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At the 30-year memorial after Rabin's assassination: Same place, same people, still calling for peace

Haaretz - 15:39 Nov 02, 2025

It wasn't a state ceremony, no one tried to make it one. It belonged entirely to one camp: smaller now, bruised and insecure, yet still there, still standing. Even the word peace was spoken
Newly released recordings of Yitzhak Rabin: Israel wouldn't exist without military might, but the goal is peace

Haaretz - 14:00 Nov 02, 2025

Audio recordings have been newly released to coincide with the 30th anniversary of Yitzhak Rabin's assassination. The former chief of staff and prime minister talks about balancing military might with a diplomatic process, the importance of U.S. ties and the need to strengthen ground forces

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Israeli settlers filmed torturing lambs in a Palestinian-owned pen in the West Bank

Haaretz - 13:28 Nov 02, 2025

The videos from the southern West Bank show masked Israeli settlers entering the sheep pen, abusing and injuring lambs on the ground. Human rights activists say that settler violence against Palestinian flocks in the West Bank has worsened recently

Tags: Israeli West Bank
Two leaks, two tales: Why the prisoner abuse video leak and the Bild Hamas document are different

Haaretz - 13:02 Nov 02, 2025

Members of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's circle are seeking the same strict conditions for those who leaked the video of IDF soldiers abusing a Palestinian detainee as were imposed on his associates who leaked confidential IDF documents to Bild. Though both involve security leaks, key differences remain
There was a fox in Bethsaida

Haaretz - 12:41 Nov 02, 2025

In the dead of night, an unexpected animal walked on the freshly mortared wall of a Byzantine church complex by the shore of the Sea of Galilee 1,700 years ago
Leading New York Reform rabbi slams Zohran Mamdani's past remarks as antisemitic, 'demonizing' Israelis

Haaretz - 09:59 Nov 02, 2025

'I fear living in a city where anti-Zionist rhetoric is normalized,' said Central Synagogue's Rabbi Angela Buchdahl, saying his remarks echo 'age-old antisemitic tropes.' Days from the mayoral election, as polls suggest a significant decline in Jewish support for Mamdani, Buchdahl cited legal limits and the synagogue policy for refusing to endorse any candidate
IDF legal chief avoided probes into Gaza war crimes, citing right-wing backlash, sources say amid resignation

Haaretz - 09:55 Nov 02, 2025

After resigning last week over the Sde Teiman affair leak, the IDF legal chief, senior sources told Haaretz, used 'various pretexts to avoid opening or advancing investigations 'into numerous IDF abuses in Gaza, including the army's March 2025 killing of 15 medical personnel and a 2024 airstrike that killed seven World Central Kitchen volunteers

Tags: Gaza
World Zionist Congress moves to block Netanyahu's son from high-paying job amid PM's pressure

Haaretz - 07:05 Nov 02, 2025

Sources said the prime minister urged leaders in the congress to delay, not block, the vote, which was not possible under WZO bylaws. Yair Netanyahu's name is not on the list, compiled by representatives of a majority of the factions, as voting on appointments began Sunday morning
Netanyahu's long list of excuses to block the October 7 state commission of inquiry

Haaretz - 04:03 Nov 02, 2025

Now that the war in Gaza is mostly over, Netanyahu must deliver on his promise to launch a thorough probe into the October 7 attack. As elections grow closer, either a new government or the opposition force a state commission on Netanyahu, or he will manage to form one on his own terms

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Trump: One of three bodies released is American-Israeli IDF soldier Omer Neutra

Haaretz - 03:43 Nov 02, 2025
Slain hostage Oded Lifshitz refused to stay silent on Israel's misdeeds

Haaretz - 03:16 Nov 02, 2025

Oded Lifshitz, taken alive to Gaza and killed in captivity, sought to make this place more just and humane. His new collection of essays shows it wasn't out of naivety, but because he refused to lie to himself

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Quick to condemn leak and cover-up of Gazan detainee abuse video, slow to punish abusers

Haaretz - 01:59 Nov 02, 2025
Rabin's assassination was a test for Israel's democracy, and we failed it

Haaretz - 01:19 Nov 02, 2025

Democracy is not only measured by the degree of agreement, but by the ability to contain ideological conflict
Rabin's assassination was a test and we failed

Haaretz - 01:19 Nov 02, 2025

Democracy is not only measured by the degree of agreement, but by the ability to contain ideological conflict
Just don't turn the military advocate general into a martyr

Haaretz - 00:51 Nov 02, 2025
Justice minister bars attorney general from handling investigation into Gazan detainee abuse video leak

Haaretz - 00:19 Nov 02, 2025

Justice Minister Yariv Levin alleged that Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara misled Israel's top court in the matter of the military's top legal chief leaking a video showing abuse of a Palestinian detainee, saying there are 'high chances' the AG's testimony will be required
'Jews feel more Jewish as antisemitism intensifies': How British Jews navigate between anxiety, Zionism, class and culture

Haaretz - 22:00 Nov 01, 2025

Israel's media sometimes portrays London as a no-go zone, but the uncovering of an 11th century cemetery in the City of London reveals the deep roots of the Jewish community, whose contemporary cultural figures include Stephen Fry, David Baddiel and Howard Jacobson. 'The Jewish ties to Britain are far too deep to be eroded by antisemitism or anything else,' says one expert

Tags: Jewish
How a leaked video of a notorious IDF detention center could help Netanyahu take down Israel's democracy

Haaretz - 22:00 Nov 01, 2025

The implications of the 'Sde Teiman affair,' whose protagonists include the IDF's top prosecutor, a right-wing mob, Palestinian detainees, Israel's Channel 12 TV and Itamar Ben-Gvir's failed police force, are so wide-ranging they could help Netanyahu's crusade against Israel's core democratic institutions

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U.S. envoy Barrack: Disarming Hezbollah unrealistic, Lebanon's stability depends on talks with Israel

Haaretz - 20:39 Nov 01, 2025

U.S. Special Envoy to Syria and Lebanon Tom Barrack said the path to stability in Beirut is the beginning of negotiations with Israel. He warned, however, that 'We don't have time for this diplomatic cadence. In four months, you could end all of this'

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Thousands mark 30 years since assassination of PM Yitzhak Rabin in Tel Aviv rally

Haaretz - 20:24 Nov 01, 2025

Opposition leader Yair Lapid condemned extremist politics, criticizing figures like Itamar Ben-Gvir and warning against distorting Judaism with violence and hatred. Former IDF Chief Gadi Eisenkot echoed concerns about political polarization and incitement

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