

Tags: Bondi
Knesset advances bill to establish special military tribunal for Oct. 7 terrorists with opposition support

Haaretz - 18:08 Dec 30, 2025

The IDF told Israeli lawmakers it opposes operating the tribunal, even as the Knesset approved the bill's first reading with support from opposition lawmakers, while an anti-torture watchdog warns that 'the Knesset is racing to legislate the death penalty'

Tags: Knesset

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