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How one Israeli artist uses cartoons to voice the pain of the Gaza hostage families

Haaretz - 16:00 Aug 28, 2025

It was only a short while after the 7 October attack when illustrator and cartoonist Michel Kichka sat at his desk and began drawing. 'I understood that I am betraying my responsibility,' he says. 'I forced myself to react'
IDF strikes Yemen after Houthis launch two drones at Israel; Report: Top leaders targeted

Haaretz - 15:56 Aug 28, 2025

The Israeli navy and air force reportedly launched over 10 airstrikes on the Houthi capital of Sanaa, after drones from Yemen triggered sirens in Israel. Houthi officials have maintained that a Gaza cease-fire would pacify them

Tags: Israel Yemen
Israeli artist halted her gender transition, and instead turned testosterone into art

Haaretz - 15:50 Aug 28, 2025

Zornitzer explored the imprint of testosterone on photographic paper while undergoing her gender transition. Then she decided to pause: 'Testosterone gave me the confidence to wear heels and makeup'
Israel cannot destroy the truth of what is happening in Gaza by shelling it

Haaretz - 15:44 Aug 28, 2025

Israel continues to dig in its heels. It prefers the shadows. It prefers to shroud the picture in darkness, to prevent independent, outside testimony to come out of Gaza

Tags: Gaza Israel
A conversation with the Israeli female officer diagnosed with PTSD – whom the army refuses to release

Haaretz - 15:41 Aug 28, 2025

The officer, who rescued wounded soldiers in Gaza, thought the flashbacks and anxiety attacks would end, but they got worse. 'I realized my situation because I was responsible for a squad of almost 30 soldiers, and I understood that I could not be responsible for them and know that they trusted me with life and death,' she said
UN: Over 1,000 attacks on Palestinians by Israelis in the West Bank recorded since January

Haaretz - 15:27 Aug 28, 2025

According to the United Nations' reports, which only include attacks that resulted in deaths, injuries or property damage, 11 Palestinians were killed and 696 were injured so far in 2025. The data indicate a continued upward trend in the number of violent incidents by Israelis in the West Bank

Tags: Palestinians West Bank Israelis
Dan Margalit, longtime Israeli journalist and TV host, dies at 87

Haaretz - 15:26 Aug 28, 2025

Margalit, who exposed in Haaretz the scandal that led to Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's 1977 resignation and was a leading political journalist for decades, has died following a cancer diagnosis. In 2018, Haaretz reported that he allegedly committed indecent assaults against five female journalists
Brad Pitt and other Hollywood A-Listers join Gaza film ahead of Venice premiere

Haaretz - 15:16 Aug 28, 2025

Pitt, as well as Joaquin Phoenix, Alfonso Cuarón, and others joined 'The Voice of Hind Rajab' as executive producers days before its Venice debut. The film, dramatizing the final moments of a 5-year-old girl killed in Gaza, lands as Venice faces growing pressure to take a stand on Palestine

Tags: Gaza Venice
Israel delaying Gaza cease-fire, Egyptian and Qatari foreign ministers say

Haaretz - 14:32 Aug 28, 2025

In a joint statement, Cairo aned Doha's top diplomats said that Israel's displacement project of Palestinians 'will not happen.' An Israeli delegation arrived in Egypt in an attempt to renew cease-fire talks with Hamas, with no progress announced as of yet
Israel's UNRWA closures leave hundreds of Palestinian students in East Jerusalem without schools as summer ends

Haaretz - 14:28 Aug 28, 2025

Human rights groups estimate around 600 children have no school placement for the year starting September 1. With no proper alternatives, which include commutes of at least two hours to other municipal schools, one attorney said it 'would never happen if these were Jewish students from the city's western neighborhoods'
'Genuine antisemitic incitement': Netanyahu, ministers bash Haaretz for column labeling IDF West Bank commander with Nazi rank

Haaretz - 14:06 Aug 28, 2025

After columnist Gideon Levy accused IDF West Bank commander Avi Bluth of the war crime of 'collective punishment' and dubbed him 'Oberkommandant,' Haaretz faced a barrage of condemnations from the Israeli army and government, with Netanyahu's top ministers labeling the newspaper a 'hostile entity'

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U.K., France and Germany begin process to reimpose snapback sanctions on Iran

Haaretz - 13:45 Aug 28, 2025

Britain, France, Germany send letter to UN Security Council, hoping the move will push Iran to make commitments ■ Tehran has warned of harsh response if sanctions reinstated

Tags: Iran France Germany
Will Israel ape Trump's dangerous new economic norms?

Haaretz - 11:59 Aug 28, 2025

Netanyahu and Co. may be tempted to copy Trump's assault on independent institutions and the private sector, especially with elections on the horizon

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Far-right minister Ben-Gvir says he will set stringent limits on Israelis' right to protest amid mass Gaza hostage deal rallies

Haaretz - 11:44 Aug 28, 2025

Far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir said that if the attorney general does not respond to his request to radically limit demonstrations within five days, 'the policy will go into effect' regardless, coinciding with mass protests by hostage families in Jerusalem next Wednesday
How to influence ChatGPT: Tech startups are racing to change AI's conversation

Haaretz - 11:21 Aug 28, 2025

For over two decades, companies have plied search engine optimization to boost their presence on sites like Google. With AI the game is GEO, generative engine optimization, for which companies are forming in droves
Second woman reportedly accuses ICC chief prosecutor Karim Khan of sexual misconduct

Haaretz - 10:58 Aug 28, 2025

The woman told The Guardian that Khan subjected her to a 'constant onslaught' of advances, which he denies, while he temporarily stepped aside as ICC chief prosecutor. The WSJ reported that he pressured his accuser to drop her claims to avoid harming the Palestinian cause during arrest warrants against Netanyahu
An Israeli soldier's illustrated Gaza diary: 'You're not a hero anymore, you're a guy stuck in a never-ending loop'

Haaretz - 10:54 Aug 28, 2025

Emmanuel Najera, born to migrant-worker parents who came to Israel 35 years ago from the Philippines, illustrated what he saw during his service in Gaza. 'It's very grueling, but you also have plenty of time on your hands, so I drew'

Tags: Gaza
IDF orders Gaza City Palestinians to transfer to areas it itself deems dangerous

Haaretz - 10:32 Aug 28, 2025

Ahead of the IDF's planned assault on Gaza City, 1.2 million residents have been ordered to transfer to southern blocs, some of which are dangerous, crowded or unsuitable for tents. Aid groups warn this will create a humanitarian disaster as Israel plans to confine all of Gaza's population to less than a fifth of the Strip's territory
'What are you waiting for?': Exasperated hostage families urge Gaza deal before day 700

Haaretz - 10:22 Aug 28, 2025

'The government is employing fear tactics': Ruby Chen, father of hostage Itay, sharply criticized Netanyahu's handling of the Gaza truce talks, saying that despite the PM's efforts to 'rehabilitate his legacy, the same horrible disaster will remain on him forever'

Tags: Gaza
'Serial complainant': Israel's judicial watchdog sharply rebukes right-wing activist Shai Glick

Haaretz - 09:37 Aug 28, 2025

It was ruled that Glick filed a baseless complaint against an Israeli judge, relying on an inaccurate media report without contacting the victim or reviewing the court transcript; his group Btsalmo campaigns against human rights organizations and cultural institutions that diverge from Israel's political right, often seeking to defund or shut them down

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