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Israel's protest movement helped stop the war. Now it must fight for a proper peace

Haaretz - 17:50 Oct 16, 2025

Israel's two-year protests calling for a cease-fire and to bring the hostages home was a crucial precondition for Trump to pressure Israel's government and Hamas to close the deal. Now, that mass movement must offer an alternative to Netanyahu's doctrine of eternal war

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'We're still fighting for basic necessities': Palestinians return to the rubble of Gaza City

Haaretz - 17:50 Oct 16, 2025

Immediately after the Israel-Hamas cease-fire was declared, Palestinians began returning to their homes in northern Gaza – or what remains of them. Despite the truce, residents report dire living conditions: 'We're still struggling to secure food, water and medical care'

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Shin Bet official to be charged on suspicion of leaking classified information to media, minister

Haaretz - 17:24 Oct 16, 2025

The suspect, a reservist deputy unit head in Israel's security service, is questioned about leaking information that 'caused intelligence damage and harmed state security' to journalists and Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli, who is not expected to be questioned in the case
Brother of freed Gaza hostage says Hamas tried to make hostages believe Israel had given up on them

Haaretz - 16:56 Oct 16, 2025

Three emotional days have passed for the Cohen family since their son, Nimrod, was freed from Hamas captivity on Monday. In an interview with Haaretz, his brother Yotam said that the struggle isn't over yet, as 19 deceased hostages remain in Gaza

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Freed hostages Eitan Horn, Nimrod Cohen return home after discharge from hospital

Haaretz - 16:05 Oct 16, 2025

After two years in Hamas captivity, hostages Eitan Horn and Nimrod Cohen returned to their hometowns, reuniting with family and friends, as communities in Kfar Sava and Rehovot celebrated their release

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Exploring the 'pariahs of society': In 'Unfit', a Jewish writer from Argentina depicts a woman's spectacular breaking point

Haaretz - 15:47 Oct 16, 2025

Ariana Harwicz's blazing novel 'Unfit' tells the story of Lisa, a Jewish Argentine immigrant in rural France battling for custody of her children as her mental health unravels. Harwicz tells Haaretz how her own 'Kafkaesque' experience in court informed her story – and why she considers cultural boycotts against Israel as an attack on Diaspora Jews.

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Netanyahu calls genocide 'fictitious' at Israeli state ceremony for soldiers killed in Gaza war

Haaretz - 15:20 Oct 16, 2025

At Israel's state memorial for soldiers killed during the Gaza war, Netanyahu said that 'the struggle is not yet over.' President Isaac Herzog said in his speech that Israel must 'create a vision for the future, for the "day after'' – both domestically and internationally'

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Uncanceled nation: The artists who perform in Israel, despite everything

Haaretz - 14:57 Oct 16, 2025

Kevin Spacey, Michael Rapaport, Azealia Banks: What do artist still willing to come to Israel have in common? And how classical and Greek music may save the country from isolation

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After the Gaza war, Netanyahu's next battle: Avoiding an investigation into October 7

Haaretz - 14:55 Oct 16, 2025

With a cease-fire in Gaza, and a Supreme Court deadline, Netanyahu will look for ways to circumvent the the establishment of a commission of inquiry into the failures leading to October 7 – and any accountability. Israelis must hope the courts are still strong enough to stand up to him

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With the Gaza war over, Netanyahu and his loyalists are back to dismantling Israeli democracy

Haaretz - 14:32 Oct 16, 2025

As Israel celebrates the hostages' return from Hamas captivity, Prime Minister Netanyahu's inner circle is using the moment to attack the courts, weaken the rule of law and tighten its grip on power
Deceased hostages Tamir Nimrodi and Muhammad al-Atrash, Eitan Levy laid to rest in Israel after two years in Hamas captivity

Haaretz - 14:32 Oct 16, 2025

'We reached every corner of the earth to speak about you, to tell the world what an amazing man you are, and that we must not give up on you,' said Nimrodi's father. A senior commander said of al-Atrash that he 'showed courage and love and was a bridge of mutual responsibility in our country'

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Israel needs U.S. aid more than ever. Will Trump give it?

Haaretz - 12:40 Oct 16, 2025

The wars of the last two years saw a surge in money and arms to Israel. But it seems the president, the Republicans and Americans in general want to tighten the spigot

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Hamas delay in returning hostage bodies not holding up talks on phase two of Gaza cease-fire, officials say

Haaretz - 11:47 Oct 16, 2025

One foreign official said Israel is still committed to the agreement and had also been aware in advance that Hamas would have difficulty returning the bodies of deceased hostages within days, but expected Hamas to return more than nine bodies by Thursday

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I held up this sign at the Knesset as a mirror of truth – to Trump and the public

Haaretz - 11:45 Oct 16, 2025

In the face of propaganda and applause, we raised a sign to remind the world who's still paying the price
Amid rising antisemitism in Norway, one of the world's northernmost synagogues turns 100

Haaretz - 11:31 Oct 16, 2025

As politicians and dignitaries take part in Trondheim Synagogue's centennial celebrations later this month, for the city's small but growing Jewish population it has become a safe haven from post-October 7 antisemitism
Israel says preparations to open Rafah border crossing are underway

Haaretz - 11:27 Oct 16, 2025

Israel had earlier warned it could keep Rafah shut and reduce aid into the Gaza Strip as Hamas was returning the bodies of dead hostages too slowly. Two sources told Reuters that the Rafah crossing was expected to open for the movement of people on Thursday

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'Hamas isn't going anywhere': Amos Harel on the hard realities facing Trump and Netanyahu in postwar Gaza

Haaretz - 11:04 Oct 16, 2025
Without a viable governing alternative, Trump's peace plan may legitimize Hamas in Gaza

Haaretz - 10:10 Oct 16, 2025

Trump's plan for Gaza leaves an opening for Hamas to become an unarmed political movement. Israel must prepare for the possibility that, just as Trump legitimized Al-Sharaa's terrorist militias in Syria and signed agreements with the Taliban in Afghanistan, he might well view Hamas, too, as a 'deserving' organization if it just agrees to disarm

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Hamas shoots opponents in Gaza unimpeded as IDF's hands tied by lack of Gaza cease-fire details

Haaretz - 09:06 Oct 16, 2025

'It's beginning to look like a massacre there,' one IDF officer said. According to another officer, Israeli soldiers can see from observation posts that armed Hamas members are shooting at Palestinians who have tried to resist them – or who are suspected of assisting Israel – but have been instructed not to intervene

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From Beirut to Haifa to Nablus, before borders and nation-states: traveling through Ottoman Palestine

Haaretz - 08:58 Oct 16, 2025

From Qalqilya to Petah Tikva, between Marjayoun and Safed, without fences and borders: The first Hebrew translation of a travelogue by young Ottoman elites reveals rich cultures and a shared life just before everything changed

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