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Hasan Piker's first interview with Israeli media
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- Hasan Piker's first interview with Israeli media
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- 0:42
- Date posted
- 2 months 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
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- 2 months 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
- 2 months 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
- 3 months 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
- 3 months 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
- 3 months 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
- 3 months 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
- 3 months 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
- 3 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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- Why has Netanyahu promised this Silicone Valley entrepreneur a spot on the Likud list?
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- 8:21
- Date posted
- 3 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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- Israeli election update: Netanyahu's iron grip on the Likud primary
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- 36:04
- Date posted
- 3 months 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
- 3 months 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
- 3 months 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
- 3 months 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
- 3 months 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
- 3 months 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
- 3 months 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
- 3 months 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
- 3 months 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
- 3 months 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
- 3 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
- 3 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
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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
- 3 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
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- 3 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
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- In Dearborn, Beating AIPAC May Be the Real Prize
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- 1:32
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
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- 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
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- 0:56
- Date posted
- 3 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 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
- 3 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
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- 3 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
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- 3 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
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- Could This Ex-IDF Chief Replace Netanyahu?
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- 1:50
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
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- 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
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- 4 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
- 4 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
- 4 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
- 4 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
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- 4 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.
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- Rep. Ro Khanna to Haaretz: ‘I’m more disturbed by Israel’s lies’ than being detained in West Bank
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- 28:54
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- 4 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 host Allison Kaplan Sommer in a wide-ranging conversation about the now-famous 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 the Jewish state.
"Israel has lost Americans under 50 – not just Democrats but Republicans," he said. "It is one of the most foolish strategies to have antagonized an entire American generation, and that's what Bibi Netanyahu has accomplished."
In the interview, Khanna recounted how Israeli settlers mocked and antagonized his delegation, and parked their vehicle in front of his to block the road to Khirbet Zanuta, a Bedouin village in the South He...
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- A digital 'forever war' on democracy: Iran and Netanyahu both sow chaos ahead of Israeli elections
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- 36:43
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- 4 months ago
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- With Israeli elections set for October 27, Iran is increasingly pairing its military actions with aggressive online campaigns designed to sow chaos and conflict – alongside ongoing efforts to recruit Israelis as spies, Haaretz cyber and disinformation correspondent Omer Benjakob warned on the Haaretz Election Podcast, in a roundtable with podcast host Allison Kaplan Sommer and correspondent Linda Dayan.
“We’ve let the digital arena fester,” Benjakob said, in a stinging critique of the way in which Israel’s vaunted security services have dropped the ball in online foreign influence that has now been “supercharged” by AI.
One of the reasons the phenomenon has been difficult to combat is because “nine times out of 10, you can’t differentiate between a pro‑Iranian campaign and a pro‑Netanyahu campaign,” he added, noting that Israel’s prime minister and his far-right ruling coalition and the country’s enemies, he noted, have a stake in...
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- Lindsey Graham's Death Leaves Israel Without a Clear Voice in Trump's Ear
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- 1:26
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
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- Lindsey Graham knew how to speak Trump's language like few others, and there is no obvious successor among Republican hawks with his charisma and access. His death leaves an open question: Who will take up the mantle as the most effective conduit for Netanyahu's messages to Trump? | Ben Samuels
Credit: Hadas Parush; Daniel Torok; Kobi Gideon, GPO; Nathan Howard / Reuters; Gil Eliahu; JIM WATSON/AFP; Patrick Semansky/AP; AFP/BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI; VERONICA CARDENAS/Reuters; AFP/MICHAELA STACHE; Amos Ben Gershom/GPO; Tom Brenner/Reuters
- Title
- "Israel's Opposition Must Join With Arab Parties to Beat Netanyahu"
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- 1:03
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
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- 🗳️Listen to Haaretz Election Podcast and stay updated on the most important elections in Israel's history
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- 'We need allies': Reform movement head Rick Jacobs on the growing isolation of U.S. Jews
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- 38:35
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
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- The far-right religious Netanyahu government is doing its best to “push away” liberal non-Orthodox American Jews from Israel, said Rabbi Rick Jacobs, leader of the U.S. Reform movement, on the Haaretz Podcast.
“We’re not going away. We’re actually leaning in,” he said. “You can’t trade in non‑Orthodox Jews for evangelical Christians. We’re stuck, you’re stuck with us, we’re stuck with you – we’re the Jewish people.”
During the era of negotiations over the 2016 historic compromise between non-Orthodox movements and the Israeli government over an egalitarian plaza at the Western Wall for mixed-gender prayer, Jacobs said he and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu – and the premier’s close advisers – were in regular contact.
Today, he said, “it has been years” since there has been a phone call – let alone a meeting – between the leader of the largest American Jewish membership organization and the Israeli le...
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- "Behind Every Story in This Book Is A Real Gazan Who Struggled to Stay Alive"
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- 1:12
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- 4 months ago
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- Qusai Tariq Abu Tebah, a 24-year-old student from Khan Yunis, documented his family's survival through 12 displacements, the loss of two siblings and the destruction of his home. He tells Haaretz: 'I wanted the book to be the witness that does not die' | Nagham Zbeedat
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Editing: Tal Elkayam
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- "Tactic to Cause Fear": Why did Israel Arrest this Arab Lawmaker?
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- 2:08
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
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- Last month, police arrested Arab-Israeli lawmaker Mohammad Barakeh for inciting terrorism at a 2022 political rally. But why did it take Israeli police four years to make the arrest? | Linda Dayan explains
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- 'Israel’s opposition must join with Arab parties to beat Netanyahu. It's the right thing to do'
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- 31:38
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
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- Unless something dramatic changes, the upcoming Israeli election will either end in a deadlock or a bold move to “get rid of the foolish self‑imposed arbitrary constraint of not forming coalitions with Arab parties,” political strategist and Haaretz columnist Dr. Dahlia Scheindlin said on the Haaretz Podcast.
With neither the pro-Netanyahu bloc nor the opposition parties coming close to the 61 Knesset seats they would need to take power, Scheindlin said that the Jewish Zionist Israeli parties – likely in the opposition – will be pushed to do what she believes is the right thing.
"Of course, there should be Arab parties in a governing coalition. They are 20 percent of the population. There should be no ban on parties that represent citizens of this country," Scheindlin said.
In the roundtable discussion with Haaretz correspondent Linda Dayan and host Allison Kaplan Sommer, Scheindlin discussed the new iterations of veteran parties on the ...
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- Palestinian reports: Israeli settlers set fire to café at university entrance south of Nabulus
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- 0:36
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
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- Israeli settlers set fire to a café at the entrance to Al-Zaytouna University in the village of Luban al-Sharqiya, south of Nablus, in the West Bank, according to Palestinian media reports.
The head of the village’s council and owner of the restaurant, Yaqub Owais, told the Palestinian state news agency WAFA that settlers broke into the restaurant, smashed its doors and stole money before setting fire to the building, while the IDF did not intervene | Jack Khoury
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- Ahead of a Pivotal Election, What Concerns Voters In Israel’s Largest Mixed City?
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- 5:29
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
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- Haaretz's Judy Maltz visits Haifa, Israel's largest mixed Jewish-Arab city, where coexistence has been put under severe strain in recent years. How could this affect the inclination of Arab citizens to vote in the upcoming election? And could a new wave of Russian and Ukrainian immigrants affect the final outcome?
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- Brad Lander on Haaretz Podcast
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- 1:39
- Date posted
- 4 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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- ‘I promise I haven’t joined the Israel haters’: Brad Lander sits down with Haaretz
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- 34:28
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- Brad Lander said on the Haaretz Podcast that his resounding victory in the race for the Democratic nomination for Congress in a New York City district reflected a desire for a "reset in the U.S. relationship with Israel in the Democratic Party voting base – including in one of the most Jewish districts in the country."
Lander won by more than 30 points in New York's 10th District, covering downtown Manhattan and western Brooklyn. His win over AIPAC-endorsed incumbent Dan Goldman was part of the primaries sweep by candidates backed by New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
Like the other Mamdani-backed candidates, Lander campaigned on a platform opposing additional U.S. military aid to Israel and condemning AIPAC as being "dangerous." Lander said on the podcast that, once he is in Congress, he will support "steps I think will help shift away from what I see as a catastrophic 'hug Bibi' policy, which both Joe Biden and Donald Trump essentially adopted."
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- Title
- Haaretz Election Podcast Kickoff: How far will Netanyahu go to stay in power?
- Runtime
- 33:56
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- In the inaugural episode of Haaretz’s new Election Podcast, host Allison Kaplan Sommer welcomes the first weekly panel of Haaretz analysts who will be examining and explaining developments in the intensifying countdown to the fateful elections this fall.
This week, senior analyst Esther Solomon and Palestinian affairs correspondent Nagham Zbeedat assess the state of a race in which neither Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu nor his opposition currently have a path to victory according to the polls.
At the moment, “Netanyahu is more or less maxed out on however many people will still be loyal to him,” Solomon said. “He cannot crack the numbers to get anywhere near a majority to form a coalition.”
She discussed the ways in which Netanyahu visibly battled for political survival in a hastily called press conference Saturday night – from his reframing of the ongoing bloodshed in Lebanon to an invitation to his opponents to join him in ...
- Title
- Haaretz Election Podcast Kickoff: How far will Netanyahu go to stay in power?
- Runtime
- 34:24
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- In the inaugural episode of Haaretz’s new Election Podcast, host Allison Kaplan Sommer welcomes the first weekly panel of Haaretz analysts who will be examining and explaining developments in the intensifying countdown to the fateful elections this fall.
This week, senior analyst Esther Solomon and Palestinian affairs correspondent Nagham Zbeedat assess the state of a race in which neither Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu nor his opposition currently have a path to victory according to the polls.
At the moment, “Netanyahu is more or less maxed out on however many people will still be loyal to him,” Solomon said. “He cannot crack the numbers to get anywhere near a majority to form a coalition.”
She discussed the ways in which Netanyahu visibly battled for political survival in a hastily called press conference Saturday night – from his reframing of the ongoing bloodshed in Lebanon to an invitation to his o...
- Title
- 'December 14 was our October 7': How the Bondi massacre destroyed the Australian safe haven for Jews
- Runtime
- 30:11
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- For the Australian Jewish community, the date of December 14 carries as much gut-wrenching trauma as October 7 and September 11 does for Israelis and Americans, Daniel Hochberg, an Australian Jewish leader, told the Haaretz Podcast.
On the six-month anniversary of the terrorist shooting attack on 1,000 Jews celebrating Hanukkah on Bondi Beach that killed 15 members of the tight-knit community, Hochberg and Haaretz editor Noa Levin reviewed the aftermath of the second most deadly attack in Australian history and its ongoing effect on the country’s politics and daily life for Australian Jews.
The event “had a profound impact,” Hochberg said, adding to the overall sense of insecurity Australian Jewry has felt since the events of October 7 and the political backlash linking local Jews to anger over Israel’s actions, in a country where, until now, Jewish life thrived in an atmosphere of acceptance and security.
“We don't feel safe as we did...
