A first projection provided by the EU suggests far-right parties have made big gains at the European Parliament as the Greens took a major hit at Sunday's European elections

Austrian director David Schalko tells the writer's story through his colorful associates – and he tells Haaretz how he didn't overlook the importance of Kafka's Jewishness

Haaretz spoke with former Israeli hostage Louis Har, who was rescued from Gaza by Israel's army in February. 'I can tell you that being there – it's hell'

'The brain is unable to process that this is how things unfolded, that this is how it ended,' the aunt of the rescued hostage Almog Meir Jan said

When cantor Iris Karlin first heard the story of Yehudit – a Jewish heroine who reputedly saved her people by seducing and beheading an Assyrian general – she was shocked that it was so little known. She aims to correct that with an opera heavy on cantorial singing and a message about the Israeli women hostages still being held in Gaza

After Benny Gantz announced his resignation from the government, Netanyahu said he shouldn't quit the battle before it is over, Ben-Gvir demanded a seat on the war cabinet and Lapid said 'the time has come to replace this extreme and reckless government'

Gantz gave Netanyahu a safety net after October 7 in exchange for keeping the major decisions out of the far-right's hands, but his role in gov't has mainly been a scapegoat for the war's stalemate. Now his safety net is gone, and Israel's near future is fully up in the air

While the accomplishment is sure to buck up the battle spirit of IDF soldiers still fighting in Gaza, it does not presage a strategic change in the conduct of the war – and may cause Hamas to toughen its demands in cease-fire talks