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Two Israeli IVF lab heads arrested for allegedly knowingly importing eggs with genetic disease

Haaretz - 17:26 Mar 18, 2024

The investigation began after one patient had a stillbirth and another gave birth to a baby with hemophilia. Israel's Health Ministry is now ordering in vitro fertilization departments to locate women who received eggs from same clinic in order to inform them about the risks
Gaza will soon face famine, UN-backed report says; EU top diplomat accuses Israel of 'provoking' hunger

Haaretz - 16:22 Mar 18, 2024

About half the population in Gaza is currently facing 'catastrophic hunger,' according to the report. The UN urges complete access for humanitarian aid entering Gaza, in what officials have called a 'man-made' disaster. Meanwhile, Israel says the problem lies in the distribution of that aid

Tags: Gaza Israel
For Israelis and Palestinians, is there a 'pathway from hell to coexistence'?

Haaretz - 15:54 Mar 18, 2024

What are Palestinian-Israeli relations after October 7? Do they exist at all? Is a two-state solution dead? What is the role of religious fundamentalism in the Gaza war? Four panelists at the joint Haaretz-UCLA conference interrogate how we got here, and how, and if, there's a way forward
Gallant blasts Smotrich in cabinet meeting, says he won't allow turning Israel army to a 'militia'

Haaretz - 15:32 Mar 18, 2024

The defense minister accused the finance minister of undermining the defense establishment, after Smotrich told the IDF chief of staff he opposes additional appointments of senior army brass

Tags: Smotrich
How to destroy Israel's free press, step by step

Haaretz - 15:24 Mar 18, 2024

Perks for friends, punishment for opponents: Israel's Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi is exploiting the Gaza war to advance a series of steps designed to undermine the media in the country

Tags: Israel's
Netanyahu tells AIPAC: It's a 'deliberate lie' that 'extreme fringe groups' dictate his policy

Haaretz - 14:54 Mar 18, 2024

The prime minister insisted to AIPAC's visiting board that the idea that the Israeli public does not support his policies in Gaza is a 'falsehood.' He also pushed back against the Biden administration and international insistence that Israel should not invade Rafah, saying, 'our forces can go anywhere'
World Central Kitchen fed Israelis after October 7. Now it's bringing food to the starving in Gaza

Haaretz - 14:50 Mar 18, 2024

World Central Kitchen, the charity led by charismatic celebrity chef Jose Andres, organized the first ship to deliver food aid to desperate Palestinians this weekend. So how does Andres and his group navigate between both sides of the Gaza war?

Tags: Gaza World Central Kitchen
Franklin Foer's 'end of a Golden Age' for American Jews is a dangerous story

Haaretz - 14:03 Mar 18, 2024

Foer is right: It is a frightening time to be an American Jew. But what we need right now is clear thinking, not nostalgia, not panic and, despite our sense of betrayal, not to turn away away from liberal democracy
Ex-minister, whose son was killed on Oct. 7, calls Israel to release 'despicable murderers' to free hostages

Haaretz - 13:22 Mar 18, 2024

Former minister Izhar Shay, whose son Yaron was killed in action on Oct. 7, tweeted that he wants Israel to release his son's murderer and other 'despicable Nukhba terrorists' if it means getting back remaining Israeli hostages from Gaza.

Tags: Israel
From drones to construction: U.S. sanctions liable to hurt donations to illegal West Bank outposts

Haaretz - 12:47 Mar 18, 2024

The United States' decision to sanction outposts instead of just individual settlers constitutes further escalation in Washington's treatment of Israel's West Bank policy. A fundraising campaign currently underway for construction in a sanctioned outpost could be impacted

Tags: West Bank
Will Israeli academia speak out against the army's actions in Gaza? No way

Haaretz - 12:07 Mar 18, 2024

Beyond the fact that as a journalist I never sign petitions, I have no positive expectations of Israeli academic institutions, so I didn't sign a protest letter against the suspension of a Hebrew University professor
Dean of professor suspended from Hebrew University opposes her return if she doesn't recant

Haaretz - 12:00 Mar 18, 2024

Head of the School of Social Work announced the condition that Prof. Shalhoub-Kevorkian must express regret for denying rape and murder on October 7
Wartime Purim: In Israel, sales of IDF soldier costumes for kids are surging

Haaretz - 11:37 Mar 18, 2024

Israeli cities have canceled their customary parades, firecrackers are discouraged, schools have banned bloodstained or frightening outfits. But sales of soldiers and cops costumes are outpacing the fantasy superheroes who usually top the charts
The Israeli artist preoccupied with Nazis and Hitler

Haaretz - 11:27 Mar 18, 2024

In his exciting new Tel Aviv exhibition, painter Ilya Gefter depicts scenes from the Third Reich. His spectacular paintings are far from glorification
Israeli archaeologists reveal huge ancient hiding complex in the Galilee

Haaretz - 10:20 Mar 18, 2024

Evidence that not only Judeans, but Galileans were involved in the Bar Kochba revolt is piling up, say archaeologists excavating a subterranean complex at Huqoq
IDF raids Gaza's Al-Shifa hospital, killing top Hamas official; Israeli soldier killed near compound

Haaretz - 09:34 Mar 18, 2024

The Israeli army said that at 2:30 A.M. on Monday, forces began a 'high precision operation' on Al-Shifa, citing 'concrete evidence' that senior Hamas members were again using it as a command post

Tags: Hamas Al-Shifa
Hamas is starting to paint its own strategic victory image in the Gaza war, and Israel is helping it

Haaretz - 04:04 Mar 18, 2024

The very release of Palestinian prisoners was considered an achievement by Hamas in past deals, but this time, it's insisting on the release of prisoners serving life sentences as part of its strategy for survival and influence

Tags: Hamas
On eve of fateful decision on Israeli hostages in Gaza, Netanyahu's government is in no rush

Haaretz - 04:02 Mar 18, 2024

Slow progress in negotiations for a hostage release deal may be motivated for Netanyahu by fear of angering the far right, leading the defense minister to call his own meeting over the weekend in defiance of the PM's foot-dragging
White House: Netanyahu to send team to talk Rafah invasion; top Hamas militant chief killed in Israeli strike last week

Haaretz - 03:07 Mar 18, 2024

IDF says 80 suspects detained during raid on Gaza City medical complex, 20 militants killed ■ Israeli team for hostage talks lands in Qatar ■ UN-backed report says Gaza will face famine soon ■ IDF strikes Hezbollah building and operatives in southern Lebanon ■ Israel believes Hamas' number three in Gaza either killed or seriously wounded in airstrike

Tags: Israeli
Supporters of equal IDF burden have an ally in Israel's Smotrich and religious right

Haaretz - 23:26 Mar 17, 2024

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