Haaretz Podcast
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Episodes: 100
missie polasky
Sep 9, 2025
Always excellent..A K-S asks great questions, has good insight, and remains one of my key sources for news.
Judy C
Aug 15, 2025
I listen to this podcast weekly and feel it is the most authentic information about current situation in Israel whether Alison interviews journalists, military people or politicians.well worth listening to!
George Renz
Jul 18, 2025
This is a difficult story for many to accept, and a critically important one. Haaretz covers the important stories others don't want to cover or even hear about. But we do ourselves no favors by sticking our heads in the sand.
Mar 26, 2021
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From Haaretz – Israel's oldest daily newspaper – a weekly podcast in English on Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World, hosted by Allison Kaplan Sommer.
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'I see you a Nakba, and raise you a Holocaust': Mo Husseini and Julie Cohen on their 'optimistic' Gaza war documentary
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Oct 06, 2025 |
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'Israelis have acclimated to a reality that should be unbearable': Joshua Leifer on two years of war
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Oct 04, 2025 |
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Special episode: What you need to know about Trump's new Israel-Gaza peace plan | with Amir Tibon
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Sep 30, 2025 |
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Have American Jews pushed Israel toward extremism or moderation?
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Sep 25, 2025 |
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German ambassador: 'It's not a coincidence that so many Israelis are considering moving abroad'
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Sep 22, 2025 |
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'Deeply harmful and dangerous': Trump undermines Jewish Studies at U.S. colleges
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Sep 18, 2025 |
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'Enough war, bloodshed, and destruction': Israel, Gaza and what comes next
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Sep 16, 2025 |
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'Playing with fire': How Israel’s attack on Hamas in Qatar has likely exploded hopes of ending the Gaza war
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Sep 11, 2025 |
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‘The Trump White House has outsourced all policy on Gaza to Israel’
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Sep 08, 2025 |
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'Gaza started as a legitimate war of self-defense. It became merciless, cruel vengeance': This Israeli ex-foreign minister speaks his mind
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Sep 04, 2025 |
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'Astonishing backlash': Hear the Orthodox rabbi who spoke out against Gaza's famine and settler violence
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Sep 02, 2025 |
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Western leaders may be pushing for a Palestinian state, but in the West Bank, 'annexation is the reality'
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Aug 28, 2025 |
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Inside Gaza's hospitals: 'The children were very thin. Weak. Glazed eyes. It was devastating'
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Aug 26, 2025 |
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‘Netanyahu will never leave Gaza. War is part of the classic authoritarian playbook’
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Aug 22, 2025 |
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'Israeli musicians must choose if they want to be boycotted at home or boycotted abroad'
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Aug 18, 2025 |
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'A very dangerous gamble': Netanyahu's open clash with IDF leaders over invading Gaza City
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Aug 14, 2025 |
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Recognizing Palestine? 'It may be a punishment for Netanyahu, but it's a big prize for Israel'
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Aug 11, 2025 |
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Behind Netanyahu's dangerous Gaza takeover: A conversation with Haaretz Editor-in-Chief Aluf Benn
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Aug 08, 2025 |
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Why ‘deep pain’ over Israel and Gaza is boosting Jewish support for an anti-Zionist candidate for NYC mayor
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Aug 05, 2025 |
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'Israel doesn't want journalists on the ground': CNN’s Jeremy Diamond on the fight to enter Gaza
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Jul 31, 2025 |
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'Starvation is being livestreamed. Every minute we lose a life in Gaza': Palestinian testimonies and growing Israeli protests
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Jul 28, 2025 |
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Netanyahu will 'do anything to stay in power’: If early elections are called, could he win?
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Jul 24, 2025 |
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Behind Trump’s crusade to 'save Bibi' from his criminal trial
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Jul 21, 2025 |
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Dropping bombs and dialogue? Israel-Syria peace talks right now are ‘absolutely mind-boggling’
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Jul 16, 2025 |
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The U.S. and Canada are running out of Reform rabbis. Look who's taking their place
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Jul 14, 2025 |
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'I touched death so many times in Gaza': Released hostage Aviva Siegel on 'screaming' for a cease-fire deal
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Jul 10, 2025 |
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'Hope is a political choice': MK Gilad Kariv on the fight for democracy and Reform Judaism in Netanyahu’s wartime Israel
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Jul 07, 2025 |
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Behind the scenes of the explosive Haaretz 'killing field' Gaza expose that Netanyahu called a 'blood libel'
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Jul 03, 2025 |
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Why 'emboldened' Jewish settlers are now attacking Israeli soldiers in the West Bank
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Jun 30, 2025 |
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Trump forced an end to the Iran war. Is Israel's war in Gaza next?
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Jun 26, 2025 |
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Tel Aviv's underground tent cities: How Israelis found refuge from Iranian missiles
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Jun 23, 2025 |
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Israel and Iran at war: 'Trump and Netanyahu set a trap for the Iranians'
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Jun 18, 2025 |
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Israel and Iran at war: 'The missile hit and we waited to die'
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Jun 15, 2025 |
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Wedding wars: Inside the battle over Netanyahu's son's lavish celebration
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Jun 12, 2025 |
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'I'm a journalist. I’ve run out of words to describe what we Israelis are doing to Gaza'
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Jun 10, 2025 |
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'Israelis are furious': Netanyahu's Bugs Bunny cross-examination and the prospect of new elections
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Jun 06, 2025 |
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'Panic among U.S. Jews was already at fever pitch. Now it's a five-alarm fire'
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Jun 04, 2025 |
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'He called out Bibi's bluff': Within days of Oct. 7, this hostage's father spoke out against Netanyahu's war
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May 30, 2025 |
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'It’s crazy for American Jews to need metal detectors, armed guards and SWAT teams to feel safe'
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May 27, 2025 |
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'We have to find ways to live here together': Why this Israeli author wrote an 'unheroic war diary'
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May 22, 2025 |
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'Netanyahu's vision of victory in Gaza is more Stalin than Churchill'
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May 20, 2025 |
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Laura Rozen on what Trump's 'made-for-TV diplomacy' means for Israel and the Middle East
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May 15, 2025 |
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'Qatar, please give Sara Netanyahu a plane too, in exchange for ending the war and saving hostages'
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May 12, 2025 |
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'The IDF's top brass hope Trump intervenes and prevents a massive new Gaza operation'
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May 08, 2025 |
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'Synagogues abroad need protection from antisemitic threats. Here in Israel, we were assaulted by Jews'
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May 06, 2025 |
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'They weren't only soldiers. They were lovers and football fans, they were human beings'
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Apr 28, 2025 |
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I get called naive every day after October 7. But I won’t stop trying to build Israeli-Palestinian peace'
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Apr 21, 2025 |
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What can Israelis and Palestinians learn from post-conflict Ireland?
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Apr 15, 2025 |
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Jon Polin, father of slain hostage Hersh: Jews should 'lean in to the pain' this Passover
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Apr 10, 2025 |
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'I don't know of any IDF soldier who paid a price for killing innocents in Gaza'
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Apr 07, 2025 |
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Israel’s nightmare scenario: 'Netanyahu is up to his neck in criminal investigations as war rages'
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Apr 03, 2025 |
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'In Israel, we now have crumbs of democracy, not real democracy'
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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‘Qatargate’: Explaining the scandal that has Netanyahu panicked
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Mar 28, 2025 |
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'A fiasco and an embarrassment': How Israel's antisemitism conference went sideways
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Mar 26, 2025 |
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'If I need to talk to the devil to get the hostages out, I will'
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Mar 22, 2025 |
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'Mahmoud Khalil is no Mother Teresa - but there are laws in America'
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Mar 18, 2025 |
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From Tel Aviv to the Venice Biennale and back: How an Israeli artist took a stand on Gaza
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Mar 16, 2025 |
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'Trump is frustrated with Netanyahu so he pushed through a back channel with Hamas'
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Mar 10, 2025 |
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Peter Beinart: 'I feared ethnic cleansing on a large scale, but I couldn't imagine Gaza'
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Mar 05, 2025 |
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'Ironically, Israel's far-right extremists are more normalized than Germany's far right'
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Mar 02, 2025 |
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ADL head Jonathan Greenblatt: ‘I should have framed my tweet about Elon Musk’s salute differently’
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Feb 26, 2025 |
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Former U.S. ambassador Dan Shapiro: ‘Trump’s Gaza plan is not serious and it’s not going to happen’
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Feb 23, 2025 |
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'It's not only Musk and Kanye, there's a broad normalization of antisemitism in the U.S.'
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Feb 17, 2025 |
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Israel’s embrace of Trump’s Gaza plan is ‘atrocious, unthinkable and morally wrong’
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Feb 13, 2025 |
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'Alma was a baby on October 7. She knows her father only as a poster'
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Feb 10, 2025 |
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Despite shocking Gaza plan, 'Netanyahu didn't get anything he wanted from Trump'
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Feb 05, 2025 |
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'We're beyond the point of denying that Israel has an apartheid system in the West Bank'
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Feb 04, 2025 |
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From Hamas captivity to recovery: the long road ahead for Israel's freed hostages
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Jan 31, 2025 |
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'We're not at a Trump-Netanyahu conflict point yet, but it's not far off'
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Jan 28, 2025 |
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'All of Israel is hugging the hostages, but the government isn't'
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Jan 22, 2025 |
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What could still go wrong with the Israel-Hamas cease-fire and hostage release deal?
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Jan 15, 2025 |
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'In war, there's also the psychological struggle of parents who can't provide safety'
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Jan 13, 2025 |
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'Israelis who served in the IDF will need to think twice about where they travel'
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Jan 08, 2025 |
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'International organizations have a shameful record when it comes to the hostages'
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Jan 03, 2025 |
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What was it like being Jewish in 2024: Franklin Foer, Masha Gessen, Tony Kushner and more
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Dec 31, 2024 |
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Looking back at 2024, a year very few people want to remember
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Dec 29, 2024 |
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'Even if he shoots me, I'll vote for him': The machine that keeps Netanyahu in power
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Dec 25, 2024 |
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Alon Pinkas on challenging the idea of Netanyahu as a master strategist of the Middle East
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Dec 22, 2024 |
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Is Israel squandering a rare chance in Syria?
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Dec 17, 2024 |
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The (deep) state vs. Benjamin Netanyahu: Inside the courtroom during the PM's testimony
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Dec 12, 2024 |
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'They're no Zionists': How Syria's rebels toppled Assad and what it means for Israel
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Dec 09, 2024 |
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Settlement revival? military entrenchment? What are Israel’s long term plans for Gaza?
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Dec 06, 2024 |
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Netanyahu and Trump's 'creeping authoritarianism': 'It always begins and ends with women'
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Dec 04, 2024 |
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Netanyahu's war on the Israeli media and how it is already affecting press freedom
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Nov 29, 2024 |
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Could the International court’s arrest warrants break Netanyahu’s grip on power?
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Nov 27, 2024 |
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'We show up in places that some of the Jewish community has abandoned'
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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Is the 'Trump effect' preventing Iran from attacking Israel?
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Nov 19, 2024 |
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Amsterdam riots: 'Violence like this is a boon for Wilders and the anti-Muslim far right'
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Nov 14, 2024 |
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‘Trump doesn’t want to inherit the Middle East mess that Netanyahu made with Biden’
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Nov 10, 2024 |
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Netanyahu gambled on a Trump presidency. Will it pay off?
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Nov 06, 2024 |
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'If Trump wins, many Democrats will blame Israel': U.S. election special with Susan Glasser
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Nov 04, 2024 |
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Trump or Harris? A special Haaretz debate asks all the questions on Israel, Jews and the Gaza war
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Oct 30, 2024 |
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'Question everything': What Haaretz journalists saw on October 7 and after
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Oct 20, 2024 |
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'Expect Hezbollah to keep attacking Israel until its last missile'
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Oct 14, 2024 |
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'The Iranians have the ability to sustain a long and bloody war. Israel is vulnerable'
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Oct 09, 2024 |
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'People say my son brought Oct. 7 on himself – as if he invited terrorists into his home'
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Oct 06, 2024 |
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How we got to October 7: Amir Tibon on Netanyahu, Gaza, and the day that shattered Israel
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Oct 03, 2024 |
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Assassinating Nasrallah: 'The Israeli army prepared for the attack for 18 years'
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Sep 29, 2024 |
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'Nasrallah knows a massive strike on Tel Aviv would mean an all out war'
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Sep 25, 2024 |
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How to talk to your mother-in-law about Harris-Trump and other tricky questions from Haaretz subscribers
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Sep 17, 2024 |