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Israeli museums in a time of war: Almost no foreign artists, no tourists – and rummaging through storerooms

Haaretz - 11:25 Apr 30, 2025

The Gaza war brought international art activity to a halt in Israel, prompting museums to look to their own collections, primarily although not exclusively involving Israeli art. 'It's not simple dealing with the situation in Israel and continuing to be creative'

Tags: Israeli
The Netanyahus ply psychological terror on the hostage families – and the whole country

Haaretz - 10:52 Apr 30, 2025

If Hamas released a video informing Israelis that there weren't 24 living hostages but 'fewer,' everyone would cry out 'psychological terror!' The Netanyahus' terror has its own grotesque twist

Tags: The Netanyahus
'In Norway, we have yet to confront the full meaning of the Holocaust'

Haaretz - 10:16 Apr 30, 2025

Irene Levin turned the hundreds of notes her mother left behind after her death into a book chronicling the story of Norwegian Jews during the Holocaust
Virgin Atlantic cancels London-Tel Aviv route

Haaretz - 10:09 Apr 30, 2025

The cancellation of flights to Tel Aviv's Ben-Gurion International Airport was made despite Israeli efforts to bring back most airlines that had dropped flights to Israel due to security concerns
'I volunteer to be the last one to get her loved one back, but he has to come back'

Haaretz - 10:01 Apr 30, 2025

Lior Rudaeff had been a volunteer member of Kibbutz Nir Yitzhak's emergency squad for 40 years, going out to defend the kibbutz on October 7, 2023. Seven months later, the army determined he was killed and his body was being held by Hamas
Palestinians express outrage at Syria's new dovish stance on Israel

Haaretz - 09:47 Apr 30, 2025

After Syria assured the U.S. that it won't pose a 'threat to Israel,' Palestinians voiced criticism on social media: 'What is the value of a revolution if you end up reconciling with the very forces it was meant to oppose?'

Tags: Palestinians Israel
'Please, Bazooka, save us': Chilling Oct. 7 recordings of hero who saved lives – and lost his own

Haaretz - 09:19 Apr 30, 2025

On October 7, Israeli police commander Itzik 'Bazooka' Buzukashvili went back and forth four times to rescue dozens of Israelis at the Nova dance party. Then an RPG shot by Hamas terrorists hit his vehicle
After gov't reverses Shin Bet Chief dismissal, High Court mulls ruling on precedent

Haaretz - 09:04 Apr 30, 2025

The petitions against Ronen Bar's dismissal became theoretical once he announced his resignation and the government dropped the process. Now the High Court will have to choose: Will it deliver a broader decision that addresses the fundamental questions raised by the case?

Tags: High Court
Why car wrecks are becoming unlikely memorial sites in Israel

Haaretz - 08:34 Apr 30, 2025

Armored vehicles on the road to Jerusalem and cars cleared from Gaza border communities after October 7. What can we learn from wrecked cars when they become symbols for something else?
Trump, Netanyahu and the death-throes of the American and Zionist dreams

Haaretz - 08:09 Apr 30, 2025

The Zionist dream and the American dream have been joined, though often in complicated ways, since Israel's establishment in 1948. Here's what remains the same – and what has changed

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Likud official backs far-right mob that stormed screening of Palestinian-Israeli memorial service at Reform synagogue

Haaretz - 07:29 Apr 30, 2025

Right-wing activists surrounded the synagogue, which hosted a screening of the joint Israeli-Palestinian event, throwing objects and firecrackers. The local Likud branch leader backed the attack: 'The city's leftists - you've been warned'

Tags: Likud
When did Jews begin calling themselves 'Israel'?

Haaretz - 06:10 Apr 30, 2025

On the evolution of Jewish self-identification from Judah to 'Israel'

Tags: Israel'
At the Mount Herzl military cemetery, emotional tourists meet mothers who never asked to be heroes

Haaretz - 06:07 Apr 30, 2025

Since October 7 the Mount Herzl military cemetery has been teeming with funerals, memorial ceremonies, educational visits and tours of donors. One bereaved mother, who visits almost daily, is trying to find meaning in the grief

Tags: Mount Herzl
Her death stunned pre-state Israel. The next day, all women were pulled from combat

Haaretz - 05:23 Apr 30, 2025

Miriam Shachor, the first woman in the pre-state Palmach militia to lose her life in the War of Independence, became a flesh-and-blood symbol. But her commanders soon turned that symbol into a far-reaching policy, limiting women's role in the military
On the eve of Israel's Independence Day, the Gaza war is stuck and wounds are still raw

Haaretz - 03:01 Apr 30, 2025

The IDF's renewed military operations in Gaza have not changed Hamas' position, yet the military is preparing to increase the pressure and is wary of the reservists. While the Egyptian proposal for negotiations does not look promising, Jerusalem once again understands that Trump will have the final word – on Gaza and Iran

Tags: Gaza
Israel strikes in Syria over Druze attack; treats three wounded Syrians, IDF says

Haaretz - 02:35 Apr 30, 2025

ISRAEL: Israel marks second Memorial Day since October 7 attack ■ GAZA: Hamas-run Health Ministry says 35 killed in Israeli strikes in last day ■ SYRIA: IDF carries out 'warning operation' against extremists planning attack on Druze community, Netanyahu and Katz say

Tags: Druze Israel
Harvard antisemitism and Islamophobia task forces find widespread fear, bigotry

Haaretz - 00:03 Apr 30, 2025

Reports recommendation that the Ivy League school review its admissions, appointments, curriculum, and orientation and training programs - as well as change its disciplinary processes
Trump fires Doug Emhoff, other Biden appointees from U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council

Haaretz - 21:42 Apr 29, 2025

Jewish Democrats 'condemn Donald Trump for once again using Jewish Americans for his political agenda'
IDF will call up tens of thousands of reservists ahead of escalating Gaza operations

Haaretz - 21:18 Apr 29, 2025

Tens of thousands of reservists will be stationed across Israel, with some already announcing they won't report. While operations in Gaza will mainly be conducted by conscripts, reservists will be stationed there, too

Tags: Gaza
While Israel marks its independence, Israeli society is being torn apart from within

Haaretz - 21:15 Apr 29, 2025

On the 77th Independence Day of the State of Israel, a dark shadow hangs over the celebrations. When 59 hostages are still in Gaza, it's even hard to breathe

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