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Israeli hostage Itzhak Elgarat died of heart attack during Hamas torture, brother says

Haaretz - 12:31 Jun 30, 2025

'They took him for questioning, and he never returned': Danny Elgarat told lawmakers Hamas wrongly thought his brother Itzhak was a pilot. He was later removed from the Knesset hearing after accusing PM Netanyahu of funding Hamas

Tags: Hamas
The Dutch historian who wants you to quit your job and get to work

Haaretz - 12:17 Jun 30, 2025

Rutger Bregman's new book is a guide for ordinary citizens and activists who want to affect change and build political power. He spoke to Haaretz about outrage versus organization, plus his School of Moral Ambition – which pays people to quit their jobs and focus on social change
Obsessed with dieting? The ancient Greeks and Romans were too

Haaretz - 11:25 Jun 30, 2025

Ancient Greeks and Romans were just as preoccupied with health and fitness as we are today. Some dietary advice fits well with today's wellness trends and philosophies. Some doesn't

Tags: Romans
A minefield, not a highway: Why Trump and Israel need patience to expand Abraham Accords

Haaretz - 11:20 Jun 30, 2025

The U.S. president pushes his 'big deal' for the Middle East but still faces challenges in Lebanon, Syria, and Saudi Arabia, and has yet to sway Netanyahu's government, which still dreams of returning to Gaza, for now
CIA chief tells lawmakers Iran nuclear program set back years with strikes on metal conversion site

Haaretz - 10:23 Jun 30, 2025

CIA Director John Ratcliffe told lawmakers the strikes wiped out a key step in Iran's bomb-making process, delaying its nuclear ambitions by years. But IAEA chief Rafael Grossi warned that 'You cannot undo the knowledge' and urged renewed diplomacy
Knesset advances ousting of Israeli Arab MK Ayman Odeh over social media post

Haaretz - 09:16 Jun 30, 2025

Knesset committee members clashed over Odeh's comments on a hostage-prisoner deal, with several participants removed from the hearing. Outside, Arab and Jewish Israelis held a rally urging lawmakers to halt the expulsion process

Tags: Knesset
Report: Syrian government divided on whether to sign peace deal with Israel

Haaretz - 09:07 Jun 30, 2025

'All that the government in Syria wants from Israel right now is for Israel to calm down and not embarrass it,' an Arab diplomat told Haaretz, adding that Syria's participation in the Abraham Accords would be highly unlikely due to its government's inability to facilitate such a move

Tags: Israel
Trump to host Netanyahu at the White House on July 7

Haaretz - 03:00 Jun 30, 2025
Gaza hostages take a backseat as Netanyahu prioritizes halting his criminal trial

Haaretz - 03:00 Jun 30, 2025

Even if his recruitment of Trump to help him halt his criminal trial fails, Netanyahu will try to solidify the anger about the deep state harassing him among his base. It would be hard to blame the hostage families if, in a desperate effort to free their loved ones, they join Netanyahu

Tags: Netanyahu
Quiet, West Bank pogrom in progress

Haaretz - 23:39 Jun 29, 2025
In Iran, Israel may have won the battle. To win the war, Netanyahu must reconcile with the left

Haaretz - 23:36 Jun 29, 2025

Amidst his new popularity, the prime minister can lead a reconciliation campaign – even if some simply hate him to death. Healing internal divisions will prepare the nation for looming threats from an unchanged Iran

Tags: Iran
What will Netanyahu do without fear?

Haaretz - 23:26 Jun 29, 2025

Netanyahu has been robbed of his main tool. A hush was tossed into Tehran's skies, and an ace was thrown onto the table: his strongest card, the threat of Armageddon in which thousands of Iranian missiles will destroy Israel

Tags: Netanyahu
Netanyahu's trial is crumbling, and Trump's calls to cancel it are just the final straw

Haaretz - 22:59 Jun 29, 2025

Since the beginning, there hasn't been a trick Netanyahu hasn't been pulled to delay his trial. It's no wonder he sought Trump's backing, seeing he too despises his own country's judicial system and, as a result, any independent and equitable judiciary

Tags: Trump's
Source: Settlers attempt to break into army base after 14-year-old possibly shot by IDF

Haaretz - 21:44 Jun 29, 2025

Army says the officer involved acted according to procedures and open-fire rules, after he was caught in a riot in which rocks were thrown at his vehicle. Thinking they were Palestinian, the officer said he fired three shots into the air
Netanyahu makes hostages' release top priority of Gaza war: 'Opportunities have opened up'

Haaretz - 20:19 Jun 29, 2025

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that as a result of the war with Iran, opportunities have opened up, 'first and foremost to rescue the hostages, but also for broader regional prospects.' ■ Israeli army assessments, however, show no change in Hamas' position
Knesset committee advances bill to shutter news division of Israel's public broadcaster

Haaretz - 19:30 Jun 29, 2025

The Attorney General's Office opposes the bill on constitutional grounds, saying, 'The message that emerges from them is that a media outlet that does not bend to the government's whims may find itself struggling for its very existence'
Report: Intercepted Iranian communications downplay damage from U.S. attack

Haaretz - 19:14 Jun 29, 2025

According to the Washington Post, the U.S. intercepted communications in which the extend of the damage at three Iranian nuclear facilities was called into question
Israeli settler violence in the West Bank: Inside a parallel universe of impunity

Haaretz - 18:33 Jun 29, 2025

The latest episode of settler violence in the West Bank, where a mob assaulted soldiers for hours, reveals Israel's ethnonationalist rules of engagement: Jews are arrested unharmed for crimes that would get Palestinians killed

Tags: West Bank
Israeli deputy minister Almog Cohen announces he'll quit cabinet, return to Knesset

Haaretz - 17:54 Jun 29, 2025

In his resignation letter, Cohen of the far-right Otzma Yehudit party accused the 'deep state' of blocking his plan to build a civilian airport in the Negev, which he gave as his reason for stepping down. His return to the Knesset will force out MK Tzvi Succot

Tags: Knesset
Israel to stop subsidizing housing costs for most displaced residents of Gaza border communities

Haaretz - 17:43 Jun 29, 2025

The cabinet's resolution notes there's no security impediment to residents' return, but excludes communities with a 'rehabilitative impediment' from the decision. Reconstruction in Nahal Oz, for example, is set to end by August

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