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• Netanyahu determined to fast-track Haredi military draft exemption, sources say

  Haaretz - 21:16 Mar 31, 2026
  

  Netanyahu aims to bundle the exemption with extending service and reservist benefits to secure coalition backing, while citing IDF manpower warnings to blunt criticism. Failure could push Haredi parties toward opposition deals ahead of elections

  Tags: Haredi Netanyahu

• American journalist kidnapped in Baghdad, Iraqi police officials say

  Haaretz - 20:49 Mar 31, 2026
  

  U.S. news site Al-Monitor announced the abduction of news correspondent Shelly Kittleson, noting a U.S. official said that the State Department is working with the Iraqi government to secure Kittleson's release

  Tags: Iraqi

• Without evidence, IDF claims again that Hezbollah is extensively using ambulances for military purposes

  Haaretz - 20:24 Mar 31, 2026
  

  According to the WHO, 52 medical personnel have been killed in Lebanon in the war this month. As proof of Israel's claims, the IDF referred Haaretz to a two-year-old post on X, noting that according to 'assessments,' Hezbollah uses the vehicles to transport operatives and weapons

  Tags: Hezbollah

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  Haaretz - 20:19 Mar 31, 2026
  

• Netanyahu: Iran still a threat to Israel, 'but no longer an existential one'

  Haaretz - 19:54 Mar 31, 2026
  

  Netanyahu said in a recorded statement that Iran still has the ability to threaten Israel, but 'can no longer threaten our existence.' In June 2025, the PM said Israel 'had removed two immediate existential threats' and declared a 'historic victory'

  Tags: Iran Israel Netanyahu

• Settlers set fire to buildings, vehicles in West Bank; Medics say four wounded

  Haaretz - 19:30 Mar 31, 2026
  

  Footage from Tayasir shows masked settlers, who according to local residents, set fire to buildings, vehicle and a tractor. The Red Crescent also reported a 54-year-old man was lightly wounded after being attacked by IDF forces near Hebron

• With the death penalty for Palestinians, Israel signals: Long live the Jewish terrorists

  Haaretz - 19:07 Mar 31, 2026
  

  Legal viability aside, the new law reveals a deeper question, reflecting a perverse dissonance in Israeli society: Why are Jewish terrorists spared the noose while Arab ones are hanged?

  Tags: Jewish

• Safe from missiles, not from disease: Israeli doctors warn over underground hospitals

  Haaretz - 18:38 Mar 31, 2026
  

  For over a month, Israel's hospitals have operated underground amid Iranian missile threats, exposing patients to infectious diseases due to overcrowding, a senior doctor said. Another warned: 'This is a catastrophe, already costing lives'

• 'I don't want a hero for a son': Israeli soldiers killed in Lebanon laid to rest

  Haaretz - 17:37 Mar 31, 2026
  

  The four soldiers were killed in a close-range fight with gunmen in southern Lebanon, according to the IDF. 'We waited for you at home, and you came back – but in a coffin,' said one of the soldiers' father

  Tags: Lebanon

• Syria's al-Sharaa makes first visits to London and Berlin, meets leaders

  Haaretz - 17:30 Mar 31, 2026
  

  German Chancellor Friedrich Merz sparked controversy during the visit, later clarifying his remarks on the potential return of Syrian refugees after warnings that a mass departure could have serious economic consequences

• Cease-fire or regime change? Israelis split on how Iran war should end, poll shows

  Haaretz - 17:14 Mar 31, 2026
  

  A month into the joint Israeli-U.S. war with Iran, Israelis are divided: 45.5 percent want the campaign to continue until the Iranian regime falls, 30 percent favor a cease-fire after maximum military damage, and 19 percent support an immediate cease-fire

  Tags: Iran Israelis

• Israel to halt arms purchases from France over airspace closure

  Haaretz - 16:59 Mar 31, 2026
  

  The move follows France's refusal to let Israeli aircraft carrying U.S. military supplies cross its airspace, as Israel says similar restrictions were imposed during the Gaza war, underscoring widening rifts with European allies over the Iran war

  Tags: Israel

• Europe pushes back on U.S. military operations as concerns over Iran war mount

  Haaretz - 16:40 Mar 31, 2026
  

  The rift widened after France barred overflights carrying U.S. arms to Israel, Italy denied U.S. bombers access to a Sicily base, and Spain closed its airspace. Trump blasted the moves as 'unhelpful' amid growing strain within NATO over the Iran campaign

  Tags: Iran

• Joe Sacco's next Gaza comic book and an Israeli actor wracked with guilt

  Haaretz - 16:03 Mar 31, 2026
  

  A renowned cartoonist and a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist collaborate to create a devastating indictment of Israel's actions in Gaza in comic form, a one-man show explores the guilt of living with the sins of the father and Israel's cultural institutions slowly reopen

  Tags: Gaza

• 'Like Gaza': Israel says it plans to demolish all homes in Lebanese border villages

  Haaretz - 15:20 Mar 31, 2026
  

  More than 600,000 Lebanese residents who fled their homes will not be allowed to return to southern Lebanon, Israel's defense establishment said, adding that the IDF plans to control all areas south of the Litani River

  Tags: Lebanese

• Iranian missiles, Hezbollah rocket fire lightly wound 11 in central, northern Israel

  Haaretz - 15:08 Mar 31, 2026
  

  An Iranian cluster missile struck Tel Aviv, Bnei Brak and Petah Tikva on Tuesday, prompting rescue deployments, while a Hezbollah rocket from Lebanon moderately wounded a construction worker in the Upper Galilee area, who was hit by shrapnel and taken to a Safed hospital

  Tags: Iranian Hezbollah

• Trump tells allied countries: 'Fight for yourselves, take fuel from Strait of Hormuz'

  Haaretz - 14:36 Mar 31, 2026
  

  Trump urged countries to just 'TAKE IT' amid a fuel shortage crisis, and later said war in Iran won't last 'much longer.' Meanwhile, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said that Iran's 'new regime, because regime change has occurred, should be wiser than the last' and 'cut a deal'

  Tags: Trump

• 'Keep it simple and stay sane': Adeena Sussman's cooking tips for a complicated wartime Passover

  Haaretz - 14:27 Mar 31, 2026
  

• Netanyahu declines to set timeline for ending Iran war in pro-Trump outlet

  Haaretz - 12:38 Mar 31, 2026
  

  Netanyahu told Newsmax that the U.S.-Israeli war is 'beyond the halfway point in terms of success' and warned that Tehran is 'pursuing nuclear weapons and the means to deliver them to American cities'

  Tags: Netanyahu

• Racist and unlawful: Israel's death penalty law is driven by bloodlust

  Haaretz - 12:16 Mar 31, 2026
  

  Approving the law devalues human life, serves terror organizations, and underscores Israel's abandonment of liberal values, revealing a reactionary regime. Any court that approves it is unfit to sit in judgment

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