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Slippery slope: How Gaza militias operated by Israel may one day replace Hamas as its enemy

Haaretz - 09:11 Sep 19, 2025

As Israel prepares to govern the coastal enclave directly without a plan for local administration, there is no functioning government at any district, city, or village level. Experience from Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan shows that local militias often turn against their creators and follow only their own authority

Tags: Israel
'Dramatic change of faith': Fewer than half of British Jews still support a two-state solution, report shows

Haaretz - 07:58 Sep 19, 2025

Younger British Jews are more likely to reject the two-state solution and to support a binational Israeli-Palestinian state. Jewish communal groups in the U.K., Australia and Canada are urging their governments to reconsider support for Palestinian statehood at the UN next week
Uber invests tens of millions of dollars in Israeli drone delivery company

Haaretz - 07:03 Sep 19, 2025

Uber Technologies has announced a strategic partnership and investment in Israeli drone delivery company Flytrex, marking the multi-billion dollar company's first investment in drone delivery technology

Tags: Israeli
Netanyahu drops proposal for Red Cross visits to Palestinian prisoners after Ben-Gvir pushback

Haaretz - 06:29 Sep 19, 2025

Far-right minister Ben-Gvir, backed by the Prison Service, said he would oppose the National Security Council plan. The proposal stemmed from a petition against Israel's ban on Red Cross prison visits to Palestinian security prisoners since October 7, 2023, though the state has already requested 20 delays in responding to the High Court

Tags: Red Cross Palestinian Ben-Gvir
'In Israel I'm an oddball. On the island, suddenly, I was part of the majority'

Haaretz - 04:28 Sep 19, 2025

This week at Ben-Gurion Airport: A woman discovers her tribe on a Greek island, while two men discover what happens when they open up and share
Netanyahu's Sparta is governed by a criminal gang that sees itself as above the law

Haaretz - 03:08 Sep 19, 2025

David Ben-Gurion twice warned that Israel must not become Sparta - or even come close to it. Benjamin Netanyahu, the man who broke his record as Israel's logest-serving prime minister, is now completing his hostile takeover of state institutions and their destruction

Tags: Sparta
Netanyahu's Sparta speech was a calculated folly. Sadly, it's also a realistic one

Haaretz - 03:02 Sep 19, 2025

The Israeli prime minister's so-called Sparta speech was not an outburst; it was a calculated and, unfortunately, honest statement of intent. His attempt at correcting the 'misunderstanding' did nothing to lessen the damage in the markets ■ The upcoming UN General Assembly will reveal who the father of the Palestinian state really is ■ The West is preparing to react harshly to the annexation drive

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IDF chief takes rare stance as Netanyahu's promised quick win in Gaza City falters

Haaretz - 03:01 Sep 19, 2025

Israel's prime minister can't explain how he'll win the Gaza campaign while keeping hostages safe, for the simple reason that he has no plan to do so. Meanwhile, the IDF chief of staff, who opposes the Gaza City operation, is slowing down the military campaign to reduce risks

Tags: Gaza City
Dutch police arrest suspect trying to set fire to Israeli embassy in The Hague

Haaretz - 02:25 Sep 19, 2025
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Haaretz - 21:52 Sep 18, 2025
Israel's 'regime opponents' are all about fighting Netanyahu, not the occupation or discrimination

Haaretz - 21:26 Sep 18, 2025
Israel's 'real estate bonanza' involves wiping Gaza off the face of the earth

Haaretz - 21:21 Sep 18, 2025
I escaped to a Greek nudist paradise, only to discover that Israelis are hated there, too

Haaretz - 20:15 Sep 18, 2025

I thought I could forget the horrors of Israel and Gaza when traveling to a remote and enchanted Greek island where nearly everyone walks around naked. Encountering graffiti like 'A vacation from genocide – Not here,' I realized I was wrong

Tags: Greek
Netanyahu's Charlie Kirk video exposes the cynicism of the Israeli-MAGA alliance

Haaretz - 19:53 Sep 18, 2025

Netanyahu's video was meant to quell suspicion. Instead, it became another performance of loyalty by the Israeli right, which will stand by the PM no matter how detached he is from reality

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Trump says he wants all hostages released, but won't do the one thing that can save them

Haaretz - 19:46 Sep 18, 2025

There's nothing the Israeli hostages' families want to see more than Trump forcing Netanyahu to stop the war and save their loved ones. At this point, Hamas' existence in post-war Gaza isn't the main obstacle to a cease-fire agreement – it's Trump's respect for the prime minister

Tags: Trump
Likud minister yelled at police officers and cut her mother's police questioning short, law enforcement source says

Haaretz - 19:08 Sep 18, 2025

Social Equality Minister May Golan wheeled her mother out of a Tel Aviv police station, after the latter – summoned for suspected involvement in fraud and embezzlement – kept silent for around two hours of interrogation, a police source said. The minister denied the claims
'They told me: You're murdering people by day, serving tomatoes by night'

Haaretz - 18:50 Sep 18, 2025

Once the toast of the culinary world, Israeli cuisine is now radioactive, with restaurants closing, projects canceled and chefs boycotted abroad. 'We created something impressive, but it seems doomed to become another victim of the war,' as cookbook writer Janna Gur put it
The original Butt-Head: Dome-headed dinosaurs reached sexual maturity before their bodies finished growing

Haaretz - 18:50 Sep 18, 2025

They went through that adventure just like we do, and they probably behaved just as badly. We're talking, of course, about the puberty process in the teenage pachycephalosaur
Over 400 international artists sign a petition to remove their songs from platforms in Israel

Haaretz - 18:38 Sep 18, 2025

Massive Attack, Primal Scream, Japanese Breakfast and King Krule are among the artists who have joined an Israel boycott initiative 'in response to the genocide in Gaza.' The organizers have called on major labels to join, just as they blocked Russia following its invasion of Ukraine

Tags: Israel
IDF officer who planned trip to Lebanese fortress may be charged over deaths of Israeli civilian and soldier

Haaretz - 18:04 Sep 18, 2025

The military announced it will indict Yoav Yarom, an IDF officer and artifact collector, for launching an operation in Lebanon to scout an ancient fortress. A shootout with Hezbollah on the trip left a conscript soldier and a far-right scholar dead

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