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Thousands of people in Israel formed long lines Saturday in front of the Portuguese Embassy in Tel Aviv to apply for Portuguese citizenship, according to a report from the Times of Israel news website. The Israelis lined up in front of the embassy from early morning to apply.

Israeli daily reports sharp rise in trauma, drug addiction and suicides among civilians and soldiers amid severe shortages in mental health services - Anadolu Ajansı

We revisit Israelis and Palestinians whom we spoke to at the start of the war in Gaza about how they see the other side and how the protracted violence has affected their feelings toward each other.

According to Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics, more than 80,000 of the country’s 10 million citizens had newly moved abroad in 2024.

Iran simply can’t allow this impression to linger that we’ve been ahead of them every step of the way,” says an officer in an Israeli intelligence service. “They have to show that they can take us by surprise as well.

Far-reaching global developments—many with direct implications for Israel—are unfolding largely beyond the country’s field of view.

In the Spring Statement in March 2025, Rachel Reeves emphasized that she had considered extending the tax threshold freezes until 2030 but ultimately limited the freeze to 2028. In the 2025 budget, however, she announced that key tax thresholds would remain frozen until April 2031. This applies to:

With construction and postwar trauma everywhere, non-profits and communities are mobilizing to create green spaces in unlikely places

More than 1/4 of Israelis want to move elsewhere — a repudiation of war, a fragile economy, and a weakening of the founding Zionist promise.