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The strange truth about sea-level rise

Haaretz - 19:02 May 02, 2026

The East Mediterranean rose 15 cm in 34 years. Seas are rising everywhere and some lands are also subsiding because of our actions; but some are actually rising out of the sea
Reports: Iran warns 'renewed conflict likely' after Trump rejects offer to reopen Strait of Hormuz

Haaretz - 18:52 May 02, 2026

A senior Iranian military official issued the warning hours after Donald Trump signaled dissatisfaction with a new Iranian truce proposal submitted Thursday, which called for reopening the Strait of Hormuz in exchange for lifting the U.S. blockade of Iran

Tags: Strait Iran Hormuz
Photos of the week by Haaretz photographers

Haaretz - 17:37 May 02, 2026
After a Palestinian home is torched, settlers return under IDF watch

Haaretz - 16:58 May 02, 2026

Members of the Tubasi family say that since West Bank settlers set up an outpost nearby, the interlopers have been vandalizing property, keeping the family up at night, and worse
Israel acquiring low-cost systems from U.S. to intercept drones

Haaretz - 16:56 May 02, 2026

The U.S. will supply Israel with 10,000 Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System kits, valued at almost $1 billion, that turn air-to-ground rockets into precision munitions capable of downing drones, but not the small FPV drones threatening IDF forces in southern Lebanon

Tags: Israel
Iranian soccer chief says he was allowed to enter Canada but chose to turn back

Haaretz - 16:05 May 02, 2026

Mehdi Taj, a ‌former IRGC member, was asked about his ties to the group, but was allowed into the country for a pre-World Cup gathering in Vancouver. Canada has said IRGC members are barred from the country. 'We told them that there are 90 million IRGC members in Iran,' Taj said

Tags: Canada
Spain, Brazil demand Israel release nationals 'kidnapped' in Gaza aid flotilla seizure

Haaretz - 15:15 May 02, 2026

The governments added that the detention "amounts to a criminal offense." Unlike other flotilla participants who were transferred to Greece, Saif Abu Keshek, a Spanish-Swedish national of Palestinian origin, and Brazilian national Thiago Avila are being detained in Israel after the flotilla was seized hundreds of miles away in Greek territorial waters

Tags: Israel
U.K. PM Starmer says gov't could ban some pro-Palestinian marches after antisemitic attack

Haaretz - 14:19 May 02, 2026

Starmer said he was not denying 'legitimate views about the Middle East' and Gaza, but many people in the Jewish community had told him they were concerned about the nature of the marches

Tags: Starmer
Country, interrupted: War has triggered clinical mental illness in millions of Israelis

Haaretz - 11:54 May 02, 2026

One in five Israelis shows post-traumatic symptoms, alongside sharp rises in OCD, depression and addiction. 'We're dealing with a chronic situation in which the country generates so many stressors that a large part of the population cannot recover,' says one expert

Tags: Israelis
The U.K. protest movement, not Starmer's government, is abandoning the Jewish community

Haaretz - 10:50 May 02, 2026

At a time of unprecedented violence against British Jews, the government is navigating between protecting free speech and maintaining public safety. But slogans like 'the U.K. government are Zio and Epstein Class Bootlickers' reflect blindness to the accumulating antisemitic attacks
The Israeli army raid that ended a 68-year-old Palestinian's life

Haaretz - 10:26 May 02, 2026

Walid Shamasna says one of the soldiers who entered his home in the West Bank village of Jayus shoved his wife, Sabriya, causing her head to strike the wall. The IDF says the soldiers didn't assault the woman and instead tried to help her
Israel homicide toll rises to 111 after double murder outside Arab city

Haaretz - 09:55 May 02, 2026

Police suspect the shooting was carried out in revenge for a double murder in Lod about two weeks ago. Earlier in Rahat, a 27-year-old man was shot. Paramedics attempted to resuscitate him, but ultimately pronounced him dead at the scene
Police raid left-wing activists' club in Arab-Israeli city, seize Palestinian flags on eve of May Day march

Haaretz - 09:05 May 02, 2026

The left-wing Hadash party said masked police officers did not identify themselves nor present a search warrant. MK Ofer Cassif demanded that the attorney general open an investigation. Police: The incident will be investigated

Tags: Police
On the brink of collapse: Israel-Lebanon talks need Trump's urgent intervention

Haaretz - 07:47 May 02, 2026

Despite the U.S.-Iran front heating up, the president still refuses to let Israel launch a large-scale campaign against Hezbollah. But to fulfill Israel's wishes of dismantling the group without such an operation would require significant aid to the incompetent Lebanese Army
Netanyahu ignores repeated police requests to testify in BibiLeaks affair

Haaretz - 06:36 May 02, 2026

Netanyahu initially refused to testify, saying the war against Iran prevented him from doing so, and since the cease-fire, his office has ignored police requests. Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara already approved his testimony in the affair in late February

Tags: Netanyahu
Report: Sea level in eastern Mediterranean rose by 15 centimeters since 1992

Haaretz - 00:12 May 02, 2026

The 2024 Mediterranean Sea national monitoring report indicates that the sea is getting warmer, and becoming more acidic. In sampling nets, more than half of the catch was invasive species. In Haifa Bay, 75 percent of the edible fish found had high mercury concentrations.

Tags: Mediterranean
Hostilities between U.S. and Iran are 'likely' to resume, says Iranian senior commander

Haaretz - 22:02 May 01, 2026
Israeli strikes kill six, including child, in southern Lebanon

Haaretz - 20:30 May 01, 2026
'Israel missed the signs in Gaza': Veteran analyst on the road to October 7

Haaretz - 20:21 May 01, 2026

In his new book 'Five Knocks on the Door' Army Radio's veteran Arab affairs journalist Jacky Hugi explores the warnings leading up to October 7 and why the Israeli establishment and media did not take them seriously. He talks to Haaretz about the mistakes made and the lessons he hopes can be learned

Tags: October
Israeli firm Rafael buys German factory from Volkswagen for Iron Dome parts

Haaretz - 20:09 May 01, 2026

Rafael, one of the main partners in Israel's Iron Dome, Arrow and David's Sling air and missile defense systems, would focus on building missile parts rather than on explosives, which would be built at a separate site, sources said

Tags: Rafael Iron Dome

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