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Analysis | Why is this director of a Palestinian community center imprisoned by Israel without charges?

Haaretz - 15:43 Dec 31, 2025

Khaled Daoud, a highly esteemed, chronically ill educator from a refugee camp near Bethlehem, is wasting away in an Israeli prison. His story exemplifies all that is wrong with Israel's widespread policy of administrative detention
How can we survive Trump and Netanyahu 'flooding the zone with shit'?

Haaretz - 15:21 Dec 31, 2025

Trump's transactional politics, based on money, power and corruption, brought the Israeli hostages home from Gaza – and now he wants to secure a pardon for Netanyahu. How do we navigate our conscience in times like these? How do we stay sane inside a deluge of manipulations and lies?

Tags: Netanyahu
Protests draw largest turnout of Somalis since Israel's recognition of Somaliland

Haaretz - 15:16 Dec 31, 2025

Leaders called on people in both Somalia and Somaliland to oppose the recognition. In Istanbul, Somali President Mohamud joined Turkish President Erdogan and said the recognition creates 'conditions that embolden violent extremist groups,' causing 'cascading insecurity for Somalia and the wider region of the Horn of Africa'

Tags: Somaliland
Sydney, Australia rings in New Year with moment of silence in honor of Bondi Beach massacre victims

Haaretz - 13:33 Dec 31, 2025

A menorah was projected on the pylons of Harbor Bridge, as the annual Sydney fireworks display was held with enhanced police presence, weeks after ‌gunmen killed 15 people at a Jewish event in the city. Several New Year ‍events planned in Bondi were cancelled

Tags: Sydney
Trump claims wind turbines kill all U.S.'s 'beautiful Bald eagles,' but shares image of dead falcon in Israel

Haaretz - 12:47 Dec 31, 2025

Eagle-eyed users were quick to point out that the image Trump posted on Truth Social, featured in Haaretz in 2017, was taken in Israel. 'Is he the eagle and Bibi the windmill?' one user wondered. 'Our own fucking president can't tell a falcon and bald eagle apart,' another said

Tags: Israel Trump
'Leftists to the ghetto': Israeli students spit on protesters during Likud minister's school visit

Haaretz - 12:20 Dec 31, 2025

Education Minister Yoav Kisch arrived at a high school in Ramat Gan without prior approval from parents, who said that Kisch's visit has political implications, particularly since he has barred various organizations from operating in schools
Israel's population growth rate fell to a dramatic low in 2025, study finds

Haaretz - 11:57 Dec 31, 2025

The estimated 0.9 percent growth rate is 'an unprecedented decline' as Israeli mortality, fertility and migration have changed significantly in recent years, according to a paper by an Israeli think tank. Israel will need to attract large numbers of immigrants even to maintain low growth rates
Israel's High court freezes state watchdog's Oct. 7 probe; Netanyahu minister urges ignoring ruling

Haaretz - 11:15 Dec 31, 2025

The petitioners, including the IDF and an anti-corruption NGO, argued the probe could compromise a future state inquiry and violate interviewees' rights. The court also barred the state comptroller from releasing drafts or materials on the authorities' response to the Hamas attack
NYC Mayor-elect Mamdani taps Mahmoud Khalil's lawyer as top legal adviser

Haaretz - 10:30 Dec 31, 2025

Ramzi Kassem, a former senior immigration policy adviser in the Biden administration who represented pro-Palestinian and anti-Gaza war activists detained under the Trump administration, will serve as Chief Counsel, guiding Zohran Mamdani's legal strategy
The two incarnations of Mohammad Bakri: The actor gave Israelis hope; the director they couldn't handle

Haaretz - 10:02 Dec 31, 2025

On the screen he brought the noble and upright Palestinian to the Israeli audience. Behind the camera Bakri, who died last week at 72, tried to show Palestinian pain and trauma – and paid a price for it
McDonald's keeps control of Israel operations as search for new franchisee drags on

Haaretz - 09:29 Dec 31, 2025

A year and a half after buying back the Israeli franchise amid global backlash over the Gaza war, McDonald's is still searching for a local operator – and some in the industry say it is in no hurry to let go

Tags: McDonald's
Rule of law or rule of criminals? Israel's far-right leaders bet their survival on democracy's demise

Haaretz - 04:00 Dec 31, 2025

Despair and terror are a justified response to the violent incitement and the wave of legislative destruction – but it is also important to pay attention to what lies behind them: electoral pressure and desperate efforts to survive
Somali president: Somaliland has agreed to accept displaced Gazans, report says

Haaretz - 03:16 Dec 31, 2025
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Haaretz - 01:52 Dec 31, 2025
Netanyahu downplays West Bank settler violence in Fox News interview following Trump meeting

Haaretz - 23:46 Dec 30, 2025

Israel PM also praised Trump for pushing for his pardon in his ongoing criminal trials, lamenting what he dismissed as '10 years of bogus investigations and a political trial'

Tags: Trump
Smotrich's attempt to 'run over' the judiciary is no empty threat: it's criminal

Haaretz - 22:24 Dec 30, 2025
Trump is no Mar-a-Lago Santa Claus. His gifts to Netanyahu come at a price

Haaretz - 22:10 Dec 30, 2025

The more a foreign leader leans toward authoritarianism, the more Donald Trump seems to like them, yet he still forced Netanyahu into a cease-fire, an apology to Doha and on a path toward recognizing a Palestinian state

Tags: Netanyahu
The Zionist opposition thinks it can protest dictatorship while ignoring Palestinians

Haaretz - 22:07 Dec 30, 2025

The anti-government demonstrators on Kaplan Street in Tel Aviv look to countries like Hungary to understand the transformation of Israel into an authoritarian regime. But the model for emulation is right under their noses
Israel has joined Iran, Lebanon and Syria as a state sponsor of terror. Just look at the West Bank

Haaretz - 22:05 Dec 30, 2025
Sources close to Netanyahu: Trump seeks to start reconstruction before Gaza demilitarized

Haaretz - 21:35 Dec 30, 2025

The U.S. President heaped praise on Netanyahu and gave him public backing on Iran - but, as Washington readies to move to phase two of the Gaza plan, he failed answer questions of concern to the Israeli side

Tags: Gaza Netanyahu

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