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| January 2025 | Released Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning, arguing that Jewish texts and history have been used to justify mass slaughter and starvation in Gaza. |
| 2024 | Published novel 'The Adventurers'' through Masaot publishing. |
| 2024 | Helped form the Democrats political party through a merger of the Labor and Meretz parties. |
| 2024 | Published 'The Gates of Gaza: A Story of Betrayal, Survival and Hope on Israel's Borderlands', a non-fiction book about the October 7 attack on Nahal Oz and its context. |
| November 2024 | Made controversial comments at a conference in London criticizing the Netanyahu government and describing Palestinian actions, leading to the Israeli government cutting ties with Haaretz newspaper |
| November 2024 | Distanced himself from parts of his previous comments, stating that 'the use of terrorism is not legitimate' |
| November 24 2024 | The Israeli government ordered a boycott of Haaretz by government officials and banned government advertising with the newspaper. |
| November 4 2024 | Following Schocken's remarks, Haaretz received hundreds of subscription cancellations, experienced a decline in advertising revenue, and had multiple government ministries cancel their subscriptions, including 90 subscriptions from the Israeli foreign ministry. |
| October 2024 | Tibon reflected on his changing stance on the conflict, stating that while he initially supported the war, he now prefers an agreement to bring back hostages and end the conflict. |
| October 31 2024 | Haaretz publisher Amos Schocken made controversial remarks at a conference in London, criticizing the Netanyahu government and referring to Palestinian 'freedom fighters'. This led to significant backlash, with government ministries severing ties and calling for a boycott. |
| May 15 2024 | Scheduled to be the commencement speaker for the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York City. |
| April 2024 | Called for dismantling the Netzah Yehuda Battalion, criticizing it for killing Palestinians 'for no real reason'. |
| March 2024 | Revealed recordings between the former head of Israel Bar Association, Efi Neve, and the former president of the Israeli district court, Eitan Orenstein, showing a problematic relationship that led to a criminal procedure against Nave. |
| February 2024 | Party announced the leadership election would take place on 28 May, with Yair Golan set to replace her. |
| 2023 | Misgav revealed a gifting affair involving Benjamin Netanyahu, uncovering that Netanyahu did not return gifts to the State of Israel after leaving office in 2021, including a valuable Bible received from Vladimir Putin. |
| 2023 | Actively participated in anti-judicial reform protests and rejected an invitation from Prime Minister Netanyahu to join compromise talks. |
| 2023 | Kashua created 'Madrasa', a comic series set in a bilingual Arabic-Hebrew school in Jerusalem. |
| December 7 2023 | Called a press conference announcing her intention to hold a leadership election in April 2024, in which she would not run for another term. |
| October 2023 | During the Israel-Hamas War, Misgav publicly accused the Netanyahu government of being responsible for the attack, criticizing the neglect of security in residential areas near the Gaza border. |
| October 9 2023 | Tibon publicly criticized Senator Josh Hawley for suggesting redirecting American funding from Ukraine to Israel. |
| October 7 2023 | Tibon and his family were at home in Nahal Oz when Hamas militants attacked the kibbutz, forcing them to remain in their safe room for ten hours until his father rescued them. |
| October 6 2023 | Harel wrote an article predicting potential violence in the West Bank, noting 'It's Not Yet an Intifada, but the West Bank Is Heading Towards an Eruption' |
| October 5 2023 | Revealed that Minister Nir Barkat traveled to London at public expense, which prompted journalist Ayala Hasson to call him a 'liar' on Twitter. |
| September 2023 | Minister Amichai Chikli filed a libel lawsuit against Uri Misgav for claiming that Chikli refused to enlist during the Second Lebanon War. |
| April 2023 | Michaeli announced the birth of her second son, also born through surrogacy. |
| March 11 2023 | Police detained Uri Misgav following a controversial tweet advising Netanyahu not to come to Berlin. |
| February 2023 | Harel wrote an article questioning whether far-right minister Itamar Ben-Gvir's actions could trigger a third intifada |
| 2022 |
Yair Tarchitsky
Ran in the Labor Party primary, securing the 23rd spot on the party's electoral list for a legislative election.
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| 2022 | Joined Israel-based nonprofit investigative platform Shomrim as an investigative journalist and Director of Global Investigative Projects. |
| 2022 | Concluded his long-standing writing career with Ynet, Haaretz, and Masa Aher. |
| 2022 | The film adaptation of 'Let It Be Morning', directed by Eran Kolirin and featuring a predominantly Palestinian cast, was completed and released. |
| 2022 | A TGI survey revealed Haaretz had the third largest readership in Israel, with an exposure rate of 4.7%, significantly behind Israel Hayom (31%) and another unnamed newspaper (23.9%). |
| December 2022 | Harel published an article warning about potential third intifada triggered by Netanyahu's far-right allies |
| December 2022 | Joined the team of presenters for the television program 'Critics of the State' on the Knesset Channel, working alongside colleagues Gadi Taub and Neve Drumi. |
| July 2022 | Re-elected to lead the Israeli Labor Party. |
| February 23 2022 |
Yoel Marcus
Yoel Marcus passed away, shortly after celebrating his 90th birthday.
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| February 10 2022 | Dov Alfon was condemned by the Paris Criminal Court (17th chamber) for publicly defaming Professor Jean-François Toussaint, who was known for relativizing the seriousness of the COVID-19 pandemic in France. |
| 2021 |
Yair Tarchitsky
Completed his tenure as Chairman of the Union of Journalists in Israel after leading the organization for nearly a decade.
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| 2021 | Led the Pandora Papers investigations in Israel and joined OCCRP as the Director of the Global Anti Corruption Consortium (GACC). |
| 2021 | During the Corona outbreak, Misgav published an investigative piece exposing potential discrimination in 'rescue flights', revealing that many ultra-Orthodox individuals were permitted to enter Israel while other stranded Israelis were denied entry. |
| December 31 2021 | Announced the Tel Aviv central bus station would be closed within four years. |
| August 2021 | Merav Michaeli and her partner Lior Schleien welcomed their first son through surrogacy in the United States. |
| January 2021 | Wrote an article in Haaretz newspaper criticizing the ultra-Orthodox public regarding the Corona epidemic, describing them as 'destroying and defeating the state'. The Press Council Ethics Tribunal later determined the article was racist and inciting, and ordered its removal from the newspaper's website. |
| January 24 2021 | Elected to lead the Israeli Labor Party, announcing a gender-equal party list with female-male rotation. |
| 2020 | Uri Misgav, together with Shikma Bressler, initiated the Black Flags protest, calling for public participation through a Facebook post. |
| 2020 | Concluded his role as Washington correspondent for Haaretz. |
| 2020 | Gadi Taub publicly criticized Palestinians for rejecting U.S. President Trump's Middle East peace plan, expressing his disillusionment with the prospects of peace between Israelis and Palestinians. |
| 2020 | English translation of his novel 'Track Changes' was published. |
| 2020 | Meron Benvenisti passed away, ending his contributions as a political columnist for Haaretz. |
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