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'A radicalizing experience': Why the plight of 'chained women' needs to concern all Jews everywhere

Haaretz - 06:57 Oct 18, 2025

As a young girl, Professor Shulamit Magnus watched her mother suffer in a marriage to a mentally ill man who refused to give her a 'get' – a Jewish divorce – an imperative to annul the marriage according to rabbinical law. In 'Jewish Marital Captivity,' she offers some solutions to the age-old problem of iggun
The obscure scribe who invented Judaism

Haaretz - 06:41 Oct 18, 2025

Shaphan the scribe, a marginal figure in the Bible, was the ghostwriter who shaped the Jewish faith – and history – that we know today
Body returned from Gaza identified as Eliyahu (Churchill) Margalit, killed on October 7

Haaretz - 05:22 Oct 18, 2025

Margalit's body was transferred by the Red Cross to Israeli forces stationed inside the Gaza Strip after receiving the coffin at 11:30 P.M. on Friday. Hamas did not disclose the identity of the body. There are now 18 deceased hostages being held in Gaza

Tags: Gaza
Israel receives two coffins of deceased hostages, to be identified overnight

Haaretz - 03:09 Oct 18, 2025
Likud minister May Golan suspected of crimes seeks to oversee Arab-Israeli crime-fighting program

Haaretz - 00:09 Oct 18, 2025

May Golan is trying to secure 2.5 billion shekels for ally Itamar Ben-Gvir's National Security Ministry to fight crime in the Arab community, with an administration headed by the two set to oversee it. Law enforcement officials question the optics, as Golan continues to avoid questioning

Tags: May Golan
Israeli Attorney General opposes bill that would allow political interference in Netanyahu's criminal trial

Haaretz - 18:11 Oct 17, 2025

Sources in the Justice Ministry say the bill is part of a broader campaign by Netanyahu's coalition to exempt him from the rule of law, and pave the way for President Isaac Herzog to pardon him

Tags: Netanyahu's
Likud lawmaker floats new Haredi draft bill that includes ultra-Orthodox parties' demands

Haaretz - 17:30 Oct 17, 2025

Officials close to MK Boaz Bismuth say the bill is the part of understandings reached earlier this year with Haredi leaders to lower conscription target numbers and ease personal sanctions on draft dodgers

Tags: Haredi
Israel's policy of separation perpetuates Hamas

Haaretz - 17:10 Oct 17, 2025

By isolating Gaza from the West Bank and Palestinians from their land, Israel helped entrench Hamas and erase political alternatives. Even if the dream of luxury villas in Gaza has vanished, the logic behind it remains: control of territory, indirect expulsion, and the continued suffocation of the Palestinian people under the guise of security

Tags: Hamas
Knesset committee assisting Nova survivors left without chair for three months

Haaretz - 16:55 Oct 17, 2025

The Knesset Special Committee for Public Petitions was led by Yitzhak Pindrus, but has remained without a head since his resignation in July ■ All committee hearings have been suspended since
Released hostage Omri Miran discharged from hospital days after returning from Gaza

Haaretz - 14:18 Oct 17, 2025

Miran arrived on Friday at Kibbutz Kramim in southern Israel, where his wife and two daughters have been staying since the October 7 attack
'I'm sorry it took us so long to bring you back': Slain hostage Inbar Haiman laid to rest in Israel

Haaretz - 13:23 Oct 17, 2025

Hundreds accompanied deceased hostage Inbar Haiman's funeral procession, including Israeli President Herzog, after her body was returned from Hamas captivity on Wednesday. 'You simply waited for all the Nova festival partygoers to come, and you were the last,' her mother said

Tags: Inbar Haiman
Netanyahu plots his PR, but Israelis know Trump is to praise for ending the war

Haaretz - 12:40 Oct 17, 2025

A poll shows that 76 percent of Israelis back the deal for Gaza with Hamas. There's no chance at least half the public will give Netanyahu credit for ending the war and returning the hostages if he doesn't take responsibility for the events that led up to October 7

Tags: Israelis Netanyahu
Once rivals, Egypt, Turkey and Qatar are slated to join forces to run Gaza after the Israel-Hamas war

Haaretz - 10:59 Oct 17, 2025

Only a few years ago, Turkey was considered 'worse than Iran.' Now, alongside former foes Qatar and Egypt, it will be a key player in the establishment of an interim government in Gaza, the management of the Strip's reconstruction budget and the disarmament of Hamas

Tags: Gaza Turkey Qatar Egypt
Why is Trump threatening to let Netanyahu restart the Gaza war?

Haaretz - 10:16 Oct 17, 2025

The U.S. president knows that renewing the fighting will push his regional allies – Qatar, Egypt, Turkey and the UAE – further from his vision of a new Middle East. Israeli officials seem skeptical about his threats
Licenses revoked for two Israeli doctors at the heart of embryo mix-up

Haaretz - 09:57 Oct 17, 2025

The IVF unit director at Assuta Medical Center in the central Israeli city of Rishon Letzion will permanently lose his license in light of 'continuous departure from work rules and management failures'

Tags: Israeli
Trump's Gaza stabilization and hostage recovery plan contains more gaps than details

Haaretz - 08:56 Oct 17, 2025

It is unclear who will lead the International Stabilization Force in Gaza, how long it will take to establish or how the U.S. will prevent Hamas from taking over the evacuated areas. The bodies of hostages that have yet to be returned could become a twilight zone that Netanyahu thrives on

Tags: Gaza
'Every line has been crossed. If someone is in trouble with the gray market, they kill his mother'

Haaretz - 08:24 Oct 17, 2025

When counseling Israeli Arab families whose relatives were victims of homicide, social worker Safa Younes encountered a world she wasn't prepared for
Netanyahu's Shin Bet pick met with official suspected of leaking classified intel

Haaretz - 08:23 Oct 17, 2025

Netanyahu's choice to head the Israeli security service, David Zini, who began his tenure this month, met on the eve of his appointment with a Shin Bet reservist suspected of leaking secret information, who is now facing criminal charges

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IDF fire kills 11-year-old in West Bank's Hebron area, Palestinian Health Ministry says

Haaretz - 07:29 Oct 17, 2025

The child is one of several children and teens killed by Israeli fire in the West Bank in recent months

Tags: West Bank
Mamdani says both Hamas, Israel 'should lay down their arms' after sidestepping question on Hamas disarmament

Haaretz - 06:55 Oct 17, 2025

The Democratic candidate for New York City mayor leads in the polls among voters who align more with his stance on Israel. Mamdani would be the city's first Muslim mayor if elected in the general election on November 4

Tags: Mamdani Israel

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