Stories republished from Haaretz, Israel’s newspaper of record.
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Stories republished from Haaretz, Israel’s newspaper of record.
For coverage of Haaretz itself, see Israeli media.
Crossposted from Haaretz Broadcasts of a new environmental television program that has come under fire because it is being sponsored by a chemical company that is considered one of Israel’s biggest polluters were suspended on Wednesday. Last week Haaretz reported that “The Green Man,” which is shown on the cable and satellite Health Channel as…
Crossposted from Haaretz The Channel 10 television station, which had been threatened with closure this month after amassing NIS 60 million in unpaid fees to the government, had its license extended until the end of the year Monday. The council of the Second Television and Radio Authority, which regulates commercial broadcasts in Israel, voted for…
Crossposted from Haaretz The first Arab architect to hold an official post in any architectural organization in Israel wants you to know he’s not out to represent “some God-forsaken family,” or some homogeneous community. “Arab architects in Israel have special problems of our own, and there are also problems and struggles we share with Jewish…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel’s two greatest enemies are The New York Times and Haaretz, the editor of The Jerusalem Post said in a speech. Steve Linde, addressing a conference in Tel Aviv of the Women’s International Zionist Organization, said Wednesday that Netanyahu made the remark to him about the newspapers at a…
Crossposted from Haaretz Yarona Caspi’s interest in poetry “is a meeting of souls,” says the singer and artist in a conversation about her fourth and latest album, “Mafia Shel Isha Ahat” (“One-Woman Mafia”). It is an album on which she manages to bring together her intense personality and her awareness of the pop audience through…
Crossposted from Haaretz Editors at Israel Radio’s Voice of Music have accused the Israel Broadcasting Authority of killing off the classical music station by appointing a person to head the station who has no musical background. The editors posted statements on bulletin boards at its broadcast studios in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem Thursday saying that…
Crossposted from Haaretz Careless customs officials apparently destroyed works by a prominent Israeli artist that had been sent back to Israel after being shown at the Venice Biennale. Sigalit Landau discovered last week that her works, which had returned to Israel packed in a shipping container, had been dismantled with what she called “brutality and…
Crossposted from Haaretz Veterans of the prestate underground Lehi are demanding changes in Hillel Mittelpunkt’s play “Railway to Damascus,” charging that it paints the organization in a false and offensive light. Specifically, said the Lehi Veterans organization, it accuses the underground of persecuting Jewish women who conducted romances with British soldiers during the British Mandate….
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