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...
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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...
How AIPAC and pro-Israel megadonors turned a midterm race into the most expensive primary in U.S. history
The first major primary battle in the 2026 U.S. midterm elections resulted in a significant victory for AIPAC and other pro-Israel megadonor...
'Sounding the alarm': Inside a deepening crisis as American Jewish support for Israel erodes on left and right
As Israel is fighting enemies on multiple fronts, it can't afford to lose any of its vital strategic assets. And according to Dr. Avishay Be...
Back to full-on war with Iran? Amos Harel on Trump’s dilemma and Netanyahu’s desire
U.S. President Donald Trump has expressed his desire not to "get stuck" in Middle East conflict and clearly wants to avoid a renewal of full...
'BDS is a scam': Why Israeli music icon David Broza still believes in the power of art
On a special edition of the Haaretz Podcast celebrating its 500th episode, host Allison Kaplan Sommer speaks to iconic Israeli musician Davi...
'Political football': How U.K. Jews are caught between Britain's racist far-right and the anti-Zionist far left
Jews in the United Kingdom watched voters in their country gravitate to parties on the extreme right and left in the country's local electio...
Jewish life in polite Canada has become 'a horror show of hatred'
October 7 and the Gaza war radically changed the way many people around the world, including Diaspora Jews, viewed Israel. For Toronto-based...
Can Naftali Bennett defeat Netanyahu? Inside the Israeli opposition’s big gamble
War-weary Israelis have clearly tired of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's leadership, but it is still uncertain as to whether opposition...
How a Haaretz investigation into stolen Ukrainian wheat triggered a diplomatic crisis
A diplomatic crisis over Israeli import of stolen grain from occupied Ukraine exploded this week following the publication of a Haaretz inve...
'American Jews really hate Trump. But they hate Netanyahu even more'
The average American watched the Gaza war from afar as a "dramatic and gruesome humanitarian crisis that Israel was responsible for" –...
Making Israel's case to ChatGPT and Grok: Hasbara meets AI in multi-million dollar PR push
Fighting antisemitism online was meant to be the focus of the Israeli government's multimillion-dollar digital PR campaign run by President...
'You can't heal in a perpetual war': Israeli peace activist Yonatan Zeigen on following in his mother's footsteps
The final moments of Vivian Silver's life were a "pivotal turning point" for her son Yonatan Zeigen , who now dedicates his life to Israeli-...
'The Hungarians turned their anxiety into hope, that's the main lesson for Israelis'
The dramatic landslide election in Hungary toppling authoritarian populist Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, resonated deeply for Israel i...
'We'll kill you, traitor': How far-right thugs and police target Israel's antiwar protest leaders
As diplomatic talks between Iran and the United States continue in an effort to extend the temporary cease-fire due to expire on April 22, p...