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Israeli education minister once again screws up, backtracks, pleads innocent on the Israel Prize

Haaretz - 20:16 Mar 20, 2024

Education Minister Yoav Kisch stirred up a storm when he cancelled this year's Israel Prize award categories after learning a Netanyahu critic won the entrepreneurship category, but will now have to hand him the prize himself

Tags: Israel Prize
Tony Kushner: Israel's Gaza war 'looks a lot like ethnic cleansing to me'

Haaretz - 19:53 Mar 20, 2024
In Netanyahu's Israel, the Gaza war is wrecking what remains of democratic values

Haaretz - 19:04 Mar 20, 2024

The most far-right government in Israel's history never gave up its battle against liberal democracy. And war is a great time for a takeover
Anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian graffiti sprayed on a New York Jewish cafe storefront

Haaretz - 18:19 Mar 20, 2024

Neighbors and customers, some draped in Israeli flags, joined forces in a clean-up effort, meeting in front of the cafe to power-wash the sidewalk. Democratic Representative Jerry Nadler of New York, said that the attack is 'a cowardly act of antisemitism that cannot, and will not, be tolerated in our community'
Does Chuck Schumer speak for American Jews?

Haaretz - 17:41 Mar 20, 2024

After his watershed Israel speech, the Senate majority leader tried to quell concerns with the most significant umbrella group for Jewish establishment organizations. Its leadership expressed continued alarm over his remarks, while several member groups voiced their own support for Schumer
What you need to know, day 166: Preparing Rafah op will take time, Netanyahu says

Haaretz - 17:28 Mar 20, 2024

Hours before PM Netanyahu is set to address Senate Republicans via video, GOP officials say they're discussing inviting him to speak before joint session of Congress ■ Senior Hamas official says Israel's response to the group's cease-fire proposal was negative ■ Preparations for starting ground operation in Rafah 'will take some time,' Netanyahu says ■ Here's what you need to know 166 days into the war

Tags: Netanyahu
The tragic end of the Ukrainian community in Gaza

Haaretz - 17:28 Mar 20, 2024

Five months into the war, there is almost nothing left of Gaza's substantial Ukrainian community. The women who helped found it had to flee, becoming asylum seekers scattered across Europe. 'The brave Israeli army is taking its frustration out on our children'

Tags: Ukrainian
Biden administration split on suspending arms sales to Israel ahead of deadline on Sunday

Haaretz - 16:04 Mar 20, 2024

Israel has fallen dramatically short of its vows to 'flood' Gaza with aid, putting in jeopardy the arms flow from the U.S.

Tags: Israel
The Ramadan TV showdown between Egypt and Turkey

Haaretz - 15:48 Mar 20, 2024

Television series in Egypt and Turkey during the holy month of Ramadan have become a battleground over the consciousness in the Middle East

Tags: Turkey Egypt
House Republicans mull inviting Netanyahu to address joint session of Congress

Haaretz - 15:07 Mar 20, 2024

The invitation would recall Netanyahu's 2015 address aimed at rallying support against the Iran nuclear deal, organized behind the Obama administration's back. This would come as Netanyahu has been explicitly outraged over the Biden administration's criticisms of Israeli conduct in Gaza

Tags: Netanyahu
Autopsies of Palestinians who died in Israeli prisons indicate medical neglect, bruising

Haaretz - 14:53 Mar 20, 2024

The deaths of an administrative detainee last month and a security prisoner in January in Israel Prison Service facilities come amid reports about deteriorating conditions and a lack of proper medical care, partly because of severe over-crowding in prisons since the outbreak of the Gaza war
Cyberattack against Israeli nuclear plant in Dimona: Anonymous group hacks system

Haaretz - 14:27 Mar 20, 2024

The Anonymous organization sent posts on the social media claiming that its hackers had succeeded in stealing documents from the nuclear reactor in Dimona and erasing some information on the computer systems that they hacked

Tags: Dimona
The Democrats are right. Being pro-Israel means being pro-Palestinian

Haaretz - 13:51 Mar 20, 2024

Faced with an increasingly recalcitrant Netanyahu government, Senate Leader Chuck Schumer and his Democratic colleagues are leading a welcome shift in policy. Both Israel and the U.S. have a moral obligation to do better
Israel's education minister backtracks on Israel Prize cancellation, awards to be held as planned

Haaretz - 13:26 Mar 20, 2024

Minister Yoav Kisch denied that he canceled this year's prize after learning tech giant and pro-democracy activist Eyal Waldman was the winner, but said he wishes to avoid 'needless arguments'
Israel government spokesman Eylon Levy suspended after comments about Gaza aid

Haaretz - 11:55 Mar 20, 2024

Levy's suspension follows a tweet, in response to British Foreign Secretary David Cameron, that 'there are NO limits on the entry of food, water, medicine, or shelter equipment into Gaza, and in fact the crossings have EXCESS capacity'

Tags: Gaza
Israel no longer considered liberal democracy; global index cites judicial coup

Haaretz - 10:10 Mar 20, 2024

V-Dem index cites government attacks on judiciary and 'substantive decline' in freedom from torture as reason Israel is now considered an 'electoral democracy' – in which elections are held but civil liberties and equality before the law are not safeguarded

Tags: Israel
With aid waiting just beyond their reach, malnutrition among Gaza's children keeps spreading

Haaretz - 08:15 Mar 20, 2024

The maritime aid corridor has received much attention, but organizations in Gaza say overland supplies are essential to meet urgent humanitarian needs. The UN has documented 16 cases of shootings at aid convoys, and organizations believe Israeli troops are behind most of them
Germany's far-right AfD party files 22 cases at top court, accused of blocking tactics

Haaretz - 07:30 Mar 20, 2024

The party, which casts itself as anti-establishment, is now running second in the polls. Critics say move 'designed to sow dysfunction that the anti-system parties can claim only they can fix'
Netanyahu's Likud can't unravel the Sa'ar riddle but they want him back anyway

Haaretz - 04:01 Mar 20, 2024

Tension in the war cabinet, which Gideon Sa'ar insists on joining, is reaching boiling point – and a clash with Benny Gantz seems imminent. 'He's too pro-America and he's become an annoyance,' one Likud minister said about the former IDF chief

Tags: Sa'ar Likud
IDF chief at Gaza's Al-Shifa Hospital: Operation seeks to pressure Hamas on hostages

Haaretz - 02:35 Mar 20, 2024

Netanyahu tells Senate Republicans that even if Israel would have to go into Rafah without U.S. support, 'We won't stop' ■ Blinken meets Saudi FM, discuss 'urgent need to protect all civilians in Gaza' ■ Hamas says Israel's response to their cease-fire proposal was negative ■ World Food Program chief: 'Small window left to prevent outright famine in Gaza' ■ IDF says 350 suspects arrested at Gaza's Al-Shifa Hospital

Tags: Hamas Al-Shifa Hospital Gaza's

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