Melanie Swan

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Coalition confirms date for 2026 Israeli elections

Prime Minister Netanyahu has confirmed he will run for office again, but faces a stern challenge from Gadi Eisenkot and Naftali Bennett

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Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu attends a cornerstone laying ceremony for the Atarot Heritage Center at an abandoned airport in East Jerusalem on July 5, 2026 (Getty Images)

US President Trump (C), flanked by Vice President JD Vance (L) and Secretary of State Marco Rubio (R), joins leaders for a group photo during the inaugural meeting of the Board of Peace at the US Institute of Peace in Washington, DC, on February 19, 2026 (Getty Images)

Gaza peacekeeping force delayed as international support falters

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Prime Minister Netanyahu meets Jordan's King Abdullah II during a visit to Amman on January 16, 2014 (Getty Images)

Israel and Jordan to negotiate energy for water deal at UAE summit

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Running the Vienna half marathon (Photo: Yair Lifshitz)

‘Hamas shot me and left me for dead…now I’m running half marathons’

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Israel approves £15m support package for Nova survivors

The scheme will include ongoing and emergency mental health support and specialist programmes to help some October 7 victims deal with substance abuse issues

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July 6, 2026 14:40

A billboard depicting the images of the Nova Musical Festival victims of the October 7, 2023, at a memorial on Kibbutz Reim on March 30, 2025 (Getty Images)

Israel faces constitutional crisis as government vows to disobey Supreme Court ruling

Cabinet ministers unanimously backed a motion to defy the court amid a dispute over the country’s commercial TV regulator

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July 6, 2026 12:03

Supreme Court President Isaac Amit during a hearing on petitions seeking to overturn the election of attorney Michael Rabello as State Comptroller on June 28, 2026 (Flash90)

Sa’ar accuses Turkish counterpart of ‘inciting genocide’ after he dubbed Israeli government an ‘unbearable burden’

Hakan Fidan accused the Israeli government of ‘openly committing massacres’ in Gaza and playing a ‘destabilising role everywhere’

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July 3, 2026 11:40

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan attends a joint press conference with his Russian counterpart following their meeting in Moscow on June 16, 2026. (Photo by SERGEI ILNITSKY / POOL / AFP via Getty Images)

Knesset advances controversial Torah study Basic Law amid draft exemption row

The law would designate religious education as a foundational value of Israel, but critics claim it could be used to help students avoid the draft

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July 2, 2026 10:48

United Torah Judaism MK Moshe Gafni outside the office of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu at the Knesset on June 3, 2026 (Flash90)

Anti-Hamas activists ask international community for help ahead of planned Gaza protests

Organisers are expecting a violent crackdown on dissent as they attempt to challenge the terror group’s oppressive rule

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June 26, 2026 11:30

Hamas fighters in Gaza City on February 1, 2025 (Getty Images)

British olim among graduates helping tackle Israel’s English teacher shortage

One of the organisers called the programme ‘a lesson in self-acceptance and the triumph of the human spirit’

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June 26, 2026 11:20

(Illustrative) First graders sit in their classroom on the first day of school in Jerusalem on September 1, 2025 (Flash90)

Arab-Israeli girl's heart saves Jewish boy in Jerusalem

The surgeon who carried out the transplant said the successful transplant was ‘everything we had hoped for’, saying it carried additional poignancy after he lost his own son to the Gaza War

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June 25, 2026 15:50

Heart transplant recipient Rafael (Clalit Health Services/Schneider Children's Spokesperson's Office)

US proposes pilot plan for IDF to transfer territory to Lebanese army

Israel will reportedly maintain a reduced presence in a buffer zone, despite senior politicians’ insistence that they would retain all the occupied territory

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June 25, 2026 11:07

An Israeli army Humvee patrols the northern border with Lebanon in the Upper Galilee on June 18, 2026 (Getty Images)

‘Why were you silent?’ Former hostage confronts UN gender-based violence rapporteur

Ilana Gritzewsky told the UN Human Rights Council: ‘I was beaten and mutilated before blacking out. I woke up half naked with seven terrorists standing over me, not knowing what happened to me in those lost moments.’

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June 25, 2026 10:40

Former hostage Ilana Gritzewsky at a protest outside the home of Defence Minister Israel Katz in Moshav Kfar Ahim on August 15, 2025 (Flash90)

Israeli children bring toys to ‘Teddy Bear Hospital’ to ease medical anxiety

The bears received ‘treatment’ to help the children overcome their fear of going to the doctor

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June 24, 2026 14:48

Toys receive 'treatment' at the 'Teddy Bear Hospital' at Bar-Ilan Hospital in Israel (Alfonso)

Israeli far-right slam Bennett over claim West Bank zones could remain under Palestinian control

The former prime minister also condemned illegal settlement activity, but backed the construction of communities permitted under Israeli law

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June 23, 2026 15:16

Naftali Bennett speaks during a press conference in the southern Israeli city of Ofakim, June 23, 2026 (Flash90)

Four IDF soldiers killed in southern Lebanon ‘security zone’

Prime Minister Netanyahu has insisted Israel will retain a presence in souther Lebanon, despite the unfolding US-Iran ceasefire

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June 19, 2026 11:16

Israeli soldiers man a roadblock along the Ramim Ridge area in northern Israel following a suspected infiltration incident along the Israel-Lebanon border on June 09, 2026 (Flash90)

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Melanie Swan

Latest from Melanie Swan

Coalition confirms date for 2026 Israeli elections

Gaza peacekeeping force delayed as international support falters

Israel and Jordan to negotiate energy for water deal at UAE summit

‘Hamas shot me and left me for dead…now I’m running half marathons’

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Israel approves £15m support package for Nova survivors

Israel faces constitutional crisis as government vows to disobey Supreme Court ruling

Sa’ar accuses Turkish counterpart of ‘inciting genocide’ after he dubbed Israeli government an ‘unbearable burden’

Knesset advances controversial Torah study Basic Law amid draft exemption row

Anti-Hamas activists ask international community for help ahead of planned Gaza protests

British olim among graduates helping tackle Israel’s English teacher shortage

Arab-Israeli girl's heart saves Jewish boy in Jerusalem

US proposes pilot plan for IDF to transfer territory to Lebanese army

‘Why were you silent?’ Former hostage confronts UN gender-based violence rapporteur

Israeli children bring toys to ‘Teddy Bear Hospital’ to ease medical anxiety

Israeli far-right slam Bennett over claim West Bank zones could remain under Palestinian control

Four IDF soldiers killed in southern Lebanon ‘security zone’