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Why Jews shake the four species on Sukkot

Haaretz - 06:35 Oct 16, 2024

Arguably the most obscure of Jewish customs, during Sukkot, Jews shake a closed date frond, some myrtle boughs, a few willow twigs and a citron fruit as part of the daily prayer service – but why and where did this begin?

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'There's a war on, but what's a family to do?': Israel's post-October 7 real estate market

Haaretz - 06:22 Oct 16, 2024

Demand for housing in Israel will remain tight 'even if a simultaneous war erupts with Iran, Yemen, Hamas and Hezbollah,' real estate executive Ronen Jaffa predicts. 'Only increasing supply will influence prices'
Paradigm shift in ultra-Orthodox housing: A network of Haredi communities in Israel's Negev

Haaretz - 06:20 Oct 16, 2024

A strategic distribution of ultra-Orthodox housing in Israel's Negev offers a rare opportunity for a dual solution: a response to the Haredi housing shortage and a significant advance in the area's development

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'They tried to block Arabs from Jewish communities. But I was the one who was screwed'

Haaretz - 06:16 Oct 16, 2024

Israeli court petitions give the impression that admissions committees for small towns were created to keep Arabs out of Jewish communities. Yet most of those being rejected are Jews

Tags: Arabs Jewish
Young Israelis enter the real estate market – but they're not looking for places to live

Haaretz - 06:13 Oct 16, 2024

Many millennials and even Gen Zers in Israel are realizing that they can't afford to buy an apartment where they live, but they can buy an apartment for investment purposes in a more peripheral area
Israeli Arabs, Bedouin face growing pains while seeking new homes in Be'er Sheva

Haaretz - 06:12 Oct 16, 2024

While the state hinders the development of Bedouin communities in the Negev, a quarter of the building plots in a new neighborhood in Be'er Sheva were purchased by Israeli Arabs and Bedouins migrating to the metropolis

Tags: Be'er Bedouin Sheva Israeli Arabs
'At the UN, I understood that Netanyahu doesn't intend to bring the hostages back. He'd rather have them return in body bags'

Haaretz - 03:01 Oct 16, 2024

Danny Elgarat, whose brother Itzhak Elgarat was abducted from his home in Kibbutz Nir Oz, has been hunger striking for 17 days in an effort to rouse the public to join the battle for the hostages. He fears for his brother's life
A voluntary, invisible firewall cuts Israelis off from what's happening in Gaza

Haaretz - 03:01 Oct 16, 2024
German defense exports to Israel stir unprecedented tensions as delivery delays mount

Haaretz - 03:00 Oct 16, 2024

German defense exports to Israel once enjoyed total public consensus, but amid legal concerns over Israel's conduct in Gaza and reports that Germany has frozen its arms shipments, the issue is now cause for controversy

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On defense and offense, Israel given another reminder of its reliance on the United States

Haaretz - 03:00 Oct 16, 2024

When the U.S. threatens to suspend arms sales to the IDF and, at the same time, it has deployed batteries of air defense systems across Israel because of a lack of local interceptors, the boundaries of Israeli independence are being tested

Tags: Israel
Hostile aircraft alerts in southern Israel; building in Kiryat Shmona takes direct hit

Haaretz - 02:26 Oct 16, 2024

Qatar PM: No Gaza truce talks for weeks; IDF: Over 95 launches fired from Lebanon at Israel ■ UNIFIL says Israeli tank shot at one of their southern Lebanon watchtowers ■ No Gaza cease-fire talks for weeks, Qatar's PM says ■ Israeli strike on Nabatieh municipality building in Lebanon killed 16, ministry says ■ U.S. envoy to UN says 'food and supplies must be surged into Gaza, immediately' ■ Gallant says Israel will negotiate with Hezbollah 'only under fire' ■ U.K. mulls sanctions against far-right ministers Ben-Gvir and Smotrich, PM says

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An Israeli general's warnings about looming war were ignored. He sensed his son would pay the price

Haaretz - 22:55 Oct 15, 2024

Brig. Gen. Yuval Bazak grasped long ago that Israel was moving toward a broad regional confrontation, but the defense hierarchy didn't heed his warnings. On October 7, he lost his son in the war that he foresaw
'We won't stop until they're back': Building a sukkah for hostages in Gaza

Haaretz - 21:03 Oct 15, 2024

Five members of Kibbutz Kfar Azza are still being held captive by Hamas in Gaza. This Sukkot, their friends are refusing to forget or abandon them: 'The whole country needs them back so that Israel can be whole again'

Tags: Gaza
Qatar is preparing a 'ring of fire' around Israel to supplant Iran's

Haaretz - 20:47 Oct 15, 2024
Netanyahu mustn't be allowed to pick a yes-man as Israel's next civil service commissioner

Haaretz - 20:28 Oct 15, 2024
Israel has shelved the rule of law in war and at home

Haaretz - 20:20 Oct 15, 2024
U.S. and Canada declare PFLP 'front' group Samidoun a terrorist organization

Haaretz - 20:20 Oct 15, 2024

Samidoun is classified as a terrorist organization by Israel, and in November, it was banned from Germany for publishing words of praise for the October 7 Hamas massacre

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Haaretz - 20:06 Oct 15, 2024
Notorious far-right supremacist sanctioned by U.S. visits Knesset weekly, data shows

Haaretz - 19:46 Oct 15, 2024

The notorious far-right Israeli activist – who has been convicted of racist incitement and banned from running for public office – visits the Knesset at least once or twice a week and serves as an advisor to Minister Ben-Gvir. His party refuses to say why

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Scottish lawmaker expelled from party after saying no genocide being committed in Gaza

Haaretz - 18:59 Oct 15, 2024

John Mason of the Scottish National Party defended his post saying: 'If [Israel] wanted to commit genocide, they could have killed 10 times as many Palestinians as they have,' after coming under fire from his party

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