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A May Day to remember

Experts say it won’t work. Spending on image should be “like investing in jets, bombs and missile interceptors,” Israel’s foreign minister says.

The joint Israeli-Palestinian Memorial Day ceremony is now in its 21st year. One of its organizers says that people are now joining faster after the loss of their loved ones, understanding 'they can't remain indifferent'

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A Haaretz investigation reveals how grain stolen from occupied territory in Ukraine has been sold to Israel. The profits of the shady operation are financing Putin's war

The Israeli prime minister’s focus is, as always, on himself and his near-term political needs. The plight of American Jews is simply not his concern.

The bad and the beautiful

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In these days of war, when Red Crescent workers pull someone from beneath the rubble, they do not ask that person’s political or religious beliefs. Their service is universal, directed toward the preservation of all Iranian lives.

As the war rages on