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Sun, 10 Oct 2021 11:40:39 +03:00
Iran says has produced more 20-percent enriched uranium than UN watchdog reported
Tehran's nuclear chief justifies move by saying enriched uranium for research reactor, which other signatories to the 2015 nuclear deal were meant to provide, 'was not delivered'

Sun, 10 Oct 2021 10:54:24 +03:00
What are dozens of young Russian immigrants doing in a Tel Aviv cemetery?
The "SNOB Tel Aviv" group is using street theater to connect to the local culture. They reenact key moments in the history of Zionism but prefer formalwear to the Israeli casualness

Sun, 10 Oct 2021 10:53:26 +03:00
Now in power, Taliban set sights on Afghan drug underworld
In Kabul hundreds of homeless men addicted to heroin and methamphetamines are rounded up, beaten and forcibly taken to treatment centers

Sun, 10 Oct 2021 10:21:02 +03:00
Abdul Qadeer Khan, father of Pakistan's nuclear bomb, dies at 85
Khan launched Pakistan on the path to becoming a nuclear weapons power in the early 1970s was later accused of stealing the centrifuge uranium enrichment technology from the Netherlands

Sun, 10 Oct 2021 09:54:36 +03:00
Merkel in Israel: Iran, antisemitism top the agenda as German chancellor joins cabinet meeting
Bennett welcomes Merkel, 'dear friend of Israel,' in final visit before leaving office

Sun, 10 Oct 2021 08:54:10 +03:00
Amid calls to boycott polls, Iraqis vote in early general election
At least 3,200 candidates are competing for Iraq's 329 seats in parliament, in an election held under a new law designed to help independent candidates

Sun, 10 Oct 2021 06:00:10 +03:00
Israeli universities open academic year with COVID restrictions, but on campus
Students will have to present a Green Pass before entering the campus, with some institutions requiring students to be physically present in class with few exceptions

Sun, 10 Oct 2021 05:59:32 +03:00
Egypt, U.S. advance Palestinian unity government, but Fatah and Hamas leery
Neither rival organization is keen on the idea, but neither wants to be seen by Cairo and Washington as the reason for its failure

Sun, 10 Oct 2021 05:58:57 +03:00
The new frontier: Israeli hospitals contend with 'long COVID' in children
The assumption that children are protected has informed the medical and public discourse concerning vaccinations, but the coronavirus has long-term effects, the extent and severity of which are not yet clear

Sun, 10 Oct 2021 05:58:30 +03:00
Germany's Merkel in Israel for seventh and final visit before leaving office
Prime Minister Bennett has cleared most of his schedule, and the weekly cabinet meeting is dedicated to bidding farewell to the long-reigning German chancellor

Sun, 10 Oct 2021 05:08:53 +03:00
28-year-old Nazareth man killed by stray bullet; five suspects detained
'We lost him in a second without a reason,' Issam Asam Salti's uncle says ■ Murder victims this year in Israel's Arab community on course to surpass last year's record

Sun, 10 Oct 2021 01:51:11 +03:00
One image, 2 million people stripped of their dignity

Sun, 10 Oct 2021 00:45:37 +03:00
Kahanist Ben-Gvir’s very own social affairs minister

Sat, 9 Oct 2021 23:18:10 +03:00
Haaretz cartoon

Sat, 9 Oct 2021 21:32:34 +03:00
COVID in Israel: Delays in supply of tests mar start of new scheme for schools
A plan to spare kids quarantine will be implemented gradually over the next days, the Education Ministry says. Meanwhile, key COVID metrics in Israel remain relatively low

Sat, 9 Oct 2021 21:06:01 +03:00
The demographic obsession: Why Israel doesn't really want to stop Arab crime

Sat, 9 Oct 2021 20:19:07 +03:00
Blinken to host Israeli, UAE foreign ministers for three-way meeting next week
Israel said Foreign Minister Lapid and his counterparts 'will discuss progress in Israel-UAE ties over the past year,' since the two countries signed a U.S.-brokered normalization deal

Sat, 9 Oct 2021 20:10:33 +03:00
Israel's milk shortage expected to last at least another week
Retailers can't import milk because of Israel's quota system on dairy produce

Sat, 9 Oct 2021 18:49:02 +03:00
The world needs another flood

Sat, 9 Oct 2021 18:47:07 +03:00
Daycare workers are just as important as doctors. Israel must treat them as such

Sat, 9 Oct 2021 18:13:47 +03:00
Taliban say won't work with U.S. to contain ISIS in Afghanistan ahead of direct talks
Senior Taliban officials and U.S. representatives are to meet Saturday and Sunday in Doha, in first since America withdrew from Afghanistan in August

Sat, 9 Oct 2021 17:13:37 +03:00
Iran's Bani-Sadr, first president after 1979 revolution, dies in exile in Paris
Abolhassan Bani-Sadr became president in 1980, but fled to France the following year after a power struggle with radical clerics

Sat, 9 Oct 2021 17:09:36 +03:00
Lebanon's two largest power stations out of fuel, and shutdown might last days
The shutdown of the two power stations had 'directly affected the stability of the power network and led to its complete outage, with no possibility of resuming operations in the meantime,' an official statement said

Sat, 9 Oct 2021 16:48:22 +03:00
Court dismisses claims Argentinian president covered up Iran's role in AMIA bombing
Iran has been accused of orchestrating the 1994 attack targeting a Jewish center, which killed 85 people and injured hundreds

Sat, 9 Oct 2021 16:41:04 +03:00
Senior Hezbollah member wanted for role in 1985 hijacking dies, Lebanese group says
Ali Atwa was placed on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Terrorists list in 2001 with two other alleged participants in the 1985 hijacking of TWA Flight 847

Sat, 9 Oct 2021 16:34:05 +03:00
Israeli gas tycoon Yossi Maiman, former owner of major TV network, dies at 75
Born in Germany and raised in Peru, Maiman immigrated to Israel in 1971, where he founded multinational group Merhav

Sat, 9 Oct 2021 13:40:12 +03:00
Former Israeli soldier assaulted outside Berlin train station
German police described the event, in which an Israeli was sprayed by irritant gas and knocked to the ground, as an antisemitic incident

Sat, 9 Oct 2021 13:23:14 +03:00
So far, Israel’s Bennett isn’t a leader

Sat, 9 Oct 2021 13:10:48 +03:00
Unvaccinated 16-year-old Israeli dies of post-COVID condition PIMS
Eden Jamal Fiyumi is the first child to die from the post-COVID PIMS syndrome in Israel, experts say

Sat, 9 Oct 2021 02:01:29 +03:00
As Palestinian detainees go on hunger strike, their families blame Israel, Palestinian Authority
Inmates' families are torn between support for the strikers and fear for their lives, which is mounting as two of the detainees have been striking for nearly three months

Sat, 9 Oct 2021 00:55:52 +03:00
The extraordinary story of Israeli troops who cracked under the pressure during the Yom Kippur War
The resourcefulness of a commander of a reconnaissance unit of the Armored Corps in the Yom Kippur War is a riveting example of the power and importance of emotional ‘containment’

Fri, 8 Oct 2021 23:45:54 +03:00
Freed from Israeli prison, Khalida Jarrar is mourning her daughter but won't stop speaking out against the occupation
Upon her release from prison last week, Palestinian legislator Khalida Jarrar visited the grave of her daughter, whose funeral Israel barred her from attending. ‘They think we have no feelings, that we are not human beings,’ she says

Fri, 8 Oct 2021 23:07:33 +03:00
Iraq's parliamentary elections are really about Iran, and family
The Iraqi public’s confidence in the democratic system crashed years ago. The voter turnout is expected to be low this time too

Fri, 8 Oct 2021 22:07:02 +03:00
Two killed in Israeli strike on Syrian air base, watchdog says
Syrian state media says Israel targeted the T4 military airport near Homs

Fri, 8 Oct 2021 20:43:24 +03:00
Israel hits record number of COVID patients hooked to life-saving ECMO machines
Although the number of seriously ill COVID patients is dropping in Israel, 56 people are currently connected to ECMO machines, 50 of them unvaccinated

Fri, 8 Oct 2021 19:50:37 +03:00
LISTEN: How Netanyahu’s Polish pandering paved the way for the restitution crisis
PLUS: Does Hollywood have a 'Jewface' problem?

Fri, 8 Oct 2021 17:41:31 +03:00
Key panel approves Shin Bet chief appointment despite misconduct allegations
The candidate, who now serves as deputy head of Shin Bet, appeared before the vetting committee to respond to an anonymous letter accusing him of misconduct

Fri, 8 Oct 2021 15:50:19 +03:00
Israel to stop promoting campaign led by Arab rapper amid right-wing lawmaker's protest
Tamer Nafar, a prominent rapper who identifies as a Palestinian citizen of Israel, has worked on a campaign to assist children who have been molested in the country's Arab community

Fri, 8 Oct 2021 12:32:22 +03:00
Witness after witness, hundreds reveal the atrocities of China's concentration camps
One after another they took the witness stand, and in soft voices described what they endured in the camps China has built to incarcerate its Muslim citizens. A report from the tribunal that convened in London to decide one question: Is genocide bein...

Fri, 8 Oct 2021 11:44:20 +03:00
Israel lifts COVID restrictions on outdoor activities as fourth wave ebbs
Activities such as kayaking, rafting and school visits to museums in Israel will no longer require proof of immunity, as serious COVID cases plummet to a two-month low

Fri, 8 Oct 2021 11:06:22 +03:00
Top court orders Israel to explain refusal to evict settlers from Palestinian land
Following the designation of the Jordan Valley land as a closed military zone in 1969, its Palestinian owners have been barred from entering the land while settlers were allowed to work it

Fri, 8 Oct 2021 10:25:45 +03:00
Israeli court reverses ruling that allowed Jews 'quiet' prayer on Temple Mount
The Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court had ruled that prayer 'by itself is not enough to violate the police's instructions' at the holy site

Fri, 8 Oct 2021 06:02:28 +03:00
Israelis who support government more likely to get third COVID vaccine dose
A survey commissioned by Haaretz found a correlation between vaccination rates and political leanings; in areas that supported Netanyahu, people were more likely to get the first two doses than the third, while the opposite is true of liberal strongh...

Fri, 8 Oct 2021 06:01:26 +03:00
The greatest danger facing Bennett's coalition may be the coalition itself
Although Likud's antics seem not to be leading anywhere, Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked may be a far greater threat to the stability of this diverse government

Fri, 8 Oct 2021 06:00:44 +03:00
Can the Israeli army still win wars without these capabilities?
As Israel's state budget nears its big day, the arguments over the state and use of ground forces is again gathering steam. The commander in charge sits down to answer the hard questions

Fri, 8 Oct 2021 03:32:56 +03:00
Sanders working with Schumer to increase aid to Gaza alongside Iron Dome funds for Israel
Speaking at Americans for Peace Now gala Thursday, Sen. Bernie Sanders explicitly calls for U.S. to attach conditions on military aid to Israel

Fri, 8 Oct 2021 02:40:45 +03:00
Haaretz cartoon

Fri, 8 Oct 2021 02:20:18 +03:00
Israeli man suspected of strangling wife to death
The husband is believed to have staged his wife's death to look like a suicide because the woman's autopsy shows she died of strangulation

Fri, 8 Oct 2021 02:03:42 +03:00
Israel must do everything to bring soldiers home

Fri, 8 Oct 2021 01:48:22 +03:00
For Palestinians, all roads lead to Mahmoud Darwish's hateful verses

Fri, 8 Oct 2021 01:33:27 +03:00
Israel's government should appease Gantz to prevent the return of Netanyahu

Fri, 8 Oct 2021 00:15:11 +03:00
'As a kid I was enchanted by what yogis do, like levitating. So I became one'
This week at the Tel Aviv airport: A father who travels the world teaching yoga, and his daughter, who travels the world collecting vintage clothing

Fri, 8 Oct 2021 00:02:29 +03:00
UN shuts down war crime investigation in Yemen
"With this vote, the Council has effectively ended its reporting mandate, it has cut this lifeline of the Yemeni people to the international community."

Thu, 7 Oct 2021 23:25:38 +03:00
What Kamala Harris should have told the student who accused Israel of ethnic genocide
'A voice that is based on lies is not a legitimate voice,' is what Vice President Harris should have said

Thu, 7 Oct 2021 23:05:11 +03:00
If this is what it takes to raise happy kids, the COVID generation lucked out. But at what cost?
A large proportion of young Israeli parents admit that they don’t spend enough time with their children – and that between work and family, it’s family that suffers. The coronavirus crisis with its isolation and quarantines changed that picture...

Thu, 7 Oct 2021 22:17:52 +03:00
Israeli daycare center workers reach deal on wages, end five-day strike
Israel Teachers' Union and government ministries will examine ways to increase salaries after years of poor income

Thu, 7 Oct 2021 22:14:43 +03:00
Israel's next religious battle: 'Customer friendly' conversions to Judaism
The government wants to encourage more Israelis who aren’t officially recognized as Jews to convert, but will its new legislation actually achieve that? Some experts question its chances of success

Thu, 7 Oct 2021 21:58:27 +03:00
30 million COVID tests: Israel's plan to spare kids quarantine and keep schools open
Prime Minister Bennett wants to expand to all schools a pilot program that stresses home swab testing as the key to avoid mass quarantines, but some parents wonder how they'll get their small children to agree

Thu, 7 Oct 2021 20:43:02 +03:00
Arnon Milchan, witness in Netanyahu trial, held $500m in tax haven, Pandora Papers show
Milchan, a billionaire former friend of Netanyahu who is now a prosecution witness against him, owns seven offshore companies, leaked papers say

Thu, 7 Oct 2021 20:40:30 +03:00
U.S. forces will stay in Syria, top Kurdish politician says
'The United States had given a clear commitment to the Kurds,' senior official says amid fears over America's declining role in the region

Thu, 7 Oct 2021 20:12:58 +03:00
Israeli suspected of arson as firefighters battle Jerusalem-area blaze
Resident of West Bank settlement arrested after blaze breaks out near Beit Shemesh, weeks after a mega-fire devastated parts of the Jerusalem Hills

Thu, 7 Oct 2021 20:08:28 +03:00
Jews should have the right to worship freely. But not in today's Jerusalem
If you equate Women of the Wall's decades-long fight for the right to pray at the Western Wall, with a Torah scroll and without fear of violence, to Jews praying openly on the Temple Mount, then there's just one issue you may have missed

Thu, 7 Oct 2021 19:16:27 +03:00
49 Hebrew Israelites appeal deportation order: 'No different from other community members'
The 49, who lack legal resident status, live in Dimona along with thousands of others in the Hebrew Israelite community who received permanent resident status in 2004

Thu, 7 Oct 2021 18:26:31 +03:00
Saudi-Iranian talks on 'good path,' says Tehran's top diplomat in Lebanon visit
In his first visit to Beirut since taking office, Iran's new foreign minister also offered to help Lebanon end its decades-old electricity crisis by building new power plants

Thu, 7 Oct 2021 17:03:02 +03:00
Why America's Christian nationalists now defend the torture of Jews
The Daily Wire's Matt Walsh says activists for trans rights are far more 'repulsive' than the unfairly maligned Inquisition. It's a perfect example of how, for white Christian nationalists, antisemitism and transphobia fit so well together

Thu, 7 Oct 2021 15:51:11 +03:00
Over 1,000 medical residents have resigned from Israel's hospitals. What happens now?
More than 1,000 residents submitted letters of resignation on Thursday, despite the Israeli government’s plan to cut their work hours. Both sides have good arguments, and the drama has only just begun

Thu, 7 Oct 2021 15:39:32 +03:00
Iran surveils her every move. Yet this Tehran-based director agreed to talk to an Israeli paper
Director Mahnaz Mohammadi makes films that expose the oppression of Iranian women. She won't let arrests and bans stop her from making more films or screening them in Israel

Thu, 7 Oct 2021 15:30:16 +03:00
Vanilla flavoring from lettuce? Israeli food tech's next big things
Hidden in Israel's northern periphery, Fresh Start is a startup incubator investing in tomorrow's food revolutions

Thu, 7 Oct 2021 15:12:57 +03:00
Global energy crisis? Not in Israel
While Europe and China face the threat of blackouts this winter, Israel is sitting pretty thanks largely to a 2015 natural-gas agreement that faced much pushback at the time of its signing

Thu, 7 Oct 2021 15:07:46 +03:00
Israeli coalition lawmaker blasts kashrut reform for excluding non-Orthodox streams
MK Alon Tal warns that any plans that don’t allow the Reform and Conservative movements to issue their own kashrut certification ‘turns Orthodox intolerance into Israeli public policy’

Thu, 7 Oct 2021 15:00:15 +03:00
Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump in Jerusalem next week to launch Abraham Accords caucus
The purpose of the Israeli parliament lobby is to strengthen economic, tourist and other ties with the Gulf states as well as 'formulating future agreements with other countries'

Thu, 7 Oct 2021 14:23:07 +03:00
Gantz-Bennett tensions seethe over secret Mossad operation
According to sources, the defense minister was enraged by the prime minister's revelation of the mission to gather intel on MIA navigator Ron Arad in his speech kicking off the winter session in Israel's parliament

Thu, 7 Oct 2021 14:07:54 +03:00
'Peres pinned me to the door and tried to kiss me. I pushed him off. I was shaking'
In an interview with Haaretz, former ambassador Colette Avital talks about how she had to contend with persistent rumors of an inappropriate relationship with Shimon Peres

Thu, 7 Oct 2021 13:57:13 +03:00
Thousands of Gazans are applying to work in Israel. Only very few succeed
The 7,000 permits are being given to merchants rather than laborers – reportedly at Hamas' request – with Gaza's official jobless rate reportedly at 50 percent even before the May war with Israel

Thu, 7 Oct 2021 13:38:20 +03:00
Israel launches pilot for saliva PCR tests, with 45-minute results
The two-week pilot in Tel Aviv will determine whether Israel switches over to the less intrusive method of testing for COVID

Thu, 7 Oct 2021 12:56:11 +03:00
Chava Alberstein and the Jerusalem East and West Orchestra: a missed opportunity
Despite the enthusiasm, the collaboration was not heartwarming

Thu, 7 Oct 2021 12:05:23 +03:00
No Crusader army camps have ever been found. Until now, in Israel
Crusader knights lived on the move, which may explain why no camps have ever been found. Now one has, in Israel, and now we know how the soldiers whiled away their time while waiting for war

Thu, 7 Oct 2021 11:25:46 +03:00
This could be the end of Tunisia's ancient Jewish community
Tunisia’s arc from igniting the Arab Spring ten years ago into an autocratic winter is tragic. For its 2000-year-old Jewish community, however, Kais Saied's coup is a tragedy with potentially existential consequences

Thu, 7 Oct 2021 11:22:41 +03:00
Jordan aims to supply crisis-stricken Lebanon with electricity by end of year
Lebanon is reportedly seeking financing from the World Bank for this project

Thu, 7 Oct 2021 10:28:04 +03:00
100-year-old former Nazi camp guard to go on trial in Germany
The defendant is charged with 3,518 counts of accessory to murder at Sachsenhausen concentration camp near Berlin between 1936 and 1945, where more than 200,000 people were held

Thu, 7 Oct 2021 09:18:34 +03:00
Study: Only 142 out of 5 million vaccinated Israelis suffered heart inflammation
Researchers estimate one of 26,000 men is at risk of developing myocarditis after taking COVID-19 vaccine, while one of 218,000 women are at risk ■ Most at-risk group are men and women between 16 and 19

Thu, 7 Oct 2021 09:14:33 +03:00
This is how many weapons are stolen from the Israeli army
The alarming data, obtained by Haaretz, demonstrates how many weapons have fallen into the wrong hands in recent years

Thu, 7 Oct 2021 06:01:05 +03:00
Israeli army identified settler who shot at Palestinians with soldier's gun, but did nothing
The Israeli military refused to identify the settler from the June attack. They also did not confirm whether proceedings were initiated against a masked soldier, who grabbed a gun and shot at Palestinians in May

Thu, 7 Oct 2021 06:00:36 +03:00
Israel Police to be allowed to use body cam footage in slander suits
While Israeli citizens could also access the footage through Freedom of Information requests, they are rarely accepted by the police

Thu, 7 Oct 2021 01:54:04 +03:00
Israel's obsessive worship of the dead

Thu, 7 Oct 2021 01:47:15 +03:00
The technicality in the Knesset bestowing a whole lot of power

Thu, 7 Oct 2021 01:45:20 +03:00
Yes to a Tel Aviv traffic toll for all

Thu, 7 Oct 2021 00:00:49 +03:00
COVID antibodies wane six months after second shot – except among one group
Study of 5,000 Israeli hospital workers aimed to obtain a better understanding of the process in which COVID antibodies wane

Wed, 6 Oct 2021 23:12:51 +03:00
Haaretz Cartoon

Wed, 6 Oct 2021 23:04:52 +03:00
Israel loosens COVID restrictions amid decline in deaths, severe cases
As key COVID indicators fall to lowest levels since August, which Health Minsitry director attributes to vaccinations, Israel begins relaxing some restrictions

Wed, 6 Oct 2021 22:54:42 +03:00
Israeli minister rejects asylum request, against panel's advice
This is the second time an asylum bid is rejected despite panel's recommendation ■ Minister Ayelet Shaked says there were contradictions in the man’s statements and that there was no risk he would be deported to his country of origin

Wed, 6 Oct 2021 21:51:41 +03:00
Israeli man convicted of murdering wife in front of baby daughter
Eliran Malul found guilty of murdering Michal Sela under aggravating circumstances, with judges saying his claims of self-defense and abuse are 'baseless'

Wed, 6 Oct 2021 21:03:11 +03:00
Fly fishing invented 13,000 years ago on the banks of the Jordan River
The people’s manufacture of hooks from animal bones or ivory, for fly fishing or otherwise, was extraordinary. These were the last hunter-gatherers in Israel

Wed, 6 Oct 2021 21:00:41 +03:00
The mystery of Nestor’s Cup: Who was buried with the oldest Greek inscription?
New study sheds light on the burial found on an Italian island. But questions remain as to who wrote the bawdy limerick that contains the first written reference to Homer’s epic poems

Wed, 6 Oct 2021 20:30:58 +03:00
Using Mossad for politics, Bennett borrows a page from Netanyahu's playbook
The Prime Minister's decision to reveal a recent Mossad mission to discover information on Ron Arad's fate, brought back memories of Netanyahu's use of the spy agency for political purposes – and that’s a problem

Wed, 6 Oct 2021 19:49:09 +03:00
Israel's NSO ends contract with UAE after ruler used spyware to track ex-wife
The move comes after England's High Court ruled that Sheikh Mohammed used the Israeli firm NSO's 'Pegasus' technology to track Princess Haya bint al-Hussein

Wed, 6 Oct 2021 19:12:13 +03:00
Teen suspect in Texas high school shooting in custody, police say
18-year-old in police custody after four injured at high school in Arlington, Texas

Wed, 6 Oct 2021 16:55:08 +03:00
Palestinian actress decries 'ethnic cleansing' after win at Israeli Oscars
In a speech read out by director, 'Let it Be Morning' actress Juna Suleiman laments 'ongoing colonialist traditions of erasing historic identities'

Wed, 6 Oct 2021 15:04:02 +03:00
Arab, white or brown? A little girl learns to walk through America’s ethnic maze
‘Yes,’ I told my daughter. ‘Here in the United States you’re white. You’re also Arab. Some people say Arabs are brown.’ Her American journey begins

Wed, 6 Oct 2021 14:50:57 +03:00
Both of these politicians opposed Iron Dome funding. Only one was called antisemitic
While Republican Senator Rand Paul drew criticism this week from the likes of AIPAC, it was nowhere near the level heaped on Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, as well as other progressives, for their stance on Iron Dome



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