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Tue, 12 Oct 2021 11:44:01 +03:00
COVID in Israel: New serious cases drop 60% in three weeks
The 15 percent of Israelis eligible for a COVID vaccine accounted for 70 percent of deaths in the country over the past week

Tue, 12 Oct 2021 11:43:57 +03:00
How the addictive, controversial Israeli game ‘Coin Master’ raked in a fortune
Moon Active was going nowhere in the mobile gaming market until in 2016 it released ‘Coin Master,’ a game that became a sensation and generated billions of dollars. So why isn’t the company a source of unbridled pride in Startup Nation?

Tue, 12 Oct 2021 11:40:36 +03:00
Sally Rooney won’t let her new novel be published in Hebrew
The Hebrew-language publisher of Rooney’s first two books said last month that the author won’t allow her new book to be published in Hebrew in due to her BDS support

Tue, 12 Oct 2021 11:39:38 +03:00
How Pakistan's A.Q. Khan, father of the 'Muslim bomb,' escaped Mossad assassination
Abdul Qadeer Khan, who died this week in Islamabad, got Pakistan the bomb, stole and sold atomic secrets, profited from a shady global proliferation network, helped Iran go nuclear, aided Gadhafi's reactor ambitions – and still passed away from nat...

Tue, 12 Oct 2021 09:32:49 +03:00
Iran kicks off annual military drill with Middle East on edge
Iran regularly holds such drills and says they assess the troops' combat readiness and demonstrate the nation's military capabilities

Tue, 12 Oct 2021 08:50:03 +03:00
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Tue, 12 Oct 2021 06:00:30 +03:00
Israeli high schools take a COVID chance – and not everyone is happy
Schools across Israel decided to use experience gained during COVID and allow students a day for ‘independent study’ in an effort to prepare them for a 21st century working environment

Tue, 12 Oct 2021 01:56:48 +03:00
'For us, Mandela was just another terrorist'
A white South African on her experience during the apartheid regime, and the moral failure of progressives to challenge the racist system

Tue, 12 Oct 2021 01:45:17 +03:00
Territory affected by extreme weather increased 90 times over past decade
A new study published in 'Climate and Atmospheric Science' claims that a quarter of extreme rainfall events over the past decade can be attributed to climate change

Tue, 12 Oct 2021 01:43:45 +03:00
A Nobel Truth Prize for Gideon Levy

Tue, 12 Oct 2021 01:36:06 +03:00
Why Israel hides ministerial discussions in the archives for 30 years

Tue, 12 Oct 2021 01:22:06 +03:00
Israel is an expensive country – but not as much as you think
Israelis are paying less than what the OECD estimated for housing and utilities, a new study shows, but they're still shelling out much more in general, for many goods and services, than their foreign peers

Tue, 12 Oct 2021 01:03:08 +03:00
Two West Bank residents charged with aiding Gilboa Prison escapees
According to the indictment, Abd al-Rahman Abu Ja'afar of Jenin and Ihab Salama provided shelter and food to prisoners Iham Kamamji and Monadal Infiat

Tue, 12 Oct 2021 00:46:06 +03:00
Facebook must be held to account

Tue, 12 Oct 2021 00:08:26 +03:00
Bennett, meet with Abbas

Tue, 12 Oct 2021 00:01:50 +03:00
Israeli cops attacked for dismantling tent near West Bank settlement
Settlers attack and mildly wound one Border Police officer near Yitzhar, where several incidents of settler violence have occurred over the past year

Mon, 11 Oct 2021 23:33:50 +03:00
Mayhem erupts in Israel's Knesset as opposition lawmakers interrupt Bennett's speech on state budget
Six lawmakers were removed from the session for disrupting Bennett, while opposition head Netanyahu said 'he's not the real prime minister'

Mon, 11 Oct 2021 23:03:35 +03:00
Shi'ite cleric Sadr big winner in Iraqi elections, early results show
Moqtada al-Sadr's party increased its number of seats in parliament, while former prime minister Nouri al-Maliki came in second amongst Shi'ite parties

Mon, 11 Oct 2021 22:52:21 +03:00
Israel to legalize residency status of hundreds of Palestinians in West Bank, Gaza
As first step in series of understandings reached between Benny Gantz and Mahmoud Abbas, Israel to approve legalizing residency for first time in 13 years

Mon, 11 Oct 2021 22:35:17 +03:00
Microsoft: Iran-linked hackers breached Israeli, U.S. security firms' accounts
Over 250 Microsoft Office 365 accounts belonging to the security companies were targeted by hackers associated with Tehran, according to the tech giant

Mon, 11 Oct 2021 21:28:38 +03:00
Netanyahu faced with public challenger to head Likud party
Yuli Edelstein says Likud could form a government if Netanyahu was not at the helm, noting that Netanyahu failed to form a coalition four times in a row

Mon, 11 Oct 2021 20:50:55 +03:00
Netanyahu trial: Website owner clearly intervened to benefit Netanyahu, witness says
Former Walla editor-in-chief testifies that owner meddled for Netanyahu's benefit by ordering positive coverage in exchange for regulatory benefits

Mon, 11 Oct 2021 20:00:41 +03:00
For first time in over 50 years, Jewish couple gets married in Bahrain
The son of Houda Nonoo – Bahrain’s former envoy to the United States and the first Jewish Bahraini to hold the position of ambassador – wed his wife in a milestone for the Jewish community in the Gulf nation

Mon, 11 Oct 2021 19:41:40 +03:00
Jewish GOP Senate candidate blames Soros and 'deep state' for COVID-19
Josh Mandel, a Republican candidate in Ohio, claims the Jewish financier worked with the 'deep state' on ‘organized operations’ concerning the coronavirus, January 6 insurrection and the Black Lives Matter movement

Mon, 11 Oct 2021 19:09:35 +03:00
FM Lapid to meet VP Harris, Blinken in first Washington visit
Visit to focus on Iran, Gulf alliances ■ Yair Lapid is set to meet with top U.S. lawmakers in a bid to improve Israel's standing on Capitol Hill

Mon, 11 Oct 2021 18:35:08 +03:00
The Israeli 'heavenly pond' lives up to its name
The water-lily pool in Yarkon National Park offers different beautiful views: gargantuan eucalyptus, a rock ford across the stream and a British Mandate-era guard post

Mon, 11 Oct 2021 18:02:18 +03:00
A 12,000-year-old addiction: Archaeologists identify earliest tobacco use by humans
Burnt seeds found in a prehistoric site in Utah desert suggest Native Americans were chewing on tobacco 12,300 years ago – some 9,000 years earlier than previously thought

Mon, 11 Oct 2021 18:01:05 +03:00
Expressing optimism, Israel's COVID czar predicts drop in hospitalizations in two weeks
Israel's fourth wave hasn’t ended yet, the 'virus is still among us,' COVID czar says

Mon, 11 Oct 2021 17:32:16 +03:00
Why this Arab Israeli made a TV show about racist young Jews
The acclaimed director Tawfik Abu Wael explains why Arab artists who disassociate from the Israeli establishment are guilty of stupidity, and why racism fascinates him

Mon, 11 Oct 2021 16:39:50 +03:00
Court orders Israel to explain why it won't release minutes of COVID meetings
The government must also explain its refusal to repeal regulations that let it classify COVID transcripts as top secret even though only a few issues, mainly security ones, require classification in Israel

Mon, 11 Oct 2021 15:33:00 +03:00
Israel's Lapid backs ex-general who admitted quashing sexual harassment complaints
Before walking back his comments, Intelligence Affairs Minister Elazar Stern had said about such complaints in the army: ‘The shredder worked very quickly’

Mon, 11 Oct 2021 15:31:03 +03:00
New Tunisian government is formed after presidential power grab and accruing debt
President Saied cemented his position by removing most of the constitution, ruling by decree, making the government responsible to himself, rather than to parliament

Mon, 11 Oct 2021 15:23:39 +03:00
A.Q. Khan: a real-life Bond villain who changed the Middle East forever
Abdul Qadeer Khan, father of Pakistan’s nuclear bomb, changed the proliferation landscape and tarnished his country's image. In the Middle East, his legacy will live on as more regimes try to acquire nuclear weapons

Mon, 11 Oct 2021 14:12:03 +03:00
'The Middle East is changing': Kushner joins Israeli lawmakers at Abraham Accords event
The Knesset's Caucus for Promoting the Abraham Accords is meant to strengthen Israel's economic, tourist and other ties with Gulf states, as well as 'formulate future agreements with other countries'

Mon, 11 Oct 2021 13:46:47 +03:00
Life-saving COVID drug Regeneron in Israel – but most patients won’t take it
Some Israelis are COVID anti-vaxxers who distrust Regeneron, but others just don’t see the need or are talked out of it at the last moment

Mon, 11 Oct 2021 13:43:23 +03:00
Should Israel have attacked Iran? Most Jewish Israelis think so, poll finds
Fifty-one percent of Jewish Israelis think military action would have been preferable to diplomacy in the early stages of Iran's nuclear program

Mon, 11 Oct 2021 13:40:35 +03:00
Israel names Ronen Bar as new director of Shin Bet security agency
Bar, 55, did his military service as a member of the elite Sayeret Matkal commando unit and joined the Shin Bet a few years after leaving the military

Mon, 11 Oct 2021 12:59:11 +03:00
Israel's relaxed rules on outdoor activities go into effect as COVID infection remains low
Health Ministry chief says 'with much greater certainty than a week ago' that Israel is on course to ending its delta COVID wave

Mon, 11 Oct 2021 12:46:23 +03:00
Lebanon won't care its energy has Israeli fingerprints on it
With the country plunged into darkness due to electricity shortages, Lebanon will be looking to energy supplies from Egypt and Jordan that are ‘mixed’ with Israeli gas and electric power in the long term

Mon, 11 Oct 2021 11:56:39 +03:00
As Merkel departs, Israel fears her successor won’t be as committed to its security
Even though Israeli officials know that the next chancellor will remember the Holocaust and fight antisemitism, they’re not convinced he’ll be as energetic on security – as Iran gets closer to a nuclear bomb

Mon, 11 Oct 2021 11:42:11 +03:00
Iraq arrests top ISIS leader in 'one of the most difficult' operations ever
Iraqi prime minister identifies the man as Sami Jassem, who oversees ISIS' financial operations and served as the deputy leader under the late Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

Mon, 11 Oct 2021 11:02:24 +03:00
Biggest winemaking facility in entire Byzantine world found in central Israel
Discovery of Byzantine mega-factory in Yavneh that could produce 2 million liters of wine a year stuns archaeologists

Mon, 11 Oct 2021 10:23:14 +03:00
U.S. says first talks with Taliban since pullout were 'candid and professional'
Officials met face-to-face in Doha, but there has been no word of any agreements reached

Mon, 11 Oct 2021 09:42:24 +03:00
Hamas is eyeing a prisoner swap, while Israel is buying time with limited gestures
Hamas' demands seem unrealistic, but steps are being taken in the meanwhile to ease the situation in Gaza – by Israel too but mainly the Egyptians – to maintain an uneasy quiet

Mon, 11 Oct 2021 09:21:36 +03:00
Populist Shi'ite cleric stands to gain amid record low turnout in Iraq's election
Sadrist majority in parliament would not dramatically alter the balance of power, but could the conservative Islamist could increase his sway over the government

Mon, 11 Oct 2021 07:15:56 +03:00
43-year-old lawyer shot after Friday prayer in Umm al-Fahm succumbs to wounds
Ganem Fahmi Jabarin is the 98th Arab murder victim in Israel this year alone, advocacy group says

Mon, 11 Oct 2021 06:05:39 +03:00
All roads lead to Iran in the case of Israeli MIA Ron Arad
Since the air force navigator vanished in 1986, Israel has missed many chances to free Ron Arad or get information about him

Mon, 11 Oct 2021 06:01:35 +03:00
Sexual harassment, too, is part of Shimon Peres’ legacy

Mon, 11 Oct 2021 03:02:32 +03:00
Israel disheartened by Biden's caution on Iran talks
Israel's call for tougher sanctions on Iran fell on deaf ears during last week’s strategic dialogue with the Americans in Washington

Mon, 11 Oct 2021 01:32:47 +03:00
Israel scores big as global high-tech breaks quarterly investment record
Worldwide startup investment in the third quarter of 2021 totaled $158 billion, twice the level of a year ago

Mon, 11 Oct 2021 01:19:37 +03:00
Merkel, what about the submarines?

Mon, 11 Oct 2021 01:16:55 +03:00
The time has come to admit: Israel is an apartheid regime

Mon, 11 Oct 2021 01:06:53 +03:00
'Point of no return'? Iran isn’t even close to being a nuclear threshold state

Mon, 11 Oct 2021 00:58:18 +03:00
Mount Meron disaster: Inquiry finds intimidation, ignorance and finger-pointing
A panel has heard two weeks of testimony describing the Lag Ba’omer disaster that took the lives of 45 people and injured another 150 in Israel's ultra-Orthodox community. Here's what we know so far

Mon, 11 Oct 2021 00:30:07 +03:00
Haaretz Cartoon

Mon, 11 Oct 2021 00:09:13 +03:00
Jerusalem protest over human remains unearthed at construction site spills into violence
Several human bones were found during construction work near a large Muslim graveyard, after which many Palestinian residents rushed to the area to protest. Ten reportedly wounded in clashes with police

Sun, 10 Oct 2021 23:29:31 +03:00
The problem with Microsoft’s massive expansion in Israel
Tech giant Microsoft has set itself an ambitious goal: Doubling the workforce in Israel within four years and opening five new R&D centers ■ Are the high-tech multinationals taking too big a piece of the employment pie?

Sun, 10 Oct 2021 21:40:12 +03:00
'Treated as criminals': Migrants in Libya living in fear after crackdown and killings
Aid and rights groups voice alarm as forces in Tripoli began a series of mass arrests a week ago, detaining more than 5,000 people in overcrowded detention centers

Sun, 10 Oct 2021 20:58:16 +03:00
While Bennett smiled with Merkel, Kurz made Netanyahu look bad
The two German-speaking chancellors were both strong supporters of Israel, but had wildly different relations with its previous prime minister, who they're about to join in the club of former national leaders

Sun, 10 Oct 2021 17:55:33 +03:00
Most advanced simulation of manned Mars mission is happening in Israel
Six astronauts from across the globe moved into a unique, space-station-like structure in Makhtesh Ramon, one of the few places in the world that resembles the extreme conditions on the red planet

Sun, 10 Oct 2021 17:46:32 +03:00
Her city was called Sweden’s ‘antisemitism capital.’ This mayor is determined to change that
The mayor of Malmö discusses her work with the Jewish community to combat hate, and welcomes this week’s arrival of the International Forum on Holocaust Remembrance and Combating Antisemitism to the city

Sun, 10 Oct 2021 17:02:14 +03:00
Israeli minister admits ignoring anonymous complaints as army's manpower chief
‘The shredder worked very quickly,’ said Elazar Stern, the former chief of the manpower in the Israeli military, about anonymous sexual harassment complaints, but later said he did no such thing during his time in office

Sun, 10 Oct 2021 16:47:11 +03:00
Don't let fanatic violent settlers take Israel's future hostage
One of the settler movement's key successes has been to create a fear of civil war if settlements are ever evacuated. But intensifying settler violence, the blackmail of hoodlums and terrorists, must not enjoy that leverage

Sun, 10 Oct 2021 14:52:34 +03:00
How 99% of Nazi war criminals evaded justice
Powerful new documentary ‘Getting Away with Murder(s)’ points a finger at the West for willfully abandoning victims of the Holocaust. Plus, British thriller ‘Ridley Road’ is set among London’s Jewish community in the 1960s

Sun, 10 Oct 2021 14:26:08 +03:00
Comparing Rand Paul to the Squad is unfair. He doesn't hate Israel
We should stop pretending that a couple of neo-isolationist libertarians, outliers in the GOP, are just as bad as the antisemitism and vicious libels against Israel that have found a home on the 'progressive' left

Sun, 10 Oct 2021 13:40:48 +03:00
Top general explains why Israel refrained from occupying Gaza
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

Sun, 10 Oct 2021 13:25:56 +03:00
How and why the global energy crisis skipped 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

Sun, 10 Oct 2021 13:22:03 +03:00
Bennett tells Merkel 'Palestinian state would likely mean terror state'
While Merkel refrained from criticizing Israel's position of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the German chancellor says 'that Israel's neighbors should be taken care of'

Sun, 10 Oct 2021 13:13:46 +03:00
In Israel, Merkel says next weeks will be 'decisive' for Iran nuclear talks
'We have to return to the negotiation table,' even though 'Iran hasn't signaled that it wants to resume talks,' says the chancellor speaking alongside Prime Minister Bennett

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 group SNOB Tel Aviv is using street theater to connect to the local culture. They reenact key moments in the history of Zionism but prefer formal wear 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 power in the early 1970s was later accused of stealing the centrifuge uranium enrichment technology from the Netherlands. Khan was accused of trading nuclear secrets to Iran, North Korea

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 in Israel and around the world, but COVID 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
Israeli cabinet minister afraid of Kahanists

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
Just as important as doctors

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’



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