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Netanyahu's office calls West Bank annexation vote 'deliberate provocation during JD Vance visit'

Haaretz - 14:55 Oct 23, 2025

Before leaving Israel, U.S. Vice President JD Vance said Trump's policy remains that the occupied West Bank won't be annexed by Israel. Vance added that he took 'some insult' at the situation and, if it were true that it was merely a political stunt – as he said he had been told – then 'it was a very stupid political stunt'

Tags: West Bank Vance
Gaza struggles to identify bodies repatriated by Israel

Haaretz - 14:15 Oct 23, 2025

As of yesterday, Israel had returned 195 bodies to the Gaza Strip, but only 57 had been identified by their families. A doctor in Gaza described some bodies returning with their hands tied or shot in the head or chest at close range, while one had a rope around the neck

Tags: Gaza Israel
Gaza hostages developed coping mechanisms to help them survive captivity, new study shows

Haaretz - 14:08 Oct 23, 2025

After studying the testimonies of several dozen hostages who were released from captivity in Gaza, Prof. Inbar Levkovich insists that the struggle to return all of the deceased hostages is important for former captives, who see all of those who were in Gaza 'on a family level, like siblings'

Tags: Gaza
Trump sheds new light on fragile Gaza truce, Netanyahu tensions in Time interview

Haaretz - 13:58 Oct 23, 2025

The president put significant pressure on Israel's prime minister to end the war in Gaza, telling Netanyahu that he 'can't fight the world' and going on a 'profanity-laced tirade' when the Israeli prime minister pushed back

Tags: Gaza Netanyahu
Haaretz revisits Gazans first interviewed at the start of the war: 'We'll never be who we were'

Haaretz - 13:53 Oct 23, 2025

Rania is raising her children in a single overcrowded room. Anas buried his father alone in Rafah. Maha is unemployed. And Aisha escaped to Egypt and refuses to return. All five Gazans are left asking the same question: How do you rebuild a life after this?

Tags: Gazans
Israel's Smotrich rejects Saudi normalization tied to Palestinian state: 'Keep riding your camels'

Haaretz - 13:47 Oct 23, 2025

Speaking at a conference on Thursday, far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said that 'If Saudi Arabia tells us that it is normalization in exchange for a Palestinian state, then no thank you, my friends. Keep riding camels in the desert'

Tags: Keep Palestinian
From Kibbutz Buchenwald to Israeli militarism: the gender bending Israeli artist mixing sex and war

Haaretz - 13:32 Oct 23, 2025

Israeli artist Gil Yefman, whose latest work combines flowers and sexual organs with military language, refuses to say whether to describe them using male or female pronouns. 'I don't like the fact that there's anger at people who make mistakes, or have trouble with using the right pronouns'

Tags: Israeli
Erased: Israeli settlers' brutal war on Palestinian communities in the West Bank

Haaretz - 12:46 Oct 23, 2025

Since October 7, a wave of settler violence and government-backed expansion has forced the displacement of over 70 Palestinian communities. With no effort to stop it, a new reality is taking hold – one outpost, one village wiped off the map at a time

Tags: Palestinian
Tamir Adar, who was killed on October 7 and held in Gaza, laid to rest at Kibbutz Nir Oz

Haaretz - 11:56 Oct 23, 2025

Tamir Adar's body was returned to Israel from Gaza on Tuesday, after being killed on October 7 while defending the Kibbutz. Adar's mother, Yael, recalled once asking her son, 'My Tamir, do you have to be on the emergency response team?'

Tags: Gaza October Tamir Adar Kibbutz
The Gaza war opened a moral chasm between American Jews and Israel

Haaretz - 11:14 Oct 23, 2025

This is a moment of reckoning for many American Jews, whose institutions are either paralyzed or morally compromised in the face of the mass killing in Gaza. So what are the options for U.S. Jews who refuse to defend the indefensible, but won't abandon Israel either?

Tags: American Jews Israel
Searching for snipers on Goa's rooftops: Israelis who served in Gaza, then collapsed abroad

Haaretz - 10:39 Oct 23, 2025

Israeli travel insurance reports and rescue services indicate a surge in mental health crises among young Israelis traveling abroad, particularly in Thailand, following two years of warfare. Since policies exclude mental health crises, many families end up having to foot the bill

Tags: Israelis
Israeli ultra-Orthodox Shas party quits Netanyahu coalition roles over IDF draft exemption bill

Haaretz - 10:35 Oct 23, 2025

The party, acting under pressure of its Council of Torah Sages, added that its MKs will resume their positions as committee heads only when the status of ultra-Orthodox yeshiva students, who are currently mostly exempt from military service, is 'legislated'
Is the boycott threat to Israel's arms industry over?

Haaretz - 10:15 Oct 23, 2025

Probably yes, now that the Gaza war has ended. The world's appetite for weapons is growing, and Israel makes some of the best equipment
Report: Netanyahu's wife Sara demanded Likud ministers sign letter calling on Herzog to pardon prime minister

Haaretz - 10:03 Oct 23, 2025

The letter, drafted by Environmental Protection Minister Idit Silman and signed by all of Likud's ministers, stated that Netanyahu's criminal trial is a 'prosecution against an entire camp within the nation.' Sara told ministers that 'Trump also requested it,' according to Israel's public news broadcaster

Tags: Netanyahu's Sara
From bear-hug to Bibi-sitting: Marco Rubio flies into a tense moment in U.S.-Israel relations

Haaretz - 09:18 Oct 23, 2025

Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrived to relieve VP JD Vance of safeguarding the fragile cease-fire – and broader U.S. interests in the Middle East. Is there precedent for this round-the-clock oversight, or does it indicate a deeper rift between Israel and the U.S.?

Tags: Israel
Gaza command center in Israel gives the U.S. eyes on the Strip and helps Netanyahu avoid responsibility

Haaretz - 09:06 Oct 23, 2025

The United States can boast of the multinational Civil-Military Coordination Center that it has built to secure the Israel-Hamas cease-fire, while the U.S. can keep watch of Israel and Gaza from up close. Meanwhile, Netanyahu can run things behind the scenes without being scrutinized by the public

Tags: Gaza Israel Netanyahu
Zohran Mamdani accused of supporting 'global jihad' by Republican opponent Curtis Sliwa in final NYC mayoral debate

Haaretz - 06:48 Oct 23, 2025

Mamdani replied that accusations of his support for Islamic extremism were false, and premised only on the fact that he is the only Muslim candidate. Cuomo worked to cast Mamdani as out of his league, highlighting his pro-Palestinian advocacy and President Donald Trump's threats to take over the city if he wins
Amid Haredi boycott, Netanyahu's paralyzed coalition faces a frozen winter session in Knesset

Haaretz - 03:02 Oct 23, 2025

Shas says it will only rejoin after a draft exemption law is introduced to the Knesset. On Wednesday, Haredim blocked roads around Route 4 and in Jerusalem to protest the arrest of draft-dodging yeshiva students

Tags: Knesset
Rubio says U.S. 'positive and confident' about Gaza cease-fire during Israel visit

Haaretz - 02:06 Oct 23, 2025
Show trials for the October 7 terrorists won't be justice. Quite the opposite

Haaretz - 21:28 Oct 22, 2025

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