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Woman takes cover as rocket siren sounds in Ashkelon, Israel, July 14, 2014.

Dear Mr. Netanyahu: Be a man. End this war

Dear Mr. Netanyahu,As you know, this week, on Tuesday, Jews the world over will be fasting from dawn until sundown, to mark a...

By Bradley Burston | 05:48 PM | 2

The family of murdered Palestinian teenager Mohammed Abu Khdeir, July 6, 2014.

An Israeli Jew's apology to Palestinians

I owe you an apology. I owe you many, in fact. Many more than I have space for here. But a person has to begin somewhere. So I'll...

By Bradley Burston | 04:41 PM | 24

Mourners light candles for the three teens in Elad, June 29, 2014.

Kidnap Denial: Blaming the victim of tragedy

Three teens are dead. Families are wounded beyond measure. There is no solace here. There is no healing here. There is no...

By Bradley Burston | 05:27 PM | 5

West of Eden

Khaled Meshal - Reuters - December 8, 2012.

Catch-22 in Gaza: How Israel always winds up as Hamas’ best friend

There are three major types of symbioses in nature: mutualism, in which both sides benefit; commensalism, in which one side...

By Chemi Shalev | 07:56 PM

An Iron Dome missile flies through the sky above Tel Aviv to intercept a missile fired from Gaza

Fear, loathing and frustration in Tel Aviv, with small slivers of hope

1. The thing that struck me almost immediately when I arrived in Israel ten days ago was the palpable sense of despondence....

By Chemi Shalev | 09:11 PM

Police evacuate an Arab man from a Jewish mob. Jerusalem, July 1, 2014.

Berlin, 1933 and Jerusalem, 2014: When racist thugs are on the prowl

On March 9, 1933, brown-shirted Sturmabteilung went on a rampage. In several parts of Berlin a large number of people, most of...

By Chemi Shalev | 08:10 PM

Diplomania

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

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, in 2013.

The Netanyahu family's budget for groceries? Almost $4,000 a month

How much money do Benjamin and Sara Netanyahu spend annually on food from the supermarket? I’m not sure they even know. After...

By Barak Ravid | 07:37 PM | 8

Israeli ambassador to Canada accuses Palestinian artist of 'glorifying terrorism’ with exhibition

Israel’s ambassador to Canada, Rafael Barak, has launched a campaign against an exhibition by a Palestinian artist currently on...

By Barak Ravid | 10:07 PM | 19

Routine Emergencies

Save Israel from rocket fire .... by covering your elbows?

Dressing modestly in the summer heat, eating ice cream and saving Israel from Hamas rockets sound like utterly unrelated...

By Allison Kaplan Sommer | 12:29 PM

The only way Israelis can win the PR battle: Die more

For a snapshot of how the conflict between Israel and Hamas is playing out in the world media, one need look no further than...

By Allison Kaplan Sommer | 01:01 PM | 2

Selfies in the bomb shelter: How Israelis cope when rockets fall

When the going gets tough, the tough take selfies. That’s the attitude that Sara Eisen, a resident of Beit Shemesh decided to...

By Allison Kaplan Sommer | 08:14 AM | 2

Outside Edge

Volunteers answer calls at the police hotline center in Jerusalem, Sept. 1, 2013.

When the emergency hotline goes cold

Frustration was added to the dreadful trauma of the families of the three Israeli teenagers abducted in the West Bank when it...

By Matthew Kalman | 03:28 PM | 2

Prof. Mohammed S. Dajani at Al-Quds University

Did Auschwitz trip lead to Palestinian professor's resignation?

Mohammed Dajani, the Al-Quds University professor who received plaudits and threats earlier this year after leading the first...

By Matthew Kalman | 12:13 AM | 13

Suspect in Brussels shooting Mehdi Nemmouche, on France 2.

Syrian shooting, European blood

The map of the Middle East lying on the desk of Maj. Gen. Aviv Kochavi in the weeks before he left his position as head of...

By Matthew Kalman | 06:57 PM | 7

The Lighthouse

Orthodox Jews - and all Jews - owe President Obama a big 'thank you'

President Obama’s editorial in Haaretz elicited predictable partisan responses. Supporters of the president and Israel gleefully...

By Rabbi Eliyahu Fink | 02:27 PM

Rachelle and Avi Fraenkel, parents of Naftali, one of the three teens who were kidnaped and killed.

What do we tell our kids about the West Bank kidnap? What do we tell ourselves?

The devastating news reverberates throughout the Jewish world. Our worst fears have been confirmed. We won’t be able to...

By Rabbi Eliyahu Fink | 02:37 AM | 2

At the Rafah crossing between Egypt and the southern Gaza Strip. September 19, 2013.

Seven years on, the EU can’t give up its Gaza million-dollar sleeping beauty

In the Sir Humphrey-esque world of European Union waste, the EUBAM mission in Gaza might just be the jewel in the crown.Sir...

By Matthew Kalman | 09:48 PM | 2

Eyes Wide Open

Iron Dome intercepts rocket fired toward Ashkelon.

The Iron Dome over our consciences

My friend Eldad Yaniv happened to be in his apartment building’s stairwell yesterday when the siren went off. Where in the world...

By Uri Misgav | 05:31 AM | 4

Economy Minister Naftali Bennett speaks at Haaretz's Israel Conference on Peace, July 8, 2014.

Heckles or applause, punch or shove? || What really happened to Bennett at the Israel Conference for Peace

I understand that in addition to Operation Protective Edge and its consequences, Israeli citizens are concerned about Tuesday’s...

By Uri Misgav | 10:04 PM

Jerusalem anti-Arab demo, arrests. July 1, 2014

The settler right dictates Israel's response

A few hours after the bodies of the murdered teens were found, a stormy meeting of the diplomatic-security cabinet ended with no...

By Uri Misgav | 05:59 AM | 3

Jerusalem Vivendi

Tariq Abu Khdier is hugged by his mother

Mourning by day, mayhem by night: Shoafat still seethes

Tariq Abu Khdeir begged his mother to take him on a trip to Jerusalem; she agreed on condition he got his grades up. An...

By Ilene Prusher | 09:11 AM

Volunteers in Sadr City, Baghdad, June 21, 2014

ISIS forging ahead as Iraq's allies dither

On a searing hot June day in Baghdad, I set out to interview disgruntled Iraqi soldiers and police officers. Not only did they...

By Ilene Prusher | 03:17 PM | 2

In Iraq, Sunnis, Shi'ites and Kurds wonder: Is this the beginning of the end?

On a Friday in June 2003, Amina dressed me in black and took me to prayers at the shrine of Imam Khadim in northern Baghdad. She...

By Ilene Prusher | 02:51 PM | 3

Strenger than Fiction

The damage caused by an IRA bomb blast in London's Docklands, 1996

What Northern Ireland can teach us about the Hamas problem

Hamas’ impact on the Israel-Palestine conflict has been phenomenally destructive. The organization has made sure to undermine any...

By Carlo Strenger | 03:33 PM

Psychological obstacles to peace in Israel

Europeans and Americans keep asking a simple question: Everybody knows how the final peace agreement between Israel and the...

By Carlo Strenger | 01:30 AM | 3

Orthodoxy is not the sole 'original' Judaism

There has been quite a commotion about President-elect Reuven Rivlin’s position on Orthodoxy’s monopoly on Judaism. Reform rabbis...

By Carlo Strenger | 02:42 PM | 6

Modern Manna

Chocolate balls, seconds before they’re gone.

Cooking camp for pre-teens

You see, it’s pretty simple, I told my kids on the fourth day of our cooking camp, as I arranged four thick ribeye steaks on...

By Vered Guttman | 09:41 AM

The dinner shakshuka, an Israeli summer perennial

All has already been written about the famous Israeli breakfast of a large chopped Arabic salad, eggs, labneh, feta and other...

By Vered Guttman | 01:06 AM

Sabra's odd idea about what 'real' hummus is

In a bold marketing move, Sabra Dipping Co. filed a citizen petition to the Food and Drug Administration, urging it to adopt a...

By Vered Guttman | 05:39 AM | 5

The Fifth Question

What is really fueling the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?

With the murder of the four teens, followed by Hamas rockets and Israeli missile strikes, regional players and interested parties...

By Mira Sucharov | 11:52 AM

A photo of bullets spelling out the word 'revenge' in Hebrew alongside IDF insignia.

For or against the Israeli-Palestinian status quo? It's a word game

When, one day, the bloody and hateful Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been reduced from a roiling boil to a quiet simmer, the...

By Mira Sucharov | 07:53 PM

Complex theater behind Arab teen's pledge of loyalty to Israel

Every once in a while, a shred of cultural discourse a speech, a poem, a song, or a graffiti campaign, emerges with such...

By Mira Sucharov | 10:45 PM

Haaretz Select

In war, make time for sex, says Dr. Ruth

A rapt crowd of Tel Avivians took time out from the Israel-Hamas conflict to glean some secrets on good sex.

By Alona Ferber | Health & Fitness | 2

Don’t partition Iraq along ethnic lines

By Dr. Mostafa Minawi | Opinion

A Muslim youth prays inside the Dome of the Rock during the holy fasting month of Ramadan

Fasting amid fighting for the self and others

At a time of religious fasting and mourning, will Jews and Muslims let our national narratives send us into a pit of hatred? Or will we find it in our hearts to empathize with the plight of the other, fixing ourselves and those around us?

By Rabbi Yehoshua Looks / Jewish World blogger | Rabbis' Round Table

What would Nelson Mandela do?

By Eetta Prince-Gibson | Features

The sun sets behind the Gaza Strip

By Haaretz | National

Dawn of time: Why the Planet of the Apes story has endured

By Uri Klein | Movies & Television

Opinions & Blogs

The way to achieve real quiet in Gaza

Although Hamas has officially rejected the Egyptian cease-fire proposal, it is clear that Israel is not interested in breaking...

Ari Shavit

The Hamas challenge and Israel's wasted years

Gideon Levy

Would you want to live in the new Israel that is beckoning?

Israel Harel

Iron Dome is a tactical treasure but strategic danger

Seth Lipsky

As violent anti-Semitism rises, will France expel its Jews?

Sagi Barmak

The left’s intolerable voice

Nehemia Dagan

Israeli pilots and blind obedience? That’s nonsense

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