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Israeli coalition ousts own MK from key Knesset committee post over Haredi draft exemption dispute

Haaretz - 15:35 Aug 04, 2025

During his tenure, Edelstein refused to advance the ultra-Orthodox exemption bill, which led the Haredi parties to withdraw from the coalition amid concerns for the fate of yeshiva students who had received draft orders and are now considered draft dodgers

Tags: Haredi
Far-right MK says watching hostage videos is 'grave mistake' and 'Hamas propaganda'

Haaretz - 15:25 Aug 04, 2025

Religious Zionism MK Rothman says any action Israel is taking in Gaza aimed at advancing a hostage deal undermines the war's objectives. 'Creating the conditions for a deal means keeping Hamas alive'

Tags: Hamas
'Children aren't supposed to die in wars, period': These lefty Israeli influencers dare to talk about Gaza

Haaretz - 14:41 Aug 04, 2025

On Instagram and TikTok, only a handful of Israeli influencers dare voice opinions now seen as leftist – from calls to end the war and famine in Gaza to demands to bring the hostages home. In today's climate, even that invites hate. They're scared – but they keep going

Tags: Gaza Israeli
'What my son is experiencing in Gaza is disturbingly similar to the Holocaust'

Haaretz - 13:01 Aug 04, 2025

Kobi Ohel, whose son Alon is still in captivity, says that he could not watch recent videos showing emaciated Israeli hostages. 'I don't even know if I want Hamas to release a video of Alon or not'
First on government's weekly agenda: Increasing security for Netanyahu and his family

Haaretz - 12:59 Aug 04, 2025

The government's meeting agenda opens with addressing 'serious threats' to Netanyahu and his family, drawing opposition criticism for sidelining the newly released videos of hostages in Gaza

Tags: Netanyahu
Israel's international isolation is painful. But it is also necessary

Haaretz - 12:09 Aug 04, 2025

While calling for urgent sanctions on your own country is extraordinary, it must become a key part of Israeli resistance from within against the racist, anti-democratic government. Not because we have nothing left to lose – but because we still have everything to lose
Thousands of Israelis marched to Gaza – not to free it, but rather to call for renewed Jewish settlement

Haaretz - 11:56 Aug 04, 2025

2,000 demonstrators gathered near the Gaza border on the 20th anniversary of the disengagement. For many, the re-settlement of Gaza is no longer a question of if, but when

Tags: Gaza
Missing from Israel's hostage negotiator's schedule: Meetings with hostage families

Haaretz - 11:05 Aug 04, 2025

Since Netanyahu appointed his confidant, Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer, as head of the Israeli negotiating team in February, he has met hostage families 18 times, never gathering all families together
Locked and loaded, but misguided: What 'Guns & Moses' gets wrong about antisemitism

Haaretz - 10:51 Aug 04, 2025

At face value, 'Guns & Moses' is an unremarkable Jew-ified remake of a classic Western action movie. But therein lies the danger behind it: There is no silver bullet to defeat antisemitism

Tags: Guns Moses'
U.S. firm, Eastern European drivers, Israeli connection: Who's behind getting aid into Gaza

Haaretz - 10:12 Aug 04, 2025

Arkel International, a contractor for the U.S. government and militaries worldwide, is transporting aid to Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) sites. Its representative in Israel is a businessman who previously brokered defense deals in Africa
Athens mayor says Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, Israeli ambassador to Greece 'disgusts' him

Haaretz - 10:07 Aug 04, 2025

The mayor of the Greek capital slammed the Israeli ambassador, who said the mayor isn't doing enough to protect the city from 'organized fringe groups,' making Israeli tourists uncomfortable. Greece is traditionally considered a close ally of Israel

Tags: Greece Israeli Israel
A Palestinian journalist detained by Israel for nine days faced beatings, humiliation and hunger

Haaretz - 09:02 Aug 04, 2025

'In Ofer Prison, it doesn't matter if you're guilty. What matters is that you're Palestinian,' says Nasser Laham, editor-in-chief of the Ma'an News Agency, who was arrested because of his journalistic work. 'This isn't Israel. This is Ben-Gvir's gang'

Tags: Israel Palestinian
Netanyahu ministers vote to dismiss Israeli attorney general, pending top court ruling

Haaretz - 08:35 Aug 04, 2025

In a letter to ministers ahead of the vote, Gali Baharav-Miara said the move effectively removes the chief prosecutor in the prime minister's trial. She won't be dismissed until the High Court rules on petitions against it. Government officials doubt her removal will succeed, expecting the court to block it
Hostage Evyatar David's brother: Video released by Hamas 'broke' our father

Haaretz - 07:31 Aug 04, 2025

'We have to put an end to this madness,' said the brother of Evyatar David, an Israeli hostage seen emaciated in a Hamas video. 'Imagine not knowing where your child is for five minutes at the mall – now multiply that by 667 days,' he said of his parents' struggle

Tags: Hamas
Israeli gov't will offer AG deal to resign in exchange for helping choose replacement, senior officials say

Haaretz - 03:47 Aug 04, 2025

Haaretz has learned that the AG would continue to have the authority to conduct the criminal cases against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as part of the arrangement. Associates of the AG say she won't agree to the arrangement
Netanyahu to instruct IDF on Gaza war objectives after it pushes to expand offensive

Haaretz - 02:45 Aug 04, 2025
As Piers Morgan said, if Palestinians must leave Gaza, why shouldn't Israelis leave Israel?

Haaretz - 22:04 Aug 03, 2025

Why should Arabs always adjust themselves to the security and welfare of Israelis? While crimes in Gaza go on, the world gives voice to remarks that Israelis are not accustomed to, after decades in which the aberration here has become the truth

Tags: Gaza Israelis
As Israel kills and starves thousands in Gaza, it destroys itself in the process

Haaretz - 22:03 Aug 03, 2025

There are no more military objectives to be reached in Gaza. The entire top brass of the General Staff knows this. Killing the surviving emaciated hostages in a commando raid is not a military objective

Tags: Gaza
Israel uprooted its settlers from Gaza – the results were catastrophic

Haaretz - 21:42 Aug 03, 2025

It was not a Christian monarch who uprooted the settlers of Gush Katif in 2005, but a Jewish government headed by a heartless prime minister. By their very presence, the settlers of Gaza had saved lives, and this was the thanks they received

Tags: Gaza
Firing the attorney general will remove the last barrier to Netanyahu's power grab

Haaretz - 21:28 Aug 03, 2025

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