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'Under siege by settlers:' A Palestinian American on his month trapped in his West Bank home
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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
- 4 days ago
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- 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
- 7 days 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
- 7 days 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
- 12 days 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
- 12 days 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
Read more on Haaretz.com
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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
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- 12 days ago
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- 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
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- 14 days ago
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- 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
- 14 days 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
- 15 days 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
- Date posted
- 17 days 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
- Date posted
- 19 days 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
- Date posted
- 19 days 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
- Date posted
- 21 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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- Do Israelis care about settler violence enough to change their vote?
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- 36:36
- Date posted
- 22 days 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
- Date posted
- 25 days 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...
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- Hasan Piker's first interview with Israeli media
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- 0:42
- Date posted
- 28 days ago
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- As Hasan Piker draws more and more criticism, and sees high-profile Democrats distancing themselves from him, he has walked back some of his incendiary remarks, but during his interview with Haaretz, when confronted with one of his most provocative lines – that he'd "vote for Hamas over Israel every single time" – Piker doubled down
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- Israelis say they are tired of wars, but what do the polls show?
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- 9:34
- Date posted
- 28 days ago
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- Columnists Esther Solomon and Dahlia Scheindlin join Allison Kaplan Sommer in Haaretz Weekly Election Edition, and discuss how Netanyahu, stuck in the polls, appears to be dangerously “firing in all directions” in order to find a way to victory.
"He has the capacity to aggravate, or provoke, or exploit any number of crises that are happening in this region,” Solomon said.
Little, however, Scheindlin pointed out, appears to be moving the needle for the prime minister. He has shown that "you can attack Iran and attack Iran again. You can bomb Lebanon. You can kill Hassan Nasrallah, and nothing has changed the polls."
The following video is a part of Haaretz news coverage. For the newspaper website: https://www.haaretz.com/
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- A desperate Netanyahu is firing at all fronts to win the election. Even Trump has had enough
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- 36:17
- Date posted
- 29 days ago
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- The glut of new small parties throwing their hats in the ring is increasing the chances that after the voters have their say, there will not be a decisive win either for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition nor the opposition parties determined to topple him.
"All of these new little parties are headed by individuals who are placing their ego above the political outcome. They can't possibly join an existing party – they have to try to start their own," said Haaretz columnist Dahlia Scheindlin on the Haaretz Election Podcast.
As a result, the voters may not end up determining who will be prime minister, and instead a “little gang” of “six, seven or eight male party leaders” will meet and decide the make-up of the coalition, Scheindlin said.
Scheindlin joined fellow columnist Esther Solomon and host Allison Kaplan Sommer to discuss the results of the Likud primaries, opposition frontrunner Gadi Eisenkot’s declaration t...
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- David Remnick on Netanyahu, Mamdani and Israel's 'failure to face' Gaza
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- 1:06
- Date posted
- 30 days ago
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- Longtime editor-in-chief of The New Yorker David Remnick joins the Haaretz podcast: "Ben-Gvir and Smotrich are not decoration. They are crucial to this coalition and they are in positions of enormous responsibility."
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- 'Fantasy of erasure': David Remnick on what some on the left have in common with Ben-Gvir
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- 9:23
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- The New Yorker's David Remnick Discussion with Haaretz Podcast about Meir Kahane's outsized posthumous influence via Ben-Gvir and Smotrich, the tension between legitimate criticism of Israel and rank antisemitism, Israel's "reality problem" versus "image problem," concerns about emigration and brain drain, the stakes of the upcoming election ("lights out" if Netanyahu wins), and closing thoughts on JD Vance's political elasticity — followed by sign-off.
The following video is a part of Haaretz news coverage. For the newspaper website: https://www.haaretz.com/
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- The New Yorker's David Remnick on Netanyahu, Mamdani and Israel's 'failure to face' Gaza
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- 1:25
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- Longtime editor-in-chief of The New Yorker David Remnick joins the Haaretz podcast and guest host Joshua Leifer for a wide-ranging conversation about his more than three decades of reporting on Israel and Palestine, the role of the journalist in a populist age, and the future of U.S.-Israel relations.
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- The New Yorker's David Remnick on Israel's 'terrible failure to face' what happened in Gaza
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- 53:11
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- Longtime editor-in-chief of The New Yorker David Remnick joins the Haaretz podcast and guest host Joshua Leifer for a wide-ranging conversation about his more than three decades of reporting on Israel and Palestine, the role of the journalist in a populist age, and the future of U.S.-Israel relations.
"The only way to tell this story is to try to tell it truthfully and to know that you will fail," Remnick wrote in his report on the aftermath of October 7, 2023, published just two weeks after the attacks. In this episode, Remnick recalls what it was like to walk through the ruins of Kibbutz Be'eri and what was then the great trepidation of the nature of Israel's impending response.
Remnick returned to report on Israel and Palestine four more times over the last three years, and in July, The New Yorker published Remnick's profile of Gadi Eisenkot, currently the frontrunner among the candidates challenging Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Remnick and Leifer dis...
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- Netanyahu's Likud Party Chooses Its Candidates for the 2026 Elections
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- 1:00
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party held its primary elections on Monday, in an event the Israeli prime minister unsuccessfully tried to cancel at all costs
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- Threats on political leaders? 'Physical violence in Israel is almost 100 percent from the right'
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- 6:00
- Date posted
- 1 month 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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- Why has Netanyahu promised this Silicone Valley entrepreneur a spot on the Likud list?
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- 8:21
- Date posted
- 1 month 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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- Israeli election update: Netanyahu's iron grip on the Likud primary
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- 36:04
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- The battle over the Likud Party primaries this week was a clear example of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asserting his dominance over his political kingdom, Haaretz senior analyst Esther Solomon told the Haaretz Election Podcast.
Netanyahu had unsuccessfully tried to cancel the always robust Likud primaries altogether – ultimately compromising by pushing through a measure where he chose the candidates for nine key spots on the top of the list. He included a spot for Oren Dobronsky, an Israeli high-tech entrepreneur and hummus chain owner in Silicon Valley who has not lived in Israel for years, has no political experience and made headlines recently for calling U.S. President Donald Trump a “morally corrupt piece of shit” in the recent past.
The prime minister’s message was clear, Solomon said: "This is no longer about the Likud party. This is about me."
Solomon joined Haaretz correspondent Judy Maltz and host Allison Kaplan Sommer ...
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- This Likud-led Town Is Like "Israel on Steroids" | Haaretz.com
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- 3:41
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- Arad was once the crown jewel of the Negev. Today, instead, it offers a case study of how an ultra-Orthodox minority can exert outsized political power. This is where Israel could be headed, many warn, if the current government retains power after October 27 | Judy Maltz
Videography and editing by Tal Elkayam
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- Former IDF spokesperson: Foreign journalists should have been allowed into Gaza long ago
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- 3:48
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- Histadrut national union official Peter Lerner, who served as the IDF’s Spokesperson to International Media until 2024, says the IDF’s reluctance to allow journalists in Gaza is a symptom of the war being drawn out and Israel’s increasing isolation from the global community.
“The time passed two years ago,” to let journalists enter Gaza, Lerner said. “I recommended it to my superiors, that holding out this long is not beneficial to Israel; it just superimposes the fact that people will say that you're hiding something. …The fact is that there will be negative stories about the negative consequences of war.”
The following video is a part of Haaretz news coverage. For the newspaper website: https://www.haaretz.com/
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- Israel is making life impossible for the residents of Umm al-Khair
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- 6:19
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- Abby Seitz, a features editor at Haaretz, joins the podcast to recount the threats, illegal orders from soldiers and right-out lies that she and reporter Nagham Zbeedat encountered in a single day in the southern West Bank last month. Zbeedat and Seitz reported from Umm al-Khair as the community marked one year since Awdah Hathaleen recorded his own death at the hands of internationally sanctioned settler leader Yinon Levi.
“This is not uncommon, and it’s increasingly happening against international and Israeli journalists, but it's also been happening against Palestinian journalists for a long time. There are Palestinian journalists right now in administrative detention, held for months and months and months without charges, simply for filming what's been going on” in the West Bank, Seitz said.
The following video is a part of Haaretz news coverage. For the newspaper website: https://www.haaretz.com/
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- So what is going on in the West Bank?
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- 37:32
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- Nearly three years since Israel’s war in Gaza began, and despite a lengthy case brought before the High Court of Israel, journalists remain unable to enter the Strip to report independently on the widespread destruction, the ongoing humanitarian crisis and the IDF’s occupation of more than half of the Strip.
Histadrut national union official Peter Lerner, who served as the IDF’s Spokesperson to International Media until 2024, says the IDF’s reluctance to allow journalists in is a symptom of the war being drawn out and Israel’s increasing isolation from the global community.
“The time passed two years ago,” to let journalists enter Gaza, Lerner said. “I recommended it to my superiors, that holding out this long is not beneficial to Israel; it just superimposes the fact that people will say that you're hiding something. …The fact is that there will be negative stories about the negative consequences of war.”
Lerner and host...
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- The Battle For Shabbat In Jerusalem | Haaretz
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- 1:11
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- Last Saturday, dozens of ultra-Orthodox protesters gathered near Café Basimta, which in past weeks has turned into the center of a growing dispute over businesses operating on the Jewish day of observance, as hundreds of secular counter-protesters rallied in support | Yair Foldes, Yael Freidson and Aaron Rabinowitz
Cover photo: Itai Cohen; Videography and editing: Tal Elkayam
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- IDF Leaves Settlers in Palestinian Family's Yard
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- 0:41
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- A military order declared the village of Qusra, near Nablus, a closed military zone, which ostensibly bars unauthorized Israeli civilians. But many settlers gathered there after learning of the attempted evacuation of the outpost and clashed with IDF forces | Matan Golan
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- Do Palestinian citizens of Israel think the elections are legitimate?
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- 1:41
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- Haaretz Podcast:
Haaretz correspondent Nagham Zbeedat joins this week's edition to discuss why she, like many other Palestinian citizens of Israel, chooses not to participate in elections. She does not believe, she said, in taking part in a "performance" of democracy and granting "legitimacy" to a government that "enables the daily occupation struggles" and "doesn't accept my existence."
Listen to the full episode in our channel
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- 'Right-wing but not Netanyahu': Will Israel's new mini-parties save Bibi or bury him?
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- 30:05
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- While the polls in Israel have been relatively stagnant, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s personal standing has faltered. “The minute that Netanyahu's stock seems weak, people will start selling it, and that has begun to happen,” said Haaretz columnist Joshua Leifer, speaking on the Haaretz Podcast.
Joining Leifer on the podcast, Haaretz correspondent Linda Dayan observed that in her conversations with mainstream Israelis who “don’t identify as leftists,” they see a real alternative leader in challenger Gadi Eisenkot.
“People have said of Netanyahu in the past that there's no one who can replace him, who has the experience and the gravitas that we need. Now, for the first time in a very long time, people are saying it looks like there's someone who can actually do it.”
The two panelists joined host Allison Kaplan Sommer to discuss the debut of new right-wing parties who eschew Netanyahu and their “machinations” attempting ...
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- Israeli Settlers Block, Attack Haaretz Crew, IDF Refused to Intervene
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- 0:49
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- Settlers blocked two Haaretz journalists from reaching a home in the village and attacked them. Soldiers who arrived at the scene refused to assist the journalists. Earlier, soldiers were filmed praying with the settlers | Matan Golan and Itai Ron
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- 'Trump Started a war with no plan. Now he doesn't know how to end it'
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- 22:55
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- Haaretz senior defense columnist Amos Harel joins the Haaretz Podcast to discuss Trump's latest U-turn on Iran, from threatening to bomb the country's infrastructure to once again negotiating with the Islamic Republic over reopening the Strait of Hormuz.
Does the president have a plan, or is he just responding to pressure from different directions? How likely is a resumption of full-scale war between Tehran and Jerusalem? And is there truly a lack of interceptors protecting Israel from Iranian missiles? Amos answers all these questions, as we await the president's next step.
Meanwhile in Gaza, a new agreement has been announced by the Board of Peace, the international body overseeing the coastal enclave's painfully slow recovery. On paper, it looks great: Hamas will voluntarily disarm, Israel will then withdraw from the areas it occupied after October 7, and reconstruction will move ahead at a faster pace. There's just one problem: No one believes the d...
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- A year after a settler shot Awdah Hathaleen, his village still can't mourn in peace
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- 2:25
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- One year after Awdah Hathaleen was killed by an Israeli settler in his hometown of Umm al-Khair in the West Bank, residents gathered to remember him. Minutes into the memorial, Israeli army and police forces declared the area a closed military zone and shut down the ceremony. For his family and community, the struggle to mourn continues | Abby Seitz, Nagham Zbeedat and Shira Shechter
Read more at Haaretz.com
Credit: Shira Shechter
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- Could a Jewish politician joining an Islamist party shake up Israel's elections?
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- 36:56
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- Gadi Eisenkot "hasn't finished his rise" in the polls after his party, Yashar, has overtaken Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud Party for several weeks in a row, while the potential coalition of opposition parties is soaring past that of the current government, said Haaretz columnist Dahlia Scheindlin, speaking on the Haaretz Podcast.
Scheindlin, a veteran political strategist and analyst, noted that even the right-wing pollsters, who are heavily biased in favor of Netanyahu's coalition, are showing numbers that point to "a decline ever since the ceasefire and the war with Iran," reflecting perceptions among supporters who once "saw him as a great global statesperson."
The podcast panel, including Haaretz correspondent Nagham Zbeedat and host Allison Kaplan Sommer, reviewed the noteworthy political events of the past week, most prominently the intriguing news that could shake up the coalition mathematics: the Arab Islamist Ra'am Party's plans to invite ...
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- In Michigan, Jews Ponder Their Place in the Democratic Party
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- 1:10
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- Michigan – home to a sizable Jewish population and the largest Arab American community in the U.S. – is seeing a primary in which Israel has become the focal issue. While Michigan’s Jews are rallying behind Haley Stevens, many fear the increasing likelihood that Abdul El-Sayed will come out on top on Tuesday | Etan Nechin
Subscribe to Haaretz.com for full coverage of the Michigan primary elections.
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- In Dearborn, Beating AIPAC May Be the Real Prize
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- 1:32
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- Haaretz In Dearborn, Michigan:
In America's largest Arab community, excitement was palpable ahead of the Michigan primary, where Abdul El-Sayed is leading Rep. Haley Stevens for the Democratic Party's Senate nomination, in a primary elections that concern more than only a nominee for the upcoming midterms | Etan Nechin
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- This Israeli ultra-Orthodox feminist activist has a warning for U.S. Jews
- Runtime
- 0:56
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- On this week's Haaretz Podcast, guest host Joshua Leifer talks to Pnina Pfeuffer, a liberal, feminist ultra-Orthodox social activist. The Jerusalem-based Pfeuff https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/podcasts/2026-07-31/ty-article-podcast/.premium/this-israeli-ultra-orthodox-feminist-activist-has-a-warning-for-u-s-jews/0000019f-b789-d3fa-a19f-bf9917ea0000?utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=youtube
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- This Israeli ultra-Orthodox feminist activist has a warning for U.S. Jews
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- 36:41
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- On this week’s Haaretz Podcast, guest host Joshua Leifer talks to Pnina Pfeuffer, a liberal, feminist ultra-Orthodox social activist. The Jerusalem-based Pfeuffer, CEO of the New Haredim, recently petitioned against a Knesset bill that would permit gender-segregated study tracks for master's and doctoral degrees in Israeli academic institutions.
Pfeuffer represents a growing minority inside the Israeli ultra-Orthodox public that is interested in “full citizenship, with full obligations and rights” in the Jewish State. This is a public that wants the Israeli government to enforce the military draft on Haredim and teach math and English in Haredi schools, instead of continuing the de facto Haredi autonomy in which many Israeli rules and norms are absent.
According to Pfeuffer, the Haredi community reflects Israel as a whole, and younger Haredim - like their secular and religious Zionist counterparts - are radicalizing, and are more right wing than the...
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- Three months to Israel's elections: why is Netanyahu really going to Washington?
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- 33:03
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s insistence on traveling to the White House three months before the Israeli election signals his desperation to boost his sinking fortunes at the polls, Haaretz senior columnist Esther Solomon told the Haaretz Election Podcast.
Despite his unpopularity with major portions of both American political parties and his turbulent relationship with President Donald Trump regarding the ongoing conflict with Iran, the Israeli leader “does still think that a photo op with Trump is going to play well for him, even though it's not entirely clear if Trump is going to provide exactly the kind of celebratory hugs” he wishes for, Solomon said.
But in his current political situation, the Israeli leader “has to pull out every single stop, and he is doing that across the board. Whether it's in terms of military operations, every kind of political manipulation or strategy that he has, in order to pull every last possible vote for the...
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- The West Bank Settlers Drifting Away From Israel's Far Right
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- 1:03
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- Situated in the Gush Etzion bloc outside Jerusalem, Alon Shvut is considered a moderate settlement. Still, opinions on the current government are split, with some applauding its most radical-right ministers for blocking any chance of a Palestinian state | Judy Maltz
Full article available on Haaretz.com
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- Could This Ex-IDF Chief Replace Netanyahu?
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- 1:50
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- Several polls put Gadi Eisenkot in a leading position to become Israel's next prime minister. Could he defeat Benjamin Netanyahu? | Linda Dayan Explains
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- 'An extreme right-wing Israel can't just pour billions into PR and expect its U.S. image to improve'
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- 31:16
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- Both Israeli leaders and the Israeli public – lulled by both President Donald Trump and former President Joe Biden’s backing of Israel – are utterly unprepared for the generational tsunami taking place when it comes to American support for the Jewish state, Haaretz’s opinions editor Amir Tibon told the Haaretz Podcast
"Approximately 60 percent of Americans have a negative view of Israel, and the younger you go, the worse it gets – we're close to 80 percent," said Tibon, who previously served as Haaretz’s Washington and diplomatic correspondent. "Israelis are looking at the top line, which is what does Trump have to say about us? And they're ignoring the iceberg, which is hidden underneath the daily Trump noise, of negative views of the country."
"We’re going to have a lot of problems once this older generation leaves the American political scene, and most Israelis don't understand it yet," he said.
In his conversation with podcas...
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- The Settlers Marching to Reoccupy Gaza
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- 1:29
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- Thousands march in the Zikim dunes, bear the Gaza border, calling to establish settlements deep in northern Gaza “even before the elections” | Yair Foldes
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- ‘What if there aren't free and fair elections in Israel in October? What are we going to do?’
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- 36:47
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may be even more unpopular than the current polling demonstrates, Haaretz columnist Joshua Leifer said on this week’s edition of the Haaretz Election Podcast.
“I have begun to think the polling is not telling the whole story,” he said, in a discussion on how voters who believe Netanyahu is causing irreversible damage to Israeli democracy and want him removed are currently ping-ponging between “optimism and apocalyptic thinking.”
The “apocalyptic thinking,” Leifer said, involves speculation as to whether Netanyahu, anticipating defeat, somehow uses the precarious security situation to prevent free and fair elections on the scheduled date.
"After everything we've experienced over the last four years, can we rule out that apocalyptic scenario? We can't rule it out, sadly," he said.
Haaretz correspondent Judy Maltz, who joined Leifer and host Allison Kaplan Sommer on the weekly podcast pane...
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- The Mossad Plan To Collapse The Iranian Regime
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- 2:34
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- A Haaretz investigation reveals how Mossad agents brought former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on board, the shock within Netanyahu's cabinet and the recruitment of collaborators inside Iran - Michael Hauser Tov
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- Rep. Ro Khanna: "To See the Cruelty of Humanity, Go to the West Bank"
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- 1:13
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- 🎧In his first interview with an Israeli media outlet since his confrontation with armed settlers and Israeli soldiers in the southern West Bank last week, Representative Ro Khanna spoke with Haaretz Podcast about the incident, the “cruelty” he witnessed in his visit to the West Bank, and how Israel’s “disproportionate and inhumane” behavior in the Gaza war has changed his policy positions and the way that both he – and Americans at large – view Israel.
