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An alert that fires when a story is moving across 58 Israeli newsrooms, not when one desk hits publish. In English, with quiet hours on Jerusalem time.
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What Makes a Good Breaking Alert for Israeli News?
That it is rare, and that it means something when it arrives. Most news apps alert you when their own newsroom publishes, which is a measure of that newsroom’s day rather than of the news. baba News watches 58 Israeli newsrooms at once and alerts when a story starts moving across them, in English, whichever language the outlets are writing in.
You choose the categories and the newsrooms allowed to reach you. baba sets the bar for how many outlets have to be carrying something before it is worth your attention, the same for every reader.
What You Can Switch on
baba only sends what you switch on, and nothing else.
| Alert | What it is | How it behaves |
|---|---|---|
| Breaking | Major stories as they break | Sent when a story is moving across the press, not when one outlet publishes. Sirens always come through, even in quiet hours. |
| Editions | Morning, midday and evening | The brief, three times a day, as a notification rather than an email. |
| A story everyone is covering | When a story is suddenly on every front page | baba decides how many newsrooms make it count, the same bar for every reader. |
| Not Everywhere | A story one side of the press did not run | baba names the side that left it out. |
| Newsrooms you follow | Only the outlets you pick | Choose which newsrooms can reach you, so a follow does not become a firehose. |
| What happened over Shabbat | One summary after Shabbat | Sent half an hour after Shabbat ends where you are. |
| Coverage shift | A side of the press turning | When one side of the press turns harder or softer on someone this week. |
| Topics, people and stories you follow | With News Plus | When something you follow is on the wire, or a story you follow gets a new newsroom. |
| Quiet hours | 22:00 to 07:00 in the app, Jerusalem time | Nothing routine arrives inside it. Signed in on the web, you can set your own start and end hour. |
Why These Alerts Are Different
The trigger is the press, not a publish button.
Triggered by the press, not one outlet
An alert fires when a story is moving across the 58 newsrooms on the wire. One outlet publishing something is not breaking news.
Every category is its own switch
baba only sends what you switch on. Breaking, the editions, Not Everywhere, your newsrooms and the rest are separate, and turning one off leaves the others alone.
Rare on purpose
baba decides how many newsrooms have to be carrying a story before it alerts anyone, and holds every reader to the same bar, so an alert means the press is actually moving.
In English, from the Hebrew press
The alert is in English even though most of the newsrooms behind it publish only in Hebrew, and it opens onto every outlet that ran the story.
Sirens Are Not News Alerts
baba News is a news app and not a civil defence system. Official siren alerts should come from the Home Front Command. What baba News does carry, on the web, is the Mamad forecast, the chance of a siren over the next hour, day, week and month. It is a page to check, not an alert. Inside the app, with breaking alerts on, sirens always come through, even inside your quiet hours.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the best app for Israel breaking news alerts in English?
It depends what you want an alert to mean. If you want one newsroom’s desk to decide, the English-language Israeli outlets have their own apps. If you want an alert that fires when a story is actually moving across the Israeli press, baba News is built for that: it watches 58 newsrooms in Hebrew, Arabic, Russian, French and English and sends in English.
Does it send rocket or siren alerts?
baba News is a news app, not a civil defence system. Official Home Front Command alerts should come from the Home Front Command app. Within baba News, with breaking alerts on, sirens always come through, even inside your quiet hours. There is no separate Mamad alert. The Mamad forecast of siren risk over the next hour, day, week and month is on the web at news.itsbaba.com/mamad.
Can I stop it waking me up?
Yes. In the app, quiet hours run from 22:00 to 07:00 Jerusalem time, and nothing routine arrives inside that window. Signed in at news.itsbaba.com, you can set your own start and end hour in your alert settings, and it applies to every phone signed in to that account.
Can I choose which newsrooms alert me?
Yes. You pick which outlets can reach you, and alerts from the newsrooms you follow are free. How many newsrooms have to be carrying a story before it counts is set by baba, the same for every reader.
Are alerts free?
The app is free on iPhone and Android, and so are alerts for breaking news, the three daily editions, a story everyone is covering, Not Everywhere, the newsrooms you follow, what happened over Shabbat, and coverage shifts. News Plus adds alerts for the specific topics, people and stories you follow.
Can I get the same thing by email instead?
Yes. The brief comes as an email in English or Hebrew, with morning, midday and evening editions, a Friday digest, and breaking capped at one a day.
Know when Israel is actually breaking.
Free on iPhone and Android, with quiet hours from 22:00 Jerusalem time.