Say It With Me: Bennett Is Establishing an Apartheid State

Haaretz Editor-in-Chief Aluf Benn offered a skillful analysis of Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s first 100 days in office in a piece published...

The Arch-terrorist in a Garbage Bin

The photo of Israel’s grand victory is worth a thousand words: The “brain” behind the escape and a “senior” Islamic Jihad member picking...

Yes, the Palestinian Prison Escapees Are Freedom Fighters

The six escaped Palestinian prisoners are the boldest freedom fighters imaginable. The Israelis who find this hard to admit would do well to recall...

Mourning Fallen Israeli Soldiers Is No Longer Sacred. That's a Good Thing

If the sharpshooter who was killed through a slit in the Gaza border fence were Druze, public and media discussion would have ended the day after his...

President Herzog's Merry Visit to Israel's Apartheid Schools

The president of the apartheid state and his wife conducted a state visit this week to “white farms” in the West Bank. The new president, who is...

Bennett Isn't a Leader, He's a Manager. That's What Israel Wants

Israel’s chief maintenance officer will return home Sunday after having racked up another proven accomplishment: The White House meeting went off...

Everyone's Worried About a Wounded Israeli Soldier, What About the Victims in Gaza? Can We Worry Only About a Wounded Israeli Soldier, and Not the Victims in Gaza Too?

Is it permissible to look in another direction? Is it even possible? The grave injury of Border Policeman Barel Hadaria Shmueli has swept Israel into...

For Israeli Soldiers, Every Arab Is an Arab, Even a Lawmaker

Three lawmakers from the largely Arab Joint List conducted a tour of Hebron last week. At one of the roadblocks, a soldier from the Golani Brigade...

What Do We Israelis Care About Endangering Others?

This past Monday, Alex Levac and I drove up to the northern part of the Palestinian Jordan Valley to prepare another piece about Israel’s abuse of...

One Can Also Hate Netanyahu and Bennett, but Not So Blindly

How ironic. The supporters of Benjamin Netanyahu, the Bibi-ists, are behaving exactly like the haters of the former prime minister, the Just Not Bibi...

Israeli Drivers Don’t Signal Because They Don't Care

At first glance, it’s a triviality: Israeli drivers don’t signal. There’s nothing left to say about their aggressiveness, violence, rudeness and...

IDF Chief Is on an Unstoppable Mission. That's Bad for Both Israelis, Palestinians IDF Chief Is on an Unstoppable Mission. That's Bad for Both Israelis and Palestinians

IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi is one of the most impressive decision-makers in Israel. His career is straight out of a military journal, he wears a...

So, Was Ousting 'Tyrant' Netanyahu Worth It After All?

Cautiously, hesitantly, we need to begin asking: Was it worth it? Is this the man we prayed for? Two months have passed, a short time, but...

The Media Yawns at the Israeli Army's Death Squads

Israeli terror is at it again. The Israel Defense Forces’ death squads chalked up another successful week: four bodies of innocent Palestinians...

Roni Daniel Paid Israelis a Great Service, Hiding the Truth About the Army Roni Daniel Paid Israelis a Great Service, Hiding the Truth About the Army and the Occupation

The national mourning over the death of Channel 12 military commentator Roni Daniel – declared by Israel’s television stations, notably his own...

'Hope'? Anti-Netanyahu Protest Movement Never Cared About the Day After

At first I thought it was a joke: A huge sign was put up in Rabin Square: “We are the hope.” At its foot was a “protest exhibit,” whose title...

A Tempest in an Ice Cream Tub Revealed Some Truths to Israelis

If Ben & Jerry’s keeps to its word and pulls its product from the settlements in a year and a half (and there’s good reason to doubt it will,...

Israel’s New Public Security Minister Isn’t S0 Different From His Predecessor Israel’s New Public Security Minister Isn’t So Different From His Predecessor

I have no doubt that Omer Bar-Lev is a man full of good intentions, and we can't cast doubt on his decency either. I should also disclose that I...

Damn Them All

Damn them all. Damn Rafael Gana, the deputy head of the Israel Prison Service, who wrote to the interior minister: “Your request does not meet the...

Fight Israel's Settlers, Not Its ultra-Orthodox Community

The first edict imposed by the new finance minister, Avigdor Lieberman, the god of the liberals and hero of the left, is directed against the poorest...

Soon My Childhood Home Will Be Razed

It hit me like a bolt from the blue: 9 Stand St. An advertisement on the Haaretz Hebrew-language website. My childhood home, the home of my dreams....

A Pleasant Illusion by an Impressive Israeli Arab Politician

The magic trick was a bit hard to resist. Journalist Raviv Drucker spent an hour sketching a portrait of Mansour Abbas on Channel 13 TV, and Abbas...

The Poisoned Well of Israeli Army Radio

A thumbnail sketch of the openness and tolerance of the liberal camp: Noa Landau gives, on this page, a reasoned argument for why Army Radio should be...

Israel's Moment of Truth Is Approaching – Will It Choose to Be Jewish or Democratic?

On Wednesday, we’ll know whether the Knesset wants a state that is Jewish or democratic. The Knesset has no other choice but one of these two....

Evyatar Is the Test of the New Government

Imagine: A Palestinian was shot to death by an Israeli soldier. In response the Palestinians decide to take revenge on Israel. They build an outpost...

Israeli Apartheid? Look No Further Than This Racist Law

Some laws are a blot on Israel’s lawbooks, and until they are removed Israel cannot be considered a democracy. One of the more despicable ones is...

No Change in Jerusalem or Gaza

Not 100 days of grace, not even 100 hours of grace, did our change government give us. Perhaps it’s not fair to judge it on its first hours of...

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett Has Nothing to Lose

The Haaretz archive doesn’t lie, even if it occasionally surprises: I discovered that I am in favor of Naftali Bennett. November 2014: “[W]ith...

Bennett’s Religious Zionist Regime Is Coming

The anticipated investiture of Israel’s first religious-Zionist prime minister could also usher in a new type of national conversation, one of...

Bibi, Time to Exit With Dignity and Prove the Doomsayers Wrong

When Israel launched Operation Guardian of the Walls last month, protesters outside the Jerusalem home of Benjamin Netanyahu said knowingly that the...

You Call This a Government of Change?

One can understand those who are experiencing relief or even joy today, on the assumption that a new government is about to be formed. It’s harder...

See Their Children Laid Out, Dare to Talk About Israel's Responsibility

On Thursday, I felt great pride in being a Haaretz reader – and writer – and deep shame at being Israeli. The front page of the newspaper that day...

And Perhaps Hamas Leader Sinwar Is a Human Being, Too?

Is there a chance that the leaders of Hamas are human beings? Is there a chance that we will acknowledge this? Since its founding, Israel has...

With End of Gaza Fighting, Welcome Back to Israel's Normal Routine Welcome Back to Israel's Normal Routine

Last Friday, at noon, the municipal swimming pool reopened. The city was worried that swimmers would slip on wet floors as they ran to shelters, so...

With End of Gaza Fighting, Welcome Back to Israel's Normal Routine

Last Friday, at noon, the municipal swimming pool reopened. The city was worried that swimmers would slip on wet floors as they ran to shelters, so...

A Pampered Israel Carries Out Violence Because It Can

It’s been proven once again: Israel is too strong. Its army is too strong. America has fattened it for years with large quantities of sophisticated...

In Israel, Nobody Opposes the War

There’s no issue that all (Jewish) Israelis agree on more than the launching of a war. Almost a week has passed and no one is opposing this horrific...

In Israel, Nobody Opposes the War

There’s no issue that all (Jewish) Israelis agree on more than the launching of a war. Almost a week has passed and no one is opposing this horrific...

Those Who Thirst for Blood

Every “round” brings with it its own bloodthirsty ones, during every round they exit their holes like mice, remove their politically-correct...

A Totally Right-wing Government

If the Bennett-Lapid government is formed, it will be one of the more right-wing governments in Israel’s history. It’s been called a left-wing...

Netanyahu Won’t Be a Footnote in Israeli History

The time has come for an assessment – an interim, not a final one: Benjamin Netanyahu won’t be remembered as a footnote in Israeli history....

In Israel ‘It’ll Be Just Fine,’ Until It Isn’t

Mount Meron as a fable: It’ll be just fine, the ultra-Orthodox said. It’ll be just fine, the police said. It’ll be just fine, the politicians...

Israel’s ultra-Orthodox Are Its Latest Neofascist Thugs

The most frightening and depressing thing that happened in Jerusalem recently isn’t the pogroms against the Palestinians. These of course are...

Israel’s ultra-Orthodox Are Its Latest Neofascist Thugs

Israel Debates Its Treatment of IDF Veterans but Continues to Terrorize Palestinians Israel Debates Its Treatment of IDF Veterans but Continues to Terrorize Palestinians Daily

The case of Itzik Saidian, the soldier who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder and who set fire to himself last week, is harsh and shocking...

A Very Important Person

It’s doubtful whether the policeman who beat up lawmaker Ofer Cassif knew who he was hitting. Maybe he knew he was striking a Knesset member, maybe...

Yoav Gallant Does Not Deserve to Be Israel’s Education Minister

The Mexican general Castañetas was a very important man, very great. The Israeli general Yoav Gallant is also a very important man, very great. He...

Arabs in Israel Are Not Allowed to Be Happy. Or Sad

Arabs in Israel are not allowed to be happy. They’re also not allowed to mourn. On Thursday of this week, for example, Holocaust Remembrance Day,...

Israel’s New Freedom Fighters Are a Little Short on Freedom

There’s a new kind of hatred of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: enthusiastic support for right-wing candidates, elevating them to the status of...

A President in Handcuffs: Why Palestinians Should Vote for Barghouti

If I were Palestinian, I’d vote for Marwan Barghouti as president of the Palestinian Authority. If I were an Israeli Zionist who insists on...