Independent English-language news curation covering Israel’s political, security, and defense developments in near real time.
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Created
Between 1 April 2019 and 31 August 2021— estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated.
8 measurements spanning 5 days, net -61. Dots are measurements; the straight line between them is drawn to join them, not to claim we know the path taken in between — snapshots are recorded only when a count changes, so gaps mean “no change observed”, never “interpolated”. The vertical axis spans 20,482–20,561 and does not start at zero.
Measurement log — every subscribers count we have recorded
Measured (UTC)
Subscribers
Change
12 Aug 2026, 20:44
20,491
-14
11 Aug 2026, 21:43
20,505
-12
10 Aug 2026, 23:58
20,517
-11
10 Aug 2026, 02:51
20,528
-13
9 Aug 2026, 01:31
20,541
-7
8 Aug 2026, 01:47
20,548
-4
7 Aug 2026, 12:15
20,552
no change
7 Aug 2026, 12:08
20,552
first reading
Engagement
89 posts held, back to 5 August 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 17 pagesof Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
ERR · 30 days
5.89%
avg views ÷ 20,491 subscribers
Avg views / post
1,210
89 posts measured
Reaction rate
3.48%
reactions ÷ views · ER floor
Posts in window
89
of 89 held
ERR is average views per post over the last 30 days divided by subscribers, the definition TGStat uses, so this figure is comparable with the one you will see elsewhere. It falls structurally as a channel grows: a high ERR on a small channel and a low one on a large channel describe reach mathematics, not quality. We publish the figure and the sample it came from and pass no verdict on it.
ER is defined industry-wide as (forwards + reactions + comments) ÷ views— note the denominator is views, not subscribers. Telegram’s public web preview carries views and reactions but not forward or comment counts, so the reaction rate above is the reactions term only and is therefore a floor: the true ER for this channel is higher by an amount we have not measured and will not estimate.
What these figures were computed from
Window
Rolling 30 days · latest post in window 12 August 2026
Posts held
89 (5 August 2026 – 12 August 2026)
Views total
107,505
Reactions total
3,739
Forwards / comments
not exposed by the public surface — not measured, not estimated
Readings taken
12 Aug 2026, 23:23 UTC
Views are a single reading per post, taken at the time above. A post published in the last day or two is still accumulating views, which pulls the 30-day average down slightly. That is a property of the standard definition rather than a fault in it, so we keep the definition rather than “correcting” the number into something nobody can reproduce.
Precision. Telegram publishes view counts on its public widget in short form — 8.12K, 3.7M — so any reading at or above 1,000 reaches us rounded to three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. Averages and rates derived from them are shown to the same precision rather than to the unit: a figure like 3,701,250 would assert digits nobody measured.
Reaction counts are published per emoji and rounded the same way, so a total below 1,000 is exact and a larger one is a sum that may carry a rounded component from each emoji above 1,000. Because it is a sum, it does not look rounded — read a large reaction total as three significant figures per contributing emoji rather than as the figure it prints.
What this channel posts
Photos
≈1,690
Videos
≈3,270
Links
≈7,560
Lifetime counters from Telegram’s own channel header, read 12 August 2026 — not the date at the top of this page, which is when the subscriber count was last read. A count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints these counters in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈142,000 means somewhere between 141,500 and 142,499.
Video runtime
15m 44s
Average length
1m 26s
Measured directly from 11 videos with a duration reading, out of the posts we hold for this channel — not this channel’s whole posting history, only the sample this register has actually read. An exact reading to the second, taken from the post itself rather than from Telegram’s own rounded chrome, so it carries no ≈ mark.
Reaction mix
3,739 reactions across 89 posts, in 14 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 43.2% of them.
Every reaction kind recorded on the sample, most used first
Reaction
Count
Share
Share, drawn
🙏
1,614
43.2%
👍
622
16.6%
😡
448
12.0%
❤
396
10.6%
👏
322
8.61%
🤯
85
2.27%
👀
79
2.11%
🔥
70
1.87%
😢
43
1.15%
😱
24
0.642%
💯
15
0.401%
😭
13
0.348%
👌
5
0.134%
💔
3
0.08%
No sentiment is inferred, and none should be read in. This table is ordered by count and by nothing else. Emoji do not carry stable meaning across languages or communities — 🙏 is thanks in one channel and mourning in another — so we publish which ones were pressed and how often, and pass no judgement on what an audience meant by them.
Precision. Telegram publishes reaction counts per emoji and short-forms each one — 4.34K, 1.2M — so any single kind at or above 1,000 reaches us at three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. The shares above are ratios of those figures and carry the same error. This is also why the total here can differ slightly from a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page: both are sums of the same rounded parts, taken over samples with different edges.
Coverage. Reactions were read on 89 of the 89 sampled posts in this sample. Summed by Telegram’s own count on each post — not by adding up the per-emoji breakdown above — those same posts carry 3,739reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 89 most recent posts we hold, published 5 August 2026 to 12 August 2026, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.
⚓ Trump: U.S. has “total control” over Strait of Hormuz:
President Trump said the U.S. has “total control” over the Strait of Hormuz, adding: “I THINK WE WILL KEEP IT!” He described the U.S. naval blockade as a “WALL OF STEEL” and said Iran can do nothing to break it.
Trump said Iran has no Navy or Air Force, claimed the IRGC is decimated and fleeing, remaining troops are unpaid, and the country’s leadership is unc…
🛡️ IDF reinforces Qusra sector:
IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir held an additional situational assessment on the ongoing events in the Qusra area with senior Central Command and Operations Directorate officials. He ordered continued efforts to restore order, strengthen operational control and prevent further serious incidents.
An additional infantry battalion, currently undergoing training and refreshment, w…
🔸 The CEO of the Peace Council said:
“In recent days, a mechanism for monitoring violations in Gaza has begun operating. Every violation will be addressed.”
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🛰️ IDF responds to reported Hamas military drill:
The military says it received information indicating Hamas was carrying out a military drill in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday night, prompting improved intelligence-gathering and attack capabilities. However, the IDF said no terror operatives were actually identified at any stage.
The army said: “there is no change to the rules of engagement, which require every IDF sol…
🎯 Hamas commander struck in northern Gaza:
The IDF says it carried out an aerial strike against a Hamas commander in the northern Gaza Strip who planned to execute terror attacks against IDF troops operating in Gaza. The military said the strike was carried out to remove the threat to its forces. Media reports said one person was killed and others injured in an Israeli strike targeting a vehicle in Beit Lahiya.
📲 J…
📍 Defense Minister Israel Katz reiterated his commitment regarding Israel’s security zones:
“We will not withdraw from the security zones—not in Lebanon, not in Syria, and not in Gaza. We will continue to destroy all the terrorist infrastructure built here with Iranian funding.”
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🇮🇱 Golani recon completes 50 days in Beaufort area:
The IDF says Golani Reconnaissance Unit soldiers are completing nearly 50 days of operations in Lebanon’s Beaufort area, where they helped establish operational control over an area that served as a major Hezbollah stronghold. Forces destroyed more than 300 terrorist infrastructure sites and located and destroyed weapons and storage facilities used by Hezbollah. Th…
🛰️ Foreign mission considered to verify Hezbollah disarmament:
Reuters reports that the UK, Italy, Switzerland and Indonesia are being considered for a foreign mission to verify Hezbollah’s disarmament in southern Lebanon. The plan could involve inspecting villages and private homes, but the mission’s mandate and freedom of movement remain unresolved.
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📍 Northern Judea and Samaria:
An operation began this morning to demolish 26 illegal Arab structures in the area of Ganim and Kadim ahead of renewed Israeli settlement there. The operation is being carried out by the Civil Administration under Minister Bezalel Smotrich’s direction.
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❗️ Qusra:
The Commander of IDF Central Command, the Commander of the Judea and Samaria Division, and the Commander of the Judea and Samaria Border Police District toured Qusra and nearby outposts this morning and spoke with the Palestinian family residing there, which informed them that the house has electricity and water infrastructure.
Near the house, in Area B where a closed military zone order was issued, a ten…
🚧 Te’enim Crossing exercise:
The Ministry of Defense Crossings Authority will conduct a security exercise tonight, Wednesday, August 12, at the Te’enim Crossing from 9:30 PM until 4:00 AM Thursday. Route 557 will be intermittently closed to traffic. Sounds of gunfire and explosions will be heard during the exercise.
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🔸 Israel-Lebanon:
Israel has offered Lebanon the release of Lebanese prisoners in exchange for the transfer of remains from Jewish cemeteries in Beirut and Sidon, according to Al Akhbar.
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Showing the 12 most recent of 89 posts we hold for @Israel_Realtime_Updates. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
Citation-graph rank
Citation-graph rank — 1,129,784 of 1,160,990entries in the measured graph. A weighted position computed from the forward and mention edges below — republished posts weigh more than named mentions — and recomputed periodically, over the whole graph. Published only as this ordinal position, never as a score: a position is a fact, and a score printed beside one channel’s name would read as a verdict this register does not make. The two counts beneath stay separate for the same reason mentions are never summed with forwards anywhere else on this page — a named-by count costs nothing to manufacture. The top 100 by this measure, or how it is computed.
Mentions
Named by 1 registered channel — every channel on the register whose own posts have named this one, by its current username or any other username it currently holds, merged from two separately captured readings of the same fact so a namer caught by only one of them is not missed and a namer both caught is not counted twice. A username this channel has since dropped is not matched — that handle may belong to someone else now, and crediting today’s namer to yesterday’s owner would misattribute it.
Named by
Channels on the register whose posts name this channel's handle.
A mention is a weaker signal than a forward and is counted separately for that reason — naming a channel is not republishing it, and a handle in a post body is easy to place deliberately. The post counts beside each row below are distinct posts in which the handle appeared, from posts we have read on both sides — the “Named by N registered channels” figure above is a different count, of distinct NAMING CHANNELS rather than posts, and is not the sum of the rows under it.
Appears in Telegram’s recommendations for other channels
The reverse of the list above, and a different kind of signal. This does not require this channel to have ever been asked about directly — each row below is a channel we DID ask Telegram about, whose Telegram-generated list happened to include this one. A channel can appear here with an empty list above it, because being named by someone else’s query is independent of having been queried itself.
Israel Defense Forces @idfofficial · 163,638 Telegram ranks this channel #11 of 81 here — alongside 80 others — read 12 August 2026
Amir Tsarfati @beholdisraelchannel · 581,231 Telegram ranks this channel #21 of 87 here — alongside 86 others — read 10 August 2026
This channel appears in 2 seed channels' Telegram-generated recommendation lists in total. Each is Telegram’s list for THAT channel, not this one — see how this is measured.
Cite this entry
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 12 August 2026 — this
entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Israel Realtime” (@Israel_Realtime_Updates), 20,491 subscribers as measured 12 August 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/Israel_Realtime_Updates.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.