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Israel's National Unity party down in polls after Gantz quits Netanyahu government

Haaretz - 19:09 Jun 11, 2024

With 22-25 seats, Benny Gantz's National Unity would be the largest Israeli party if an election were held today, according to surveys for Channels 11, 12 and 13. Knesset balance between major blocs remains unchanged

Tags: National Unity
After vote against Haredi draft exemption, Likud lawmakers call to fire Defense Minister Gallant

Haaretz - 17:45 Jun 11, 2024

Party source says activists are angry at the defense minister, who was the only coalition member to vote against the bill. Likud MKs Nissim Vaturi and Osher Shkalim call on Netanyahu to dismiss him
Israel at war, day 249: Hamas cannot rule Gaza after war, top U.S. official says

Haaretz - 16:43 Jun 11, 2024

Hamas says it accepts U.S.-drafted UN Security Council resolution calling for cease-fire and release of all hostages, is ready to negotiate over its details ■ U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan says Hamas cannot remain in power in Gaza after war ■ Fifty rockets fired from Lebanon at the Golan Heights ■ Rocket sirens blare in northern Israeli city of Haifa for first time since January ■ Here's what you need to know 249 days into the war

Tags: Gaza Hamas
Netanyahu talks a good game against Iranian nukes – and that's it

Haaretz - 16:41 Jun 11, 2024

Israel's prime minister has never developed a coherent policy to counter Iran's nuclear program, including in 2018 when he got Trump to withdraw from the nuclear deal. In Netanyahu's speech in Congress, expect more bluster like 'the West is facing destruction'
Son of U.S. President Joe Biden convicted of all 3 felonies in federal gun trial

Haaretz - 15:52 Jun 11, 2024

Jurors found Hunter Biden guilty of lying to a federally licensed gun dealer, making a false claim on the application by saying he was not a drug user and illegally having the gun for 11 days
Biden's popularity among Israelis drops as Gaza war drags on, Pew survey shows

Haaretz - 15:00 Jun 11, 2024

Confidence in the U.S. president has tumbled to 57 percent from 68 percent, putting him just three points ahead of Trump
Four Palestinians, including Hamas member, killed by IDF troops in West Bank

Haaretz - 14:46 Jun 11, 2024

The Palestinians killed in a village near Ramallah included a member of Hamas' military wing who had previously served a 20-year sentence in an Israeli prison
Another Trump term in the U.S. will be dangerous and cruel. Jews and Israelis should know that

Haaretz - 12:21 Jun 11, 2024

The guardrails will be off for an emotionally unhinged, declining, isolationist president should Trump return to the White House. If he wins a second term, the U.S. could be left unrecognizable
Gaza war divides Israeli lawmakers on conscription bill; Likud members call for Gallant's dismissal

Haaretz - 12:13 Jun 11, 2024

A source in the Likud party told Haaretz that party members are furious with Defense Minister Yoav Gallant who voted against the bill, with some beginning to call for his dismissal from the party

Tags: Likud
Netanyahu and his government aren't worthy of the lives of soldiers dying in their war

Haaretz - 11:42 Jun 11, 2024

The 63 Knesset members who voted in favor of the bill already knew of the deaths of four soldiers in an explosion in Gaza's Rafah. Netanyahu's sly smile during the discussion symbolizes what has become his legacy: the disconnect between the people and their elected representatives
'The Zionists are not human': Pro-Palestinians protest outside NY exhibit commemorating Oct. 7 victims

Haaretz - 11:05 Jun 11, 2024

Hundreds of anti-Israel protesters demonstrated outside a Manhattan exhibition commemorating the young Israelis who were massacred on October 7 at the Nova music festival, shouting 'Zionists decided to rave next to a concentration camp'
With Gaza's schools in rubble, a return to routine classes looks far off

Haaretz - 10:57 Jun 11, 2024

Gaza's outsized literacy rate and high university attendance have come under attack over nearly nine months of war. Some are launching makeshift alternatives to regular schooling, but rebuilding Gaza's destroyed schools could take years
Four Israeli soldiers killed in explosion of booby-trapped house in Rafah, southern Gaza

Haaretz - 09:58 Jun 11, 2024

Tal Pshebilski Shaulov, Eitan Karlsbrun, Almog Shalom, and Yair Levin were killed when a booby trapped building exploded in the Shabura neighborhood in Rafah's east
Sinwar tells Hamas officials that Gaza civilians killed are 'necessary sacrifices', WSJ reports

Haaretz - 08:20 Jun 11, 2024

In written correspondence revealed by the Wall Street Journal, Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar told Hamas officials in Qatar that 'Things went out of control' on October 7' and that the deaths of civilians in Gaza would 'infuse life into the veins of this nation'

Tags: Gaza Hamas
Gantz's belated departure from the Netanyahu government may be too little, too late

Haaretz - 03:00 Jun 11, 2024

National Unity Party's departure from the coalition failed to set off nationwide protests, but the government's conduct may yet bring Israelis back to the streets ■ Gantz and Eisenkot's decision suggests a belief that Netanyahu is still sufficiently reined in, mainly by U.S. opposition ■ Israel, as a result of Netanyahu's clear choice, is missing the Saudi normalization train

Tags: Netanyahu
Israeli official: Hamas rejected cease-fire and hostage deal proposal, changed parameters laid out by Biden

Haaretz - 02:32 Jun 11, 2024

Blinken meet families of eight American-Israeli hostages ■ U.S. Ambassador to the UN: Israel is ready to move forward with cease-fire hostage deal ■ U.S. State Dept: U.S. to add $404M in aid for Palestinians in Gaza, West Bank ■ Reports in Lebanon: IDF strikes in villages Kfarkela, Naqoura in southern Lebanon ■ Israeli forces kill four Palestinians in West Bank arrest raid ■ WSJ quotes Sinwar's letter to Hamas officials: Gaza civilians killed are 'necessary sacrifices'

Tags: Israeli Hamas
Two meager consolations for Israelis in this difficult time

Haaretz - 21:48 Jun 10, 2024
Risky snap election could spell disaster for Macron as far-right wins big in EU elections

Haaretz - 21:45 Jun 10, 2024
Israel cannot count on more heroic rescue operations. A hostage deal must come next

Haaretz - 21:42 Jun 10, 2024
Israel not opposed to separate deal between U.S. and Hamas for American hostages

Haaretz - 21:34 Jun 10, 2024

Meeting in Jerusalem, Blinken warns Netanyahu: Collapse of Biden administration's hostage deal could lead to the collapse of the entire framework

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