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Tue, 10 May 2022 11:32:17 +03:00
'Where is Anne Frank': How good is the new animation on the Holocaust?
It may present an uncomplicated message, but 'Where is Anne Frank' is worth watching for its artistic achievement and being the latest chapter in the career of a talented, bold and ambitious filmmaker

Tue, 10 May 2022 10:57:57 +03:00
British, Australian Jewish leaders blast WZO violence against Women of the Wall
Jewish community leader in U.K. ‘extremely distressed’ by World Zionist Organization's role in attacks on members of Women of the Wall group in Jerusalem last week

Tue, 10 May 2022 06:03:05 +03:00
One year after Gaza war, little has changed, despite the Israeli army's insistence
Israel's military insists Guardian of the Walls improved security, but it struggles to read new reality

Tue, 10 May 2022 01:31:42 +03:00
Victory Day celebrations put Putin’s isolation, Russian limitations, on full display
The Russian president may have said nothing new in Monday's speech, but he still believes he can achieve his goal of eventually eliminating Ukraine as an independent entity

Tue, 10 May 2022 01:27:26 +03:00
Haaretz Cartoon

Tue, 10 May 2022 01:20:16 +03:00
Don't turn Israel into a surveillance state

Tue, 10 May 2022 00:30:53 +03:00
'The Netanyahus,' a fictional book by Joshua Cohen, wins Pulitzer Prize
Joshua Cohen's widely praised book portrays Netanyahu as a young boy in New York in the 50s as his father, Benzion, is seeking a job in academia

Mon, 9 May 2022 23:24:03 +03:00
What would a true 'social warrior' do?

Mon, 9 May 2022 23:23:02 +03:00
Palestinians wounded by Israeli soldiers' rubber-coated bullets after reporting settler attack
Three Palestinian family members say Israeli settlers hurled stones at their house and beat them. Soldiers called to the scene used riot control gear, leaving the three hospitalized

Mon, 9 May 2022 22:38:17 +03:00
Biden to meet Jordan's King Abdullah this week amid Jerusalem tensions
'The United States has a central role in promoting the peace process,' says Jordan's foreign minister, who accompanied the king on his U.S. tour

Mon, 9 May 2022 20:59:07 +03:00
Rival groups see red at Israeli event marking Soviet victory over fascism
Supporters of Ukraine and a few backers of Putin’s war faced off at a memorial event in the heart of Tel Aviv on Sunday

Mon, 9 May 2022 20:44:10 +03:00
Kahanist leader is scolded while the United Arab List is in government

Mon, 9 May 2022 20:24:16 +03:00
Israel renews public housing evictions after six-month freeze
The Housing Ministry plans to proceed with evictions in some 350 cases, including that of a single mother with a history of emotional problems which was put on hold after a Haaretz inquiry and petition

Mon, 9 May 2022 20:16:47 +03:00
Israeli soldiers beat Palestinian journalist documenting West Bank demolition
Basel Al-Adra says soldiers hit him after throwing him to the ground near the village of al-Tuwani, where the force had ordered a local man to take down a makeshift structure

Mon, 9 May 2022 19:17:40 +03:00
'Blood on your hands': On Victory Day, Russian TV shows message from Ukraine
'The TV and the authorities are lying. No to war,' says one message on Russia's Victory Day celebrating Soviet victory over Nazi Germany. It's not clear how the slogans got there

Mon, 9 May 2022 19:08:16 +03:00
With a wobbling coalition, Bennett meets advisers to talk early election
The prime minister prefers having the government fall with the help of the United Arab List, which would let him keep his seat until a new government is sworn in

Mon, 9 May 2022 17:56:19 +03:00
For abortion rights, against Trump, against fascism: Why American Jews won't stop fighting
For the great majority of Jewish Americans, any embrace of Trump is impossible, the potential overturning of Roe is abhorrent, the MAGA culture wars are madness and the moral collapse of the Supreme Court is a tragedy

Mon, 9 May 2022 17:51:30 +03:00
Israeli military kicks off 'Chariots of Fire' war games amid heightened tensions
The IDF hopes to complete the exercise this year, unlike 2021 when it was interrupted by actual fighting

Mon, 9 May 2022 17:31:41 +03:00
As Knesset reconvenes, Bennett's coalition teeters and Netanyahu goes on the attack
'Those who sit in government with Hamas supporters cannot fight Hamas,' opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu tells lawmakers, as parliament returns from recess with a no-confidence vote

Mon, 9 May 2022 16:25:15 +03:00
Iranians are dying to see this Israeli musician perform live
Not the soundtrack he wrote for Apple TV's 'Tehran,' nor his work with popular Israeli singers: To Mark Eliyahu, his greatest achievement is sweeping up audiences with the kamancheh, an ancient Persian string instrument. Many of them live in Iran

Mon, 9 May 2022 15:55:12 +03:00
Qatar is Hamas' patron. Its 'moderate' rebranding is a dangerous delusion
A rash of commentary celebrating a supposed shift in Qatari policy, away from promoting and subsidizing radical Islamists like Hamas and the Taliban to "moderating" them, is misplaced, misinformed and dangerously naïve

Mon, 9 May 2022 15:48:14 +03:00
Jared Kushner’s sham marriage of Israeli tech and Saudi money
The new fund launched by Kushner slates some of its mostly Saudi money to invest in Israel. But it looks more like a friends-of-Jared fund than the real thing.

Mon, 9 May 2022 15:28:41 +03:00
Tel Aviv University quietly swaps out Sackler name from U.S.-facing medical program
Still, the name remains on the medical faculty itself despite demands to remove it due to the family's contribution to the opioid crisis

Mon, 9 May 2022 15:16:50 +03:00
NATO, Nazis and the Motherland: Putin's full Victory Day speech
Read the full text of Russian President Vladimir Putin's Victory Day speech

Mon, 9 May 2022 14:19:19 +03:00
What's God got to do with it? How religion fuels the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Surveys of Israelis and Palestinians are definitive: There's a stark, unyielding connection between religious devotion and political extremism. Religious Jews and Muslims stoke incitement and violence. But could they also resolve the conflict?

Mon, 9 May 2022 14:08:34 +03:00
Concerns mount over Jewish Agency chief’s role in recent violence against women at Western Wall
Yaakov Hagoel heads both the Jewish Agency and the World Zionist Organization, a group that sanctioned an event last week where 150 members of the feminist prayer group Women of the Wall were attacked

Mon, 9 May 2022 13:57:22 +03:00
Israel arrests Netanyahu supporter suspected of sending Bennett letters with bullets
The 65-year-old woman, a resident of Ashkelon, called Israel's prime minister 'a murderer, traitor and swindler' on social media, but denies sending Bennett's family threatening letters

Mon, 9 May 2022 13:20:23 +03:00
Israel advances use of face-recognition cameras in public
Bill would authorize security services to access information from CCTV without a warrant

Mon, 9 May 2022 13:13:23 +03:00
Defiant Putin leads Russia's Victory Day parade as troops eye Ukraine's Mariupol
In his Victory Day speech, Putin said Russian soldiers are fighting to 'liberate' the Donbas region, as Moscow hopes to topple Mariupol's last stronghold

Mon, 9 May 2022 12:43:23 +03:00
Manhood in ancient Greece: Battle, blood and not being a ‘bottom’
Confused about what it means to be a man? This article will not help you find the answer. The Greeks developed conflicting ideologies, from the muscle-flexing of Spartans to the astuteness of Athenians

Mon, 9 May 2022 12:39:45 +03:00
Saudis say former Lebanese PM 'surrendered to Hezbollah' in election withdrawal
Saudi Arabia warns that, by bailing out of the next election and calling for Sunnis to boycott it, al-Hariri is paving the way for a Hezbollah takeover

Mon, 9 May 2022 12:01:46 +03:00
Israeli forces arrest Palestinians suspected of aiding attackers in two terror cases
Four arrested under suspicion of aiding terror attacks in Israel's central city of Elad and the West Bank settlement of Ariel that left a total of four Israelis dead

Mon, 9 May 2022 11:19:25 +03:00
'Jews wake up' spray-painted, car tires slashed in Israeli-Arab town
The residents of the Israeli Arab town of Jisr al-Zarqa plead with police to catch the vandals, after a similar incident in 2019 concluded with no arrests

Mon, 9 May 2022 10:11:06 +03:00
‘I’m not letting some antisemitic state senator scare me out of politics’
Jewish Republican Morgan Ortagus expected to face antisemitism on the campaign trail in Tennessee, but wasn’t prepared for what she encountered. Now she wonders why so many members of her party are staying silent

Mon, 9 May 2022 09:31:41 +03:00
Putin marks Victory Day as Russia eyes Ukraine's Mariupol
Hoping for a win on Victory Day, which marks Russia's triumph over Nazi Germany, Putin is determined to topple Mariupol's last stronghold, where 2,000 Ukrainian fighters are making their last stand to save the port city

Mon, 9 May 2022 06:53:25 +03:00
Haaretz Cartoon

Mon, 9 May 2022 06:00:56 +03:00
Political crisis could drive Bennett to far-reaching steps in combating terror
Just like the question of a possible assassination of Hamas leader Sinwar, the capture of the two Palestinian terrorists turned into a superficial, ignorant and politically driven discourse on social media

Mon, 9 May 2022 02:50:59 +03:00
Israel, beware of abandoning the first Arab leader willing to work together

Mon, 9 May 2022 02:17:09 +03:00
Israel's cabinet endorses climate-change bill, dividing environmentalists
The bill approved by the ministerial committee is significantly less stringent than an original version that the ministry had sought to advance, creating a difference of opinion among environmental groups

Mon, 9 May 2022 01:15:04 +03:00
No place for an Israeli militia

Mon, 9 May 2022 01:12:55 +03:00
Another phase of the Palestinian Nakba, with Israeli court approval

Mon, 9 May 2022 00:32:46 +03:00
Israel scraps plan to provide addiction treatment via health care providers
The HMOs had objected to assuming full responsibility due to concerns about cost as well as a possible negative impact on other mental health services that they provide

Sun, 8 May 2022 22:55:58 +03:00
Victory Day: Russia and Ukraine are fighting over memories of a previous war as well
Ukraine’s national war museum has wasted no time in memorializing the current conflict, but painful questions of history and identity haven’t vanished from view either

Sun, 8 May 2022 22:50:27 +03:00
Israel to lift West Bank closure Monday except for village of terror attack assailants
Entry of Palestinian workers and merchants from the West Bank into Israel to resume following the closure that was extended after the deadly Elad attack that left three Israelis dead and four wounded

Sun, 8 May 2022 21:57:38 +03:00
Palestinian killed by Israeli military fire after attempting to cross separation barrier
Mohammed Ara'am, a resident of the Gaza Strip, entered Israel in 2019 for medical treatment and never returned to the enclave

Sun, 8 May 2022 20:33:51 +03:00
Bloodstain helped locate terror attack assailants, Israel Police say
Before their 60 hours on the run, the two perpetrators from the Jenin area in the West Bank planned their escape in advance, the authorities say

Sun, 8 May 2022 19:58:08 +03:00
Israeli cop moderately wounded in stabbing attack at Jerusalem's Damascus Gate
In a separate incident, a Palestinian tried to infiltrate into the Jewish settlement of Tekoa but was shot dead by a settlement security squad

Sun, 8 May 2022 19:25:27 +03:00
Rabbis at the center of Texas synagogue hostage crisis recall 11 hours at gunpoint
In January, Rabbi Angela Buchdahl received a voicemail from a man claiming to be a rabbi, saying a gunman wanted to talk to her. The two shared what was going through their minds during that harrowing day

Sun, 8 May 2022 18:16:52 +03:00
Two terror suspects were 'surprised and exhausted' when caught, Israeli army officer says
'This was one of the most horrific terror attack scenes that I have seen in my life'

Sun, 8 May 2022 17:22:40 +03:00
Jill Biden meets Zelenskyy's wife in a surprise visit to Ukraine
U.S. first lady traveled under the cloak of secrecy, becoming the latest high-profile American to enter Ukraine during its 10-week-old conflict with Russia

Sun, 8 May 2022 17:03:23 +03:00
Victory Day in Israel: A new kind of Russia-Ukraine war
The celebration in Israel, where it's a holiday too, is being toned down this year because of Putin's invasion, but some veterans don't understand why

Sun, 8 May 2022 16:51:17 +03:00
The war in Ukraine – in graphic detail
Four testimonies from the front lines in Ukraine, captured in words by Sam Sokol and illustrations by Aron Ehrlich

Sun, 8 May 2022 16:38:49 +03:00
Crucial week ahead as Bennett scrambles to keep shaky government together
Bennett is trying to sooth right-wing lawmakers by way of settlement construction and other concessions, but must simultaneously bear the opposite pull of Mansour Abbas' coalition boycott over Temple Mount

Sun, 8 May 2022 16:09:09 +03:00
Generation XXX: Israeli teens open up about virginity, sadism and porn
They talk about 'saving' themselves for a person they love, but like to be spanked. They believe in 'consensual' relations, but are influenced by their extreme porn consumption. Israel's young generation may be into eroticism, but they lack understa...

Sun, 8 May 2022 15:05:50 +03:00
Hamas takes Israeli threats against Gaza leader Sinwar seriously
Hamas believes Israel does not plan on assassinating the Palestinian leader ahead of Biden’s visit, but fears Bennett could cave to pressure from the right

Sun, 8 May 2022 14:08:50 +03:00
In Masafer Yatta, Palestinians brace for a second expulsion
In 1999, Palestinians living in Masafer Yatta were evicted from their homes, allowed only to return as they waited for a final court ruling. Now, Israel has decided once again to expel the residents, reviving old traumas

Sun, 8 May 2022 13:29:29 +03:00
'Capturing terrorists is not enough': Bennett pushes for civilian national guard
'We are in a new phase in the war on terror,' the prime minister said, after Israel captured the Palestinians who murdered three Israelis in the ultra-Orthodox city of Elad

Sun, 8 May 2022 12:48:24 +03:00
Israeli thriller ‘Tehran’ returns, tenser than ever – just like real life
The Israeli-Apple TV+ series ‘Tehran’ aims to go one better than ‘24,’ and succeeds for the most part. Plus, the powerful Netflix documentary ‘Meltdown: Three Mile Island’

Sun, 8 May 2022 12:21:31 +03:00
Israel to nix COVID testing at airport on May 20
Travelers who arrive at Ben-Gurion Airport after May 20 will no longer have to take a PCR test

Sun, 8 May 2022 11:40:05 +03:00
The existential loneliness of the chicken
Animals can count, add and subtract, it has been shown. Now groundbreaking research shows that chickens react to the void. The ladies, at least

Sun, 8 May 2022 11:00:16 +03:00
Israel nabs Palestinians who murdered three Israelis
The two Palestinians carried out an attack in ultra-Orthodox city of Elad that killed three Israelis and wounded four

Sun, 8 May 2022 09:56:36 +03:00
60 feared dead in Russian bombing of Ukraine school, says governor
Two confirmed dead after Russia dropped a bomb on a school in Ukraine's Luhansk region where about 90 people were sheltering, governor says

Sun, 8 May 2022 08:05:00 +03:00
How the Israeli army perceives the Russian-Ukraine war, 70 days in
Israel has been drawing its own conclusions from Putin's failure in Ukraine: From the resurgence of large-scale wars to the drawbacks of urban fighting

Sun, 8 May 2022 06:08:02 +03:00
Joint List leader may have one more reason to topple the Israeli government
The bylaws of Joint List leader Ayman Odeh’s Hadash faction reveal one factor that Odeh may consider in his calculations to stand with or vote against Bennett's fragile government

Sun, 8 May 2022 01:39:00 +03:00
Israel's High Court of Justice, the occupation's rubber stamp

Sun, 8 May 2022 01:17:52 +03:00
Haaretz Cartoon

Sun, 8 May 2022 00:22:18 +03:00
Israel can't stop terror attacks by assassinating Hamas leader Sinwar
Latest attacks quash any hopes that calm would be restored after Ramadan, and Israelis' frustration and insecurity are leading to a pining for earlier times

Sat, 7 May 2022 23:04:29 +03:00
'Should Sinwar be eliminated?': From left to right, the Israeli chorus calls for blood

Sat, 7 May 2022 22:49:58 +03:00
‘The Russians won’t be coming’: Defeated in Kyiv, Putin eyes Victory Day win in Ukraine’s Mariupol
With fighting still ongoing underneath the steel complex in the destroyed Ukrainian city, observers are speculating about announcements Putin might make on Monday, when Russia celebrates its victory over Nazi Germany

Sat, 7 May 2022 22:39:23 +03:00
Being Israeli is a full-time job

Sat, 7 May 2022 21:30:12 +03:00
One of Israel’s most successful venture capitalists opens his books
Oren Zeev explains why he tries to avoid attending too many board meetings and how his fund turned $50 million into $660 million

Sat, 7 May 2022 21:29:20 +03:00
The Israeli startup storing NFTs deep in the Arctic
Art AI was an early player in the generative digital art world. Now it has a platform that allows others to create their own AI-driven NFT drops

Sat, 7 May 2022 21:11:38 +03:00
Israel's India embassy beefs up security fearing Iranian attack, report says
An Israeli source told Iran International, a U.K.-based Iranian opposition channel, that Indian police carried out drills around the New Delhi embassy

Sat, 7 May 2022 20:56:28 +03:00
From the settlers to Biden, Israel's West Bank plans try to appease almost all
U.S. officials were prepared to swallow the approval of 2,000 to 3,000 housing units in the West Bank in light of the shaky Bennett government’s need to shore up support among right-wing voters, an Israeli source said

Sat, 7 May 2022 20:52:16 +03:00
In a twisted turn of events, Putin cashes in on 'apology' to Bennett
Israel's prime minister may have thought he got an apology from the Russian president over Lavrov's antisemitic remarks, but for the Kremlin, it doesn't really mean much

Sat, 7 May 2022 20:35:17 +03:00
Under Russian fire, Ukraine says women and children evacuated from besieged Mariupol plant
'This part of the Mariupol humanitarian operation is over,' Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk declared after numerous attempts to evacuate civilians were halted by renewed shelling

Sat, 7 May 2022 19:25:04 +03:00
Taliban order Afghan women to cover faces again
Restrictions on women continue to grow with return of hard-line restriction, which threatens punishments for male relatives of women who don't cover their faces outside

Sat, 7 May 2022 18:40:56 +03:00
Sinai militants kill 11 soldiers in deadliest attack in years, Egypt's military says
The ambush comes just one week after an attack in Sinai's north blew up a natural gas pipeline as part of an Islamic State-led insurgency plaguing the peninsula

Sat, 7 May 2022 18:33:33 +03:00
Israel struggles to locate Palestinian attack suspects, arrests people close to them
Authorities now believe the suspects are still in Israel, as search continues after attack in ultra-Orthodox city of Elad that killed three Israelis and wounded four

Sat, 7 May 2022 18:25:18 +03:00
Hundreds of eagle rays make rare appearance off Israel's Mediterranean coast
Lusitanian cownose rays, seldom seen near Israel, are staying close to shore, but proposed marina could harm them and other sea creatures

Sat, 7 May 2022 17:31:38 +03:00
Jared Kushner's fund to invest Saudi millions in Israeli tech, WSJ reports
Wall Street Journal reports that Kushner’s new VC firm, which has already raised $2 billion from official Saudi fund, will invest directly in at least two Israeli tech companies

Sat, 7 May 2022 17:10:04 +03:00
North Korea test-fires missile from submarine in latest weapons demonstration, South Korea says
So far this year, North Korea has fired missiles 15 times. They include the country's first test of an intercontinental ballistic missile since 2017 in March that demonstrated a potential range to reach the entirety of the U.S.

Sat, 7 May 2022 16:45:15 +03:00
Al-Qaida chief blames U.S. for Ukraine invasion in new video
Al-Zawahri, whose whereabouts are unknown, says 'U.S. weakness' allowed Ukraine to become 'prey' for Russia in video marking anniversary of bin Laden death

Sat, 7 May 2022 14:30:05 +03:00
Egyptian officials mediating to prevent Gaza rocket fire at Israel, report says
Militants in Gaza agree not to fire rockets into Israel in exchange for limiting Jewish entry into the Al-Aqsa Mosque and opening border crossings, Palestinian newspaper reports

Sat, 7 May 2022 12:37:23 +03:00
Syria reports strike in eastern area known to host Iran-linked militias
No casualties reported in second airstrike in Deir el-Zour within a week. Damascus didn't say who was responsible for it

Sat, 7 May 2022 10:03:58 +03:00
Israel demolishes home of Palestinian who killed West Bank yeshiva student
Clashes erupt between Palestinians and Israeli soldiers as forces demolish home of gunman charged with killing Yehuda Dimentman near the evacuated outpost of Homesh in December

Sat, 7 May 2022 03:24:26 +03:00
Man arrested in northern Israel on suspicion of murdering mother
A 62-year-old woman was found dead in Kiryat Ata and her 42-year-old son was arrested at the scene

Sat, 7 May 2022 00:40:52 +03:00
Anti-vaxxers wanted to turn their backs on society. COVID was just an excuse
Suspiciousness of physicians and politicians, a call for personal freedom – these are only a small part of the individualistic, antisocial and antinational cascade we’re experiencing. It’s a tendency with dangerous roots

Sat, 7 May 2022 00:12:11 +03:00
Warming Turkey-Saudi relations force Hamas and Muslim Brotherhood to shift tactics
War in Ukraine has helped Erdogan rehabilitate sullied relations with Washington, along with renewed ties with Gulf states – but the reopening channels don't contradict his strategic ‘Turkey First’ philosophy

Fri, 6 May 2022 23:39:00 +03:00
Israel to advance some 4,000 West Bank housing units for Jews next week
Israel’s Civil Administration says 1,452 units are expected to be advanced while 2,536 more are awaiting approval by Defense Minister Benny Gantz. Biden administration: 'We strongly oppose the expansion of settlements'

Fri, 6 May 2022 22:59:18 +03:00
Israeli cabinet set to approve $292 million in grants for the self-employed
The move, which still needs the Knesset's approval, is designed to keep a legislator from Naftali Bennett's Yamina party in the shaky governing coalition

Fri, 6 May 2022 21:04:28 +03:00
Why Putin apologized to Bennett and why it doesn't really change anything
The Russian president doesn’t want Israel to abandon its near neutrality in the Ukraine war, but Israel doesn't have any game-changing weapons to offer anyway

Fri, 6 May 2022 20:04:32 +03:00
One of terror attack victims drove assailants to scene, Israel Police say
Three people were murdered and four wounded Thursday evening in the latest in a string of deadly attacks in Israel

Fri, 6 May 2022 18:44:37 +03:00
Swedish man detained in Iran as ties sour over war crimes trial
A Swedish-Iranian national sentenced to death in Iran on charges of spying for Israel will be executed by May 21, according to Iran's semi-official ISNA news agency

Fri, 6 May 2022 18:31:19 +03:00
Putin's senior adviser reportedly in Israel after leaving Russia over Ukraine invasion
Russian-Jewish Anatoly Chubais was the Kremlin’s special representative for ties with international organizations, and had been an architect of economic reforms and privatization under Boris Yeltsin in the 1990s

Fri, 6 May 2022 13:55:13 +03:00
Rabbi of Technion synagogue says institute's gay pride events express 'vulgarity'
Rabbi Dr. Elad Dukov, a faculty member and synagogue leader at the Technion, encouraged opponents to the gay pride events to 'take responsibility' and urged them to join anti-LGBTQ groups

Fri, 6 May 2022 13:13:58 +03:00
Independence Day torch-lighting ceremony hoped to heal some of Israel's wounds
While Israel's government is far from ideal, this year's Independence Day ceremony, dedicated to people with disabilities, aimed to heal society's wounds

Fri, 6 May 2022 12:39:43 +03:00
A Palestinian family is brutally attacked by settlers, then interrogated by police
Dozens of settlers swooped down on a Palestinian family tending its olive grove, throwing stones and beating them. Three Palestinians were wounded; the eldest remains hospitalized. When the family filed a complaint, they were interrogated for alleged...

Fri, 6 May 2022 11:49:24 +03:00
Germany to send more artillery systems to war-torn Ukraine in coming weeks
Seven artillery pieces, on top of five such systems, will come out of the German military inventories and be delivered to Ukraine as soon over the next weeks

Fri, 6 May 2022 09:18:09 +03:00
Three victims of terror attack in central Israel laid to rest
Hundreds mourn at the funerals of Yonatan Havakuk, Boaz Gol and Oren Ben Yiftah, who were killed in the terror attack in central Israel and together are survived by 16 children



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