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  Haaretz - 20:27 May 05, 2025
  

• Hostages could be abandoned, die of starvation within days if Gaza offensive expands, IDF warns government

  Haaretz - 19:57 May 05, 2025
  

  Security officials warned Netanyahu's cabinet that the ground offensive will prevent aid from reaching hostage locations. The IDF is also concerned that Hamas may hide the hostages' bodies, possibly making recovery impossible if its operatives are killed

• 'First-degree act of fascism': Knesset debates far-right NGO bill aimed at decimating Israel's human rights groups

  Haaretz - 19:49 May 05, 2025
  

  The proposed law would block nonprofits' petitions to the High Court and severely cut their funding. Opposition MKs called the bill 'a law for destroying civil society in Israel' and criticized its irony, highlighting Qatargate, where Netanyahu's aides allegedly staged a PR campaign for Qatar

• Israel is heading for another disaster in Gaza, fueled by Netanyahu's delusional plans

  Haaretz - 19:18 May 05, 2025
  

  The expanded Gaza offensive approved by the cabinet is likely to fail, leading to prolonged entanglement and heavy deaths of soldiers, hostages, and Palestinians – without defeating Hamas. Netanyahu follows the far right, while IDF leadership hopes for Trump's intervention

  Tags: Gaza

• Israel strikes Houthi-held port in Yemen day after missile hits Ben-Gurion Airport

  Haaretz - 19:13 May 05, 2025
  

  The army said it struck 'significant economic' sources and destroyed terrorist infrastructure. The rebel movement announced earlier Monday the imposition of a 'comprehensive air blockade on Israel'

• Netanyahu's new Gaza plan is taken straight out of the Iraq War playbook

  Haaretz - 18:33 May 05, 2025
  

  While MAGA politicians are busy bashing other Republicans as 'neocons,' Israel is dragging the U.S. into an Iraq-style neoconservative ploy in Gaza

  Tags: Gaza

• I was immune to Marvel's charms. Then came 'Thunderbolts*'

  Haaretz - 18:09 May 05, 2025
  

  A long-time Tel Aviv expat returns to London, rediscovers overpriced cinema seats – and finds unexpected heart in Marvel's latest misfit squad

  Tags: Marvel's

• Hasbara delusions: When Gaza's hungry children are a 'PR failure'

  Haaretz - 18:08 May 05, 2025
  

  What does it say about a society when you can look at a child – sunken-eyed and silent with fear and grief – and decide the real injustice is that she's hogging the spotlight?

• Unnerving whisper: Louis Theroux captures the mundanity of Israel's extreme settlers

  Haaretz - 17:43 May 05, 2025
  

  'The Settlers' is curious rather than caustic as Theroux visits an illegal West Bank outpost, Hebron's segregated streets and a 'resettle Gaza' conference. By letting his subjects speak for themselves, he reveals the terrifying normalcy of the Israeli far-right

• Netanyahu's coalition resumes its judicial overhaul push as Knesset summer session begins

  Haaretz - 17:42 May 05, 2025
  

  Coalition disputes are expected to block efforts to pass a law granting military draft exemptions for Haredi men. Meanwhile, proposed legislation includes bills to limit NGOs, split the attorney general's role, weaken the media and silence academia

• Pincer movement: Inside Trump and Netanyahu's war on Israeli, Palestinian and international peace, aid and civil rights groups

  Haaretz - 17:04 May 05, 2025
  

  For NGOs working with Israelis and Palestinians, the war has not only meant unprecedented need for their aid and expertise, but also harsh blows to their funding and legitimacy. This is what's really at stake for civil society in the crosshairs of the Trump administration and Netanyahu's government

  Tags: Netanyahu's

• Tel Aviv and Berlin become sister cities as Israel and Germany set to mark 60 years of ties

  Haaretz - 16:22 May 05, 2025
  

  Berlin's mayor said Germans must protect Jewish life and defend Israel's right to exist, as the new partnership with Tel Aviv boosts ties in business, science, culture, and youth exchange. Next week, Israeli and German presidents will pay reciprocal visits to mark 60 years of diplomatic relations

  Tags: Tel Aviv

• Israel to launch Gaza plan after Trump Mideast visit; Palestinian transfer 'key goal,' official says

  Haaretz - 15:51 May 05, 2025
  

  The "forceful operation," which includes population evacuation as Netanyahu described it, will begin only if a hostage deal is not reached, an Israeli security official said. Humanitarian aid to Gaza will be restored once the operation starts, he added

  Tags: Gaza

• Amid widespread fraud allegations, Zionist Supreme Court asked to intervene in U.S. vote for World Zionist Congress

  Haaretz - 15:32 May 05, 2025
  

  A World Zionist Congress coalition comprised of Israeli pro-democracy expats is demanding that the Zionist Supreme Court, a special Jerusalem-based tribunal, prevent the certification of votes until an independent inquiry presents its findings

  Tags: Zionist Supreme Court World Zionist Congress

• 'Netanyahu's hostages': Families slam Israel's new Gaza plan for 'prioritizing land over our children'

  Haaretz - 14:15 May 05, 2025
  

  'Ulterior motives are at play, and the government is playing Russian roulette with our children's lives,' one hostage mother said after Israel's security cabinet unanimously decided to expand operations in Gaza

  Tags: Gaza Israel's

• The never-before-seen photos of young Israel – that 'turned out to be prophetic'

  Haaretz - 14:03 May 05, 2025
  

  French New Wave director Chris Marker's 1960 documentary and photos dispensed with the clichés about tractors plowing the land. After decades of being hidden in archives, his photos can now be seen at the Israel Museum

• When still life is worn-out Israeli army uniform

  Haaretz - 13:22 May 05, 2025
  

  Between rounds of reserve duty, Elkana Levi counteracts the misery with landscapes, portraits and still lifes

• 'When it comes to the hostages held in Gaza, the heart must prevail over the Halakha'

  Haaretz - 12:33 May 05, 2025
  

  The head of Tel Aviv's central Reform congregation, Rabbi Meir Azari, says Israel's leadership is 'incapable of grasping the gravity of the moment.' He warns that if the hostages aren't returned, 'it'll tear Israeli society apart'

• Democracy on edge: Germany brands leading AfD a 'far-right threat,' bracing for historic clash

  Haaretz - 12:12 May 05, 2025
  

  Germany's decision to label the far-right AfD a threat to minority safety raises a pressing question: How should the country confront such a danger, and will it outlaw its second-largest political party voted in by 10 million Germans?

• Druze communities face harsh criticism in the Arab world after Israeli strikes in Syria

  Haaretz - 11:25 May 05, 2025
  

  As a video of Israel's Druze spiritual leader Sheikh Muwafak Tarif boasting the country's support for the Druze in Syria went viral, the community - on both sides of the border - came under fire

  Tags: Druze Syria

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