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Sun, 11 Jul 2021 11:43:03 +03:00Israel sees slight downward trend in new daily COVID-19 cases
According to Health Ministry data, 50,325 coronavirus tests were conducted over the weekend, with the positivity rate standing at 0.6 percent, compared to last week's 0.7 percent
Sun, 11 Jul 2021 11:30:25 +03:00Israel to receive next Pfizer COVID vaccine shipment on August 1 as stockpile nears expiration
Friday was the final day on which Israelis were able to get the first dose of the vaccine, as the country's stockpile is set to expire in three weeks
Sun, 11 Jul 2021 09:56:49 +03:00What made Hitler antisemitic? ‘We are attempting to rationally explain the irrational’
The creators of a new documentary on Adolf Hitler wonder how to deal with the rebirth of the ideology the Nazi dictator represented
Sun, 11 Jul 2021 08:32:00 +03:00Netanyahu family vacates Prime Minister's Residence after 12 years
Benjamin Netanyahu and his family leave Jerusalem residence a month after PM Bennett's swearing-in
Sun, 11 Jul 2021 06:04:04 +03:00Israel's High Court set to rule on segregation, surrogacy and the premiership
The rotation deal allegedly creates two completely different governments, the state says gay male surrogacy is unfeasible, and the ultra-Orthodox are pushing for gender segregation in academia
Sun, 11 Jul 2021 06:01:03 +03:00From Lebanon to Brussels, Israel-Iran strife flares up on many fronts
The tension between Iran and its proxies and Israel persists in various arenas and continues to result in a variety of incidents
Sun, 11 Jul 2021 02:21:17 +03:00'Indirect fire attack' against U.S. troops in Eastern Syria; no injuries or damage reported
U.S. diplomats and troops in Iraq and Syria were targeted in three rocket and drone attacks on Wednesday alone, which analysts have attributed to Iranian-backed militias
Sun, 11 Jul 2021 00:42:41 +03:00Instead of defending minorities, Israel's top court opted for an alternative reality
Sun, 11 Jul 2021 00:27:31 +03:00Fight Israel's settlers, not its ultra-Orthodox community
Sat, 10 Jul 2021 23:35:29 +03:00Haaretz Cartoon
Sat, 10 Jul 2021 23:00:09 +03:00Two siblings murdered in northern Israel as gun violence claims more Arab victims
The two victims had been trying to keep apart two sides engaged in a prolonged family dispute that erupted into a brawl, a local resident said. 'Resorting to the use of arms has become the immediate response'
Sat, 10 Jul 2021 22:22:43 +03:00In a moment of honesty, Lapid revealed Israel’s antidemocratic essence
Sat, 10 Jul 2021 22:00:03 +03:00Backing business, Israeli treasury moves to curb environment ministry’s clout to prevent pollution
The Finance Ministry says Israel has stricter environmental requirements than other OECD countries
Sat, 10 Jul 2021 21:52:01 +03:00In call with King Abdullah, President Herzog vows to 'work on strengthening' Israel-Jordan ties
According to a statement by the Israel's new president, the Jordanian king called to congratulate him for taking office, in another sign of closer ties after years of strained bilateral relations
Sat, 10 Jul 2021 21:29:30 +03:00Police want facial recognition systems installed across Israel
Police argue in a draft bill facial recognition cameras would help prevent crime, but some experts warn of potentially severe privacy violations
Sat, 10 Jul 2021 18:25:44 +03:00Palestinian administrative detainee released from Israeli custody after 65-day hunger strike
Ghadanfar Abu Atwan refused to eat in protest of his arrest without trial. He is 'almost unable to speak, appears to be in great pain,' the latest medical report says
Sat, 10 Jul 2021 17:26:48 +03:00Republican lawmaker says Biden’s COVID vaccine staff are 'needle Nazis'
Rep. Lauren Boebert's tweet, also comparing the White House outreach efforts to 'Communist China,' comes two days after similar remarks by Marjorie Taylor Greene, another first-term Republican
Sat, 10 Jul 2021 17:01:09 +03:00Auschwitz survivor who fought racism with music dies at 96
Esther Bejarano, who was politically active against antisemitism throughout her life, died peacefully at the Jewish Hospital in Hamburg
Sat, 10 Jul 2021 16:51:04 +03:00'Cyber disruption' puts Iranian government websites out of service
This is the second abnormality in computer systems related to Iran’s Transport and Urbanization Ministry, after the railroad system came under cyberattack on Friday
Sat, 10 Jul 2021 16:00:27 +03:00Israel investigating potential Hezbollah involvement in Lebanon border weapons bust
Joint military and police forces seized 43 handguns and some ammunition, in what authorities describe as the largest bust along Israel's northern border in recent years
Sat, 10 Jul 2021 09:03:48 +03:00'We saw Jews with hearts like Germans': Moroccan immigrants in Israel warned families not to follow
Thousands of letters written in the early years of the state by immigrant soldiers to their families in Morocco reveal a gloomy picture. Most wanted to go home
Sat, 10 Jul 2021 02:21:07 +03:00Iran investigating small blast in northern Tehran, no injuries reported
Tehran's Deputy Governor says no sound of an explosion, fire or damage found in the area
Sat, 10 Jul 2021 01:57:50 +03:00Biden presses Putin again to rein in ransomware attacks
U.S. President Joe Biden called Vladimir Putin for the first time since they discussed the attacks last month, and warned of consequences for Russian inaction
Sat, 10 Jul 2021 01:36:13 +03:00Arab states to send aid to Tunisia as COVID death toll peaks
Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Libya are among the countries lining up to help Tunisia, which is facing the collapse of its health system and fearing the economic blow of its national lockdown
Sat, 10 Jul 2021 00:08:21 +03:00UN approves extension of aid from Turkey to rebel-held Syria
An agreement between U.S. President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin secures urgent assistance for 3.4 million people in Idlib
Fri, 9 Jul 2021 20:23:46 +03:00U.S. to leave Afghanistan on August 31, Biden says
Biden says Afghan people must decide their own future and U.S. has achieved its goals in its war as he defends decision to withdraw troops
Fri, 9 Jul 2021 19:41:00 +03:00'Unprecedented chaos': Cyberattack disrupts Iran rail network
A notice on electronic boards at stations asked travelers to call a number belonging to the office of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
Fri, 9 Jul 2021 18:54:10 +03:00Ex-Mossad chief Yossi Cohen to head Softbank’s investment activities in Israel
Cohen, who ended his role as head of Israel's espionage agency this year, will establish a local arm of the Japanese giant holding company to identify Israeli firms for investment
Fri, 9 Jul 2021 18:12:34 +03:00Israel’s interior minister knows she can’t deport the asylum seekers
Fri, 9 Jul 2021 17:40:44 +03:00Tel Aviv: A city that only the mega-rich call home
That is the future of the city according to new data that shows it's becoming unaffordable for those who don’t inherit a home or earn triple the average salary, and some say the whole country will bear the cost
Fri, 9 Jul 2021 17:36:44 +03:00France expected to back Israel's entry into EU program that bars settlement funding
Israeli culture minister asks French counterpart to support the request to join the EU's Creative Europe program when it comes up for approval
Fri, 9 Jul 2021 16:34:10 +03:00Israeli settlements amount to war crime, UN rights official says
'Israel's defiance of international law and international opinion can and will no longer be cost-free,' UN special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories says
Fri, 9 Jul 2021 15:47:02 +03:00Greater Israel means much greater problems for the Jewish people
Fri, 9 Jul 2021 14:30:30 +03:00Widow of former Egyptian President Anwar Sadat dies in Egypt
Jehan Sadat, who had been battling cancer, had consistently defended her husband’s decision to sign a peace agreement with Israel in 1979 after nearly three decades of war
Fri, 9 Jul 2021 13:50:06 +03:00Ahead of DC antisemitism rally, Israel manifests an issue for leftist Jewish groups
The American Jewish community is divided on whether attacks on Israel should be considered antisemitism or not
Fri, 9 Jul 2021 13:46:29 +03:00Taliban seize more territory, announce they control swathes of Afghanistan
Government officials dismissed the assertion by a Taliban delegation visiting Moscow as part of a propaganda campaign launched as foreign forces, including the U.S., withdraw after almost 20 years of fighting
Fri, 9 Jul 2021 13:03:43 +03:00TikTok fanned the flames of the Israel-Gaza war. What else is it capable of?
It has overtaken YouTube, knows its users better than its competitors do, and doesn’t hesitate to use songs and dances to promote political messages. And with China behind it, TikTok is accountable to no one
Fri, 9 Jul 2021 12:50:53 +03:00All Israel arrivals to quarantine until testing negative for COVID starting July 16
The rule will apply to all travelers entering Israel, even if they have been vaccinated against the coronavirus
Fri, 9 Jul 2021 08:49:45 +03:00LISTEN: How Israel’s aristocratic new president could pardon Bibi
Fri, 9 Jul 2021 06:07:50 +03:00The economic crises on Israel's borders are cause for concern
Lebanon's economic collapse threatens the regime, and the situation is not much better in Jordan and Egypt. Israel shouldn't stake its neighbors' stability for granted
Fri, 9 Jul 2021 06:04:22 +03:00Brutality and panic mark the twilight of Abbas’ rule. Hamas is ready to jump in
85-year-old Palestinian President Abbas sent his forces to brutally repress protest over the death of a dissident – the latest manifestation of what is perceived as a corrupt, rotten regime
Fri, 9 Jul 2021 06:03:51 +03:00Iran ups its game as U.S. return to nuke deal faces new hurdles
For Israel, however, Lebanon is the most immediate powder keg ■ Netanyahu’s real battle is not against Bennett ■ What the U.S. expects from Israel on China
Fri, 9 Jul 2021 06:01:29 +03:00Bennett lurches between the bright side and the dark side, but it's going nicely
The prime minister has gone to great lengths to show understanding for his leftist partners, who are getting in trouble with their base, while one new law is driving opposition leader Netanyahu particularly crazy
Fri, 9 Jul 2021 05:10:21 +03:00Pfizer to seek U.S. authorization for third COVID shot dose as Delta variant spreads
Pfizer has previously said people will likely need a booster dose, though some scientists have questioned when, or whether, boosters will be needed
Fri, 9 Jul 2021 03:14:53 +03:00Encourage work, not poverty
Fri, 9 Jul 2021 02:06:45 +03:00Law denying benefits to parents over minor’s security offenses ruled unconstitutional
Five of nine High Court judges say amendment violates their right of equality. Chief Justice Hayut: Holding parents responsible for a child’s crimes is highly unusual and unacceptable.
Fri, 9 Jul 2021 01:37:44 +03:00Notorious daycare owner gets 9 years in prison for assaulting children
Video of Carmel Mauda brutalizing kids at her Rosh Ha’ayin home was on social media in 2019; her house was burned down after her indictment
Fri, 9 Jul 2021 01:32:15 +03:00An unbreakable American-Israeli bond? Maybe not
Fri, 9 Jul 2021 01:29:58 +03:00Why Israel should recognize the Bosnian genocide
The U.S. Congress pioneered recognition of Europe’s worst massacres since the Holocaust. Now, in the face of rising genocide denial from Serbs, the far right and the hard left, it’s time for Israel to act, before it’s too late
Fri, 9 Jul 2021 01:28:38 +03:00Now is the time for the real protest to create a new, relevant social order
Fri, 9 Jul 2021 01:14:10 +03:00Despite critic’s death, Palestinian Authority still believes in intimidation and repression
Arrests and police violence are surprising considering recent conciliatory comments and the identity of the arrested protesters, in the wake of Nizar Banat's death
Fri, 9 Jul 2021 00:31:11 +03:00Lieberman breaks ground on the Haredi education revolution
Lieberman isn’t forcing Haredi men to stop studying Torah or Haredi women to stop having children. What he has done is change the regulations, making it more difficult – and that’s what governments do
Fri, 9 Jul 2021 00:22:26 +03:00You don’t believe COVID-19 exists? 'It’s not a natural virus. It was engineered with American funding'
This week at the Tel Aviv airport: A retired historian who believes COVID-19 is a manipulation that serves 'transparent rulers,' and a physical therapist who realized she belonged in Israel during a visit when she was 16
Thu, 8 Jul 2021 23:51:25 +03:00The Israeli agent made a veiled threat. Soon after, the Palestinian activist was dead
A Palestinian student activist who was on the Shin Bet's wanted list was shot to death from afar during a demonstration in May. The IDF’s response: 'A Military Police investigation has been launched'
Thu, 8 Jul 2021 23:42:43 +03:00Haaretz cartoon
Thu, 8 Jul 2021 23:37:07 +03:00We didn't dare to know: Seven years after Hamas tunnel attack, revisiting my nephew's death
Iris Leal’s nephew fell in an attack by Hamas during Operation Protective Edge. On the seventh anniversary of that war, she illuminates one of the most charged zones of Israeli life, the nationalization of private grief in the name of the ethos of ...
Thu, 8 Jul 2021 23:35:16 +03:00An ex-judge exposes the rotten underbelly of Israel's court system
Sexual harassment, judges who hand down decisions in cases they did not hear, corrupt appointments and a culture of silence surrounding it all. A rare glimpse of the world behind the bench
Thu, 8 Jul 2021 22:39:35 +03:00Israel aims to join EU program that excludes funding for projects in settlements
Lapid is expected to announce Israel's desire to participate in the culture program at an EU foreign ministers' meeting on Monday, the first such official event in more than a decade attended by Israel's top diplomat
Thu, 8 Jul 2021 22:34:03 +03:00Lebanon crisis prompts rare Saudi visit of U.S., French envoys
U.S., French embassies in Beirut tweet that trilateral meetings look to find ways how to 'support the Lebanese people and stabilize the economy'
Thu, 8 Jul 2021 21:32:03 +03:00Ex-PM Olmert told he owes millions in taxes for donations to his legal defense
Olmert, who served time for graft, claims contributions were tax-exempt because donors were close friends. Tax Authority believes some were given in the hope that he would return to a public position
Thu, 8 Jul 2021 21:28:47 +03:00Palestinians claiming land at illegal outpost take Israel's deal with settlers to court
The petitioners demand the removal of the buildings put up by the settlers, who as things stand have a chance to return in the future
Thu, 8 Jul 2021 21:18:24 +03:00Palestinian hunger striker to be released from Israeli custody
Ghadanfar Abu Atwan, 28, will be released from administrative detention to a hospital in Ramallah
Thu, 8 Jul 2021 20:52:13 +03:00Boris Johnson warns of 'Jewish exodus' out of Northern Ireland over threat to kosher food
Post-Brexit trade dispute threatens to cut off access to kosher food in Northern Ireland, British PM says, as Jewish group warns of end to Jewish life in Belfast
Thu, 8 Jul 2021 19:50:12 +03:00Israel and Jordan sign water and trade deals in foreign ministers' meeting
Jordan will also increase its exports to West Bank from $160 to $700 million. Deals mark a possible turn in relationship that has grown icy while Netanyahu was in office
Thu, 8 Jul 2021 19:40:39 +03:00Israel's Bennett secretly met Jordan's King Abdullah, in first after years of strained ties
The two leaders, meeting in Amman, agree to turn over a new leaf in bilateral ties. According to Palestinian sources, President Abbas met with the Jordanian king after his meeting with the Israeli leader
Thu, 8 Jul 2021 19:20:51 +03:00Israeli female soldiers told to cover up at pool in consideration of religious soldiers
Commanders ordered both male and female soldiers to swim wearing oversized shirts, but only women were told to also wear long pants. IDF: Orders were against regulations
Thu, 8 Jul 2021 19:18:13 +03:00Search called off for survivors of Florida condo collapse
Crews have extracted the remains of 54 people from the rubble in Surfside; another 86 remained missing as of early Thursday local time
Thu, 8 Jul 2021 18:52:00 +03:00One man’s crusade to capture the memories of an Arab Israeli town
Salam Diab has spent nearly 20 years building an archive for his hometown of Tamra. His recently released book is both a family album and a vision of hope for Jewish-Arab relations
Thu, 8 Jul 2021 18:50:34 +03:00When Canada was hotter than Baghdad
The problem with climate change isn’t the averages, it’s the spikes, and you can engineer a drought-resistant seed but the weather can bake it
Thu, 8 Jul 2021 17:57:49 +03:00Should Turkey’s Erdogan fear Israel’s new government?
Turkey’s president has outlived, in office, sparring partner Netanyahu. But the long-standing hostility of Israel’s new coalition members to Turkey's strongman could derail Erdogan's plans to rehabilitate relations
Thu, 8 Jul 2021 17:38:48 +03:00Israel's top court rules the nation-state law is constitutional, denies petitions against it
Ten of 11 justices favored denying petitions arguing the law was discriminatory. 'Law does not negate Israel's character as a democracy,' chief justice says. Arab lawmaker deplores 'racist, anti-democratic' ruling
Thu, 8 Jul 2021 15:57:57 +03:00How becoming parents changed five unusual LGBTQ families in Israel
Nontraditional families discuss their habits, identities, struggles and dreams. 'Co-parenting is the most effective way to get around the obstacles and discrimination that exist against us'
Thu, 8 Jul 2021 15:46:14 +03:00Imam of Lod's Great Mosque charged with intimidation, incitement
Sheikh Yusuf Albaz shared in May a video containing a murder scene of two police officers and added a caption reading 'The best way to deal with injustice'
Thu, 8 Jul 2021 15:07:48 +03:00Israeli court blasts arrest of citizen suspected of grave security-related offenses
'It doesn’t seem to me like a dramatic thing,' district court judge says
Thu, 8 Jul 2021 15:04:50 +03:00Desperate, Lebanon tries it on: Guilt-tripping donors
Its prime minister wails that Lebanon is dying, but failed states don’t just expire. History shows they muddle through
Thu, 8 Jul 2021 14:28:51 +03:00Ultra-Orthodox up in arms after 'evil' Lieberman cuts daycare subsidy
The new rules will require both spouses to work at least 24-hours a week to qualify for the payments of about $305 per child under the age of three
Thu, 8 Jul 2021 14:28:33 +03:00The most crucial issue for U.S.-Israel relations – and it’s not Iran
As the Biden administration eyes China’s burgeoning superpower status with increasing concern, Israel's new government, led by Naftali Bennett, hopes it won’t be forced to choose between the two sides
Thu, 8 Jul 2021 13:55:17 +03:00Palestinian cast of Israeli movie to boycott Cannes Film Festival
The Palestinian-Israeli actors in Eran Kolirin's 'Let There Be Morning' say their decision not to attend the Cannes Film Festival is a political statement
Thu, 8 Jul 2021 13:08:09 +03:00New president Herzog presented with digital copy of father's signed oath
The Knesset has dug out the oath of office signed 38 years ago by former president Chaim Herzog — father of the newly instated president
Thu, 8 Jul 2021 12:33:25 +03:00U.S. slams Israel for razing home of Palestinian-American who murdered an Israeli
Muntasir Shalabi shot and killed 19-year-old Yehuda Guetta at the Tapuah junction in the West Bank in May
Thu, 8 Jul 2021 11:40:03 +03:00COVID in Israel: Serious cases double in a week as delta variant spreads
The first case of the COVID-19 delta plus variant in Israel was diagnosed on Wednesday
Thu, 8 Jul 2021 11:18:34 +03:00A rare interview with 'the greatest Israeli singer of all time'
At 80, Esther Ofarim still doesn’t like to give interviews, is embarrassed when dubbed ‘the greatest singer’ (though she agrees it’s true), and prefers to stay at her home in Germany. Ahead of three special performances in Israel, she relents...
Thu, 8 Jul 2021 10:58:36 +03:00Trump called Netanyahu’s congratulations to Biden ‘an ultimate betrayal,’ new book claims
'It was startling to aides, however much they were anticipating an eruption, that Trump’s wrath fell on Bibi Netanyahu,' journalist Michael Wolff writes in his new book
Thu, 8 Jul 2021 10:13:10 +03:00Luxurious banquet hall, erected near Temple Mount, unearthed in Jerusalem
The new finds in Jerusalem support the theory that King Herod really didn’t finish the Second Temple complex
Thu, 8 Jul 2021 09:25:24 +03:00Nasrallah exploiting Lebanon crisis, but faces a dual dilemma
Prime minister Hassan Diab's unconvincing speech to diplomats couldn't cover up Lebanon's political dysfunction. Now its leaders need to do the impossible
Thu, 8 Jul 2021 09:08:38 +03:00Multiple attacks target U.S. diplomats, troops in Iraq and Syria
Iraqi militia groups aligned with Iran vowed to retaliate after U.S. strikes on the Iraqi-Syrian border killed four of their members last month
Thu, 8 Jul 2021 03:27:12 +03:00Crews give up hope of finding survivors at Florida condo collapse site
Families of victims were told that crews would stop using rescue dogs and listening devices, but would continue to search for remains in the rubble after the condo collapsed on June 24
Thu, 8 Jul 2021 01:18:47 +03:00Rebuilding Gaza after Israel fighting will cost half a billion dollars, World Bank says
Cash for 45,000 Gaza residents to buy food and housing for over 4,000 families whose homes were either destroyed or damaged is needed immediately, says a new report issued by the World Bank, UN and EU
Thu, 8 Jul 2021 01:13:09 +03:00A little history lesson, suckers
Thu, 8 Jul 2021 01:04:55 +03:00Rivlin's seven tough, dangerous years as president draw to a close
Thu, 8 Jul 2021 00:57:47 +03:00Soon my childhood home will be razed
Thu, 8 Jul 2021 00:35:52 +03:00Haaretz cartoon
Wed, 7 Jul 2021 23:57:56 +03:00Israel razes homes of dozens of Palestinian families in Jordan Valley village
Dwellings in Khirbet Humsah, located in an area designated by the Israeli military as a firing zone, demolished in third such operation within a year, leaving residents homeless
Wed, 7 Jul 2021 23:37:33 +03:00Israeli army chief orders reprimand of senior officers over 2019 death of recruit
Ron Eliyahu Oved, 18, was killed outside a Negev army base by a runaway bus while trying out for the paratroops
Wed, 7 Jul 2021 23:37:06 +03:00Huge blast, fire rocks Dubai port
No deaths were reported in a blast which appears to have been caused by a shipping container which caught alight
Wed, 7 Jul 2021 22:58:52 +03:00Israeli ambassador to Polish parliament: Reconsider the law restricting restitution
Amid escalating rhetoric between officials, Israel’s acting ambassador to Poland calls on legislators in Warsaw to ‘listen to the voices of Holocaust survivors’
Wed, 7 Jul 2021 21:43:58 +03:00'Meager suspicion': Israeli left-wing activist Jonathan Pollak released from custody
Pollak was arrested for refusing to agree to a restraining order that he keep out of the West Bank
Wed, 7 Jul 2021 20:53:38 +03:00Why new president Herzog could be key to Israel's political stability
PM Bennett's sparse diplomatic experience could open up a broader role for Herzog, who will look to mend Israel's relationship with the Diaspora
Wed, 7 Jul 2021 20:52:27 +03:00Ahmed Jibril, founder of pro-Syrian Palestinian guerrilla faction, dies at 83
Wed, 7 Jul 2021 20:14:48 +03:00Israeli citizen arrested on suspicion of grave security-related offenses
The Israeli citizen was denied the right to meet with his lawyer in the first 20 days of his detention, at the order of the court