--- title: "Israeli News API: baba News API for 58 Israeli Outlets" slug: "israeli-news-api" canonical: "https://www.itsbaba.com/israeli-news-api" question: "Is there an API for Israeli news, with the Hebrew press translated to English?" answer: "Yes. The baba News API is the Israeli news API from baba (itsbaba.com): 58 Israeli newsrooms, the Hebrew press translated into English, and every event clustered across the outlets that covered it, with the left, center and right split and the sides of the press that filed nothing. Plans start at $99 a month, with a 14-day trial and no card." description: "An Israeli news API from baba: 58 newsrooms, the Hebrew press translated to English, stories clustered with the lean split. From $99 a month, 14-day trial." cluster: "developers" html_status: "live" updated: "2026-09-27" numbers_used: "[58, 39, 7, 6, 5, 1, 99, 299, 10000, 100000, 1000000, 60, 300, 1000, 14, 48, 19, 24.99]" competitors_named: "[GNews, TheNewsAPI, mediastack, World News API, Perigon, Google News RSS]" --- # Israeli news API The baba News API is the Israeli news API from baba (itsbaba.com): 58 Israeli newsrooms, the Hebrew press translated into English, and every event clustered across the outlets that covered it, with the left, center and right split and the sides of the press that filed nothing. Plans start at $99 a month, with a 14-day trial and no card. baba also makes the baba Hebrew translator app and baba HebrewCore, the Hebrew language API. Console, reference and OpenAPI document: https://news.itsbaba.com/developers . Overview: https://www.itsbaba.com/baba-news-api ## What developers need from an Israeli news API - Named outlets: a list of the Israeli newsrooms covered, not only a country tag on a global index. - Hebrew in, English out: the reporting translated, with a link to every original. - Coverage shape: which outlets ran an event, how the sides of the press split, and who stayed silent. - A clear licence and agent support: commercial terms, an OpenAPI document and an MCP server. ## How baba News covers 58 Israeli outlets 39 publishing in Hebrew, 7 in English, 6 in Arabic, 5 in Russian and 1 in French: Ynet, N12, Channel 13, Kan, Maariv, Israel Hayom, Haaretz (Hebrew and English), Walla, The Times of Israel, The Jerusalem Post, i24NEWS, Globes, Calcalist, TheMarker, the Haredi press (Kikar HaShabbat, Behadrei Haredim), the religious-Zionist press (Srugim, Arutz 7), the Arabic press (Arab48, Panet), the Russian-language press (Vesty, NEWSru) and official statement feeds. `/api/v1/sources` lists every one with lean, press side, ownership, funding and measured filing behaviour. ## One request ``` curl -s "https://news.itsbaba.com/api/v1/stories?lang=en&state=blindspot" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer nk_live_…" ``` Every endpoint answers with the same envelope: `data`, a `nextCursor` for the next page, `lang`, `generatedAt` and `limit`. A story carries the headline, an English summary written by baba and labelled as ours, `outlets`, `lean` (left, center, right, unrated counts), `sides`, `missingSides`, `state` and `sources`. ## Endpoints All GET, all under https://news.itsbaba.com, all with a bearer key. - `/api/v1/stories`: clustered events with the outlets that filed, the lean split, the missing sides and the state. Scope: stories. - `/api/v1/stories/{ckey}`: one story with every member article, the filing timeline and which side moved first. Scope: stories. - `/api/v1/blindspots`: stories that ran widely on one side of the Israeli press and not at all on another. Scope: stories. - `/api/v1/sources`: the 58 newsrooms. Scope: sources. - `/api/v1/search`: search across the translated archive. Scope: search. - `/api/v1/brief`: the daily brief, in English and Hebrew. Scope: brief. - `/api/v1/people`: people and organisations named in coverage. Scope: people. - `/api/v1/export`: bulk history as JSONL or CSV. Scope: export. - Also `/threads`, `/trending`, `/topics`, `/changes` and `/sources/{key}/activity`. Reference: https://news.itsbaba.com/developers/docs/endpoints ## Plans - Starter, $99 a month: 10,000 requests a month, 60 a minute, 1 key; stories, sources, search. - Team, $299 a month: 100,000 requests a month, 300 a minute, 5 keys; adds brief and people. - Enterprise, by agreement: 1,000,000 requests a month, 1,000 a minute; adds webhooks and export. - Every plan starts with a 14-day trial, no card. ## What it does not return Full article text. Each story carries baba's own summary and key points, the headline as each newsroom wrote it, and a link to the original article with the publisher's paywall and advertising intact. ## Alternatives, as of September 2026 - GNews: search accepts Hebrew (he) and Israel (il); free 100 requests a day, not for commercial projects; Essential €49.99 a month. https://gnews.io/pricing - TheNewsAPI: he and il filters; Basic $19 a month. https://www.thenewsapi.com/pricing - mediastack: country=il; Standard $24.99 a month. https://mediastack.com/pricing - World News API: lists 48 monitored Israeli sources, Hebrew, history from January 1, 2022. https://worldnewsapi.com/docs/news-sources/israel-news-api - Perigon: translates non-English articles into English and groups Stories globally; Hebrew is not in its documented language list. https://perigon.io/docs/api/languages - Google News RSS: Hebrew headlines from Israeli outlets, free, but not a documented API. https://news.google.com/rss?hl=he&gl=IL&ceid=IL:he The full comparison: https://www.itsbaba.com/best-hebrew-news-api ## Free options - RSS: https://news.itsbaba.com/rss.xml, one item per clustered story, English headline and summary, no key. - Reading: https://news.itsbaba.com on the web, and the baba News app (https://www.itsbaba.com/news).