MIVZAK - Israeli News Wire
A self-initiated, bilingual news wire I built and run - live at mivzak.live. It pulls headlines from across the Israeli press into one editorial wire, grouped by category and ranked by what is actually hot right now, with an optional AI pass that dedupes the same story across outlets, scores hotness and writes one-line summaries. Hebrew RTL / English LTR, linking out to the original article - no full-text rehosting.
Scope: Solo build: parallel multi-source feed aggregation, AI dedupe/hotness/summaries with recency fallback, ISR caching, bilingual RTL/LTR wire UI - live at mivzak.live.
A self-initiated, bilingual news wire I built and run - live at mivzak.live. It aggregates headlines from across the Israeli press into a single editorial wire, grouped by category and ranked by what is actually hot right now, with an optional AI pass that dedupes the same story across outlets, scores hotness and writes one-line summaries. Hebrew RTL / English LTR, no full-text rehosting - it links out to the original article.
The Challenge
Following the Israeli news means opening a dozen tabs - Ynet, Walla, N12, Maariv, Israel Hayom, Globes, Haaretz, Times of Israel and more - each with its own layout, ads and biases, and no way to see what the whole press is leading with right now. Aggregators that do exist are either English-only, ignore RTL, or rehost full articles and starve the outlets they scrape. The opening was a single, fast wire that reads the entire Israeli press at a glance, ranks by genuine heat rather than recency alone, stays polite to the sources, and reads natively in both Hebrew and English.
The Solution
Built as a Next.js app that pulls RSS/Atom feeds from ~12 outlets in parallel with per-source isolation - a broken feed never blanks the page - normalizes and sanitizes them, and links out rather than rehosting. An optional, single batched Claude call categorizes every headline, dedupes the same story across outlets via a cluster id, scores hotness and writes a one-line summary; without an API key it falls back gracefully to feed categories plus recency ranking. Feeds and enrichment recompute at most every three minutes via ISR, so pages stay fast and feeds stay polite. The design is an editorial newsroom terminal, not a SaaS dashboard: warm-paper canvas, a single press-red used only for live/breaking signals, serif headlines, and a signature wire rail - a hairline timeline with a pulsing live marker and a monospace timestamp column ticking newest-first. Fully bilingual Hebrew RTL / English LTR.
Client
Self-initiated · Live product (mivzak.live)
“I built MIVZAK because keeping up with the Israeli press meant juggling a dozen tabs. It reads the whole press into one wire, ranks by what is actually hot, and uses AI only where it earns its place - deduping and summarizing - while linking out to the original outlets. Bilingual, fast, and finished to the same standard I bring to client work.”
Kiril Urbonas
Creator & Engineer, MIVZAK
mivzak.live
Key Results
Israeli outlets aggregated in one wire
Dedupe, hotness ranking & summaries
Hebrew-first RTL · English LTR
ISR refresh - fast pages, polite feeds
Timeline
Ongoing - live · 2026
Completed 2026
Scope: Solo build: parallel multi-source feed aggregation, AI dedupe/hotness/summaries with recency fallback, ISR caching, bilingual RTL/LTR wire UI - live at mivzak.live.
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