Entity

Israel

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

As of 15 Oct 2026Last evidence 15 Oct 2026

What is happening now

  • Israeli president uses Turkish airspace on Azerbaijani flight amid headscarf dispute between allies: report

    Reported claim · first reported 15 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • Election: colima & israel

    Registered event · reported 24 May 2026 to 14 Oct 2026 · claims are not yet placed under registered events

    Open event

  • Colombia inaugurates new embassy in Jerusalem in reversal from previous break with Israel

    Reported claim · first reported 14 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 5 separate publishers

  • Israel’s former security chief sues Netanyahu for October 7 defamation

    Reported claim · first reported 14 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • Israel Iran Conflict

    Registered event · reported 29 Mar 2026 to 13 Oct 2026 · claims are not yet placed under registered events

    Open event

All 15 events and claims involving Israel

What changed

  • Attention Rising: 266 mentions on 15 Oct 2026, against 139 on 24 Sept 2026 (+91%).
  • State Last recorded change: coverage state went from steady to rising on 15 Oct 2026 (4 changes recorded since 5 Oct 2026).
  • Claims 3 claims first reported since 14 Oct 2026.
  • Market The cited market on “Will Benjamin Netanyahu be the next Prime Minister of Israel?” moved from 29% to 28% Yes since 31 Aug 2026 (the market’s own price).

How well we know this

6,170 documents · 379 publishers · 16% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 15 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.157: about 84% of mentions carry no typed assertion
  • Gap: 1 receipt 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.

GazaIranTrumpMiddle EastUnited StatesSaudi ArabiaHormuzNetanyahuPalestine

Story momentum

Rising

The word compares 266 mentions on 15 Oct 2026 with 139 on 24 Sept 2026 (+91%); a change of less than 8% either way reads Steady.

Daily mentions +202% from 31 Aug 2026 to 15 Oct 2026, between 46 and 269 a day

How often tracked coverage mentions Israel, day by day.

Market price, cited

28% Yes

Polymarket · priced 15 Oct 2026 · relation: named in the question

the market: 29% → 28% Yes (-1pts, from 31 Aug 2026 to 15 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

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 president uses Turkish airspace on Azerbaijani flight amid headscarf dispute between allies: report

    Reported claim · first reported 15 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Election: colima & israel

    Registered event · reported 24 May 2026 to 14 Oct 2026 · claims are not yet placed under registered events

    Open event

  • Colombia inaugurates new embassy in Jerusalem in reversal from previous break with Israel

    Reported claim · first reported 14 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 5 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Israel’s former security chief sues Netanyahu for October 7 defamation

    Reported claim · first reported 14 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Israel Iran Conflict

    Registered event · reported 29 Mar 2026 to 13 Oct 2026 · claims are not yet placed under registered events

    Open event

  • Israel: Netanyahu and Eisenkot clash over Palestinian statehood ahead of elections

    Reported claim · first reported 13 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Israel demolishes Bedouin Palestinian homes leaving 250 homeless

    Reported claim · first reported 13 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Iran mum as Azerbaijan’s school hijab ban, Israel ties test alliance with Turkey

    Reported claim · first reported 13 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Israel turns back Ethiopian Airlines cargo flight over Indonesian pilot's nationality

    Reported claim · first reported 13 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Israeli forces raid multiple locations in occupied West Bank, local sources report

    Reported claim · first reported 12 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Israel expands Gaza’s Yellow Line, displacing more Palestinians and raising fears of new border

    Reported claim · first reported 10 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • One year on from the Gaza ‘ceasefire’, Trump’s promise of peace is a distant dream as Israeli attacks continue

    Reported claim · first reported 10 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 7 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • 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

  • West Bank: Almost 20 Israeli settler attacks target Palestinians in day of mass violence

    Reported claim · first reported 9 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Gaza ceasefire

    Registered event · reported 29 Mar 2026 to 1 Sept 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
6,170 documents · 379 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 15 Oct 2026
Measured
16% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
15 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.

1 more open market joined to Israel but not about it
  • 38.9% Yes

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

    Polymarket · priced 15 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.

Recorded history

  • 15 Oct 2026

    coverage state changed: steady to rising

    Previous state held since 13 Oct 2026

  • 13 Oct 2026

    coverage state changed: rising to steady

    Previous state held since 7 Oct 2026

  • 7 Oct 2026

    coverage state changed: steady to rising

    Previous state held since 6 Oct 2026

  • 6 Oct 2026

    coverage state changed: rising to steady

    Previous state held since 2 Oct 2026

4 changes recorded since 5 Oct 2026, newest first.

Ask about IsraelWatch Israel

Story momentum counts mentions in tracked coverage. Prices are the market’s own, cited with the venue. Informational only, not advice. As of 15 Oct 2026.