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Kan EnglishChancellor Merz visit cements robust Israel-German bilateral ties
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz visit Israel on Sunday for the first time since he became chancellor in May. At talks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu…
Kan EnglishNews Flash December 7, 2025
Searches in Gaza City for body of last hostage Ran Gvili. Families Forum; No phase B until body returned. PM meets with German Chancellor Merz. See…
Kan EnglishDublin City councilor calls Israeli moves to block renaming Herzog park disgraceful interference
The anti-Israel fervor in Ireland, which moved this week to erase Jewish history in Dublin, was blocked after the Dublin City Council delayed a decision to…
Kan EnglishGaming destiny as a participatory art form
An interesting participation-driven art event is opening at the Neve Schechter’s Center for Contemporary Jewish Music and art in Neve Tzedek. It’s…
Kan EnglishNews Flash December 4 2025
Prime Minister names his military secretary Maj.Gen. Roman Gofman as the next head of the Mossad, Body returned from Gaza identified as Thai national Sudtisak…
Kan EnglishProfessors urge President Herzog to reject PM's pardon request
A group of some 1,000 professors and academics have signed a letter calling on President Yitzhak Herzog to reject Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s…
Kan EnglishNews Flash December 3, 2025
Hamas to hand over body remains at 5pm.Israel: Rafah crossing will reopen to allow Gazans to leave. Israel to send rep to Lebanon talks. See…
Kan EnglishStudy assesses collective cost of trauma
A first of its kind study by the NATAL Israel Trauma and Resiliency Center examines the collective social and economic costs of trauma in the aftermath of the…
Kan EnglishNews Flash December 2, 2025
Israel readies to receive from Red Cross findings transferred from Gaza Strip. Two IDF soldiers lightly hurt in stabbing attack by Israeli settlement, attacker…
Kan EnglishNews Flash December 1, 2025
Stormy Knesset committee discusses Haredi draft exemption bill. Minister Sofer vows to vote against. PM's graft trial continues. See omnystudio.com/listener…
Kan EnglishIsrael slams Dublin's move to erase Jewish history by renaming Chaim Herzog Park
Dublin City Council moving to remove the name of Israel's sixth president Chaim Herzog from a park and rename it "Free Palestine." Reporter Arieh…
Kan EnglishNetanyahu formally asks president for pardon
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has formally asked President Isaac Herzog to pardon him in his ongoing corruption trial, a dramatic and unusual move bearing…
Kan EnglishNews Flash November 30 2025
Prime Minister Netanyahu submits request for pardon from corruption trial to President Herzog, Returned deceased hostage Dror Or laid to rest on his kibbutz…
Kan EnglishRare internal Likud elections brings new blood to Israel's conservative party
After nearly 14 years, the Likud Party finally held internal elections for the Central Committee this week. The results show a shake up in the country’s…
Kan EnglishNews Flash November 27, 2025
Disruptions as High Court hears petitions on probe of Sde Teiman video leak affair. Slain hostage returned to Israel from Gaza this week to be laid to rest on…
Kan EnglishThe academic boycott has become an existential threat
Aaron Ciechanover, the Israeli biologist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, has described the academic boycott of Israel as an existential threat. He told…
Kan EnglishNews Flash November 26, 2025
Body of slain hostage Dror Or of Kibbutz Be'eri returned to Israel from Gaza. IDF says four terrorists killed, two others apprehended during attempt to flee…
Kan EnglishNews Flash November 25, 2025
Heavy rains cause floods. Police: JAG's phone doesn't link AG to Sde Taiyman affair. PM to meet with Katz and Zamir. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy…
Kan EnglishGila's Way non-profit working to prevent suicides
Gila’s Way is a non-profit organization which implements, educates and presents programs regarding mental health awareness and suicide prevention in…
Kan EnglishNews Flash November 24, 2025
Al Jazeera report: Body of deceased hostage held by Islamic Jihad located in central Gaza Strip. IDF chief of staff says forces must be on alert in wake of…
Kan EnglishHow has the war affected Israeli exporters?
How have the past two years of war affected Israeli exporters. Liav Rozenberg, Global Units Executive at RH Group, spoke to KAN reporter Naomi Segal about…
Kan EnglishExpert: Trump's proposal for Ukraine is a Russian trap
U.S. President Donald Trump told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy that he had until Thursday to approve the 28-point plan, which calls on Ukraine to…
Kan EnglishNew exhibit at Yad Vashem reviving memories
A new exhibition at Yad Vashem has opened that puts hundreds of personal possessions and artifacts from Holocaust survivors, most never before seen by the…
Kan EnglishNews Flash November 23 2025
Air Force strikes hit Hamas commanders amid reports ceasefire could fail, Tens of thousands of Israelis demonstrate for release of last 3 fallen hostages held…
Kan EnglishThe concept of sole guardians of the faith and Haredim
As the ultra-Orthodox protest against attempts to draft them into the IDF or perform any kind of community service, internal divisions are emerging in the…
Kan EnglishNew Book tells journey of modern Hebrew
The Hebrew language wasn’t just the effort of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda alone, but rather a widespread effort to revive the holy language beginning in the…
Kan EnglishWhy is the IDF intensifying its attacks in Lebanon?
Lebanese PM Nawaf Salam sent a public message to Israel on Thursday, telling Bloomberg that Beirut is ready to open negotiations and will seek American help to…
Kan EnglishAlfred Dreyfus gets promoted , 131 years after
France this week promoted Alfred Dreyfus, the Jewish army captain wrongly convicted of treason in 1894, to the rank of brigadier general as an act of…
Kan EnglishNews Flash November 20, 2025
IDF reservist moderately hurt by terrorist fire in Nablus area. Searches resume in Gaza City for deceased hostages. In Thailand, body recovered of Israeli…
Kan EnglishMBS links normalization to Palestinian statehood
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said that the establishment of a Palestinian state as part of the two-state solution is key to normalization with Israel…
Kan EnglishNews Flash November 19, 2025
IDF strikes Hamas base in Lebanon. IDF kills 2 Hizbullah men. Degel HaTorah pushes draft dodging bill. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Kan EnglishWill Hamas disarm?
Hamas' declared refusal to disarm is the main sticking point toward advancing to the next phase of the US-brokered ceasefire framework, according to Res…
Kan EnglishUnprecedented court ruling in Sde Teiman video leak probe
The High Court of Justice has ruled that Justice Minister Yariv Levin can choose the official to oversee the investigation into the Sde Teiman video leak…
Kan EnglishNews Flash November 17, 2025
Confrontations during dismantling of illegal settler outpost. Funeral held for fallen hostage Meny Godard, who was returned to Israel from Gaza last week…
Kan EnglishNews Flash November 16, 2025
High Court strikes down justice minister's pick to probe Sde Teiman video leak, but says he has authority to make the appointment. Searches resume in Gaza for…
Kan EnglishWoodstock meets the bible at Hebron's Matriarch Cave for Haye Sara Torah portion
Yishai Fleisher, the international spokesman for the Jewish community of Hebron, praised the security forces for thwarting Palestinian terror. Regarding…
Kan EnglishMassive illegal Palestinian building in Israeli-controlled West Bank
There has been a massive illegal building project by the Palestinians in the Israeli-controlled areas “C” in the West Bank, including high-rise…
Kan EnglishNews Flash November 13, 2025
Hamas, Islamic Jihad says deceased hostage will be handed over at 8 p.m. Israeli security forces arrest some 40 members of Bethlehem-based Hamas terror…
Kan EnglishNews Flash November 12, 2025
US President Trump in letter as Israeli President Herzog to pardon Prime Minister Netanyahu. Defense minister Katz announces decision to close Army Radio…
Kan EnglishWorld Zionist Congress finally elects leadership in backroom deals
The World Zionist Congress has finally elected a new leadership for the WZO after weeks of backroom dealings, boycotts and general political shenanigans that…
Kan EnglishNews Flash November 11 2025
Lt. Hadar Goldin laid to rest after being returned from Gaza, Knesset passes first reading of Death Penalty for Terrorists bill, IDF bombs Hezbollah weapons…
Kan EnglishWashington welcoming Syria, Is is good for Israel?
Syrian president Ahmed al-Sharaa’s meeting in the White House with US President Donald Trump was the first official visit to the United States by a…
Kan EnglishNews Flash November 10, 2025
Deceased hostage Lior Rudaeff, returned to Israel from Gaza last week, is laid to rest. Funeral for Lt Hadar Goldin, returned to Israel 11 years after falling…
Kan EnglishThe debate over allowing journalists independently into the Gaza Strip
For the past two years, the IDF has blocked independent entry into the Gaza Strip to cover the war. But foreign journalists have gone all the way to the High…
Kan EnglishNews Flash November 9, 2025
Hamas says it is handing over remains of Lt. Hadar Goldin, who fell in battle in Gaza in 2014. Israeli-American IDF soldier Staff Sergeant Itay Chen, who fell…
Kan EnglishSuffering and hope at Zimbalista Gallery
The current exhibition at the Zimbalista Gallery in Tel Aviv, “Blind, Bound, Bowed, Naked," presents a striking and contemporary look at Ofra…
Kan EnglishNews Flash November 6, 2025
Deceased hostage returned by Hamas identified as Tanzanian national Joshua Loitu Mollel. Six deceased hostages remain Gaza. IDF strikes Hezbollah sites in…
Kan EnglishAmbassadors help clean up Israeli beaches
Ambassadors and diplomats from 15 European Union nations took part in a beach clean up at the Rishon Le’zion beach yesterday as part of a campaign run by…
Kan EnglishWorld Zionist Congress convenes in Jerusalem
The World Zionist Congress convened in Jerusalem to vote on resolutions, appoint the leaders of the national institutions and set the agenda for Zionist…
Kan EnglishEscalation with Lebanon as Hizbullah is determined to rearm despite Israeli strikes
Hezbollah is engaged in a determined effort to recover its capabilities and Israel is determined not to allow it. Reserve Lt.-Col. Sarit Zehavi, president and…
Kan EnglishNews Flash November 5 2025
Hamas returns body of IDF St.-Sgt. Itay Chen, reports Hamas uncovering another of the seven deceased hostages still remaining in the Gaza Strip, Air India to…
Kan EnglishEthiopian-Israeli ties flourish as Adis Ababa seeks more Israeli tourists
Ethiopia and Israeli ties are flourishing, but Addis Ababa is hoping to get more Israelis to visit the east African country. Ambassador of Ethiopia to Israel…
Kan EnglishDesert inspiration in Kamea Dance Company's staging of iconic work
The Beer Sheva-based Kamea Dance Company is staging "Bamidbar Devarim," Tamir Ginz's iconic work inspired by the physical and human landscape of the desert…
Kan EnglishNews Flash November 4, 2025
Col. Asaf Hamami, whose body was returned from Gaza this week, is laid to rest. IAF eliminates terrorist who crossed yellow-line in Gaza and endangered Israeli…
Kan EnglishWhat will happen when Mamdani becomes New York's mayor?
Former president Barack Obama has called frontrunner Zohran Mamdani and offered to be a “sounding board” if his advantage turns into victory. Obama…
Kan EnglishNews Flash November 3, 2025
3 returned deceased hostages named as Asaf Hamami, Oz Daniel and Omer Neutra. Remand of MAG extended by 3 days. Dozens of Histadrut officials arrested. See…
Kan EnglishYitzhak Rabin's legacy 30 years on
This week Israel marks 30 years since the assassination of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin by right-wing extremist Yigal Amir. What is Yitzhak Rabin's legacy…
Kan EnglishUnderstanding the impact of the Sde Teiman affair
UPDATE: Police on Sunday evening said Military Advocate General Maj.-Gen. Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi was alive and well, after she had been unreachable since the…
Kan EnglishWill Mamdani as mayor provide a huge boost for president Trump?
With a comfortable lead in the polls, 34-year-old Zohran Mamdani is on the brink of making history when New Yorkers vote on Tuesday, as the youngest mayor in…
Kan EnglishWould Democrats in Israel vote for Mamdani?
With a comfortable lead in the polls, 34-year-old Zohran Mamdani is on the brink of making history when New Yorkers vote on Tuesday, as the youngest mayor in…