Articles by October, 2025

The Haaretz newspaper announced on Thursday the dismissal of its veteran political commentator Haim Levinson, after it emerged that he had been employed by “Perception”, a company owned by Srulik Einhorn, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s close media adviser — and one of the figures implicated in the ongoing Qatar-Gate investigation

For nearly two hours on Thursday evening, hundreds of thousands of ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) demonstrators filled the entrance to Jerusalem, reciting Psalms and Slichot prayers led by rabbis from the Lithuanian, Hasidic, and Sephardic streams. Despite the massive turnout, no clear message emerged from what organizers had called a “unity rally” — a reflection of the sharp internal disagreements dividing Haredi leadership over the military draft and relations with the government