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'Netanyahu is a war criminal': Thousands protest outside U.S. Capitol as Israeli PM addresses Congress

Haaretz - 17:53 Jul 24, 2024

Police forces have been deployed in large numbers ahead of Prime Minister Netanyahu's speech to Congress. Earlier, demonstrators tried blocking the Israeli PM's convoy on its way to Capitol Hill, and placed Palestinian flags outside his hotel

Tags: Congress Israeli
Netanyahu meets U.S. evangelical leaders, says Israel has 'no better friends'

Haaretz - 17:41 Jul 24, 2024

Israel's prime minister met with several faith leaders, including Pastor John Hagee, who said at the event that Christians were 'appalled at the way our government has been treating the Jewish people'
Israel at war, day 292: Quarter of living hostages died since last truce proposal, Gantz says

Haaretz - 17:03 Jul 24, 2024

PM Netanyahu to address joint session of Congress amid significant protests and boycotts by lawmakers ■ Israel delays delegation set to depart to Qatar on Thursday to next week ■ Israel to evacuate 250 sick, wounded Gazans to UAE for medical treatment ■ Hezbollah publishes drone footage of Israeli air base ■ Here's what you need to know 292 days into the war

Tags: Israel
What happened to the Bedouin tribe that wanted to convert to Judaism 100 years ago?

Haaretz - 16:06 Jul 24, 2024

Exactly a century ago, Haaretz reported about a tribe in the Galilee that sought to convert. This is how the Jews treated it in 1948
Early mammals lived longer. Why can't we?

Haaretz - 15:15 Jul 24, 2024

In the Jurassic, tiny proto-mammals that looked like shrews matured much more slowly than small animals today and lived longer, a new report suggests
Set to address Congress, Netanyahu faces his worst nightmare: Irrelevancy

Haaretz - 14:47 Jul 24, 2024

Intended by the prime minister as a landmark moment in U.S.-Israel relations, Netanyahu's speech will be heard by a deeply divided, somewhat hostile and almost wholly distracted audience
Goodbye, unconditional support. The rift between Germany and Israel is widening

Haaretz - 13:54 Jul 24, 2024

The promise of the 'Staatsräson,' steadfast solidarity with Israel no matter what, because of the Holocaust, is under tremendous pressure. Amid the Gaza war and West Bank settler violence, there's an intensifying, critical mood in Berlin, and the German government is now caught in a delicate balancing act

Tags: Israel
Israeli far-right minister Ben-Gvir endorses Trump, says Biden bowing out 'no big loss'

Haaretz - 13:47 Jul 24, 2024

The far-right minister said in an interview to Bloomberg that 'a cabinet minister is supposed to maintain neutrality, but that's impossible to do after Biden,' saying 'with Trump it will be clearer that enemies must be defeated'

Tags: Biden Trump
Gaza as a blurred, empty world in the paintings of an Israeli reservist

Haaretz - 12:46 Jul 24, 2024

British-Israeli artist Sam Griffin says the works being shown at a new exhibition in Jerusalem were created as he processed his experiences as a reservist
Hundreds arrested as JVP activists occupy U.S. gov't office to protest against Netanyahu

Haaretz - 12:26 Jul 24, 2024

Jewish Voice for Peace, a pro-Palestinian protest group, protested inside an office building in the U.S. Capitol complex, calling for an arms embargo on Israel. Some 200 were arrested, as police said 'demonstrating inside the Congressional Buildings is against the law'
Netanyahu in talks with Ben-Gvir to add far-right minister to new war forum, defense minister condemns plan

Haaretz - 12:17 Jul 24, 2024

Far-Right National Security Minister Ben-Gvir has demanded that PM Netanyahu include him in the limited forum that makes strategic decisions on the war. Defense Minister Yoav Gallant strongly opposed the idea, saying Ben-Gvir 'is trying to set the Middle East on fire'

Tags: Ben-Gvir Netanyahu
Musk activates Starlink internet service in Gaza hospital with help of UAE, Israel

Haaretz - 12:15 Jul 24, 2024

The high-speed internet will enable potentially life-saving medical consultations via real-time video calling, the UAE foreign ministry said in February
New fear unlocked for Israelis: living in high-rises during drone attacks

Haaretz - 10:51 Jul 24, 2024

When a drone hits an Israeli high-rise, upper-floor residents are on their own: the Houthi attack on Tel Aviv last week augurs badly for a country that has become a nation of skyscrapers, and no means to protect them
Israeli politicians think Netanyahu favors deal but will avoid saying so in Congress speech

Haaretz - 10:41 Jul 24, 2024

The Democrats' shirking of Netanyahu during his visit strengthens both his and Trump's narrative, as they seek to rebuild the relationship. While all eyes are on the prime minister's speech, few notice the judicial coup's return

Tags: Netanyahu
A losing game: Israeli sports suffers drought as Gaza war sees overseas players stay away

Haaretz - 10:32 Jul 24, 2024

Athletes are afraid to sign for Israeli teams, their parents are refusing to let them come and agents are demanding more money. Only those who have already played in Israel are ready to play here this season – with the exception of the big three, deep-pocketed basketball clubs

Tags: Israeli
The new Tel Aviv Cafés looking to heal communities torn apart on October 7

Haaretz - 09:59 Jul 24, 2024

Each branch of Café Otef, Tel Aviv's newest coffee shop chain, is run and staffed by members of the evacuated kibbutzim, and all proceeds go to the communities. 'You need to wake up in the morning and be busy, and that's something that our children see us doing now,' says Reut, who runs the Kibbutz Re'im branch
Report: Nova festival survivor recounts how Hamas terrorists raped him on October 7

Haaretz - 09:38 Jul 24, 2024

The anonymous report on Israel's channel 12 joins the report published in a French newspaper last year ■ Accounts detailing rape on October 7 have surfaced, along with testimonies of those who rescued survivors and were first on scene

Tags: October
Netanyahu will warn Congress about Iranian aggression. But his Iran policy has been a colossal failure

Haaretz - 08:50 Jul 24, 2024

When Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu mentions Iran during his Congress speech, the world should see it as a signal to do the exact opposite, given his dire, even calamitous, decades-long record on the issue

Tags: Congress Iran
'Status quo stands': Netanyahu overrules Ben-Gvir, who said Jews can pray on Temple Mount

Haaretz - 08:47 Jul 24, 2024

In the Knesset, Ben-Gvir said 'political leadership allows Jewish prayers' at the sensitive site; MKs from the coalition and opposition came out against the statement, calling Ben-Gvir a 'pyromaniac.' The PM's office later said 'the status quo on the Temple Mount has not and will not change'

Tags: Temple Mount Ben-Gvir
Netanyahu's set to address Congress under the watchful eye of hostages' families

Haaretz - 03:08 Jul 24, 2024

Sources close to the Israeli prime minister say his speech to Congress will be conciliatory and that he will praise Biden's support for Israel over the decades

Tags: Congress

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