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• Posting without a hand: Gaza's teenage girls turn survival into online diaries

  Haaretz - 15:31 Oct 05, 2025
  

  While girls their age across the world post videos of themselves opening gifts, girls in Gaza document a different reality – which includes hunger, loss and shortages. This documentation, beyond being a tool for collecting donations, also has a therapeutic effect

• Why Jews shake the four species on Sukkot – and how the Greeks may be to blame

  Haaretz - 15:31 Oct 05, 2025
  

  Arguably the most obscure of Jewish customs, during Sukkot, Jews shake a closed date frond, some myrtle boughs, a few willow twigs and a citron fruit as part of the daily prayer service – but why and where did this begin?

  Tags: Sukkot

• In Saudi Arabia, Dave Chappelle jokes that 'I stand with Israel' would be his code for censorship

  Haaretz - 15:28 Oct 05, 2025
  

  Famed stand-up comic Chappelle used his set at the controversial Riyadh Comedy Festival as a critique of U.S. free speech limits, including on Israel and Charlie Kirk. He jokingly promised to use a code phrase to signal censorship: 'It's got to be something I would never say in practice'

• How a Canaanite storm god and his palace may have shaped the Jewish festival of Sukkot

  Haaretz - 15:24 Oct 05, 2025
  

  Scholars have come up with various alternatives to the religious theory for the origin of the huts, from families moving into the fields during harvest season and living in the huts to them once serving as housing for pilgrims coming to Jerusalem for the harvest festival

• Only Netanyahu believed he'd survive politically after October 7. This is how he did it

  Haaretz - 15:22 Oct 05, 2025
  

  The first weeks of Israel's war in Gaza were the most critical of the prime minister's career. Sources close to him tell Haaretz how he reached across the political divide to save his political life

• 10 strange facts you probably didn't know about Sukkot, the Bible's bloodiest holiday

  Haaretz - 15:19 Oct 05, 2025
  

  During the time of the First Temple, Sukkot was considered the most important holiday – with the Torah referring to it simply as 'the holiday' and historian Josephus describing it as the 'most holy and important feast'

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• They survived the Nova party massacre. Two years on, they are still hiding

  Haaretz - 14:54 Oct 05, 2025
  

  The state expects survivors of the Nova festival to recover, but with hostages still in Gaza and the war dragging on, the personal tragedy persists. 'I knew we had an army, we hade a police force; I believed in them, and this is the main thing that has been screwed up with me. We're living it now'

  Tags: Nova

• How Netanyahu's Doha debacle helped unite the world behind Trump's Gaza plan

  Haaretz - 14:52 Oct 05, 2025
  

  U.S. President Donald Trump's 'day after' plan for Gaza, if effectively executed, could offer stability and security to the Middle East. But the deal's ability to survive rests on whether Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Hamas move on what previously were hardline demands

  Tags: Gaza

• 'Whored themselves to a dictator': Comedians, human rights groups slam top U.S. comics taking the stage in Saudi Arabia

  Haaretz - 14:39 Oct 05, 2025
  

  Dave Chappelle, Kevin Hart and others are taking the stage in Riyadh's 'world's biggest comedy festival,' which human rights groups call a whitewashing of repression

• How the war in Gaza dramatically changed Israeli aviation

  Haaretz - 14:37 Oct 05, 2025
  

  Israel's three largest airlines – El Al, Israir and Arkia – nearly doubled their market share since the war in Gaza began. Smaller airlines have replaced the foreign legacy carriers and low-cost giants have disappeared, and Ben-Gurion Airport expects to see 2.1 million passengers over the holidays

  Tags: Gaza

• Why the West Bank is suspiciously missing from Trump's plan for 'Middle East peace'

  Haaretz - 13:47 Oct 05, 2025
  

  U.S. President Donald Trump's plan is not a path to peace. It is a mechanism for cementing fragmentation and denying the Palestinians a prosperous future

• For Trump's Gaza plan to reflect U.S. global leadership, he must keep Netanyahu in check

  Haaretz - 13:45 Oct 05, 2025
  

  Gaza, Ramallah and Washington all say that a cease-fire, the release of the hostages and a new governing body in Gaza are forthcoming, but all sides are declining to make clear statements. This is Trump's moment of truth: will he be able to enforce Israel's promises if Netanyahu tries to call it quits again?

  Tags: Gaza Netanyahu

• 'I was defending something I no longer believed in': How two years of the Gaza war changed Jewish students around the world

  Haaretz - 11:58 Oct 05, 2025
  

  Two years after the Hamas attack of October 7, Jewish graduates from New York to Cape Town and Sydney reflect on the war, and how pro-Palestinian protests, rising antisemitism and the Gaza death toll have reshaped their views on Israel and their Jewish identity

  Tags: Gaza Jewish

• Hostage Square filled with hope: Netanyahu might ignore them, but the White House listens

  Haaretz - 11:50 Oct 05, 2025
  

  Israeli hostages' relatives hardly got any sleep in light of the recent developments on a Gaza cease-fire, and activists were walking around dreamy-eyed on Saturday's Tel Aviv rally. The two-year-long roller coaster has reached new heights, but everybody knows: The ride isn't over yet

• Thousands march in Israel's Arab town of Sakhnin to mark 25 years since deadly October riots

  Haaretz - 09:59 Oct 05, 2025
  

  After banning Palestinian flags and chants for Gazans, hundreds of police officers were deployed at the Sakhnin march. The riots in 2000 were a turning point in Jewish-Arab relations – especially between Israeli Arabs and law enforcement – ahead of the second intifada and a surge in crime

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• David Zini officially begins tenure as Shin Bet chief amid opposition from former agency heads

  Haaretz - 09:26 Oct 05, 2025
  

  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's nomination as Shin Bet security agency director went into effect on Sunday

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• 'A thug': British Jews denounce Israel's invitation to U.K. far-right agitator Tommy Robinson

  Haaretz - 09:13 Oct 05, 2025
  

  A day after the Yom Kippur attack on a synagogue in Manchester, Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli invited far-right, anti-immigrant activist Tommy Robinson to Israel. 'He has ignored the views of the vast majority of British Jews,' said a statement by the Board of Deputies

  Tags: Tommy Robinson British Jews

• Smotrich and Ben-Gvir signal they won't exit Netanyahu government over emerging Gaza deal

  Haaretz - 07:13 Oct 05, 2025
  

  Sources close to Netanyahu are relieved at the far-right minister's response amid progress in talks over the Trump plan, but caution it's too early to anticpate their next steps

  Tags: Netanyahu

• No deal nor 'regional peace' yet, but Trump has already decided who will shape the Middle East

  Haaretz - 06:54 Oct 05, 2025
  

  So far, the mediating countries in the Israel-Hamas negotiations, mainly Egypt and Qatar, have had to exert massive diplomatic pressure on Hamas, while Israel has enjoyed stable support from Trump. But major diplomatic moves by the Arab states deeply eroded the U.S.'s traditional backing of Israel

  Tags: Trump

• IDF intercepts missile launched from Yemen which triggered sirens in central Israel, West Bank

  Haaretz - 06:49 Oct 05, 2025
  

  No casualties were reported by the launch overnight into Sunday, which was intercepted. This launch comes a week after the last missile from Yemen was intercepted by the IDF, and two weeks after a drone strike on Israel's southernmost city of Eilat wounded 22 people

  Tags: Yemen

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