Israel

Israel

Israel: Netanyahu bloc leads with more than half of votes counted

The partial results are likely to change, and several exit polls showed the camps neck-and-neck without a majority.

27 October 2026

Israel

Too close to call: Israelis vote in Netanyahu-Eisenkot showdown

With no party expected to win an outright majority, weeks of coalition talks could follow a vote being closely watched in European capitals.

27 October 2026

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Israel: October 7 families remember victims as voters head to polls

In Tel Aviv, families affected by the 7 October 2023 attacks observed a moment of silence as polling stations were opening across Israel for the general election.

27 October 2026

Europe Today

'Yes Bibi or No Bibi': Netanyahu's political future overshadows voting

Israel's upcoming legislative election could reshape the country's political future amid deep divisions over Benjamin Netanyahu's leadership. Former government spokesperson Eylon Levy tells Euronews what is at stake and why another war with Iran may be imminent.

26 October 2026

Israel

Why Israel’s wartime election isn’t just about the war

From army exemptions for the ultra-Orthodox to a stalled 7 October inquiry, the issues splitting voters have little to do with Gaza, Lebanon or Iran.

26 October 2026

Israel

Israel orders West Bank crossings to close on election day

The move comes as part of a wider clampdown in the occupied West Bank after two Israeli soldiers were killed by Palestinian gunmen in the city of Hebron earlier this week.

25 October 2026

Israel

Trump endorses embattled Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu for reelection

Trump's late backing comes as the two leaders’ strategies on Iran and Gaza have diverged, and he warns the US may not “do this work” if Israel changes leaders.

19 October 2026

Israel

Flydubai co-pilot planned suicide attack in Israel inspired by 9/11

The Omani co-pilot was previously barred from flying in Oman over extremist views.

9 October 2026

Israel

Israel says British consulate in East Jerusalem 'ceasing operations'

British Foreign Minister Ed Miliband stressed that the consulate would not be closing and that it would instead become the UK Mission, Jerusalem, from Thursday.

8 October 2026

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Residents search belongings after Jerusalem building demolished

A five-storey building in Jerusalem’s al-Tur was demolished by Israeli authorities over alleged lack of permits, displacing dozens of Palestinian residents.

7 October 2026

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One-minute siren sounds in Tel Aviv to mark October 7 anniversary

A one-minute siren sounded in Tel Aviv as Israelis gathered to mark the third anniversary of the October 7 attacks and remember those killed.

7 October 2026

Israel

Israel pauses to mourn the 1,200 victims of 7 October attacks

A group representing the bereaved families organised tributes, including a silence at 6:29am - the minute the attack began - and a ceremony that will follow tonight in Tel Aviv.

7 October 2026

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Israelis mourn Nova festival victims three years after Hamas attack

Ceremonies at the Nova festival site and Kfar Aza marked three years since the Hamas-led October 7 attack that sparked the Gaza war.

7 October 2026

Europe News

Euroviews. Celebrating The October 7 massacre is inhumanity, not solidarity

On the anniversary of the Hamas terrorist attack on Israel on 7 October 2023, in which 1,200 people were murdered and 250 were abducted, Sacha Roytman Dratwa, of the ‘Combat Antisemitism Movement’, recalls in an opinion piece for Euronews what had already begun in many countries on 8 October 2023.

7 October 2026

Israel

FlyDubai captain reveals new details of attack in Netanyahu phone call

FlyDubai hero captain Smit Machchhar described to Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu how the attack started and how he managed to finally open the cockpit door after nearly losing his vision under the co-pilot’s repeated blows. “I knew I couldn't let the passengers die,” Machchhar said.

4 October 2026

Israel

FlyDubai co-pilot attacked captain with axe in 'terrorist' act

The FlyDubai co-pilot who nearly crashed the Tel-Aviv bound flight is an Omani national named Hamam al-Hammami. He was barred from flying by Oman amid concerns he showed signs of extremist views. The incident threw the already hard-hit regional travel industry into crisis.

3 October 2026

Israel

“I grabbed the controls”: FlyDubai survivor recounts dramatic cockpit attack as he meets Netanyahu

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met Yaniv Hayun, one of the passengers who helped subdue a pilot after a stabbing on a Flydubai flight bound for Israel.

1 October 2026

Israel

Netanyahu delivers fiery, defiant speech at UN General Assembly

The speech came as demonstrators gathered in New York to protest against the Israeli leader, with around 100 people reportedly detained by police.

25 September 2026

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Missile-shaped signs and Netanyahu masks as Israelis rally to protect October vote

Dozens of Israelis demonstrated outside the Knesset in West Jerusalem on 17 September, accusing political leaders of using regional tensions to interfere with the 27 October parliamentary election.

18 September 2026

Culture news

Israeli TV series 'Fauda' returns to Netflix with new season

Lior Raz, one of the show's creators, told Netflix's Tudum site that he hoped viewers would understand "how peace is important, and how we need to think differently and how war is ruining the universe."

8 September 2026

Israel

UAE warned Netanyahu of 7 October attack, Israeli newspaper reports

Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu is facing a political storm and accusations in the middle of Israel’s election campaign that he ignored a direct warning from the UAE about the imminence of Hamas’ 7 October attack in 2023.

8 September 2026

Israel

11 European nations to sanction Israeli settlements in the West Bank

British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband accused "settler terrorists" of "ethnic cleansing" in areas of the West Bank and said the UK was bringing in an "import ban on goods from illegal settlements." Israel closed the British consulate in Jerusalem in response.

8 September 2026

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Ultra-Orthodox Jews celebrate Yeshiva student’s release in Elad amid draft dispute

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men in Elad welcomed a yeshiva student released from military prison amid Israel’s continuing dispute over Haredi conscription.

1 September 2026

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Israeli activists protest outside EU offices in Jerusalem over Gaza war

Around a dozen Israeli activists gathered outside European Union representative offices in east Jerusalem on 28 August, calling on the bloc to take a stronger position on the war in Gaza.

28 August 2026

Israel

Israel probes killings of Hind Rajab and 15 Palestinian medics

Criminal investigations are not being opened into three other incidents involving aid workers from World Central Kitchen and Doctors Without Borders.

19 August 2026

Israel

Kushner's Gaza peace plan talks end without breakthrough

A senior Israeli official told news agency AFP that the US and Israel had "agreed that no redeployment or reconstruction would take place in the Gaza Strip before Hamas is disarmed throughout Gaza."

17 August 2026