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3:53 AM
Police blow up device found near NYC bombing (AP)
2:56 AM
Clinton, Trump to both meet with Egyptian president at UN (Reuters)
12:54 AM
Russia's ruling party wins 51% in election, according to preliminary tally (Reuters)
10:34 PM
Fire breaks out at apartment building in Jerusalem's Givat Mordechai, people said trapped (Haaretz)
9:06 PM
Russia's ruling party United Russia wins 44.5% in parliamentary election, exit poll shows (Reuters)
9:04 PM
FBI: Minnesota stabbings investigated as 'potential act of terrorism' (Haaretz)
8:35 PM
Saudis accuse Iran of supplying weapons to Shi'ite rebels in Yemen, urges UN to sanction Tehran (AP)
7:16 PM
Syria's UN ambassador: U.S. strikes that killed 63 soldiers can't be 'technical error' (Reuters)
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German far-right AfD party wins 11.5% of vote, enters Berlin State Assembly for first time (Reuters)
6:04 PM
ISIS says supporter behind Minnesota stabbing attack that wounded at least 8 (Reuters)
6:01 PM
Netanyahu to meet Obama on Wednesday on sidelines of UN General Assembly (Haaretz)
5:42 PM
Warplanes strike Syria's Aleppo for first time since cease-fire began, watchdog says (Reuters)
5:28 PM
NY Governor Cuomo: No indication that Chelsea blast linked to international terrorism (Reuters)
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Russia's Defense Ministry says tensions rising in Syria's Aleppo (Reuters)
3:04 PM
Syrian army says warplane downed after ISIS claims it shot down plane (Reuters)

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A Special Place in Hell

How to get away with anti-Semitism: A 'Pro-Israel' free pass for Ann Coulter

For decades, rightist defenders of Israel have written off criticism of hardline Israeli policies by branding the critics as...

By Bradley Burston | 06:06 PM | 6

Netanyahu in the Likud election headquarters after the release of the exit polls, March 18, 2015

My Yom Kippur resolution: I need to be a better Israeli

This year on the High Holidays, I find that I have a whole new attitude about Israel. I have one person to thank for this:...

By Bradley Burston | 02:35 PM | 8

Benjamin Netanyahu speaks in Congress, March 3, 2015.

Rosh Hashanah - The Jewish People's job this year: Cleaning up Netanyahu's mess

On this Rosh Hashanah, a terrible and all-too-familiar shadow refuses to leave the corner of our eye. We know in our own blood...

By Bradley Burston | 12:08 PM | 57

West of Eden

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressing the 37th World Zionist Congress, October 20, 2015.

There's a method to Netanyahu's Hitler-Mufti madness

Benjamin Netanyahu is a scion of personal and political dynasties of renowned orators. His grandfather, Nathan Mileikowsky, who...

By Chemi Shalev | 01:35 PM | 6

PM Netanyahu with Defence Minister, Ya'alon IDF chief Eisenkot and Public Security Minister Erdan. O

Why 'occupation-denial' impedes Israel’s war on terror

First, let’s take a sample survey. In Prime Minister Netanyahu’s two recent addresses to the Knesset about the latest wave of...

By Chemi Shalev | 08:19 PM | 24

Sanders was the star of Democrats’ debate - but Clinton was the winner

The first Democratic Party debate held on Tuesday night in Las Vegas pitted Hillary Clinton against Bernie Sanders with three...

By Chemi Shalev | 08:58 AM | 12

Jerusalem & Babylon

What's so holy about the Western Wall anyway?

A battalion of faceless trolls, funded by shadowy billionaires, were on high alert this week. They were ready to fire off angry...

By Anshel Pfeffer | 12:03 AM | 5

Jerusalem 10:45: First responders at the site of a terror attack in Jerusalem, October 7, 2015

We don't have the luxury to play the blame game

I asked a number of Palestinian parents in Jerusalem this week what it s like to walk around with the foreboding knowledge that...

By Anshel Pfeffer | 01:30 AM

Scene of the terror attack on Jerusalem's Malkhei Yisrael Street, October 13, 2015.

Jerusalem, back to its dismal bloody normal

In the decade between 1995 and 2005, when suicide bombings on Jerusalem buses were often a weekly, and sometimes a daily,...

By Anshel Pfeffer | 07:03 PM

Routine Emergencies

A Kurdish Peshmerga fighter he takes up position in an area overlooking Baretle village, controlled

What’s in a name? A guide to the subtle but serious implications of choosing ISIS, ISIL, Islamic State or Daesh

How can world leaders agree on how to fight a band of bloodthirsty extremists if we don’t know what to call them? In his...

By Allison Kaplan Sommer | 12:47 PM

Protecting our kids from terror without terrifying our kids

Crossing guard duty is the sixth-grade badge of pride at my daughter’s suburban Israeli elementary school. Each morning and...

By Allison Kaplan Sommer | 01:21 PM | 8

Why do we rush to call Palestinian violence an 'intifada?'

What’s in a name? Well, when it comes to choosing the proper moniker for an extended period of violent Palestinian actions...

By Allison Kaplan Sommer | 03:32 AM | 9

Jerusalem Vivendi

I didn’t carry a gun in Jerusalem; do I need one in Boca Raton?

Just a week after I started my new job teaching college journalism in the United States, two television journalists not much...

By Ilene Prusher | 04:51 PM | 4

Sukkot in Florida: Hurricanes, heat and Home Depot

The Sukkot holiday will begin in less than 24 hours. Yet here we sit in Florida on a Saturday night, wondering if we can still...

By Ilene Prusher | 01:44 PM | 4

A Deutsche Lufthansa AG airplane takes off at Tegel airport in Berlin, Germany, on Wednesday, Aug. 1

When I said I was leaving Israel, I got these 5 reactions

When you announce that you’re leaving Israel for America, people say the darndest things. Friends and colleagues have met the...

By Ilene Prusher | 10:06 PM | 17

Exposure: Haaretz photo blog

Haaretz Photo Blog || In East Jerusalem, the sky isn't exactly the limit

Abdullah Namer started with Parkour, or free running, at the tender age of 12. There was no one around to teach him or his...

By Daniel Tchetchik | 01:11 PM

Haaretz Photo Blog || Jerusalem of Magic: The hypnotic holy city takes hold

Two years ago, I moved to the center of Jerusalem, the heartland of religious life in Israel. Since then, I have lived as a...

By Daniel Tchetchik | 01:38 PM | 4

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

Diplomania

A screengrab of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's new Farsi Twitter account, @IsraeliPM_Farsi

Netanyahu catches Twitter by surprise, launching Farsi account ahead of Iran deal

Two tweets posted Monday afternoon to the Twittersphere caught no few professional tweeters covering the nuclear talks between...

By Barak Ravid | 03:09 AM

Fake New York Times front page posted by Israel's embassy in Washington.

The Israeli embassy tweet that will annoy the White House

Israel's Washington embassy on Thursday launched a barbed Twitter campaign against the nuclear agreement negotiations between...

By Barak Ravid | 11:40 PM | 13

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 | 4

Sayed Kashua

Either kill Sayed Kashua or make him equal

By Sayed Kashua | 05:15 PM | 10

Is heavenly hummus enough to make Sayed Kashua stay?

By Sayed Kashua | 04:47 PM | 3

Sayed Kashua finds an upside to being detained

By Sayed Kashua | 03:34 PM

David's Harp

Throwing rocks at Israeli forces near Beit El.

Blame this intifada on Facebook

By David Rosenberg | 04:57 AM | 4

Israeli security forces arresting a Palestinian in East Jerusalem

A third intifada will cost Israel much more than the first two

By David Rosenberg | 03:31 AM | 15

Protesting the unrest at Al-Aqsa, in Hebron

What could trigger a third intifada? The Palestinian economy, stupid

By David Rosenberg | 02:55 PM

Modern Manna

How to make the perfect hummus: A recipe

By Vered Guttman | 12:16 PM

Stuffed root vegetables with a tang: A recipe

By Vered Guttman | 08:50 PM

Preparing for the Yom Kippur fast, Moroccan-style: a recipe

By Vered Guttman | 05:00 AM

Strenger than Fiction

UKIP leader Nigel Farage poses during a media launch for a controversial EU referendum poster

Right-wing populism wins in Britain and Israel

By Carlo Strenger | 06:08 AM | 6

Im Tirtzu activists at Tel Aviv University clashing with other students

The battle for Israel is liberal vs illiberal, not right vs left

By Carlo Strenger | 04:34 PM | 7

Marchers at the Celebrate Israel Parade, in New York City, May 31, 2015

Memo to U.S. Jews: Defend Israel, support the Iran deal

By Carlo Strenger | 12:56 PM | 47

The Fifth Question

Sheldon Adelson, chairman and CEO of Las Vegas Sands, in September 2012.

Can Jewish institutions survive without mega donors?

By Mira Sucharov | 10:31 AM | 2

Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper with Netanyahu on side lines of UN General Assembly. Septembe

The Jewish specter haunting Canada's elections

By Mira Sucharov | 07:39 PM | 11

A screenshot of the trailer for P.S. Jerusalem

When making aliyah can lead to more questions than answers

By Mira Sucharov | 02:11 AM

Haaretz Select

Opinions & Blogs

Editorial || The time has come for Israel to expose its most secret firm

The Eilat-Ashkelon Pipeline Company is the most secretive firm in Israel, even though its connection to security is very...

Amira Hass

Silencing the delusions of an armed struggle

Odeh Bisharat

Apologies to the fuhrer

here?

Ari Shavit

Without Israeli-Palestinian border, disaster is inevitable

here?

Sara Hirschhorn

Netanyahu, Abbas and the death of historical truth

here?

Gideon Levy

The single-state solution is already here

here?

Rogel Alpher

An apology to my killer in the event of my death in the current wave of violence