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Israel begins construction of new West Bank settlement on Mount Ebal, north of Nablus

Haaretz - 19:33 Mar 12, 2026

According to the settler-led local council, the settlement is part of the 'One Million in Samaria' plan, which aims to raise the Jewish population to one million by 2050 while creating 'territorial continuity' in the occupied Palestinian enclave in the West Bank

Tags: West Bank
Drawn weapons, attack dogs: Ben-Gvir joins televised police raid on suspect who graffitied a Palestinian flag

Haaretz - 19:24 Mar 12, 2026

The suspect was arrested, handcuffed and blindfolded on Channel 14 News as heavily armed forces raided his home in a Jewish-Arab city in central Israel. Ben-Gvir told cameras, 'No one who incites against the state will be spared.' A court criticized the police for staging a 'media arrest'

Tags: Ben-Gvir
Ravens don't just fly with the wolves, they remember kill sites

Haaretz - 19:00 Mar 12, 2026

How is a scavenger to survive in the dead of winter? It was assumed they'd simply follow wolves and cougars, but smart ravens have their own tricks, study shows
'Illegal and unjustified': Muslim countries bash Israel's Iran war restrictions on Al-Aqsa Mosque prayers

Haaretz - 18:16 Mar 12, 2026

A group of eight countries, including Jordan, Egypt and Saudi Arabia, condemned emergency wartime restrictions imposed by Israel on the number of Muslim worshippers allowed at Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque during Ramadan: 'Israel has no sovereignty over holy sites'

Tags: Al-Aqsa Mosque Muslim
As Iran war dominates news, Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza say their struggles continue

Haaretz - 17:40 Mar 12, 2026

Palestinian residents of the West Bank describe raids, restrictions and unchecked violence by Israeli settlers and soldiers, while families in Gaza once more face rising prices and fear of hunger returning

Tags: Gaza West Bank
FBI treating Michigan synagogue attack as 'targeted act of violence against the Jewish community'

Haaretz - 17:38 Mar 12, 2026

Suspect shot dead after driving vehicle through hallway, injuring a security officer at Temple Israel Synagogue in the Detroit suburb of West Bloomfield
Trump says presence of Iranian team at World Cup 'not appropriate, for their own life and safety'

Haaretz - 17:17 Mar 12, 2026

Iran's sports minister had already said the team would not be present at the North American FIFA World Cup due to the 'malicious actions' the U.S. has carried out against Iran
Outdated intelligence likely led U.S. to carry out deadly strike on Iranian school, U.S. sources say

Haaretz - 17:15 Mar 12, 2026

The strike, which killed over 150 people, most of them children, was first blamed on Iran by President Donald Trump, though mounting evidence shows that the U.S. was targeting a former military compound-turned-school, and that with sufficient due diligence, the mistake could have been avoided
Iran's Mojtaba Khamenei vows Strait of Hormuz closure, attacks on U.S. Mideast bases

Haaretz - 16:21 Mar 12, 2026

Two tankers were ablaze in an Iraqi port after being hit by suspected Iranian explosive-laden boats, a step-up in attacks that have cut off oil from ⁠the Middle East, a day after U.S. President Donald Trump said the United States had already won the war
'Containment' is no longer a viable policy for Iran, Hamas or Russia. But is there an alternative?

Haaretz - 16:16 Mar 12, 2026

Supporters of containment once believed that, instead of endless wars, it was possible to contain an enemy through economic sanctions and international isolation. But for Iran, Russia and Hamas, money carries far less weight than holding on to power

Tags: Hamas Iran Russia
Israeli severely wounded in stabbing attack in Tel Aviv suburb

Haaretz - 15:31 Mar 12, 2026

Shortly after the attack in Ramat Gan, the Israeli army said that troops killed two Palestinians who they allege opened fire at a military post in the West Bank and attempted to ram troops

Tags: Israeli
11 Iranian cluster missiles penetrated. One dropped 70 bombs over central Israel

Haaretz - 15:11 Mar 12, 2026

Last year, only three cluster missiles hit Israel. In the current round, Iran has launched more than 100, carrying far more submunitions ■ Two Israelis were killed

Tags: Israel
IDF drops indictment against troops charged with abusing a Palestinian detainee from Gaza

Haaretz - 14:51 Mar 12, 2026

Israel's Defense Minister Israel Katz welcomed the decision, saying in a statement that 'justice has been done' and labeling the case a 'blood libel.' Katz added that the IDF legal system's role is to 'defend and protect soldiers who are bravely fighting monsters in war'
No slaps or 'seas of blood': Why Turkey's Erdogan won't confront Trump about the Iran war

Haaretz - 13:19 Mar 12, 2026

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has a swathe of reasons to oppose the U.S.-Israel war on Iran. But he can't afford to upset President Trump, and that says plenty about his overblown ambitions for Turkey to replace America as the greater power in the Middle East

Tags: Iran
The failure of peace destroyed the hope Leila Shahid had carried for decades

Haaretz - 12:44 Mar 12, 2026

For three decades, the Palestinian Authority's envoy embodied the Palestinian cause in France. When the prospect of peace collapsed, the hope she had carried for decades crumbled with it. An obituary
Right-wing activist convicted of assaulting a Palestinian joins Ben-Gvir entourage, exposed to security briefings

Haaretz - 12:06 Mar 12, 2026

Despite lacking security clearance and not being formally employed by the National Security Ministry, Osher Gabai has accompanied the minister to security facilities and shared reports on missile attacks and other incidents in WhatsApp groups
Iran is starting to shape the day after the war, and it has a partner

Haaretz - 11:57 Mar 12, 2026

Turkey is starting to look like Iran's alternative to the Gulf nations it has been attacking
Two years since an Israeli girl disappeared, her parents wonder if the police really care

Haaretz - 11:52 Mar 12, 2026

When Ethiopian Israeli Haymanot Kasau went missing, many investigators believed she'd be found within a few months. If she were a white girl from the Tel Aviv area, would the authorities have acted faster?
Woman arrested, subjected to humiliation ritual in police custody over possession of Palestinian flag

Haaretz - 11:49 Mar 12, 2026

The woman's attorney says was prevented from consulting with a lawyer during her interrogation over the weekend. Her family says she was forced to step on a Palestinian flag as officers filmed her dancing with an Israeli flag 'in order to humiliate her'

Tags: Palestinian
'He's no Churchill': Iran war strains U.S.-U.K. special relationship

Haaretz - 09:31 Mar 12, 2026

Starmer's reluctance to grant U.S. access to British bases angered Trump and exposed a growing rift – even as Britain quietly joins the military campaign

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