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Israel's greatest disaster is now a conspiracy, and its key suspects are heading the Oct. 7 probe

Haaretz - 16:33 Nov 18, 2025

A majority of coalition voters now believe, according to a survey, that Israeli officials knew in advance about Hamas' attack and chose not to prevent it – and the officials who hid during the first days after October 7 went on to evade responsibility by blaming anti-government protesters, the defense establishment, hostages, the IDF's top lawyer and others
Israel's state prosecutor to mull charging Qatargate suspects in 60 days, police say

Haaretz - 15:49 Nov 18, 2025

Israel Police's representative told the court that most of the Qatargate investigation has been completed, adding that the remaining steps include the Shin Bet security service putting together an opinion on the threat posed to Israel's national security by the Qatargate affair

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Pro-Palestinian activists deface office of Germany's Merz over arms exports to Israel

Haaretz - 15:37 Nov 18, 2025

A group calling itself Peacefully Against Genocide claimed responsibility for the action, linking it to Germany's decision to lift its partial embargo on weapons exports to Israel. They alleged the German government was 'complicit in genocide' in Gaza

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Could this Russian oligarch be linked to both Iran's nuclear project and Israel's most pro-Netanyahu TV channel?

Haaretz - 15:35 Nov 18, 2025

In a court filing, an Israeli advertising executive claims that a company controlled by Mikhael Mirilashvili serviced a Russia's state-owned nuclear energy company operating in Iran. He also asserts that Mirilashvili – not his son Yitzchak – is the real owner of the pro-Netanyahu Channel 14. Mirilashvili: 'The allegations are entirely baseless'
The F-35 deal pushes MBS toward Israel – but he can't be seen as selling out the Palestinians

Haaretz - 15:17 Nov 18, 2025

Facing public opposition at home and its role as Arab leader, Saudi Arabia must move closer to normalization with Israel but cannot afford to trade the Palestinian cause solely for stealth fighters and security guarantees

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Contentious new film 'The Sea' might actually help restore Israel's image

Haaretz - 14:50 Nov 18, 2025

Israeli Culture Minister Miki Zohar thinks it's a dangerous film. But 'The Sea,' centered on a Palestinian boy who longs to see the sea, is exactly the kind of film that could have helped mend Israel's battered international image

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A U.S. Mandate for Palestine? Why the UN Security Council resolution won't aid Palestinians

Haaretz - 14:32 Nov 18, 2025

The resolution contains no clear commitment to end Israeli annexation measures in Gaza or the West Bank, and the vague reference to Palestinian self-determination perpetuates the familiar pattern of declarations without implementation, which depends on the goodwill of a U.S. president who is more concerned with selling F-35 jets to Saudi Arabia than the fate of Palestinians

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What the UN resolution on Gaza tells us about Trump - and what it means for Israel and the Palestinians

Haaretz - 14:06 Nov 18, 2025

Beyond a passing reference to Palestinian statehood, the resolution's immediate impact lies in its creation of the International Stabilization Force. But questions linger over whose soldiers will make up the force and if disarming Hamas is even possible
Netanyahu lauds UN vote on Trump's Gaza plan, avoids mentioning Palestinian statehood

Haaretz - 13:37 Nov 18, 2025

The Israeli prime minister also called on countries to 'join us in expelling Hamas,' as the militant Palestinian group reiterated that it will not disarm and that its factions reject the UN plan

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Minister says Oct. 7 probe will investigate judiciary; opposition calls it 'cover-up' panel

Haaretz - 13:18 Nov 18, 2025

The far-right minister said the government panel, which is not a state inquiry, will examine failures 'from the Oslo Agreement to today.' Families of October 7 victims criticized the ministerial team forming the panel as a list of those 'to be investigated by a proper state inquiry,' while opposition leaders condemned the move and announced a boycott
One killed, three wounded in attack in West Bank's Gush Etzion

Haaretz - 13:04 Nov 18, 2025

The IDF said that the assailants attempted to run over people at the Gush Etzion junction near Jerusalem, and afterward exited the vehicle and stabbed others; both were shot dead

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Former Mossad chief's memoir is 288 pages of Yossi Cohen worshiping himself

Haaretz - 12:58 Nov 18, 2025

Yossi Cohen led Israel's Mossad from 2016 to 2021. His new book, 'The Sword of Freedom: Israel, Mossad, and the Secret War,' is an inconceivable exhibition of self-adulation

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'Finally he'll be home': Body of Tanzanian hostage Joshua Loitu Mollel leaves Israel for burial

Haaretz - 11:44 Nov 18, 2025

Mollel – killed on Oct. 7 and taken to Gaza – had arrived in Israel two weeks before the Hamas attack to study agriculture and worked at Kibbutz Nahal Oz. 'It was his first time traveling out of Tanzania, full of hope and ambition. Little did he know, it was his last time as well,' the Tanzanian ambassador to Israel said at a memorial ceremony at Ben-Gurion Airport

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Hailing Hamas? Comparing Netanyahu to Hitler? In Turkey, Erdogan is denounced for being 'too moderate' on Gaza

Haaretz - 11:08 Nov 18, 2025

The public mood in Turkey against Israel, and also against its tiny Jewish community, is so vitriolic that outspoken Erdogan faces constant criticism for being too soft. The Turkish president is hoping that sending peacekeeping troops to Gaza will squash his opponents' claims that he hasn't done enough for Palestine

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Israeli security officials: Government weakened IDF against settlers, West Bank 'on brink of explosion'

Haaretz - 10:24 Nov 18, 2025

Senior security officials say neither the government nor the defense establishment has held a strategic discussion on the West Bank for months, while IDF intelligence warns this is the worst period yet for Jewish settler violence against Palestinians. 'The IDF is afraid to speak and has lost its authority on the ground,' a senior commander said

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Israel's top court hears petitions against appointment of Shin Bet chief by Netanyahu

Haaretz - 10:15 Nov 18, 2025

More than a month after David Zini's tenure as Shin Bet chief began, the High Court of Justice is hearing petitions against the appointment by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ■ Likud lawmaker Tally Gotliv was removed from the proceedings after interrupting the petitioners

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Probe launched into undisclosed ties between Justice Minister Levin and ministry legal advisor

Haaretz - 09:48 Nov 18, 2025

The Civil Service Commission launched an investigation after Haaretz revealed that Justice Ministry Legal Adviser hid ties between her brother, a Likud activist, and her husband, Levin's childhood friend, while falsely affirming that neither she nor her relatives are affiliated with government ministers
'Nuremberg' is guilty of straying too far from the real story

Haaretz - 09:39 Nov 18, 2025

James Vanderbilt's star-studded 'Nuremberg' revisits the first Nazi war crimes trial but strays from the historical record and flattens its most fascinating figures, while the depressing reality is that modern audiences still need to be shown the horrors of the Holocaust as they were

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Why another, even bloodier, Israel-Iran war may be 'just around the corner'

Haaretz - 09:31 Nov 18, 2025
The Israeli right's radical ambitions have been stymied. That makes it even more dangerous

Haaretz - 09:27 Nov 18, 2025

With West Bank annexation and Gaza resettlement now a faraway dream, the Israeli right is intensifying its extremism and renewing its war on Israel's judiciary and checks and balances. Will Israel's opposition put up a fight?

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