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Sun, 18 Jul 2021 11:57:02 +03:00Turkey condemns EU court ruling on headscarf ban as violation of freedoms
This ruling is the latest obstacle in the strained relations between Turkey and European nations, largely stemming from a maritime dispute with Greece
Sun, 18 Jul 2021 11:18:47 +03:00Iran insists prisoner swap deal struck with U.S., says ready to proceed 'today'
Iran's top nuclear negotiator says that the United States and Britain must stop linking a humanitarian exchange with the nuclear talks
Sun, 18 Jul 2021 06:00:47 +03:00Dead IDF officer’s blood samples transported to U.S. lab in cooler bag
Army officials say they took the unusual measure of sending the officer’s samples with a personal escort due to the sensitivity of the case
Sun, 18 Jul 2021 06:00:14 +03:00Netanyahu’s dangerous influence on Donald Trump's Iran policy
According to an upcoming book on Trump's last months in the White House, after Trump lost the presidential election, Bibi pushed for an attack on Iran
Sun, 18 Jul 2021 02:04:55 +03:00Haaretz Cartoon
Sun, 18 Jul 2021 01:34:24 +03:00Gideon Levy, are you sure I didn't lift a finger?
Sun, 18 Jul 2021 01:16:37 +03:00Israel’s new public security minister isn’t so different from his predecessor
Sun, 18 Jul 2021 01:00:19 +03:00Israel's new government is big on bullying tactics
Sun, 18 Jul 2021 00:18:05 +03:00Netanyahu, longtime inciter against the Arabs, is the new national legitimizer
Sat, 17 Jul 2021 23:56:25 +03:00Non-Orthodox Tisha B’Av service at Western Wall crashed by religious right-wingers
The takeover was organized by an extreme right-wing group, known as Liba, which has been trying to prevent a revival of the Western Wall deal
Sat, 17 Jul 2021 23:45:16 +03:00Facebook blocks account that posted letter by jailed Palestinian ex-MP
Khaleda Jarrar wrote to her daughter, after the funeral last Tuesday: yours is 'a life of a Palestinian who loves life and hope and freedom and hates slavery and colonialism'
Sat, 17 Jul 2021 23:14:50 +03:00Deceased Palestinian dissident's family accuses PA of coverup
Nizar Banat's relatives claim PA is trying to settle matter out of court: 'Nizar’s file is a political assassination and will remain open until justice is achieved, even if it takes 1,000 years'
Sat, 17 Jul 2021 22:41:39 +03:00Iranian deputy foreign minister: 'Nuclear talks will wait for new administration'
The official adds that prisoner exchanges need to stop being linked to negotiations, and some may be released on Sunday if U.S. and U.K. fulfill their part of the deal
Sat, 17 Jul 2021 21:13:23 +03:00Daily COVID infections in Israel top 1,000, serious cases climb
The delta variant drives another four-month peak in daily infections, as Israel's COVID czar says Knesset to vote on reinstating vaccine passports for event halls
Sat, 17 Jul 2021 16:14:44 +03:00Syrian president sworn in for fourth term in war-torn country
The May elections, in which Bashar Assad won over 95 percent of the vote, were described by the West and by his opposition as a sham
Sat, 17 Jul 2021 03:37:09 +03:00Bedouin man shot dead, teen mildly wounded as gun violence persists in Israel's Arab community
The shooting occurred while the two were sitting in a parked car on the main street of the Bedouin village of Hura
Fri, 16 Jul 2021 22:14:30 +03:00Israel considering financial relief to the Palestinian Authority following U.S. envoy's visit
Hady Amr, the U.S. deputy assistant secretary of state for Israel and Palestinian affairs, ended a week-long visit in the region, urging Israel to increase the PA's cash flow to ensure stability, officials say
Fri, 16 Jul 2021 20:43:33 +03:00After Erdogan-appointed university head removed, activists say protests not over
Students and teachers at Istanbul's Bogazici University have defied a government ban on protests since Erdogan installed the rector Melih Bulu, decrying government interference in academia
Fri, 16 Jul 2021 20:40:26 +03:00Iraq claims killer of prominent analyst arrested, a year after assassination
Hisham al-Hashimi was gunned down last July outside his home in Baghdad in a drive-by shooting that involved two attackers on a motorcycle
Fri, 16 Jul 2021 19:46:25 +03:00Israel razed a Palestinian mansion as collective punishment, U.S. intervention be damned
The IDF blew up the family home of a Palestinian accused of murdering an Israeli. The High Court rejected a petition against the demolition, which argued that the assailant lives in the U.S. Even the intervention of the American secretary of state wa...
Fri, 16 Jul 2021 19:18:10 +03:00The Jewish National Fund bought land in the Land of Israel, heaven forbid
Fri, 16 Jul 2021 18:56:48 +03:00You can't train people to be less racist, Israeli researchers find
Encounters aimed at bringing people closer, joint sports, diversity training. None significantly alter discriminatory views and behavior. What does work?
Fri, 16 Jul 2021 18:38:24 +03:00Palestinians report 10 wounded by live Israeli fire near site of evacuated settlement outpost
Tensions in this part of the West Bank have been running high over the evacuation of the Evyatar outpost, with clashes between residents, settlers and the army claiming the life of a 20-year-old Palestinian two weeks ago
Fri, 16 Jul 2021 17:53:40 +03:00This isolated Syrian community straddling the Israeli-Lebanese border is a culinary gem
The village of Ghajar, located half in Israel and half in Lebanon, is virtually cut off from the world but local residents are gradually finding ways to introduce outsiders to its unique cuisine and other wonders
Fri, 16 Jul 2021 17:48:32 +03:00As France urges Lebanon to pick a new prime minister, country faces even tougher times
Lebanon looks set to fall ever deeper into economic collapse, with many of its sectarian political leader switching their focus to elections next year rather than a new government or financial rescue plan
Fri, 16 Jul 2021 17:43:33 +03:00Settler, masked person filmed shooting at Palestinians as Israeli soldiers watch
Two Palestinians were killed in May clashes near the West Bank settlement of Yitzhar, but it is unclear which shooters were responsible
Fri, 16 Jul 2021 16:25:06 +03:00Dutch court convicts Syrian of war crimes over killing of soldier
Ahmad al-Khedr, also known as Abu Khuder, was a member of the Nusra Front rebel group, at one point Al-Qaida's affiliate in Syria
Fri, 16 Jul 2021 15:39:59 +03:00Reuters journalist killed covering clash between Afghan forces, Taliban
Danish Siddiqui had been embedded as a journalist since earlier this week with Afghan special forces based in the southern province of Kandahar
Fri, 16 Jul 2021 14:46:43 +03:00With COVID blocking deportations, Israel held foreigners for months in jail instead
The detainees – hailing from Russia and Asia – agreed to leave, but the pandemic upset deportation plans, and even when ordered to be released, some couldn't make bail
Fri, 16 Jul 2021 14:40:00 +03:00Russian plane found after hard landing in Siberia, survivors confirmed
The incident comes less than two weeks after a similar aircraft crashed into a cliff in poor visibility conditions on a remote peninsula in Russia's far east, killing all 28 people on board
Fri, 16 Jul 2021 13:03:27 +03:00France, U.S. urge Lebanese politicians to quickly form cabinet
The announcements come following Lebanon's Prime Minister-Designate Hariri's resignation over divisions with the president
Fri, 16 Jul 2021 12:38:22 +03:00Iranian leaders hail nuke deal's benefits, signalling new accord is nigh
Iranian Foreign Minister's final report in office indicates a new nuclear deal awaits the incoming president's signature, and suggests that the U.S. will lift all sanctions on Tehran
Fri, 16 Jul 2021 12:25:34 +03:00Israeli rabbinical court overturns ruling to remove kids from mother's care amid adultery claim
In U-turn, the court in central Israel said there is 'no pretext or argument' to strip the mother of custody of the two children, after her husband accused her of adultery without providing evidence
Fri, 16 Jul 2021 10:19:34 +03:00Israel's COVID spike continues amid delta spread, but serious cases plateau
Daily COVID cases in Israel reach another four-month peak of 855, but data is showing signs that the increase in seriously ill patients is starting to steady ■ Arrivals from U.K., Cyprus to require week-long quarantine
Fri, 16 Jul 2021 09:58:09 +03:00Trump pushed for Iran strikes in frenzied bid to cling to power, report says
Senior U.S. military officials were actively trying to dissuade Donald Trump from striking Iran after he lost the 2020 election, The New Yorker reports
Fri, 16 Jul 2021 09:16:28 +03:00LISTEN: Pigging out in Jerusalem: Did ancient Israelites really eat pork?
Fri, 16 Jul 2021 09:00:37 +03:00Death toll surpasses 160 in deadly Europe floods, dozens still missing
Herzog sends condolences to German president Steinmeier, citing climate change as key factor in disaster
Fri, 16 Jul 2021 08:29:31 +03:00Free from Netanyahu's shadow, Bennett must now curb the modesty
Israel's new prime minister also proves he can't quite comprehend the new coronavirus outbreak ■ Stripped of his power, Netanyahu continues to play dirty, and to court Benny Gantz
Fri, 16 Jul 2021 08:25:46 +03:00'There's an undercurrent on the American left that regards Jews as suspect'
Bret Weinstein was a popular professor at Washington’s Evergreen State College. His life was turned upside down when he opposed a day free of white people on campus. Now his controversial remarks on COVID-19 could get him kicked off YouTube
Fri, 16 Jul 2021 08:17:13 +03:00The price of Israel's surrogacy breakthrough
Fri, 16 Jul 2021 06:52:16 +03:00'My family speaks Turkish. It sounds like they're trying to kill each other. Hebrew is one level down'
This week at the Tel Aviv airport: A Swiss student who has recently experienced her first war in Israel, and an Israeli who shocked her family when she married a man 14 years her senior and became religious
Fri, 16 Jul 2021 05:58:18 +03:0015 years on, mistakes of Second Lebanon War dictate Israel’s next moves
The question marks revolve around Israel’s ground troops. Will it take the risk to deploy them, and is this still a relevant military maneuver?
Fri, 16 Jul 2021 05:56:07 +03:00Iran’s drone revolution takes off
Tehran’s growing use of drones reflects an old Iranian ethos of combining technological progress with self-reliance. Meanwhile, Israel is taking drone warfare one step further
Fri, 16 Jul 2021 03:38:41 +03:00Destruction has no link to God
Fri, 16 Jul 2021 03:31:11 +03:00Six workers died in accidents this week in Israel, lack of supervision cited
Since the beginning of the month nine people were killed in work accidents, and 37 were killed since the beginning of the year, 20 of them were killed while working on construction sites
Fri, 16 Jul 2021 03:00:52 +03:00Defense may question an early suspect in historic retrial of man convicted of killing teen
In a trial that rocked Israel, Roman Zadorov was convicted of murdering Tair Rada, 13, at the girl’s school in the Golan Heights in 2006
Fri, 16 Jul 2021 02:52:26 +03:00While Israel celebrates surrogacy for all, causes for concern arise
Fri, 16 Jul 2021 02:00:55 +03:00Haaretz Cartoon
Fri, 16 Jul 2021 00:41:45 +03:00After three days, Israeli hospital staffers suspend strike for talks
The strikes, which protest intolerably high workloads, will be suspended for 45 days in exchange for negotiations with top health and finance ministry officials
Fri, 16 Jul 2021 00:30:06 +03:00Israel detains 10 Arabs for allegedly throwing fire bombs at Jewish family's home
The May attack was aimed at rekindling rioting in mixed Arab-Jewish cities and was unique in that it was premeditated, Shin Bet source says
Thu, 15 Jul 2021 21:36:37 +03:00Israel recruited the Jewish National Fund to secretly buy Palestinian land for settlers
Haaretz reveals details of a series of deals carried out by Himanuta, a Jewish National Fund subsidiary, in the West Bank, one of which involved the Defense Ministry. The Bakri house in Hebron, for example, was bought for settlers who had squatted th...
Thu, 15 Jul 2021 21:00:47 +03:00Community or nepotism? Israeli researchers prove hyenas 'inherit' friendship
Not only do the hyena kids have the same friends as Mom, but the higher in rank she is, the better the babies do in life
Thu, 15 Jul 2021 20:17:10 +03:00Bennett proposes restrictions for indoor events amid COVID surge in Israel
The plan, which calls for stricter enforcement, would allow Israelis who have been vaccinated against COVID-19, have recovered, or have tested negative to attend indoor events with more than 100 people
Thu, 15 Jul 2021 20:10:29 +03:00Netanyahu's corruption trial to resume only in September, and briefly
‘Personal reasons’ involving key witness Yeshua cited in request for yet another stay of proceedings
Thu, 15 Jul 2021 20:09:31 +03:00Jews' existential dread about antisemitism is deep – and it's warping our judgment
The trauma of the Temple's destruction, the foreboding, is always in our consciousness. But that doesn't mean we should worship at the Third Temple of hysteria about antisemitism
Thu, 15 Jul 2021 19:56:35 +03:00Letters to the editor: Did Jewish self-rule in the Diaspora contribute to Israeli democracy?
Thu, 15 Jul 2021 19:35:04 +03:00Israel and Turkey agree to improve relations, spokesman for Erdogan’s party says
Spokesman for ruling party says willingness to boost ties comes after call between Turkish and Israeli presidents, but still early to say if envoys will be appointed
Thu, 15 Jul 2021 19:03:24 +03:00Israel’s new military advocate general to be its second female major general ever
Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, currently the IDF’s top adviser on gender issues, has also headed the military prosecution’s legal advice department and served as deputy president of the Jaffa military court
Thu, 15 Jul 2021 19:02:17 +03:00U.K. antisemitism rose to record levels during Israel-Gaza fighting, watchdog says
Community Security Trust says 628 antisemitic incidents recorded within a month mark 'the most intense period of anti-Jewish hatred seen in the U.K. in recent years'
Thu, 15 Jul 2021 18:44:37 +03:00'Israel refuses to extradite NSO-linked former Mexican official'
Tomas Zeron De Lucio is wanted in Mexico and hiding in Israel. But Mexico's support for Palestinians is keeping him here, NYT report: 'Why would we help Mexico?'
Thu, 15 Jul 2021 18:27:39 +03:00What Vietnam is doing with Israeli phone-hacking tech
A new investigation reveals that Cellebrite sells its digital forensics tools to a Vietnamese ministry known for persecuting bloggers, journalists and religious and ethnic minorities
Thu, 15 Jul 2021 18:27:15 +03:00Conditions in hospitals are deteriorating, but Israel in no rush to end strike
As strike by cleaning and administrative staff continues, negotiations with ministries have yet to begin, while hospitals report ‘rapid and dramatic deterioration’
Thu, 15 Jul 2021 18:20:30 +03:00U.S., Afghanistan's neighbors scramble to address Taliban surge
In recent weeks, the Taliban have gained control of key border posts with neighbors Iran, Pakistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan
Thu, 15 Jul 2021 18:01:15 +03:00Israeli illustrators draw on the horrors of Palestinian child detentions
‘A nightmare in eight stages’: Parents Against Child Detention worked with Israeli illustrators to depict the stages of detaining Palestinian minors in a bid to make Israelis wake up to the phenomenon
Thu, 15 Jul 2021 17:57:28 +03:00The lights might be out, but Iraq's Iran-aligned militias sure are in business
Public criticism and government threats do little to ease the militias’ control of the underground economy, or the corruption
Thu, 15 Jul 2021 17:50:58 +03:00Microsoft says Israeli group sold tools to hack Windows
The hacking tool vendor, named Candiru, created and sold a software exploit that can penetrate Windows, said a report by Citizen Lab
Thu, 15 Jul 2021 17:49:34 +03:00Dispute over Jerusalem scuttles Israeli club's soccer match with Barcelona
Beitar Jerusalem owner Moshe Hogeg he could not bring himself to 'betray' his disputed city by accepting a Palestinian demand the exhibition game be held elsewhere
Thu, 15 Jul 2021 17:26:17 +03:00The Iran conundrum: What should Israel do if there’s no nuclear deal?
With Tehran calling a temporary halt to nuclear talks with the U.S., it’s time for Israel to drop the bumper-sticker platitudes and start developing a clear strategy for what might come next
Thu, 15 Jul 2021 17:09:16 +03:00China says will increase involvement in resolving Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Speaking at a Zoom conference on the conflict, Foreign Minister Wang Yi reiterates support for a two-state solution
Thu, 15 Jul 2021 16:55:01 +03:00Lebanon's PM-designate Hariri steps down after months of deadlock, deepening crisis
'It is clear that we will not be able to agree with the president,' Hariri said after a 20-minute meeting with President Aoun, likely plunging the country further into chaos
Thu, 15 Jul 2021 16:53:40 +03:00Has America got the Holocaust all wrong?
In America, fascism is rising. And all our talk about the Holocaust, that it would ward off bigotry, hatred, and totalitarianism, all our museums, memorials, movies and school curricula, hasn't stopped it
Thu, 15 Jul 2021 16:11:44 +03:00Israel's top court rejects appeal by youth convicted in 2015 arson attack on Palestinian family
The appellant, who was a minor at the time, was convicted of involvement in the 2015 attack that killed three members of the Dawabsheh family in the West Bank village of Duma
Thu, 15 Jul 2021 15:45:55 +03:00Islamist party, Meretz reject bill to probe crime in Israel's Arab community
Sixty-one Israeli Arabs have been murdered since the beginning of 2021, while only about 20 percent of the cases have been solved, Joint List head says
Thu, 15 Jul 2021 14:50:30 +03:00Ten years ago, a 'Summer of Awakening' rocked Israeli politics. Did anything change?
On many economic parameters they are better off than ever, but schools remain poor, roads are crowded and home prices are high
Thu, 15 Jul 2021 14:38:51 +03:00Ukrainian parliament accepts resignation of minister seen as far-right patron
Arsen Avakov has been at odds with the president over the probe into the death of an investigative journalist in a car bombing in Kyiv in 2016
Thu, 15 Jul 2021 14:21:19 +03:00'We put the lab on the bat': Tiny device changes the face of biological research
How a miniaturized set of sensors won Israeli scientists the Blavatnik prize for life sciences, and allows for the study of 'freely behaving animals'
Thu, 15 Jul 2021 13:35:50 +03:00Coalition-backed bill on religious pluralism fails after Knesset speaker mistakenly votes against it
Legislation introduced by Labor lawmaker Gilad Kariv that would have increased female representation on the religious court judicial appointments committee goes down in a tie vote
Thu, 15 Jul 2021 13:20:10 +03:00At least eight killed in renewed strikes on Syria's last rebel enclave
Violence has been rising in recent weeks between government and allied forces and insurgents on the edge of northwest Syria despite a truce brokered in March 2020
Thu, 15 Jul 2021 12:56:05 +03:00These Jewish artists transformed Paris
Chagall, Modigliani and Soutine were just a few of the Jewish artists to find liberation in the French capital. Two new Parisian exhibitions celebrate the École de Paris
Thu, 15 Jul 2021 12:27:56 +03:00Israel introduces online system for noncitizens seeking entry permits
Foreign Ministry creates special process for non-Israelis trying to see family – and several other categories, including students – who were being stymied by backlogs at Israeli embassies and consulates
Thu, 15 Jul 2021 11:37:50 +03:00COVID in Israel: Delta variant leads to 4-month high in cases
Israel's serious COVID cases have slightly increased, but still remain low and currently stands at 54
Thu, 15 Jul 2021 11:02:33 +03:00'Bribe totaling $360m': Docs presented by Israeli billionaire Dan Gertler embroil him in one of biggest graft probes ever
Papers submitted to an arbitration procedure by mining magnate Dan Gertler reached investigation authorities in the U.K. and the U.S. ■ According to a recent ruling in Switzerland, the docs include an affidavit on Congo bribes totaling hundreds of ...
Thu, 15 Jul 2021 09:59:25 +03:00Oink vey! Pig skeleton discovered in First Temple-period Jerusalem
Remains of piglet from 2,700 years ago support the theory that ancient Israelites occasionally did eat pork, and the biblical taboo on this animal was only first observed in Second Temple era, Israeli archaeologists say
Thu, 15 Jul 2021 09:44:27 +03:00Israeli army arrests dozens of Palestinian students in West Bank on suspicion of terrorist activity
Army says suspects belong to a Hamas student cell at Ramallah's Birzeit University
Thu, 15 Jul 2021 06:01:02 +03:00Bennett’s attack on Netanyahu implies Israel was left unprepared for Iran
While Bennett seems to have handled well the obstacles that Netanyahu left for him, he still has some hurdles to clear
Thu, 15 Jul 2021 03:16:30 +03:00Iran not ready for nuclear talks until Raisi takes over, diplomatic source says
'We were prepared to continue negotiating, but the Iranians requested more time to deal with their presidential transition,' a U.S. State Department spokesperson says
Thu, 15 Jul 2021 01:50:42 +03:00Israeli green groups: New government promoting environmentally destructive projects
Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked aims to extend the life of a committee that approves construction in open areas, but is opposed by environmental protection chief Tamar Zandberg
Thu, 15 Jul 2021 01:40:35 +03:00Who in Israel cares about workers dying?
Thu, 15 Jul 2021 01:32:06 +03:00Israel's tolerance of Haredi intolerance
Thu, 15 Jul 2021 01:23:16 +03:00Hey new Israeli government, drop ‘unfeasible’ from the lexicon
Thu, 15 Jul 2021 01:14:58 +03:00Damn them all
Wed, 14 Jul 2021 23:25:30 +03:00Haaretz cartoon
Wed, 14 Jul 2021 22:52:36 +03:00Israel’s Iron Dome mistakenly fired at fighter jet during May’s Gaza fighting
In May, the Israeli military said that an Iron Dome interceptor missile struck an unmanned drone mid-air during fighting with Gaza
Wed, 14 Jul 2021 22:16:51 +03:00Israel believes war with Hezbollah unlikely as Lebanon’s economy suffers
But both Israel and Hezbollah are preparing for the possibility of a limited incident that could lead to a wide-scale conflict ■ Israeli army believes that contrary to Gaza fighting, a war in Lebanon would require a ground offensive
Wed, 14 Jul 2021 21:06:02 +03:00Israeli rabbinical court removes kids from mother's custody after husband claims adultery
The father did not present any evidence for his claim, and the court’s decisions were made without the woman's position being heard
Wed, 14 Jul 2021 20:53:55 +03:00Taliban seize border crossing with Pakistan in major advance
U.S. plans to send charter flights later this month to start evacuating around 2,500 Afghans who worked as interpreters for the government as the Taliban continues to advance across the country
Wed, 14 Jul 2021 20:52:19 +03:00Knesset advances bill to preserve DNA samples from victims of sexual assault
51 lawmakers from the opposition voted against the bill, which would mandate the preservation of DNA samples taken from victims of sex crimes for an unlimited time
Wed, 14 Jul 2021 20:50:03 +03:00Israel prosecution announces retrial for man convicted of killing teen
Citing new evidence that 'has real potential to change the result' of the verdict, the prosecution said that it's in the interest of the public to conduct a retrial
Wed, 14 Jul 2021 20:22:44 +03:00So long as Israel enshrines Jewish supremacy in law, it can't be a liberal democracy
Save me from the old slogan of a 'Jewish and democratic state.' In Israel, all citizens are equal before the law – unless they're Palestinian
Wed, 14 Jul 2021 19:42:14 +03:00Lebanon's Hariri presents cabinet to president in 'final' proposal
The proposal is for 24 specialist technocrat ministers, in line with a French initiative that envisioned a government capable of enacting reforms that could unlock much needed foreign aid to rescue the nation