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Syrian optimism prevails, but liberal circles worry the religious leadership will refuse to leave

Haaretz - 13:01 Dec 11, 2024

A Syrian human rights activist told Haaretz that rebel leader al-Golani's interim government might establish an absolute control for years to come. A source identified with the insurgents explained it is impossible to expect "they will do the job and skedaddle at such an early stage"

Tags: Syrian
'To believe a Gazan who talks about hunger is to believe the other side, and doubt your own'

Haaretz - 12:44 Dec 11, 2024

Israeli bloggers describing Palestinian content as staged 'Pallywood' scenes have become commonplace, but what does it say about the Israeli state of mind? 'We've already lost the ability to believe or think humanely'
Netanyahu says he asked media mogul to change news site's people and website, not articles, in case alleging bribery for positive media coverage of his family

Haaretz - 12:41 Dec 11, 2024

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is testifying in his criminal trial for a second day on Wednesday, eight years after investigations into him first began. He faces charges of bribery, fraud, and breach of trust in three separate corruption cases. Netanyahu's testimony follows years of investigations, deliberations, legal proceedings, and delays. He is the first sitting prime minister in Israeli history to take the witness stand as a defendant.
An Israeli-Palestinian boy band arrives in L.A. on Oct. 6, 2023. What could go wrong?

Haaretz - 12:34 Dec 11, 2024

Paramount+'s docuseries 'as1one' is at its most interesting when the six bandmates – four Israelis and two Palestinians – talk Israel-Palestine politics. If only the producers had the guts not to stymie the debate
'Omri and the rest of the hostages must return – for the children'

Haaretz - 11:43 Dec 11, 2024

Lishay Miran Lavi says her life is still a living nightmare since her husband Omri Miran was kidnapped on October 7. A long-awaited meeting with the prime minister did little to boost her morale. 'Omri was taken before our children's eyes,' she says, adding that they are still waiting for their father

Tags: Omri
Israel fears Assad's fall will push Iran to assemble a nuclear bomb

Haaretz - 10:16 Dec 11, 2024

Head of UN nuclear watchdog says Iran has dramatically increased its stockpile of uranium enriched to 60%

Tags: Iran
Boy, 12, killed in shooting attack on bus near Jerusalem; IDF searching for shooter

Haaretz - 03:12 Dec 11, 2024

ISRAEL: Israeli defense minister tells U.S. 'there is chance for new deal to return all hostages' ■ GAZA: IDF strikes on Gaza kill at least 33, Palestinian medics say; Hamas' Nukhba force chief killed, IDF and Shin Bet say ■ SYRIA: France calls on Israel to withdraw from demilitarized zone on Israel-Syria border
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Haaretz - 02:02 Dec 11, 2024
More than coming to support Netanyahu, lawmakers came to play to the base

Haaretz - 01:45 Dec 11, 2024

Fewer protesters than expected showed up outside the Tel Aviv courthouse. Government supports attacked as usual Oslo, the High Court and the AG but also slung a lot of mud at the hostages' families
Car torched, buildings painted with anti-Israel graffiti in Australia

Haaretz - 00:21 Dec 11, 2024

Incident, in Sydney suburb with high Jewish population, condemned by PM Albanese as 'hate crime,' as Australian Jewish Association says government must consider stepping down
Netanyahu, in first courtroom testimony, says he only ever served 'the good of the country'

Haaretz - 23:32 Dec 10, 2024

The Israeli prime minister admitted to having a person friendship with the owner of Walla, but claimed the news site's coverage of him was hostile and negligible. He said that he tried to diversify the telecom market, which he claimed was dominated by left-leaning outlets. The judges allowed Netanyahu to receive ostensibly urgent notes during his testimony – apparently a way of allowing him to interrupt the flow of his testimony

Tags: Netanyahu
Next up for Israel's juggernaut judicial coup: Merging state and religion

Haaretz - 22:20 Dec 10, 2024
Netanyahu's insatiable appetite for power forces him - and Israel - into a state of perpetual emergency

Haaretz - 22:09 Dec 10, 2024
Israel's decayed democracy is a symbol of Netanyahu's absurd kingdom

Haaretz - 21:46 Dec 10, 2024
Forget champagne and cigars: Netanyahu has blood on his hands

Haaretz - 21:41 Dec 10, 2024
Israel's anarchist justice minister has declared war on the legal system

Haaretz - 21:32 Dec 10, 2024
In a Tel Aviv court, the many faces of Benjamin Netanyahu were on full display

Haaretz - 20:00 Dec 10, 2024

Filming was strictly forbidden, but Netanyahu performed as if he was being X-rayed by the Israeli public. His themes, therefore, had a dual-use function: he spoke to the three judges in the Tel Aviv court, and he also spoke to the nation

Tags: Tel Aviv
Netanyahu's testimony depicted an upside-down Israel. It could cost him down the road

Haaretz - 19:39 Dec 10, 2024

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's appearance in the Tel Aviv District Courthouse on Tuesday was a cold comfort in a country where the rule has already defeated the law. For now, his goal is to present himself as a leader of a superpower, while dwarfing the events described in the indictment
Who stole all the Holocaust memorial stones on Oct. 7, shaking this quiet East German town?

Haaretz - 17:40 Dec 10, 2024

Zeitz became a crime scene on the one-year anniversary of the October 7 attack, when all 10 of its Stolpersteine honoring local Jewish victims of the Holocaust were stolen. Authorities drew a blank on finding the guilty party, and residents took the matter of replacing the stones into their own hands, as far-right and neo-Nazi groups are gaining ground in east Germany

Tags: Holocaust
Amid widespread Arab joy over fall of Assad in Syria, some call for caution

Haaretz - 16:46 Dec 10, 2024

As millions express jubilation over the end of the Assad regime, some in the Arab world recall tragic victims of the Syrian civil war such as 3-year-old Aylan Kurdi, while fearing that the downfall of Assad will end up advancing the "expansion of Israel"

Tags: Arab Assad

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