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Stories republished from Haaretz, Israel’s newspaper of record.
For coverage of Haaretz itself, see Israeli media.
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News She was in Auschwitz, but ‘had no idea she is in the Holocaust’
Prof. Hanna Yablonka, who pioneered the translation of Julia Skodova’s memoir into Hebrew, describes this unique report by a woman who was there from the first moments of the Final Solution.
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News Naftali Bennett, Israel’s next PM: Meet the man behind the slogans and stereotypes
Naftali Bennett, who is on track to become Israel’s 13th prime minister within days, is easily labeled — religious hard-liner, ultranationalist and settler leader on the one hand, high-tech millionaire, special-forces operative and political wunderkind on the other. Most of these labels, on closer scrutiny, don’t really apply. At least not fully. Bennett at 49…
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News Israel says 1967 land conquests weren’t planned. Declassified documents tell a more complicated story.
For years, most Israeli historiography maintained that the country’s decision makers were taken by surprise by the fruits of the victory harvested with lightning speed in June 1967. “The war,” Defense Minister Moshe Dayan said, three days after its conclusion, “developed and rolled into fronts that were not intended and were not preplanned by anyone,…
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News Two decades after the second intifada, what have we learned?
(Haaretz) — The 20th anniversary of the outbreak of the second intifada, marked on September 29, the day after Yom Kippur, took place during a period that somewhat resembles the days of the exploding buses. The current terrible stretch, too, is characterized by a general malaise, great personal concerns and questions about when everything will…
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Israel News Trump evangelical allies embroiled in lawsuit over Holocaust survivor charity project
Two evangelical leaders with close ties to the Trump administration and the Israeli government are entangled in a legal dispute over millions of dollars that were allegedly raised to support Holocaust survivors in Israel. The dispute has led to the filing of a lawsuit in the state of Georgia, and could lead to legal action…
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Fast Forward U.N. releases blacklist of 112 companies with ties to West Bank settlements
The UN human rights office released Wednesday a long-anticipated report which names companies with ties to Israeli West Bank settlements. Full list of companies below. The Office of the HCHR said it has reasonable grounds to believe that 112 business entities have ties to Israeli settlements in the West Bank, 94 based in Israel, and…
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Fast Forward 80-Year-Old Rabbi: Settlers Attacked Me For Helping Palestinians
Jewish settlers physically assaulted Rabbis for Human Rights activists on Wednesday morning near the Palestinian village of Burin in the northern West Bank, the human rights organization said. The activists said they had arrived at the village to assist Palestinian farmers to harvest their olive trees and that masked assailants attacked them with iron polls,…
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Fast Forward WATCH: Hundreds Of Jewish Teens Riot, Attack Palestinians In Jerusalem
Hundreds of Orthodox Jewish teens rioted on Wednesday overnight in central Jerusalem, attacking Palestinians that drove by them and vandalizing their vehicle. Seven were arrested by police on suspicion of causing property damage. Azmi Dari, who lives in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Isawiyah, told Haaretz that he was attacked at about 5 A.M. by…
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