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Iran arrests Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi, supporters say
December 13, 2025
Supporters say security forces seized the activist in Mashhad as she spoke unveiled at a service for a lawyer found dead. The Nobel Committee said it was 'deeply concerned,' as doctors warn a return to prison could endanger her health
German police open investigation into Maccabi Tel Aviv fans over alleged hate chants
December 12, 2025
According to a report in Bild, Stuttgart police are examining suspicions that Maccabi fans sang offensive chants, including chants targeting Palestinians
Mamdani meets critics, seeks allies in bid for affordable NYC agenda
December 12, 2025
Mamdani's outreach to Jewish leaders, including past opponents, underscores the tightrope he must walk: pushing an ambitious affordability agenda while calming fears over his Israel rhetoric before January 1
Biden administration briefly withheld some intelligence from Israel during Gaza war, sources say
December 12, 2025
U.S. intelligence officials briefly withheld live drone feeds and limited Israel's use of some targeting information during the Gaza war over concerns about civilian casualties and alleged mistreatment of Palestinian prisoners, resuming sharing only after Israel provided assurances
UN passes resolution calling on Israel to cooperate with UNRWA, prompting Israeli pushback
December 12, 2025
Israel's Foreign Ministry condemned the UN resolution, saying it 'proves once again that it is a morally distorted body' and calling the UN a 'cynical political machine.' Earlier this week, Israeli forces raided the UNRWA headquarters in East Jerusalem
Murder of four Arab Israelis raises community's annual crime death toll to 241
December 12, 2025
Two weeks ago, police arrested 23 suspects from the Hariri and Abu Latif crime organizations, suspected of collecting protection money, taking over businesses, extortion, intimidation, and involvement in several homicides in recent years
Lebanese foreign minister reportedly says Israel planning major attack on Lebanon
December 12, 2025
Lebanese Foreign Minister Youssef Rajji also criticized Hezbollah and Iran, saying that Tehran's regional policy 'is a source of instability' and its influence on Lebanon is negative. He urged Iran to 'stop financing an illegal organization'
Get ready for a Netanyahu-friendly probe bashing the IDF just before the election
December 12, 2025
The investigation by Israel's state comptroller will suffice with minor reprimands of political leaders while focusing on the security establishment's blunders. Until then, related witch hunts and harassment efforts will escalate
Iron cage, hunger, meeting top Hamas official: Freed hostage reveals new details of Gaza captivity
December 12, 2025
Eitan Mor, who was among the 20 Israeli hostages released as part of the U.S.-brokered Gaza cease-fire deal in October, told an Israeli news site that the hunger in Gaza City began 'about a month' after October 7 – creating especially difficult conditions in the tunnels – and that he met...
Maccabi Tel Aviv seeks fresh start as EuroLeague basketball returns to Israel after two years
December 12, 2025
The game's main guest was released hostage Omri Miran, who celebrated his return in an emotional ceremony as fans packed the home court and the team's power forward delivered a record-setting performance to mark European basketball's comeback to Israel. 'This is a return to...
On both climate and security, Israel mistakes the absence of an existential threat for stability. It's wrong
December 12, 2025
The climate is changing, reshaping our landscape, our economy, and our way of life, creating new risks and intensifying old ones. We must plan for this change, strengthen our emergency and rescue services, and stop wasting resources on West Bank settlements and on blind vengeance in Gaza
Thirteen Gazans, including three children, killed by hypothermia or building collapses amid storm Byron; one man dies in Israel
December 12, 2025
Israel's Meteorological Service called the rainfall 'exceptional,' as humanitarian aid organizations in Gaza warned the storm would have a dire effect on the health of displaced persons residing in tents and buildings weakened by the war
Trump pushes Israel and Hamas out of his way, impatient to start Stage Two of Gaza cease-fire
December 12, 2025
Trump administration pressures mediators for Hamas disarmament and Israel to forgo the Yellow Line border, to secure Board of Peace's ability to govern the entire Strip and deploy the international stabilization force
Analysis | An undemocratic Israel poses a grave threat to Diaspora Jews
December 12, 2025
As the presumed compatibility of 'American interests' and 'Jewish aims' collapses, and Israel increasingly rejects democratic principles, Jewish communities face a new reality
Saudi and Emirati power struggles in Yemen and Sudan show dangers of relying on 'friendly' forces in Gaza
December 12, 2025
Saudi Arabia and the UAE, both partners of the coalition seeking to be involved in Gaza's future, have yet to settle their local conflicts in Yemen and Sudan, which have taken hundreds of thousands of lives. For now, it seems the United States will continue to take a neutral stand
Likud minister twisted Arab leaders' letter to police, claiming they endorsed Shin Bet budget transfer
December 12, 2025
The Social Equality minister used a letter written to police by the Arab mayors' council head expressing general support in the fight against Arab community crime as evidence that Arab leaders supported her diverting funds to the Shin Bet to combat crime
Poll: Netanyahu's Likud largest party in Knesset, but coalition still lacks majority in case of elections
December 12, 2025
Likud remains the largest in the Knesset with 27 seats, two up from last week, a Channel 12 News poll finds. Former PM Naftali Bennett's party gains one seat to reach 22, while Yair Golan's Democrats party drops one seat to 11 and Smotrich's Religious Zionism party falls below the...
Just one thing is stalling Stage Two of Trump's Gaza plan: reality
December 12, 2025
Hamas controls the enclave with an iron fist, no one has volunteered to disarm it and Netanyahu is in no hurry to press on – but the U.S. president wants a win ■ On the northern front, Hezbollah's new motto has become 'Survival is victory'
No confession, no retirement: Why is Israel's president even considering Netanyahu's pardon request?
December 12, 2025
There can no longer be any doubt: The conduct of Israel's president is a national disgrace ■ Does anyone really believe that after a pardon, Netanyahu will roll back his assault on democracy? ■ Galit Distel Atbaryan, a modern-day Joseph McCarthy
With a mass Jewish-Arab movement behind him, Alon-Lee Green is reshaping the Israeli left
December 11, 2025
With thousands of members, a quarter-million social media followers, and a spot on TIME's list of emerging leaders, 'Standing Together' co-founder Alon Lee-Green is charting a new course for Israel's fractured political opposition
The Israel-Lebanon cease-fire is failing, Hezbollah is rearming and the U.S. must act now
December 11, 2025
Lebanon's foot-dragging has allowed Hezbollah to restock its arsenals, funded by a renewed cash flow from Iran and prompting Israel's escalation. The U.S. must use its leverage on Beirut now before it's too late
Netanyahu's poison machine has a new target: the head of the police investigations department
December 11, 2025
'They're creating an atmosphere of ouster around me,' Boaz Balat, who is being attacked by politicians and those close to the government because of his refusal to incriminate Israel's attorney general, told his colleagues ■ President Herzog is trapped between the threats of...
A pardon for Netanyahu is career suicide for Herzog – and he's not suicidal
December 11, 2025
It's possible that the Israeli president wants to pardon Netanyahu, maybe even without a promise that he'll retire from politics. But it's hard to see Herzog daring to do that, as a huge majority of the political community from which he comes is opposed to such a step
Israeli society is blind to its own poor – it will end up not seeing at all
December 11, 2025
People who have learned to turn their gazes away from the pain of people far away ultimately turn their gazes away even from the pain of those closest to them
Hebrew University student union election board disqualifies left-affiliated candidates
December 11, 2025
The committee, citing technical issues, blocked eight candidates nominated by Arab-Jewish groups, and a candidate from a group that called for barring the 'Ben-Gvir police' from campus was temporarily blocked. Haaretz learned that the union received over 500 complaints about students who...
Case closed against officers who fatally shot Israeli Arab man after he attacked police
December 11, 2025
In February of last year, policemen shot and killed Morshad Abd al-Hai, a resident of central Israel's Tira, after he resisted arrest. The Justice Ministry notified his family last week that there was no evidentiary basis for criminal proceedings against the officers involved
New video appears to undermine Israeli account for IDF shooting of Palestinian man in West Bank
December 11, 2025
The Israeli military said on Saturday that Ahmed Khalil al-Rajabi tried to run over troops stationed in the city center in an attempted ramming attack, but new footage shows al-Rajabi fleeing from soldiers advancing toward him, one of them pointing his gun at the vehicle
'Is there a Jew who Tucker doesn't hate?' The America First love fest with left-wing anti-Israel critics goes up a gear
December 11, 2025
Right-wing pundit Tucker Carlson bonds with UN special rapporteur Francesca Albanese, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene meets with pro-Palestinian Code Pink activists: The GOP split over Israel and antisemitism is now creating a swathe of unlikely bedfellows, much to the chagrin of AIPAC and pro-Israel...
The fish stinks from the head: From Netanyahu to racketeering in Nazareth, the rot runs deep in Israel
December 11, 2025
Politicians, ministries, police units and regulatory bodies increasingly operate according to the same logic: personal alliances over public duty, impunity over accountability, loyalty over legality
Ultra-Orthodox, anti-Zionist sect welcomes New York's Zohran Mamdani to annual celebration event
December 11, 2025
Mamdani's attendance at the Satmar sect event signals a growing closeness to the group, whose leaders partly supported him in the mayoral race. President Trump also sent a letter to Satmar leaders: 'Together, we will continue to usher in the Golden Age of America'
Dr. Gabor Maté knows why we get sick – and it's not for the reasons you think
December 11, 2025
A wide-ranging interview with a Holocaust survivor and outspoken critic of Israel who has become a superstar in the fields of trauma and childhood development – and who believes Western culture is a toxic environment that fuels disease
Israeli judge lifts restrictions on Netanyahu aide, reservist suspected in Bibileaks affair, citing case delays
December 11, 2025
The judge said the case is unlikely to progress against Netanyahu's spokesman and a reservist suspected of leaking the classified information from the IDF to the Prime Minister's Office, who then leaked it to the German tabloid Bild
Six hostages murdered in Gaza tunnel in 2024 seen lighting Hanukkah candles in new footage
December 11, 2025
Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Almog Sarusi, Alex Lobanov, Carmel Gat, Eden Yerushalmi and Ori Danino are seen in the video obtained by the IDF. The bodies of the six hostages were found in late August 2024 in a narrow tunnel after Israeli troops had been operating in the area for several days
U.S. lawmakers call for accountability over Israel's targeting of journalists since Oct. 7
December 11, 2025
Democratic lawmakers held a press conference alongside an American journalist wounded by the IDF in Lebanon in October 2023 to demand that Israel take responsibility for targeting reporters during combat operations, saying that efforts to get answers have 'been stonewalled at every turn'
Israeli pop star Noa Kirel tells BBC boycott of Israel in Eurovision is 'antisemitism'
December 11, 2025
'Israel is a peace-seeking country,' the 2023 representative said, adding that she was disappointed by the five countries that withdrew from Eurovision 2026 over Israel's participation. Kirel says that boycotting the contest 'isn't just an insult to us, it's an insult...
An Israeli art student tried to burn the national flag. This is what she's facing since
December 11, 2025
Footage showing an attempt to burn an Israeli flag in class has sparked a debate about art and servility to the Netanyahu government
First Amnesty International report on October 7 attack accuses Hamas of crimes against humanity
December 11, 2025
The report notes 'documented evidence that Palestinian assailants committed sexual assault and other forms of sexual violence' both on October 7 and against hostages they held in Gaza. Former members of Amnesty's Israeli chapter claim the report on Israel was withheld over concerns...
The Israeli determined to show what the government and mainstream media are trying to hide
December 11, 2025
Israel's Culture Minister Miki Zohar's threats don't scare Danny Wilensky, the head of an Israeli human rights film festival where Israeli violence in the West Bank and Gaza are in full display
Amid tensions, Oscar-nominated Israeli animation sparks dialogue between Jews and Muslims in Sweden
December 11, 2025
Israeli filmmaker Tal Kantor's animated short film 'Letter to a Pig,' exploring intergenerational trauma and its potential to lead to empathy, has received numerous accolades. Now, a rabbi in Sweden has shown the film to Jewish-Muslim audiences to encourage dialogue post October 7...
Israel's Education Ministry to ban smartphone use in elementary schools
December 11, 2025
Israeli Education Ministry officials said that the policy aims to reduce distractions, to strengthen social ties in school, and to provide the best possible setting for learning. According to ministry data, 60 percent of the country's youth are addicted to social media
Winter storm Byron wreaks havoc across Israel, Gaza Strip
December 11, 2025
Kibbutz Ein Carmel, near Haifa, recorded more than seven inches of rainfall since the powerful storm reached the region
Knesset advances bill allowing Ben-Gvir to classify crime groups as terrorist organizations
December 11, 2025
According to the bill, passed in a preliminary vote with 54 lawmakers in favor and 41 against, if a group is designated a terrorist organization, the Shin Bet would have the authority to use means against them that it would ordinarily employ against threats to state security
Health of eight detained U.K. Palestine Action activists reportedly 'deteriorating rapidly' amid hunger strike, lawyers say
December 11, 2025
British media outlets said that two of the detainees have lost at least 10 kilograms and have been on hunger strike for over a month, adding that there is a 'real and increasingly likely potential that young British citizens will die in prison, having never been convicted of an offense'
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