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Tzvika Mor, father of freed Gaza hostage, joins Smotrich's Religious Zionism party

Haaretz - 13:07 May 26, 2026

Tzvika Mor headed the 'Tikva Forum,' which united six hostage families who called on the government during the October 7 war with Gaza to halt negotiations with Hamas and urged to continue the war

Tags: Gaza Tzvika
Israel's Arab public will not forgive its parties if ego battles derail a joint list

Haaretz - 12:59 May 26, 2026

An initial deal to establish a 'joint slate' instilled hope in Arab voters, but dangers lurk in seat distribution battles. Judging by past elections, a strong joint slate inspires the Arab public to vote en masse, while a disjointed one leaves citizens at home on voting day

Tags: Arab
'Contributes nothing': Israel police chief slams Shin Bet head on rise in crime in closed talks

Haaretz - 12:44 May 26, 2026

The police commissioner accused the Shin Bet of failing to assist the police in tackling rising violent crime: 'The government thinks the Shin Bet is some kind of magician and the police are not, but we do everything' in Israel

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Trump's Iran deal: Netanyahu's 2018 dream is the world's 2026 nightmare

Haaretz - 12:02 May 26, 2026

Will anyone – Netanyahu, Trump, the Republican Party, AIPAC – apologize, or even just do some soul-searching, for fighting down the 2015 Iran plan negotiated by Obama?

Tags: Iran
Autistic 14-year-old accused by Israel of security crimes describes six weeks of abuse in detention

Haaretz - 11:45 May 26, 2026

'Amir,' a teenager from Jaffa, was detained by the Israeli army and imprisoned for six weeks until he was transferred to house arrest and then to a residence for young people with special needs. He recalls dozens of beatings by wardens and a sexual assault by his cellmate
Israel orders expropriation of religious site near Jerusalem run by Muslim Waqf

Haaretz - 11:30 May 26, 2026

This is the first instance of an expropriation of a Waqf-owned holy site by the Civil Administration. Whether the Waqf will continue to run the site remains unclear
Netanyahu confidant Tzachi Braverman set to be charged in Bibileaks investigation affair

Haaretz - 10:57 May 26, 2026

Netanyahu's former chief of staff was summoned by the Attorney General to a pre-indictment hearing on charges of fraud, breach of trust and obstruction of justice, suspected of having interfered with the investigation into the leak of classified documents to the German 'Bild' daily in 2024
Portraits of Israel's surveillance state: Turning moments of arrest into art

Haaretz - 10:49 May 26, 2026

Artport's latest exhibition 'Fragments of a Portrait,' examines surveillance policies, while Israeli movie 'Tel Aviv/Beirut' about Lebanese and Israeli women caught up in the violence of war finally gets its Israeli premiere and the Jerusalem's International Writers Festival begins
Dressed to oppress: Purple and other colors that ruled and divided ancient Rome

Haaretz - 10:40 May 26, 2026

The Greeks viewed color through a poetic lens tied to nature and myth, but under the Romans it transformed into a language of status, power, piety and self-promotion
Israeli startups mobilize against explosive drones at Tel Aviv hackathon

Haaretz - 10:23 May 26, 2026

As Hezbollah's drone attacks intensify and the Defense Ministry struggles to respond, Israeli startups are gathering at a Tel Aviv event in an attempt to fast-track solutions for soldiers on the ground

Tags: Israeli Tel Aviv
FIFA confirms Iran's World Cup base camp moved to Tijuana

Haaretz - 10:19 May 26, 2026

The Iranian Football Federation requested the change after the war broke out. The team is scheduled to play two group-stage games of the World Cup in Los Angeles and one game in Seattle. Iranian officials reported earlier this month that the players and staff had not yet received U.S. visas

Tags: World
Shin Bet chief David Zini meets in UAE with Mohammed Dahlan, ex-Gaza strongman and PA president's political rival

Haaretz - 10:09 May 26, 2026

Dahlan was expelled from Fatah and the Palestinian Authority, facing allegations that he had assassinated Yasser Arafat. He is an influential figure in Gaza but is not affiliated with the PA or Hamas. A source says he has a direct line to U.S. President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner

Tags: Gaza
'I lost my grandmother's story': Eesa Hayek's race to collect Nakba testimonies

Haaretz - 07:28 May 26, 2026

After his grandmother died before he recorded her memories from 1948, Eesa Hayek made it his mission to interview as many Nakba survivors as possible. The 26-year-old has so far collected more than 160 from across Israel

Tags: Eesa Hayek Nakba
Report: U.S. restarts escorting ships crossing Strait of Hormuz

Haaretz - 06:38 May 26, 2026

U.S. military officials who spoke with the Wall Street Journal said naval forces had guided a Greek tanker through the waterway. A similar initiative was backtracked earlier this month. Earlier, U.S. strikes targeted mine-laying boats and missile launchers in southern Iran
Gulf states know they can't rely on Trump's America and may be forced into alliances with Iran

Haaretz - 03:11 May 26, 2026

As Donald Trump pushes an expansive, unrealistic fantasy of mandatory Abraham Accords, the region's actual strategic architecture has fractured: Left without a reliable American protector, the Gulf states are facing a dilemma that could force them to look to Tehran for new alliances

Tags: Gulf
Iran partially lifts internet blackout after more than two months, watchdogs' data shows

Haaretz - 02:09 May 26, 2026
'Barren and desolate': Mark Twain wasn't the only American miffed by Palestine

Haaretz - 01:15 May 26, 2026

Newspaper editor and owner Moses Beach was part of the famous 1867 tour group that encountered a landscape that wasn't exactly 'a land flowing with milk and honey'
Israeli security forces secretly helped to smuggle unsupervised goods into Gaza

Haaretz - 22:39 May 25, 2026

A recent indictment details how a smuggler known as 'Abu Basel' used defense ties to run a parallel ring that raked in millions, creating 'the appearance of an operation carried out under the auspices of the state'
Netanyahu injected deadly poison into Israel's body

Haaretz - 21:17 May 25, 2026

The second poisonous injection is occurring in the West Bank. Netanyahu leaves behind the 150 farms and Jewish terror apparatus designed to expel Palestinians, seize their land and thwart their independence

Tags: Netanyahu
Sally Rooney won't save Israel's liberal center from itself

Haaretz - 21:15 May 25, 2026

Many people who view themselves as centrists or leftists don't really oppose the fundamental situation within which all this is happening. When it comes to the genocide in the Gaza Strip, for instance, many of them either participated in it or kept silent about it

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