Haaretz Podcast
By Haaretz
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Reviews: 4
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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How the Iran war destroyed Israel's deterrence
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May 28, 2026 |
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How AIPAC and pro-Israel megadonors turned a midterm race into the most expensive primary in U.S. history
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May 26, 2026 |
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'Sounding the alarm': Inside a deepening crisis as American Jewish support for Israel erodes on left and right
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May 21, 2026 |
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Back to full-on war with Iran? Amos Harel on Trump’s dilemma and Netanyahu’s desire
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May 19, 2026 |
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'BDS is a scam': Why Israeli music icon David Broza still believes in the power of art
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May 15, 2026 |
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'Political football': How U.K. Jews are caught between Britain's racist far-right and the anti-Zionist far left
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May 12, 2026 |
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Jewish life in polite Canada has become 'a horror show of hatred'
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May 08, 2026 |
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Can Naftali Bennett defeat Netanyahu? Inside the Israeli opposition’s big gamble
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May 05, 2026 |
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How a Haaretz investigation into stolen Ukrainian wheat triggered a diplomatic crisis
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May 01, 2026 |
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'American Jews really hate Trump. But they hate Netanyahu even more'
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Apr 28, 2026 |
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Making Israel's case to ChatGPT and Grok: Hasbara meets AI in multi-million dollar PR push
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Apr 24, 2026 |
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'You can't heal in a perpetual war': Israeli peace activist Yonatan Zeigen on following in his mother's footsteps
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Apr 20, 2026 |
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'The Hungarians turned their anxiety into hope, that's the main lesson for Israelis'
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Apr 17, 2026 |
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'We'll kill you, traitor': How far-right thugs and police target Israel's antiwar protest leaders
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Apr 14, 2026 |
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Iran war cease-fire update with Amos Harel: 'Trump wants out and Netanyahu is extremely disappointed'
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Apr 09, 2026 |
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What Trump got wrong about Iran, what the IDF got wrong about Hezbollah: Amos Harel on wars with no exit strategy
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Apr 06, 2026 |
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How Israel 'is consolidating its control' in Gaza and the West Bank as the world focuses on Iran
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Apr 03, 2026 |
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'Keep it simple and stay sane': Adeena Sussman's cooking tips for a complicated wartime Passover
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Mar 31, 2026 |
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'Our fate is in Trump’s hands': Haaretz Editor-in-Chief Aluf Benn on Israel’s ‘unprecedented’ wartime dependence on the U.S.
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Mar 27, 2026 |
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Former head of Mossad research division: 'This war motivates Iran to go nuclear'
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Mar 24, 2026 |
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Will the Iran war bring Netanyahu a triumph at the polls? | Dahlia Scheindlin on Israeli voters
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Mar 20, 2026 |
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'Soon, Trump will have had enough’: Dan Shapiro on clashing Israel-U.S. war goals in Iran
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Mar 17, 2026 |
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'Silence is louder than any scream': How a film about Israelis protesting the Gaza war made it to the Oscars
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Mar 13, 2026 |
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Iran war update: Amos Harel on Hezbollah entering the fray, Judy Maltz on Tel Aviv’s underground bomb shelters
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Mar 11, 2026 |
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'They're lying to us': Why Israel's media isn't challenging Netanyahu’s narrative on the Iran war
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Mar 09, 2026 |
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'This is an American war. No one went to war to save Israel': Former PM Ehud Olmert on 'punishing Iran' and Trump's hazy end-game
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Mar 06, 2026 |
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U.S.-Israel-Iran War update: Arash Azizi on 'scary times' in Tehran, Gregg Carlstrom on fury toward Iran in the Gulf
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Mar 03, 2026 |
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Breaking news podcast: Inside the high-stakes U.S.-Israel attack on Iran | Haaretz defense analyst Amos Harel
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Feb 28, 2026 |
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'The Jewish community still thinks there's a technical fix to the Epstein scandal'
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Feb 24, 2026 |
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'It’s a disgrace. Israelis have had enough': Amid ultra-Orthodox riots, fury over IDF draft-dodging peaks
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Feb 20, 2026 |
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Between Tel Aviv and Ramallah: Sari Bashi on her 'upside down' marriage and raising Jewish Palestinian kids
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Feb 17, 2026 |
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‘Trump needs Netanyahu to not mess things up for him in Iran and Gaza’
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Feb 13, 2026 |
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Entire communities fled: 'The West Bank's Area C is almost completely ethnically cleansed'
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Feb 11, 2026 |
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‘Organized crime groups are subcontractors for the Netanyahu government’s destruction of Israel’s Arab society’
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Feb 06, 2026 |
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When will a U.S. attack on Iran happen? Amos Harel on Israel's war jitters
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Feb 02, 2026 |
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'World War Jew': How Israel's antisemitism conference became a far-right populist rally
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Jan 29, 2026 |
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'Iran’s Babi Yar': An Israeli-Iranian expert says 'Iranians are being massacred in historic numbers'
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Jan 26, 2026 |
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Why Palestinians in Gaza see Trump's Board of Peace as 'another form of occupation'
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Jan 23, 2026 |
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'Israel has committed genocide in Gaza': California Democrat Scott Wiener on his controversial U-turn
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Jan 20, 2026 |
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'Birthright is tone-deaf': Why many young Jews don’t want their free trip to Israel
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Jan 16, 2026 |
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AIPAC's worst nightmare? Why Netanyahu said Israel doesn't want U.S. military aid
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Jan 14, 2026 |
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How will the Iran protests end? Arash Azizi says 'This won't be a classic revolution'
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Jan 08, 2026 |
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How 2025 rocked the Jewish world: From Gaza to Mamdani to Bondi
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Jan 02, 2026 |
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From Trump's Gaza Riviera to the Iran war and Qatargate: Israel's 2025 in review
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Dec 30, 2025 |
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‘Deradicalize Hamas, give them less dangerous weapons and turn them into police,' says French ambassador
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Dec 24, 2025 |
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Boycotts and 'red lines': A famed NY Jewish institution grapples with tough post-Oct. 7 questions
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Dec 23, 2025 |
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‘Schindler for the animals’: How a Jewish oligarch rescued 5,000 zoo animals from the front lines of the Russia-Ukraine war
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Dec 18, 2025 |
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‘It’s horrific. We begged our government to prevent this’: Australian Jews are angry after the Bondi terror attack
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Dec 15, 2025 |
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U.S. Jews and Israel 'are no longer exceptional': Dahlia Lithwick and Joshua Leifer on being 'Trump's chess pieces'
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Dec 12, 2025 |
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Freed hostage Elizabeth Tsurkov: 'I survived months of torture in Iraq – I won't be silenced in Israel'
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Dec 09, 2025 |
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'Neutrality is not a sexy choice to make': Israel Red Cross chief regrets 'unsuccessful' attempts to assist hostages
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Dec 04, 2025 |
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Trump ‘emboldened’ Netanyahu to seek a pardon: Dahlia Scheindlin on Israel’s latest political bombshell
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Dec 02, 2025 |
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From Gaza to Epstein: Why Israel is losing MAGA and the evangelicals
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Nov 28, 2025 |
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‘It pays for Netanyahu to keep the Gaza and Lebanon fronts open’: Amos Harel on intensifying Israeli airstrikes during the cease-fires
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Nov 24, 2025 |
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‘Germany’s far right still hates Jews. They just hate Muslims more’
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Nov 20, 2025 |
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Why another, even bloodier, Israel-Iran war may be ‘just around the corner’
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Nov 17, 2025 |
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‘Settler violence is out of control': How a 'perfect storm' of IDF-backed attacks and Israel's extremist government is terrorizing the West Bank
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Nov 13, 2025 |
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‘I couldn't vote for Trump, but I'm glad he won’: Top Jewish podcaster Jonah Platt on Israel, Gaza and antisemitism in America
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Nov 10, 2025 |
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A leak, a cover-up and the battle for Israel’s rule of law: the Sde Teiman Affair explained
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Nov 06, 2025 |
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Who’s afraid of Zohran Mamdani? How the mayoral race divided Jews in New York
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Nov 03, 2025 |
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Inside the Israeli media’s ‘shocking self-censorship’ of the horrors of Gaza
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Oct 31, 2025 |
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‘French Jews don’t know who their friends are anymore’: Rabbi Delphine Horvilleur on the Gaza war's impact
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Oct 28, 2025 |
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‘We’re the ones calling the shots here’: Vance, Kushner and Witkoff rattle Israel’s leadership
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Oct 24, 2025 |
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‘We’re going to fight’: Can Israel’s film industry survive boycotts and the Netanyahu government?
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Oct 21, 2025 |
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'Hamas isn’t going anywhere': Amos Harel on the hard realities facing Trump and Netanyahu in postwar Gaza
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Oct 16, 2025 |
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How the Gaza war changed a generation of young Jews around the world, in their own words
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Oct 13, 2025 |
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How Trump forced the Gaza deal through: Behind the scenes with Anshel Pfeffer
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Oct 09, 2025 |
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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 |