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• U.K. police arrest third suspect in attempted arson attack on London synagogue

  Haaretz - 18:43 May 07, 2026
  

  A 19-year-old was arrested in connection with an attempted attack on a synagogue in north London last month, according to British counterterrorism police

  Tags: London

• Defense minister signs order enabling indictment of Likud MK after months-long delay

  Haaretz - 18:35 May 07, 2026
  

  Defense Minister Israel Katz held up the potential indictment of Likud MK Tally Gotliv for nine months by refusing to sign a confidentiality certificate, eventually relenting after the Shin Bet rejected his request to waive the provision

  Tags: Likud

• U.S. awaiting Iran's response to short-term truce proposal

  Haaretz - 18:07 May 07, 2026
  

  The short-term proposal awaiting Tehran's response reportedly skips over key U.S. demands, including uranium enrichment • Report: Saudi Arabia and Kuwait lifted restrictions previously imposed on their bases and airspace, allowing U.S. Hormuz operations against Iran to continue

• 'For the future of democracy': Israeli expats join effort to fly home to vote

  Haaretz - 17:56 May 07, 2026
  

  A U.S.-based nonprofit promoting Israeli democracy says Likud is threatening legal action against it for helping Israelis living abroad return home to vote. 'It shows that they're panicking,' says one founder of the initiative

  Tags: Israeli

• Israeli expats join effort to fly home for the election and bring down Netanyahu

  Haaretz - 17:56 May 07, 2026
  

  A U.S.-based nonprofit promoting Israeli democracy says Likud is threatening legal action against it for helping Israelis living abroad return home to vote. "It shows that they're panicking," says one founder of the initiative

  Tags: Israeli

• In Iran war, echoes of a disaster that shook Israel 25 years ago

  Haaretz - 17:54 May 07, 2026
  

  Exactly 25 years ago, a Jerusalem wedding hall collapsed beneath dancing guests. The Iran war's foundations now look just as fragile

• Israel's extreme right is rushing to fill the vacuum where a real opposition should be

  Haaretz - 17:07 May 07, 2026
  

  There are parts in the Israeli right where Netanyahu is seen as a failure for not going far enough in Gaza and Lebanon. They may be violent - and delusional - but the ideologically hollow center-left has not offered a coherent response to Netanyahu at all

• Israel's culture minister freezes literary funding over Haredi left-wing writer

  Haaretz - 16:22 May 07, 2026
  

  A book launch for journalist Israel Frey's 'Enemy of the People' is set to take place in Tel Aviv in three weeks. Frey has faced backlash for reciting Kaddish for Palestinian victims of the Gaza war, while Israel's culture minister has denounced him as a 'terror supporter'

  Tags: Israel's

• London-based Iranian rapper remakes militaristic Israeli wartime hit 'Harbu Darbu' as anti-regime anthem

  Haaretz - 16:03 May 07, 2026
  

  Iranian-born rapper Tony Mohraz contacted Israeli hip-hop duo Ness and Stilla to remix their post-October 7 hit, saying Israelis and Iranians in the diaspora have embraced it as a show of solidarity between the two against a 'shared enemy'

  Tags: Israeli

• Israel confirms it killed top Hezbollah commander in Wednesday strike in Beirut

  Haaretz - 15:20 May 07, 2026
  

  After the first Israeli strike in Beirut since a U.S-mediated cease-fire in Lebanon took effect killed the commander of the elite Radwan force, the IDF raised alert levels amid fears of a Hezbollah response targeted at Israel's Lebanon-border communities

  Tags: Hezbollah Beirut

• Israel's financial chokehold on the Palestinians is the twin of settler terrorism

  Haaretz - 13:49 May 07, 2026
  

  Both are part of the economic and psychological war of attrition Israel is waging against Palestinians and their leadership

  Tags: Palestinians

• Winning isn't enough. Israel's next PM must purge Netanyahu's people

  Haaretz - 13:40 May 07, 2026
  

  Bennett and Lapid should commit to certain steps if they want to receive a public mandate to restore Israeli democracy

• The mysterious Copper Scroll and the End of Days

  Haaretz - 13:05 May 07, 2026
  

  One stood among the Dead Sea Scrolls: made of metal, and seemingly never meant to be read. Who made it, when and why, and how was Bar-Kokhba involved? Shimon Gibson presents a new theory

• Israeli Justice minister warns supreme court of 'extinction' if judicial picks rejected

  Haaretz - 12:44 May 07, 2026
  

  The Likud minister, who has refused to recognize Isaac Amit as the Supreme Court President and is one of the main architects of the Netanyahu government's judicial overhaul, threatened that the court would have no future if his nominees for the bench aren't approved

• Israeli court orders Netanyahu to hand over medical records in libel suit after cancer revelation

  Haaretz - 12:31 May 07, 2026
  

  Netanyahu said last month that he delayed informing the public of his cancer so the information would not emerge 'at the height of the war' and allow Iran to spread 'propaganda against Israel.' But the head of oncology at the hospital where he was treated said the treatment took place before the war started

  Tags: Netanyahu

• Israel ramps up issuing of air defense export licenses, and not just to the UAE

  Haaretz - 12:09 May 07, 2026
  

  The surge is one reason Israeli defense exports are believed to have climbed 20 percent last year, but critics say this puts in question Netanyahu's vision of an independent arms industry

• Will antisemitism push British Jews into the arms of Farage and the far right?

  Haaretz - 12:02 May 07, 2026
  

  Historically, most U.K. Jews voted Tory or Labour, but the surge in antisemitic attacks in London may push Jewish voters toward the xenophobic Reform U.K. party. A record number are also supporting the far-left Greens

• A quiet oak forest in central Israel hides a forgotten Circassian history

  Haaretz - 09:09 May 07, 2026
  

  The Alon nature reserve was once the cemetery of a 19th-century Circassian village – and remains a striking place to visit in every season

  Tags: Circassian

• Report: Iran set to respond on Thursday to U.S. proposal to end war

  Haaretz - 09:01 May 07, 2026
  

  As the world awaits Tehran's response to the latest proposal floated by U.S. President Donald Trump, sources caution that gaps remain between the two sides

• Report: Trump backtracked on Strait of Hormuz operation under Saudi pressure

  Haaretz - 05:19 May 07, 2026
  

  U.S. President Donald Trump halted 'Project Freedom' after Saudi Arabia suspended U.S. military access to key bases and airspace, NBC News reported. Riyadh's move followed an uncoordinated launch, blocking use of Prince Sultan Air Base and forcing a rapid U.S. reassessment

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