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One Holocaust survivor will mark her history differently after the horrors of Oct. 7

Haaretz - 18:55 May 05, 2024

Judith Tzamir, a Holocaust survivor from Germany who moved to Israel in 1964, will make the trip back to Auschwitz for the first time to participate in March of the Living, a 2-mile march from Auschwitz to Birkenau, joining October 7 survivors and released hostages
Die-hard Israeli fans hope to cheer on Eurovision in Malmo despite hostile vibes

Haaretz - 18:41 May 05, 2024

Fans who have decided to travel to Malmo, Sweden say they aren't worried about planned anti-Israel demonstrations, but outside the arena 'don't want to draw attention' or let others know they are Israelis

Tags: Malmo
Israeli chosen to light Independence Day torch for Oct 7 action cancels due to threats

Haaretz - 18:19 May 05, 2024

Nasreen Yousef, a resident of the southern Israeli moshav Yated, interrogated terrorists who infiltrated her area on October 7, but members of the community response team said she had exaggerated her role in thwarting the attack. She says she cancelled because of threats to her and her family

Tags: Israeli
Israel at war, day 212: CIA chief travels to Doha for emergency meeting with Qatari PM

Haaretz - 16:59 May 05, 2024

PM Netanyahu says 'Israel cannot accept' Hamas' demand to end Gaza war ■ Israel's defense minister: Hamas showing signs it doesn't intend to close deal, which means Rafah op will be launched 'in the near future' ■ CIA chief Burns traveling to Doha for emergency meeting with Qatar's PM ■ Netanyahu government unanimously votes to shutter Al Jazeera in Israel ■ Here's what you need to know 212 days into the war

Tags: Doha Israel
Trump accuses Biden of running 'Gestapo administration'

Haaretz - 16:54 May 05, 2024

A spokesperson for a Jewish-American group said, 'It's always wrong, offensive, and despicable to make comparisons like this — even more so when taken alongside the former president's long history of normalizing antisemitism'
Both Netanyahu and Sinwar need to win, so the Gaza war will carry on

Haaretz - 16:37 May 05, 2024

Most Israelis and Gazans understand that they have lost too much for there to be any notion of 'victory' in this war. But as long as their fates are controlled by two men who insist on being the victor, at any cost, this war is going to continue
Hezbollah fires heavy rocket barrages at northern Israel; Building hit, two wounded

Haaretz - 16:18 May 05, 2024

Around 40 rockets were fired from Lebanon at the Upper Galilee, the Israeli army said. In response, Israel struck Hezbollah targets in Lebanon; Lebanese news outlets report four civilians killed, two wounded

Tags: Hezbollah Israel
Netanyahu says Israel cannot accept Hamas demand to end Gaza war; Defense chief: Rafah offensive imminent

Haaretz - 15:30 May 05, 2024

Amid reported progress in Gaza talks, Defense Minister Gallant said inside Gaza that Israel recognizes 'alarming signs that Hamas doesn't intend to follow any agreement'; Hamas chief Haniyeh reiterated that the organization's starting point was the cessation of war

Tags: Gaza Hamas Israel
'I have been arguing with Hitler's mother for years'

Haaretz - 15:11 May 05, 2024

'Did Adolf breastfeed?': Of all the women in the world, Israeli psychotherapist Biri Rottenberg chose Klara Hitler as an imaginary friend for the main character in her new novel. The same imaginary friend she herself has had for years
Palestinians outraged as Egyptian firm 'makes millions' getting refugees out of Gaza

Haaretz - 15:08 May 05, 2024

Reports that Palestinians are being charged at least $5,000 to flee Gaza has led to accusations of Egypt profiting from their plight. 'Has the Rafah border crossing turned into the second Suez Canal?' asks one Gazan

Tags: Palestinians Gaza
SNL sidesteps student protests and opts for lighthearted fun at their parents

Haaretz - 15:04 May 05, 2024

The skit features a talk show roundtable in which the host asks the parents how they are feeling about the protests
Police breaks up USC pro-Palestinian encampment as protests spread across U.S. campuses

Haaretz - 14:41 May 05, 2024

It was the latest clash in several tense and sometimes violent weeks at colleges and universities around the country that have seen dozens of protests and hundreds of arrests at demonstrations over the ongoing Israel-Hamas war
The Jewish-Romanian family that spent two years hiding from the Nazis in a gold mine

Haaretz - 14:20 May 05, 2024

Liku Rifca Carmi and her family spent over two years from 1943 to 1945 sheltering from the Nazis in northern Romania. Now nearly 88 and living in Jerusalem, she recalls the hardships and horrors – bloodsucking leeches, dankness and darkness – and the words that haunted her mother to her dying day

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They escaped the Nazis as children. Now they can't go home because of Hezbollah

Haaretz - 13:18 May 05, 2024

Dozens of Israeli evacuees from Shlomi near the Lebanon border, including about 20 Shoah survivors, have been living in a Jerusalem hotel for the past seven months
March of the Living begins in Europe as Israel commemorates the Holocaust

Haaretz - 12:33 May 05, 2024

A silent March from Auschwitz to Birkenau and a procession across Budapest, March of the Living marks the killing of more than 550,000 Hungarian Jews within a few months during the end of World War II. In Israel, Holocaust Remembrance Day will have a different look after Oct. 7

Tags: Living March Israel
We need a truce in the Gaza proxy war on U.S. campuses

Haaretz - 12:15 May 05, 2024

The violence that broke out at the pro-Palestinian encampment at UCLA, where I teach, is a warning for other U.S. campuses, which face the same dangerous spiral of exclusion, radicalization and intensified outside pressure for political gain
A simple fact: there will be a Palestinian state. Its location: Palestine

Haaretz - 11:41 May 05, 2024

Only a fool doesn't understand that eventually there will be a Palestinian state. And we Israelis are the biggest fools

Tags: Palestinian
Netanyahu hoped Hamas would reject the cease-fire offer. When it didn't, he turned to sabotage

Haaretz - 11:30 May 05, 2024

Israel's criminal defendant prime minister, more focused on saving his incompetent far-right government than saving the hostages who have spent seven months trapped in Gaza, is doing everything he can to torpedo Israel's last and best chance at bringing the hostages home
IN PHOTOS: A different kind of fire in Jerusalem

Haaretz - 11:14 May 05, 2024

The ceremony of the 'Holy Fire' has been held for more than a millennium. This is how it was celebrated last week in Jerusalem

Tags: Jerusalem
Netanyahu cabinet unanimously votes to shut down Al Jazeera in Israel

Haaretz - 11:02 May 05, 2024

Israel's communications minister lauded the decision as 'an end to the network's well-oiled incitement machine'; Israel Police raided the channel's Jerusalem office and confiscated equipment; Al Jazeera slammed the decision, calling it a 'slanderous and deceptive move'

Tags: Jazeera

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