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Israel's best public diplomacy is airing its dirty laundry abroad

Haaretz - 21:02 Jun 26, 2024

The most fateful damage to Israel's standing is caused by its own policies

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Prime Minister's lawyers tell court Netanyahu can only testify in corruption trial in March 2025

Haaretz - 20:18 Jun 26, 2024

Netanyahu's lawyers say they need nine months before presenting the defense's case. The trial in the Jerusalem District Court was stopped several times due to arguments over investigation content, COVID and shutting the courts due to the war
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Haaretz - 20:11 Jun 26, 2024
Netanyahu aides fear top Likud lawmaker will sabotage Haredi draft exemption bill

Haaretz - 20:01 Jun 26, 2024

Likud MK Yuli Edelstein, chair of the committee discussing the bill, said that 'If the bill doesn't pass with a broad consensus, it won't pass at all.' Following the objections of opposition lawmakers, Edelstein also postponed a Knesset vote on extending IDF reserve service

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Top U.S. official: Working with Israel to resolve arms delays, heavy bomb transfer still halted

Haaretz - 19:42 Jun 26, 2024

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant in Washington described 'significant progress' in the arms 'bottleneck.' He also criticized Netanyahu's public laments at what the prime minister called a 'deliberate' delay in arms shipments
Neanderthals in Spain cared for disabled child with Down syndrome, study finds

Haaretz - 19:31 Jun 26, 2024

We knew Neanderthals were capable of caring for other adults, but whether it was from doting compassion or selfish anticipation of reciprocity hasn't been clear. Now it's clearer

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Israel's parliament advances bill to make law banning Al Jazeera permanent

Haaretz - 18:48 Jun 26, 2024

The bill to permanently legislate what is currently a temporary order halting foreign media broadcasts, if deemed damaging to national security, will go back to a governmental committee for further deliberation
Netanyahu's last Congress speech slammed Democrats. This one has a different target

Haaretz - 18:14 Jun 26, 2024

In Netanyahu's recent history of Congress speeches, in 2011 and 2015, the goal was to weaken President Barack Obama and his Democratic Party. This time, the script is flipped

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Can U.S. progressives tackle the pro-Israel machine after Bowman's crushing defeat without alienating voters?

Haaretz - 17:46 Jun 26, 2024

Allies of Rep. Jamaal Bowman say his defeat on Tuesday shouldn't be seen as a referendum on Americans' views on the Gaza war, while his critics say it shows that holding critical views of Israel is an electoral liability. Which is more accurate?

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American Jewish voters still roundly prefer Biden to Trump, polls find

Haaretz - 16:37 Jun 26, 2024

'President Biden will again be able to draw on solid, unwavering backing of Jewish Americans this fall,' said the chairman of the Jewish Electorate Institute. The poll does, however, reflect a nine point drop in Jewish support for Biden since the 2020 election

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Israel at war, day 264: UN says risk to aid workers in Gaza 'intolerable'

Haaretz - 16:28 Jun 26, 2024

U.S. arms shipments to Israel have slowed down because the Netanyahu government made fewer requests, Wall Street Journal reports ■ Israeli Defense Minister Gallant says even when U.S. and Israel disagree, 'we resolve it behind closed doors' ■ The Israel Prison Service has been concealing information about the amount of food given to Palestinian prisoners since the war started, sources say ■ Here's what you need to know 264 days into the war

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The Palestinian food blogger making 'something delicious' from humanitarian aid in Gaza

Haaretz - 15:31 Jun 26, 2024

Hamada Shaqoura began preparing creative dishes using the basic foodstuffs in aid packages delivered to hungry Gazans after 'eating the same canned food in the same way for months.' It was also a way to avoid 'los[ing] myself as the food blogger that people knew before this war'
My high school graduates are facing the bleakest future Israel has ever known

Haaretz - 15:05 Jun 26, 2024

Can I honestly assure my students that the state and the IDF will protect them? Or that Israel will remain a democracy? That there won't be civil war? What kind of life will they have here?

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Israel reduces food for Palestinian security prisoners, conceals data, sources say

Haaretz - 14:52 Jun 26, 2024

Since Oct. 7, prisoners reported weight loss due to drastic food reductions in the prisons, to the point of starvation. As Israel's top court hears a petition filed on the matter, far-right Minister Ben-Gvir states this is a 'deterrent measure'
Fact or fiction: Is Israel unfairly singled out for global condemnation?

Haaretz - 14:33 Jun 26, 2024

'Biased, predetermined, hypocritical': This is how Israel's supporters characterize the attitude of the international community in terms of human rights and international law. In fact, until the Gaza war, what's striking is the long, free ride Israel has enjoyed

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Prominent Israelis pen op-ed in New York Times urging Congress to nix Netanyahu speech

Haaretz - 14:13 Jun 26, 2024

Co-authored by six Israelis including former Prime Minister Barak and an ex-Mossad Chief, the pierce urges Congress to withdraw Netanyahu's invitation 'as large portion of Israelis have lost faith in Mr. Netanyahu's government'

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Israeli minister praises France's far-right party president, breaking Israel's official boycott of National Rally

Haaretz - 11:43 Jun 26, 2024

Diaspora Minister Amichai Chikli praised a speech given by France's far-right National Rally president, Jordan Bardella, in which he declared a two-state solution 'obsolete' and a Palestinian state a 'reward for terror.' Chikli's office: 'We have excellent contact' with the party of Le Pen

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'Get out of the city, Jew!': Jewish children assaulted in alleged hate crime in London

Haaretz - 10:43 Jun 26, 2024

A group of Orthodox boys were assaulted at a central tube station by children from another local school. 'They hit his head against the wall, dislodged a tooth,' says the mother of one of the boys
'A war in Lebanon won't be a duel with Hezbollah; Israel will face Iran's entire axis of resistance'

Haaretz - 10:06 Jun 26, 2024
A crumbling Netanyahu coalition altered the Haredi status quo – for the worse

Haaretz - 10:00 Jun 26, 2024

Netanyahu's response to the top court's ruling on the draft was misleading and inciting. Some expect him to keep promoting Gantz's 'exemption law' merely as a bid to buy time, knowing the court will strike it down

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