Entity

Israel

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

As of 8 Oct 2026Last evidence 8 Oct 2026

What is happening now

  • Israeli strike kills five in Gaza, including four women, health officials say

    Reported event · first reported 28 Sept 2026 to 30 Sept 2026 · 3 claims · best-carried claim: 7 separate publishers

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

    Reported claim · first reported 8 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 6 separate publishers

  • Election: israel

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

    Open event

  • Israel is still tearing down buildings in Gaza a year after the ceasefire

    Reported claim · first reported 7 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 5 separate publishers

  • 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

All 13 events and claims involving Israel

What changed

  • Attention Rising: 230 mentions on 8 Oct 2026, against 227 on 17 Sept 2026 (+1%).
  • State Changes between snapshots: cannot measure, no state history is kept for Israel yet.
  • Claims 2 claims first reported since 7 Oct 2026.
  • Market The cited market on “Will Benjamin Netanyahu be the next Prime Minister of Israel?” moved from 28% to 36% Yes since 24 Aug 2026 (the market’s own price).

How well we know this

5,114 documents · 347 publishers · 39% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 8 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.392: about 61% of mentions carry no typed assertion
  • Gap: 2 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.

IranGazaTrumpMiddle EastUnited StatesOilSaudi ArabiaPalestine
  • Iran · 2,280 shared documents
  • Gaza · 2,270 shared documents
  • Trump · 1,522 shared documents
  • Middle East · 1,380 shared documents
  • United States · 1,351 shared documents
  • UN · 1,163 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Oil · 1,085 shared documents
  • Saudi Arabia · 1,045 shared documents
  • Turkish · 1,001 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Palestine · 909 shared documents

Story momentum

Rising

Daily mentions +203% from 24 Aug 2026 to 8 Oct 2026, between 46 and 269 a day

How often tracked coverage mentions Israel, day by day.

Market price, cited

36% Yes

priced 8 Oct 2026 · relation: named in the question

the market: 28% → 36% Yes (+8pts, from 24 Aug 2026 to 8 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

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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.

  • Israeli strike kills five in Gaza, including four women, health officials say

    Reported event · first reported 28 Sept 2026 to 30 Sept 2026 · 3 claims · best-carried claim: 7 separate publishers

    Show the 3 individual claims
    • Israeli strike kills five in Gaza, including four women, health officials say · corroborated · first reported 30 Sept 2026 · 7 separate publishers
    • Israeli drone strike kills Palestinian woman in Gaza amid ceasefire violations · corroborated · first reported 28 Sept 2026 · 5 separate publishers
    • Palestinian officials say one killed in Israeli drone attack west of Gaza City · corroborated · first reported 29 Sept 2026 · 4 separate publishers

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

    Reported claim · first reported 8 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 6 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Election: israel

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

    Open event

  • Israel is still tearing down buildings in Gaza a year after the ceasefire

    Reported claim · first reported 7 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 5 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

  • Israel Iran Conflict

    Registered event · reported 29 Mar 2026 to 4 Oct 2026 · claims are not yet placed under registered events

    Open event

  • Israel-bound flight diverted to Saudi Arabia after brawl between pilots, Israeli official says

    Reported claim · first reported 30 Sept 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 5 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Israeli documentary 'NAZA' opens in the US, reigniting debate over the war in Gaza

    Reported claim · first reported 30 Sept 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 5 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Settler attack on West Bank village injures Israeli forces, drawing rare rebuke

    Reported claim · first reported 29 Sept 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 5 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • U.S. bank Valley National buys Israeli fintech Bluevine for $340 million

    Reported claim · first reported 29 Sept 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 6 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Israel minister Smotrich calls for annexing parts of Gaza, south Lebanon and war in West Bank

    Reported claim · first reported 27 Sept 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 5 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Expansion | Three Palestinians die and several are injured in Israeli operations in Gaza despite the ceasefire

    Reported claim · first reported 25 Sept 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 15 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

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Israel

Entity.

Evidence
5,114 documents · 347 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 8 Oct 2026
Measured
39% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
8 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.

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.

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.

No other open market in the record is materially about Israel: none names it as the subject of its question or as a party in it.

3 more open markets joined to Israel but not about it
  • 9.5% Yes

    “Will United Torah Judaism win less than 5% of the vote in the 2026 Knesset elections?”

    Polymarket · priced 8 Oct 2026

    Relation: mentioned only in passing · the name does not appear as a word in the question; the record joined it another way · close date not stated in the question

  • 37.5% Yes

    “Will Shas be in the next Israeli government?”

    Polymarket · priced 8 Oct 2026

    Relation: mentioned only in passing · the name does not appear as a word in the question; the record joined it another way · close date not stated in the question

  • 43% Yes

    “Will Likud win the second-most seats in the 2026 Israeli legislative election?”

    Polymarket · priced 8 Oct 2026

    Relation: mentioned only in passing · the name does not appear as a word in the question; the record joined it another way · close date not stated in the question

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 8 Oct 2026.