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Trump Plan

Gaza multinational force emerges as Trump's intentions become clearer

Danny Zaken

Iran War

PM warns Tehran of 'devastating' consequences amid rising threat

United States

Mamdani plans celebrity-packed inauguration party

Miri Weissman

Judea and Samaria

Why did Netanyahu opt for 'West Bank' over Judea and Samaria?

Eli Zilberberg

Trump could receive $21000 as part of Israel Prize

Noam Dvir

AP Photo/Seth Wenig

Times Square preps for 2026; 'surprise' moment expected

Erez Linn

Why Iran's 'perfect storm' worries the regime

Danny Citrinowicz

Explainer

Why Iran's 'perfect storm' worries the regime

Protests that erupted in Iran over the country’s deepening economic crisis have spread from Tehran’s Grand Bazaar to other cities. Yet the regime has weathered severe internal crises in the past. What, then, would genuinely alarm Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the clerical establishment?

December 30, 2025

Feature

Pro-Iranian and pro-Sunni factions battle for Hamas control

The leading candidates, Head of Hamas Political Bureau in Gaza Khalil al-Hayya and Head of Hamas Diaspora Bureau Khaled Mashaal, reflect a quiet battle between Iran and the Qatari-Turkish axis.

December 30, 2025

Explainer

Inside Trump's divided inner circle on Israel and the Middle East

As Israel heads toward addressing the dramatic challenges facing it in the Middle East, chief among them Iran, it is accompanied by a highly supportive US administration that is nonetheless internally divided. At the same time, senior officials in Washington believe there is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to launch positive moves that could pull the entire region in a better direction.

December 28, 2025

Magazine

What is Hezbollah planning?

The terrorist organization may have been weakened, but it is using every spare moment to rebuild. The strategy is to deny Israel a pretext to strike, while quietly rebuilding its power with vast sums of money smuggled in by Iran. If the US and its allies in the region want to settle the matter, there is only one thing they can do.

December 27, 2025

Magazine

How October 7 forced the Israeli Air Force to change everything

As part of its reckoning with the failures exposed by the October 7 massacre, the IDF is presenting a fundamental overhaul of how the Israeli Air Force responds to sudden, eruptive border incidents.

December 27, 2025

US-Israel rift deepens as senior US official cancels visit

Analysis

As Netanyahu heads to meet Trump, US aid takes center stage

Recent remarks by President Trump have cast doubt on who initiated the meeting, what its purpose is and how urgent it really is. At the same time, winds are blowing in Washington calling for a reduction in US aid to Israel. Precisely for that reason, this is the perfect moment for an experienced prime minister to place this issue at the very center of the meeting.

December 25, 2025

Magazine

Worse than you thought: Inside look at Qatar's hidden brutality

Exploitation of foreign workers, a poet sentenced to life in prison, and the torture of regime opponents — behind the glossy PR machine, Qatar’s regime operates with brutality, stopping at nothing to crush its critics. People who lived in Doha are tearing apart the blanket of lies, and they also have a message for Israel.

December 25, 2025

Magazine

Hamas' return of the hostages should alarm Israel

Israeli officials believed the terrorist organization would struggle to recover and return all the hostages but one. Yet the very fact that it managed to do so reveals something that should deeply trouble all of us.

December 19, 2025

Digital piracy surges as streaming costs spiral out of control

Magazine

Iran & The Gulf

Clashes erupt across Iran against Islamic regime

by Neta Bar

Reuters/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa

Feature

Pro-Iranian and pro-Sunni factions battle for Hamas control

by Shachar Kleiman

EPA/JOHN G. MABANGLO / PUGUN SJ / Getty Images

Microsoft Azure outage recovers following brief disruption

Cyber & Internet

Cyberattack suspected amid nationwide internet, phone outage

IDF unveils new suicide recognition policy following Oct. 7

Oren Ben Hakoon

Israel

IDF unveils new suicide recognition policy following Oct. 7

by Lilach Shoval

Trump will back Israeli strike on Iran if it continues missile program

Commentary

Trump's honeyed embrace of Netanyahu comes with stings attached

by Prof. Abraham Ben-Zvi

REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein; Ludovic MARIN / AFP

UAE withdraws from Yemen after Saudi deadline

Middle East

AP Photo/Seth Wenig

United States

Times Square preps for 2026; 'surprise' moment expected

United States

Israel

Trump could receive $21000 as part of Israel Prize

by Noam Dvir

REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein; Ludovic MARIN / AFP

Oren Ben Hakoon

Israel

Middle East

UAE withdraws from Yemen after Saudi deadline

Danny Moloshok/Invision/AP

Tehran shutdown announced as regime deploys massive forces to quash protests

EPA/STRINGER

Iran & The Gulf

REUTERS

Jewish World

Norway lights Hanukkah menorah 'for Palestine'

by Nissan Shtrauchler

December 22, 2025

Hundreds arrested at London rally for Pro-Palestinian terrorist organization

EPA

Jewish World

AFP/Charly Triballeau

Travel

Worst airports in the world ranked

by Assaf Golan

December 24, 2025

Getty Images

Travel

EPA/Olga Fedrova

Music

Did you know Jewish songwriters created your favorite Christmas music?

by Inbal Chiat

December 25, 2025

Now free worldwide: YouTube to stream Oscars

Entertainment

Getty Images / urfinguss

Business & Finance

$400 million liquidation sparks new crypto collapse in Bitcoin, Ethereum

REUTERS/Dado Ruvic; Yossi Hai Hanuka Photo: AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File

December 1, 2025

Google's Gemini 3 Pro arrives: Is it a game-changer?

Business & Finance

Science & Technology

This is how Iranian hackers target Israeli officials

by Roi Bet Levi

December 28, 2025

Iranian hackers claim breach of Netanyahu chief of staff's phone

Science & Technology

jacquesdurocher/Getty Images/iStockphoto

Startup Nation

A secret AI startup in Tel Aviv got $30B: This Israeli-raised pioneer did it

March 7, 2025

Miami startup Matia gets boost in mission to reduce data stack complexity

Courtesy of Matia

Startup Nation

Haim Goldberg/Flash90

Blogspot

INTO THE FRAY: From lords to lemmings – Israel's legal "elites on the brink

by Martin Sherman

November 26, 2025

German Jewish official exits Jerusalem church service over anti-Israel propaganda

Mahmoud Illean/AP

Blogspot

German Jewish official exits Jerusalem church service over anti-Israel propaganda

by Gerald Hetzel

November 9, 2025

Izhar Khan/Getty Images

World News

Sydney marks NYE with tribute to Bondi victims