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Palestinian Authority in crisis over Israel's refusal to transfer tax revenue

Haaretz - 20:25 Jul 17, 2025

A Palestinian official said it seems as if the PA's entire future rests on Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich signing off on the tax transfer, and his refusal to do so bars the PA from providing vital services, paying public-sector salaries and maintaining social and economic stability
Settler leader Daniella Weiss tells Piers Morgan: 'Gazans finished their chapter of history'

Haaretz - 19:12 Jul 17, 2025

Veteran Israeli settler leader Daniella Weiss is the latest Israeli to appear on the British broadcaster's show, at one point asking why she is being platformed at all: 'You hope that through your program, you will enhance the chance that I will be put on trial?'

Tags: Daniella Weiss
Ministerial panel seeks to bypass Israeli High Court in process to dismiss attorney general, sources say

Haaretz - 18:42 Jul 17, 2025

A committee established to hear the case of dismissing Gali Baharav-Miara is expected to recommend her dismissal. Baharav-Miara did not attend the hearings, calling the proceeding illegal and motivated by 'irrelevant and corrupt considerations'
For Palestinians in Israel and the West Bank, even a road trip is resistance

Haaretz - 18:06 Jul 17, 2025

The occupation slows down everything and everyone. It swallows time. A drive that should take two hours stretched to four. The irony is that none of it was extreme. It was just a normal Friday for Palestinians living under occupation in the West Bank

Tags: West Bank
U.S. officials: Order to prevent Israeli investigation of key Qatargate figure Jay Footlik 'came from above'

Haaretz - 17:06 Jul 17, 2025

Following repeated cancellations of an interrogation of American businessman Jay Footlik over his employment of key Qatargate suspect Eli Feldstein by the U.S. Department of Justice, a source familiar with the matter claims: 'There's no doubt a higher power prevented it'

Tags: Qatargate Jay Footlik
Netanyahu: The al-Sharaa regime massacred Druze, we will not allow Syrian military to deploy south of Damascus

Haaretz - 16:46 Jul 17, 2025

Prime minister credits Israeli strikes with bringing about cease-fire while al-Sharaa accuses Netanyahu of destabilizing Syria

Tags: Netanyahu Sharaa
Inside Gaza's Real-Life Squid Game

Haaretz - 16:36 Jul 17, 2025

No prize, no escape: A journalist from Gaza chronicles how aid centers have become death arenas where hunger and bloodshed define survival. Spoiler: the result is always death, and no treasure awaits the victor
Netanyahu's trial is a seductive spectacle. But dead Gazan children matter far more

Haaretz - 16:23 Jul 17, 2025

Watching the theater of Netanyahu's corruption trial is mesmerizing, especially when the U.S. ambassador joins the show. But it feels like a distraction from the urgency of ending the war – which is why I joined protesters holding up posters of dead Gazan children outside an air force base instead

Tags: Netanyahu's Gazan
'He hasn't changed, except for his white hair': Druze rejoice at reunions at Israel-Syria border

Haaretz - 16:20 Jul 17, 2025

As some Druze stormed into Syria to help their cousins assailed by the al-Sharaa regime, others met friends and loved ones they hadn't seen in decades. But 'it's a little disturbing to go in like that without plans,' one man said

Tags: Druze
In EU first, Slovenia bars far-right ministers Smotrich and Ben-Gvir over 'genocidal statements' and to pressure Israel to end Gaza war

Haaretz - 16:03 Jul 17, 2025

Earlier in June, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Norway announced in a joint statement that they were imposing sanctions on Ben-Gvir and Smotrich for inciting violence against Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza

Tags: Gaza Smotrich Ben-Gvir
New report outlines steps to reduce rising antisemitism in U.K. schools, workplaces and hospitals

Haaretz - 15:55 Jul 17, 2025

A bipartisan commission released its tacit recommendations for tackling the rise in antisemitism in the U.K. post-October 7, in sectors that until two years ago only experienced marginal levels of antisemitism
'When we talk about defeating Hamas and total victory, it's conditional on the hostages' return'

Haaretz - 15:46 Jul 17, 2025

Zviki Tessler, chairman of Nir Oz, tells Haaretz that the kibbutz can't make a recovery until the nine members still held captive by Hamas are returned. 'If there's a deal in which all the hostages are returned, our ability to rebuild will get a significant boost,' he says

Tags: Hamas
The forgotten Zion: When a Jewish homeland was headed for Texas

Haaretz - 15:12 Jul 17, 2025

Rachel Cockerell set out to write a quiet family memoir. Instead, her sprawling and experimental book, 'Melting Point,' uncovered her ancestors' connection to the radical, long-buried plan to build a Jewish state – not in Palestine, but in Texas

Tags: Texas Jewish
Going from crisis to crisis, Israeli tech can't get a break

Haaretz - 15:08 Jul 17, 2025

As artificial intelligence is promising to remake the world, the Israeli sector that could have been taking AI forward is being left to fend for itself with no government help, leaving Israel out of the AI arms race

Tags: Israeli
Israeli restaurant in Berlin delays opening over protests against owner's ties to Gaza aid fund

Haaretz - 14:51 Jul 17, 2025

Tel Aviv restaurant Gila and Nancy, co-owned by Shahar Segal and celebrity chef Eyal Shani, was set to open its Berlin location on Friday. Activists gathered outside the eatery on Wednesday to protest Segal's work for the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, the organization behind aid sites in Gaza where hundreds of Palestinians have been killed in recent months

Tags: Gaza Berlin
Explained | The Druze, Damascus and the IDF: What is happening in Syria, and why did Israel intervene?

Haaretz - 14:40 Jul 17, 2025

There's now a tense cease-fire in southern Syria after deadly clashes between the Druze community, Sunni militias and the al-Sharaa government. What triggered the violence, what connects the Druze communities in Syria and Israel, and how did the IDF end up bombing Damascus?

Tags: Damascus Israel What Syria
Israel Police closes investigation into West Bank settler attack on leftist activist

Haaretz - 14:38 Jul 17, 2025

The activist told police in May that settlers had robbed and assaulted him as they were attacking a Palestinian village. Though his lawyer says his stolen laptop has a location app, and the activist provided pictures of the perpetrators and one of their names, police have not reported back to him
Israel works to repatriate Druze as Syrian forces withdraw from Sweida amid cease-fire

Haaretz - 12:19 Jul 17, 2025

Under U.S. pressure, Israel refrained from continued attacks in Syria after the start of a cease-fire brokered between the regime and local Druze leaders. An Israeli lawmaker told Haaretz that he was assured no action would be taken against those who crossed into Syria as long as they returned soon

Tags: Druze Israel
How the possible end to Turkey's Kurdish problem could become Israel's Turkey problem

Haaretz - 11:50 Jul 17, 2025

Israel has vanquished Iran, brought Hezbollah to its knees and helped decapitate the former Syrian regime. So while Turkey's internal struggle against the Kurds may seem to have calmed, it could empower Ankara to eye growing regional influence, to Make the Ottomans Great Again

Tags: Turkey's
With so many lives on the line, what did the EU actually get out of its Gaza aid deal with Israel?

Haaretz - 10:57 Jul 17, 2025

Last week, the EU and Israel reached a deal: More humanitarian aid into Gaza, in exchange for nixing any punitive downgrading of EU-Israel trade. But European states should have known that Netanyahu's government is full of liars, thieves and demagogues who place no value on their own word

Tags: Gaza Israel

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