Daily Archives: February 8, 2026
Matti Caspi, singer and composer who helped mold Israeli culture, dead at 76
Matti Caspi, a composer, singer, and lyricist who produced some 1,000 songs, including many of Israel’s most beloved tunes, died overnight between Saturday and Sunday. He was 76 and had suffered from cancer in...
Israel Vs. the AI Weapon
Police in the UK banned Maccabi Tel Aviv fans from a match last November based partly on an artificial intelligence (AI) report that claimed Israeli fans were a threat to the citizens of Birmingham....
Israeli broadcaster selects Eurovision song, to be revealed next month
Israeli Eurovision Song Festival contestant Noam Bettan will sing a song written by Nadav Aharoni, Tslil Klifi and Yuval Raphael, the country’s 2025 representative and a survivor of the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre.
Israel’s Kan public...
Mashaal again rejects Trump demand for Hamas to disarm
Senior Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal on Sunday reiterated the terrorist group’s opposition to U.S. President Donald Trump’s demand to lay down arms and vowed “to defeat our enemy, Israel, God willing.”
Speaking at the 17th Al...
Tehran vows to keep enriching uranium despite US war threat
The Islamic Republic “has paid a very heavy price for its peaceful nuclear program and for uranium enrichment,” Abbas Araghchi claimed during a forum in the capital, according to AFP.
“Why do we insist so...