Word: haaretz
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...Strugnell’s time at the crest of his career abruptly ended in 1990, when he made negative comments about Judaism in an interview with the Tel Aviv newspaper Haaretz...
...interested in talking to the media.” Halutz did not respond to e-mailed requests for comment yesterday, though he released a short statement praising the commission and calling the report a “milestone,” according to a report on Monday in Haaretz, a major Israeli daily newspaper. “I’m convinced that the members of the commission did their job faithfully and out of a desire to reach the truth,” he said, according to the paper. Halutz’s successor as chief of staff, Gabriel...
According to some Israeli news accounts—including one in Haaretz, regarded as one of Israel’s newspapers of record—Ashkenazi was “often seen as the most moderate member of the General Staff” when he served as its second-in-command...
...front page of Monday's edition of the Israeli newspaper Haaretz carried a photograph showing President Moshe Katsav staring intently ahead, lips pursed, his eyes darkened by shadow. To his left sits his wife, expressionless. To his right is Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, head bowed, looking at the ground, as if hoping not to be seen...
...Halutz's two superiors, Prime Minster Ehud Olmert and Defense Minister Amir Peretz, are also in dismal shape with Israelis. A Haaretz newpaper poll on the eve of the U.N.sponsored truce with Hizballah showed Olmert's approval rating dropping from 75% at the start of the Lebanon campaign to 48%. Peretz fell even lower, from 65% to 37%. After the cease-fire, opposed by many Israelis who thought that Olmert buckled to international pressure and gave up the fight against Hizballah too soon, the Prime Minister's popularity may well have fallen even further...