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• IDF: Palestinian bystander killed after attempted ramming attack in West Bank's Hebron

  Haaretz - 04:14 Dec 06, 2025
  

• Germany's Stuttgart calls for 'respectful, calm atmosphere' ahead of Maccabi Tel Aviv Europa League match

  Haaretz - 00:06 Dec 06, 2025
  

  German soccer team VfB Stuttgart urged fans to foster a respectful atmosphere ahead of the Europa League match against Maccabi Tel Aviv, as German outlets reported extensive police preparations for the game against the Israeli team

• Columbia opens claims process for Jewish and Israeli employees who claim discrimination after Oct. 7

  Haaretz - 22:41 Dec 05, 2025
  

  Columbia University has opened a $21 million claims process for Jewish and Israeli employees facing discrimination, part of a settlement that reinstated $400 million in federal funding. The move follows Trump administration penalties over the university's handling of pro-Palestinian protests and alleged antisemitism

  Tags: Israeli Jewish

• A 'conditional pardon' for Netanyahu? Israel's president better say no

  Haaretz - 19:10 Dec 05, 2025
  

  If the prime minister admits guilt, drops the attempt to weaken the judiciary and backs the forming of a state commission of inquiry, is that a good deal? No. If he stays in power, he will reach for further tools to consolidate his rule

• France reportedly seeks to extend UNIFIL mandate in Lebanon, expand its authority

  Haaretz - 19:04 Dec 05, 2025
  

  The French initiative aims to expand UNIFIL's authority to monitor both the Lebanese-Israeli and Lebanese-Syrian borders, with discussions also considering U.K. involvement in border monitoring infrastructure, according to a report by a Hezbollah-affiliated Lebanese news outlet

• Israeli cabinet passes 2026 budget, boosts defense spending through ministry cuts and deficit hike

  Haaretz - 16:30 Dec 05, 2025
  

  Cabinet approval of the budget is only the first step toward enactment, after which Finance Ministry officials will draft it into a bill for an initial Knesset vote by mid-January, with failure to pass it by the March 31 deadline resulting in the Knesset's dissolution

• Haifa to relocate anti-government protests from city center as organizers cite far-right intimidation

  Haaretz - 16:03 Dec 05, 2025
  

  The Haifa municipality proposed relocating the weekly demonstration to a remote site far from any main road. Protest leaders accused 'violent far-right elements' of intimidating city officials, and said practical concerns about road closures cannot justify marginalizing a major political protest

• In blood-soaked Israel-Palestine, the dangerous status quo of before October 7 has returned

  Haaretz - 14:47 Dec 05, 2025
  

  U.S. President Trump promises Hamas disarmament and IDF withdrawal from Gaza are on the horizon – but ultimately, the fate of Israelis and Palestinians is now in the hands of Gulf monarchs

• Rebuilding Gaza is also Egypt's battle to boost its standing in the whole Middle East

  Haaretz - 14:22 Dec 05, 2025
  

  For Cairo, reconstruction isn't just an act of philanthropy for Gaza's 2 million people, it's part of its national-security concept that fears an invasion by hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees

• Palestinians say that contrary to hasbara claims, Gaza's Al-Shifa Hospital is 'far from fully operational'

  Haaretz - 14:19 Dec 05, 2025
  

  On social media, pro-Israel influencers circulated videos of the restored maternity ward at Al-Shifa Hospital to cast doubt upon the complex's destruction by IDF airstrikes and raids. Satellite imagery and testimonies from Palestinians in Gaza prove otherwise

  Tags: Palestinians Al-Shifa Hospital

• IDF chief says Israel's Gaza policy enabled Hamas' October 7 attack

  Haaretz - 13:54 Dec 05, 2025
  

  In a rare public rebuke, IDF chief Eyal Zamir said Israel's policy of containing Hamas since 2008 allowed the group to grow stronger and criticized previous Israeli military operations in Gaza for being 'concerned with weakening the enemy and restoring deterrence – not with defeating it'

  Tags: Gaza Israel's

• Shin Bet restricts Bibileaks suspects' access to Netanyahu's office

  Haaretz - 13:41 Dec 05, 2025
  

  The Shin Bet orders against the aides were revealed in the state's response to a High Court petition filed by an Israeli NGO. 'Shows the seriousness of the affair, contrary to Netanyahu's attempt to minimise it,' petitioning lawyer says

  Tags: Netanyahu's

• Poll: Netanyahu coalition would gain only 51 of 120 seats in case of elections

  Haaretz - 12:40 Dec 05, 2025
  

  Opposition parties would win 69 seats if an election were held on the day the poll was conducted, while Likud remains the largest party with 25 projected seats. Far-right Religious Zionism party would win four seats, after previously failing to clear the electoral threshold

• 'Qatar is gaining a foothold in Hollywood – and with it, influence over the U.S.'

  Haaretz - 11:58 Dec 05, 2025
  

  Effi Lifshitz, who has worked in and documented America's fabled film industry, talks about the turn it's taking in the 'post-liberal' era

• Defense Minister blocks reserve officer's promotion over anti-judicial coup protest activity

  Haaretz - 11:02 Dec 05, 2025
  

  Defense Minister Israel Katz rejected IDF Chief Eyal Zamir's decision to promote an officer who led IDF reservists' protests against the judicial coup in early 2023. Recently, Katz and Zamir have clashed on control over senior IDF appointments

• Army chief orders probe into failure to address Hamas attack plan obtained in 2022

  Haaretz - 09:40 Dec 05, 2025
  

  Hamas' 'Jericho Wall' plan for a surprise border incursion was obtained by Israeli intelligence 18 months before the Oct. 7 attacks. On Thursday, Israel's army chief announced he had tasked five senior reserve officers to investigate why the military failed to respond

• Israel Red Cross chief regrets 'unsuccessful' attempts to assist hostages

  Haaretz - 09:35 Dec 05, 2025
  

• Current and former High Court justices warn of the judicial coup, Netanyahu's authoritarian takeover

  Haaretz - 09:09 Dec 05, 2025
  

  At a Haifa conference on public law and democracy, Supreme Court President Isaac Amit said that his ostracization by the Justice Minister Yariv Levin was a boycott of the judiciary as a whole, while former High Court President Aharon Barak said that 'the Prime Minister is ruling the country by himself'

• IDF officer who fought on Oct. 7 dies by suicide

  Haaretz - 08:08 Dec 05, 2025
  

  After the Hamas attack, Tomas Adzgauskas fought in the Gaza Strip and was discharged in April 2024. Haaretz has identified 15 soldiers who died by suicide since the war began, due to mental health issues linked to their military service

• When young Holocaust survivors mulled having sex with Germans: The Buchenwald Kibbutz journal, revealed

  Haaretz - 06:23 Dec 05, 2025
  

  Soon after being liberated from a concentration camp, a group of young Holocaust survivors decided to start a kibbutz – on German soil. In a shared journal, excerpts of which have recently surfaced, they recorded their new lives, including gossip, tensions, humor and even sexual longing

  Tags: Holocaust

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