The world is watching: The global stakes of Israel's election
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Beyond Selma Blair: the Jewish circuit's shrinking pool of pro-Israel celebrities
In pursuit of star power, Jewish legacy organizations have turned to cultural figures whose biggest roles are decades behind them – and, critics say, overlook offensive remarks that undermine the fight against antisemitism
Israel's High Court of Justice bars political parties from tracking voter turnout
Also on Thursday, Israeli officials told Haaretz that an election panel will monitor servers used by political parties' apps to ensure they do not illegally transfer personal information about voters
Chabad Hassid stabbed in Manhattan's Diamond District, NYPD probes possible hate crime
Manhattan Shomrim and the New York Police Department Hate Crimes Task Force are investigating the stabbing as a possible antisemitic attack.
Knesset candidates join far-right activists to block Gaza aid trucks
Yisrael Beiteinu lawmaker Yulia Malinovsky joined the protest near Kerem Shalom, where activists demanded an end to aid deliveries and called for Hamas to be dismantled. Amkha Yisrael member Sigal Kraunik called the shipments a 'national disgrace'
Netanyahu and settlers invent an enemy: Foreign journalists
The Israeli government is waging an unprecedented war against foreign journalists. Israeli journalists must stand in solidarity with them, or risk becoming the next target
How Likud plans to bypass court restrictions and track voters
Netanyahu urged supporters to use the app, which records turnout figures as party activists seek to identify voters who have yet to cast ballots. The opposition bloc uses a similar app, raising separate privacy concerns
Haredi party leader vows to mandate school prayer spaces and tefillin kits for boys
Shas leader Arye Dery framed the pledge as a response to Democrats leader Yair Golan, whom he says wants to 'erase religion from the public sphere.' Golan countered by vowing mandatory military service for all
IDF report asserts Hamas can only be dismantled through renewed fighting in Gaza
The intelligence was presented to U.S. Army officers as well as Israeli government officials amid the Netanyahu government's reluctance to cooperate with the Gaza peace plan
Those antisemitic olive trees! Israel's gaslighting military language whitewashes settler violence
Three such cunning phrasings help stoke settler attacks on American journalists and European diplomats, keep Palestinian farmers off their land, and portray the Israeli army and civilians in the West Bank as the people in danger
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Diamonds, diplomacy, and a family legacy
With Israel’s diamond industry under pressure, Shai Schnitzer is seeking the exchange presidency once held by his father and grandfather – and putting his connections to the test
Fake accounts used against Iran's regime now amplify Netanyahu's attacks on rivals
A Haaretz investigation reveals that fake accounts promoting regime change in Iran have begun sharing Netanyahu's election videos
Rogers makes pitch to Jewish Democrats in final Michigan Senate debate against El-Sayed
The Republican promised Jewish Democrats 'a home with us' as he and Abdul El-Sayed clashed in the closely contested race
New polls show Eisenkot ahead, two parties at edge of electoral threshold
Cannel 12 projected a 55-51 lead for Eisenkot's block, while Channel 13 put the blocs at 52-49. Both show Eisenkot bloc's boycott of Arab parties leaves it short of the 61 seats needed for a majority
Iran says it struck 4 vessels in Gulf, warns U.S. of broader response
The IRGC Navy said it had tracked the vessels before the strikes, adding that three others had hit mines west of the Strait of Hormuz
Pitt officials say some Jewish students were interviewed for campus antisemitism report
Campus antisemitism committees and reports have become a key tool as universities try to address concerns about the campus climate for Jewish students.
Abdul El-Sayed Michigan US Senate campaign hires Jewish outreach director
El-Sayed's Republican opponent, former US Rep. Mike Rogers, called him “anti-Jew” in a JTA interview this week.
Israeli defense officials fear election results could worsen settler violence
Sources with knowledge of the military's assessments say the military is reinforcing troops in the territory as officials acknowledge that the army, Shin Bet security service and police are struggling to contain the violence