Entity

Israel

A Middle Eastern state whose wars, alliances, and politics shape regional security and global diplomacy.

As of 12 Oct 2026Last evidence 12 Oct 2026

What is happening now

  • October 7 scars push Israel's first-time voters to right

    Reported claim · first reported 10 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

  • Israel Iran Conflict

    Registered event · reported 29 Mar 2026 to 8 Oct 2026 · claims are not yet placed under registered events

    Open event

  • Huckabee top aide modified and suppressed US embassy reporting critical of Israel: Report

    Reported claim · first reported 8 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • Michigan Senate debate erupts into personal attacks as Rogers, El-Sayed clash over Israel, Iran and more

    Reported claim · first reported 8 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

  • Israel reduces British diplomatic presence in Jerusalem after settler-violence sanctions

    Reported claim · first reported 8 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

All 15 events and claims involving Israel

What changed

  • Attention Rising: 244 mentions on 12 Oct 2026, against 198 on 21 Sept 2026 (+23%).
  • State Changes between snapshots: cannot measure, no state history is kept for Israel yet.
  • Claims No claim first reported since 11 Oct 2026.
  • Market The cited market on “Will Benjamin Netanyahu be the next Prime Minister of Israel?” moved from 32% to 32% Yes since 28 Aug 2026 (the market’s own price).

How well we know this

5,728 documents · 367 publishers · 40% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 12 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.403: about 60% of mentions carry no typed assertion
  • Gap: 6 receipts withheld: no source link (the same rule the topic record applies)

In this snapshot’s daily coverage:

Reported alongside Israel

Names most often reported alongside it; bigger circles and heavier lines mean more shared documents. A dashed circle has no page of its own yet.

GazaIranTrumpUnited StatesMiddle EastSaudi ArabiaHormuzNetanyahuPalestine

Story momentum

Rising

Daily mentions +230% from 28 Aug 2026 to 12 Oct 2026, between 46 and 269 a day

How often tracked coverage mentions Israel, day by day.

Market price, cited

32% Yes

priced 12 Oct 2026 · relation: named in the question

the market: 32% → 32% Yes (0pts, from 28 Aug 2026 to 12 Oct 2026)

on “Will Benjamin Netanyahu be the next Prime Minister of Israel?”

The day’s closing price on this market, and how it moved. The number is the market’s own. Ask about Israel

“Will Benjamin Netanyahu be the next Prime Minister of Israel?”: the market's own price; the venue link is not stored with it

Coverage volume and market price are separate measures.

On the desk: Geopolitics Desk

For developers

This page is also an object: GET https://sigb.ai/api/v1/node/e/36dd7c86d539d036f3f1f439 returns the same record as sb.node.v1. Or call the get_entity MCP tool at https://sigb.ai/api/mcp with name israel.

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The figures on this page, as data. The tool returns the full entity record.

Events involving Israel

Most-reported first, then newest. Registered events come from the event record; reported events are groups of claims about one occurrence. Claims are grouped when they were first reported within 2 days of each other and either name at least 2 of the same people, places or things besides this one, or share at least 25% of their wording. Each claim keeps its own record.

  • October 7 scars push Israel's first-time voters to right

    Reported claim · first reported 10 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Israel Iran Conflict

    Registered event · reported 29 Mar 2026 to 8 Oct 2026 · claims are not yet placed under registered events

    Open event

  • Huckabee top aide modified and suppressed US embassy reporting critical of Israel: Report

    Reported claim · first reported 8 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Michigan Senate debate erupts into personal attacks as Rogers, El-Sayed clash over Israel, Iran and more

    Reported claim · first reported 8 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Israel reduces British diplomatic presence in Jerusalem after settler-violence sanctions

    Reported claim · first reported 8 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • In first, Israeli firms, delegation display at Morocco’s Marrakech Airshow

    Reported claim · first reported 8 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Election: colima & israel

    Registered event · reported 24 May 2026 to 7 Oct 2026 · claims are not yet placed under registered events

    Open event

  • Israel says British Consulate in east Jerusalem has ceased to function and 20 diplomats will leave

    Reported claim · first reported 7 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Palestinian killed in Israeli settler attack during olive harvest, officials say

    Reported claim · first reported 7 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Gaza Genocide: Satellite photos show how Israeli forces have erased Palestinian towns

    Reported claim · first reported 7 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Israelis mark three years since Hamas attack that set off Gaza assault

    Reported claim · first reported 7 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Photos: Three years of Israel’s war on Gaza as tent cities spread amid ruin

    Reported claim · first reported 6 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 5 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Palestinian Authority says Israel blocked election officials from Jerusalem, Gaza

    Reported claim · first reported 6 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • UEFA launches probe after Israeli player 'spat' at Ireland staff member

    Reported claim · first reported 6 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Gaza ceasefire

    Registered event · reported 29 Mar 2026 to 30 Aug 2026 · no longer active · claims are not yet placed under registered events

    Open event

Walk the record from Israel

Open where it comes from, follow a claim or a related name, and use the trail to come back. Every step says what it is, how it stands and when. Machines read the same record.

Israel

Entity.

Evidence
5,728 documents · 367 separate publishers · a mention shows the name is in use, not that any claim about it is true
Standing
A name from our starting list; its record is kept up to date automatically from coverage
Time
first seen 30 Mar 2026, last seen 12 Oct 2026
Measured
40% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
12 Oct 2026
25 links from here

Who it moves with: the 10 names are in the map above.

What is claimed about it (12)

  • Corroborated: Reported by three or more sources that did not copy each other.
  • Reported by two: Reported by two sources that did not copy each other.

Situations it is named in (3)

For machines: this record as JSON

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What the coverage says

Recent reporting that names Israel, newest first. Open any row to follow it to the original article.

Evidence tiers: primary source = an official public record · attributed = a named outlet, receipt linked · lead = observed, not yet receipted.

Other markets materially about Israel

Markets whose question is about Israel or names it as a party. Each row says how the market relates to Israel and why. Prices are the market’s own, cited with the venue.

2 more open markets joined to Israel but not about it
  • 40.5% Yes

    “Will no next Israeli Minister of Finance be appointed by February 28, 2027?”

    Polymarket · priced 12 Oct 2026

    Relation: mentioned only in passing · the name does not appear as a word in the question; the record joined it another way · closes 28 Feb 2027

  • 31.5% Yes

    “Will no next Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs be appointed by February 28, 2027?”

    Polymarket · priced 12 Oct 2026

    Relation: mentioned only in passing · the name does not appear as a word in the question; the record joined it another way · closes 28 Feb 2027

What it connects to

Related records.

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Story momentum counts mentions in tracked coverage. Prices are the market’s own, cited with the venue. Informational only, not advice. As of 12 Oct 2026.