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The Diaspora Affairs Minister and MK decried what he saw as the university's alarming shift from Zionist values towards antisemitism, especially in light of a professor's controversial comments.

Noam Lemish's career started out in Tel Aviv, and continued through the jazz clubs of the San Francisco Bay Area and even the kingdom of Bhutan, where he composed music in honor of the king's birthday. Now, his new album 'Twelve' is nominated for a Juno award – Canada's highest musical honor

Rama Burshtein-Shai, whose 2022 series 'Fire Dance' is now streaming in North America, tells Haaretz how when you suppress an unrequited love, you suppress life – in the ultra-Orthodox community too

The far-right minister aims to appoint a resident of the hardline settlement of Yitzhar as deputy head of the civil administration, and shifting current policy so that regional IDF officers will need to justify decisions of demolitions of settler outposts in front of him, and not to the IDF's top commander

Noam Tibon, a retired IDF general, drove south on October 7 to rescue his son, Haaretz journalist Amir Tibon from his home in kibbutz Nahal Oz. 'It was the mission of my life,' he says, before adding: 'We will not win the war without bringing back the hostages'

Peretz, 22, made Aliya with his family from South Africa nine years ago. He was the commander of Sgt. Itay Chen, who was confirmed last week to have also been killed on Oct. 7 and taken to Gaza

New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman has made his stance on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his extremist cabinet ministers very clear, and does not mince words at the Haaretz-UCLA conference either. 'I would not let this Israeli cabinet be waiters at my grandson's bar mitzvah,' he says

The two highest ranking Labor Party MKs announced thier support for Yair Golan, a former IDF deputy chief of staff and Meretz lawmaker, who looks unify Israel's left wing factions and 'establish a new political framework' to lead the country

Israel's war cabinet is set to discuss departure of Israeli delegation to Qatar ■ Trucks of flour reportedly reach areas of northern Gaza that have had no aid in four months ■ German Chancellor Schulz meets PM Netanyahu, says 'we cannot stand by and watch Palestinians starve' ■ Netanyahu slams Senator Schumer's call for early elections in Israel as 'totally inappropriate' ■ Here's what you need to know 163 days into the war

The 2024 Republican presidential candidate told Fox News that Biden 'dumped Israel' after seeing protests, and that 'The Democrats are very bad for Israel.' Netanyahu also gave an interview on Fox News, saying, 'I appreciate President Trump's tremendous support for Israel'

As I said then, placing Hitler into context is like placing cancer into context instead of realizing cancer for what it really is: a horrible, deadly disease.

Rational arguments can hold little sway in the face of this totalizing ideology. Many of those fervently demonstrating for Gaza have no understanding of what “from the river to the sea” means.

Amichai Chikli denounces the alleged exclusion of Jewish students from Sciences Po University. France grapples with antisemitism amid escalating tensions.

Yair Golan, a former Israeli general, leading voice against the Netanyahu government's anti-democratic legislation, and now in the running to lead the Labor party, tells the Haaretz-UCLA conference what he thinks must be done to stabilize the region and why he has no patience for the 'woke' left

Studying strangely superimposed sand ripples on the dunes of Mars, an international collaboration with Israeli scientists changed the paradigm on how ripples are created on Earth

The Russian Defense Ministry reported downing 35 Ukrainian drones overnight, including four in the Moscow region, as Russians head to the voting booths for a presidential election that is certain to keep Vladimir Putin in office

The results of the Israel Democracy Institute's annual Democracy Index found a high degree of trust in the army and a substantial improvement in trust in the police after the outbreak of the war with Hamas but a persisitent political divide

In an appearance on CNN, the prime minister decried the Senate Majority Leader's 'totally inappropriate' calls to step down, and flatly denied the assertion that Israeli's want elections. Ex-Speaker Pelosi praised Schumer's speech as 'an act of love for Israel'

Erella Dunayevsky, an Israeli activist in the West Bank for decades, has lost hope that the conflict can be solved. Her new book details countless incidents of harassment and violence in the South Hebron Hills