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• Thousands protest across Israel against Netanyahu government ahead of Memorial Day

  Haaretz - 16:48 Apr 18, 2026
  

  Bereaved father Eyal Eshel asked members of the government 'Why are you still here, while she is not?' at a demonstration organized ahead of Israel's Memorial Day. In Jerusalem, protesters called on Israelis to attend rallies outside Netanyahu's residence

  Tags: Memorial

• Sources: Israel's former U.K. envoy Tzipi Hotovely to head Israeli hasbara amid Netanyahu staff shakeup

  Haaretz - 16:31 Apr 18, 2026
  

  Pending government approval, the former ambassador and Likud politician could soon return to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government, filling the hasbara director post that has been vacant since May 2024

• Macron says Hezbollah likely killed French UNIFIL soldier in southern Lebanon

  Haaretz - 15:15 Apr 18, 2026
  

  Macron named the slain soldier as Chief Sergeant Florian Montorio, while UNIFIL warned that attacks on its peacekeepers may amount to war crimes. Hezbollah denied a link to the attack • The IDF said it struck militants in southern Lebanon, citing cease-fire violations

  Tags: Lebanon Macron Hezbollah

• 'Many of my Jewish colleagues believe there's no antisemitism at Columbia'

  Haaretz - 12:33 Apr 18, 2026
  

  Nicholas Lemann, former dean of Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, takes a deep dive into his latest book on his family history, which includes slave plantations and anti-Zionism

• Secular Israelis reshaped the state. Why haven't they reshaped Judaism too?

  Haaretz - 12:25 Apr 18, 2026
  

  As religion tightens its grip on power, liberal Israelis are rediscovering their strength – but still lack a compelling, modern-day vision of Judaism. Before the liberals reclaim the country, they must decide what it means to be secular

  Tags: Judaism

• No body, no answers: A Palestinian family is left in the dark about their son's fate

  Haaretz - 11:36 Apr 18, 2026
  

  More than a week after their son went to the cucumber greenhouse and didn't return, the Subeihs are left asking who killed him and what happened on their own land. They were told a settler shot him and the Israeli army quickly seized the body

• Palestinian man shot dead after breaking into Israeli settlement in West Bank armed with knife

  Haaretz - 11:03 Apr 18, 2026
  

  In a rare incident, reports said the suspect broke into Negohot overnight, armed with a knife, and was shot dead while charging at a member of the settlement's security team. The IDF said it had raided the suspect's home and found 'an improvised weapon and military equipment'

• Help wanted in Israel: Hangman. Steady work, benefits and strong sense of purpose guaranteed

  Haaretz - 10:07 Apr 18, 2026
  

  The State of Israel seeks a proud, robust Jew who's willing to look a condemned Palestinian in the eye without flinching. Women need not apply

  Tags: Israel

• Tehran reverses decision to open Strait of Hormuz, citing U.S. blockade of its ports

  Haaretz - 09:44 Apr 18, 2026
  

  Following the decision's reversal, Iranian Revolutionary Guards gunboats opened fire on a tanker in the Gulf of Oman, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations center has reported. The tanker and crew are reported to be safe

• Armed and masked, settlers raid and set fire to West Bank villages, guarded with a military-grade weapon

  Haaretz - 07:29 Apr 18, 2026
  

• Between the lines, Netanyahu admitted that he has failed in Lebanon

  Haaretz - 07:23 Apr 18, 2026
  

  Netanyahu does not often use the word 'honesty' in his statements. On Friday, he used it twice when announcing the halting of the Lebanon campaign against Hezbollah, confessing that the group remains standing – and that the threat along Israel's northern border remains

  Tags: Lebanon Netanyahu

• 'Justice can finally be served': France says 1982 Paris antisemitic attack suspect extradited

  Haaretz - 05:27 Apr 18, 2026
  

  The suspect is accused of involvement in an attack that killed six people; France's foreign minister said Hicam Harb has been extradited from Palestine thanks to French diplomacy, and will be subject to trial

• Israeli settlers vandalize property, torch vehicle in West Bank village

  Haaretz - 02:43 Apr 18, 2026
  

• IDF officials say Lebanon war gains are dependent on negotiation outcomes

  Haaretz - 00:12 Apr 18, 2026
  

  The IDF plans for a prolonged Israeli presence in southern Lebanon, adding that withdrawal is not yet possible, and warning against overestimating damage to Hezbollah, which still poses a military threat to Israel, albeit on a more limited scale, officials say

  Tags: Lebanon

• Holocaust memory demands we oppose turning the state of the Jews into the state of executioners

  Haaretz - 19:08 Apr 17, 2026
  

  As the years passed, it became increasingly clear to me that there is a chasm between my own consciousness of the Holocaust and the Israeli one

  Tags: Holocaust

• A 'security zone' won't restore quiet for Israelis on the Lebanon border

  Haaretz - 17:36 Apr 17, 2026
  

  The people of the north don't want to repeat the 18-year mistake of the last security zone. The prevailing view says 'kill and occupy,' but that's a product of fear and pain

• Like Netanyahu, Israel's opposition must remember that an Iron Wall isn't enough

  Haaretz - 17:34 Apr 17, 2026
  

  There is another expression of the success of the Iron Wall: the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative, which the founders of Zionism would have seen as the realization of a dream. Such containment can also work against Iran

  Tags: Iron Wall

• Rabbi honored by Israel lives in illegal West Bank home on private Palestinian land

  Haaretz - 16:35 Apr 17, 2026
  

  An NGO monitoring West Bank construction said Avraham Zarbiv's home sits on Palestinian land and has been under a demolition order since 2000; the rabbi also boasted of destroying homes in Gaza and called to 'flatten' it during his IDF service

  Tags: West Bank Palestinian

• Trump says he 'prohibited' Israel from bombing Lebanon; Netanyahu: Hezbollah a threat

  Haaretz - 16:05 Apr 17, 2026
  

  Netanyahu says Israel pursuing 'political and military' path with Lebanon after Trump request; minutes later, Israeli drone strike kills one in southern Lebanon

  Tags: Lebanon Israel Trump Netanyahu

• Trump, Iran say Strait of Hormuz 'completely open' for passage amid cease-fire

  Haaretz - 14:46 Apr 17, 2026
  

  Iran's foreign minister said the Strait of Hormuz, the world's most vital oil shipping route, is 'completely open' for commercial vessels; Trump said a U.S. blockade remains and that Iran has agreed 'never' to close the Strait of Hormuz again

  Tags: Strait Iran Hormuz Trump

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