After ten months delay, the state provided a response to the petition by the Foreign Press Association • Israel insists on continuing the media siege, claiming that journalists' entry would pose a danger to forces, to Gazans, and to the journalists themselves, and would require adapting border crossings for human passage • The state also argues that there is no obligation under international law to allow coverage and that the association should be satisfied with coordinated visits accompanied by IDF spokesperson • So far, 139 foreign correspondents and 85 Israeli correspondents have entered the Strip in this manner • The state and the court continue to collaborate in delaying the handling of the petition: the hearing has been set for October

The moment Trump erased the separation between personal and institutional, he trapped the media in an impossible bind • The power to resist lies not in ignoring the mechanism but in its relentless explanation

Israel Hayom published a survey about football fans in Israel, and invested in enlarging the sample in order to properly represent "ultra-Orthodox and Hapoel Beer Sheva fans," but completely ignored the Arab society, comprising 18% of the population • The newspaper refused to comment

A senior editor at Israel Hayom, Eli Barak, expressed joy at the deaths of tens of thousands of civilians in the war • Israel Hayom: "This is a private statement on social media"

Stopping the famine in the Gaza Strip and flooding it with humanitarian aid is both the moral and the diplomatic veracious position

The religious-oriented website Srugim published a column claiming that secular Zionism has "completed its role" and that a Sanhedrin should be established to create a religious state in Israel • In light of harsh reactions, the website published a clarification stating that the move would not be done by force and that it is a "legitimate religious aspiration"