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Wed, 21 Jul 2021 11:52:42 +03:00‘I don’t want to talk to an Israeli soldier, but Omri is my friend’
A Jewish-Arab youth group in the mixed city of Lod reflect on a tumultuous year
Wed, 21 Jul 2021 11:47:37 +03:00Ben & Jerry’s, the first real BDS success
How ice cream joined Iran, coronavirus and climate change at the top of Israel's political agenda
Wed, 21 Jul 2021 11:34:17 +03:00No masks, no service: Israel imposes new COVID regulations
As the delta variant drives 1,400 daily COVID cases in Israel, events of over 100 people in closed venues will require proof of immunity. Those who don't comply will face hefty fines
Wed, 21 Jul 2021 10:16:18 +03:00In blow to Netanyahu, Keren Hayesod chairman holds on to job following court settlement
Then-Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tried to force Sam Grundwerg out last year, but Keren Hayesod chairman will stick around under court-sanctioned deal
Wed, 21 Jul 2021 09:26:59 +03:00As delta spikes, Israel closely watches Britain's COVID 'gamble'
'Israel needs to take a month in which it focuses on containment – to buy time and keep track of what’s happening in Britain,' a senior health official says, as the U.K. reopens amid the spread of the delta variant
Wed, 21 Jul 2021 03:36:57 +03:00Mexican president decries alleged use of NSO spyware to target him
Report says at least 50 people close to President Lopez Obrador may have been targeted by the previous administration using Pegasus spying software
Wed, 21 Jul 2021 01:47:27 +03:00Dear Yair Lapid, Ben & Jerry’s is right
Wed, 21 Jul 2021 01:38:39 +03:00They took their ice cream away
Wed, 21 Jul 2021 01:36:46 +03:00Israel stands with Cyprus in dispute with Turkey over abandoned town, Foreign Ministry says
Foreign Minister Lapid has expressed Israel's solidarity with Cyprus to its president over Turkey's decision to reopen residential area of Varosha
Wed, 21 Jul 2021 00:46:52 +03:00Mara’ana, tell them no
Wed, 21 Jul 2021 00:42:30 +03:00Facebook didn’t even bother to reply
Tue, 20 Jul 2021 23:27:39 +03:00Haaretz cartoon
Tue, 20 Jul 2021 22:39:16 +03:00Ex-Mossad chief under attorney general scrutiny over ethics, security claims
Complaints against Yossi Cohen include a cash gift from billionaire James Packer, his involvement in a business dispute over the Kia franchise in Israel, and his alleged disclosure of state secrets to a flight attendant
Tue, 20 Jul 2021 22:13:52 +03:00Jewish Labour members applaud move to kick pro-Corbyn, far-left factions out of party
‘This shows Labour under Keir Starmer is serious about zero tolerance of antisemitism,’ says head of Jewish Labour Movement, after decision to oust four groups that supported former leader Jeremy Corbyn
Tue, 20 Jul 2021 21:30:01 +03:00Netanyahu’s son to apologize and remove tweets bashing Harvard program grads
The tweets by Yair Netanyahu also attacked the Ohio-based Wexner Foundation, where convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein once served as a trustee
Tue, 20 Jul 2021 20:22:01 +03:00Israeli military chief vows 'overt and covert' response to Lebanon rocket fire
Adding to Bennett's statements earlier, Lt. Gen. Aviv Kochavi said that Hezbollah has played a role in Lebanon's economic crisis
Tue, 20 Jul 2021 19:48:15 +03:00Alleged Israeli strike on Iran-backed militia kills five, Syrian monitor says
Five killed were working for Iran's Revolutionary Guard, Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says
Tue, 20 Jul 2021 19:05:30 +03:00To eat more or less Ben & Jerry’s? Israelis conflicted over response to settlement boycott
At a Ben & Jerry’s scoop shop in central Israel, customers are unwavering in their support of the local franchise owner but less sure about the company’s Jewish co-founders in Vermont
Tue, 20 Jul 2021 19:00:21 +03:00France’s Macron tapped as target for NSO spyware by Moroccans, investigation reveals
Forbidden Stories, a Paris-based journalism nonprofit, and Amnesty International had access to a leak of more than 50,000 records of phone numbers that NSO clients selected for surveillance
Tue, 20 Jul 2021 18:38:04 +03:00Israel to host Miss Universe 2021
Contestants of the famous beauty pageant, previously owned by Donald Trump, will head to the southern city of Eilat, and will broadcast in 180 countries worldwide
Tue, 20 Jul 2021 18:30:54 +03:00Israel to break up rabbinate's kashrut monopoly, open it up to competition
Privatization reform would spell a dramatic overhaul of the kashrut certification system for restaurants and food manufacturers, and met fierce opposition from chief rabbinate. 'The current system is sick,' religious affairs minister says
Tue, 20 Jul 2021 18:02:47 +03:00Indian MPs assail government's alleged spying on activists using Israeli firm's tech
Based on leaked targeting data, cyber espionage company NSO Group is suspected of infiltrating devices belonging to a range of targets including political opponents in 50 countries
Tue, 20 Jul 2021 17:53:03 +03:00There’s something new about Hamas’ leader in Gaza since the war – and Israel is concerned
Hamas' Yahya Sinwar now sees himself as the leader of all Arabs, according to a personality profile compiled by the Israeli military. This may have ramifications for Gaza
Tue, 20 Jul 2021 17:51:35 +03:00U.S. senators urge Polish president: Oppose bill preventing Holocaust restitution claims
The Polish law is expected to limit restitution claims on Jewish-owned land that was taken by the Nazis and nationalized after World War II by Poland’s Communist regime
Tue, 20 Jul 2021 17:46:41 +03:00Bedouin shepherds used Palestinian land with permission. Israel seized their tents anyway
For 21 years Bedouin shepherds had been moving with their flocks to Ras al-Tin for the summer, but last week Israel confiscated their shelters and equipment, leaving them without power or water
Tue, 20 Jul 2021 17:34:57 +03:00Study finds life expectancy can be prolonged. But slowing down aging is harder
People may live longer but a new study supports the hypothesis that there are biological constraints on how much the human rate of aging can be slowed
Tue, 20 Jul 2021 17:32:02 +03:00Argentina's VP rails against trial into alleged cover up of Jewish center bombing
Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, the president from 2007 to 2015, was indicted in 2018 for obstructing the investigation into the 1994 attack
Tue, 20 Jul 2021 16:58:51 +03:00As funds from Qatar held up, Gazan families struggle to celebrate religious holiday
Hamas says that Israel’s delay in transferring funds is a ‘foolish decision that hurts families in need’ as many remain homeless or jobless following the conflict in May
Tue, 20 Jul 2021 16:10:37 +03:00Muslims mark Eid al-Adha holiday in pandemic's shadow
A surge of cases in Indonesia is believed to have been fueled by travel during another holiday — the Eid al-Fitr festival in May — and by the rapid spread of the delta variant
Tue, 20 Jul 2021 16:00:23 +03:00Israel fears more companies will follow Ben & Jerry’s boycott
'Ben & Jerry’s isn’t the only company in BDS’ sights,' Israeli source says, after ice cream maker promises to halt sales in Israeli settlements
Tue, 20 Jul 2021 15:39:20 +03:00Israeli spymaster gave away secrets to flight attendant, complaint claims
Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit received a complaint that Mossad chief Cohen had breached operational security by sharing sensitive information with a flight attendant. Cohen denies the allegations
Tue, 20 Jul 2021 15:04:01 +03:00Where Netanyahu went, NSO followed: How Israel pushed cyberweapon sales
Investigation of potential Pegasus targets reveals: From Hungary to India and even Saudi Arabia, this is how Israel became the cyber industry’s patron and pushed spyware sales across the world
Tue, 20 Jul 2021 14:21:40 +03:00Facebook unblocks account that posted letter by jailed Palestinian ex-MP
Omar Nazzal's Facebook account was suspended last week for sharing
a letter by Khalida Jarrar, who Israel barred from attending her daughter's funeral
Tue, 20 Jul 2021 14:11:58 +03:00Israel's new government hoped to freeze the Palestinian issue. Ben & Jerry's had other plans
Whatever euphemisms the new Israeli government comes up with, such as ‘Narrowing the conflict,’ it will not be able to ignore the Palestinian issue – especially with the Palestinian Authority in such a weak state
Tue, 20 Jul 2021 14:04:33 +03:00UN rights chief to Haaretz: 'Israel must address decades of discrimination'
Rampant racism, violations of international law in conflict zones, the dangers of big tech – Michelle Bachelet, groundbreaking ex-president of Chile and current UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, weighs in on the world's crises in an interview ...
Tue, 20 Jul 2021 13:26:55 +03:00Israel wants U.S. to enforce anti-BDS laws against Ben & Jerry’s. Will it work?
Things are about to heat up in 30-plus states that have anti-boycott legislation on their books, following the move by Ben & Jerry’s to stop all sales of its ice cream in the occupied Palestinian territories
Tue, 20 Jul 2021 13:17:24 +03:00Two more suspects arrested after attack on Israeli Arab driver during May's unrest
Video footage of the incident in Bat Yam shows that around 20 people involved in the attack on Said Moussa could be identified
Tue, 20 Jul 2021 11:50:51 +03:00Shock and awe: Israel's Treasury is under new leadership
Tue, 20 Jul 2021 11:45:41 +03:00COVID in Israel: New infections on the rise but serious cases drop as delta spreads
Israel records 1,372 new COVID-19 infections, 62 serious cases
Tue, 20 Jul 2021 11:42:56 +03:00She decided to become a bodybuilder at 40. It changed not only her body, but her life
Despite a grueling regimen and losing her period, Israel's top female bodybuilder is fulfilling her goal of 'being the best, being the strongest'
Tue, 20 Jul 2021 11:20:14 +03:00Bennett warns Lebanon after rocket fire: Those who try to harm us will pay a painful price
Israeli defense officials believe that the rockets launched from Lebanon are not linked to the alleged Israeli airstrike on Syria hours earlier
Tue, 20 Jul 2021 11:05:31 +03:00Israel will 'aggressively act' against Ben & Jerry's boycott, Bennett tells Unilever CEO
The iconic Vermont-based ice cream company announced Monday that it would no longer sell ice cream in Israeli settlements but would continue to sell in the rest of Israel
Tue, 20 Jul 2021 09:47:06 +03:00The far-reaching dark side of Israeli high-tech
Quite a few Israeli companies, aside from NSO, are developing dangerous digital weapons to be sold to the highest bidder, with no proper oversight of their export
Tue, 20 Jul 2021 09:20:51 +03:00The vile exports of Startup Nation
Tue, 20 Jul 2021 06:52:19 +03:00'When I filed a rape complaint, the officer suggested we meet for coffee'
Ziv Leibowitz, 28, 'never imagined' what would unfold when she filed a rape complaint. Now she recounts how the police and prosecution mishandled her case
Tue, 20 Jul 2021 06:25:39 +03:00Interior Minister top official lives in a West Bank home under demolition order
Civil Service Commission had insisted there was only a stop-work order against Yair Hirsch, but freedom of information request reveals standing demolition order against his West Bank home since 2008
Tue, 20 Jul 2021 06:18:38 +03:00For Jaffa Arabs, affordable housing is a pipe dream
Housing project in Jaffa set aside discounted apartments for Arabs only. But even at 1.5 million shekels, housing units are beyond reach of many. 'I don’t have the money now, and the truth is that I'll never have it,' says resident
Tue, 20 Jul 2021 05:51:04 +03:00Hours after Syria reports Israeli strike, two rockets launched from Lebanon
Israel intercepts one of the rockets, while the other lands in an open area after rockets launched from Lebanon set off sirens in several Western Galilee communities near the border
Tue, 20 Jul 2021 03:09:59 +03:00NSO spyware revelations place Israel on the bad guys' side
Western governments, human rights groups and senior journalists who discovered that their privacy was violated by NSO cyberweapons will not let this pass quietly
Tue, 20 Jul 2021 02:57:20 +03:00Haaretz cartoon
Tue, 20 Jul 2021 02:54:06 +03:00Haaretz cartoon
Tue, 20 Jul 2021 02:15:39 +03:00Amazon takes down NSO-linked accounts amid Israeli spyware scandal
Amazon tells VICE accounts linked to cyber surveillance firm taken off AWS service as calls to crack down on company grow in wake of Pegasus Project investigation
Mon, 19 Jul 2021 23:16:21 +03:00The truth behind Turkey's sudden embrace of Israel
Erdogan, who provided a base for Hamas and permitted the Mavi Marmara to sail to Gaza, will not suddenly turn into Anwar Sadat or King Hussein
Mon, 19 Jul 2021 23:00:03 +03:00Israel's top court refuses to release mentally-ill man from detention
Supreme Court justice deems the detainee ‘patently’ dangerous, but orders a psychiatric examination
Mon, 19 Jul 2021 22:51:53 +03:00Israel's COVID czar warns: Travel abroad endangers families amid delta spread
Nachman Ash urges Israelis to refrain from travel abroad. 'Now is not the time to take unnecessary flights,' he says
Mon, 19 Jul 2021 21:41:02 +03:00How Netanyahu lured Israel into the ‘apartheid’ trap: LISTEN to Alon Pinkas and Bradley Burston
Mon, 19 Jul 2021 20:28:37 +03:00Israel's Bennett slams Ben & Jerry's boycott: There's plenty of ice cream, but we only have one country
Ben & Jerry's decision to halt sales in Israeli settlements shows that the company is rebranding itself as 'antisemitic ice cream,' Bennett says
Mon, 19 Jul 2021 20:11:44 +03:00Israel's interior minister opposes health insurance for asylum seekers
Ayelet Shaked says health insurance will 'lead to illegal infiltrators settling in Israel,' vows to do all she can to 'bring about their departure'
Mon, 19 Jul 2021 20:07:27 +03:00Roadside bomb kills 18 in Baghdad market, security officials say
Prime Minister Kadhimi places the commander of the federal police regiment responsible for the area of the market place under arrest, according to an Iraqi military statement
Mon, 19 Jul 2021 19:08:25 +03:00Google exec let go over 10,000 word manifesto on Israel, Jews and antisemitism
In a LinkedIn post, Google Cloud's exec sets down his solution to Israeli-Palestinian conflict, urges Diaspora Jews to 'butt out', and describes how he was taught to 'hate Jews' as a child in Egypt
Mon, 19 Jul 2021 18:04:23 +03:00Ben & Jerry's freezes ice cream sales in Israeli settlements
Vermont-based company says Ben & Jerry's ice cream will stay in Israel through a different arrangement, but won't be sold in the 'occupied Palestinian territories'
Mon, 19 Jul 2021 17:51:54 +03:00Israel's Lapid was right. Antisemitism is a form of racism
Mon, 19 Jul 2021 17:17:59 +03:00Israel's Bennett vows action on climate crisis as floods ravage Germany
While Bennett is raising the alarm following deadly floods in Western Europe, experts and activists have long warned that Israel is unprepared for the climate crisis
Mon, 19 Jul 2021 16:11:48 +03:00Iran to impose its fifth COVID lockdown as cases surge
In sanctions-hit Iran, which has the highest COVID-19 death toll in the Middle East, less than 2 percent of the population of 84 million has received both doses, mainly of the imported Russian and Chinese vaccines
Mon, 19 Jul 2021 15:57:16 +03:00High Court allows transfer of public funds to settlement movement
Amana movement may receive millions of shekels from West Bank councils, High Court says, rejecting Peace Now petition on a procedural issue
Mon, 19 Jul 2021 14:56:16 +03:00Archaeology has a problem with females and figurines in Israel and the Levant
Archaeologists are wrong to assume that ‘nude female’ figurines found from Cyprus to Israel and beyond, dating to a vast span in time, must pertain to fertility and can be a source of data on childbearing in antiquity
Mon, 19 Jul 2021 14:50:55 +03:00Arrivals from growing list of countries to require quarantine upon entering Israel
Israel's Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz says government not talking about closing the Ben-Gurion Airport as COVID cases spread, but that more countries will likely enter the blacklist
Mon, 19 Jul 2021 14:44:30 +03:00After failed peace talks in Doha, foreign missions call for Taliban ceasefire
'This Eid al-Adha, the Taliban should lay down their weapons for good and show the world their commitment to the peace process' representatives say. The statement was supported by a variety of countries
Mon, 19 Jul 2021 14:44:17 +03:00Biden pledges support to Jordan’s Abdullah in first meeting with Arab leader
Biden thanks Jordan's king for helping to stabilize Mideast, and promised to help Jordan with COVID crisis. 'We come together as strong partners,' Abdullah says
Mon, 19 Jul 2021 14:01:32 +03:00India’s Gandhi and Pakistan’s Khan tapped as targets in Israeli NSO spyware scandal
Project Pegasus reveals massive list of potential targets of Israeli spyware, including Modi’s biggest rival – Rahul Gandhi – and even an old number belonging to Pakistani leader Khan
Mon, 19 Jul 2021 12:59:35 +03:00What does a pig skeleton discovered in Jerusalem say about First Temple era Jews?
Remains of piglet from 2,700 years ago support the theory that ancient Israelites occasionally did eat pork, and the biblical taboo on this animal was only first observed in Second Temple era, Israeli archaeologists say
Mon, 19 Jul 2021 11:45:06 +03:00Israel’s psychological torture of Palestinian prisoners and their families
As seen in the cruel decision to ban a jailed Palestinian political activist from her own daughter's funeral, Israel's goal is to deter people from resisting the settler-colonialization regime
Mon, 19 Jul 2021 11:41:57 +03:00COVID in Israel: Slight rise in serious cases as Bennett warns of delta spread
Sunday saw highest number of serious COVID cases in Israel since mid-May
Mon, 19 Jul 2021 10:24:33 +03:00WWII Jewish heroine Hannah Szenes in her diary: 'What is heroic death? Is anything more sacred than life?'
The private diary of the war heroine and poet, who parachuted into Nazi-occupied Europe and was born 100 years ago this month, goes online for the first time. 'I’ve learned to launder and iron a little…. I could have imagined something more impor...
Mon, 19 Jul 2021 09:57:26 +03:00After surprise defeat of pro-Palestinian leftist, Chilean Jews are feeling calmer
Defeat of communist candidate Daniel Jadue, who Chile's Jewish community says crosses the line into antisemitism, 'obviously changed the political scenario,' community leader says
Mon, 19 Jul 2021 09:42:32 +03:00Video shows Iranian police opening fire during water protest
Water worries in the past have sent angry demonstrators into the streets in Iran; the country has faced rolling blackouts for weeks now, in part over what authorities describe as a severe drought
Mon, 19 Jul 2021 09:35:46 +03:00Inside the Jewish feast where kosher was pushed to its limits
Juicy giraffe foot or chewy cow udder anyone? A once-in-a-decade event in the West Bank offers a biblical menu mixing the kosher with the exotic
Mon, 19 Jul 2021 09:20:20 +03:00Bennett backtracks on statement backing Jewish freedom of worship on Temple Mount
'There is no change in the status quo,' Bennett says after Islamist coalition party, PA slam Jewish visits to the Temple Mount during Tisha B'Av fast day
Mon, 19 Jul 2021 08:48:47 +03:00Carrot time is over: The Haredim need to be treated with sticks
The demographic fuses are burning too quickly for Israel’s government to pussyfoot over forcing the ultra-Orthodox into the job market
Mon, 19 Jul 2021 07:00:25 +03:00GOP lawmakers using antisemitism for own political power, new report claims
An American Jewish Congress report finds that some Republicans are engaging in virtual spaces where ideologies of hate commingle, spread and amplify antisemitism
Mon, 19 Jul 2021 06:04:24 +03:00Israeli government nearing plan to give health insurance for asylum seekers
While Israel considers asylum seekers as 'foreigners who can’t be deported,' it still does not provide them with any social benefits
Mon, 19 Jul 2021 06:01:59 +03:00Experts worried about COVID apathy in Israel's Arab community ahead of Eid al-Adha
'In the Arab community there’s the feeling that we’re already immune,' an epidemiologist and public health expert says, as COVID infection rates in Israel continue to climb
Mon, 19 Jul 2021 05:36:17 +03:00To reform Israel's rabbinical courts, women's voice must be heard
Mon, 19 Jul 2021 04:17:57 +03:00Israeli sex offender and ex-cop was picked to lead panel on domestic violence
Gal Sartov, who committed a sex offense in 2004 while he was deputy head of the investigation unit of the Eilat district police, was slated to moderate a panel on domestic violence for Israel Bar Association
Mon, 19 Jul 2021 02:15:46 +03:00Israel's health chiefs fear vaccine's effectiveness against delta lower than reported
An epidemiological institute's preliminary figures suggest this might be the case, though the percentages could be skewed because of heavy testing in hot spots
Sun, 18 Jul 2021 23:22:30 +03:00Omri Casspi, first Israeli in the NBA, calls it quits
‘Basketball gave me a lot,’ player tells news conference announcing his retirement
Sun, 18 Jul 2021 23:08:01 +03:00Bennett's shift on Jewish prayer on the Temple Mount may be a game changer
A statement by him seems to mark the first time an Israeli prime minister has officially referred to preserving Jewish freedom of worship at the Jerusalem flash point
Sun, 18 Jul 2021 23:01:17 +03:00Israel weighs restrictions on international travel over COVID delta fears, source says
Minister publicly says 'closing the skies' hasn't been considered, while other cabinet members claim they are unaware of plans for it
Sun, 18 Jul 2021 22:23:11 +03:00How to save the world's coral reefs? Scientists look to the Red Sea for answers
At the 'last coral refuge in the world,' an European-Arab-Israeli research team aims to discover why Gulf of Eilat reefs have survived rising temperatures better than others
Sun, 18 Jul 2021 21:55:54 +03:00Lapid has started a vital antisemitism debate in Israel. Let’s continue it
The foreign minister’s speech last week, in which he placed Jew-hatred in the wider context of other forms of abuse, is a welcome move away from Benjamin Netanyahu’s attempts to redefine antisemitism along party lines
Sun, 18 Jul 2021 21:46:51 +03:00Lapid: 'International challenges' require reassessment of Bedouin village's demolition
Israel's foreign minister says the new government needs to conduct its own in-depth review of the potential ramifications of evicting Khan al-Ahmar's Palestinian residents
Sun, 18 Jul 2021 20:57:47 +03:00Tel Aviv remains second-most expensive city in European housing market survey
For the second year in a row, Tel Aviv is in second place out of 62 cities examined in Deloitte's survey
Sun, 18 Jul 2021 20:53:59 +03:00Israel arrests two more suspects in May assault on Arab driver amid wave of violence
Six other suspects have been indicted over the beating of Said Moussa ■ Judge criticizes police for delay in arrests despite knowledge of suspects' identities
Sun, 18 Jul 2021 20:07:03 +03:00As Lebanon plunges deeper into chaos, you're better off a zoo animal than a person
Unaffordable medicine, violence in the streets and valueless food stamps are just the latest symptoms of the country's political and economic dysfunction
Sun, 18 Jul 2021 20:06:01 +03:00Lapid’s speech on antisemitism admitted something Jews rarely admit
Sun, 18 Jul 2021 19:47:28 +03:00Hate speech on Israeli social media grew 9 percent in past year, report shows
Main targets were Arabs, followed by the ultra-Orthodox, Hate Index Report says after counting 5.2 million comments that were offensive or called for violence
Sun, 18 Jul 2021 19:01:00 +03:00NSO's Pegasus: The Israeli cyber weapon oppressive regimes used against 180 journalists
From Khashoggi to reporters in India, journalists around the world have been selected as targets by clients of the cybersurveillance firm NSO, according to a new Forbidden Stories investigation, published today together with Haaretz
Sun, 18 Jul 2021 19:00:00 +03:00Khashoggi’s fiancee, son targeted by NSO tech, investigation reveals
Close friends, colleagues and family members of the murdered journalist were all selected as targets by NSO clients, likely Saudis and UAE, according to Forbidden Stories investigation
Sun, 18 Jul 2021 19:00:00 +03:00How NSO's Pegasus is used to spy on journalists
Israeli firm NSO's Pegasus software is used to infect journalists phones in what is called 'zero clicks'. Here's how they did it and what we found out
Sun, 18 Jul 2021 19:00:00 +03:00How Israeli spy-tech became dictators' weapon of choice
The despot’s discretion cannot be trusted - and cyberweapons provide exactly what they need to stifle democracy | Analysis