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9 Newsorga stories on Israel, published from 2026-05-09 through 2026-05-15. Most of this coverage sits in World and Culture. Newest first below.
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World
Trump called Iran's May 10 response 'totally unacceptable' in a Truth Social post, rejecting a 14-point plan that sought to end the war in 30 days, secure reparations, and retain limited enrichment — while Netanyahu insisted the conflict is 'not over' until enriched uranium is removed.
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Culture
Spain's RTVE, Ireland's RTÉ, Slovenia's RTV Slovenia, the Netherlands' AVROTROS and Iceland's RÚV will not participate in Eurovision 2026 in Vienna — the semi-finals on May 12 and May 14, 2026 and the grand final on Saturday May 16, 2026 — after the European Broadcasting Union ruling at its Geneva meeting on December 4, 2025 cleared Israel's national broadcaster KAN to compete despite the war in Gaza, with the EBU instead asking members to adopt new rules aimed at curbing government and third-party voting campaigns; the five withdrawals leave a 35-country competition and an unprecedented gap in the contest's 'Big Five' financial backbone, because Spain is the only 'Big Five' broadcaster ever to have walked from a modern Eurovision over a political dispute, with RTVE's board citing a September 2025 resolution to withdraw if Israel competed and Slovenia's RTV invoking '20,000 children who died in Gaza' as its reason.
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World
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu sat down on Saturday with CBS News chief Washington correspondent Major Garrett for a 60 Minutes interview that aired Sunday, May 10, 2026 — his first U.S. broadcast since the U.S.-Israel-Iran war began on February 28, 2026 and now in its 11th week — and used the on-camera time to call the Iran war 'not over' until enriched uranium is physically removed from Iranian soil, to confirm Donald Trump told him 'I want to go in there', to reject parts of a New York Times account of a February 11 Situation Room conversation, to announce a decade-long plan to draw U.S. military aid down to 'zero' from the current $3.8 billion a year, to attribute Israel's reputational decline (Pew now puts unfavorable U.S. views of Israel at 60 percent, up nearly 20 points in four years) almost entirely to social media as the 'eighth front' of the war, and to push back on a personal characterisation he said reduces him to a man with a 'hunger for conflict'.
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Culture
'Gaza: Doctors Under Attack' — the Basement Films documentary commissioned by the BBC, paused in April 2025, and formally dropped on June 20, 2025 over what the corporation called a 'perception of partiality' before Channel 4 acquired the material and aired it on July 2, 2025 — won the BAFTA TV Award for Current Affairs at the 72nd British Academy Television Awards at London's Royal Festival Hall on Sunday, May 10, 2026, with journalist-director Ramita Navai and executive producer Ben de Pear using their on-stage acceptance speech, with award handed over by Kirsty Wark on a ceremony broadcast by BBC One, to directly attack the BBC and ask whether the corporation would now cut them from its own broadcast of the same event.
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Culture
The 61st International Art Exhibition opened on May 9 with no Golden Lion jury, an empty South African pavilion, a closed Russian one, Pussy Riot and FEMEN storming the Giardini, and the European Commission cutting €2 million in support over the inclusion of artists from a country whose leader faces an ICC warrant.
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World
Five activists from four countries face Section 129 'criminal organisation', property-damage and 'terrorist symbol' charges in a high-security Stammheim court for a September 2025 break-in at an Elbit Systems subsidiary in Ulm; the opening hearing was aborted in minutes after defence lawyers said a glass separator destroyed lawyer-client confidentiality.
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