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• How do bonobo females dominate the males? Coalition politics

  Haaretz - 15:46 May 08, 2025
  

  How females achieve dominance in bonobo chimpanzees has never been understood because the males are bigger and stronger. Now we know

• Germany's spy agency pauses 'extremist' classification of AfD party

  Haaretz - 15:15 May 08, 2025
  

  The agency will only publicly refer to the AfD, the second largest party in Germany, as a 'confirmed right-wing extremist movement' after an administrative court approves the decision

• Pro-Netanyahu Channel 14 incites to genocide in Gaza, Israeli groups claim in High Court petition

  Haaretz - 15:06 May 08, 2025
  

  Three civil society groups claim that Israel's Channel 14 News aired hundreds of statements like 'it really needs to be total annihilation' in Gaza and 'there are no innocents' – while Israeli authorities refused to act against the channel

  Tags: Gaza Israeli

• On all fronts: Israel's fallen soldiers, and how they fell

  Haaretz - 14:31 May 08, 2025
  

  From defending civilians and combat in Gaza and Lebanon, to operational accidents and missile fire: These 854 IDF soldiers are the casualties of a war with no end in sight

• 'A sergeant and a soldier under my command were killed, and I was wounded in Gaza. It changed me'

  Haaretz - 14:29 May 08, 2025
  

  This week at Ben-Gurion Airport: A Gaza war veteran finds relief in sharing his story, and a mother and daughter release tension through martial arts

  Tags: Gaza

• With Netanyahu's long record of political double-dealing, the Haredim will forever dodge the IDF draft

  Haaretz - 14:26 May 08, 2025
  

  With Israel on the verge of a renewed invasion of Gaza, aiming openly to conquer the Strip and establish a military government, a sweeping exemption for the Haredim from military service is untenable – and looms heavily over Netanyahu's coalition

  Tags: Haredim

• International LGBTQ organization reinstates Israel's leading advocacy group one year after suspension

  Haaretz - 14:01 May 08, 2025
  

  ILGA World will reinstate Israel's Aguda a year after it was suspended following a bid to host the organization's annual conference. The reinstatement, ILGA's board noted, is not an endorsement of the Aguda's 'position, actions, or silence on the war in Gaza'

  Tags: Israel's

• Amid Israel's draft exemption crisis, pressure mounts within ultra-Orthodox party to quit Netanyahu's government

  Haaretz - 13:46 May 08, 2025
  

  Degel HaTorah's spiritual leader hinted this week the government could fall, as senior Haredi figures held quiet talks with former PM Naftali Bennett. A tougher draft bill and new IDF orders to conscript tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox men are intensifying pressure to leave the coalition

  Tags: Orthodox

• Why Israel should give Syria's new ex-jihadist president a chance

  Haaretz - 13:03 May 08, 2025
  

  Israel is right to feel uneasy about Islamists running the show in Damascus. But with the UAE mediating, perhaps what's best for the region is to accept al-Sharaa's positive overtures in good faith

• Study: One in 8 Israeli soldiers who fought in Gaza is mentally unfit to return for duty

  Haaretz - 12:56 May 08, 2025
  

  The Tel Aviv University study comes just as Israel issues a major call-up of reserve soldiers in order to expand fighting in the Strip

• 'The IDF's top brass hope Trump intervenes and prevents a massive new Gaza operation'

  Haaretz - 12:51 May 08, 2025
  

• Empty streets, homes in ruin: Israeli army gives no timeline for leaving West Bank's Jenin

  Haaretz - 12:36 May 08, 2025
  

  The Jenin refugee camp has become a large military outpost, with only IDF soldiers walking the streets. Israeli commanders wish to remain as long as sufficient forces are available, but the expansion of the operation in Gaza will likely change that

  Tags: Israeli

• What did Israel's founding father Ben-Gurion think about AI – and did he foresee Tesla?

  Haaretz - 12:27 May 08, 2025
  

  Letters by Israel's founding prime minister reveal what he thought about 'human thinking and electronic thinking' – what we now call artificial intelligence

  Tags: Israel's

• Israel shuts six UNRWA schools in East Jerusalem, sending hundreds of students home midday

  Haaretz - 12:19 May 08, 2025
  

  The school day in Shuafat camp and Wadi Joz began as usual, but midday, Israel Police arrived and ordered them to shut down. UNRWA said it was 'a traumatizing experience for children at immediate risk of losing their access to education'

  Tags: UNRWA

• Israel warns nationals ahead of Eurovision in Switzerland over Gaza war tensions

  Haaretz - 11:58 May 08, 2025
  

  Ahead of Eurovision in Basel, Israel's National Security Council warns of increased risks from Iran, Hamas, and Hezbollah, advising against wearing Jewish symbols and urging saving emergency contacts

  Tags: Eurovision

• 'I felt a bolt of electricity pass through me': When gays in Israel didn't know what gay meant

  Haaretz - 11:52 May 08, 2025
  

  Prof. Yuval Yonay interviewed hundreds of gay and transgender men, as well as police officers, psychologists and educators to find out what it was like to be a sexual minority underground when the newspapers called it homosexualistan

• Fearing no-shows amid wider Gaza offensive, IDF avoids calling up reservists who say they won't report

  Haaretz - 11:35 May 08, 2025
  

  Some reservists say the IDF is manipulating response rate stats by only calling up those who agreed to report, ignoring widespread burnout; 'They only called up those who agreed to come – no wonder they claim a 100% response rate,' said one reservist

• Dozens of pro-Palestinian protesters detained after clashes with Columbia security and police

  Haaretz - 10:30 May 08, 2025
  

  About 100 protestors stormed Columbia University's Butler Library as students prepare for finals, some vandalizing desks and bookshelves. U.S. Secretary of State Rubio said his office was reviewing the visa status of some protesters, which he called 'pro-Hamas thugs'

• Pakistan says it shot down 25 Israeli-made suicide drones launched by India at major Pakistani cities

  Haaretz - 08:36 May 08, 2025
  

  India launched Israeli-made Harop drones at multiple sites in Pakistan, including the cities of Karachi and Lahore, the Pakistani military said. The drones, which dive and explode on impact, left debris that is now being collected

  Tags: Pakistan Pakistani India

• Judge rules Netanyahu aide be released after being arrested again over Qatargate affair

  Haaretz - 08:18 May 08, 2025
  

  Yonatan Urich, a key suspect in the affair, was expected to be released from house arrest on Thursday, but police suddenly detained him on Wednesday after questioning, despite having informed his legal team that he was due to be released

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