Gaza City is home to approximately 1.2 million people, and the IDF estimates evacuating them will take longer than two weeks. There is 'not a single place in Deir al-Balah that is capable of accommodating' them, Mayor Nizar Ayash said

This week, tens of thousands of Israelis marched in Tel Aviv calling for an end to the war and a deal to release the hostages, while Netanyahu cut a security cabinet meeting short to feast with settler leaders. Which Israel will Trump stand with?

Lebanon's presidency said it 'regrets' the comments made by Tom Barrack, the U.S. ambassador to Turkey and special envoy to Syria, while journalist groups threaten to boycott Barrack if he doesn't apologize

To the outside, non-Jewish world, converts are simply Jews – Jews who amid rising antisemitism presently live at a heightened risk of attacked for being openly Jewish, leading Jewish lives and openly advocating for the hostages held by Hamas in Gaza. So why are we cross-examining one another on social media?

The death toll of the war in Gaza now stands at 62,895, including 2,158 people who were killed while seeking aid and 313 who died of malnutrition, among them 119 children. Meanwhile, the IDF said that the evacuation of Gaza City is 'inevitable' and urged residents to move south ahead of Israel's planned operation to take over the city

The announcement by the Australian government that the Islamic Republic orchestrated recent antisemitic attacks heightens rather than alleviates the anxieties of many Australian Jews. We know that we have been targeted by state terrorism, and yet many of our questions remain unanswered

According to the activists, after Israel's West Bank police failed to prevent Jewish settlers from pasturing sheep on Palestinian land, the settlers assaulted Palestinians and activists with clubs, stole equipment and smashed house windows

Santiago's synagogue was splattered with red paint and posters reading 'Silence is cooperation with Israel's genocide.' Chilean leaders say antisemitism is rarely addressed, despite having the third-largest Jewish community in South America

According to locals and security officials, IDF forces entered the city with dozens of vehicles and searched dozens of homes. Other sources said that the IDF placed snipers on several rooftops in the city center and raided multiple stores

The comptroller personally criticized senior IDF and police officials in a draft investigating their conduct during the massacre at the music festival. The IDF has previously said the comptroller is targeting it to fill the vacuum created by the government's refusal to appoint a state commission of inquiry

PM Albanese said Australia's intelligence agencies had shown the attack, and another in Sydney last year, were directed by the Iranian government, and expelled Tehran's ambassador, becoming the latest Western government to accuse Iran of carrying out hostile covert activities on its soil

From Wes Anderson's latest design showroom to Celine Song's capitalist love triangle, a look at what's playing (and what's playing out) on Israeli screens as the movie industry seems to be sitting out the unofficial cultural boycott felt in other art fields

Seven volunteers from the Israeli NGO The Road to Recovery were murdered on October 7, leaving the group reeling. But with new members and renewed faith in one-on-one encounters, demand for rides is higher than ever

Israel's Greek Orthodox and Latin patriarchates said that clergy and nuns would continue caring for the 600 displaced Palestinians sheltering at their churches, despite IDF bombings and calls to evacuate Gaza City

The chief of the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Grossi, has received threats from 'Iran-linked individuals,' one source told The Wall Street Journal. According to the report, one of the ayatollah's top aides ominously said Iran will 'deal with Grossi' following its war with Israel

In a letter sent to PM Netanyahu, the French president said 'nothing can justify' the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip, adding that Israel's actions in the enclave can be used as a pretext for antisemitism, endangering Jewish communities worldwide

U.S. Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff also said that the Trump administration believes that Israel's offensive in Gaza will stop 'certainly before the end of this year,' adding that Hamas has signaled it is open to a deal

All actors in the Middle East are waiting for Trump to realize that the Israeli plan to conquer Gaza City is just more spin, which will only lead to more destruction, ruin and death – and won't convince Hamas to surrender to Netanyahu's terms

Yossi Cohen, who stepped down as Mossad director in 2021, said he would offer leadership based on 'unity and security'

In podcast interview, the Israeli prime minister was asked whether he recognized the Armenian genocide, replying: 'I just did it'

Under the proposal, Israel would withdraw from Gaza completely and Egypt, together with Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the Palestinian Authority, would assume responsibility for the territory, prevent Hamas from controlling it and guarantee Israel's security

Political pundits keep saying the 2026 election is a red line that Netanyahu will be deterred from crossing. A more sober look reveals that the thought that Netanyahu will hold fair elections and honor the results is naïve

Families of slain and captive Israelis accuse Netanyahu's government of inaction and misplaced priorities, urging an immediate deal as survivors, relatives and local leaders deliver emotional pleas in Tel Aviv

In the year since the last DNC meeting, Democrats faced a reality in which Trump and the Republican-led Congress gave Netanyahu and Israel's far-right a blank check. The war grinds on, and Democratic discontent with Israel has reached unprecedented levels

The Palestinian Health Ministry said 33 people were wounded, including a 13-year-old boy who was shot in the abdomen. The IDF said its forces raided a foreign exchange office that transferred money to Hamas, arresting five suspects and seizing thousands of shekels

Strikes on a sensitive facility like a hospital require the approval of a high-ranking officer, but the initial probe of the deadly incident failed to disclose who gave the order to open fire

This 21-year-old in the career army served in a rescue unit and says she can't forget the smells of death, but despite psychologists' advice, the IDF is putting up bureaucratic hurdles and even threatened jail

Denisovans were discovered in 2010, but we didn't know what they looked like. Now we do, and Israeli researchers believe they've spotted three on museum shelves. And mirror, mirror on the wall, am I seeing Kabwe?

The vote was expected to fail despite poll numbers showing increasing discontent among Democrats over the status quo of the U.S.-Israel relationship. Chairman Ken Martin's resolution calling for a two-state solution was later withdrawn

The photographer accused Reuters and other Western outlets of uncritically repeating Israeli claims about Palestinian journalists killed in Gaza. 'Western media is directly culpable for creating the conditions in which this can happen,' she said

Samaritan's Purse, headed by Trump ally and evangelical leader Franklin Graham, is the first international aid group to publicly acknowledge it has agreed to work with the U.S.-Israel backed GHF, amid mass shootings and chaos at its distribution sites in the Gaza Strip

One Israeli commentator branded the slain journalists as elite Hamas terrorists, while others refused to recognize them as journalists, placing the term in quotes and even criticizing Netanyahu for apologizing over the Khan Yunis strike

Ruby Chen's son, Itay, was believed to be killed on October 7 and his body was taken to Gaza. Speaking to Haaretz, he says his family has not received any information from the Israeli government about possible deals or the return of his son's body. The Trump administration has also provided no answers

U.S. Envoy Tom Barrack said Lebanon and its military are 'not talking about going to war,' but looking to 'convince' Hezbollah to disarm. Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem said the group would not discuss a national defense strategy until Israeli forces withdraw

The CEO said the broadcasting authority's chairman attempted to restrict the free press since taking on his position in December. She added that, following disagreements, the chief 'rudely and threateningly proposed that I resign'

The allegations of war crimes are not only coming from hostile sources but also from some of our closest allies. It's not enough to cry out that all of these critics are antisemites: Israel must face them with transparency, accountability and a return to its ethical foundations

Israeli ground troops in Gaza report life-threatening equipment shortages due to budget limitations, even as billions are spent elsewhere. The constraints have heightened tensions with the better-funded Air Force, particularly as a major operation looms in Gaza City

KLM's flights to Israel are set to have a short operational stop in Cyprus before landing in Israel, while its flights to Amsterdam will be direct

The rap group cited band member Mo Chara's ongoing terrorism charge in Britain for displaying a Hezbollah flag at a London concert last year. Six months earlier, Kneecap projected 'Fuck Israel. Free Palestine' during its Coachella show

Gadi Eisenkot, whose son was killed in a Gaza hostage rescue operation, said the war in which he and his fellow IDF soldiers died was driven by 'political and ideological considerations of those who want to return to Gaza settlements'

By ignoring the killing of Palestinian journalists in Gaza, their Israeli colleagues are adding a moral insult to the ethical and professional injury of under-reporting or even ignoring the plight of Gaza's civilian population for the past 690 days

Updating the data on the humanitarian crisis in Gaza felt barbaric at first. Like its very existence contained the sweeping and horrifying violence. But over time, it turned out to be the right thing to do

Netanyahu government approves 10 million shekels to fund travel to Uman for 40,000 Bratslav Hasidim via Moldova, with direct flights to Ukraine suspended since Russia's invasion ■ Haredi politician Israel Porush threatens to block Ben-Gurion Airport if IDF draft dodgers are arrested: 'If we don't fly, no one will fly'

Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa is preoccupied with keeping his regime alive, while Benjamin Netanyahu, who wants a demilitarized southern Syria, is now showing some flexibility. But a withdrawal from Syrian land that Israel took in December is an open question

Democratic Senators Chris Van Hollen and Jeff Merkley called for renewed focus on the hostages and ending the Gaza war. 'There is a profound sense for many Americans, highlighted by the starvation, that the Netanyahu government has lost its moral compass,' Van Hollen tells Haaretz

The Gaza health ministry also reported three deaths from malnutrition in the past 24 hours, bringing the total hunger-related deaths since the start of the war to 303, including 117 children

Germany's leader said the conditions for recognizing a Palestinian state are unmet; Canada and France plan recognition as Britain ties it to a Gaza cease-fire; Israel's far-right minister has called Germany's support for a negotiated Palestinian state 'a return to Nazism'

The churches have sheltered hundreds of civilians since the start of the war, including elderly people, women, and children, according to their Jerusalem leadership. Last month, three people were killed in an IDF strike on a Catholic church in Gaza City

The anguished calls for action 'now' by Israeli protesters feel increasingly powerless to halt an endless Gaza war. Why has it been so hard to translate this sense of urgency into an effective resistance movement against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu?

They were born and raised in Israel, speak fluent Hebrew, and consider it home. But while their friends prepare for army service and driving tests, they watch for white vans and face an uncertain future. A new exhibition of their paintings sheds light on lives lived in legal limbo

The report documents incidents at universities in nine European countries, noting that Jewish students are 'withdrawing from campus life.' It warns that 'anti-Zionist and anti-Israel positions' have lowered the threshold for antisemitic violence

Head of Australian intelligence says Islamic Republic and its proxies 'lit the matches and fanned the flames.' PM Albanese to introduce legislation to list Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization

As Trump complains and cajoles in pursuit of the peace prize, touting seven conflicts he says he has resolved, in the bloodsoaked war between Israel and the Palestinians, he has failed miserably. The truly deserving recipients are those saving lives in Gaza

The IDF has already taken responsibility for killing journalists earlier this month, making it harder to accept its claim that what happened at the Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on Monday was an accident

The invitation sent to families for the graduation ceremony of the psychotechical diagnostics course stated that T-shirts and shorts above the knee should not be worn. At the request from the Secular Forum and Haaretz, the army announced that it would change the guidelines

Move comes after Israel declared Brazilian president persona non grata for withdrawing his country from the International Alliance for Holocaust Memory

According to a source, Netanyahu does not want to bring the partial framework that Hamas approved last week for ministerial approval, in order to signal that Israel is only interested in a comprehensive deal. Trump says war will be decided within two or three weeks

Police said a separate 'protest area' would be established, where demonstrations against the government would be allowed. However, displaying Palestinian flags and setting up political booths in that area will be prohibited

The IDF said it 'regrets harm to uninvolved individuals and doesn't target journalists as such.' As such? This qualification likely points to the fact that journalists have been targeted by Israel in the past, just not, apparently, this time