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Acting PMO head questioned by police in minister May Golan corruption probe

Haaretz - 23:17 Jan 28, 2026

Drorit Steinmetz, who is close to the Netanyahus, is suspected of helping Harel Hershkowitz get a job in Golan's office. Hershkowitz is a grandson of Civil Service Commissioner Daniel Hershkowitz, who extended Steinmetz's contract
Israel will only have closure when the October 7 government resigns

Haaretz - 23:06 Jan 28, 2026
Israel's chief justice sends chilling warning: If elected officials ignore court rulings, the public will too

Haaretz - 22:53 Jan 28, 2026

Supreme Court Isaac Amir told a conference of jurists that the current government's attack on Israel's legal system is far beyond legitimate critique, while former Supreme Court president Aharon Barak said that Israelis 'are no longer citizens, but subjects'

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From the classroom to the street: the religious right is plotting a gender-segregated Israel

Haaretz - 22:39 Jan 28, 2026

A bill to make gender-segregated classrooms is a blueprint for a public space and the workforce. This is longer just a partition in the classroom: it's the blueprint for all-male offices and a society in which men will not have to encounter women
From the U.S. to Israel, if the suspect is a 'terrorist,' any killing is justified

Haaretz - 22:38 Jan 28, 2026

Officials are quick to blame those who are killed by police as having caused their own deaths. But if Israelis think they are exempt from the logic that Ben-Gvir has applied to Palestinians, they are mistaken
Israel went to extremes to return Ran Gvili's body. Why doesn't it accord dead Palestinians the same respect?

Haaretz - 21:49 Jan 28, 2026

The State of Israel, that abducted and continues to hold hundreds of bodies – some buried, some frozen for months and even years – is willing to charge any price for the return of a single body

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Shin Bet Chief David Zini's family entanglements prevent him from getting the job done

Haaretz - 21:47 Jan 28, 2026
Vice President JD Vance omitted mention of Jews from Holocaust Remembrance Day statement

Haaretz - 21:35 Jan 28, 2026

The U.S. Vice President wrote on X that one of the Holocaust's enduring lessons was that 'while humans create beautiful things and are full of compassion, we're also capable of unspeakable brutality,' without mention of either Jews or Nazis

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The popular booking website urging travelers to think twice before visiting Israel

Haaretz - 20:26 Jan 28, 2026

In stark contrast to Israel's efforts to portray an image of normalcy and revive its struggling tourism industry, Booking.com is warning customers to review their government's travel advisories, amid rising security tensions in the Middle East over a possible
Police seek order barring PM's chief of staff from contacting Shin Bet agents who gave testimony

Haaretz - 19:52 Jan 28, 2026

Police are requesting a court order to prevent Tzachi Braverman from contacting three Shin Bet officials who testified in the investigation but were not questioned as suspects. Investigators also seek to extend existing restrictions on the chief of staff that are set to expire Friday

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What Ro Khanna's attack on Gavin Newsom over AIPAC reveals about the 2028 Democratic race

Haaretz - 19:47 Jan 28, 2026

As Democratic contenders seek to set themselves apart ahead of the 2028 race, Israel and AIPAC emerge as a convenient battleground

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Jerusalem police chief commends Israeli forces shooting of Palestinian suspect in stabbing attempt

Haaretz - 18:56 Jan 28, 2026

Israeli forces shot and killed the suspect of an attempted stabbing at a checkpoint south of Jerusalem, whose family says had special needs. Jerusalem district police chief said officers acted 'exactly as expected of them,' and that 'there is only one ending for the terrorist: that he dies'

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Israeli parliament passes first reading of state budget with support of two key Haredi parties

Haaretz - 17:53 Jan 28, 2026

Degel HaTorah and Shas backed the state budget in its first reading on Wednesday, giving the coalition a majority. Their support has been contingent on ongoing efforts to legislate the military exemption of yeshiva students, amid disputes over the bill's wording and constitutionality
Lawmaker decries 'secular fundamentalism' as Knesset debates gender-segregated higher learning

Haaretz - 17:28 Jan 28, 2026

A bill sponsored by far-right lawmaker Limor Son Har-Melech would mandate state-funded gender segregation across all academic degrees. Opposition lawmakers slammed the proposal, with one warning it would 'throw us back to the Middle Ages'
Progressive Jewish groups in North America urge Israeli leaders to oppose death penalty bill

Haaretz - 17:01 Jan 28, 2026

In a statement shared with Haaretz, leading liberal Jewish organizations in the U.S. and Canada called on Israeli leaders to halt the advancement of the bill and to reaffirm the Jewish values of 'the sanctity of human life and the dignity of every person'

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Halafian art suggests simple math system at the dawn of civilization 8,000 years ago

Haaretz - 16:43 Jan 28, 2026

A new need to fairly share bounty from communal effort may be reflected in the first-ever plants, painted on pottery in Mesopotamia
Police say Bedouin Israeli died in car chase accident; Medics claim he was shot in head

Haaretz - 16:09 Jan 28, 2026

The family of the deceased, Yousef Abu Juyad, in his 30s, was also told that the cause of his death was gunfire, not a car accident. His cousin Muad, who was arrested in what he describes as a warning call, said a police official also told him Yousef was shot, but warned him not to cross any 'red lines'
Ahead of Rafah border opening, Palestinians consider a return to Gaza, where no home awaits them

Haaretz - 15:00 Jan 28, 2026

Israel says it will open the Rafah border crossing to pedestrians in the coming days, potentially allowing some of the Gazans who fled the Strip to return. Three Palestinians from Gaza now living in exile explain why they aren't getting their hopes up

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Saudi Arabia giga-ambitions crash into the wall of reality

Haaretz - 14:40 Jan 28, 2026

Many of the kingdom's most daring projects are being delayed and downsized. Money and megalomania alone don't make for economic development
'My great-uncle was unimaginably cruel': A Polish man uncovers a dark family secret from the Holocaust

Haaretz - 14:22 Jan 28, 2026

A Warsaw-based hotel manager – a Jewish-studies buff who learned Hebrew – wrote a book exposing his great-uncle's murderous collaboration with the Nazis

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