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This Israeli ultra-Orthodox feminist activist has a warning for U.S. Jews
On this week's Haaretz Podcast, guest host Joshua Leifer talks to Pnina Pfeuffer , a liberal, feminist ultra-Orthodox social activist. The J...
Three months to Israel's election: Why is Netanyahu really going to Washington?
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's insistence on traveling to the White House three months before the Israeli election signals his desperat...
'An extreme right-wing Israel can't just pour billions into PR and expect its U.S. image to improve'
Both Israeli leaders and the Israeli public – lulled by both President Donald Trump and former President Joe Biden's backing of Israel...
‘What if there aren't free and fair elections in Israel in October? What are we going to do?’
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may be even more unpopular than the current polling demonstrates, Haaretz columnist Joshua Leifer said on...
Rep. Ro Khanna to Haaretz: ‘I’m more disturbed by Israel’s lies’ than being detained in West Bank
In his first interview with an Israeli media outlet since his confrontation with armed settlers and Israeli soldiers in the southern West Ba...
A digital 'forever war' on democracy: Iran and Netanyahu both sow chaos online ahead of Israeli elections
With Israeli elections set for October 27, Iran is increasingly pairing its military actions with aggressive online campaigns designed to so...
'We need allies, not just more security cameras': Reform movement head Rick Jacobs on the growing ‘isolation’ of U.S. Jews
The far-right religious Netanyahu government is doing its best to "push away" liberal non-Orthodox American Jews from Israel, said Rabbi Ric...
'Israel’s opposition must join with Arab parties to beat Netanyahu. It's the right thing to do'
Unless something dramatic changes, the upcoming Israeli election will either end in a deadlock or a bold move to "get rid of the foolish sel...
‘I promise I haven’t joined the Israel haters’: Brad Lander sits down with Haaretz
Brad Lander said on the Haaretz Podcast that his resounding victory in the race for the Democratic nomination for Congress in a New York Cit...
Haaretz Election Podcast Kickoff: How far will Netanyahu go to stay in power?
In the inaugural episode of Haaretz's new Election Podcast, host Allison Kaplan Sommer welcomes the first weekly panel of Haaretz analysts w...
'December 14 was our October 7': How the Bondi massacre destroyed the Australian safe haven for Jews
For the Australian Jewish community, the date of December 14 carries as much gut-wrenching trauma as October 7 and September 11 does for Isr...
Haaretz investigation: The Israeli far-right’s West Bank land grab and why it's a ticking time bomb
In a special investigation on a "revolution" that has taken place over the past three years, Haaretz reporters Yarden Michaeli , Matan Golan...
Inside Israel’s other war: fighting the quiet dismantling of democracy
As Israelis focused on the life-and-death issues around conflicts with Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas, the Netanyahu government has slowly but st...
Trump made a deal with Iran. What will Netanyahu do?
Israel is in a strategically weakened position – and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will take a hard political hit if reports on th...
In Mamdani's NY, Israel's far right used Israel parade to flex their muscles
When Mayor Zohran Mamdani refused to march in New York City's Israel Day parade - the first mayor of the city to do so in over 60 years &nda...
Iran and Israel exchange fire, and 'Trump is fed up': A war update from Amos Harel and Sima Shine
U.S. President Donald Trump has tired of the Israel-Iran conflict, but a solution remains elusive as missile fire renewed Sunday following a...
'Nations committing genocide don’t recognize it in real time': Yuli Novak on Israel’s moral crisis
For B'Tselem executive director Yuli Novak , the firestorm around the New York Times column by Nicholas Kristof decrying sexual violence by...
‘There’s a lot of anger at Israel in the Gulf’: Gregg Carlstrom on Lebanon, Gaza and the cease-fire with Iran that feels like war
The Gulf countries are spending "enormous amounts of money to try to mask the economic consequences of the Iran war from their population,"...
How the Iran war destroyed Israel's deterrence
Both of Israel's wars in Iran have been "strategic failures" and critically damaged the country's deterrence, Danny Citrinowicz , a former t...