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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a Likud party meeting, Dec. 8, 2014.

In 2015, Hamas wants Netanyahu to win. Six reasons why - and now a new one

I just read a heartrending post from a friend. Adele Raemer is a longtime resident of Kibbutz Nirim. A few hundred people...

By Bradley Burston | 06:35 PM | 2

Joe Cocker: A modest, self-immolating steel mill of a man

When you first caught sight of him, it was all but impossible to watch what he was doing. Almost immediately, though, it...

By Bradley Burston | 02:07 PM

A model of ancient Jerusalem with the Second Temple (Orel Cohen)

Hanukkah in a dark Israel: There's more than one way to defile a Temple

"1 And Nadav and Avihu, the sons of Aaron, took each of them his firepan, and put fire therein, and laid incense thereon, and...

By Bradley Burston | 05:07 PM

West of Eden

Barack Obama, John Kerry and Samantha Power

U.S. blocks Palestinians at UN while cementing support for 1967 borders

American Jewish organizations utilized a rare opportunity to lavish praise on Tuesday night on the Obama administration, in...

By Chemi Shalev | 04:58 AM | 7

Tzipi Livni as forest zombie and other scenes from the Israeli right’s 'war on women'

If the Likud’s Danny Danon was an American politician, the Democrats would be jumping for joy right now - and the Republicans...

By Chemi Shalev | 08:36 PM | 6

Israel's March 17 elections will be historic (as usual)

The upcoming March 17 Israeli elections will be “historic”, Tzipi Livni said this week. “Elections that will change the...

By Chemi Shalev | 12:15 AM

Jerusalem & Babylon

A burnt classroom at Max Rayne Yad be Yad School in Jerusalem. November 30, 2014.

Outlawing racism won’t erase it

A senior law enforcement official boasted this week of how the police and Shin Bet have been working for months on a dossier...

By Anshel Pfeffer | 03:30 AM

Drama on the streets of Jerusalem: Israel's powerful ultra-Orthodox party on the verge of collapse

Most of the political attention in Israel this week was focused on the imminent alliance between the Labor Party and Tzipi...

By Anshel Pfeffer | 10:21 AM

The election is a sideshow to our real struggle

In this dismal year, during which attacks on Jews around the world surged in the wake of the bloodshed in Gaza, the only...

By Anshel Pfeffer | 04:08 AM | 3

Routine Emergencies

Campaign posters for Miri Regev outside of a polling station.

An unlikely feminist victory in ultra-Orthodox Bnei Brak

There was plenty of fighting and squabbling within the Likud party on the day of their primaries Wednesday, but that’s par for...

By Allison Kaplan Sommer | 02:49 PM

Shelly Yachimovich, Merav Michaeli, Daniel Ben-Simon, Uri Orbach, Nitzan Horowitz, Yinon Magal,

Journalist one day - politician the next. The trendiest career change in Israel raises some disturbing questions

Is it the terribly depressing state of journalism as a career path or the attraction of political power and public life? Or do...

By Allison Kaplan Sommer | 12:20 PM

The Israeli army Hanukkah tweet that creeped the world out

It was meant to be just one in an inspiring series of photos of Israeli soldiers lighting Hanukkah candles launched into...

By Allison Kaplan Sommer | 11:40 PM

Jerusalem Vivendi

Using Nazi settings and DNA tests, Jewish photographer quashes 'the fiction of German blood'

Rainer Hoess, the grandson of Rudolf Hoess, the Kommandant of Auschwitz, stands at the barbed-wire fence of Buchenwald...

By Ilene Prusher | 01:15 AM | 6

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott and his wife Margaret lay wreaths at a makeshift memorial.

2014 was the year of the 'lone wolf' terrorist

Man Haron Monis was no stranger to Australian law enforcement authorities. The man who made the city of Sydney freeze up in...

By Ilene Prusher | 03:08 PM

In Israel, a 'zero tolerance' policy on hate crimes just isn't enough

The floor is soggy. The air is acrid. The walls are black. There is always a terrible smell after a fire that was set to...

By Ilene Prusher | 11:33 PM

Exposure: Haaretz photo blog

An Israeli photographer on the ISIS front

"I don't tend to go shopping abroad. We have everything here. And since I don't like to carry a lot of things, I am...

By Daniel Tchetchik | 04:02 PM | 3

Haaretz Photo Blog || Nursing project: A mother's lens into her intimate world

I launched my 'Nursing Project' when I became a mother for the first time. As a woman and a photographer, I sought to document...

By Daniel Tchetchik | 08:16 PM

Haaretz Photography Blog || Tel Aviv in the '80s: A city on the verge of change

I started taking photographs in the 1980s. I studied photography at Camera Obscura, and it was while I was living in Tel...

By Daniel Tchetchik | 04:27 PM

Diplomania

Lieberman and the Swedish foreign minister: Boycott or campaign spin?

Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallström on Wednesday was surprised to hear that her Israeli counterpart, Avigdor Lieberman,...

By Barak Ravid | 05:35 PM

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry boards his plane in Paris, as he returns to Washington, Saturday

Kerry's latest cease-fire plan: What was he thinking?

The press conference U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry convened together with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Egyptian...

By Barak Ravid | 12:14 AM | 13

Ex-U.S. envoy Indyk feels 'battered' after nine months of peace talks

One day after Martin Indyk announced his resignation as U.S. envoy to the Middle East Peace Process, he spoke out Saturday about...

By Barak Ravid | 09:27 PM

Outside Edge

Israel’s latest export success is British

Israeli technology is great. Israeli marketing sucks. That’s why the latest big thing emerging from the country’s tech sector...

By Matthew Kalman | 06:19 PM

The other 'Great Escape': The Jews who tunneled their way to freedom

It wasn’t the Nazis who cut off Jack Kagan’s toes, it was the Jews. Jack was only 13 years old and there was no doctor...

By Matthew Kalman | 03:03 AM

What's the one thing Netanyahu and Abbas have in common?

As tensions between Israelis and Palestinians spike, violence spreads and hopes for peace plummet, Benjamin Netanyahu and...

By Matthew Kalman | 01:24 PM

David's Harp

2014: Israel's Year of the Hamster

By David Rosenberg | 04:17 PM

A cartel we'll have to learn to live with

By David Rosenberg | 08:36 AM

Israeli economy: Dark spots and points of light (Dreamstime.com)

Everything you thought you knew about the Israeli economy is wrong

By David Rosenberg | 03:55 PM

Modern Manna

Passion fruit and white chocolate yogurt mousse.

Outrageous desserts for your New Year's Eve party

By Vered Guttman | 10:50 PM

Spicy Chinese eggplant and sirloin steak with cucumber and herbs salad

A very Jewish Christmas: Chinese and a movie

By Vered Guttman | 05:04 PM

Latkes bar: potato latkes with poached egg, avocado, kale chips and sriracha

Treat your loved ones to a festive latkes bar

By Vered Guttman | 10:05 PM

Strenger than Fiction

Netanyahu must fall, but center-left victory faces high hurdles

By Carlo Strenger | 11:45 PM | 2

Theodor Herzl at the Fifth Zionist Congress, 1901

Meet the worst anti-Zionist of them all

By Carlo Strenger | 05:30 PM

Likud MK Moshe Feiglin at the Western Wall after a visit to the Temple Mount, November 2, 2014.

The right’s prayer: Apocalypse now!

By Carlo Strenger | 10:34 AM | 2

The Lighthouse

Exodus: Gods and Kings is a terrible movie - but you should see it anyway

By Rabbi Eliyahu Fink | 08:22 PM

Rabbis, scandal, voyeurism - and protecting converts to Judaism from abuse

By Rabbi Eliyahu Fink | 05:17 PM

Baltimore Ravens football player Ray Rice holds hands with his wife

Repentance and forgiveness in the age of YouTube

By Rabbi Eliyahu Fink | 09:09 PM

The Fifth Question

Rally calling on UN to recognize Palestine

Why (some) Israelis are allergic to the word 'Palestine'

By Mira Sucharov | 01:25 AM | 3

A woman gestures during a protest along a street in Ferguson, Missouri on August 19, 2014.

Which Hanukkah message will win out in today's Jewish political and social climate?

By Mira Sucharov | 09:14 PM

Comedian Bill Cosby performs at the Stand Up for Heroes event at Madison Square Garden in New York,

The trouble with the king who was Cosby

By Mira Sucharov | 06:07 PM

Haaretz Select

The cholera antidote with the letter, believed to have been written by Dr. Waldemar Haffkine

How did a cholera vaccine end up in a Zionist archive?

Prototype vaccine was developed by Dr. Waldemar Haffkine, a pioneer in combating epidemics, but it's unclear how it ended up in Israel.

By Nir Hasson | Science & Medicine | 2

This Day | Americans elect their first Jewish governor

By David B. Green | This Day in Jewish History

Overlooked Arik Einstein song makes radio debut

'What’s Going On Here.' recorded in the early '70s by the late Israeli icon, is a gem if not a classic.

By Ben Shalev | National

If Palestinians join ICC, Israel’s actions may trigger court’s jurisdiction

By Aeyal Gross | Diplomacy and Defense | 67

The death that ignited Israel's secular-religious rift

By Nir Hasson | Features

How I survived the tsunami, 10 meters underwater

By Yossi Hasson | Features

Opinions & Blogs

IDF mustn't interfere with probe into Gaza war

The Israel Defense Forces’ attempts to halt criminal investigations launched by its Military Police branch following last...

Raviv Drucker

Yair Lapid hasn't earned a second chance

Gideon Levy

Israel pursuing revenge for revenge’s sake in Etti Alon case

Zeev Sternhell

If I were a Palestinian

Yossi Sarid

Conductor unbecoming: Portrait of the artist as an ugly man

Gideon Levy

I love Israel - and I apologize

Yoel Marcus

Four comments on Israel's situation