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Sun, 24 Jan 2021 11:55:18 +02:00FBI: Texan charged in Capitol riot tweeted ‘Assassinate AOC’
Garret Miller, who is from the Dallas suburb of Richardson, was arrested Friday after being named in a five-count federal complaint
Sun, 24 Jan 2021 11:39:21 +02:00Standard of living for Israelis plummets to 20-year low amid coronavirus crisis
Nearly 2 million Israelis are living in poverty despite massive aid to offset pandemic’s impact
Sun, 24 Jan 2021 11:38:22 +02:00Zoom with Haaretz: Biden’s dangerous Iran inheritance
What will Biden do with the crisis he inherited from Trump, and what will be the Israeli reaction? Join us for a special Zoom briefing on Tuesday, January 26, at 9 P.M. Israel time, 2 P.M. EST
Sun, 24 Jan 2021 11:21:19 +02:00Coronavirus Israel live: Four cops wounded as police clash with ultra-orthodox
Netanyahu proposes stopping all flights in and out of Israel ■ Russia and Israel discussing joint production of vaccine ■ Education Ministry estimates a third of high schoolers not participating in remote learning
Sun, 24 Jan 2021 11:05:55 +02:00No, Twitter did not suspend Ayatollah Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader
Twitter suspended @khamenei_site, but that wasn’t the authoritarian leader’s real account
Sun, 24 Jan 2021 09:39:43 +02:00Israel’s Labor Party holds leadership primary ahead of March election
Lawmaker Merav Michaeli is viewed as the leading contender, after Labor chairman Amir Peretz and Minister Itzik Shmuli said they won't be running for party leadership
Sun, 24 Jan 2021 08:39:19 +02:00Israel allows U.S. to deploy Iron Dome missile defense in the Gulf
Israeli officials are refusing to reveal in which countries the Iron Dome interceptors will be deployed and deny this was part of the normalization agreements with the Gulf states
Sun, 24 Jan 2021 08:14:32 +02:00For young Tunisians, freedom of expression doesn’t pay the rent
As protests pick up again and threaten to unseat a fragile government, the old regime rears its head, surfing on a wave of nostalgia and historical revisionism
Sun, 24 Jan 2021 06:05:31 +02:00With Iran nuclear deal likely, Israel puts all options back on the table
Israel sees the previous agreement as too weak, and worries that the Biden administration will not be tough enough during future negotiations with Iran
Sun, 24 Jan 2021 05:27:17 +02:00Israel's top ex-Treasury officials are right
Sun, 24 Jan 2021 02:29:08 +02:00I, Benjamin Netanyahu, hereby declare...
Sun, 24 Jan 2021 02:11:29 +02:00The military radio station is too political? What about the army itself
Sun, 24 Jan 2021 00:29:14 +02:00Haaretz cartoon
Sat, 23 Jan 2021 22:57:04 +02:00Coronavirus live: Netanyahu proposes stopping all flights in and out of Israel
Russia and Israel discussing joint production of vaccine ■ Education Ministry estimates a third of high schoolers not participating in remote learning
Sat, 23 Jan 2021 22:44:05 +02:00Police pledged minimal enforcement of COVID rules in Haredi communities, barring attacks on officers
Yeshiva heads told Haaretz that Israeli police struck a deal with them, promising not to enforce regulations as long as students refrained from attacking officers
Sat, 23 Jan 2021 22:31:30 +02:00Wanted: An Israeli Biden
Sat, 23 Jan 2021 22:25:45 +02:00Arab-Israeli man killed on way home from protest against violence
Residents of Umm al-Fahm say Mohammed Agbaria is the fourth member of his family to die violently in the past 18 months
Sat, 23 Jan 2021 20:24:03 +02:00Fifteen arrested in West Bank riots as thousands mark one month since death of settler teen
Settler protests have continued on a nearly daily basis since 16-year-old Ahuvia Sandak was killed last month after police chased after him and his friends, who were suspected of throwing stones at Palestinians
Sat, 23 Jan 2021 20:04:30 +02:00Israeli official recorded threatening Palestinian if he invites journalists
Civil Administration employee recorded telling Palestinian complaining of settler harassment that he will be expelled from his home if he brings journalists or activists to area
Sat, 23 Jan 2021 19:45:46 +02:00Thousands of Israelis protest against Netanyahu for 31st consecutive week
Two months before the election, protesters denounce corruption, authoritarianism ■ Pandemic mishandling worse than the failures that led to Yom Kippur War, protest group says,
Sat, 23 Jan 2021 18:30:58 +02:00Leading Israeli rabbi okays opening more ultra-Orthodox schools during lockdown
Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, leader of the Lithuanian ultra-Orthodox community, reportedly told schools not to reopen if it will cause direct clashes with the police
Sat, 23 Jan 2021 15:45:46 +02:00Broadcasting giant Larry King dies at 87 after being hospitalized with COVID
No cause of death was given, but CNN reported January 2 that King had been hospitalized for more than a week with COVID-19
Sat, 23 Jan 2021 14:15:50 +02:00Giving it a shot: The Israeli expats flying home for a COVID-19 vaccine
With Israel leading the way with its coronavirus vaccine rollout, Israelis overseas are returning to get inoculated – even though they know not everyone will welcome them with open arms
Sat, 23 Jan 2021 13:40:40 +02:00At least 15 wounded in northern Gaza house explosion
Israeli military says the blast is the result of 'terror organizations' storing ammunition and weapons in homes in the enclave
Sat, 23 Jan 2021 12:27:48 +02:00Arabs don't believe Netanyahu, says the new face of the Israeli left
Ghaida Rinawie Zoabi is in a realistic slot on Meretz’s Knesset slate – and she isn't apologizing for being one place below a retired general
Sat, 23 Jan 2021 10:53:23 +02:00Ronnie Ellenblum, a pioneering historian on the Crusades and climate change
Colleagues and family agree: The Hebrew University professor who died this month was a mensch who loved Jerusalem as much as he loved his nonstop intellectual inquiry
Sat, 23 Jan 2021 10:29:18 +02:00Diamonds, big mining and Soros: The fall of Beny Steinmetz, once Israel's richest man
Years-long dispute over rights to massive African iron ore deposits have been replete with charges and counter-charges of bribery.
Sat, 23 Jan 2021 07:27:34 +02:00What worries Israel about Biden and Iran
Much of the world reacted to Biden's inauguration with a sigh of relief. In the Mideast, it was met with mixed feelings
Sat, 23 Jan 2021 02:03:24 +02:00Israelis should learn from the ultra-Orthodox how a minority behaves
Sat, 23 Jan 2021 00:11:45 +02:00Comparing Israel's three lockdowns: Have the ends justified the means?
The sense of emergency during the first lockdown was replaced by distrust of government officials during the second. The third has been marked by another spike and defiance by the ultra-Orthodox community
Fri, 22 Jan 2021 22:40:06 +02:00Bosnian Muslim ex-commander jailed 10 years over war crimes by Islamist fighters
After a five-year-long trial, Sakib Mahmuljin faces 10 years in prison for failing to prevent or punish those responsible for atrocities against Serb prisoners in the 1990s conflict where 100,000 died
Fri, 22 Jan 2021 21:25:44 +02:00A battle over COVID rules breaks out in Israeli Haredi city. This is what it looked like
Large police forces arrived at a Bnei Brak yeshiva only a few hours after two officers were injured by ultra-Orthodox extremists while attempting to disperse gathering
Fri, 22 Jan 2021 19:34:22 +02:00Swiss court finds Israeli billionaire Steinmetz guilty of bribery in landmark mining case
A Geneva court has ruled Israeli businessman Beny Steinmitz and two associates as guilty for offering a 8.5 million dollar bribe in exchange for the rights to mine iron ore in Guinea
Fri, 22 Jan 2021 19:11:39 +02:00A time of reckoning for Israel's Haredi public opinion leaders: ‘We are guilty’
Until very recently, the Haredi media focused on the ‘incitement’ against the community — but the such a large number of COVID victims led to a change. Ultra-Orthodox figures from the health system, education and the media speak out about the f...
Fri, 22 Jan 2021 15:51:52 +02:00'Too many people' overlooked Trump's antisemitism due to self-interest, Democrat says
Rep. Mikie Sherrill says she doesn't know whether it's worse if people 'are true believers of this hatred and ideology,' or if they were just 'willing to tolerate it'
Fri, 22 Jan 2021 15:33:55 +02:00Everybody wants their vote. But what do Israeli-Arab voters want? LISTEN to our podcast
Election Overdose podcast, episode 4: Can the never-Trumpers do for Gideon Sa’ar what they did for Joe Biden and could Israel eventually see two parties led by women?
Fri, 22 Jan 2021 15:03:19 +02:00Can democracies protect themselves from Sheldon Adelson's destructive legacy?
The casino magnate and fierce supporter of Trump and Netanyahu has died, but the notion that you can influence people's ideas with money has not
Fri, 22 Jan 2021 14:46:22 +02:00Egypt's cabinet toughens law banning female genital mutilation
'It's a good step, but we don't want only laws on paper with no implementation,' civil society leader says, as bill imposing harsher sentences awaits parliament, president approval
Fri, 22 Jan 2021 12:35:35 +02:00Settlers are taking their anger out on Palestinians – as Israeli troops watch
Since the death of a settler teen in an accident a month ago, there have been some 44 attacks by settlers on Palestinians – but not one arrest. Three of those assaulted recount what they endured
Fri, 22 Jan 2021 12:29:04 +02:00Israel's high-tech industry has a diversity problem. Here's why
One of Israel's most lucrative industries has barely been affected the coronavirus crisis, but getting there proves difficult for women, Arabs and ultra-Orthodox
Fri, 22 Jan 2021 12:28:11 +02:00'In the whole Sephardi community there is no worthy candidate for the Supreme Court'
In Israel's early years, members of the government had bitter arguments about the appointment of non-Ashkenazi justices to the Supreme Court. The consequences of these discussions, which ultimately led to the creation of the 'Sephardi chair,' are fel...
Fri, 22 Jan 2021 12:21:43 +02:00Letters to the editor: Biden, listen to B’Tselem
Fri, 22 Jan 2021 12:05:03 +02:00ISIS claims rare twin blasts in Baghdad that killed over 30
Group says the bombing, the first in nearly three years to hit the Iraqi capital, 'targeted apostate Shiites'
Fri, 22 Jan 2021 11:50:43 +02:00In Somalia, mothers fear sons were sent to Ethiopia conflict
Mothers have held rare protests in Somalia to demand information on their children, who they fear have been deployed to Ethiopia's Tigray region
Fri, 22 Jan 2021 11:35:02 +02:00The COVID sacrifice: The ‘new Jewish martyrs’ dying to defend Israel’s Haredi autonomy
COVID-19 is surging again in Israel's ultra-Orthodox communities. But no matter how many die, the ultra-Orthodox yeshivas and shuls won’t close, because every death is a holy sacrifice for a higher cause
Fri, 22 Jan 2021 10:58:24 +02:00'Revenge is certain': Khamenei tweets image of Trump-like golfer targeted by drone
'Those who ordered the murder of General Soleimani should be punished,' Iran's supreme leader tweets
Fri, 22 Jan 2021 10:49:24 +02:00Israel's population is growing, and its infrastructure isn't keeping up
Fri, 22 Jan 2021 10:43:39 +02:00Roadside bomb kills Egyptian officer in Sinai, wounds three
ISIS has claimed responsibility for the Sheikh Zuweid explosion, which officials say was triggered by a remote-controlled device
Fri, 22 Jan 2021 10:02:20 +02:00Syria says Israeli strike targeted residential buildings, killing a family of four
State media quotes military source reporting 'a barrage of missiles'
Fri, 22 Jan 2021 08:25:54 +02:00Netanyahu's optimism about COVID vaccines gives way to concern
Despite the ongoing vaccine drive, the next few weeks will still see high death rates ■ Reality shattered ultra-Orthodox belief in godly protection and herd immunity
Fri, 22 Jan 2021 06:33:08 +02:00Three lockdowns, but still many COVID deaths: How Israel failed to manage the pandemic
A flawed decision-making process has emboldened 'coronavirus deniers,' experts say
Fri, 22 Jan 2021 06:03:51 +02:00New year, new Netanyahu: PM aims for the political center in latest rebranding
With a crowded right, the PM is rediscovering decency, and silencing and sidelining the embarrassing members of his coterie. The maneuver, of course, is an illusion
Fri, 22 Jan 2021 02:17:59 +02:00'The doctors said I wouldn't walk, but I’m going to be the first Israeli woman to climb Everest'
This week at the Tel Aviv airport: An Israeli lawyer who didn't let a bone-shattering accident stand in the way of her lofty dreams
Fri, 22 Jan 2021 00:52:23 +02:00Biden moves to require international arrivals to quarantine in bid to thwart COVID-19
The new president is also directing agencies to reconsider international contact tracing requirements for U.S.-bound passengers, which was abandoned by the Trump White House, in spate of emergency orders
Fri, 22 Jan 2021 00:32:28 +02:00Netanyahu’s lawyers make unprecedented request to delay bribery trial again
The prime minister's legal team argues the court shouldn’t start hearing witnesses in before Attorney General Mendelblit decides whether to file indictments against telecoms firms embroiled in alleged corruption cases
Fri, 22 Jan 2021 00:17:31 +02:00Pelosi, take a lesson from Kafka
Fri, 22 Jan 2021 00:17:04 +02:00Netanyahu, who’s to blame for Israel's 4,000 coronavirus dead?
Fri, 22 Jan 2021 00:13:50 +02:00Palestinian child injured by stones thrown by settlers
Settlers blocked intersections in the West Bank in protest of the death of Ahuvia Sandak
Fri, 22 Jan 2021 00:08:36 +02:00Israel rearrests Palestinian teen who was released by a military judge
Amal Nakhleh, who suffers from a rare autoimmune disease, was charged in November with hurling stones. Military prosecutors said that if released on bail, he would be put in administrative detention
Thu, 21 Jan 2021 23:33:44 +02:00Haaretz Cartoon
Thu, 21 Jan 2021 21:28:29 +02:00Coronavirus Israel: Strained public hospitals say they will refuse ambulances starting Sunday
Health Ministry panel recommends vaccinating teens 16-18 ■ Over 200,000 vaccines administered for second day in a row ■ 'Radical' Haredim attack cops dispersing illegal gathering in COVID hotspot ■ Lockdown extended through January 31
Thu, 21 Jan 2021 19:16:47 +02:00The three issues Netanyahu can use to create an early crisis with Biden
Iran's nuclear program, China's investment in Israel and new settlement building could all lead to confrontations, if Netanyahu is looking for one
Thu, 21 Jan 2021 18:09:44 +02:00Ivanka Trump is perfect cover for antisemitic, racist, conspiracy-loving Republicans
The Republican Party has sent the vanguard of a noisy new generation of racists, antisemitism appeasers and insurrection-enablers into Congress. And a deluded Ivanka Trump thinks the GOP’s dark future belongs to her
Thu, 21 Jan 2021 17:55:08 +02:00Biden revokes Trump report promoting ‘patriotic education’
In an executive order signed in his first day in office, Biden disband Donald Trump’s presidential 1776 Commission and withdrew a report it released Monday
Thu, 21 Jan 2021 17:54:30 +02:00‘If we don’t win, all is lost': Declassified Yom Kippur minutes reveal Golda Meir's dire warning
The minutes show that the IDF’s deputy chief of staff at the time, Maj. Gen. Israel Tal, also warned of the serious consequences if Israel did not emerge victorious in the war
Thu, 21 Jan 2021 17:37:28 +02:00'You lost. Decency Won': Twitter users go off on Stephen Miller for criticizing Biden's immigration policy
The former White House adviser and chief architect of many of the Trump administration's controversial immigration policies slammed Biden for 'opening travel from terror hot spots'
Thu, 21 Jan 2021 17:35:48 +02:00Rand Paul on Biden speech: Thinly-veiled innuendo calling us white supremacists
Rare for an inaugural address, President Joe Biden issued a strong repudiation of white supremacy and domestic terrorism seen on the rise under Donald Trump
Thu, 21 Jan 2021 15:56:27 +02:00Read the full text of Amanda Gorman's inaugural poem
Gorman later left CNN's Anderson Cooper speechless in an interview about her work
Thu, 21 Jan 2021 15:52:53 +02:00Still separated: COVID-19 order keeps families apart after Biden lifts 'Muslim ban'
Some 40,000 people have been barred from entering the United States since December 2017 under Trump's travel ban, according to State Department data
Thu, 21 Jan 2021 15:40:00 +02:00How COVID saved us from Zara and H&M's trap
Has the coronavirus pandemic dealt a mortal blow to fast fashion as we know it?
Thu, 21 Jan 2021 15:32:45 +02:00Anti-Biden anarchists vandalize buildings in Portland and Seattle
People dressed in black and with their faces covered broke windows and the glass door at the Democratic Party of Oregon business office in Portland
Thu, 21 Jan 2021 15:27:37 +02:00Reports that Tunisia’s president made antisemitic comments are false, his office says
The reports were about conversations that President Kais Saied, who opposes normalization with Israel, had Monday
Thu, 21 Jan 2021 15:26:04 +02:00One of the world's oldest mosques found in Tiberias, Israel
Beneath the city’s ancient mosque is actually an older one from the seventh century, when Judaism, Christianity and Islam lived side by side
Thu, 21 Jan 2021 15:03:32 +02:00Proud Boy organizer arrested in Florida for riot at Capitol
The Proud Boys are a neofascist group known for engaging in violent clashes at political rallies
Thu, 21 Jan 2021 14:53:46 +02:00At least 32 dead after twin suicide bombings rock central Baghdad
No one immediately took responsibility for the attack, but Iraqi military officials said it was the work of the Islamic State
Thu, 21 Jan 2021 14:32:35 +02:00Another COVID outbreak and what to do with the children: Israel's post-vaccine dilemmas
As the country's vaccination craze is waning, it is left with two million unvaccinated children, which raises many medical and ethical questions
Thu, 21 Jan 2021 14:31:02 +02:00Former 'Likud prince' Begin joins Netanyahu challenger Sa'ar
Son of former Prime Minister Begin once served under Netanyahu and now joins his chief rival to end 'crude, scathing attacks' on Israel's democracy
Thu, 21 Jan 2021 14:26:17 +02:00Biden’s Iran dilemma: How to reenter nuclear deal – and keep allies like Israel happy
Experts outline the challenges facing the new White House as it looks to reengage with Tehran without damaging relations with Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states
Thu, 21 Jan 2021 14:09:03 +02:00Trump is a warning that fascism didn’t die with Hitler and Mussolini
The Trump era, and its insurrectionist end, shows why the insistence of historians who call fascism a ‘demon of the past’ is both inaccurate – and dangerous
Thu, 21 Jan 2021 13:53:49 +02:00Jordan looks to Biden for a warm embrace and lots of cash
The Hashemite kingdom, which has been battered by COVID-19 and shunned by Trump, will look to Washington with new hope
Thu, 21 Jan 2021 12:57:15 +02:00The Trump-taunting Lincoln Project is coming to Israel. But not as liberal saviors
Fresh from what fans consider their Never Trump triumph, the Lincoln Project founders have a new mission: To help ditch Netanyahu. But you might not like what happens next
Thu, 21 Jan 2021 12:42:15 +02:00Bernie Sanders' inauguration look becomes internet sensation
Sanders responded to the attention: 'In Vermont, we know something about the cold and we're not so concerned about good fashion'
Thu, 21 Jan 2021 12:18:24 +02:00QAnon followers feel betrayed, lost as Biden inaugurated
In one Telegram channel with more than 18,400 members, QAnon believers were split between those still urging others to 'trust the plan' and those saying they felt betrayed
Thu, 21 Jan 2021 11:46:18 +02:00Senate confirms Biden 1st Cabinet pick as Democrats control
In a first vote of the new Democrat-led U.S. Senate the chamber confirmed Biden’s nominee for Director of National Intelligence, Avril Haines
Thu, 21 Jan 2021 11:34:23 +02:00Twitter locks account of China's U.S. embassy over its defense of Muslim policy
Twitter's suspension of the embassy's account came a day after the Trump administration, in its final hours, accused China of committing genocide in Xinjiang
Thu, 21 Jan 2021 11:10:05 +02:00For Palestinians, only God is a DJ
The arrest of Palestinian DJ Sama Abdulhadi after she played a set at the Nabi Musa complex wasn’t merely a struggle between secularism and religiosity
Thu, 21 Jan 2021 10:49:25 +02:00What Mossad Chief Cohen was really doing in D.C. last week
Netanyahu needs an experienced Iran hand on American soil at this time, and at least, unlike Ron Dermer, Yossi Cohen isn’t a walking red flag
Thu, 21 Jan 2021 09:45:31 +02:00For Israel, Biden's team is full of familiar faces
Although all expressed support for Israel, many of Biden's picks for senior foreign policy roles were instrumental in brokering the Iran nuclear deal, butting heads with the Jewish state
Thu, 21 Jan 2021 08:36:52 +02:00Israelis crack 2-million-year-old mystery about stone tools
Chopping tools were the real original Swiss army knife of the archaic human set, says Prof. Ran Barkai, but nobody knew what they were used for – until now
Thu, 21 Jan 2021 08:08:33 +02:00Inscription to Jesus, dedicated by the ‘miserable Thomas', found in Northern Israel
A piece of the door-frame of an early church was reused in the wall of a luxury house in the late Byzantine or early Islamic period and has now been found during road work
Thu, 21 Jan 2021 06:08:34 +02:00For Israel's education minister, school is a bore
Thu, 21 Jan 2021 05:57:49 +02:00Police severely beat Palestinian workers after bogus terror attack tip-off
To justify broken bones, officers claim Palestinians tried to flee ■ Victims remanded in detention, not allowed to testify in person because they are a COVID risk - without medical proof
Thu, 21 Jan 2021 05:18:16 +02:00A demoralizing Middle East awaits Biden, with Iran as his most important test
Another question is whether Biden is seeking to repair the world or whether he will get sucked into the whirlpool that Trump bequeathed him and just try to fix a few things
Thu, 21 Jan 2021 02:52:43 +02:00Biden press secretary: Iran will be addressed in early talks with foreign leaders
Biden's focus will be rebuilding trust, with American people and foreign allies, press secretary Jen Psaki says, breaking sharply with combative style of Trump administration
Thu, 21 Jan 2021 01:50:31 +02:00Haaretz cartoon
Thu, 21 Jan 2021 01:37:08 +02:00COVID, climate, Muslims: In first moves, Biden hits Trump's symbolic legacy
More masks and less wall, back in Paris accord and out with the Muslim travel ban: As expected, incoming president rolls back iconic Trump decisions
Thu, 21 Jan 2021 00:54:28 +02:00After Uighur decision, China bars 28 Trump-era officials including Pompeo
Sanctions will ban the officials, including O'Brien, Bolton and Bannon, from entering or doing business with China
Wed, 20 Jan 2021 23:50:07 +02:00Georgia's Jon Ossoff sworn in as senator, promises to fight for 'equal justice'
Democrat Chuck Schumer – 'a kid from Brooklyn, the son of an exterminator and a housewife, a descendant of victims of the Holocaust' – becomes first Jewish Senate majority leader
Wed, 20 Jan 2021 23:36:27 +02:00The duty to end Israeli apartheid
Wed, 20 Jan 2021 23:35:58 +02:00Cruelty is in high demand, Israel's police minister learns from Trump