Haaretz Israel News
Thu, 2 Dec 2021 10:34:39 +02:00100% growth, with a caveat: How Israel’s microtransit firm Via reached a $3.3b valuation
TransitTech company Via proudly announced $100 million in revenues from smart transit software, but declined to mention presumably low growth in other fields. The company closed a $130 million fundraising round on Tuesday
Thu, 2 Dec 2021 10:24:16 +02:00Israel's defense minister to visit Washington next week for diplomatic talks
Gantz will head to Washington where he will meet with his American counterpart Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin as well as Secretary of State Antony Blinken
Thu, 2 Dec 2021 10:18:56 +02:00In quiet Israeli suburb, fight over Reform synagogue turns ugly
Plans for a permanent Reform shul in the commuter town of Shoham are pitting Orthodox Jews against one another, and may even be connected to the race for the job of Israel’s next Ashkenazi chief rabbi
Thu, 2 Dec 2021 10:15:22 +02:00Mysterious footprints from 3.6 million years ago in Africa were made by unknown hominin
Bipedal trail at Laetoli, Tanzania was thought to have been left by a bear. It was in fact made by an ancestral hominin who confused researchers by cross-stepping like a ballerina
Thu, 2 Dec 2021 09:36:24 +02:00Israel failed to probe hundreds of fatal shootings at Gaza protests, rights groups say
The Israeli military rejected the findings, saying the 'mass riots' organized by Gaza's militant Hamas rulers were aimed at providing cover for cross-border attacks
Thu, 2 Dec 2021 06:01:31 +02:00Israeli spyware maker NSO's new secret op: A firm exploiting big-tech vulnerabilities
Alums of top technology and intelligence units in the Israeli military, who find vulnerabilities in companies' cybersecurity mechanism, are working covertly with NSO
Thu, 2 Dec 2021 03:51:46 +02:00Police questioned 24 witnesses on ‘pimping’ at Israeli prison, but case was closed
The State Prosecutor's Office decided to close the case after receiving the report examining the testimonies as part of the June 2018 investigation into the alleged 'pimping' of female prison guards
Thu, 2 Dec 2021 02:26:31 +02:00Future generations need accessible beaches, not ‘yacht parking lots’
Thu, 2 Dec 2021 02:19:54 +02:00We Arab women are fed up with the male politics of silencing and control
Thu, 2 Dec 2021 02:12:31 +02:00Bedouin women pursue higher education, birth rate drops rapidly
Once among the world's highest, Israeli Bedouins' birth rates have dropped to the national average in just two decades, shocking demographers
Thu, 2 Dec 2021 01:52:52 +02:00Liberals' sudden opposition to Shin Bet COVID tracking reveals their hypocrisy
Thu, 2 Dec 2021 01:39:20 +02:00Haaretz cartoon
Thu, 2 Dec 2021 00:01:26 +02:00Right-wing rabbis call to protest gov't ‘for endangering Israel's Jewish identity’
The organizers of an anti-government demonstration, slated for Tuesday in Tel Aviv, will protest Bennett's coalition over its policies on kashrut supervision, conversion and Sabbath observance
Wed, 1 Dec 2021 23:49:55 +02:00Israeli settler gets 20 months in jail for throwing stun grenade at Palestinian homes
Israeli judge rejects a plea bargain reached with the prosecution, claiming the man 'deserves no benefits' but rather a much stiffer sentence
Wed, 1 Dec 2021 23:31:21 +02:00Jewish men spat at while celebrating Hanukkah in London
A video taken from an open-top bus shows a group of men shouting and making obscene hand gestures and Nazi salutes at the Jewish people inside celebrating Hanukkah
Wed, 1 Dec 2021 23:29:22 +02:00How Israeli scientists are trying to determine COVID vaccine efficiency against omicron
The COVID omicron genome includes about 50 mutations that did not exist in the original version of the virus, and 32 of them are in the spike protein that binds the virus to cells in the body
Wed, 1 Dec 2021 21:23:47 +02:00Israelis' car torched in Ramallah; Palestinian security forces take passengers to safety
The two accidently rode in their car to Manara Square in Ramallah and were stopped by Palestinians who began vandalizing the vehicle
Wed, 1 Dec 2021 20:48:38 +02:00Lieberman's 'good' economics is bad for Israel
Wed, 1 Dec 2021 20:35:56 +02:00I was born in Thailand, but Israel is my home
Wed, 1 Dec 2021 19:27:10 +02:00Israel's top court hears rights groups' petition against Shin Bet COVID tracking
The groups argue that precedent set early in the COVID pandemic shows Shin Bet tracking is ineffective and violates civil rights, after Israel authorized the emergency monitoring powers amid the omicron variant
Wed, 1 Dec 2021 18:46:09 +02:00Bennett's family to travel abroad despite call to avoid it amid omicron variant
Despite Bennett asking Israelis to avoid travel in light of new fears over the omicron COVID variant, the PM's family is setting off for a holiday abroad
Wed, 1 Dec 2021 17:58:33 +02:00Iran begins enriching uranium with advanced centrifuges during nuclear talks
Iran accuses Israel of 'trumpeting lies to poison' the Vienna nuke talks on reviving the 2015 nuclear deal
Wed, 1 Dec 2021 17:48:55 +02:00Iran nuclear talks will end Thursday or Friday, U.S. officials say
In recent weeks, senior Israeli officials have approached the countries engaged in the talks and asked that the negotiations be limited and subject to a deadline
Wed, 1 Dec 2021 17:11:35 +02:00Omicron in Israel: COVID czar says mandatory vaccinations should be mulled
Israel's Salman Zarka clarified it was his opinion, and that the Health Ministry and cabinet are not advancing mandatory COVID vaccination
Wed, 1 Dec 2021 17:04:57 +02:00Thousands of miles from Ramallah, explaining cops and guns to my daughter
Forat is ‘only’ familiar with Israeli soldiers’ weapons. The questions arising from our lives in North Carolina require precision I lack when it comes to security officers and guns ■ Post #40
Wed, 1 Dec 2021 15:47:51 +02:00New U.S. envoy to Israel will visit Yad Vashem on first day out of isolation
Ambassador Thomas Nides postponed his original plans to visit the Holocaust museum after landing on Monday, due to the government's new COVID guidelines
Wed, 1 Dec 2021 15:35:06 +02:00What Palestinians really think of Netflix's ‘Palestinian Stories’
The 32 films allegedly share a lesser-heard narrative around the world, but some Palestinians in the movie business note the absence of films like 'Jenin, Jenin' and say Palestinian-Israeli directors have been marginalized
Wed, 1 Dec 2021 14:58:59 +02:00The Church of Sweden's unholy spat over Israel and apartheid
A Swedish Jewish organization blasts the church’s decision, saying it cements its image as anti-Israel, while some of the church’s own bishops say it has a ‘one-sided fixation on Israel’
Wed, 1 Dec 2021 14:49:17 +02:00Democratic progressive refused to endorse BDS. Now he's under fire from the left
Rep. Jamaal Bowman of New York, a strong critic of the occupation, is being attacked by left-wing activists for participating in a J Street trip to Israel and other forms of engagement with liberal Zionist groups
Wed, 1 Dec 2021 14:06:58 +02:00Israeli physicist finds key to solving Stephen Hawking’s black hole paradox
How Netta Engelhardt of MIT and colleagues found a way to reconcile the basic theories of physics, Quantum physics and Einstein’s theory of relativity. You’re about to discover what ‘unitarity’ is
Wed, 1 Dec 2021 13:45:18 +02:00Striking Iran’s nuke sites is an impossible mission for Israel. Here’s what it must do
Israel needs to muster the courage to propose a bold and creative move, beyond a return to the Iran nuclear deal or a one-and-done strike likely to fail
Wed, 1 Dec 2021 13:35:47 +02:00Tel Aviv is over
The secret of Tel Aviv’s attraction once lay in its ability to transform nothing into a wonder that allows movement and life. Now it turns out to be a very costly nothing
Wed, 1 Dec 2021 13:30:05 +02:00‘Tel Aviv is heading toward an explosion,’ says the mayor of the world's most expensive city
Ron Huldai, Tel Aviv’s mayor for the past 20 years, calls on the state to take responsibility for lowering real estate prices
Wed, 1 Dec 2021 13:29:56 +02:00Turkish lira rebounds after central bank halts spiral under Erdogan's policy
The central bank said it intervened 'via selling transactions due to unhealthy price formations in exchange rates,' amid unprecedented inflation in Turkey
Wed, 1 Dec 2021 13:20:23 +02:00'Interrogators threatened my family,' says Netanyahu's ex-aide Hefetz at corruption trial
The cross-examination of former Netanyahu adviser turned state's evidence Nir Hefetz began with new accusations that he was spat on by interrogators: 'They kept putting pressure on me to provide information'
Wed, 1 Dec 2021 13:16:59 +02:00Tel Aviv tops list of world's most expensive cities
Hiking housing prices, a soaring currency and costly goods are to blame, as Tel Aviv climbs five places to win the grim title, ahead of Paris, Singapore, and New York
Wed, 1 Dec 2021 12:51:55 +02:00These Jewish migrants survived pogroms, riots and famine. Then they were faced with Zionist cruelty
A century ago Zionist leaders strove to keep ‘weak people’ from immigrating. 'It is one of the most controversial disputes in the history of the Zionist movement'
Wed, 1 Dec 2021 06:13:32 +02:00Israeli parole board rejects petition by Palestinian prisoner with alibi
Sultan Hamidat was accused of throwing rocks at security forces 'in June 2019 or thereabouts,' even though he was in an Israeli prison until July 28
Wed, 1 Dec 2021 06:12:55 +02:00Jerusalem police raided pro-Palestinian activists' apartment twice over grafitti
Police say that there is no connection between the activists' politics and the raids and searches of their home, while the tenants say they feel targeted
Wed, 1 Dec 2021 06:12:21 +02:00Ten construction workers died in this Israeli firm in four years. Nobody was charged
Last week, Li Hushi, 53, a foreign construction worker, was killed at an Electra construction site, but police have made no arrests
Wed, 1 Dec 2021 03:20:00 +02:00UN envoy warns of risk of new Israel-Palestinian violence
Tor Wennesland says parties must calm tensions, reduce violence across the Palestinian territories, avoid unilateral steps including new Israeli settlement building and solidify the May cease-fire
Wed, 1 Dec 2021 02:25:51 +02:00Stop the hysteria: Nuclear deal or not, this isn't 1938
Replicating Netanyahu’s populist alarmism by claiming that the year is 1938 and Iran is Nazi Germany, won't help Israel convince its allies. Bennett should instead work quietly and discreetly with Biden on the Iranian issue
Wed, 1 Dec 2021 00:22:14 +02:00U.S. FDA panel recommends agency authorize Merck's COVID-19 drug
The U.S. drugmaker published data last week suggesting that the drug was significantly less effective than previously thought, but the medication is likely to become an important therapeutic tool
Wed, 1 Dec 2021 00:04:20 +02:00Haaretz cartoon
Tue, 30 Nov 2021 23:23:17 +02:00Passing Arab commuters by
Tue, 30 Nov 2021 22:47:17 +02:00Key witness in Netanyahu trial: Interrogators used ‘draconian’ methods against me
Cross-examination of former Netanyahu aide Nir Hefetz begins with him accusing investigators of 'totally disproportionate' treatment
Tue, 30 Nov 2021 22:14:16 +02:00Israel's 'maximum pressure' failed in Gaza. Why would it work in Iran?
Tue, 30 Nov 2021 21:45:32 +02:00Court extends detention of psychiatric nurse suspected of burying teenage girl alive
Eduard Kachura is held over the suspected murder of 17-year-old Yael Melnik, who was once hospitalized at the institution he worked at
Tue, 30 Nov 2021 21:13:01 +02:00Sudan security forces fire tear gas at massive march against military rule
Neighborhood resistance committees called the protests, demanding full civilian authority, casting aside an agreement last week that reinstated civilian Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok
Tue, 30 Nov 2021 21:04:43 +02:00To the Israeli soldiers who raided a film festival: Aren’t you tired of the violence?
Tue, 30 Nov 2021 21:04:05 +02:00One tweet about rain stirs up the Israeli phobia of Palestinian history
Tue, 30 Nov 2021 21:03:25 +02:00A day in our lives as an occupying, dispossessing nation
Tue, 30 Nov 2021 20:42:13 +02:00Israel rejects plan for 6 new marinas, approves one in far north
The plan was backed by several mayors of cities in which the marinas were planned to be built, but the National Planning and Building Council accepted the objections of several environmental groups
Tue, 30 Nov 2021 20:39:20 +02:00Israel advances tax relief for returnees and immigrants in high-tech
Government-backed benefit package meant to entice returning Israelis who have lived abroad between one and five years
Tue, 30 Nov 2021 20:26:51 +02:00U.S. design maven Denis Weil likely to head Israel Museum
Designer and activist Denis Weil's family has been donating to the museum for years. His father Ernst established the Swiss Friends of the Museum organization
Tue, 30 Nov 2021 20:03:52 +02:00Israeli officer secretly photographed dozens of female soldiers over years, court hears
Dan Sharoni started taking intimate photos of soldiers under his command without their knowledge as far back as 2010, military prosecutors say. IDF chief condemns 'shameful' behavior, backs women affected by it
Tue, 30 Nov 2021 19:10:43 +02:00'He controlled everything': Her family sold her to a life of abuse in Israel. She's not the only one
An Israeli man looking for a bride 'orders' one from Ethiopia. In Israel, she has his children, and he abuses her, knowing she can't complain. Authorities found around a dozen similar cases, but there may be many more
Tue, 30 Nov 2021 18:15:08 +02:00Fake accounts used to spread propaganda during Israeli elections, watchdog finds
The state comptroller's report lists Labor, Likud and Kahol Lavan as some of the parties that stood to gain from the sponsored campaigns
Tue, 30 Nov 2021 18:07:39 +02:00Germany jails Islamic State member for life in first verdict over Yazidi genocide
In a landmark ruling, a Frankfurt court found 29-year-old Iraqi guilty of involvement in the slaughter of more than 3,000 Yazidis and enslavement of 7,000 women and girls
Tue, 30 Nov 2021 17:32:52 +02:00UN agency for Palestinian refugees says unable to pay employees due to funding crisis
UNRWA head Philippe Lazzarini told reporters in Jordan that the resumption of U.S. support for the agency this year was offset by a reduction in funding by other donors
Tue, 30 Nov 2021 17:18:45 +02:00Orthodox Union, youth group sued over handling of students' sexual abuse claims
Two decades after allegations surface against Rabbi Baruch Lanner, charging him with abusing teens in his charge for more than 30 years, four women take his case to the New Jersey superior court
Tue, 30 Nov 2021 17:01:08 +02:00Palestinian artists boycott French festival over Israeli participant
Pro-Palestinian activists are lobbying the Arabofolies Festival to ban singer Neta Elkayam, who sings in Moroccan Arabic
Tue, 30 Nov 2021 16:37:38 +02:00Volcanic winter drove the Neolithic Revolution in America, study says
For a thousand years the people on the Colorado Plateau maintained their diverse, mobile lifestyles, some foraging, some farming, some roaming around. Then disaster struck, and struck again
Tue, 30 Nov 2021 16:09:37 +02:00Auschwitz Museum slams Fox host who compared Fauci to Mengele
Lara Logan is under fire after comparing on Fox News the top U.S. public health official to the infamously cruel Nazi doctor, who performed experiments on prisoners in Auschwitz
Tue, 30 Nov 2021 16:00:38 +02:00French Jewish far-right pundit Eric Zemmour launches presidential run
Eric Zemmour has drawn comparisons in France to former U.S. President Donald Trump because of his rabble-rousing populism
Tue, 30 Nov 2021 15:49:52 +02:00Netanyahu staying at U.S. billionaire's Jerusalem villa for free, report says
The former prime minister, on trial for receiving gifts from billionaires, has been holding personal events and work meetings at duty-free magnate Simon Falic's Jerusalem home, the Walla news website reported
Tue, 30 Nov 2021 15:49:17 +02:00Miss Universe hopeful tests positive for COVID-19 in Israel
Miss Universe in Israel organizers don't identify contestant who contracted COVID, and it is unclear if she has the omicron strain
Tue, 30 Nov 2021 15:12:37 +02:00COVID in Israel: Two doctors have omicron; travel ban for foreigners only 'temporary'
The two doctors infected with the new variant had received three doses of the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine, and so far have shown mild COVID-19 symptoms
Tue, 30 Nov 2021 14:43:48 +02:00Ultra-Orthodox aliyah to Israel is breaking records. Here's why
For decades, Haredim in the Diaspora rejected the notion of immigrating to Israel. No more. Now, ultra-Orthodox American Jews see themselves as ‘the next great frontier in aliyah’ and are moving to Israel in increasing numbers
Tue, 30 Nov 2021 14:09:11 +02:00Iran strikes hard line in Vienna as talks over nuclear deal resume
'All discussions that took place in the six rounds are summarized and are subject to negotiations,' says Iran’s top nuclear negotiator
Tue, 30 Nov 2021 13:59:29 +02:00Top Israeli health official backs digital tracking of COVID patients: Time for 'difficult steps'
The Israeli government votes to advance a bill allowing security service to track COVID patients for up to 2 weeks at a time, which must now pass a Knesset vote
Tue, 30 Nov 2021 13:58:52 +02:00Largest collection of ancient graffiti ever found in Pompeii. Some are hysterically funny
Graffiti in Pompeii could be usually emotionally charged: 'Cruel Lalagus, why do you not love me?' And guess what’s drawn next to the caution ‘Handle with care’
Tue, 30 Nov 2021 13:08:07 +02:00Israel’s feel-good president is actually bought by the Bibi-ists
Tue, 30 Nov 2021 12:53:38 +02:00A daring actress just caused a social media uproar and political turmoil in Egypt
Egyptian actress Elham Shaheen’s decision to play a prostitute in a play by Sartre aroused harsh reactions and calls for censorship by members of parliament. So she brought up Simone de Beauvoir and the Koran
Tue, 30 Nov 2021 12:51:28 +02:00Before omicron hit, Israel was already seeing rising COVID cases
Rising COVID infection in Israel attributed to several factors, including low vaccination rates in children and waning immunity for those who haven’t received a third shot
Tue, 30 Nov 2021 12:16:00 +02:00First signs of a Palestinian #MeToo moment spark cautious hope among activists
Women are slowly beginning to speak up, but activists say that the #MeToo movement fails to address the unique concerns of Arab women
Tue, 30 Nov 2021 12:10:17 +02:00Israeli minister moves ahead with Shabbat public transport
Transportation Minister Michaeli is still hoping to get backing from Prime Minister Bennett and his party for proposed regulations, but the odds are considered slim
Tue, 30 Nov 2021 10:30:01 +02:00Top Jewish Spinoza scholar banned from Amsterdam’s synagogue, library
Scholar Yitzhak Melamed's request to visit a synagogue was rejected because he 'devoted [his] life to the study of Spinoza’s banned works and the development of his ideas'
Tue, 30 Nov 2021 10:15:45 +02:00Understanding the agenda of Eric Zemmour, the French Jewish Far-right presidential candidate
In his latest best seller, French-Jewish journalist and far-right rising star Éric Zemmour aspires to be remembered alongside Napoleon and de Gaulle, and asks: 'Has anyone truly proved that Dreyfus wasn't guilty?'
Tue, 30 Nov 2021 08:41:05 +02:00As nuclear talks resume, Iran and Israel fight over one issue: Lifting sanctions
Israel is worried world powers will accede to Iran's demands immediately even before Tehran commits to freeze its nuclear project
Tue, 30 Nov 2021 06:03:59 +02:00Over 100 Palestinian families in East Jerusalem face demolition of their homes
Residents have tried to prevent demolitions by proposing master plans, which include legalizing existing buildings. But after years of negotiations, the Jerusalem municipality hardened its stance
Tue, 30 Nov 2021 06:01:14 +02:00Israel Aerospace Industries got $22m from Morocco, reportedly for kamikaze drones
According to foreign reports, Morocco bought unmanned 'suicide' drones from Israel as part of the normalization deal between the two countries, though the defense contractor ‘declined comment on African sales’
Tue, 30 Nov 2021 01:23:54 +02:00Israel's government of hypocrisy
Tue, 30 Nov 2021 01:21:49 +02:00Monument to a Polish man who offered water to Jews in Treblinka sparks controversy
The monument, erected near the Treblinka train station, is part of a trend by Polish authorities to distort history, Holocaust researcher says
Tue, 30 Nov 2021 01:08:56 +02:00Thank you Shlomo Sand, we’ll take it from here
Tue, 30 Nov 2021 00:55:46 +02:00The hypocrites' parade: Israel’s left is now koshering digital tracking
Tue, 30 Nov 2021 00:25:21 +02:00Israel's Shin Bet arrests two suspected of planning attacks on Arabs
The pair, one U.S. citizen and another Israeli, allegedly discussed obtaining weapons and violently assaulting Arabs, as well as belief in far-right ideas
Tue, 30 Nov 2021 00:18:37 +02:00Haaretz Cartoon
Tue, 30 Nov 2021 00:03:50 +02:00Israel-UAE deal: Firm director says more incoming tankers reduces risk of oil spills, pollution
The contested deal would lead to a considerable increase in the number of oil tankers arriving in Eilat annually – from a handful of ships to dozens, capable of carrying up to 270,000 tons of oil each
Mon, 29 Nov 2021 22:44:49 +02:00Ultra-Orthodox sect leader’s son-in-law among suspects in 1980s murder, kidnapping
Rabbi Eliezer Berland, leader of the Shuvu Banim ultra-Orthodox community, has also been arrested in the investigation of two unsolved murders in Jerusalem
Mon, 29 Nov 2021 21:46:36 +02:00Israeli officials fear Iran could have enough uranium for nuclear bomb within weeks
Iran's stockpile of enriched uranium is rapidly approaching weapons-grade levels, concerned Israeli officials say
Mon, 29 Nov 2021 20:48:15 +02:00Israel investigating 15 potential cases of omicron COVID variant
Suspected cases include several in people who were not recently abroad ■ 25,000 COVID tests taken at Israel's international airport on Sunday, yielding no suspected omicron cases
Mon, 29 Nov 2021 20:08:37 +02:00Egypt, Qatar reach breakthrough on Hamas civil servants salaries
The agreement, which has received a tacit nod from Israel, defuses a potential standoff with Hamas
Mon, 29 Nov 2021 19:13:24 +02:00Two suspects detained after Arab man shot dead in northern Israel
Suspects' homes set on fire ■Victim's death marks the 116th violent murder in Israel's Arab community this year, and the second this week
Mon, 29 Nov 2021 17:35:54 +02:00Iran demands lifting of all sanctions as nuclear talks resume in Vienna
Iran's foreign minister cautioned that the nation's willingness to rejoin the nuclear pact 'is not a window that can remain open forever'
Mon, 29 Nov 2021 17:03:00 +02:00‘I am so fed up. Israel has no consideration for immigrants whatsoever’
This was meant to be a time when grandparents and parents overseas would finally be reunited with their families in Israel. But then came the omicron COVID variant and a snap decision to keep foreigners out
Mon, 29 Nov 2021 16:53:45 +02:00Israel's top court clears return of kidnapped boy to Italy
The Supreme Court rejected a request by Eitan Biran's maternal grandfather to appeal the Israeli ruling, which ordered the boy to be sent back to his family in Italy
Mon, 29 Nov 2021 15:04:19 +02:00How to make Hanukkah potato latkes, Swiss-style (recipe and video)
A close cousin of the classic potato pancakes - latkes - that Jews serve at Hanukkah, this traditional Swiss recipe includes butter and cheese, and will be a pleasant twist on your holiday table
Mon, 29 Nov 2021 15:00:52 +02:00Israel okays $2.4 billion military helicopter purchase
In less than an hour, Israel approved the purchase of Lockheed Martin’s CH-53K choppers following a recommendation from the Defense Ministry and military
Mon, 29 Nov 2021 14:39:47 +02:00How to make a Hanukkah sambousak (Iraqi chickpea turnovers) – recipe