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• Renowned Harp contests in Israel canceled after low registration and artist withdrawals over Gaza

  Haaretz - 20:07 Aug 16, 2025
  

  'Israeli artists are the ones punished,' one of the organizers said after the prestigious Jerusalem contest was canceled. Italian harpist Claudia Lucia Lamanna said her planned participation was already hurting her career

• U.S. Homeland Security accused of posting antisemitic dog whistles in ICE recruitment tweets

  Haaretz - 19:49 Aug 16, 2025
  

  The posts reflect a larger effort by DHS and ICE, who are seeing a massive budget increase and hiring spree under President Trump, to use nostalgic language and images depicting American 'culture' and 'heritage' as under attack from outsiders

• A Palestinian state would rescue Israel. It would not be a reward for Hamas

  Haaretz - 19:26 Aug 16, 2025
  

  The Netanyahu government is already perpetrating a Nakba against the Palestinians of the West Bank, and is planning to inflict another on the Palestinians of Gaza. It's time to end the disaster that the settlement movement has inflicted on Israel, end the war and establish a Palestinian state

  Tags: Israel Palestinian

• Israeli army intensifies Gaza City bombardment as it prepares to conquer city, transfer population

  Haaretz - 19:11 Aug 16, 2025
  

  Gaza rescue services say they are struggling to reach casualties amid ongoing fire. The Health Ministry reported 11 deaths from hunger, including a child, and 62 from Israeli fire in the past 24 hours. The IDF said tents will be allowed into Gaza Sunday to prepare for 'population relocation'

  Tags: Israeli

• Tens of thousands of Israelis protest to end Gaza war with hostage deal ahead of countrywide strike

  Haaretz - 17:17 Aug 16, 2025
  

  Tel Aviv's Hostage Square was dotted with Nepali flags, in honor of hostage Bipin Joshi's family, who attended the protest for the first time; Shiri Bibas' sister told the crowd: 'A country that does not do everything in its power to return its sons loses its right to call itself a country'

• U.S. mediates between Israel and UN to ease tensions over Gaza Humanitarian Foundation

  Haaretz - 16:19 Aug 16, 2025
  

  Aryeh Lightstone, a senior U.S. official regarded as Witkoff's right-hand man and a sharp critic of the UN, is playing a key role in the talks. Recently, he told Arab diplomats that the UN feels threatened by the activities of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation

  Tags: Gaza Humanitarian Foundation

• 'Netanyahu himself is now a problem': Denmark's PM says country may sanction Israel over Gaza

  Haaretz - 15:50 Aug 16, 2025
  

  Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said Benjamin Netanyahu should step down, arguing he harms Israel's interests, and added that sanctions could target settlers, ministers, or Israel, including trade and research

  Tags: Israel

• U.S. suspends visitor visas for Palestinians from Gaza amid far-right pressure on Trump administration

  Haaretz - 14:50 Aug 16, 2025
  

  The suspension comes after far-right influencer Laura Loomer, a Trump ally, shared videos of Palestinian refugees arriving at U.S. airports while demanding that the State Department stop allowing entry to 'Islamic invaders'

  Tags: Trump

• Senior Israeli cyber official questioned in Las Vegas over alleged sexual solicitation of a minor

  Haaretz - 12:40 Aug 16, 2025
  

  Las Vegas police say the official, Tom Alexandrovich, was detained, along with seven other men, on suspicion of attempting to lure a minor online for sex while visiting the city this month. He was not arrested upon returning to Israel

  Tags: Las Vegas

• 'On Sunday, we are pausing our daily lives to save the hostages'

  Haaretz - 11:02 Aug 16, 2025
  

  Lishay Miran-Lavi, whose husband, Omri Miran, is being held in Gaza, is leading the calls for a general strike to advance the hostages' release. 'On Sunday, we are pausing daily life because we don't want more families to join this circle of grief,' she said

  Tags: Sunday

• Former IDF general calls Palestinian death toll in Gaza 'necessary' in recording

  Haaretz - 08:38 Aug 16, 2025
  

  Aharon Haliva, Military Intelligence chief during Hamas' Oct. 7 attack, said in a recording aired by Israeli Channel 12 that mass deaths in Gaza were not revenge but 'a message for future generations'

  Tags: Gaza

• 'I came to Israel for three months, and experienced history'

  Haaretz - 06:54 Aug 16, 2025
  

  This Week at Ben-Gurion Airport: A Russian living in Argentina seeks to experience the real Israel but gets caught off guard by the war with Iran, while an Israeli in California searches for a wife 'who knows what wars are'

  Tags: Israel

• How Hitler used the Olympics to charm the world and buy time for his plans

  Haaretz - 06:28 Aug 16, 2025
  

  Researcher Sarit Zaibert explains how the Nazis turned the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin into the greatest propaganda show in history

• 'Netanyahu learned from Begin that peace deals and military wins boost politicians'

  Haaretz - 04:50 Aug 16, 2025
  

  The aftershocks of Labor's crushing '77 defeat half a century ago still haunt Israeli politics, says historian Eran Eldar

• Netanyahu says he would agree only to an all-in-one hostage deal, 'all our conditions'

  Haaretz - 02:58 Aug 16, 2025
  

• Trump, Putin share greeting as critical summit on war in Ukraine starts

  Haaretz - 17:04 Aug 15, 2025
  

  Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who was not invited to the talks, and his European allies fear Trump might sell out Ukraine by essentially freezing the conflict and recognizing – if only informally – Russian control over one fifth of Ukraine

  Tags: Ukraine Trump

• Gaza health ministry says 51 Palestinians killed by IDF in past day, including 17 waiting for aid

  Haaretz - 15:20 Aug 15, 2025
  

  In Khan Yunis, IDF jets targeted a residential compound in the city center, causing severe damage to nearby buildings and sewage systems, whose destruction led to sewage flooding at the Nasser Hospital complex

• Two Palestinians reportedly attacked by Israeli settlers in southern West Bank

  Haaretz - 13:52 Aug 15, 2025
  

  Settlers reportedly entered the town of Susya and beat a married couple with clubs and stones before fleeing to a nearby outpost. While police promised the town's residents that forensic laboratory personnel would arrive to help collect evidence, locals said nobody arrived

• Only Netanyahu benefits as Israeli watchdog clashes with former IDF chief

  Haaretz - 13:38 Aug 15, 2025
  

  Every minute the newscasts devote to the state comptroller's bashing of former IDF chief Herzl Halevi diverts attention from Sunday's general strike, where protesters will be demanding an end to the Gaza war and a hostage deal

• UEFA president: 'Legitimate' to question Israel's inclusion in European soccer events

  Haaretz - 13:30 Aug 15, 2025
  

  European Football Associations President Aleksandr Čeferin said in an interview that while 'Israel is allowed to play in our facilities' and that he does 'not support banning athletes from participating in competitions ... it is difficult to know what will happen in the future'

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