French playwright Marc Goldberg: 'Israel exists, the Palestinians exist. The only real question is how they can co-exist'...

As a child in Paris, where I grew up in the 1970s, and in Israel, where I vacationed, I often heard that the Palestinian people did not exist. According to this narrative, on the territory of the British Mandate of Palestine, alongside a Jewish minority, …

Anti-Israel protesters clash with Basel police during Eurovision Song Contest

Pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel demonstrators clashed with riot police in Basel as the Swiss city hosted the Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday. The protesters, who were demonstrating against Israel’s participation in the contest amid the ongoing war in …

Israel’s Yuval Raphael feels she’s ‘won at life’ after coming second at Eurovision

Israel’s Yuval Raphael said in the early hours of Sunday that she felt as though she had “won at life” after finishing in second place overall at the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest in Basel, Switzerland, and first in the public vote. In an interview with the …

Transactional diplomacy: Israel must defends its interests, not rely on Trump's whims

Before departing for the Middle East this week, US President Donald Trump promised something “as big as it gets.” “We will have a very, very big announcement to make,” he said. “And I won’t tell you on what. But it is really, really positive.” Speculation …

Israel’s Yuval Raphael tops Eurovision public vote, finishes in 2nd place as Austria wins

Israel’s Yuval Raphael finished in second place overall at the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest in Basel, Switzerland, and first in the public vote, as Austria’s JJ took the overall win at the annual competition. Raphael received the most votes from the public …

Head of controversial Israel-backed Gaza aid group says ‘plan isn’t perfect, but feeds people’

The executive director of the newly established Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), Jake Wood, told CNN on Saturday that conditions in Gaza are “clearly urgent,” but that he expected positive updates on bringing in aid in the coming days. Wood couldn’t …

Israel’s Yuval Raphael’s places second in Eurovision final, but for Israelis, she is number one

Yuval Raphael, Israel’s contestant, finished in second place at the 69th Eurovision Song Contest in Basel, Switzerland on Thursday night. It was a triumph for Israel, in a year when there were countless calls to have Israel banned, as Israel won the …

Israel Police officers arrest five in violent incident in Rehovot

Israel Police responded to a violent incident in Rehovot in which they arrested five people, Israel Police announced in a statement on Saturday night. Officers from the Rehovot police station started preparing in the early evening hours for a demonstration …

Israel intensifies war in Gaza with new offensive

Israel, Hamas say hostage-ceasefire talks renewed after IDF initiates major new offensive

A new round of negotiations for a Gaza ceasefire and hostage deal between Hamas and Israel began in Qatar on Saturday after the Israeli military launched its new expanded offensive in the Gaza Strip, according to both Israeli and Hamas officials. Hamas …