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Netanyahu's criminal trial is the most defective in history

Haaretz - 21:39 Oct 29, 2025
Netanyahu's Likud has become an ultra-Orthodox party

Haaretz - 21:27 Oct 29, 2025

Sudden religious fervor is not at work, but rather personal and existential interests. The Haredi takeover was carried out in a pincer movement. The Likud primaries are one arm, and the second arm is the governing coalition
All we Israelis are Ben-Gvir

Haaretz - 21:26 Oct 29, 2025
Splitting the attorney general's role, the Netanyahu government comes closer to undoing democracy

Haaretz - 21:23 Oct 29, 2025
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Haaretz - 21:15 Oct 29, 2025
Court rejects Netanyahu's request to cut number of weekly hearings in corruption trial

Haaretz - 20:54 Oct 29, 2025

The court also rejected a request by Netanyahu's attorney to be relieved of representing him due to the large number of hearings. The prime minister is expected to testify three times per week in his corruption trial, one of which was moved from Sunday due to weekly cabinet meetings

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Likud's Tally Gotliv appointed to key Knesset defense committee despite classified information leak allegations

Haaretz - 20:51 Oct 29, 2025

Likud MK Tally Gotliv revealed in a 2024 social media post the identity of a Shin Bet agent, the partner of a prominent activist in the protest movement against the Netanyahu government

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Israel's settlers can't hide the brutal reality in the West Bank, just like they couldn't hide Gaza

Haaretz - 20:27 Oct 29, 2025

Efforts by Israeli right-wing pundits like Amit Segal and Gadi Taub to obscure the truth about settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank reveal that the settlers are on the cusp of a legitimacy crisis. They have no one to blame but themselves

Tags: West Bank
UN nuclear chief says movement detected near Iran's uranium stockpile

Haaretz - 19:04 Oct 29, 2025

That stockpile could allow Iran to build as many as 10 nuclear bombs, should it decide to weaponize its program, International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Grossi warned. He added that it doesn't mean that Iran has such a weapon
Last-minute demand to award Netanyahu's son high-paying job puts power-sharing agreement at Zionist Congress in jeopardy

Haaretz - 18:49 Oct 29, 2025

Center-left parties and progressive movements also succeeded in persuading the religious-right camp to exclude Otzma Yehudit, the far-right party headed by Itamar Ben-Gvir, from the power-sharing agreement, after having issued an ultimatum saying they would not be part of any broad-based coalition in the Congress that included Ben-Gvir
Lebanon's army destroys so many Hezbollah weapons it runs out of explosives

Haaretz - 17:51 Oct 29, 2025

Under the November 2024 cease-fire that ended more than a year of hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah, Lebanon agreed that only state security forces should bear arms in the country. That would mean fully disarming Hezbollah, which has publicly warned the state against trying to seize its arsenal

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With Trump's intervention, fragile Gaza cease-fire survives another day

Haaretz - 16:58 Oct 29, 2025

After another deadly clash in Rafah, Israel's response – and the fate of the fragile cease-fire – once again hinged on a late-night statement from the U.S. president
Leaked IDF conscription bill for Israeli ultra-Orthodox Jews sparks outrage from all sides, expected to face legal hurdles

Haaretz - 16:31 Oct 29, 2025

A Likud bill meant to enforce ultra-Orthodox Jewish men's military conscription was leaked, triggering backlash even within Netanyahu's party. Opposition lawmakers criticized MK Boaz Bismuth over the lenient plan: 'I'm not sure he read the text of this draft-dodging law'
Justice minister links probe into leaked IDF detainee abuse video to judicial overhaul

Haaretz - 16:17 Oct 29, 2025

Justice Minister Yariv Levin said a coalition bill to split the attorney general's role into three led to the investigation into the leak of a video showing the alleged abuse of a Gazan detainee, saying it 'is no coincidence' that an investigation was launched after the bill passed in a preliminary vote
Israel's Knesset advances government bill to gut attorney general's powers in latest assault on judiciary

Haaretz - 15:49 Oct 29, 2025

The bill would redefine Attorney General Baharav-Miara's role by transferring prosecutorial powers to other bodies. Opposition MKs argued the law would protect Prime Minister Netanyahu from his ongoing trial: 'These bills don't seek to split the role, but to eliminate it'
IDF launches criminal probe into leak of Palestinian detainee abuse video as army's legal chief put on leave

Haaretz - 15:29 Oct 29, 2025

After the video from the Sde Teiman facility was published, five IDF reservists were charged with aggravated abuse and causing serious bodily harm to a Palestinian detainee from Gaza. Lawmakers accused the authorities at the time of selective enforcement, demanding an investigation

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At his request, judges allow Netanyahu to enter criminal trial court last, to avoid reporters' questions

Haaretz - 13:23 Oct 29, 2025

At the hearing, the prime minister's counsel, Amit Hadad, reiterated the defense's objections to switching to four hearings a week. Part of the hearing was held behind closed doors for security reasons
'A very historical moment': Meet the first Black-African delegate to the 'parliament of the Jewish people'

Haaretz - 13:17 Oct 29, 2025

Rabbi Gershom Sizomu, the spiritual leader of the Abayudaya community, is the first representative of Uganda to hold a seat in the World Zionist Congress. He sees it as a sign of growing acceptance of Jewish diversity

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Israeli Defense Ministry renews its ban on Red Cross visits to Palestinian security prisoners before High Court

Haaretz - 13:10 Oct 29, 2025

Hours before a scheduled petition hearing in the High Court on the ban, Katz signed a new order because visits harm state security. An Israeli human rights group says Israel has a duty to intervene in the abuse of Palestinian prisoners, where torture constitutes a serious security concern

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European passports slip away: Israelis face new obstacles to naturalization abroad

Haaretz - 12:14 Oct 29, 2025

As tens of thousands of Israelis relocate and more plan to follow, naturalization programs in Europe and North America are tightening requirements

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