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• Senate Republicans narrowly confirm Todd Blanche as Trump's attorney general

  Haaretz - 16:10 Aug 08, 2026
  

  Blanche, Trump's former personal lawyer who has served as acting attorney general since April, agreed to narrow the tax-immunity deal and end the 'anti-weaponization payments' that critics have described as a fund for the president's allies

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• Hunter Biden discusses father's worsening cancer condition as former president continues to speak out

  Haaretz - 14:42 Aug 08, 2026
  

  The former president is set to publish a memoir, 'Promise Me, America,' after the midterm elections

• Iran says Hormuz deal with Oman 'very close' – but not enough to reopen strait

  Haaretz - 14:38 Aug 08, 2026
  

  Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said that reopening the strait depends on other conditions, including U.S. compensation to Iran. Meanwhile, the UAE said Iran attacked an Emirati vessel that attempted to cross the waterway

  Tags: Iran

• Netanyahu seeks $17 bilion added to planned military spending hike over decade

  Haaretz - 11:47 Aug 08, 2026
  

  The prime minister has asked that the funds be added to a planned $117 billion addition to Israel's defense spending over the next 13 years, after it had already received repeated boosts since war broke out on October 7, 2023

• 'Everyone moves to Tel Aviv': Why secular tech workers are fleeing Jerusalem

  Haaretz - 10:17 Aug 08, 2026
  

  Jerusalem is struggling to retain its secular population, and Mobileye illustrates the scale of the challenge: The flagship of the city's tech sector is struggling to retain employees, many of whom prefer to work in central Israel

  Tags: Jerusalem

• She never served in the Israeli army. Her heroine is an angry soldier

  Haaretz - 09:42 Aug 08, 2026
  

  'There's a fetishistic element to the whole obsession of serving in the army': The heroine of 'Cuz You're Ugly' refuses to fit in. Director Sharon Engelhardt discusses belonging in Israeli society – and why fat bodies onscreen are still expected to justify their presence

  Tags: Israeli

• Former Netanyahu aide says staff were asked to pledge personal loyalty to PM's family

  Haaretz - 09:33 Aug 08, 2026
  

  Yoav Horowitz, the Prime Minister's former Chief of Staff and PMO director-general described the staff as 'obsessive' to the Netanyahu family, and said Netanyahu's wife Sara and son Yair were 'aggressively involved' in decision-making processes

• Emerging Middle East pact seen in Israel as sign of waning U.S. influence

  Haaretz - 09:32 Aug 08, 2026
  

  The Saudi Arabia-Turkey-Pakistan defense pact holds significant economic-political importance and won't likely yield military action against Iran, but sources in Jerusalem see it as mostly negative for Israel as relations with Ankara continue to sour

  Tags: Israel

• The Israeli-Canadian climate activist taking Prime Minister Carney to court

  Haaretz - 08:35 Aug 08, 2026
  

  Canada's government has developed a rapacious appetite for oil and minerals. Activist Shirley Barnea has had enough

• Haredi crowd gathers for weekly protest outside Jerusalem cafe open on Shabbat

  Haaretz - 08:30 Aug 08, 2026
  

  Dozens of ultra-Orthodox protesters gathered in streets surrounding the cafe, which in past weeks has turned into the center of a growing dispute over businesses operating on Shabbat. 'Let them open in a secular neighborhood,' one Haredi leader said

  Tags: Haredi Shabbat

• Report: U.S. general privately urges Trump officials to seek 'off-ramp' from Iran war

  Haaretz - 07:07 Aug 08, 2026
  

  Gen. Dan Caine has raised his concerns with CIA Director John Ratcliffe, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Vice President JD Vance, two sources told CNN

• We were sent to rehab in Bnei Brak. We discovered another world

  Haaretz - 00:40 Aug 08, 2026
  

  My father broke his hip. With Tel Hashomer's rehabilitation ward filled with wounded soldiers, we ended up in a Bnei Brak nursing facility, where elderly Jews are cared for by Israeli Arab and immigrant staff from across the globe

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• 'It's hard to know if we'll endure': Israel's leading philosopher on manipulation, morality and the future of Zionism

  Haaretz - 23:47 Aug 07, 2026
  

  For decades, Avishai Margalit was the intellectual who explained Israel to the world. At 87, one of the country's greatest philosophers reflects on justice, the price of freedom, nationalism and the uncertain trajectory the Zionist project

• Jerusalem braces for another Saturday battle over a cafe open on Shabbat

  Haaretz - 21:36 Aug 07, 2026
  

  As demonstrations against Café Basimta grow, one Haredi leader said that the owner has a 'right to open on Shabbat, and we have the right to protest against it. There are plenty of secular neighborhoods in the city – let them open there'

  Tags: Shabbat

• Jerusalem braces for Saturday Sabbath battles over downtown café

  Haaretz - 21:36 Aug 07, 2026
  

  As demonstrations against Café Basimta grow, one Haredi leader said that the owner has a 'right to open on the Sabbath, and we have the right to protest against it. There are plenty of secular neighborhoods in the city – let them open there'

• Four killed in Houthi attacks in Yemen and Saudi Arabia, sources say

  Haaretz - 21:00 Aug 07, 2026
  

• Lebanon, Israel agree shortlist of countries that could send troops to verify Hezbollah disarmament

  Haaretz - 20:00 Aug 07, 2026
  

  A Lebanese official declined to identify any of the countries on the shortlist or say how many there were. A U.S.-brokered deal signed in June links Israel's progressive withdrawal ⁠of troops from Lebanon to the disarmament of Hezbollah, which would be 'verified' by a third party

  Tags: Lebanon Hezbollah

• Iran is getting closer to controlling the Strait of Hormuz without curbing its nuclear program

  Haaretz - 16:14 Aug 07, 2026
  

  The Iranian-Omani deal on tap for the waterway would give Tehran power it didn't have before the war. The Gulf states, led by Saudi Arabia, have set the boundaries of U.S. military action, so Trump will enter any talks lacking leverage

• Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan sign defense pact amid regional tensions

  Haaretz - 11:14 Aug 07, 2026
  

  The Makkah Joint Defence Agreement treats an attack on any member as an attack on all and is described as open to other regional countries

• Police close probe into fatal West Bank shooting despite 'mistaken' killing

  Haaretz - 10:20 Aug 07, 2026
  

  Khaled Hassan, a 34-year-old father of three, was killed during a police operation in the West Bank city of Qalqilyah in 2025. His family said footage showed officers made no attempt to arrest him before opening fire

  Tags: West Bank

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