Israel's Emergency Government Makes Light of a Deadly Serious Pandemic
The poor personal example given by Israel's top politicians is more than a symptom
Breaking:
- Attorney general drafts opinion on Netanyahu's conflicts of interest in justice system (Haaretz)
- France's Macron asks Netanyahu not to proceed with annexation (Haaretz)
- After soldiers wounded by settlers Yitzhar statement complains some were not wearing masks (Haaretz)
- Venice to conduct first general test of controversial new anti-flooding dam system (DPA)
- India sees more local coronavirus lockdowns as cases near 800,000 (Reuters)
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Hack of Gantz’s Phone Still Looms Over Government
Taking Light a Deadly Serious Pandemic
The Dangerous Association of Mizrahim With Bibi
Beinart's Solution Sounds So Perfect It's Utopian
Chef Sami Tamimi Redefines Palestinian Cuisine
Why Netanyahu Failed the Stress Test
After 17 Years, Israeli Abuse Began
'Israel's Mideast Enemies Adapted to Virus'
Can a Miracle Save Us From Ecological Doom?
Tel Aviv Fruit Bats Use Skyscrapers to Navigate
Lincoln Project’s Noisy Trolls Won’t Hurt Trump
Yes, It’s Israeli Apartheid
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Haaretz Editorial
Israelis Are Victims of Their Own Government
“Help us, please, we’re your citizens, you’re here for us,” a restaurant owner shouted through a megaphone during a demonstration by the self-employed on Tel Aviv’s Rothschild B...
Israel
The Mysterious Sixth Sense That Helps the Body Understand Itself
The five senses serve to help us understand the external world. A new study sheds light on a sixth sense and its potentially dramatic implications for the body’s development
Haaretz Magazine
U.S. News
Former Trump Lawyer Michael Cohen Taken Back Into Custody
Cohen had been released from prison after serving about a year of a three-year sentence for his role in hush money payments due to concerns of exposure to coronavirus
Middle East
For 17 Years, This Bedouin Family Lived Behind a Jordan Valley Monastery. Then Israeli Abuse Began
The army expelled the Abu Dahuq family any number of times and now, again, the 30 souls among them have no place to go
Jewish World
Albania Holocaust Memorial Honors Locals Who Protected Jews
Israeli Ambassador Noah Gal Gendler praises Albania’s example of protecting the Jewish community during the war, during which no Jews were handed over to the Nazis
Culture & Life
Israeli Archaeologists Tie Down Invention of String to More Than 120,000 Years Ago
Study of shells found in caves in northern Israel shows prehistoric humans invented string much earlier than previously thought – between 160,000 and 120,000 years ago
Travel in Israel
A Desert Adventure Along the Oil Pipeline That Was Once Meant to Link Israel and Iran
We took a trip along the route of the pipeline built decades ago with our one-time Iranian friends, surrounded by beautiful, untamed trails in the land of craters
