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Can Etgar Keret turn a rabbinical seminary into a laboratory for Jewish storytelling?

Haaretz - 21:24 Sep 30, 2025

In the age of Gaza's destruction and endless turmoil, the Conservative Movement's flagship seminary has launched an MFA in creative writing, led by award-winning Israeli author Etgar Keret. The program hopes to offer a sanctuary for Jewish writers who feel excluded elsewhere

Tags: Jewish
Gaza's dead keep piling up as Netanyahu's government mulls Trump's cease-fire plan

Haaretz - 21:17 Sep 30, 2025
Any hostages freed as part of Trump's plan will become Netanyahu's trophy

Haaretz - 21:15 Sep 30, 2025
No amount of Yom Kippur atonement can redeem Benjamin Netanyahu

Haaretz - 21:01 Sep 30, 2025

You have destroyed, you have sacrificed, you have abandoned. And you're continuing to do so
Gaza aid flotilla says drone activity has increased as IDF prepares for interception

Haaretz - 19:58 Sep 30, 2025

Israeli army officials worry about clashes that could erupt with protesters, including Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, on the Global Sumud Flotilla's ships as they near Gaza. Italy's Meloni has called for a halt, despite all parties – including Israel's navy – promising to forgo violence during the takeover once the aid for the Palestinian enclave reaches Israeli waters

Tags: Gaza
Netanyahu government unanimously approves appointment of David Zini as next Shin Bet chief

Haaretz - 19:18 Sep 30, 2025

The appointment is expected to take effect on Sunday. The appointing committee said that Zini is 'expected to understand and know that subordination to the prime minister does not justify actions that are inconsistent with the broad principles of democratic governance'
Special episode: What you need to know about Trump's new Israel-Gaza peace plan | with Amir Tibon

Haaretz - 18:56 Sep 30, 2025
At behest of IDF chief, Israeli police agree to let Qatargate suspect return to work for hostages' unit

Haaretz - 18:48 Sep 30, 2025

Yoav 'Poli' Mordechai, a senior military officer in the so-called Qatargate affair suspected of defense-related offenses, is set to return to work at the IDF's Hostage and Missing Persons Unit. Haaretz learned that the IDF chief of staff reached out to Israel's top police official

Tags: Qatargate
Hamas Health Ministry data shows sharp decline in deaths due to malnutrition in Gaza

Haaretz - 18:36 Sep 30, 2025

According to the Gaza Health Ministry, only one person has died from hunger in the past ten days, as opposed to several each day. Data also shows a sharp drop in food prices across the Strip. Aid workers in Gaza also say the rate of Palestinians leaving Gaza City has slowed

Tags: Gaza
As Hamas and Islamic Jihad decry Trump plan, many Gazans say 'anything is better than bloodshed'

Haaretz - 18:23 Sep 30, 2025

Donald Trump's new cease-fire plan for Gaza was cautiously embraced by the Palestinian Authority, while Hamas and Islamic Jihad say the deal favors Israel. Palestinians who are living through Israel's brutal war in Gaza say they welcome 'any deal that will end the suffering' and urge Palestinians abroad not to oppose it

Tags: Hamas Islamic Jihad
As an Israeli filmmaker, thank you to everyone who is boycotting my works

Haaretz - 17:58 Sep 30, 2025

There is no doubt that the cultural boycott of Israel will harm not only the fascists, but also good and courageous people. So what? This is a small price to pay to end a genocide
To the beat of old Ivrit: How did future Israelis speak Hebrew a century ago?

Haaretz - 17:36 Sep 30, 2025

The Academy of the Hebrew Language has collected letters and journals to try to figure out how colloquial Hebrew sounded in the days when the children of immigrant Jews helped build the new society

Tags: Hebrew
'Black Moses': The man who envisioned a U.S. state for and by African Americans

Haaretz - 17:24 Sep 30, 2025

In 1891, attorney Edward McCabe convinced thousands of African Americans to follow him west in a bid to create their own Black U.S. state. As Caleb Gayle's new book tells it, these 'Exodusters' aimed to flee oppression and build their own Promised Land

Tags: African Americans
'I've had an interesting life without leaving home': The almost-forgotten exceptional Israeli artist

Haaretz - 17:11 Sep 30, 2025

Bianca Eshel Gershuni never shied from being seen as a "little woman." Five years after her death, she steps out of her ex-husband's shadow with a major exhibition. "The turtle accomplishes more than the deer that runs"
'Deadliest War': John Oliver slams Netanyahu in show not available for streaming in Israel

Haaretz - 16:34 Sep 30, 2025

The episode of 'Last Week Tonight' deals with the war in Gaza and the prime minister, and is not available to watch in Israel. HBO, which broadcasts Oliver's show, declined to comment

Tags: Israel
How horses became another symbol of Israeli oppression

Haaretz - 16:17 Sep 30, 2025

Israeli artist Alina Orlov started filming horses once she realized that the Israel police prefers to import one specific species, from the Netherlands

Tags: Israeli
Case closed against Israel Police official who issued gun license to Ben-Gvir's aide

Haaretz - 16:09 Sep 30, 2025

Brig. Gen. Ophir Bukey issued a personal firearms license to Ben-Gvir's office manager, Nili Kadosh, and was later promoted. Officials say that his brigade was in 'total anarchy' in issuing licenses, and the case was transferred to the police's disciplinary department

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'I am happy to see Trump's pressure worked and Netanyahu is talking about ending the war'

Haaretz - 16:00 Sep 30, 2025

Carmit Palty Katzir whose brother's body was returned after he was murdered in captivity, is cautiously optimistic about Trump's cease-fire proposal. But she wonders why it didn't come sooner. She says October 7 will remain an 'open wound until the hostages return'

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Trump says he will give Hamas 'three or four days' to respond to cease-fire proposal

Haaretz - 15:42 Sep 30, 2025

Following the release of Trump's Israel-Hamas cease-fire plan on Monday, the president said that if the Palestinian militant organization rejects the offer, he will 'let Israel do what they have to do'
Forced to submit by Trump, Netanyahu now looks like a loser on the world stage

Haaretz - 15:33 Sep 30, 2025

From the UN to the White House, Netanyahu's tired neocon talking points are out of touch even for the Trumpian right – and it's all due to his own strategic blindness

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