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• In first phase, 33 hostages to be released, Palestinians to return to north Gaza

  Haaretz - 18:05 Jan 13, 2025
  

  Sixteen days after an agreement is signed, negotiations over the release of remaining hostages in a second phase will begin. Hamas said that their response 'will be positive' provided that there is 'no harm to the key points important to our people'

• Netanyahu's far-right allies hurl last-minute wrecking ball at hostage negotiations

  Haaretz - 16:54 Jan 13, 2025
  

  Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich is part of an Israeli government which badly failed the hostages. It's inexcusable that he's making it harder to bring them back alive to their families

• Arkia announces flights to New York in collaboration with Israeli high-tech sector

  Haaretz - 16:32 Jan 13, 2025
  

  A 'historic day': Arkia CEO commended the airline's collaboration with DemocraTech, the high-tech workers anti-judicial coup protest movement. Round-trip tickets to New York will start at $1,199

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• Why Syria's Kurds are calling for a strategic alliance with Israel

  Haaretz - 16:05 Jan 13, 2025
  

  Threatened by Turkey and its proxies in the north of Syria, and the Islamists in power in the south, the PKK and its Syrian branch, the PYD, are sending feelers towards Israel. But can Israel fully respond without opening another war front, this time with Ankara?

  Tags: Israel

• Nawaf Salam, ICJ president, set to become Lebanese prime minister in blow to Hezbollah

  Haaretz - 15:57 Jan 13, 2025
  

  The support for Salam underlines a major shift in the power balance in Lebanon. Hezbollah believed a political understanding had been reached on the incumbent Mikati's election before the group agreed to elect Joseph Aoun president

  Tags: Hezbollah

• Unable to cure their kids' ultra-rare diseases, Israeli parents built company saving others

  Haaretz - 15:54 Jan 13, 2025
  

  The technology of QRGenetics identifies the activity of defective proteins in children with ultra-rare disease with no cure, and seeks out existing drugs for other uses – that may change the course of the disease. Despite a long list of remarkable successes, the company is still struggling for funding

• Criminal suspicions against Israel Prison chief grow, Justice Ministry investigators say

  Haaretz - 15:32 Jan 13, 2025
  

  Israel Prison Service chief Kobi Yaakobi is suspected of obstruction of justice and breach of trust. Department officials believe there is sufficient evidence against him to file criminal charges

• Influx of Israeli immigrants fuels 'unprecedented' growth of Dutch Jewish community, report finds

  Haaretz - 14:02 Jan 13, 2025
  

  Around 20 percent of Dutch Jews are born in Israel, according to the Institute for Jewish Policy Research in London – significantly higher than the 2 to 10 percent observed in other major Jewish communities across Europe

• 'Youssef was a diabetes patient. Thinking about how he would survive in Gaza tugged at my heart'

  Haaretz - 12:44 Jan 13, 2025
  

  Father and son Youssef and Hamza Alziadana were kidnapped alive by Hamas on October 7 and later killed in captivity, their bodies recovered by the Israeli army last week. 'Youssef was an amazing person,' their friend and manager recalls

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• 'I am an Arab Jew': The anti-Zionist Lebanese Jewish art critic who believed in coexistence

  Haaretz - 12:18 Jan 13, 2025
  

  Joseph Tarrab, who passed away this month at the age of 81, symbolized the possibility of warm relations between Arabs and Jews – before wars got in the way

• Gazans left without humanitarian aid as the Israeli army, Hamas and the UN trade blame

  Haaretz - 10:36 Jan 13, 2025
  

  While the UN blames Israel for targeting aid convoys and the IDF accuses Hamas of attempting to seize control of aid deliveries, it is the residents of Gaza who pay the price, as some aid remains stuck on the Israeli side of the border, while other supplies are looted within Gaza itself

  Tags: Israeli Hamas

• 'The character is reminiscent of Sara Netanyahu, but it wasn't written about Sara'

  Haaretz - 10:18 Jan 13, 2025
  

  'See it and judge for yourself,' says Osnat Fishman, one of the leads in 'Devour.' Written by Yaakov Shabtai in 1977, the play's revival by Tel Aviv's Habima theater is particularly relevant

• 'Assault on culture': head of Israel's national theater has a dire warning

  Haaretz - 10:05 Jan 13, 2025
  

  Habima CEO Danny Weiss warned against a string of funding cuts and closures of beloved institutions in Israel. Even Tel Aviv Cinematheque to the Batsheva Dance Company are under threat

• Franklin Foer to Haaretz: 'Biden botched the biggest objective of his presidency'

  Haaretz - 09:39 Jan 13, 2025
  

  The Atlantic's Franklin Foer, in Israel for a series of lectures at Tel Aviv University, tells Haaretz how President Biden's mistakes helped Trump win

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• Israeli official denies reports that 'final' draft of Gaza cease-fire deal passed to Israel and Hamas

  Haaretz - 09:24 Jan 13, 2025
  

  After sources told Haaretz that a significant development occurred in the negotiations overnight – and that the parties are 'very, very close to finalizing a deal' – Hamas said that Palestinian detainees in Israeli jails are 'close to reaching their freedom'

  Tags: Israeli Hamas

• Former Biden officials slam U.S. failure to curb Israel's disproportionate use of force in Gaza

  Haaretz - 06:32 Jan 13, 2025
  

  Andrew Miller, the former State Department point person on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, said that the U.S. did not impose any red lines, leaving Netanyahu with the message that 'he was the one in the driver's seat'

• Israel can negotiate with terrorists – Trump already set the precedent with the Taliban

  Haaretz - 04:00 Jan 13, 2025
  

  The strategy of using force alone to subdue a terror organization – and the insistence that such a group cannot dictate a war's outcome – has collapsed. Negotiations have now positioned Israel and Hamas as though they are parties of equal status

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• Haaretz Cartoon

  Haaretz - 03:18 Jan 13, 2025
  

• IDF says missile fired from Yemen 'likely intercepted' after several attempts

  Haaretz - 03:10 Jan 13, 2025
  

  ISRAEL: Five soldiers killed, eight wounded in northern Gaza Strip ■ LEBANON: Nawaf Salam, ICJ President, set to become Lebanese PM in blow to Hezbollah ■ GAZA: Report: Hamas agrees to the final draft of cease-fire deal, will announce after Israeli approval

• Alongside Doha negotiations, Netanyahu is readying his coalition for a deal

  Haaretz - 01:21 Jan 13, 2025
  

  Prime Minister Netanyahu met with Finance Minister Smotrich and National Security Minister Ben-Gvir about the emerging deal, and sources say that despite their objections, the two will not be quick to bring down the government, estimating that Trump will be sympathetic to West Bank annexation

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