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Mon, 5 Jul 2021 11:15:39 +03:00
Israel awards campaign medals to South Lebanon Army troops who fought in Lebanon
Medals were given to former fighters at a special inauguration ceremony for a monument commemorating the South Lebanon Army soldiers who fell in combat fighting alongside the IDF

Mon, 5 Jul 2021 11:01:47 +03:00
Demolition crews flatten rest of Florida condo building
Rescuers will resume searching for victims ■ 121 people believed to still be trapped under the fallen wing of the Champlain Towers South in Surfside that collapsed June 24

Mon, 5 Jul 2021 10:50:28 +03:00
COVID cases in Israel: Three-month record broken again due to delta variant
The delta variant now accounts for 90 percent of COVID cases in Israel; two weeks ago, it was just 60 percent ■ Israel seeing a record number of travelers departing despite official warnings

Mon, 5 Jul 2021 10:28:03 +03:00
The problem with talking about the Israeli apartheid

Mon, 5 Jul 2021 08:53:25 +03:00
Israeli lawmakers to vote on controversial citizenship law, even without clear majority
Legislators still struggle to find a compromise with coalition members Meretz and United Arab List in an effort to extend the law which prevents family unification between Israeli Arabs and Palestinians

Mon, 5 Jul 2021 08:17:36 +03:00
Moroccan Air Force plane arrives in Israel for military drill
The landmark arrival from Morocco is for an Israeli exercise involving a number of countries

Mon, 5 Jul 2021 08:14:30 +03:00
Israel can no longer influence Iran nuke deal, top official admits
Israel is intensifying its efforts to influence the next 'longer and stronger' nuclear agreement the United States wants in place in nine years; as one source said: 'Israel today has nothing to threaten the Americans with'

Mon, 5 Jul 2021 06:07:38 +03:00
Amid broad dissatisfaction, Palestinian Authority begins to deal with needed reforms
As Fatah officials fear protests will escalate and Ramallah - fearful it will lose control - prepares eyes personnel changes, including PM Mohammad Shtayyeh, former PM Fayyad's return signals efforts to promote change

Mon, 5 Jul 2021 06:06:37 +03:00
Israeli settler shot armed Palestinian who posed no danger, witnesses say
According to soldiers who were present, the security coordinator opened fire at knife-wielding Palestinian contrary to commanding officer's decision

Mon, 5 Jul 2021 02:44:48 +03:00
Fire retardants dropped because they pollute groundwater
Exposure to these chemicals can damage immune system, harm fetal development, increase risk of cancer

Mon, 5 Jul 2021 01:33:21 +03:00
Israeli kids low in iodine; desalinated water use blamed
Health Ministry study shows concentration is 10 percent less than recommended, probably due to use of desalinated water

Mon, 5 Jul 2021 01:18:30 +03:00
Even if it's for the wrong reasons, the right can remove this stain from Israel's law books

Sun, 4 Jul 2021 23:31:08 +03:00
Haaretz cartoon

Sun, 4 Jul 2021 23:13:52 +03:00
Are Israel's new ministers trying to show they hate Arabs more than the far right?

Sun, 4 Jul 2021 23:13:27 +03:00
Gender segregation at Jerusalem's Hebrew University is just the start

Sun, 4 Jul 2021 23:03:29 +03:00
After rabbi’s stabbing, Boston Jewish community is ‘angry, living in fear and needs answers’
An Egyptian man has been charged for the assault that took place outside a Jewish center and day school

Sun, 4 Jul 2021 22:59:09 +03:00
Facing libel suit, former PM Olmert says will demand psych evaluations for Netanyahu and family
After Netanyahu family files suit over being called mentally ill, former prime minister says he will demand Netanyahu, his wife, and his son waive confidentiality on their mental health

Sun, 4 Jul 2021 22:37:19 +03:00
Rivlin was the best president Israel could expect in such fraught times
The outgoing president served as a necessary reminder to Israelis that no matter what Benjamin Netanyahu said or did as prime minister, there was a better type of public discourse they could aspire to

Sun, 4 Jul 2021 21:59:46 +03:00
Israel may push for third COVID vaccine dose for high risk groups
The need for a third vaccination is a subject of dispute, and Pfizer’s protocol does not make such a recommendation for any specific class of people

Sun, 4 Jul 2021 21:40:55 +03:00
Israelis traveling abroad in record numbers for COVID era, despite Bennett’s warning
Some 300,000 Israelis flew abroad in June, double the month before, in spite of prime minister's request to delay nonessential travel amid spread of delta variant

Sun, 4 Jul 2021 20:41:30 +03:00
In setback for religious pluralism, Israel denies recognition to Reform congregation in Guatemala
The Jerusalem court decision is the latest setback for emerging Jewish communities. In a related ruling, non-Orthodox converts from Brazil told they’re not eligible for aliyah

Sun, 4 Jul 2021 20:37:18 +03:00
Prosecutors in Netanyahu trial request additional extension
Netanyahu prosecutors ask for another six days to provide evidence to defense, saying they are still combing through key witness's phone

Sun, 4 Jul 2021 20:30:49 +03:00
Ukrainian troops hold terror drill in Kyiv synagogue, rescue ‘Israeli ambassador’
Elite anti-terrorism unit storms Kyiv synagogue in exercise simulating attack, part of a series organized by the security service and the Israeli embassy

Sun, 4 Jul 2021 20:24:40 +03:00
Mass blackouts in Jordan shed light on King Abdullah's loosening grip
Efforts by the king to further democratize Jordan's unstable politics may be too little, too late

Sun, 4 Jul 2021 19:29:59 +03:00
In Israel's new government, the right calls the shots and the liberals roll over

Sun, 4 Jul 2021 19:05:34 +03:00
Vaccine champ Israel’s latest challenge: Over 90% of its COVID cases are delta
Still, experts are optimistic despite the country's Achilles' heel: a porous Ben-Gurion International Airport

Sun, 4 Jul 2021 18:24:10 +03:00
Israel jails East Jerusalem woman for aiding Lebanon's Hezbollah
Yasmine Jaber admits to traveling to Beirut to meet with Hezbollah agents in 2015 and 2016, staying in contact with terror group for several years

Sun, 4 Jul 2021 18:16:47 +03:00
Israel's Bennett, Pfizer CEO discuss swapping expiring COVID vaccines with other countries
Israeli prime minister has held several talks with Albert Bourla in the past few days, his office says, amid talks to offload expiring vaccine doses

Sun, 4 Jul 2021 18:12:07 +03:00
Israeli president congratulates Belarus strongman, shunned by the West, on national day
President Rivlin 'sadly slipped into dictator Lukashenko’s blood-filled hands,' argues Belarusian-Israeli who was beaten at an anti-government protest

Sun, 4 Jul 2021 17:46:52 +03:00
Israel arrests Palestinian lawyer who protested against Abbas, rights group says
After being detained at an Israeli checkpoint, Farid al-Atrash was briefly hospitalized in Jerusalem for an unknown reason, activist says

Sun, 4 Jul 2021 17:41:11 +03:00
For years, this city failed to remove 'modesty' signs. Israel's top court now gave it 120 days
The Supreme Court orders attorney general to draw up a new national plan for enforcement, years after ruling that Beit Shemesh had to remove all signs telling women how to dress

Sun, 4 Jul 2021 16:11:39 +03:00
The world's first paleontologist? Shark teeth found in City of David baffle archaeologists
Lying in the 3,000-year-old filler beneath a home in the Jerusalem site were bullae, pottery fragments – and an inexplicable collection of fossil shark teeth that turned out not to be from meals but from the Cretaceous

Sun, 4 Jul 2021 15:40:44 +03:00
Scientists have revived extinct Israeli wheat strains. Now comes the taste test
For the first time, a large, commercial flour mill has joined scientists and other experts to revive the lost varieties of wheat of the Land of Israel

Sun, 4 Jul 2021 15:29:37 +03:00
This Fourth of July, Israelis also have a reason to celebrate
America’s progress under Biden is good news for Israel, after Trump turned its most powerful ally into the world’s laughingstock

Sun, 4 Jul 2021 15:24:15 +03:00
Israel vaccine data: How many have already been inoculated for COVID
61 percent of Israelis has received the first dose of the COVID vaccine, and 56 percent the second - as the country faces a surge of delta variant infections

Sun, 4 Jul 2021 14:27:20 +03:00
After Florida condo tragedy, calls on Jewish women 'to cover their bodies'
Women should 'cover up' so bodies at the collapse site can be 'uncovered,' a flyer circulated after the Surfside tragedy said, the latest in a series of signs, posters and ads linking women’s dress to misfortune and suffering

Sun, 4 Jul 2021 14:18:20 +03:00
Jews of QAnon: How an antisemitic conspiracy theory is winning converts in Israel
The theory about a satanic cabal based on one of the world's oldest, most lethal antisemitic libels is localizing itself to make inroads into the Orthodox Jewish community in the U.S. – and now, increasingly, in Israel

Sun, 4 Jul 2021 11:07:50 +03:00
COVID in Israel: Serious cases surge as delta variant advances
The average number of new daily COVID infections in Israel has also risen by more than 50 percent since last week ■ Fourteen of the 35 cases defined as serious have received two doses of the Pfizer vaccine

Sun, 4 Jul 2021 10:38:42 +03:00
Biden kneels before Rivlin's ultra-Orthodox aide after learning she has 12 children
Expressing admiration, Biden kneels before Rivka Ravitz, a key adviser of Rivlin for years who runs a household of 13 in addition to her demanding job

Sun, 4 Jul 2021 10:16:01 +03:00
The grandpa teaching fine Roman Jewish cuisine on YouTube
Italian-Israeli Hamos Guetta uploads cooking videos to YouTube so his daughter can learn traditional Jewish and Italian wisdom. Now you can also master Supplì al telefono, Rotolo alla Nutella and Pasta con zucchine e latte

Sun, 4 Jul 2021 09:21:39 +03:00
18-year-old stabbed to death, 43rd victim of violence this year in Israel's Arab community
Ahmad Issa was stabbed to death in a brawl in the village of Kafr Qasem; two suspects arrested

Sun, 4 Jul 2021 06:05:30 +03:00
Two days before Israeli Citizenship Law expires, coalition leaders scramble to reach compromise
Coalition members Meretz and the United Arab List have said they would oppose preventing the granting of citizenship to Palestinians married to Arabs with Israeli citizenship, as have right-wing opposition parties

Sun, 4 Jul 2021 06:04:28 +03:00
Israel fails to enforce ban on polygamy in Bedouin community, officials say
Polygamous marriages within the Bedouin community in Israel compromise the rights of women in them and the existing law against such marriages hasn't been enforced, a state committee found in 2018

Sun, 4 Jul 2021 03:45:28 +03:00
Israel to send firefighting planes to Cyprus in an effort to put out forest fire
The raging fire has cut power supply to at least eight nearby villages in Cyprus and forced people out of their homes

Sun, 4 Jul 2021 02:21:08 +03:00
A pleasant illusion by an impressive Israeli Arab politician

Sun, 4 Jul 2021 01:51:52 +03:00
With Bennett as prime minister, political power is in Israeli settlers’ hands

Sun, 4 Jul 2021 01:21:18 +03:00
The Israel Police’s very own death squad

Sat, 3 Jul 2021 23:44:15 +03:00
Israel breaks 100,000 mark for vaccinating ages 12-16 against COVID
Officials are satisfied with current COVID inoculation trends amid delta spike in Israel, even though slower rates persist among ultra-Orthodox and Arabs

Sat, 3 Jul 2021 23:39:27 +03:00
Haaretz cartoon

Sat, 3 Jul 2021 23:02:29 +03:00
As Palestinians protest death of Abbas opponent, women are assaulted in response
While senior PA officials understand the political damage caused by the killing of Nizar Banat, Fatah is questioning the demonstrators’ loyalty, with female journalists especially targeted

Sat, 3 Jul 2021 22:56:29 +03:00
When Palestinians are represented positively in history lessons, Israeli students' trust in them grows
A new study shows that Jewish Israeli youth want to be exposed to differing narratives and discussions in the classroom – and those who are take a more positive approach to peace deals

Sat, 3 Jul 2021 22:54:06 +03:00
On work safety breaches, Israel is falling ten times below its own standards
As two die in work-related accidents in Israel over the weekend, monitoring group slams ‘consistent policy’ of omitting information on workplace accidents

Sat, 3 Jul 2021 22:39:56 +03:00
Israel strikes Hamas in Gaza in response to incendiary balloon blaze
A Hamas weapon production facility and rocket launch site were struck, the military says, hours after a fire broke out in Israel's south caused by explosive-laden balloons sent from the Strip

Sat, 3 Jul 2021 22:22:38 +03:00
Palestinian shot dead by Israeli army amid clashes near evacuated settlement outpost
20-year-old Farid Ali Hassan died after he was shot in the chest with live fire during a West Bank demonstration, the Palestinian Health Ministry said

Sat, 3 Jul 2021 21:09:09 +03:00
Palestinians take to the streets of Ramallah as anti-Abbas demonstrations continue
Protesters gathered near the Palestinian Authority's headquarters, hearing brief speeches from the family of Nizar Banat, an activist whose death last months sparked the rare wave of demonstrations

Sat, 3 Jul 2021 19:48:02 +03:00
Manchester’s revamped Jewish museum celebrates the community that left it behind
Manchester's oldest synagogue has come back to life by housing the Jewish heritage center. After an $8.35 million makeover, the museum offers a more people-friendly format to commemorate the city's Jewish history

Sat, 3 Jul 2021 19:24:00 +03:00
Israeli officials say Iran behind Indian Ocean attack on cargo ship
According to Hezbollah-affiliated Al Mayadeen, the ship was heading to the UAE from Saudi Arabia when it was hit by an unidentified weapon

Sat, 3 Jul 2021 17:42:05 +03:00
Saudi Arabia launches new airline in bid to wean economy off oil, boost tourism
The new Saudi airline will compete with its Qatari and Emirati counterparts as part of Mohammed bin Salman's wider push for economic diversification

Sat, 3 Jul 2021 17:07:43 +03:00
Iran's sole nuclear power plant up and running after two-week closure
A senior official from the UN's nuclear watchdog is scheduled to visit Iran this week, although no talks are planned

Sat, 3 Jul 2021 13:56:41 +03:00
Death toll rises to 24 in Miami condo collapse; second building evacuated over safety concerns
All residents of the second building, Crestview Towers, have been told to leave immediately after engineers found serious impairments

Sat, 3 Jul 2021 10:15:25 +03:00
19-year-old shot dead in Nazareth is 42nd Arab victim of gun violence in Israel this year
More than 40 lives were lost in 2021 due to violence and crime in the Arab community, rights group reports

Fri, 2 Jul 2021 23:51:29 +03:00
Biden to nominate daughter of Holocaust survivor as U.S. ambassador to Germany
Amy Gutmann will be the first woman to ever hold the post, and will be counted on to use her academic expertise in political and democratic philosophy to stabilize U.S.-German relations following the Trump years

Fri, 2 Jul 2021 21:34:45 +03:00
Israel failing to do minimum to fight human trafficking, U.S. says
The annual U.S. State Department report downgrades Israel to its second tier ranking for the first time in a decade, but notes it is 'making significant efforts' to tackle human trafficking

Fri, 2 Jul 2021 20:57:46 +03:00
Lebanese judge goes after top officials over Beirut port blast
The judge's announcement that he intends to pursue senior Lebanese politicians and security chiefs over the lethal Beirut explosion drew plaudits from the families of victims and survivors

Fri, 2 Jul 2021 20:50:35 +03:00
The latest proof that Israelis must stand with the Palestinians

Fri, 2 Jul 2021 19:56:42 +03:00
'With God's help, we will return legally': Israeli settlers quietly leave illegal outpost
The settlers of Evyatar left the illegal outpost in a subdued manner, after they accepted a compromise with the government which would see the structures in the West Bank outpost remain

Fri, 2 Jul 2021 19:34:26 +03:00
Israel in talks with at least two countries to exchange expiring COVID jabs, sources say
After negotiations with the U.K. broke down over technicalities, Israel is looking for a new home for its expiring coronavirus vaccines, and they do not rule out sending them to the Palestinian Authority

Fri, 2 Jul 2021 19:32:38 +03:00
Amid coalition row, Lapid to insist on submarine affair probe
Members of Israel's new government are furious with Gantz's unilateral declaration on a commission of inquiry into the corruption case, but Foreign Minister Lapid backs his old partner

Fri, 2 Jul 2021 18:18:38 +03:00
Iraq is trying to escape the Iranian cage, and Tehran isn't happy
The Iraqi prime minister seeks to draw closer to the Arab world and the United States, ramping up efforts to influence the political elites ahead of upcoming elections

Fri, 2 Jul 2021 17:29:35 +03:00
Israel establishing a new COVID testing compound at Ben-Gurion Airport
With the Health Ministry predicting that new daily COVID cases will triple in 10 days amid the spread of the delta variant, Israel is taking steps to up its testing capacity at Ben-Gurion Airport

Fri, 2 Jul 2021 15:36:05 +03:00
How a deeply religious Jew became one of Israel’s leading anti-occupation activists
In his new book on religious Zionism, Mikhael Manekin argues that the emergence of a Jewish supremacy movement within his community shows how far it has strayed from the essence of the Torah

Fri, 2 Jul 2021 15:33:55 +03:00
Hundreds attend first Pride Parade in southern Israeli town despite mayor’s opposition
The march is being held against the backdrop of a controversial letter by Mitzpeh Ramon Mayor Roni Marom, arguing that LGBTQ activists have a 'secret agenda'

Fri, 2 Jul 2021 14:48:16 +03:00
Ex-Mossad chief Yossi Cohen is arrogant and corrupt – and wants to be prime minister
Outgoing Mossad chief Yossi Cohen's parting words remind us that Benjamin Netanyahu's norms and political style have deeply penetrated Israel's civil service

Fri, 2 Jul 2021 12:43:11 +03:00
Iraq hit by power outages as temperatures soar
Iran recently cut crucial electricity exports to Iraq this week, which can amount to nearly a third of Iraq’s supply in the peak summer months

Fri, 2 Jul 2021 12:00:22 +03:00
The stolen childhood of Palestinian kids

Fri, 2 Jul 2021 11:19:50 +03:00
COVID vaccination rate surges among Israeli teens, but not in Haredi, Arab communities
The vaccination rate for 12- to 15-year-olds in the ultra-Orthodox and Arab communities, which are more fearful about side effects, is under 3 percent

Fri, 2 Jul 2021 10:20:45 +03:00
Protecting Israel’s Arabs has become a matter of coalition talks

Fri, 2 Jul 2021 09:57:20 +03:00
LISTEN: For LGBTQ minorities, Israel’s ‘gay paradise’ can be hell

Fri, 2 Jul 2021 09:18:20 +03:00
U.S. troops leave biggest airfield in Afghanistan after nearly 20 years
The withdrawal is the clearest indication that the last of the 2,500-3,500 U.S. troops have left Afghanistan, ending its 'forever war'

Fri, 2 Jul 2021 07:58:14 +03:00
Don't shut down Israeli Army Radio, reform it

Fri, 2 Jul 2021 06:06:05 +03:00
Israel's outgoing president sought to unite the people, but upset many | A wrap for Rivlin
A professional parliamentarian and collegial mensch, Israel's outgoing president has always been a rare bird in politics

Fri, 2 Jul 2021 06:05:27 +03:00
On Gaza, Israel turns a blind eye
In the West Bank Israel believes the Palestinian Authority has so far quelled the protests over the death of a dissident ■ Why Finance Minister Lieberman gave the army’s top brass a reason for optimism

Fri, 2 Jul 2021 06:01:48 +03:00
U.S. attentive to Israel's Iran concerns, but the ball is in Tehran's court
An accompanying agreement may be needed to address Tehran's growing arsenal

Fri, 2 Jul 2021 06:00:40 +03:00
World welcomes Lapid-Bennett government. At home it's more complicated
Settlers manipulated Bennett and his left-wing coalition partners into accepting the compromise over the illegal West Bank outpost

Fri, 2 Jul 2021 03:26:48 +03:00
The settlement project is no burden

Fri, 2 Jul 2021 02:39:22 +03:00
Who’d have thought the Evyatar settlers would go quietly?
‘Do you really think we get up every day now and think how to continue settling the land? We’ve become much more bourgeois,’ says veteran of nearby settlement

Fri, 2 Jul 2021 01:59:32 +03:00
Chabad rabbi stabbed in front of Jewish day school and synagogue in Boston
Rabbi Shlomo Noginsky suffered non-life threatening injuries according to a statement by the director of the Shaloh House Jewish Day School

Fri, 2 Jul 2021 01:28:02 +03:00
Israeli army strikes Hamas weapons manufacturing site over incendiary balloons
Palestinian media earlier reported that attacks had been carried out by Israel south of Gaza City ■ Four fires broke out Thursday in southern Israel due to incendiary balloons launched from Gaza

Fri, 2 Jul 2021 00:58:41 +03:00
Startup Nation? Not on climate

Fri, 2 Jul 2021 00:43:23 +03:00
Israeli Border Police blocked Ahmad's car, shot him point-blank – then drove off
After a night out, Ahmad ‘Abdu got into his car in a town near Ramallah, where Border Police ambushed him and shot him dead. His family says the cops mistook him for his uncle

Thu, 1 Jul 2021 23:41:44 +03:00
For 20 years he was one of Israel's only paparazzi. Then the iPhone was invented
This week at the Tel Aviv airport: A retired paparazzo who became a spokesperson for Rescuers Without Borders, and a former suburban religious boy who became a metal-loving techie

Thu, 1 Jul 2021 23:16:33 +03:00
Haaretz Cartoon

Thu, 1 Jul 2021 23:03:46 +03:00
Why roads aren't marked on the Madaba map, the earliest map of the Holy Land
In the 6th century, the earliest map depicting the Land of Israel was created – the only map from the first millennium depicting a country in full, but what purpose did it serve?

Thu, 1 Jul 2021 22:41:54 +03:00
Police probing if a hot tub put in Netanyahu home was on state’s tab
The Netanyahu family dismissed the Channel 12 News report as 'complete falsehood'

Thu, 1 Jul 2021 22:27:32 +03:00
The dangerous loophole that expands Shin Bet's powers in secret
The Shin Bet’s controversial surveillance during the COVID-19 pandemic did not mark the first time the government has extended the security service’s powers. It happened several times, for mysterious purposes

Thu, 1 Jul 2021 21:03:14 +03:00
Settler leader gets police protection in wake of far-right threats over illegal outpost
Activists threatened and cursed Yossi Dagan over an agreement to evacuate the Evyatar settlement outpost

Thu, 1 Jul 2021 20:58:14 +03:00
U.S. adds Turkey to list of countries implicated in use of child soldiers
'With respect to Turkey in particular...this is the first time a NATO member has been listed in the child soldier prevention act list,' the State Department official said

Thu, 1 Jul 2021 20:56:38 +03:00
Bennett, Rivlin welcome Germany's Steinmeier as ally against antisemitism
The prime minister discussed the threat of a nuclear Iran with Germany's president, who also pledged his support to the fight against antisemitism

Thu, 1 Jul 2021 20:45:53 +03:00
What's driving Israeli Islamist leader Mansour Abbas?
He quotes the Koran as precisely as he cites Switzerland's Constitution. His campaign was flagrantly homophobic but he speaks differently in backrooms. He has no compunctions about cruelly turning his back on his associates. Mansour Abbas is now in p...

Thu, 1 Jul 2021 19:42:04 +03:00
UN rights chief urges Palestinian security forces to allow anti-Abbas protests
'Many people, including journalists and human rights defenders,' were assaulted by the Palestinian Authority's forces, Michelle Bachelet says in a statement in the wake of a wave of demonstrations across the West Bank



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