Israel’s newsrooms, compared.
baba News clusters the same event across 40+ Israeli newsrooms in Hebrew, Arabic, Russian, and English — plus i24NEWS in French — and shows who ran it, who skipped it, and how they worded it.
Web, iPhone, and Android · The wire is free · One News account covers all three
What is baba News?
baba News is how you read the Israeli press without picking a side first. It watches the newsrooms Israelis actually read, groups every outlet covering the same event, and shows the spread — left, center, right, and the Haredi, religious, Arabic, Russian, and business press that a left-to-right bar cannot describe. You read a short summary written by baba, then open the original.
It is not a newsroom, not a translation of one paper, and not a social feed. Most of these outlets publish only in Hebrew, Arabic, or Russian. English editions exist for a handful; the rest of the story is otherwise missing if you do not read the language.
The app, and the same wire on the web
iPhone and Android, plus the website at news.itsbaba.com. One account. During launch, reading features are unlocked.
Download on the App Store · Get it on Google Play · Read on the web · Hebrew edition
The Wire
Live as newsrooms file. Latest, Top, or Following. Filter by time, coverage, language, or a single newsroom.
The Brief
What happened overnight, in a few minutes. Rebuilt on a six-hour cycle over a rolling day. Optional email with News Plus.
Discover
Across the press, Not Everywhere, developing stories, threads, people, and desks including weather.
Coverage
Every newsroom that ran the story, grouped by side and language, with who filed first.
Ask Duki
Questions answered from the coverage itself. Every claim is cited. Five free messages a month.
Alerts
Breaking, developing, Not Everywhere, the morning brief, and people or topics you follow. Quiet hours are Jerusalem time.
What a single feed hides
Not Everywhere
Stories that ran widely on one side of the Israeli press and not at all on another. baba names the side that did not run it.
How the headlines differ
The same event, each newsroom’s own headline, side by side — subject, verb, and who they blamed.
Who filed first
A filing timeline for the cluster: which outlet moved, and how long the others waited.
Follows and saved stories
Follow newsrooms, people, and topics. Save stories on the phone; News Plus syncs them to the web.
English or Hebrew reading
The app and the site re-report in the language you pick. Newsroom names and original links stay as they are.
Independent, no ads
ZipLyne LLC runs baba News. No newsroom, government, or party pays to be included or to change how it is described.
Browse by desk
Each desk is a live hub of clustered stories from across the press.
How does baba News work?
Watch the newsrooms
baba reads 40+ Israeli outlets as they publish — broadcast, daily, Haredi, religious, Arabic, Russian, business, and official statements.
Cluster the same event
Reports about one event are grouped together, counted by newsroom rather than by duplicate edition, so Haaretz Hebrew and Haaretz English are one newsroom.
Summarise, then send you out
baba writes a short English summary and key points, labeled as ours, and links to the newsroom’s own article. We do not reproduce their text.
The wire stays free
During launch, Plus features are unlocked for everyone. The limits below are what the free plan becomes once paid access starts.
| Free | News Plus | |
|---|---|---|
| Live wire and summaries | Yes | Yes |
| Morning brief | Yes | Yes |
| Follows (newsrooms, topics, people) | 5 in total | Unlimited |
| Not Everywhere stories | 3 a day | Unlimited |
| Ask Duki | 5 messages a month | No monthly limit |
| Hebrew edition | — | Yes |
| Headline framing and filing timeline | — | Yes |
| Archive search | Last week | Thirty days on the web |
| Saved stories synced across devices | On the phone | Phone and web |
| Daily brief by email | — | English or Hebrew |
News Plus is $4.99 a month or $34.99 a year (₪19.90 / ₪129), with a 7-day trial on the annual plan. One subscription is recognized on the web and in the app when you sign in with the same account. See News Plus · News API for developers
How can I read Israeli news in English?
Open baba Newson the web, iPhone, or Android. The wire is free, with no account required. baba follows the outlets Israelis actually read, summarizes each report into clear English the moment it is clustered, and links straight back to the original. Compare coverage across the spectrum instead of reading one paper’s version of the day.
Want the language itself, not just the headlines? The free baba Hebrew translation app turns Hebrew text, voice, photos, and PDFs into English, and it gets gender and Israeli slang right where generic tools guess.
Frequently asked questions
What is baba News?
baba News is an independent aggregator that reads 40+ Israeli newsrooms in Hebrew, Arabic, Russian, and English — plus i24NEWS in French — then clusters reports about the same event so you can see who covered it, who did not, and how the headlines differ. It is not a newsroom and does no original reporting. Every story is summarized by baba and links back to the original article.
Is baba News free?
The live wire, translated summaries, and the morning brief are free to read, with no account required. News Plus is optional. During launch, Plus features are also unlocked. Once paid access starts, free readers keep the wire and can open three Not Everywhere stories a day and follow five newsrooms, topics, or people in total.
Which sources does baba News cover?
More than forty Israeli newsrooms across the left, center, right, Haredi, religious, Arabic, Russian, and business press, plus official statements from the IDF, Home Front Command, and government ministries. Ynet, Haaretz, Kan, N12, Channel 13, Israel Hayom, Maariv, Globes, Calcalist, Arutz Sheva, Srugim, Kikar HaShabbat, Behadrei Haredim, Arab48, Panet, Vesty, NEWSru, and more. The full list is on the sources page.
Is the English AI-generated?
Yes. baba writes a short English summary and key points from the source, labeled as ours. We do not reproduce publisher article text, and we do not republish source photos. Illustrations are marked as generated. Every story links to the newsroom’s own article, with their advertising and paywall intact.
How does baba News handle bias?
It shows it. Each newsroom has a hand-assigned lean (left, center, right, or unrated) and a press side (including Haredi, religious, Arabic, Russian, business, and official). Coverage is grouped so you can see what one side ran and another left out. Lean is baba’s editorial judgment, explained on the methodology page.
What is the difference between the website and the app?
The website is the live front page, desks, story pages, Hebrew edition, daily brief, Discover, terminal, and archive. The iPhone and Android app add the live Wire with filters, follows, alerts, offline reading of saved stories, and the same account as the web. One News Plus subscription covers web, iPhone, and Android.
What is Ask Duki?
Duki answers questions from the coverage itself, with every claim cited back to a story. Free readers get five messages a month. News Plus removes the monthly limit.
See what the Israeli press is actually saying.
Open the live wire, or get the iPhone and Android app. One event, every newsroom that ran it.