israel-news-rss

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israel-news-rss

description

Use when the user wants the latest Israeli news headlines from major outlets via RSS, in English or Hebrew. Aggregates Jerusalem Post, Times of Israel, and JNS (English) or Ynet, Maariv, Walla, Haaretz, and Globes (Hebrew), merges them by publication time, and returns a compact summary suitable for orchestrator context. Trigger phrases include "latest Israeli news", "what's happening in Israel right now", "Israeli headlines", "Hebrew news", "מה חדש בחדשות", "check Ynet / Jpost / ToI", "news from Israel in the last X hours".

Israel News — RSS Aggregator

Fetches and merges RSS feeds from major Israeli news outlets. Returns headlines, publication times, links, and short summaries sorted newest-first. No browser, no API keys, no geo-restriction issues.

Sources

English (--lang en)

• jpost — Jerusalem Post front page
• toi — Times of Israel
• jns — Jewish News Syndicate

Hebrew (--lang he)

• ynet — Ynet main feed
• maariv — Maariv latest news
• walla — Walla main feed
• haaretz — Haaretz
• globes — Globes business

Usage

python3 scripts/fetch_news.py --lang en                      # 50 English items, text output
python3 scripts/fetch_news.py --lang he --limit 100          # 100 Hebrew items
python3 scripts/fetch_news.py --lang en --since 6h           # only last 6 hours
python3 scripts/fetch_news.py --lang he --source ynet        
python3 scripts/fetch_news.py --lang en --json