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The struggle against Arab-Israelis' exclusion will determine the future of Israeli democracy

Haaretz - 13:56 Oct 16, 2024
Pro-Palestinian groups press for charges against Israeli soldiers who served in Gaza

Haaretz - 12:36 Oct 16, 2024

Israeli officials are concerned that these efforts, combined with genocide allegations at the ICJ, could expose soldiers to legal proceedings in various countries

Tags: Israeli
How Netanyahu overcame his fear of protracted wars

Haaretz - 12:05 Oct 16, 2024

The war in Gaza has been pushed along by a lust for revenge, so it has been harder for Netanyahu to satisfy his base. Luckily, in the Lebanon story there are no Palestinians or ghosts of Israel's 2005 Gaza pullout
Netanyahu has a plan for putting the Haredi draft issue to bed

Haaretz - 11:44 Oct 16, 2024

Israeli PM Netanyahu is advancing a compromise that would save his coalition without fixing the existing imbalance in the burden of IDF service. The main obstacle remains Defense Minister Gallant, but sources in Likud say Netanyahu won't hesitate to replace him if he doesn't fold

Tags: Netanyahu
'He dragged America deeper into the Middle Eastern quagmire': What Harris and Trump can learn from Reagan's mistakes

Haaretz - 11:09 Oct 16, 2024

Ronald Reagan's Middle East policy was a fiasco from beginning to end, says Washington Post columnist Max Boot, who has just written an authoritative new biography on the GOP legend. The next U.S. president would do well to study his mishandling of crises with Israel, Lebanon and Iran
Columbia bans Israeli-American professor from campus over alleged harassment

Haaretz - 10:29 Oct 16, 2024

Shai Davidai claims he's being singled out for opposing pro-Palestinian protests, while the university says he 'repeatedly harassed and intimidated' employees
Archaeologists find first-ever evidence of a cat kneading, in Jerusalem

Haaretz - 09:50 Oct 16, 2024

Combing through excavation material from Mount Zion in Jerusalem, lab director Gretchen Cotter noticed something unusual on an Abbasid-era clay jug

Tags: Jerusalem
Shin Bet, police arrest Israeli man allegedly recruited by Iran to carry out assassination

Haaretz - 08:17 Oct 16, 2024

According to the indictment, the man completed various missions for Iranian operatives, including picking up a gun and ammunition for the planned assassination
10 things you might not know about the Jewish festival of Sukkot

Haaretz - 06:50 Oct 16, 2024

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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Why Jews put up huts and eat in them during Sukkot

Haaretz - 06:40 Oct 16, 2024

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
Why Jews shake the four species on Sukkot

Haaretz - 06:35 Oct 16, 2024

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?

Tags: Sukkot
'There's a war on, but what's a family to do?': Israel's post-October 7 real estate market

Haaretz - 06:22 Oct 16, 2024

Demand for housing in Israel will remain tight 'even if a simultaneous war erupts with Iran, Yemen, Hamas and Hezbollah,' real estate executive Ronen Jaffa predicts. 'Only increasing supply will influence prices'
Paradigm shift in ultra-Orthodox housing: A network of Haredi communities in Israel's Negev

Haaretz - 06:20 Oct 16, 2024

A strategic distribution of ultra-Orthodox housing in Israel's Negev offers a rare opportunity for a dual solution: a response to the Haredi housing shortage and a significant advance in the area's development

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'They tried to block Arabs from Jewish communities. But I was the one who was screwed'

Haaretz - 06:16 Oct 16, 2024

Israeli court petitions give the impression that admissions committees for small towns were created to keep Arabs out of Jewish communities. Yet most of those being rejected are Jews

Tags: Arabs Jewish
Young Israelis enter the real estate market – but they're not looking for places to live

Haaretz - 06:13 Oct 16, 2024

Many millennials and even Gen Zers in Israel are realizing that they can't afford to buy an apartment where they live, but they can buy an apartment for investment purposes in a more peripheral area
Israeli Arabs, Bedouin face growing pains while seeking new homes in Be'er Sheva

Haaretz - 06:12 Oct 16, 2024

While the state hinders the development of Bedouin communities in the Negev, a quarter of the building plots in a new neighborhood in Be'er Sheva were purchased by Israeli Arabs and Bedouins migrating to the metropolis

Tags: Be'er Bedouin Sheva Israeli Arabs
'At the UN, I understood that Netanyahu doesn't intend to bring the hostages back. He'd rather have them return in body bags'

Haaretz - 03:01 Oct 16, 2024

Danny Elgarat, whose brother Itzhak Elgarat was abducted from his home in Kibbutz Nir Oz, has been hunger striking for 17 days in an effort to rouse the public to join the battle for the hostages. He fears for his brother's life
A voluntary, invisible firewall cuts Israelis off from what's happening in Gaza

Haaretz - 03:01 Oct 16, 2024
German defense exports to Israel stir unprecedented tensions as delivery delays mount

Haaretz - 03:00 Oct 16, 2024

German defense exports to Israel once enjoyed total public consensus, but amid legal concerns over Israel's conduct in Gaza and reports that Germany has frozen its arms shipments, the issue is now cause for controversy

Tags: German Israel
On defense and offense, Israel given another reminder of its reliance on the United States

Haaretz - 03:00 Oct 16, 2024

When the U.S. threatens to suspend arms sales to the IDF and, at the same time, it has deployed batteries of air defense systems across Israel because of a lack of local interceptors, the boundaries of Israeli independence are being tested

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