The prime minister's popularity has recouped from the dip that followed October 7, but Benjamin Netanyahu's political future is hanging on marginal shifts among voters the opposition could still woo

A smear campaign distributed phony AI-generated nudes of a left-wing French candidate. A Haaretz-Libération investigation has uncovered systems for building an army of avatars – developed in Israel

Police commissioner retracts his previous directive, which was to avoid the arrests amid fear of protests. An officer who encounters a Haredi deserter is now ordered to detain him, report and wait for a military police representative to arrest him