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‘A new elite’: Behind the U.S. money launching Israel's far-right to power
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- ‘A new elite’: Behind the U.S. money launching Israel's far-right to power
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- 44:12
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- 1 day ago
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- Just as money from conservative American organizations promoted the ideas that led to Israel’s judicial overhaul, some of the same billionaire-backed funds are now being used to cultivate a "new elite" of right-wing ideologues within Israel's security establishment, promoting a vision of West Bank annexation and mass Palestinian emigration.
Haaretz correspondents Yarden Michaeli and Nettanel Slyomovics discuss their in-depth investigation into this ambitious “long-term project,” which involves a complex network of organizations founded and funded by conservative American Jews.
A new group at the center of this network presented its 274-page vision document to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu earlier this year, which recommends Palestinian “voluntary emigration” from the West Bank be encouraged. The plan stipulates that half a million Palestinians would leave within the first decade, and another 250,000 in the following.
Slyomovics...
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- Join Haaretz coverage of the U.S. Midterms
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- 0:45
- Date posted
- 4 days ago
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- The following video is a part of Haaretz news coverage. For the newspaper website: https://www.haaretz.com/
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- Inside the race dividing San Francisco’s Jewish voters
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- 1:07
- Date posted
- 4 days ago
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- The following video is a part of Haaretz news coverage. For the newspaper website: https://www.haaretz.com/
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- Talarico vs. Paxton: What Texas Senate Race means for the Jewish community
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- 1:18
- Date posted
- 4 days ago
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- The following video is a part of Haaretz news coverage. For the newspaper website: https://www.haaretz.com/
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- In Providence, Israel Is Directly on the Ballot
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- 1:03
- Date posted
- 4 days ago
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- The following video is a part of Haaretz news coverage. For the newspaper website: https://www.haaretz.com/
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- Jewish Voters Could Swing NY-17, and Democrats Are Worried
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- 1:19
- Date posted
- 4 days ago
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- The following video is a part of Haaretz news coverage. For the newspaper website: https://www.haaretz.com/
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- 'Israel is on the ballot like never before': How the midterms will affect U.S. policy towards Israel
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- 35:15
- Date posted
- 4 days ago
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- The 2026 midterm elections mark “a fork in the road in terms of how Americans view the U.S.-Israel relationship, and that fork in the road is going to be reflected accordingly in the next Congress,” according to Haaretz U.S. bureau chief Ben Samuels.
Focusing on the explosive race for the Senate in Michigan - where Democrat Haley Stevens just threw her support behind a Republican candidate over Democrat Abdul El Sayed - as well as other key contests in what is expected to result in a “blue wave” for the Democrats on election night, Samuels outlined the issues on voter’s minds regarding Israel and the cases the candidates are making, particularly to Jewish voters.
Also on the podcast, Michigan voter Max Kresch, an Israeli-American who lives in Jerusalem and served in the IDF, explains why he chose to support Democratic candidate El-Sayed. Israelis, he said, need American politicians like El-Sayed to act as “partners that are willing to hold our...
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- Israel's election had no clear winner. Now what? Aluf Benn and Esther Solomon explain
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- 33:20
- Date posted
- 9 days ago
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- The main lesson of Israel’s election on Tuesday was that “the October 7 war did not change Israeli society,” said Haaretz editor-in-chief Aluf Benn, speaking on a special post-election edition of the Haaretz Podcast.
Despite the turbulence of the past four years, he said, “at the moment of truth, people clung to the tribal loyalties, to the feeling of identity, of belonging” rather than reacting critically to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s many missteps and failures, he explained.
Together with Haaretz senior analyst Esther Solomon and podcast host Allison Kaplan Sommer, Benn analyzed the complicated coalition wrangling that will determine who steers Israel into the future, after a vote in which there was a clear majority of Israeli citizens voting against Netanyahu, but with an opposition divided between Jewish Zionist parties and Arab majority parties.
Solomon hailed the record turnout in Arab communities, noting that “the Pa...
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- Israeli Expats Come to Israel to Vote
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- 0:57
- Date posted
- 10 days ago
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- In an unprecedented show of civic engagement, tens of thousands of Israeli expats have returned to the country in recent days in order to vote. It is widely assumed that the majority support parties in the opposition.
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- Israel Elections 2026: The New Immigrants Vote for The First Time
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- 3:25
- Date posted
- 11 days ago
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- Over 100 thousand immigrants came to Israel since Netanyahu's last election victory in 2022. Today, many of them will vote for the first time in Israel's most consequential elections | Eden Mor and Matan Oz
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- 'Very anxious and very nervous': Israel on election eve, in a race full of wild cards
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- 40:45
- Date posted
- 12 days ago
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- As the hours count down before Israelis head to the polls, and Israeli high-ranking officers warn that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may want to strike Iran before Tuesday's election - the stakes are clearly high. But they are perceived as being even higher for one political camp, according to Dr. Dahlia Scheindlin, speaking on the final Haaretz Election Podcast ahead of Tuesday’s election.
"When people ask, 'Do Israelis see this as life and death?' - the answer is yes - for opposition voters," said Scheindlin, a veteran political strategist, pollster and Haaretz columnist.
She described the mood at a Saturday night opposition election rally - hammering home the need to topple Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right government as "somewhat celebratory, but also a lot of anxiety. I heard a lot of people saying, 'I'm here, but I'm scared.'"
Together with fellow columnist Joshua Leifer - who admitted to being "very anxious" and "very ...
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- Rahm Emanuel: 'We're at a tipping point, there is no reset button' for Israel-U.S. relations
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- 31:12
- Date posted
- 15 days ago
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- In this episode of the Haaretz podcast, Rahm Emanuel – former White House chief-of-staff, veteran Democratic party insider, and potential presidential hopeful – speaks with guest host Joshua Leifer about the future of the U.S.-Israel relationship, the potential consequences of the upcoming elections in Israel, and the politics of Jewish identity in the current moment.
In July, Emanuel delivered a speech at Tel Aviv University in which he strongly criticized Israel's government, called for sanctions against violent settlers and companies building settlements, and proposed ending U.S. military assistance to Israel, all as part of a larger vision encompassing Israel's regional normalization and the creation of a Palestinian state.
On the podcast this week, he elaborated on the rationale behind the speech and what he calls the 23-three-state solution, based on the 2002 Saudi Peace Initiative. "I think lining up the Arabs' desire for stability with Israel's des...
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- Can a Trump endorsement and a racist smear campaign decide Israel's election?
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- 38:17
- Date posted
- 18 days ago
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- U.S. President Donald Trump endorsed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday, in a move that was both unprecedented and unexpected at this point in the campaign.
With only a week left before the Israeli election, Haaretz English editor Yishai Halper said on the Haaretz Podcast that he doesn’t believe Trump's "October surprise" is enough for people on the right or the left "to make a significant change in their vote.”
"It is almost taken for granted that Trump is behind Netanyahu, and he may even amp up his endorsements in the coming days," he said, "It's an October surprise in the sense that he finally did this. The impact, I think, will be anything but a surprise.”
Also on the podcast, Haaretz correspondents Judy Maltz and Nagham Zbeedat assess the state of the race, polling and the mood of the Israeli voting public.
Zbeedat, who covers Palestinian affairs, said that the Arab majority parties are seeing the effect of many A...
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- Palestinian Children's Concert Ends With Settler Violence
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- 2:40
- Date posted
- 19 days ago
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- What began as a children’s concert in the Palestinian village of Umm al-Kheir ended in confrontation. Shortly after the Sotna music project’s ceremony began, Israeli soldiers declared the area a closed military zone and ordered residents to leave. As the crowd dispersed, a settler drove toward Palestinians, including children, and assaulted a resident. | Tal Elkayam
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- The midterms, American Jews and the future of the U.S.-Israel relationship
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- 35:50
- Date posted
- 21 days ago
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- The 2026 midterms arrive at a volatile moment in American politics - and at a moment of profound change in the relationship between American Jews and Israel.
Speakers:
Grace Gilson, Young Generation Correspondent, Haaretz
Simone Saidmehr, New York Correspondent, Haaretz
Etan Nechin, Senior Writer, Haaretz U.S.
Moderator: Ben Samuels, U.S. Bureau Chief, Haaretz
The following video is a part of Haaretz news coverage. For the newspaper website: https://www.haaretz.com/
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- What is at stake in Israel’s coming election?
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- 47:45
- Date posted
- 21 days ago
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- Israel heads toward another consequential election amid war, deep political divisions, questions over the future of Gaza and the Palestinians, and an ongoing struggle over the character of Israeli democracy.
Amos Harel, Military Correspondent and Defense Analyst, Haaretz
Nagham Zbeedat, Palestinian and Arab World Correspondent, Haaretz
Moderator: Yishai Halper, Editor, Haaretz English Edition
The following video is a part of Haaretz news coverage. For the newspaper website: https://www.haaretz.com/
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- ‘Israel should stay out of Trump’s oil war. Netanyahu is doing the opposite’
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- 28:57
- Date posted
- 22 days ago
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- The Iran war, like so many that came before it, centers on energy’s crucial role in geopolitics, according to Hebrew University historian Dr. Guy Laron, though international leaders often downplay or ignore it.
“Time and again, leaders speak in the language of values, security, justice, freedom, while chasing oil behind the scenes,” Laron said, speaking on the Haaretz Podcast in a discussion of the increasingly complicated geopolitics of the ongoing regional conflict in the wake of February’s U.S.-Israel attack on Iran and its effect on energy markets.
Historically, he added, even wars that don’t begin with energy at the center of the conflict often evolve into ‘oil wars’ once countries fighting for domination and influence are impacted by the necessity of access to tremendous levels of fuel to power both land and naval military forces.
Speaking on the podcast, Laron, the author of the new book "Oil Wars: The Struggle for Control tha...
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- Israelis in Thailand grapple with the turbulent reality they left behind
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- 4:29
- Date posted
- 22 days ago
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- Can Tel Aviv's hipster heartland resist Israel's generational shift to the right?
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- 2:13
- Date posted
- 23 days ago
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- In Tel Aviv's Florentin, it is not uncommon to find voters who – bucking national trends – have moved even further left since October 7. Even so, fear for Israel's future is testing old loyalties and pushing voters toward unlikely choices | Judy Maltz
Read the full piece here: https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/elections/2026-10-01/ty-article-magazine/.premium/can-tel-avivs-hipster-heartland-resist-young-israelis-shift-to-the-right/000001a0-ed2a-dfbb-afa4-ff7aa09c0000
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- Will Netanyahu's government survive the coming elections and what will the day after look like?
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- 0:55
- Date posted
- 25 days ago
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- Haaretz military analyst Amos Harel speaks at the Congregation Beth Elohim in Brooklyn, NY
The following video is a part of Haaretz news coverage. For the newspaper website: https://www.haaretz.com/
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- ‘The most AI’d campaign the world has seen’: the Israeli far right’s Palestinian emigration fantasy
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- 35:10
- Date posted
- 26 days ago
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- Leaders of far-right parties running in the Israeli elections are openly campaigning on platforms that advocate expelling Palestinians from Gaza and the West Bank.
On the Haaretz Podcast, senior analyst Esther Solomon and correspondent Linda Dayan discussed the platforms of National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and ex-general Ofer Winter, both of whom are wooing voters by attacking Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government from the right.
Ben-Gvir in particular is proudly “promoting a platform for ‘voluntarily‘ expelling Palestinians from every single part from Gaza and the West Bank,” Solomon said.
Winter included his longtime support for “voluntary emigration” from Gaza in the platform of his new Amcha Israel party, in an effort Solomon described as being designed to appeal to far-right voters dissatisfied with Netanyahu, but “who are a little bit disgusted by some of the crude ways that Ben-Gvir operates. They like...
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- In 2024, 12 children and teens were killed in a strike in Majdal Shams.
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- 2:16
- Date posted
- 26 days ago
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- Democratic congressional candidate Brad Lander asked about the Haaretz role during critical times.
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- 1:42
- Date posted
- 26 days ago
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- Protesters Boo NYC Mayor Mamdani at October 7 Vigil in New York
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- 1:30
- Date posted
- 29 days ago
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- New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani attended an October 7 vigil for Israeli and Palestinian victims, where protesters accused him of betraying the Palestinian cause and demanded policy changes.
The event, hosted by Israelis for Peace, highlighted deep divides among activists over how to mourn and advocate amid ongoing violence in Israel and Gaza
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- Israeli Soldiers Ended up in Psych Ward Following This Oct. 7 Mission
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- 2:08
- Date posted
- 29 days ago
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- The Israeli army tasked them with determining which bodies believed to be terrorists were actually dead Israeli soldiers and civilians. For weeks, they lived among the dead. Three years later, each had 'become one of the crazies,' as one puts it | Tom Levinson
Read the full piece: https://www.haaretz.com/science-and-health/2026-10-05/ty-article-magazine/their-mission-after-october-7-sent-these-israeli-soldiers-to-a-psych-ward/000001a1-05d4-d75d-a1e7-2fd728ad0000
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- What was Netanyahu doing on the morning of October 7?
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- 1:20
- Date posted
- 30 days ago
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- The following video is a part of Haaretz news coverage. For the newspaper website: https://www.haaretz.com/
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- The October 7 Class: American Jewish College Seniors Look Back on the College Life
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- 2:06
- Date posted
- 30 days ago
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- The following video is a part of Haaretz news coverage. For the newspaper website: https://www.haaretz.com/
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- 'The worst gamble in Israeli military history': Amos Harel on the failures of Oct. 7
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- 37:15
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- The decision by Israel’s top generals and intelligence chiefs not to put the IDF on high alert in the hours before October 7 was “the worst gamble in Israeli military history,” according to senior defense analyst Amos Harel, speaking on the Haaretz Podcast on the third anniversary of the attack by Hamas on southern Israel.
“They terribly, tragically underestimated both Hamas’ capabilities and its actual intentions that night,” Harel said.
Harel is the author of “6:29: Anatomy of a Failure,” the first and most complete account of the chain of mistakes by the country’s top military and political echelons leading up to the devastating events of that day.
On the podcast, Harel recounts the military and political mistakes that were made, pinning them on “arrogance” and a “condescending” misreading of Hamas’ capabilities and determination – and how their failures have shaken Israeli citizen’s belief that they are “i...
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- Did the Flydubai midair attack give Netanyahu an election boost? Haaretz columnists debate
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- 38:46
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu handling of the crisis after the FlyDubai attack demonstrated his “facility at dominating the news cycle and setting the agenda of the debate” in the crucial weeks ahead of the October 27 Israeli election, said Haaretz columnist Joshua Leifer, speaking on the Haaretz Election Podcast.
Netanyahu skillfully and quickly took the spotlight, basking in the reflected glory of the heroic pilot and passengers who saved the plane, while evading responsibility for the security failures as he did post-October 7. By doing so, he put his election rivals in a lose-lose position, Leifer noted.
If his rivals for power publicly acknowledged that “we're living in a dangerous neighborhood and we have to step things up, then you know they end up backing him,” Leifer said. “But if the opposition comes out and starts blaming Netanyahu” for the oversights and negligence that led to the near-disaster, “they come out looking like they...
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- How Did a Pilot Flagged for Extremism End up Flying to Israel?
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- 2:01
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- The suspected hijacking exposed a gap in Israel's aviation-security system: authorities can obtain foreign crew data, but no single agency is clearly responsible for vetting it | Haaretz Explains
Video by Shira Shechter
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- "Unhinged, Dangerous": NAZA Director Responds to Benjamin Netanyahu
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- 1:04
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- In an interview with Haaretz ahead of the New York premiere of NAZA, director Yuval Abraham reacted for the first time to Benjamin Netanyahu likening the documentary – which reveals the intelligence system behind the killing of thousands of Gazans – to firing “dozens of ballistic missiles at Israel.”
Listen to the full interview here: https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/podcasts/2026-09-29/ty-article-podcast/yuval-abraham-on-naza-storm-unhinged-netanyahu-and-why-hes-coming-back/000001a0-e1b9-dfbb-afa4-f3f9a4290000
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- Why U.S. Audiences Should Watch NAZA: Interview With Director Yuval Abraham
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- 0:50
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- In an exclusive interview on the Haaretz Podcast, “NAZA” co-director Yuval Abraham explained why he believes Americans should watch the film — and confront how U.S. taxpayer dollars are funding Israel’s war in Gaza.
Listen to the full episode on Haaretz.com: https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/podcasts/2026-09-29/ty-article-podcast/yuval-abraham-on-naza-storm-unhinged-netanyahu-and-why-hes-coming-back/000001a0-e1b9-dfbb-afa4-f3f9a4290000
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- Why Netanyahu's rivals have a unity problem – and a big Arab party problem
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- 36:34
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- The recent attempt at a show of unity by the Jewish Zionist parties opposed to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu running in the election, now less than a month away, was only partially successful.
They may have agreed not to campaign against each other and save their fire for Netanyahu – but they failed to explicitly commit to backing whichever party leader garners the most votes to head the bloc, said Haaretz correspondent Judy Maltz, speaking on the Haaretz Election Podcast.
"For most of the people who support the parties in the opposition bloc, it was a big disappointment that they couldn't say what seems so obvious to most people," Maltz said of the meeting between the four major parties opposed to Netanyahu.
"There was a lot of hope that they would emerge ... and say, 'We have a leader. It will be Eisenkot against Netanyahu,' but they could not reach an agreement on that."
Maltz was joined on the podcast by fellow Haaretz journ...
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- Yuval Abraham on NAZA storm, 'unhinged' Netanyahu and why he wants to come back home after all
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- 20:55
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- On the eve of the New York premiere of their film, NAZA, co-directors Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor sat with Haaretz U.S. senior writer Etan Nechin to talk about the journalistic investigations behind the film, the unprecedented criticism of them in Israel - including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s threat to strip them of their citizenship - and why it’s important to them to come back home and engage with Israelis.
In this episode of the Haaretz podcast, you can listen to Abraham discuss what he thought of Netanyahu likening the documentary to “dozens of missiles” being fired at Israel; the Trump administration's material support of the Gaza war and U.S. debate about arms sales to Israel; the film’s title and thematic association with Nazi Germany; why so many specific details were taken out of the film; and his plan to return to Israel and continue his work.
“I don't want to be an exile,” he said, declaring that “there are no grounds” t...
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- Ed Sheeran and Macklemore-gate: What happened and what does it mean?
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- 21:18
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- After rapper Macklemore cried "Free Palestine!" as he took the stage as the opening act for music superstar Ed Sheeran, opened a Pandora's box of controversy over free speech and the place of politics at a music concert "that is not dying down any time soon," said Philissa Cramer on the Haaretz Podcast.
Cramer, recently appointed senior Jewish Life correspondent for Haaretz, recounted on the podcast how, when Gillette Stadium and New England Patriots billionaire owner Robert Kraft refused to have Macklemore at his venue later in the Sheeran tour, and the rapper was removed as an opening act for Sheeran, the incident "turned from a story about was Macklemore doing something that his audience found objectionable - to a story about cancel culture."
In addition to telling the story of the war of words and promises of donations, Cramer discussed with podcast host Allison Kaplan Sommer whether the episode carried lessons for the embattled organized U.S. Jewish commu...
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- 'Under siege by settlers:' A Palestinian American on his month trapped in his West Bank home
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- 36:23
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- Credits: Kobi Eliyahu; Itai Ron; Ammar Awad/Reuters; Usage under section 27A of the Israeli copyright law
The violence of extremist settlers on the West Bank as they systematically terrorize, attack and even displace Palestinian communities is a “perversion of Judaism” and a desecration of God’s name,” said Rabbi Levi Weiman-Kelman, speaking on the Haaretz Podcast in the week between the Jewish New Year and its Day of Atonement.
Joining Weiman-Kelman on the podcast is Loui Ridi, a Palestinian American who flew from Ohio back to his home in the West Bank village of Qusra, after settlers laid siege to his neighborhood and the IDF declared a closed military zone. Ridi has been unable to leave his house for a month due to the order, and says the closure has been selectively enforced against Palestinians, while the army refuses to remove the settlers.
Ridi is flying the American flag on his house, he said, “as a message to the U.S. gove...
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- Opinion: Why are Israelis criticizing "NAZA" without having seen it?
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- 2:04
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- Opinion: Gaza war documentary “NAZA” won a major prize at the Venice Film Festival — but backlash in Israel was swift and relentless. Why are so many Israelis condemning a film they haven’t even seen? | Matan Oz
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- ‘Bibi or a Wannabibi?’: Anshel Pfeffer and Dahlia Scheindlin on what the elections are all about
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- 37:05
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- The intensifying Israeli election campaign encompasses a long list of issues, but at its heart, the results of the vote on October 27 will be “about the transition out of the Netanyahu era,” contended Anshel Pfeffer, Israel correspondent for The Economist, speaking on the Haaretz Podcast.
Pfeffer said that many have done their best “to be the next Netanyahu,” attempting to project his confidence, authority and leadership, while consciously or unconsciously replicating the current prime minister’s style. The front-runner, former IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot, he noted, has a “big advantage is that he’s the first ‘wannabe Bibi’ who is not a ‘wannabe Bibi’” in looks and behavior.
Pfeffer returned to Haaretz for the podcast, where he worked as a correspondent and columnist for over 25 years and continues to contribute, for a reunion with columnist Dr. Dahlia Scheindlin, with whom he co-hosted the “Election Overdose” podcast durin...
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- The Israeli Cyber Firm Quietly Arming Autocrats
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- 2:34
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- An investigation reveals how CyberGlobes software uses social media data to track and map protesters, regime critics, political activists and LGBTQ people | Omer Benjakob and Gur Megiddo
Video by Shira Shechter
Read the full investigation on Haaretz.com
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- Charlie Kirk Held the Young Right Together. The Fight Over Israel Is Tearing It Apart
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- 1:18
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens and Nick Fuentes are vying to fill the vacuum left by Kirk's assassination and reshape his movement's views on Israel and antisemitism
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- ‘It’s a real struggle against neo-Nazis’: Behind the the far-right’s political rise in Germany
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- 35:00
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- The stunning triumph of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in a German state election represents a true “challenge to democracy” and has shaken the country’s Jewish community, said author and activist Dr. Ofer Waldman, speaking on the Haaretz Podcast
“It's the first time that a right‑extremist party has had such a landslide victory in Germany,” said Waldman, who heads the Heinrich Boll Foundation office in Tel Aviv.
Haaretz writer and editor David Issacharoff, who joined Waldman on the podcast for a discussion of the election results, said that state of Saxony-Anhalt, which gave 44 percent of its vote to the controversial AfD party, is populated by voters who “feel abandoned, forgotten, and very isolated,” blaming the state and mainstream parties for their situation and channeling their resentment in an extremist political direction.
This is worsened, both Waldman and Issacharoff said, by the fact that East Germany...
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- What does Haaretz's new Oct. 7 exposé mean for Israelis today? Linda Dayan explains
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- 1:28
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- A new Haaretz exposé reveals that Netanyahu was warned about about a possible Hamas attack days before October 7th but kept the information from security officials. But what does that mean for Israelis today? | Linda Dayan explains
🔗Read the full exposé at Haaretz.com
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- Netanyahu Received an Explicit Warning Days Before Oct. 7. He Didn't Brief Israel's Security Chiefs
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- 1:24
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- In September '23, UAE President bin Zayed called Netanyahu to deliver a harsh warning. Netanyahu did nothing. An extensive investigation, conducted for a new book, reveals the PM's failures surrounding Oct. 7. Netanyahu: 'This is an absolute lie'
🔗Read the full exposé at Haaretz.com
Photos: Haim Goldberg/Flash90, Khalil Hamra/AP, Mandel Ngan/AFP. Editing: Masha Tzur
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- Hasan Piker, Mike Huckabee and a week of Israeli political party-hopping
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- 32:33
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- A last-minute scramble before the party lists for Israel’s elections are finalized on September 8 has led to the disappearance of small parties, politicians switching parties and the dismissal of veteran ultra-Orthodox Knesset members by leaders who want to “refresh” their party lists.
On the Haaretz Election Podcast, correspondents Linda Dayan and Etan Nechin reviewed the week’s big changes – along the return of October 7 conspiracy theories and the intermingling of U.S. and Israeli political campaigning with host Allison Kaplan Sommer.
Dayan noted the leap by controversial Likud MK Tally Gotliv to the extremist Otzma Yehudit party led by Itamar Ben-Gvir, pointed out that the move “shows how much Likud has absorbed toxic far-right populism.”
The drastic shrinking of Yesh Atid as its leader Yair Lapid has played second fiddle to more popular center-right figures like Benny Gantz, Naftali Bennett and Gadi Eisenkot, N...
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- What Does It Take For Israel's War-torn Northernmost City To Turn on Netanyahu?
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- 2:34
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- 2 months ago
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- On the Lebanese border, Kiryat Shmona has come under more intense bombardment than any other Israeli city in recent years. Supporters of the anti-Netanyahu bloc hope it will prompt voters in this Likud stronghold to rethink their loyalties, but they are likely to be disappointed
Read the full article on Haaretz.com
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- Could This Settlement Plan End All Hopes of A Palestinian State?
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- 1:01
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- 2 months ago
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- Building plans in the West Bank area east of Jerusalem have been delayed by successive Israeli governments since the 1990s. Now, Israel is moving ahead with construction, which could divide Palestinian territory and threaten a future Palestinian state | Linda Dayan
Full piece available on Haaretz.com
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- Fear of Muslims, and Tucker Carlson: behind the scenes at the Republican Jewish Coalition confab
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- 35:34
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- 2 months ago
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- Vice President JD Vance’s charm offensive failed to completely win over skeptical GOP donors who gathered this week in Las Vegas at the Republican Jewish Coalition National Leadership Summit, Haaretz’s Washington D.C. correspondent Arno Rosenfeld told the Haaretz Podcast.
There were mixed reactions to Vance’s speech to the crowd of 1,000, meant to be off the record, but leaked publicly, in which the vice president attempted to reassure those attending that, despite his isolationist leanings and association with media figures who regularly peddle antisemitic tropes, that he believed in the “mutually beneficial” relationship between the U.S. and Israel, that he was not “abandoning” the Jewish state and appreciated “American Jewish contributions to the United States.”
Vance’s words were a bit more “weird and convoluted” in a strange discussion of “blood guilt” – a term popularized by right-wing pundit Tucker Carlson, as a variati...
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- Who is Ofer Winter, the new far-right candidate who advocates "voluntary emigration" from Gaza
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- 11:57
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- 2 months ago
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- The following video is a part of Haaretz news coverage. For the newspaper website: https://www.haaretz.com/
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- Do Israelis care about settler violence enough to change their vote?
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- 36:36
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- 2 months ago
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- Nothing is helping Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s current coalition boost its standing in the polls, and it is clear that the premier is “panicking,” said Haaretz columnist Dr. Dahlia Scheindlin, speaking on the Haaretz Election Podcast.
Scheindlin joins Haaretz correspondent Judy Maltz and host Allison Kaplan Sommer to discuss the entrance of a new right-wing party led by ex-general Ofer Winter into the race, joining the plethora of “pop-up” right wing parties that are causing Netanyahu’s alarm at the possibility that one or more will fall under the electoral threshold and the precious votes in his camp will be wasted.
"Netanyahu is begging the right wing not to fragment the parties. He's warning the right wing: If you do the wrong thing, the entire world explodes," Scheindlin said, ahead of the September 8 deadline for merging with other parties and submitting final lists.
On the podcast, Maltz shares what she’s found as she ...
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- Is Turkey the new Iran?
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- 32:55
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- 2 months ago
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- Israel's controversial strike on an airbase in northern Syria close to Turkey was "first and foremost a message to the United States" that Turkish military penetration deeper into Syrian territory "can be turned into a real and total war," and any U.S. policy that tolerates it is "not sustainable," according to Dr. Hay Eytan Cohen Yanarocak, speaking on the Haaretz Podcast.
The attack has been criticized as an election ploy by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. While Yanarocak said such considerations may have played a role in its timing, he stressed that Turkey's ambitions in post-Assad Syria are a legitimate source of deep concern for Israel. Israel's military establishment sees them as a substantial threat and pushed for the attack after Turkey ignored warnings.
The past three years of war have shifted the balance of power in Turkey's favor with the weakening of both Iran and the Gulf states, he explained in a conversation with podcast host Allison Kaplan S...
