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 Chairman Ken Martin's resolution calling for a two-state solution was later withdrawn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

Amid a surge in soldier suicides following October 7 and ongoing war, a group of veterans suffering from PTSD in an encampment outside Israel's parliament is protesting the red tape around mental health care. Can they make their invisible illness seen before it wrecks lives?

While Syria's new regime wants to be seen as an ally of the West rather than an international pariah, the true test will be whether it can begin moving toward normalization with Israel without addressing the Palestinian issue at all – and the answer seems to hinge on the position of leaders in Saudi Arabia

A controversial dig in the City of David uncovers a First Temple Period dam. Researchers link the 2,800-year-old structure to efforts to face increased drought and flash floods

The president also repeated his claim that fewer than 20 hostages held in Gaza are still alive, saying that 'one or two are gone.' Israel has previously denied Trump's statements, saying that it is not aware of any change in the condition of the living hostages

Footage obtained by the IDF shows Cohen, the sole survivor from his tank crew, being taken hostage into the Gaza Strip. His mother, Vicki, said hostage families 'will act differently' this time, vowing to 'make sure no one sabotages' the Gaza cease-fire and hostage deal talks

Mariam Dagga, a freelance photographer for The Associated Press, and Hussam al-Masri, a cameraman for Reuters, were killed when the Israeli army struck Nasser Hospital twice on Monday

'We aren't forgetting about you for a moment': Hostage Guy Gilboa-Dalal was abducted by Hamas from the Nova music festival on Oct. 7, along with his friend Evyatar David, who is also still a hostage. Addressing Guy and the other hostages, his father says, 'Don't despair. You'll be returning home soon'

Press freedom groups, including the Foreign Press Association, denounced Israel after a strike on Nasser Hospital killed at least 20 Palestinians, among them five journalists, in one of the deadliest attacks on media workers since the Gaza war began

Lebanon approved earlier this month a U.S.-backed plan for Hezbollah disarmament that includes a phased dismantling of Hezbollah's weapons and an immediate halt to Israeli strikes. Netanyahu called the effort to disarm the group 'an opportunity for Lebanon to reclaim sovereignty'

Extremist Israeli plans to end the two-state solution are likely to elicit a Palestinian reaction. And if this reaction is triggered in a power vacuum, under a weakened or collapsed Palestinian Authority, the potential damage is immense, and the ability to backpedal almost impossible

'There are wonderful places in the State of Israel – Judea and Samaria, which most of the Jews of Israel haven't been to': Israeli TV panelist suggests Israelis travel to West Bank, as they face hatred abroad over Gaza war

Raphael Bob-Waksberg's follow-up to 'BoJack Horseman' offers a sensitive portrayal of childhood experiences and family ties, but leans too heavily on tired clichés about American Jews

Top IDF officials, including the chief of staff, believe Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu is ignoring their professional opinion – that entering Gaza City might lead to the death of the hostages – and say a partial deal for the return of some hostages would give forces time to regroup

From Vietnam to Afghanistan to Gaza, modern wars fought without political solutions tend to drag their occupiers into moral decline, diminishing returns and the erosion of legitimacy

Approximately 50 Palestinians, including journalists and medical staff, were reportedly wounded in the strikes on Nasser Hospital, the only remaining functioning hospital in the south of the Gaza, according to the hospital's director. Netanyahu said it was a 'tragic mishap' and that Israel 'values the work of journalists'

In a letter to The Wall Street Journal, American Ambassador Charles Kushner wrote of a sharp rise in antisemitism in France since October 7, 2023, and criticized Paris' decision to recognize a Palestinian state. France's Foreign Ministry called the letter 'unacceptable'