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Centrifuge machines in the Natanz uranium enrichment facility in central Iran, November 2019.

The Explosion at Natanz Is a Direct Hit on Iran's Nuclear Program

They're still assessing the damage to the nuclear facility, but Iran is already blaming Israel. They may try to retaliate

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Gantz and Ashkenazi celebrate as Netanyahu's annexation is postponed.

Netanyahu Is Busy. With Mulling Elections

Photos of Dan Gertler, Shlomo Abihassira, Alain Mukonda, a private jet and a mine.

Dan Gertler and the Congo Files

Netanayhu at a cabinet meeting during the coronavirus pandemic.

Netanyahu Passed Coronavirus Test. Then Lost Control

White House adviser Jared Kushner listening as President Donald Trump speaks about the coronavirus in the White House, April 2, 2020.

Kushner’s Waning Influence Revives Bibi's Dream

A southern stretch of the pipeline route, near Mitzpeh Ramon, under Mount Ardon.

When Israel and Iran Went With the Flow

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, with Mossad head Yossi Cohen at an event, October 2, 2017.

How Netanyahu Silenced Dissent on Annexation

Jamal Mohammed. “When you see terrible things happen to you at a young age and you made it through them, it makes it easier to overcome obstacles.”

This Asylum Seeker Could Be in Next Olympics

Actress Niv Sultan as secret Israeli agent Tamar Rabinyan, in "Tehran."

Can 'Tehran' Affect Israeli-Iranian Relations?

Rana Hallaq. “There’s one boy, we have no other. He’s my second soul. Eyad and I are one soul from long ago.”

A Palestinian Family Paralyzed by Grief

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu posing for a picture at a Jerusalem hotel, June 2020.

While Bibi Dreams Annexation, Palestinians Close Ranks

The Galitz family

For Many Israelis, New York Loses Magic

Highway 60 GIF

Annexation Is Already Here: A Journey Through the West Bank

The lights of the House Chamber are reflected in the railing that surrounds the chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington, March 3, 2015, as Benjamin Netanyahu speaks before a joint meeting of Congress.

Why Netanyahu Delayed Annexation

Gen. Esmail Ghaani speaks in a meeting at the shrine of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini just outside Tehran, Iran. May 24, 2017

Iraq Puts Foot Down on Iranian Intervention

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For Palestinians, From Hebron to Nablus, Annexation Is Already Here

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People wearing protective masks against COVID-19 walk in the streets of Tel Aviv, June 29, 2020.

Coronavirus Israel Live: Border Police Chief Tests Positive, Public Security Minister Quarantined

Universities to hold exams remotely ■ Active coronavirus cases in Israel pass 10,000 ■ Three deaths registered in West Bank in one night ■ Netanyahu announces restrictions on gatherings

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Marianne Ihlen and her son, Axel Jensen, Jr., with Leonard Cohen in 1960.

The boy Leonard Cohen raised as his own

A scene from the film “Six Days.” It turned out that very few of the battles had been documented on film by official bodies, so they were reenacted.

The dark truth behind the Israeli army's reenactment of the '67 war

A paper airplane made of a 100-shekel bill.

How to build a post-capitalist world

Photos of Dan Gertler, Shlomo Abihassira, Alain Mukonda, a private jet and a mine.

Suitcases of cash deposited in Congo, then millions transferred to Israeli figures

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Jordan Peterson speaking at Turning Point USA's 2018 Young Women's Leadership Summit, Dallas, Texas. 15 June 2018

Opinion Exposing Jordan Peterson’s Barrage of Revisionist Falsehoods About Hitler, the Holocaust and Nazism

Jordan Peterson, YouTube psychology guru and right-wing cult figure, talks a lot about Hitler, WWII and Nazism – in lectures riddled with alarming errors, spurious analogies and a strange reluctance to use the word 'Holocaust.' This is why his constant misinformation matters

Culture & Life

Postulated navigation marker left behind by the prehistoric miners at Quintana Roo

Paleo-spelunkers Were Mining Ocher 12,000 Years Ago in Mexico

Discovered serendipitously by divers studying the Yucatan aquifer, the mines in the Quintana Roo caves were exploited until flooded by the rising seas as the Ice Age ended, archaeologists discover

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Clockwise from top left: Israel (Rudolf) Kastner, Yasser Arafat, Moshe Katsav and Rafael Eitan.

Why Israel's Controversial Memorials Are Not Being Toppled

Golani soldiers GIF

Elite Israeli Troops Went on a Rogue Op Inside Syria. The Result Was Deadly

Tzipi Hotovely in Jerusalem on March 8, 2020.

Tzipi Hotovely Is the Ugly, Extremist Face of Israel. British Jews Should Welcome Her

Prof. Avner Ben-Amos of Tel Aviv University's School of Education, June 2020.

In Israeli Textbooks, the Palestinians Are All but Invisible

Yehudah Webster.

‘As a Jew of Color, I Need People in My Community to Speak Up’

A 2004 demonstration by members of the Ta’ayush anti-occupation movement. The word that recurs constantly when talking to activists who opted to leave Israel is “despair.”

After Losing Hope for Change, Top Left-wing Activists and Scholars Leave Israel Behind

Polish police officers during WWII. From the book “Na Posterunku," by Jan Grabowski

Polish Police Had Key Role in Nazi Final Solution, Explosive Research Shows

Screenshot of Kevin MacDonald giving a lecture on the 'Psychological Mechanism of White Dispossession' hosted by Logik Förlag, a far right publisher in Sweden. April 2015

Why Jewish Publications Give Platform to Jew-hating White Supremacists

the Semiramis Hotel bombing in Jerusalem’s Katamon neighborhood by the Haganah’s Moriah battalion, January 1948.

Assassinations, Terror Attacks and Even Castration – the Hidden Actions of Israel's Pre-state Militia

The glass sky bridge called the Crystal, designed by Israeli-born Canadian architect Moshe Safdie in conjunction with CapitaLand developers, in Chongqing, China, June 2020

Israeli Architect's 'Horizontal Skyscraper' Finally Open to Brave Visitors

Tweet showing new mural showing George Floyd wearing a keffiyeh by Palestinian artist Walid Ayoub on the West Bank separation wall

Leave Palestine Out of Black Lives Matter. For Now

Nir and Julia Shemesh.

‘Not Really Welcome’: These Interfaith Couples Wanted to Live in Israel. Now They're Living in Limbo

Jeremiah 10:1

DNA Unlocks the Secrets of the Dead Sea Scrolls

A woman jogs past sunbathers in Stockholm, Sweden May, 2020. Headlines declared that the Swedes admit that their model for dealing with COVID-19 has collapsed. They were incorrect.

Sweden Is the Key Coronavirus Test Case in Preparing for a Second Wave

Seal impressions of Immadiyawm, meaning YHWH is with me. There is a possibility that Immadiyawn served as High Priest, or Priest in the temple at Dan since one of his seal was found in close context with the sanctuary

Names Reveal What’s History and What’s Myth in the Bible, Researcher Says

Coronavirus mask left on the beach in Tel Aviv

Why No One Can Explain the Drop in Coronavirus Cases in Israel

Canaanite sarcophagi (Israel Museum)

Jews and Arabs Share Genetic Link to Ancient Canaanites, Study Finds

Young fruit bats: NOT the source of the coronavirus.

Once and for All: No, We Didn’t Get the Coronavirus From Bats

Jerry Seinfeld performing in "23 Hours to Kill."

Sorry, Jerry Seinfeld, It’s Time to Retire – or Come Clean About Your Life

Cryptic carvings at Gobekli Tepe, 'world's oldest temple'

Archaeologists Find Hidden Pattern at ‘World’s Oldest Temple’ Göbekli Tepe