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• The Netanyahu-Trump bromance: How long till Israel's PM ends up in the president's doghouse?

  Haaretz - 15:33 Feb 26, 2025
  

  Netanyahu's visit to Washington turned out to be more positive than he could ever have imagined, winning a blank check and an unshakable ally. But how long will it last?

• Head of intelligence unit slams IDF chief, says Oct. 7 wasn't investigated and 'not by mistake'

  Haaretz - 14:55 Feb 26, 2025
  

  Top IDF officers 'didn't even dare to sit together for 15 minutes' and 'ask what happened,' the commander of the army's elite 8200 unit was quoted saying of the army's investigation into Hamas' attack

• Two Arab Israeli men shot dead in Nazareth

  Haaretz - 14:29 Feb 26, 2025
  

  A total of 41 people in Israel's Arab community have been murdered since the start of the year, compared to 27 during the same period last year, according to a Haaretz tally

• An Israeli author's quest to write the great Jewish-Yemeni novel

  Haaretz - 13:24 Feb 26, 2025
  

  Ayelet Tsabari's debut novel 'Songs for the Brokenhearted' just won the National Jewish Book Award for fiction. She tells Haaretz about the women's songs that inspired the book, her years of living in exile in Canada and what she means when she says 'I'm not angry, I'm Israeli'

• Australian nurse charged after saying she wouldn't treat Israeli patients in viral TikTok video

  Haaretz - 13:21 Feb 26, 2025
  

  The charges against the Sydney nurse come as Australia experiences a surge in antisemitism that has roiled the nation as homes, businesses, synagogues and schools have been vandalized or torched in crimes targeting Jews

• 'All up in the air': Century-old synagogue destroyed in L.A. wildfire faces precarious future

  Haaretz - 13:19 Feb 26, 2025
  

  The Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center didn't have a full-time rabbi for the past year and a half. Now it lost its sanctuary. Seven weeks after their campus was reduced to rubble, congregational leaders ponder the risks of rebuilding on the same spot

• Trump shares his AI vision of Gaza's future, with belly dancers, cocktails and Elon Musk

  Haaretz - 13:04 Feb 26, 2025
  

  It's raining dollar bills in Gaza in an AI video published by U.S. President Trump on social media, envisioning its future as a resort paradise. The clip features an upbeat song promising 'No more tunnels, no more fear'

• Match announcer for Arab-Israeli soccer team arrested after praising Hamas' treatment of Israeli hostages

  Haaretz - 12:41 Feb 26, 2025
  

  'Islamic resistance acted with complete humanity,' the match announcer, a journalist by profession, told Hamas' Al-Aqsa TV channel. On Monday, following the interview, soccer team Bnei Sakhnin F.C. dismissed him from the position

  Tags: Hamas'

• Israeli filmmaker Renen Schorr, founder of Jerusalem's Sam Spiegel Film School, dies at 72

  Haaretz - 12:34 Feb 26, 2025
  

  Schorr, the founding director of the Sam Spiegel Film and Television School in Jerusalem, played a key role in shaping Israel's film industry and building the school's international reputation. In 2024, he was honored with the Israeli Culture and Sports Ministry's Lifetime Achievement Award

• Jews less likely to believe in God than any religious group in America, survey shows

  Haaretz - 12:26 Feb 26, 2025
  

  According to the latest Religious Landscape Study, conducted by the Pew Research Center, Jews are more likely to be intermarried and to support abortion and gay rights than most other Americans. After Hindus, they earn more money than members of any other religious group

  Tags: Jews

• Bacteria that gives you gum disease may also give you Alzheimer's, Israeli researchers show

  Haaretz - 12:02 Feb 26, 2025
  

  Hebrew University scientists have revealed the mechanism that allows a certain microbe to evade immune cells, giving hope in the treatment not only of Alzheimer's but also of certain cancers and heart disease

  Tags: Alzheimer's

• Released hostage assures family of Israeli captive that 'He's not alone' in Gaza captivity

  Haaretz - 11:38 Feb 26, 2025
  

  Ruhama Bohbot, mother of Israeli hostage Elkana Bohbot, said the family received the first sign of life from him since the Oct. 7 attack through a released hostage who was held in captivity with him: 'He misses you, and he's staying strong'

  Tags: Israeli

• Hamas may be flexible on cease-fire during Ramadan, but demands more Gaza aid for future hostage releases

  Haaretz - 10:10 Feb 26, 2025
  

  Hamas sees the hostages as their last bargaining chip and won't advance a deal without an improvement in Gaza's humanitarian situation and a framework for ending the war, a Palestinian source with ties to Hamas leadership abroad told Haaretz

  Tags: Hamas

• Hamas to hand over bodies of four slain hostages on Wednesday, Israel to free Palestinian prisoners

  Haaretz - 09:42 Feb 26, 2025
  

  Agreement also reached for release of 602 Palestinian prisoners who were due to be freed over the weekend

  Tags: Palestinian

• Murdered Israeli hostages Shiri, Kfir and Ariel Bibas laid to rest in southern Israel

  Haaretz - 08:38 Feb 26, 2025
  

  The sister of released hostage Yarden Bibas said during the procession route to the funeral: 'Through the car window, I see a broken country; we won't recover until the last hostage returns home'

• Netanyahu is just waiting for the right moment to fire the Shin Bet chief

  Haaretz - 04:00 Feb 26, 2025
  

  There's no doubt that Israel's prime minister is eager to remove Ronen Bar, which is crucial for Netanyahu to shape his desired narrative about the October 7 attacks

  Tags: Netanyahu

• Bodies of four slain hostages have been returned to Israel for formal identification, PMO confirms

  Haaretz - 03:11 Feb 26, 2025
  

  ISRAEL: Bibas family laid to rest in Kibbutz Nir Oz as Yarden eulogizes his wife and children ■ GAZA CEASE-FIRE: Four bodies of Israeli hostages set to be returned by Hamas as Palestinian prisoners are released, Israel confirms ■ LEBANON: IDF says it struck Hezbollah arms operative near Lebanon-Syria border, accusing him of 'violating cease-fire'

  Tags: Israel

• Haaretz Cartoon

  Haaretz - 01:43 Feb 26, 2025
  

• Suspects in BibiLeaks leak case ask court to ease terms of detention

  Haaretz - 01:14 Feb 26, 2025
  

  Prime minister's spokesman asks court to release him from house arrest and NCO asks to have his electronic bracelet removed. Latter's attorney says indictment was filed to keep him under arrest until the end of his trial, even though the investigation is not over

• Witkoff says he may head to Middle East on Sunday depending on progress in cease-fire talks

  Haaretz - 00:52 Feb 26, 2025
  

  Trump's Mideast envoy tells American Jewish Committee that the U.S. shares Israel's policy that Hamas cannot govern Gaza following the war

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