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Amid global protests against the Gaza war – some accompanied by denial of Hamas' systematic sexual crimes – Israeli filmmaker Anat Stalinsky created a film documenting sexual violence on October 7, through interviews by former Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg

While COGAT, the IDF unit in charge of coordinating aid to Gaza, said international organizations have indicated that there was too much aid entering into northern Gaza, UNRWA head Philippe Lazzarini insisted that there continue to be long delays at checkpoints for aid deliveries, shootings at convoys and arrests of UN staff

A major concern is that Erdogan's boycott on trade, due to the fighting in Gaza, could spread to other countries if Israel enters Rafah

In the shadow of the October 7 Hamas attack and atrocities in Israel and in Gaza, with the number of living Holocaust survivors ever dwindling, our work as memory-keepers is just beginning

  While Paul Auster was commonly regarded as a New York novelist, more discerning critics would aptly characterize him as a "Brooklynite" writer. "I was looking for a quiet place to die. Someone recommended Brooklyn to me," testifies his character, Tom Wood, in the opening of his 2002 novel, "The Brooklyn Follies." Auster became the […]

According to reports in Belgium, Prime Minister Alexander De Croo told aides, 'I don't think we can continue to regard Israel as a trading partner' ■ Possible partners for such a move may be Ireland, Luxembourg, and Malta, which have been very critical of Israel since the outbreak of the war

After housing some of the biggest anti-Israel protests on American campuses in recent months, and with several graduation ceremonies at other universities disrupted by pro-Palestinian protesters, Columbia has decided to only hold school-level ceremonies, away from the main campus

  A new exhibition displaying the personal items of children murdered in the Holocaust opened Sunday at the Supreme Court. The installation, named "Yellow Patch," serves as a heartbreaking memorial to the young lives tragically cut short during the Nazi genocide. The exhibits on display were retained from the Theresienstadt Ghetto in former Czechoslovakia. Established by […]

  Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem, is harnessing the power of artificial intelligence to identify and record the names of Holocaust victims previously lost in the vast archives of World War II documentation. The renowned memorial and museum houses a staggering 230 million pages of text documents and over 500,000 photographs […]

From sterilization of hundreds of thousands of people to medical experiments and killing of people with special needs: Israeli Prof. Shmuel Reis tells Haaretz how this grim chapter of history should be taught at medical schools everywhere

'The off-campus Jewish community storming the encampment endangered the Jewish students they were attempting to protect,' reads a letter by a Jewish Hillel leader. Other pro-Israel organizations have remained silent on the violence perpetrated against UCLA's pro-Palestinian demonstrators

A flash nature survey noticed dragonflies from Arabia and North Africa in a kibbutz in Israel's Arava Desert. Could climate change be involved?

The average salary for Israeli employees was NIS 14,108 in March 2024.

The average salary for Israeli employees was NIS 14,108 in March 2024.

  At the former Nazi extermination camp of Birkenau, where hundreds of thousands of Jews were murdered during World War II, thousands gathered Monday to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day by singing the Israeli anthem in a deeply symbolic act of defiance and resilience. This year's March of the Living, an annual educational program that brings […]

    At the place where hundreds of thousands of Jews were murdered and which became one of the symbols of the Nazi extermination machine – Birkenau camp in Nazi-occupied Poland – the March of the Living takes place once again, for the 36th time. This was the peak of the Holocaust Remembrance Day events, […]

Thrity rockets were launched toward the Golan Heights from Lebanon earlier on Monday, causing minor damage to homes. The Israeli army assesses the barrage is a response to an overnight IDF strike on a Hezbollah compound deep in Lebanon

Citing security concerns, Golan and her team have previously said they will not be attending any Eurovision events other than rehearsals and her actual performances. On Sunday, the Israeli singer lit a candle at a small Holocaust Memorial ceremony with Malmo's Jewish community

The IDF estimates there are about 100,000 residents in the southern Gaza neighborhoods ordered to evacuate, but sources in the army have said this is a limited operation, and not a complete evacuation of Rafah