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For a year we have been drowning in an endless cycle of death and killing and bereavement and funerals and air-raid sirens and shelling. Enough!

In a state where Joe Biden beat Donald Trump by only 11,000 votes, the Jewish vote is more significant than in New York and California combined. Jews and non-Jews at an Emhoff event near Atlanta told Haaretz about their fears and hopes

In the film 'Martha,' the lifestyle guru recalls her father slapping her when she told him she was engaged to a Jewish man

The swing states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin are all home to Jewish populations whom both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris will be counting on to vote for them on Tuesday. Here are the key numbers for this key demographic

Moshe Ya'alon, a member of Netanyahu's Likud party throughout his political career, said the prime minister has put his political survival over Israel's national interests

Thirty years ago, Donald Trump sent an angry letter to Haaretz – rare documentation of the ambitious real estate mogul who became President of the United States, prior to another attempt to get elected

Video on social media showed an audience member demanding that Thom Yorke condemn Israel, prompting the singer to leave the stage

Kamala Harris' approach – and the rhetoric of her surrogates – during the campaign's home stretch has done nothing but stick a finger in the eye of her disillusioned base. And all this at a time when she needs to secure support from every corner she can find it

Hezbollah rocket fire on north Israel kills seven people ■ Hezbollah chief appeared to give green light for cease-fire negotiations in Wednesday speech, source tells Lebanese daily ■ IDF is preventing residents of Jabalya in northern Gaza from returning to their homes due to political pressure, defense officials told Haaretz ■ Amount of aid entering Gaza in October was lowest of any month this year ■ Here's what you need to know 391 days into the war

After the Six-Day War, a law on state commissions of inquiry was passed by the Knesset. The majority of the Israeli public strongly supports establishing a new commission into the October 7 attacks

Media personality Ben Shapiro injected the events of October 7 into a musical on the Holocaust he wrote before the massacre. The result perfectly suits the message that Shapiro is trying to convey: The Jews will always live by the sword

In the past month, 17 soldiers were killed in Gaza, 11 by explosive devices. Commanders report that until recently, the air force would strike around buildings to detonate explosives before ground forces entered. Now, due to the need to economize on armaments, they must rely on less effective alternatives

At the Haaretz conference in London, Amos Schocken stated, among other things, that Israel is carrying out a second Nakba. In response, several ministers and government offices announced measures against Haaretz and expressed intentions to propose new restrictions on freedom of speech

The decision by IGLA World came after opposition to a bid to hold its annual conference in Israel

Food aid to Gaza dropped to roughly a quarter of 2024's monthly average in October, with similar declines across most categories except fuel ■ Israeli officials attribute the drop to reduced international deliveries rather than restrictions

A couple from Lod and a resident of Bnei Brak are accused of photographing dozens of sensitive locations in Israel, including the Mossad headquarters and graves of those killed in the October 7 attack; One suspect is accused of tracking a senior Israeli nuclear scientist who was a target of assassination

The controversial spending plan calls for drastic measures to cover ballooning war costs and rein in a swelling fiscal deficit ■ Some ministers are expected to object to the draconian measures

Five people were killed on Thursday in agricultural fields near Metula in northern Israel, including four Thai nationals ■ Later on Thursday, a mother and son were killed while picking olives near Haifa