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From Kiribati to Times Square: World ringing in 2026

World News

From Kiribati to Times Square: World ringing in 2026

December 31, 2025

The world ushers in 2026 starting in the Pacific. Sydney holds a minute of silence for Bondi Beach terror victims before its iconic fireworks display. Hong Kong calls off celebrations after fire tragedy. n Spain, revelers mark the year's conclusion by swallowing one grape with each midnight chime

World News

Sydney marks NYE with tribute to Bondi victims

Erez Linn

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

ILH Staff

United States

Mamdani plans celebrity-packed inauguration party

Miri Weissman

Why did PM say 'West Bank', not Judea and Samaria?

Yossi Zeliger; Ariel Schalit / POOL / AFP

Why did PM say 'West Bank', not 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

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