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Netanyahu apologizes to Qatari PM for Doha strike during meeting with Trump

Haaretz - 17:56 Sep 29, 2025

According to the White House, Netanyahu promised the prime minister not to violate Qatari sovereignty in the future. Members of the Netanyahu government slammed the apology, with Finance Minister Smotrich calling it a 'disgrace'

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Ben-Gvir's aide suspected of preventing weapon seizure of settler who shot at Palestinians

Haaretz - 17:49 Sep 29, 2025

Ben-Gvir's chief of staff, Hanamel Dorfman claimed the settler fired at Palestinians 'in self-defense' and refused to cooperate in questioning. He is currently implicated in a separate police investigation in which he is suspected of attempting to exert influence in Jewish terrorism cases

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Palestinians in West Bank and Gaza say global wave of statehood recognition is 'all talk'

Haaretz - 17:12 Sep 29, 2025

While the recognition by several Western nations was widely welcomed, many say the gesture is meaningless without an end to war and famine in Gaza. 'Someone who can't find a shelter, with death surrounding him, doesn't have the luxury to care about a state,' said one Gaza City resident

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Lior Suchard: 'I showed Kris Jenner Oct. 7 videos. 3 days later she posts: 'I Stand with Israel''

Haaretz - 17:10 Sep 29, 2025

'When you see Jennifer Lopez, you might say, 'Wow, it's Jennifer Lopez.' She says that I'm her celebrity': Mentalist superstar Lior Suchard explains why, despite his enormous success in America, he doesn't want to leave Israel

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EU confirms it has reinstated sanctions against Iran, as E3 nations urge Tehran to 'refrain from escalatory action'

Haaretz - 17:02 Sep 29, 2025

Sanctions include freezing Iranian bank assets, travel bans on certain officials and banning Iran's purchase and transportation of crude oil, but 'the door for diplomatic negotiations remains open,' as United Kingdom, Germany and France say they 'had no choice' but to trigger the procedure
'We will not play': Owner of Italian basketball team Trapani Shark calls to disqualify Israeli teams

Haaretz - 16:31 Sep 29, 2025

Valerio Antonini of Trapani Shark plans to petition FIBA to disqualify Israeli clubs, citing 'unprecedented genocide' in Gaza. Trapani is drawn with the Israeli Bnei Herzliya team, Tofas Bursa, and Tenerife, scheduled to play in Opava, Czech Republic, on October 28

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I watched hours of nostalgic Israeli TV and found a nation once kinder and wiser

Haaretz - 16:11 Sep 29, 2025

For me, an '80s kid, nothing is more soothing than watching programs from Israel's broadcasting authority archive. That era's talk shows provide a better lesson for today than the current inflammatory fare
How Trump's Gaza plan could fracture Netanyahu's fragile coalition

Haaretz - 14:38 Sep 29, 2025

Netanyahu faces rising dissent from far-right allies over Trump's Gaza plan, with Smotrich warning any compromise on Palestinian statehood is a red line that 'would endanger Israel's existence' and Ben-Gvir insisting the war cannot end without Hamas' total defeat

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Senior outgoing IDF officer: 'The army's values have been trampled and desecrated'

Haaretz - 14:31 Sep 29, 2025

Outgoing commander Major General Nimrod Aloni said the IDF must ensure an event like the Nova music festival massacre never happens again, adding that he would atone for his decision 'to go to Southern Command on October 7 at the request of the commander, rather than fight in border kibbutzim'
Hamas reportedly warns Trump's peace plan will allow Israel to avoid withdrawing from Gaza

Haaretz - 14:05 Sep 29, 2025

After reviewing Trump's official cease-fire proposal, Palestinian sources worry that a transitional international authority could establish permanent rule over Gaza, and that even after the war ends, military operations could resume under the guise of a 'security threat'

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'Culture is Political': London electronic music festival cancels Israeli DJ's set

Haaretz - 13:42 Sep 29, 2025

Organizers of the Origins music festival said Roi Perez, who plays at Berlin's Berghain club and Boiler Room events, is no longer invited to play a set in London, after a pro-Palestinian group Ravers for Palestine accused the DJ of 'normalizing the apartheid regime'

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How Yom Kippur became Israel's car-free 'Bicycle Day'

Haaretz - 12:04 Sep 29, 2025

When did the streets of Israel fall silent on Yom Kippur, and confrontation become replaced with children playing?
Google Maps diverts drivers from highway to Jerusalem because it passes through Palestinian territory

Haaretz - 11:45 Sep 29, 2025

Instead of Israel's main highway, drivers are diverted through Beit Shemesh or warned that roads 'may cross borders/areas.' The glitch highlights how Google handles disputed territories. The company says the issue is 'under investigation'
'Homecoming': hundreds attended the second burial of father and daughter whose bodies were returned to Kibbutz Azza

Haaretz - 11:06 Sep 29, 2025

Almost two years after a father and daughter were murdered on October 7, their bodies were returned to their kibbutz for a second burial – this time in the presence of the family, who were released from Hamas captivity in November 2023. 'I don't know if I will be able to live here again, but Nadav and Yam have finally returned home'
'We've sinned: We had deals before us and we did not bring the hostages home'

Haaretz - 10:49 Sep 29, 2025

Ahead of Yom Kippur, Reform Rabbis Galia Sadan and Meir Azari offer contrasting responses to Israel's hostage crisis: one urges easing public guilt, the other calls for societal reckoning. 'You have to hold them, week after week, Shabbat after Shabbat, protest after protest, rally after rally,' says Sadan
This Yom Kippur, the shofar must cry out: Gaza is not a just war!

Haaretz - 10:08 Sep 29, 2025

Since the October 7 Hamas attacks, the Jewish people have been blinded by our rage and by our trauma. We must raise our voices to demand a cessation of the violence and annihilation being perpetrated against Palestinians in Gaza

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'Why do I have to beg?' Hostages' families beseech Sara Netanyahu in U.S. visit, Trump for cease-fire deal ahead of White House Gaza briefing

Haaretz - 09:57 Sep 29, 2025

Footage shows Sara Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister's wife, ignoring a hostage's father as he greets her at the Lubavitcher burial place in New York. The Hostages and Missing Families Forum penned an open letter to President Trump, warning of 'any attempts to sabotage the deal'

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Tehran executes alleged Israeli spy amid escalating Iran-Israel shadow war

Haaretz - 09:05 Sep 29, 2025

The man was sentenced to death for allegedly providing Mossad with access to Iranian government databases and investigating electronic imports, the judiciary news outlet Mizan said. Executions of accused Israeli spies in Iran have surged this year, particularly following June's aerial conflict

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To seal the Gaza deal, Trump must prove he can rein in Netanyahu

Haaretz - 09:01 Sep 29, 2025

The new American proposal to end the Gaza war and free the hostages, and Monday's meeting between the U.S. president and the Israeli prime minister, will both be disastrous failures unless Trump convinces Hamas and the world that Netanyahu takes orders from him, not the other way around

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As Western countries recognize a Palestinian state, Smotrich holds back 1.8 billion shekels from the Palestinian Authority

Haaretz - 08:37 Sep 29, 2025

Israel's government began withholding unprecedented funds from the Palestinian Authority in June. The security cabinet seemingly never discussed the move – it was led by far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich alone. Unlike previous U.S. administrations, Trump is cooperating

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