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Firing the attorney general will remove the last barrier to Netanyahu's power grab

Haaretz - 21:28 Aug 03, 2025
Israel Police's Jerusalem chief clashes with Ben-Gvir over Temple Mount policies

Haaretz - 19:35 Aug 03, 2025

The Jerusalem district commander recently expressed his anger at the police commissioner for failing to support him against Ben-Gvir on executive decisions. He was also not invited to a February meeting with PM Netanyahu on police preparations for Ramadan

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In volatile visit to Temple Mount, far-right minister Ben-Gvir aims to block Gaza cease-fire deal

Haaretz - 18:50 Aug 03, 2025

The visit comes after Netanyahu, acutely aware of public sentiment, suddenly signaled his support for a comprehensive deal with Hamas. Ben-Gvir has persistently undermined police regulations for the Temple Mount, stoking outrage in the Arab and Muslim world

Tags: Temple Mount Ben-Gvir
Netanyahu to pursue hostage release 'by force,' Israeli official says, as IDF chief to expand Gaza offensive

Haaretz - 18:08 Aug 03, 2025

The IDF chief's plan to expand the Gaza offensive includes extending operations into sensitive areas and central Palestinian refugee camps, where the IDF has so far avoided ground activities over concerns about the presence of Israeli hostages

Tags: Gaza Israeli
Trump and Witkoff will never end the Gaza war if they keep repeating Biden's mistakes

Haaretz - 18:03 Aug 03, 2025

Former National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan shared belated revelations with Israel's public about the Gaza war. After Witkoff's short visit to Israel, it's clear that Trump and his people are falling into the same traps Netanyahu had previously set for Biden

Tags: Gaza Trump
'The only appropriate way': On Tisha b'Av, these Israelis mourned Palestinian suffering too

Haaretz - 18:01 Aug 03, 2025

Rather than mourn the destruction of the ancient Jewish temples thousands of years ago, a group of activists commemorated the annual fast day by bearing witness to the catastrophes Israeli Jews had inflicted on others
Family of Israeli hostage Rom Braslavski clears Islamic Jihad captivity video for publication

Haaretz - 17:12 Aug 03, 2025

'Please stop this hell we're in. Please stop the suffering': In the video, Braslavski says he is unable to stand or walk, and that food and water have run out. His family have yet to be contacted by PM Netanyahu after having requested a meeting when Islamic Jihad alleged it had lost contact with Braslavski's captors

Tags: Islamic Jihad
Head of U.S. liberal pro-Israel group J Street says he 'won't argue' with those calling Gaza war genocide

Haaretz - 16:13 Aug 03, 2025

This shift in the J Street leader's position comes days after he took part in a debate in which he repeatedly refused to call Israel's actions in the Gaza Strip genocide. The statement marks a shift in tone from the head of one of the most prominent liberal Zionist organizations in the U.S.

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'War of destruction must end': Peace activists, relatives of Oct. 7 victims protest Gaza aid crisis in Tel Aviv

Haaretz - 15:55 Aug 03, 2025

A coalition of anti-war groups, including those who lost family members during the October 7 Hamas massacre, called for a hostage release deal and Gaza cease-fire in central Tel Aviv: 'The people starving in Gaza and the hostages are on the same side'

Tags: Gaza Tel Aviv
How Israel lost control – and became an international pariah – over aid to Gaza

Haaretz - 15:29 Aug 03, 2025

Some wars are lost on the field of battle, others in people's hearts, over the airwaves and in the cyber domain. Israel's situation with Gaza is self-inflicted damage, and it will take decades to repair

Tags: Gaza
'Fake news': Israeli singer and 'Fauda' star slams artists petitioning against Gaza war

Haaretz - 15:11 Aug 03, 2025

A petition signed by over 2,300 Israeli artists calling for an end to the atrocities committed in Gaza by Israel drew anger from popular Israeli singer and actor Idan Amedi, who called the signatories 'a group of privileged people continuing to echo stupidity, ignorance and lies'

Tags: Gaza Israeli
Animating the unspeakable: The story of an Israeli hostage on screen

Haaretz - 14:53 Aug 03, 2025

As 'Guygu,' a short anime-inspired film about hostage Guy Gilboa-Dalal, premieres at the Animix Festival, Tel Aviv's cultural scene turns inward – featuring wartime dance, displaced paintings and art shaped by trauma
Australian police arrest suspect in Melbourne synagogue arson, probe attack as terrorism

Haaretz - 14:50 Aug 03, 2025

Australian police said earlier this week that they could not rule out further arrests and believed that the arson attack had been orchestrated from abroad. Police also said a string of antisemitic attacks in Sydney last year was the work of a criminal gang

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After Witkoff fell into Netanyahu's trap, only Trump can now force Israel into a hostage deal

Haaretz - 14:21 Aug 03, 2025

Netanyahu has set conditions that he knows Hamas will reject, in order that Hamas will reject them, so that he can maintain the status quo in Gaza without being considered the obstacle. The solution to the crisis lies in the hands of the American president
With an empty seat for Israel, open questions remain in the global push for the Gaza war's day after

Haaretz - 14:15 Aug 03, 2025

In a document set to become a diplomatic benchmark, the conference co-chaired by France and Saudi Arabia last week was the first to present sustainable operating principles, precise demands of both sides and offer mechanisms to ensure both Israel and the Palestinians meet their obligations – but left critical questions unanswered

Tags: Israel
Gaza officials say six Palestinians die of hunger, 16 killed while seeking aid in past day

Haaretz - 13:58 Aug 03, 2025

A total of 116 Palestinians were killed in Gaza in the past 24 hours, the Hamas-run Health Ministry said. The Red Crescent said three staffers were wounded and one was killed at their Khan Yunis headquarters on Saturday night

Tags: Gaza Palestinians
7 Israeli soldiers died by suicide in July. PTSD veterans are trying to stop the next one

Haaretz - 13:27 Aug 03, 2025

'We have one goal: Stop the next suicide': A surge in soldier suicides has driven longtime PTSD survivors to camp outside the Defense Ministry's Rehabilitation Department, demanding urgent reform. Calling on the public to join them, they cry: 'Our brothers are taking their own lives'

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Montreal Pride festival bars two Jewish organizations over Gaza war

Haaretz - 12:23 Aug 03, 2025

The organizers of Fierté Montréal, the city's Pride festival, said it barred Ga'ava and the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs for 'spreading hateful discourse,' in condemnation of 'the ongoing genocide in Gaza' and as a move expressing solidarity with queer Palestinians
Tel Aviv rules Holon can't block Reform synagogue, must compensate congregation

Haaretz - 12:13 Aug 03, 2025

After a prolonged legal battle, a Tel Aviv Court ruled that Holon's efforts to prevent land allocation for a synagogue for a Jewish Reform Congregation breached values of equality and religious pluralism. 'The court has ruled that Holon will remain pluralistic,' the congregation rabbi said

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Israeli settlers drive out Palestinians returning to their West Bank village

Haaretz - 11:42 Aug 03, 2025

Residents of the Bedouin village of Mu'arrajat who were expelled by settlers last month tried to return on Thursday and were once again forced to flee after settlers set fire to a building, despite the High Court's ruling that the IDF must coordinate their return

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