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Turkey's Erdogan offers the Kurds an olive branch wrapped in a threat

Haaretz - 11:40 Dec 31, 2024

The Turkish president is making efforts to reconcile with the Kurds, whose support is key for his continued grip on power. This could also help Syria's new leader to establish a unified state – but the path is fraught with obstacles

Tags: Kurds
Shin Bet chief says BibiLeaks probe stopped further leaks, potential 'entire framework' of top-secret disclosures

Haaretz - 10:36 Dec 31, 2024

Following criticism from Israeli ministers, Shin Bet security service chief Ronen Bar addresses for the first time the high-profile BibiLeaks investigation and rebuts claims that key suspects were abused during their detainment

Tags: Shin BibiLeaks
Israel's army has a new recruit: the avatar Yuvi

Haaretz - 10:27 Dec 31, 2024

An AI-generated character currently under development will help the army deal with its personnel crisis. The new system doesn't come without risks
The IDF is training an AI avatar to screen new recruits. What could go wrong?

Haaretz - 10:27 Dec 31, 2024

Israel's army is developing an AI character to interview reservists and eventually new conscripts to help deal with an intensifying personnel crisis. But can 'Yuvi' the avatar be trusted?
Excavation in Chemnitz finds mikveh from a time Jews were banned from the city

Haaretz - 08:01 Dec 31, 2024

Jews were expelled from Saxony, Germany in the 15th century and only gradually allowed back centuries later, hence archaeologists baffled by the ritual bath from the interim

Tags: Jews
With no hostage deal in sight, the IDF is depopulating northern Gaza out of sheer inertia

Haaretz - 04:00 Dec 31, 2024

Despite reports of progress in talks for the release of hostages, it seems that Israel and Hamas remain at odds. It is likely that the IDF will continue to expand its attacks in north Gaza, while systematically removing the Palestinian population – but it is highly doubtful that this will defeat Hamas

Tags: Gaza
After rockets fired at Netivot, IDF warns residents of Gaza camp of imminent strike on terror group

Haaretz - 03:25 Dec 31, 2024

GAZA: 45 patients evacuated to the UAE for medical care ■ ISRAEL: After sirens, IDF says it intercepted rocket from southern Gaza ■ LEBANON: News channels report an Israeli drone struck a car in southern Lebanon ■ YEMEN: U.S. confirms strikes on Houthi targets in Saana; Houthi official says attacks on Israel will continue

Tags: Gaza After
Initial draft of bill to exempt Haredim from military service highlights the hurdles facing Netanyahu's government

Haaretz - 23:52 Dec 30, 2024

The current version of the bill includes conscription targets only for the first two years from the moment the law comes into effect and coalition leaders will discuss whether to add targets for the coming years given opposition from ultra-Orthodox parties, which insist on a vague and partial wording
Israeli soldiers are falling in vain

Haaretz - 22:41 Dec 30, 2024
Gaza's man-made humanitarian crisis is the disaster everyone warned about

Haaretz - 22:21 Dec 30, 2024
Total victory for Netanyahu, not Israelis

Haaretz - 22:19 Dec 30, 2024
Israeli lawmakers are engaged in academic terror against Arabs

Haaretz - 22:17 Dec 30, 2024
Israeli arrested on suspicion of spying for Iran

Haaretz - 22:11 Dec 30, 2024

The suspect is accused of setting eight cars on fire, collecting information on infrastructure, spray-painting graffiti and surveilling an Israeli politician. Some 19 people were arrested in October alone on suspicion of espionage at the direction of Iranian contacts

Tags: Israeli
Haaretz Cartoon

Haaretz - 21:59 Dec 30, 2024
This Jewish couple was targeted in an Australian doxxing attack. Their lives were upended

Haaretz - 21:46 Dec 30, 2024

Joshua and Maggie May Moshe run a gift shop in Melbourne. When conversations they had in a WhatsApp group were published, the antisemitic threats and pro-Hamas graffiti got them moving across town - with their business
Palestinians are souring on Hamas – and they want an end to the war

Haaretz - 20:30 Dec 30, 2024

There's the bad news – apocalyptic destruction in Gaza, rampant poverty, utter despair about the Palestinian Authority – and there's more bad news: Over half of Palestinians still back the October 7 attack. But recent polls show that's not the whole story

Tags: Palestinians
Israeli pop star Eyal Golan's alleged sexual assault victim breaks silence on national TV

Haaretz - 19:28 Dec 30, 2024

The victim described multiple alleged rapes and sexual assaults that took place when she was a minor, which she alleges were committed by Golan, his father, as well as members of Golan's entourage
Seven people, including six infants, die of hypothermia in Gaza, authorities say

Haaretz - 18:52 Dec 30, 2024

The Gaza health ministry warns that the number of people dying from hypothermia is expected to rise as the result of heavy rain and difficult living conditions in flooded encampments
Ancient Syrian synagogue reopens to the country's dwindling Jewish community

Haaretz - 18:23 Dec 30, 2024

The Jobar Synagogue, also known as Eliyahu Hanavi, became inaccessible to Syria's Jewish community after the Assad government capture of the area, leveling the neighborhood and severely damaging the ancient Jewish landmark

Tags: Jewish
For pro-Palestinian protesters on U.S. campuses, 2024 began with a bang, ends in a whimper

Haaretz - 17:47 Dec 30, 2024

At the end of the U.S. fall semester, Gaza war encampments appear to be fizzling out. Some blame repression of free speech, others cite fatigue. All sides say there are less visible sides to the pro-Palestinian protests that are still bubbling

Tags: Palestinian

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