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• Rogue waves are real and can be predicted, study says

  Haaretz - 15:01 Jul 18, 2024
  

  Long derided as fantasy by sailors, including Columbus, freak waves remain a mystery. But now two scientists have developed a way to 'see' one coming

• Israel's Defense Chief Gallant okays army to send 1,000 draft orders to ultra-Orthodox men on Sunday

  Haaretz - 14:34 Jul 18, 2024
  

  Defense Minister Yoav Gallant instructed that the 6,000 orders expected to go out will be delivered in three rounds. Prominent Haredi leaders called on yeshiva students to not answer to any draft notice as long as there is no law that settles their status

• Israel's AG says Ben-Gvir's chosen police chief has limited authority as he assumes new post

  Haaretz - 14:26 Jul 18, 2024
  

  Maj. Gen. Avshalom Peled, the acting police commissioner, has yet to be approved for the role following his corruption investigation. Until his appointment is made permanent, he cannot deal with appointments or make system-wide decisions, Israel's Attorney general says

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• The Trump-Vance ticket is selling rotten promises to American Jewish voters

  Haaretz - 14:10 Jul 18, 2024
  

  No red lines on Israel's war in Gaza . A green light for annexation. A nuclear Iran. A second Trump term, buttressed by his America First running mate, spells disaster for Israelis and Palestinians, for U.S. national security, for Jewish Americans and other minorities, and for democracy

• Israeli army reduces hours at West Bank checkpoint, local Palestinians struggle to obtain water

  Haaretz - 14:03 Jul 18, 2024
  

  Shepherding communities in the northern West Bank rely on water tanks from adjacent towns, but access via checkpoints are down to four hours a day. 'If it stays closed for two days, I don't know how we'll live,' says one local Palestinian

  Tags: West Bank

• Forget equality: Israel's Haredi draft is about guns and butter

  Haaretz - 13:40 Jul 18, 2024
  

  Israel's army sees Haredi soldiers filling a manpower shortage. The Finance Ministry wants a draft that benefits the economy

  Tags: Haredi Israel's

• "I don't make 'music for Arabs,' and I don't make 'music for Jews'"

  Haaretz - 13:37 Jul 18, 2024
  

  Ahead of his first album and a performance at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the exceptional Druze rapper Tapash responds to those calling him 'an Ashkenazi Arab'

• Four arrested in Spain, Germany on suspicion of supplying Hezbollah with drone parts used against Israel

  Haaretz - 12:36 Jul 18, 2024
  

  Three people were arrested in Spain and one in Germany on suspicion of belonging to a network supplying Hezbollah with drone equipment. Authorities believe Hezbollah may have built several hundred drones with these components

  Tags: Hezbollah Germany Spain

• 'We sing for a shared future': Israeli-Palestinian youth choir advance on America's Got Talent

  Haaretz - 12:29 Jul 18, 2024
  

  'I love this audition. You made something very complicated beautiful through friendship,' said one of the show's judges, Simon Cowell; Founded in 2012, the Jerusalem Youth Chorus aims to bring Jewish and Palestinian teens together

• Hacked billboard criticizing president Sissi brings traffic to standstill in Egyptian city

  Haaretz - 12:27 Jul 18, 2024
  

  A hacker uploaded at least four images critical of President Abdel-Fattah al-Sissi to a digital billboard in Giza, including one asking 'What, don't you guys know I'm a thief?'

  Tags: Sissi

• At Temple Mount, Ben-Gvir threatens hostage deal, warns Netanyahu not to reach Gaza truce

  Haaretz - 12:23 Jul 18, 2024
  

  Ben-Gvir's visit to Jerusalem's holiest site drew criticism from both the Jordanian foreign ministry, and from a fellow Israeli government minister who decried the far-right minister's actions as 'provocations'

• What the draft Democratic 2024 platform says on Israel, Gaza, antisemitism and Iran

  Haaretz - 12:02 Jul 18, 2024
  

  The Democratic blueprint has an entire subsection dedicated to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, including stressing Biden's commitment to a lasting cease-fire deal that "secures the return of all hostages." It is effectively an endorsement for the status quo regarding U.S.-Israel ties, ignoring pleas from progressives to hold Israel to greater account

  Tags: Israel

• Security for Netanyahu's sons cost Israeli taxpayers 21.5 million shekels in five years

  Haaretz - 09:28 Jul 18, 2024
  

  Information made public after a freedom of information request revealed that over the past five-years, Israel spent 21.5 million shekels on security for Netanyahu's wife and two sons.

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• Several lightly injured in central Tel Aviv blast; IDF looking into possible drone strike

  Haaretz - 02:56 Jul 18, 2024
  

  Two top Hezbollah commanders killed in Israeli strike in southern Lebanon ■ Pompeo: Biden eased pressure on Iran, which funded genocidal maniacs who conducted barbaric attacks on Israel ■ IDF says it attacked UNRWA compound which served as Hamas headquarters ■ Israeli soldier dies of wounds sustained in Hezbollah drone attack ■ Netanyahu visits Rafah, southern Gaza ■ Three Israelis lightly wounded in explosion in West Bank ■ Building in Metula hit by anti-tank missile ■ IDF, Shin Bet operation kills 20 Hamas Shati Battalion operatives in Gaza ■ U.S. Department of Defense announces closure of Gaza aid pier

• 'Where is the outrage? This is an attack on Americans': Parents of U.S.-Israeli Hostage Omer Neutra appeal to Republicans for support

  Haaretz - 02:20 Jul 18, 2024
  

  At the convention's foreign policy evening, entitled 'Make America Strong Again,' which opened up with footage of Hamas' October 7 attack on Israel, Ronen and Orna Neutra led delegates in chants of 'Bring them home' as other speakers assailed Biden's Mideast policies and the 'anti-western, anti-American and antisemitic' atmosphere on U.S. campuses

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  Haaretz - 23:07 Jul 17, 2024
  

• Knesset passes resolution against establishment of Palestinian state

  Haaretz - 22:43 Jul 17, 2024
  

  Declaration states that 'a Palestinian state would constitute an existential threat to the State of Israel and its citizens'

  Tags: Palestinian

• Israeli bill would let police put restrictions on citizens based solely on intel gathered by cops

  Haaretz - 21:49 Jul 17, 2024
  

  Knesset's National Security Committee advanced MK Zvika Fogel's private member's bill, which he says will give police tools to fight crime in Arab society. The Justice Ministry opposes the law and is working on its own version

• Why is Netanyahu so afraid of an October 7 inquiry?

  Haaretz - 21:19 Jul 17, 2024
  

• Netanyahu's thuggish coalition attacks anyone who opposes it - and then feigns victimhood

  Haaretz - 21:11 Jul 17, 2024
  

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