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Israeli and foreign banks block aid to Gaza, pushing donors into crypto

Haaretz - 12:23 Jan 05, 2026

Several financial institutions fear that the money will reach terrorist organizations and are legally obligated to prevent this. Due to the difficulty in transferring funds to Gaza residents

Tags: Gaza
'Embarking on a new path': United Arab List leader to allow Jewish candidates on slate

Haaretz - 11:59 Jan 05, 2026

By opening the United Arab List to Jewish candidates and breaking from the Islamic Movement, party chair Mansour Abbas seeks to recast the party as a cross-community, civic force, while ruling out Likud alliances and positioning it as a critic of extremist government policies affecting Arab citizens

Tags: United Arab List Jewish
Qatargate suspect plans to meet Netanyahu after ban from PM's office expires, lawyers say

Haaretz - 11:32 Jan 05, 2026

Police appealed to a judge who refused to extend the restrictions barring Yonatan Urich from the Prime Minister's Office, citing a 'reasonable basis for fearing that Urich's continued employment poses a danger to public safety or may facilitate the commission of a similar offense'
Landlord denies claim Chabad house in Nepal closed over rising hostility to Israel

Haaretz - 11:26 Jan 05, 2026

In an interview with Haaretz, Saput Sherchand, who inherited the property from his father, said the Chabad couple who ran the facility were habitually late in paying their rent. The couple and Sherchand subsequently issued a joint statement saying the issue had been resolved

Tags: Chabad
Police to summon Israeli ministers and senior civil servants to testify in Qatargate

Haaretz - 11:21 Jan 05, 2026

The top officials are set to be summoned over difficulties investigating lobbyist Jay Footlik, to better understand the connection between the ministers and senior officials and the American businessman who served as a lobbyist for Qatar
Israeli citizen Charlotte Niddam killed in Swiss New Year's Eve ski-resort fire

Haaretz - 11:00 Jan 05, 2026

Charlotte Nidam was a joint British-French-Israeli national. Swiss authorities are investigating whether celebratory candles or unsafe ceiling materials triggered the blaze that killed 40 and injured more than 100
Earliest cremation in Africa 9,550 years ago discovered in Malawi

Haaretz - 10:30 Jan 05, 2026

Hunter-gatherers came together and built a pyre to burn a woman in a rock shelter, and lit fires there for hundreds of years
'Your days are numbered': Threats against state prosecutor, top court spray-painted on Army Radio wall

Haaretz - 10:16 Jan 05, 2026

The threatening graffiti comes amid a government push to close Army Radio due to its 'political and divisive content', and broader coalition efforts to circumscribe freedom of the press in Israel. Late last year, similar grafitti turned up on Haaretz's building and on Channel 13's studio

Tags: Army Radio
Haaretz Cartoon

Haaretz - 09:34 Jan 05, 2026
Heed the call of former Supreme Court President Aharon Barak

Haaretz - 09:14 Jan 05, 2026

In a video message to anti-government protesters in Tel Aviv, Barak emphasized that the court alone cannot stop the Netanyahu government's destruction of Israeli democracy – the public must act, because 'our life's work is in danger'
49-year-old woman stabbed to death by husband in alleged femicide in Pardes Hannah

Haaretz - 08:48 Jan 05, 2026

Two of the couple's five children were home during the murder, and a complaint had been filed against the husband for violence toward family members in the past. This marks the first femicide of 2026, as last year's murder rates reached a record-high of 307
Netanyahu says Israel won't let Iran rebuild nuclear programs: 'Severe consequences'

Haaretz - 02:43 Jan 05, 2026
We must take the next election seriously, it may be Israel's last

Haaretz - 00:51 Jan 05, 2026

No one in the government is behaving as if there is a real threat to their seat. Rebuilding voter confidence, including that of their supporters, is not a goal. This is not the behavior of a leadership that plans to win an election fairly
Jerusalem braces for Ramadan after Ben-Gvir installs contraversial ally as city's top cop

Haaretz - 00:46 Jan 05, 2026

Despite misconduct allegations, Maj. Gen Avshalom Peled was sworn in on Sunday and will oversee law enforcement in a district with over 1 million people at a time of rising tensions exacerbated by National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, just weeks away from the Ramadan holiday

Tags: Ramadan
Why Israel's left is also to blame for Gaza war crimes

Haaretz - 00:27 Jan 05, 2026

A recent poll reveals that nearly half of Israelis on the left highly rate the military's moral conduct in the war in Gaza. If this is the group expected to oppose the immoral use of force, then the left did not fail in its criticism, it relinquished the need for it

Tags: Gaza
Be'er Sheva District Court President Benny Sagi killed in traffic accident

Haaretz - 00:18 Jan 05, 2026

The court president died Sunday after colliding with an off-road vehicle on Route 6. He was 54 and remembered for his decades-long legal career and high-profile rulings
IDF deploys to northern West Bank to facilitate settlers' return

Haaretz - 23:59 Jan 04, 2026

The IDF is establishing new bases in the northern West Bank to secure settlements expected to be established in the region following the repeal of the 2005 Disengagement Act, a move Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said will 'erase the shame of expulsion'

Tags: West Bank
Tehran reportedly admits the regime is in 'survival mode' following protests

Haaretz - 23:32 Jan 04, 2026

Three Iranian officials told the New York Times the regime is in survival mode as protests swell across the country. Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi reportedly warned government-linked media chiefs that the crisis has become a fight for the survival of the Islamic Republic
Netanyahu backs Ben-Gvir allowing Jewish prayer at Temple Mount, denies status quo breach

Haaretz - 23:13 Jan 04, 2026

The prime minister said policy changes led by the national security minister allowing Jewish prayer at the Al-Aqsa/Temple Mount compound were coordinated with him, dismissing warnings that the moves breach decades-old arrangements

Tags: Temple Mount Jewish
Might makes right: Israel embraces Trump's 'Donroe Doctrine' at its own peril

Haaretz - 20:25 Jan 04, 2026

America's attempted takedown of Venezuela's leadership appears to many in Jerusalem – certainly within Netanyahu's orbit – as a straightforward win for Israel. Yet a world of cruel realism and naked power politics is dangerous for Israel in the long term

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