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• 'People are eating herbs': Israel's new Gaza offensive intensifies humanitarian disaster

  Haaretz - 19:59 May 18, 2025
  

  The renewed assault has triggered the deadliest days in Gaza this year, with hundreds killed, hospitals shut down, and over 63,000 people displaced, according to humanitarian groups. Fears of famine are mounting

  Tags: Gaza

• Gaza hostage talks: Israel sticks to prior U.S. proposal but open to discussing war's end

  Haaretz - 19:39 May 18, 2025
  

  Officials say Israel wants about ten hostages and bodies released before talks. The plan includes a 60-day cease-fire and freeing hundreds of Palestinian prisoners. A senior Hamas official told CNN they'll release seven to nine hostages under the deal

  Tags: Israel

• Israeli teen arrested for allegedly spying for Iran on ex-PM Bennett during hospitalization

  Haaretz - 18:45 May 18, 2025
  

  According to the investigation, the suspect collected information while Bennett was hospitalized last month. A source told Haaretz that security officials believe the information was intended to facilitate an attack on the former prime minister

  Tags: Bennett

• Is Netanyahu preparing to bow to mounting U.S. pressure for a Gaza cease-fire?

  Haaretz - 16:11 May 18, 2025
  

  While cease-fire talks continue in Doha, the real negotiations are unfolding between Jerusalem and Washington. If Hamas's Gaza leader Mohammed Sinwar is confirmed dead, the prime minister could frame it as 'total victory' – paving the way to move closer to Trump

  Tags: Gaza

• When even Piers Morgan condemns Netanyahu's 'shameful' war, Israel has a problem

  Haaretz - 16:04 May 18, 2025
  

  The British commentator's reversal from fierce defender to vocal critic signals a deeper crisis for Israel, as Netanyahu's 'forever war' in Gaza increasingly alienates supporters around the world

  Tags: Netanyahu's Israel

• Salman Rushdie cancels commencement speech at California college after pushback from Muslim, civil rights groups

  Haaretz - 16:00 May 18, 2025
  

  Rushdie faced backlash for criticizing pro-Palestinian activism on U.S. campuses. His withdrawal, welcomed by the colleges' Muslim student group, came days after a man was sentenced for a 2022 onstage stabbing, one of several attempts on his life since Iran's fatwa

  Tags: Muslim

• Mossad recovers belongings of Israeli spy Eli Cohen in covert operation in Syria

  Haaretz - 15:12 May 18, 2025
  

  Marking 60 years since Eli Cohen's execution, the Mossad says recordings, photos, and documents from his mission and interrogation have been brought to Israel – including images with senior Syrian officials, secret instructions, and personal letters

  Tags: Mossad Eli Cohen

• 'Terror supporters': Netanyahu gov't advances bill to bar Qatar from mediating talks with Israel

  Haaretz - 15:04 May 18, 2025
  

  The bill bars countries labeled as terror supporters from donating to or trading with Israel. Its notes call Qatar 'the largest investor in global terrorism' – even as Israel-Hamas hostage talks resume in Doha

  Tags: Qatar Israel

• Destroying Gaza 'with love': Israel's new YogiNazis

  Haaretz - 15:04 May 18, 2025
  

  Who said spirituality and ethnic cleansing don't go together? Israel is full of spiritual types who view the annihilation of the other as a form of personal growth

• 'It's humiliating that the key to freeing Israeli hostages has always been in the White House, not Jerusalem'

  Haaretz - 14:54 May 18, 2025
  

  Prof. Jonathan Dekel-Chen had to fight for over a year until his son, Sagui, was released from Hamas captivity in February. He says the U.S.-initiated release of Edan Alexander shows the Israeli government's 'lack of commitment' to releasing the hostages

  Tags: Israeli

• In Israel, some people need to smuggle books in order to read them

  Haaretz - 14:33 May 18, 2025
  

  A new documentary chronicles the difficulty of obtaining Arabic literature through the eyes of a Jaffa bookstore owner. Plus, Israeli Instagram stories are given new life as short films at DocAviv

• Both Israel and Lebanon want to disarm Hezbollah. Can it happen?

  Haaretz - 13:18 May 18, 2025
  

  Lebanon's leaders seem sincere about taking away the Shi'ite group's weapons. But Hezbollah has avoided giving up its arsenal many times before using this tried-and-true approach

• Houthis stopped their visit, but Northern Ireland peace Veterans have important advice for Israelis

  Haaretz - 13:16 May 18, 2025
  

  Avila Kilmurray and Monica McWilliams, who took part in crafting the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, explain how they helped quash the 'benign apartheid' that separated Protestants and Catholics

• Mystery of amber layer in sea floor 115 million years ago is solved

  Haaretz - 12:46 May 18, 2025
  

  Sedimentary rock in a Hokkaido quarry originated in the Cretaceous deep sea. Amber is created by trees on land. It has no reason to be at the bottom of the sea

• Bill expanding state control over media passes first hurdle, despite AG's objection

  Haaretz - 12:37 May 18, 2025
  

  Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi's proposal, framed as a cost-saving reform, would remove key safeguards on media ownership, allow political interference in broadcasting, and consolidate power in a new state-run authority

• Palestinian prisoner with multiple sclerosis, severe weight loss denied hospitalization for over three weeks

  Haaretz - 11:24 May 18, 2025
  

  The discontinuation of the 61-year-old's medical treatment could result in irreversible consequences, including paralysis and blindness, according to a medical opinion submitted as part of a High Court petition concerning his case

• At least 125 killed in IDF strikes across Gaza, medical sources say

  Haaretz - 11:13 May 18, 2025
  

  According to rescue services in the Gaza Strip, at least 34 people were killed in a single strike on southern Gaza's Muwasi. Since last week, Gaza casualties from Israeli strikes have noticeably spiked

  Tags: Gaza

• 'It wasn't just the hostage posters. The social fabric of New York was also torn'

  Haaretz - 09:21 May 18, 2025
  

  Nim Shapira's debut documentary 'Torn' chronicles the battle that arose over Israeli hostage posters after October 7 in city streets worldwide. Shapira, a Tel Aviv native living in Brooklyn, explains: 'I wanted to capture the zeitgeist of winter 2023 in New York'

  Tags: New York

• Netanyahu: Israeli delegation discussing ending Gaza fighting as part of deal with Hamas

  Haaretz - 08:40 May 18, 2025
  

  According to an Israeli source, talks are based on 'the Witkoff plan with modifications' which calls for a two-month cease-fire, the release of 10 living hostages and half of the deceased hostages at the deal's start, before entering negotiations on the war's end

  Tags: Israeli

• Body of Gaza Hamas leader Mohammed Sinwar reportedly found in Khan Yunis tunnel

  Haaretz - 07:29 May 18, 2025
  

  The Hamas chief was the target of an IDF strike on the European Hospital in Khan Yunis last week. Rafah Brigade Commander Mohammed Shaban was also killed alongside Sinwar, as well as 10 aides, according to reports

  Tags: Khan Yunis

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