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Gaza officials report 63 deaths in past day despite Israel's announced pause in offensive operations

Haaretz - 17:40 Oct 05, 2025

One Gaza City resident said that while the intensity of IDF bombardments has decreased, airstrikes continue, primarily in eastern neighborhoods where Israeli forces remain present. The death toll in Gaza from the war has reached 67,139, with 169,583 people wounded, according to the Health Ministry

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Netanyahu's last stand: How rewriting the Gaza war will decide the Israeli leader's political destiny

Haaretz - 17:24 Oct 05, 2025

From his paralyzing shell-shock in the first hours of the Hamas assault to bombastic claims of 'total victory': This is how Netanyahu, eying elections, is already drafting an alternative history of the Gaza war, the tragedy of so many Israelis and Palestinians be damned

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Hundreds of thousands march across Europe in support of Palestinians, Gaza aid flotilla

Haaretz - 16:16 Oct 05, 2025

In the Netherlands, an estimated 250,000 people, most dressed in red, gathered in Amsterdam to press the government to take tougher action against Israel. In Spain, a group of women marched carrying white bundles symbolizing the bodies of children killed in Gaza

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Posting without a hand: Gaza's teenage girls turn survival into online diaries

Haaretz - 15:31 Oct 05, 2025

While girls their age across the world post videos of themselves opening gifts, girls in Gaza document a different reality – which includes hunger, loss and shortages. This documentation, beyond being a tool for collecting donations, also has a therapeutic effect
Why Jews shake the four species on Sukkot – and how the Greeks may be to blame

Haaretz - 15:31 Oct 05, 2025

Arguably the most obscure of Jewish customs, during Sukkot, Jews shake a closed date frond, some myrtle boughs, a few willow twigs and a citron fruit as part of the daily prayer service – but why and where did this begin?

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In Saudi Arabia, Dave Chappelle jokes that 'I stand with Israel' would be his code for censorship

Haaretz - 15:28 Oct 05, 2025

Famed stand-up comic Chappelle used his set at the controversial Riyadh Comedy Festival as a critique of U.S. free speech limits, including on Israel and Charlie Kirk. He jokingly promised to use a code phrase to signal censorship: 'It's got to be something I would never say in practice'
How a Canaanite storm god and his palace may have shaped the Jewish festival of Sukkot

Haaretz - 15:24 Oct 05, 2025

Scholars have come up with various alternatives to the religious theory for the origin of the huts, from families moving into the fields during harvest season and living in the huts to them once serving as housing for pilgrims coming to Jerusalem for the harvest festival
Only Netanyahu believed he'd survive politically after October 7. This is how he did it

Haaretz - 15:22 Oct 05, 2025

The first weeks of Israel's war in Gaza were the most critical of the prime minister's career. Sources close to him tell Haaretz how he reached across the political divide to save his political life
10 strange facts you probably didn't know about Sukkot, the Bible's bloodiest holiday

Haaretz - 15:19 Oct 05, 2025

During the time of the First Temple, Sukkot was considered the most important holiday – with the Torah referring to it simply as 'the holiday' and historian Josephus describing it as the 'most holy and important feast'

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They survived the Nova party massacre. Two years on, they are still hiding

Haaretz - 14:54 Oct 05, 2025

The state expects survivors of the Nova festival to recover, but with hostages still in Gaza and the war dragging on, the personal tragedy persists. 'I knew we had an army, we hade a police force; I believed in them, and this is the main thing that has been screwed up with me. We're living it now'

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How Netanyahu's Doha debacle helped unite the world behind Trump's Gaza plan

Haaretz - 14:52 Oct 05, 2025

U.S. President Donald Trump's 'day after' plan for Gaza, if effectively executed, could offer stability and security to the Middle East. But the deal's ability to survive rests on whether Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Hamas move on what previously were hardline demands

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'Whored themselves to a dictator': Comedians, human rights groups slam top U.S. comics taking the stage in Saudi Arabia

Haaretz - 14:39 Oct 05, 2025

Dave Chappelle, Kevin Hart and others are taking the stage in Riyadh's 'world's biggest comedy festival,' which human rights groups call a whitewashing of repression
How the war in Gaza dramatically changed Israeli aviation

Haaretz - 14:37 Oct 05, 2025

Israel's three largest airlines – El Al, Israir and Arkia – nearly doubled their market share since the war in Gaza began. Smaller airlines have replaced the foreign legacy carriers and low-cost giants have disappeared, and Ben-Gurion Airport expects to see 2.1 million passengers over the holidays

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Why the West Bank is suspiciously missing from Trump's plan for 'Middle East peace'

Haaretz - 13:47 Oct 05, 2025

U.S. President Donald Trump's plan is not a path to peace. It is a mechanism for cementing fragmentation and denying the Palestinians a prosperous future
For Trump's Gaza plan to reflect U.S. global leadership, he must keep Netanyahu in check

Haaretz - 13:45 Oct 05, 2025

Gaza, Ramallah and Washington all say that a cease-fire, the release of the hostages and a new governing body in Gaza are forthcoming, but all sides are declining to make clear statements. This is Trump's moment of truth: will he be able to enforce Israel's promises if Netanyahu tries to call it quits again?

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'I was defending something I no longer believed in': How two years of the Gaza war changed Jewish students around the world

Haaretz - 11:58 Oct 05, 2025

Two years after the Hamas attack of October 7, Jewish graduates from New York to Cape Town and Sydney reflect on the war, and how pro-Palestinian protests, rising antisemitism and the Gaza death toll have reshaped their views on Israel and their Jewish identity

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Hostage Square filled with hope: Netanyahu might ignore them, but the White House listens

Haaretz - 11:50 Oct 05, 2025

Israeli hostages' relatives hardly got any sleep in light of the recent developments on a Gaza cease-fire, and activists were walking around dreamy-eyed on Saturday's Tel Aviv rally. The two-year-long roller coaster has reached new heights, but everybody knows: The ride isn't over yet
Thousands march in Israel's Arab town of Sakhnin to mark 25 years since deadly October riots

Haaretz - 09:59 Oct 05, 2025

After banning Palestinian flags and chants for Gazans, hundreds of police officers were deployed at the Sakhnin march. The riots in 2000 were a turning point in Jewish-Arab relations – especially between Israeli Arabs and law enforcement – ahead of the second intifada and a surge in crime

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David Zini officially begins tenure as Shin Bet chief amid opposition from former agency heads

Haaretz - 09:26 Oct 05, 2025

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's nomination as Shin Bet security agency director went into effect on Sunday

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'A thug': British Jews denounce Israel's invitation to U.K. far-right agitator Tommy Robinson

Haaretz - 09:13 Oct 05, 2025

A day after the Yom Kippur attack on a synagogue in Manchester, Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli invited far-right, anti-immigrant activist Tommy Robinson to Israel. 'He has ignored the views of the vast majority of British Jews,' said a statement by the Board of Deputies

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