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Netherlands grants public access to dossiers on 425,000 suspected Nazi collaborators

Documents at Dutch Central Archives were previously available only to researchers and relatives of those accused

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What Matters Now to David Horovitz: Freedom of the press under attack

Marking five years of the our Daily Briefing podcast, ToI’s editor also discusses the challenges of wartime reporting and how the military censor...

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Daily Briefing Jan. 3: Day 455 – Why the IDF abandoned the offensive and ended up with Oct. 7

Starting with the origins of the IDF, diplomatic correspondent Lazar Berman charts the army’s evolving ethos and sets the stage for the disaster...

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Daily Briefing Dec. 31: Day 452 – How Israel remembers US president Jimmy Carter

Editor David Horovitz on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s health, fraught ongoing hostage negotiations, and a look at the US leader who brokered...

31.12.2024 5

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Foreign Ministry to receive massive budget for public diplomacy abroad

Foreign Minister Sa’ar does not detail what money will be used for, but the hefty funding was part of deal for his joining Netanyahu government

29.12.2024 30

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Palestinian journalist shot dead in Jenin; family blames PA, which blames ‘outlaws’

Death of Shatha al-Sabbagh comes as PA security services clash with terror operatives in West Bank city; family says shooting happened with no...

29.12.2024 30

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Daily Briefing Dec. 29: Day 450 – ToI reports from semi-permanent IDF bases inside Gaza

Military reporter Emanuel Fabian on the IDF operations at Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital, rocket fire on Jerusalem and the massive buffer zone of the...

29.12.2024 40

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What Matters Now to comedian Yochay Sponder: Post-Oct. 7 truth — with laughs

Considering it his ‘reserve duty,’ the veteran Israeli comedian uses his heavily Hebrew-inflected English to point out global hypocrisy and remind...

27.12.2024 30

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Daily Briefing Dec. 27: Day 448 – Irish stew over Israeli embassy closure. What’s next?

Diplomatic reporter Lazar Berman dives deep into the roots of apparent Irish animus against the Jewish state and harkens to the mandate period when...

27.12.2024 30

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Daily Briefing Dec. 21: Day 442 – Are Gazan death figures being cynically inflated?

Andrew Fox, a research fellow at the UK-based Henry Jackson Society, assesses the IDF operations and dissects a new report that questions media...

21.12.2024 30

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Daily Briefing Dec. 16: Day 437 – How is the ceasefire holding? ToI reports from Lebanon

Diplomatic reporter Lazar Berman updates us on renewed optimism for a Gaza hostage release deal and why Israel is shuttering its embassy in Ireland

16.12.2024 40

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Daily Briefing Dec. 13, Day 434: Israel’s Syria problem – and Israel’s Syria solution

Until the Syrian civil war, Israel held back-channel talks for a truce with Syria. Diplomatic reporter Lazar Berman charts Israel’s evolving...

13.12.2024 40

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Daily Briefing Dec. 10: Day 431 – Decrying ‘witch hunt,’ PM begins to testify in trial

Chief Editor David Horovitz on the allegations Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is facing and his goals in taking the stand; how the PM frames the...

10.12.2024 20

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Daily Briefing Dec. 9: Day 430 – IDF shores up buffer zone as Syrian rebels grasp power

Diplomatic reporter Lazar Berman on the domino effect of Israel’s decimation of Iranian-backed forces and how the success of the Syrian rebels...

09.12.2024 20

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What Matters Now to two Jewish student leaders at Columbia: ‘Intifada’ on campus

Eden Yadegar, president of Students Supporting Israel, and Elisha H. Baker, a Columbia Political Review editor, describe the antisemitism that led to...

03.05.2024 30

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What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: Is it wise for US to blacklist IDF unit?

ToI’s senior analyst discusses the genesis of Netzah Yehuda, an IDF ‘social work project’ for disenfranchised religious men that is...

26.04.2024 60

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What Matters Now to Mideast analyst Avi Issacharoff: Iran can have nukes in 6 months

Seasoned journalist and ‘Fauda’ co-creator spells out how nuclear Iran must be treated as Israel’s prime existential threat, even as...

19.04.2024 50

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What Matters Now to David Horovitz: The conflicts of war coverage

Six months on, The Times of Israel’s founding editor weighs in on the challenges confronting the Jerusalem-based news site bent on providing...

12.04.2024 60

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McDonald’s to acquire franchised restaurants in Israel amid boycott calls

Fast food firm to purchase Alonyal, which has run restaurants in Israel for 30 years, as war prompts slump in company’s performance

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What Matters Now to Micah Goodman: This is a war of independence for Israelis and Gazans

After six months, the Jewish state is faced with only bad choices, but leaving Hamas in power in the Gaza Strip would be suicidal for both Israelis...

05.04.2024 50

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What Matters Now to mourning mother Hannah Wacholder Katsman: Personal & national grief

On October 7, son Hayim Katsman was killed by terrorists from Gaza at Kibbutz Holit as he shielded a neighbor with his body. Knowing he’s a hero...

29.03.2024 20

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What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: Is Netanyahu an obstacle to victory?

ToI’s senior analyst on how the world worries Netanyahu won’t bring peace; Israelis worry he won’t win the war

22.03.2024 30

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What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: Hamas starves Gazans as a war tactic

As humanitarian aid efforts are ramped up via land, air and sea, the IDF must decide how many of its soldiers to divert to protecting the convoys...

15.03.2024 30

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What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: Campus antisemitism makes new Zionists

Just back from a speaking tour at US colleges, ToI’s senior analyst describes increased ostracism of Jewish students on campus – and an...

08.03.2024 30

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What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: Haredim have to defend Israel, too

ToI’s senior analyst weighs in on the increasingly heavy burden shouldered by secular and religious-Zionist Israel

01.03.2024 60

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What Matters Now to Ksenia Svetlova: Russia’s new position on the global ‘Risk’ board

Two years since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the former MK – an expert on her native Russia and the Middle East – weighs in on the Red...

23.02.2024 20

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What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: UNRWA’s problem isn’t the terrorists in its ranks

The UN agency keeps Palestinians eternal ‘refugees’ – even if they have citizenship. As staff collaboration with Hamas surfaces,...

16.02.2024 30

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What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: Clashing visions of victory

What does winning the Israel-Hamas war look like, not only for those fighting in Gaza, but also for the Palestinian Authority, the United States and...

09.02.2024 20

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What Matters Now to author Shlomo Brody: Jewish ethics and the Israel-Hamas War

When the imperative of self-defense brushes up against terrorists using innocent civilians as hostages and human shields, what should the most moral...

02.02.2024 30

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What Matters Now to Yossi Klein Halevi: 5 big questions about the war

Noted author weighs in on the tough issues facing Israel and the Jewish people now – and how to conceive of the foreseeable future

26.01.2024 90

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What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: What Israelis think about the suffering in Gaza

ToI’s senior analyst joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan in the Jerusalem office for a difficult conversation about Israelis’ awareness of the...

19.01.2024 20

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What Matters Now to Mishy Harman: 3 ‘postcards’ from wartime Israel

In our monthly compilation episode with Israel Story, we hear from a resident of Sderot pushing to resettle Gush Katif, a philanthropist and a...

12.01.2024 30

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What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: How the court just redefined its own powers

ToI’s senior analyst weighs in on the unprecedented Supreme Court decision and whether it will reignite the existential debate over judicial...

05.01.2024 40

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What Matters Now to US Jewish leader William Daroff: Where are our allies?

CEO of Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations describes a ‘second punch in the gut’ by those who misjudge the...

29.12.2023 30

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What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: Wartime polls and unexpected conclusions

ToI’s senior analyst sifts through a slew of surveys on perceptions of Hamas, Israel and the day after the war. The results are often...

22.12.2023 20

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What Matters Now to Prof. Amichai Cohen: Is the IDF acting legally in Gaza?

Questions answered include how Israel derives its legal legitimacy for self-defense and how, postwar, to try Hamas for international crimes against...

15.12.2023 40

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What Matters Now to Israel Story’s Mishy Harman: ‘A person is a person is a person’

In three very different slices of Israeli life right now, we hear from parents of a hostage, an evacuee from Gush Katif and a peace activist who is...

08.12.2023 10

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