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Netanyahu Pushes Appointment of Criminal Suspect to Head Prime Minister's Office

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Hundreds of Holocaust Documents Pulled From Auction Handed to Auschwitz Foundation

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Israel Holds 776 Bodies of Identified Palestinians, Foreigners - Israel Continues to Hold 776 Bodies of Identified Palestinians, Other Nationals

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IDF destroys home of gunman behind West Bank shooting attack

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Police release right-wing activist Mordechai David under restraining terms

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Israel Reopens Gaza's Rafah Crossing With Egypt for Limited Civilian Passage

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IDF Blocks Palestinian From Rebuilding Their West Bank Homes Burned by Settlers - IDF Blocks Palestinian Bedouins From Rebuilding Their West Bank Homes Burned by Settlers

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Deni Avdija to Make History as First Israeli NBA All-Star

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The Price of Israel's Wars: 'The Pager Operation Cost a Billion Shekels'

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How Today's Radical Islamist Groups Were Fueled by 70s Left-wing Revolutionaries -- How Today's Radical Islamist Groups Filled the Void Left by '70s Left-wing Revolutionaries

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Gaza's Rafah crossing with Egypt reopens, Israeli security official says

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Israeli Mayor, Senior Officials Detained Over Alleged Embezzling of post-Oct. 7 Donations

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Doctors Without Borders to Cease Gaza Work After Refusing Staff List Request -- Doctors Without Borders to Cease Gaza Operations After Refusing to Hand Over Staff Lists

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IDF Chief Met U.S. Leaders in Washington to Discuss Possible U.S. Strike on Iran

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After 843 Days, All Oct. 7 Hostages Are Back. These Are Their Names and Stories

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Haaretz Podcast - 'World War Jew': How Israel's Antisemitism Conference Became a Far-right Populist Rally

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California Democrat Scott Wiener on His Controversial U-turn

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No to Immunity for Conspiracy Theorists

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Israel Already Dominates the Middle East. Raising the Defense Budget Is Unnecessary

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Why Both Netanyahu and His Opposition Fear Arabs Awakening

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Israel's Right Exploits Marginalized Thugs to Privatize Violence Against Former Elites

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Rebranding the Gaza Hostage Pin Is a Desecration of a Worthy Cause

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Israel's Obsessive Effort to Blur the Line Between Life and Death

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What This Right-wing Activist Wants From the Ex-chief of Israel's Supreme Court

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Hostage Coordinator's Reprimand of Hostage Families Shows He Serves Only Netanyahu

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Israeli Opposition Parties to Boycott Knesset Anniversary Over Top Court Chief Omission

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Police Question Far-right Agitator for Blocking Former Supreme Court President's Car

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Israel Police Tells IDF They Will Not Assist in Arrest of ultra-Orthodox Draft Dodgers

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Netanyahu's 11 Moves Taking Israel From Democracy Toward Authoritarian Rule

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Why Unlicensed Nurseries Are So Common in Israel's ultra-Orthodox Community

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Explained: The History and (Fragile) Future of U.S. Military Aid to Israel

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Four Bills and One New Law Undermining Press Freedom and Israel's Judiciary

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Israel's Space Program Is Falling Behind – Just as the Global Space Race Accelerates

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F-15s, Aircraft Carrier, Destroyers: What U.S. Has Deployed Amid Potential Iran Strikes

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Three Months Into the Cease-fire, Israel Deepens Its Hold on Gaza and Levels Neighborhoods

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Senior ADL Researcher to Lead New Center for Rival Antisemitism Watchdog

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NYC Council Antisemitism Task Force Slammed Over Controversial GOP Appointment

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He Opened His Home to Me. We Became Friends. He Was a Nazi

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Eight Muslim States Condemn Israel's 'Repeated Violations' of Gaza Cease-fire

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The U.S. Threat Toward Iran May Wait for Another Round of Turkey-led Diplomacy

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Justice Minister to File Complaint Against Top Court President; AG: Lacks Factual Basis

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Top Court Gives Gov't One Week to Respond to Contempt Claims Over Haredi IDF Draft

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Smotrich's Far-right Party Pulls Out Support for Netanyahu Coalition Bills

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Border Patrol Leader at Center of ICE Protest Crackdown Said to Mock Jewish Prosecutor

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Trump Again Bypasses U.S. Congress to Push $6 Billion in Arms Sales to Israel

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'A Presidential Candidate Can't Win a Democratic Primary by Taking AIPAC Money'

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Think Smart: What International Brands Get Wrong About Israel

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A Fungus Which Feeds Plants Can Save the Planet

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Gaza & West Bank

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U.S. Envoys to Israel Blocked Early Warning of 'Apocalyptic Wasteland' in Gaza

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30 Palestinians Killed in Israeli Strikes in Gaza on Saturday, Health Officials Say

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Israel-backed Gaza Militia Leader Filmed Threatening Hamas Alongside Captured Militant

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Settlers Attack Palestinians in West Bank, Torch Building, Reports Say

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Residents of This Village Are Suffocating. Their Land Is Taken, and So Are Their Lives

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IDF Says It Struck Hezbollah Militant in Southern Lebanon

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We Overestimate Others' Pain: An Israeli Study Reveals a Surprising Psychological Bias

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Like a Gambler Who Lost His Fortune, Israel Wants Another War

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From Sakhnin to Tel Aviv: Arab Israelis Signal a Protest Meant to Last

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Israel's Hostage Coordinator Dismissed Families' Urgency. Trump Acted on It

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Halafian Art Suggests Simple Math System at the Dawn of Civilization 8,000 Years Ago

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A Dirty Little Habit: Kissing in Ancient Rome

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Oldest Art in Thrown Back to 67,800 Years Ago, in Indonesia

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The Last Common Ancestor of Humans and Neanderthals Is Found, in Morocco

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Earliest Cremation in Africa 9,550 Years Ago Discovered in Malawi

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Photos of the week by Haaretz photographers

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Photos of the Week by Haaretz Photographers

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Fire, Fear and Freedom: Israel in 2025, Through the Eyes of Haaretz Photographers

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Israel's Coup Opponents Are Experiencing Grief, Akin to Losing a Loved One

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What Was the Highest Number of Knesset Seats Ever Won by the Joint List?

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After Palestinian Shepherd Communities, Forced Displacement Targets a New Frontier

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'At 75, I Made a Mistake and Went to Prison. What I Saw There Was Haunting'

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At 94, This Jewish New York Artist Paints Herself Naked

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How Do You Talk to Children About Death? A New Israeli Book Offers an Unusual Answer

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Three Films About Gaza War Nominated for Oscars

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This Palestinian Actor in Israel Says He Can't 'Play the Arab' Anymore

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'Yiddish Is Not a Foreign Language to Us. It's Part of the Revival of Hebrew'

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Can Israel Overtake Australia as the New Land of the Macadamia Nut?

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After Facing Hate and Boycott, Antwerp-based Israeli Food Chain Boker Tov Closes

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The Tel Aviv Eatery That Will Make You Long for Istanbul

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Craving Kugel: The ex-Haredi Serving Up Jewish Comfort Food for Tel Avivians

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A West Bank Bus Trip Through 'The Best Documented Ethnic Cleansing in History'

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Why Is This Green Paradise Next to Tel Aviv Closed to the Public?

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Israel's First Poop Influencer Is Grading What We'd Rather Not Discuss

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'Birthright Is Tone-deaf': Why Many Young Jews Don't Want Their Free Trip to Israel

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AIPAC's Worst Nightmare? Why Netanyahu Said Israel Doesn't Want U.S. Military Aid

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'But No One Came': Untold Heroism, Anguish and Abandonment at Kibbutz Alumim on October 7

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Erased: Israeli Settlers' Brutal War on Palestinian Communities in the West Bank

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Two Years of Hell: A Timeline of Key Events in the Israel-Gaza War

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