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'Why beat Hezbollah if you can't save our home?': Northern Israelis protest postwar plight

Haaretz - 18:37 Dec 22, 2025

Demonstrators shut down most businesses in Kiryat Shmona on Monday morning, including two shopping malls, burned tires and blocked access to nearby communities. 'This place will turn into a giant old-age home,' one protester warned, a year after a cease-fire between Israel and Lebanon
Far-right Smotrich says Netanyahu pressed him to legalize more West Bank settler outposts

Haaretz - 18:21 Dec 22, 2025

Smotrich claims Israeli settlements in the southern West Bank are required to prevent 'a Palestinian invasion' of Israel. On Sunday, the Netanyahu government finalized the legalization of 19 previously unauthorized settler outposts in the West Bank

Tags: West Bank Netanyahu
Netanyahu: Gov't-backed Oct. 7 inquiry to probe Oslo Accords, anti–judicial coup protests

Haaretz - 18:01 Dec 22, 2025

Netanyahu made the remarks at the first meeting of a ministerial committee formed to determine the powers of a politicized probe set to be sent to the Knesset for approval. Other ministers called for the inquiry to examine the Supreme Court's role and the 2005 Gaza disengagement

Tags: Netanyahu
Selfies at Auschwitz: main character energy or bearing witness?

Haaretz - 16:53 Dec 22, 2025

Posting a smiling selfie from a death camp is generally frowned upon. But as the survivor population shrinks, Prof. Jackie Feldman asks: Could sharing selfies be how a phone-obsessed society witnesses the Holocaust?
God's chariot and secrets in stone: Top biblical archaeology stories of 2025

Haaretz - 16:26 Dec 22, 2025
Huckabee: Iran missed 'full message' of strikes on nuclear sites, is 'digging deeper'

Haaretz - 15:34 Dec 22, 2025

The U.S. ambassador to Israel also said that, if the Europeans have not yet grasped that a nuclear Iran presents a threat to them as well, 'then they're even dumber than I sometimes think they are'

Tags: Iran
Australian Jewish sports club renames mascot in honor of 10-year-old killed in Bondi Beach massacre

Haaretz - 15:04 Dec 22, 2025

Melbourne's Maccabi FC Caulfield announced that their 'MaccaBee' mascot will now be known as Matilda, after the parents of the youngest victim of the mass shooting urged the public to 'remember her name'
Failed homemade bombs, months of planning: Australian police reveals new findings in Bondi massacre

Haaretz - 14:01 Dec 22, 2025

Police say the alleged gunmen had planned the attack for several months, training with firearms in isolated rural parts of Australia. The Sydney Morning Herald said one of the perpetrators reportedly traveled to an area in the Philippines known to have connections to ISIS-inspired terrorist organizations
Bereaved families protest Netanyahu-led probe into Oct. 7 massacre outside PM's office

Haaretz - 13:08 Dec 22, 2025

Three protesters were arrested outside the Prime Minister's Office calling for a state commission of inquiry, ahead of the Knesset's first vote on Wednesday.
U.K. Holocaust charity faces pushback for sacking staffer involved in Standing Together

Haaretz - 13:05 Dec 22, 2025

Melanie Goldberg, who had been in the midst of organizing an event at the Scottish parliament, was told that her contract was terminated because the Jewish-Arab movement used the term 'genocide' to describe Israel's actions in Gaza
Over 70 percent of Israeli Jews oppose Arab parties in government, survey finds

Haaretz - 13:02 Dec 22, 2025

Alongside a decline in public trust in Israeli democracy, the report also reveals a drop in confidence in state institutions among all respondents. Meanwhile, the attorney general enjoys the trust of less than 40 percent of both Jewish and Arab respondents

Tags: Arab
Could Umm Kulthum have been a lesbian? New film reignites long-suppressed debate

Haaretz - 13:00 Dec 22, 2025

The release of a new film has reopened taboo questions about the private life of Egypt's most revered cultural icon, and the limits of what can be said about her
Netanyahu government unanimously votes to shutter Army Radio by March 1

Haaretz - 12:49 Dec 22, 2025

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara said before the cabinet's approval that Defense Minister Israel Katz's bill cannot be advanced, with her deputies calling the move to close the popular radio station a 'profound and significant infringement on freedom of speech'
Greek and Cypriot leaders visit Israel to discuss regional cooperation with Netanyahu

Haaretz - 11:31 Dec 22, 2025

This is the leaders' first joint meeting since the outbreak of the Gaza war. According to a Greek news report, the three countries are initiating a joint military force against the backdrop of what an Israeli diplomatic source called Turkey's unconstructive role in the Middle East

Tags: Greek
Reading like it's 1949: Two books from Israel's establishment that are just as relevant today

Haaretz - 10:15 Dec 22, 2025

Which books did Israelis read in the years after the War of Independence? Nearly eight decades later, literature that emerged during the birth of the country – like the two books below – remain shockingly relevant for a society navigating the current postwar era
There's no such thing as settler violence. It's Israeli violence

Haaretz - 09:47 Dec 22, 2025

The violence against Palestinians is the implementation of a long-established policy of ethnic cleansing that doesn't begin and end with 'extremist settlers' or Israel's 'far-right government'
Israeli government approves politicized Oct. 7 probe, advances batch of judicial coup bills

Haaretz - 09:14 Dec 22, 2025

The Likud-backed bill would give the Netanyahu government influence over the composition and mandate of the inquiry into Hamas' October 7 attack. The coalition is also advancing its judicial overhaul in a series of bills affecting the Justice Ministry and police oversight and related areas
Netanyahu ally met Qatargate suspect Srulik Einhorn at Israel's D.C. embassy

Haaretz - 07:42 Dec 22, 2025

Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana confirmed the two met at a conference hosted by the Jerusalem Post, whose editor-in-chief Zvika Klein was previously investigated in the case. Last week's meeting was the first time Einhorn met with a figure close to the prime minister since the Qatargate affair broke out

Tags: Qatargate
Netanyahu: Israel 'aware' of Iranian military exercises, 'making necessary preparations'

Haaretz - 04:12 Dec 22, 2025
Trump once declared ISIS defeated. Now the U.S. is attacking it again in Syria

Haaretz - 03:59 Dec 22, 2025

The American strike on dozens of Islamic State targets on Saturday was an impressive display of power, but it falls well short of seriously challenging the organization. Defeating it will require an effective Syrian army – something that does not yet exist

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