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ISRAEL NEWS

BREAKING NEWS

9:23 PM
El Al postpones flights to Newark, London, Kiev, and Budapest (Haaretz)
9:21 PM
Australian premier makes unannounced trip to Iraq (AP)
9:21 PM
Al-Qaida bombing in Yemen kills at least six (AP)
7:52 PM
Zahava Gal-On reelected Meretz chairwoman (Haaretz)
7:33 PM
Journalist Sharon Gal to run in Yisrael Beiteinu list (Haaretz)
6:37 PM
Boko Haram seizes army base in northeast Nigeria (Reuters)
4:23 PM
Supreme Court orders security wall construction near Battir stopped, until new plan drawn (Haaretz)
4:06 PM
Defense Ministry preparing security arrangements in Jerusalem in light of expected storms (Haaretz)
3:45 PM
Report: 18-year-old Palestinian wounded after shot in leg by IDF forces in West Bank (Haaretz)
3:25 PM
Shin Bet arrests Palestinian militants suspected of creating ISIS-affiliated cell (Haaretz)
3:15 PM
Report: Egypt begins expanding Sinai buffer zone (Haaretz)
3:13 PM
Iran's president: Nuclear talks a matter of heart (AP)
2:18 PM
Suspected militants stab Tunisian policeman to death (Reuters)
1:37 PM
Report: Jordan halts talks with Israel over $15 billion gas deal (Haaretz)
1:18 PM
Suspected Al-Qaida militant kills senior Yemeni army officer (Reuters)

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Jerusalem & Babylon

by Anshel Pfeffer

Outlawing racism won’t erase it

The leader of the extreme Jewish anti-assimilation group Lehava is a Judah Maccabee of our time.

By Anshel Pfeffer | Dec 19, 2014 | 03:30 AM

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

Police raid homes of anti-Arab activists, 10 arrested
By Chaim Levinson and Haaretz | 3
Jerusalem court extends remand of leader of anti-Arab group Lehava
By Chaim Levinson
Shin Bet: Anti-Arab activists admit to J'lem school arson
By Gili Cohen | 21
Israel Police arrests four more anti-Arab activists from rightist group Lehava
By Yair Ettinger
Israel must ban racist group Lehava
By Dror Mizrahi | 1

Yishai and Deri

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

The infighting at Shas is not particularly remarkable, but the prospect that some of its ranks may join a party not from the ultra-Orthodox ranks would break its hegemony.

By Anshel Pfeffer | Dec 14, 2014 | 10:21 AM

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

The election is a sideshow to our real struggle

The malaise in democracy and growing tolerance of xenophobia is not unique to Israel or the Jews. It’s a sickness running through the Western world.

By Anshel Pfeffer | Dec 6, 2014 | 04:08 AM | 3

Knesset.

Jewish nation-state law will make us all second-class citizens

The proposed bill disenfranchises both Jewish and non-Jewish Israelis since we will all live in a diminished democracy.

By Anshel Pfeffer | Nov 27, 2014 | 08:08 PM

Scene of the terror attack in Har Nof synagogue, Jerusalem.

Let's not turn Judaism into a death cult

In countering the Palestinian attempt to 'contextualize' Tuesday's slaughter in a Jerusalem synagogue, we must avoid glorifying Jewish martyrdom.

By Anshel Pfeffer | Nov 20, 2014 | 08:50 PM | 2

Sheldon Adelson, April 11, 2012.

How kosher is Jewish money?

Israelis have the most to lose from the destructive potential of donations from the likes of Haim Saban and Sheldon Adelson. We should thank them for bringing this debate out into the open.

By Anshel Pfeffer | Nov 14, 2014 | 01:07 AM | 4

Anti-racism rally in Jerusalem, July 2, 2014.

For a joint Jewish-Arab intifada in the Holy City

The conflict aside, Israel’s eternal unified capital is a dysfunctional mess.

By Anshel Pfeffer | Nov 7, 2014 | 03:00 AM

Temple Mount Faithful

The Temple Mount has gone mainstream

The shooting of Yehuda Glick is a stark reminder that those seeking a return to Judaism’s holiest site are no longer a bunch of fringe extremists. We dismiss them at our peril.

By Anshel Pfeffer | Oct 31, 2014 | 03:21 AM

Jews on Temple Mount

Rights and wrongs in a troubled Jerusalem

The city dodged a bullet with the election of new chief rabbis for the first time in 11 years, but tension in Jerusalem is at its highest since the end of the second intifada.

By Anshel Pfeffer | Oct 23, 2014 | 08:35 PM | 3

A London taxi drives by a pro-Palestinian rally in Parliament Square, London, October 13, 2014

How British Jewry and Israel fumbled the U.K. Palestine vote

The community mobilized to block recognition of Palestine in parliament – despite Israel's policy of ignoring the vote.

By Anshel Pfeffer | Oct 17, 2014 | 05:21 AM | 7

An ultra-Orthodox man at Ben-Gurion International Airport

Don’t blame seat-switching ultra-Orthodox men for air rage

If we want to see ourselves as belonging to the enlightened section of the Jewish people, there are better ways to use our time in the air than getting offended by the Haredim.

By Anshel Pfeffer | Oct 9, 2014 | 07:12 PM | 14

African asylum seekers after leaving Holot open detention centre in protest, June 2014

The question Netanyahu would prefer to duck

Israel’s stance on African asylum seekers should never have been linked to politics - it is about human and Jewish values, and trying to build a better society.

By Anshel Pfeffer | Oct 2, 2014 | 10:42 PM | 2

A Gaza war protest in London, July 26, 2014.

5774, the year of blaming the Jews

How much of what we saw and heard this summer on the streets of Paris or Berlin was really about Gaza anyway?

By Anshel Pfeffer | Sep 23, 2014 | 10:38 PM | 7

All Haaretz Bloggers

A Special Place in Hell

by Bradley Burston

West of Eden

by Chemi Shalev

Jerusalem & Babylon

by Anshel Pfeffer

Routine Emergencies

by Allison Kaplan Sommer

Jerusalem Vivendi

by Ilene Prusher

David's Harp

by David Rosenberg

Diplomania

by Barak Ravid

Exposure: Haaretz Photo Blog

by Daniel Tchetchik

Modern Manna

by Vered Guttman

Strenger than Fiction

by Carlo Strenger

The Fifth Question

by Mira Sucharov

The Lighthouse

by Rabbi Eliyahu Fink

Outside Edge

by Matthew Kalman

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

Singer Arik Einstein PR

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

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