Breaking The Silence

NGO alleges IDF razed civilian homes for buffer zone, did not have clear rules of engagement

The NGO also alleged that there is no “proper combat procedure,” such as exists in the West Bank.

APRIL 9, 2025|ByEVE YOUNG

A site of an Israeli strike on a house, in Deir Al-Balah the Gaza Strip. April 7, 2025.

IDF soldiers operate in the Gaza Strip, October 26, 2024.

Anonymous soldier claims IDF uses human shields in Gaza - report

The scale of this practice, according to CNN's report, is not explicitly known, but the news organization cited the soldier and five former Palestinian detainees in their report.

OCTOBER 29, 2024|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

Amiram Levin speaks at a conference organized by Zionist Camp parliament member Erel Margalit in Tel Aviv. May 22, 2016.

West Bank 'apartheid' is 'just like Nazi Germany' - former IDF commander

"For 57 years there has been no democracy" in the West Bank, Amiram Levin said. "There is absolute apartheid there."

AUGUST 13, 2023|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

An ultra-orthodox Jew, in 1995, kisses the tombstone of Baruch Goldstein, the Israeli settler who in 1994 shot and killed 29 Palestinians as they prayed in a mosque in Hebron

10% of Israeli Jews think terrorist Baruch Goldstein is a 'national hero' - poll

Baruch Goldstein was a Jewish settler and terrorist who massacred 29 Palestinians in the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron in 1994. Some Israelis still support him.

MARCH 6, 2023|ByTZVI JOFFRE

Knesset advances bill banning Breaking the Silence from schools

The bill, in addition to banning organizations which "act against the IDF" also aims to integrate the state's goals for meaningful IDF service into the curriculum.

FEBRUARY 27, 2018ByLIDAR GRAVÉ-LAZI

A general view shows the plenum during the swearing-in ceremony of the 20th Knesset, the new Israeli parliament, in Jerusalem March 31, 2015.

German FM to meet with Netanyahu, doesn't plan to meet Breaking the Silence

Sigmar Gabriel does not have a meeting with Breaking the Silence on his agenda this trip.

JANUARY 31, 2018ByHERB KEINON

German Chancellor Angela Merkel (L-R) and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu talk to German Economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel before they pose for a group picture with their delegations at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, February 16, 2016

Breaking the Silence must be silenced

Current laws are too weak to offer protection against anti-Israel anarchists who are operating inside Israel.

NOVEMBER 30, 2017ByLIOR AKERMAN

Employees work at the offices of Israeli rights group "Breaking the Silence" in Tel Aviv, Israel, December 16, 2015

The untold story of Hanukka

‘The Hasmonean War was primarily directed against Jews and not against Greeks… meaning the Hellenistic Jews’ (Yeshayahu Leibowitz)

NOVEMBER 30, 2017ByMATAN PELEG

THIS WAS found in an underground cave tomb uncovered by workers widening a road in central Israel. The Hebrew inscription Hashmonaim appears on one of the boxes for human bones – the first evidence, archaeologists say, that the Hasmoneans, or Macccabees, who rebelled against Greek rule in the 2nd ce

Mandelblit: New bills threaten country’s democracy

Ex-justice Weinstein accuses Shaked of pressuring attorney general in Breaking the Silence case.

NOVEMBER 26, 2017ByYONAH JEREMY BOB

Prosecutor’s office could open second investigation into Breaking the Silence

The IDF has repeatedly claimed that the organization of ex-IDF soldiers falsifies information against the army’s conduct in the West Bank.

NOVEMBER 22, 2017ByTOVAH LAZAROFF

An IDF soldier stands next to a blindfolded Palestinian prisoner

Livni warns: Netanyahu's anti-NGO steps are steering Israel towards McCarthyism

As the prime minister charges ahead in his legal battle against foreign-funded NGOs, some of his critics claim he's undermining Israel's status as a democracy.

OCTOBER 21, 2017ByJOY BERNARD