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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'.
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 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.
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 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.
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.
September 20 2020
Meron Benvenisti
Meron Benvenisti passed away, leaving behind a legacy of political science and municipal leadership in Jerusalem.
April 22 2020 Rejected sitting in the Netanyahu-Gantz coalition government when Labor Party leader Amir Peretz announced joining the unity government.
2019 Published the English version of the David Ben-Gurion biography, titled 'A State at Any Cost: The Life of David Ben-Gurion'.
2019 Published 'The Crocodile from Crocodilopolis' through Agadot-Masaot publishing.
December 2019 Members of the Schocken family bought all of the Haaretz stock from M. DuMont Schauberg, reaching 75% ownership.
August 2019 Returned to the Knesset after Stav Shaffir resigned from the legislature.
2018 Published the biography 'Bibi: The Turbulent Life and Times of Benjamin Netanyahu' through Basic Books, providing an in-depth exploration of the Israeli political leader's life and career.
2018 Proposed that the EU introduce visas for Israeli citizens that would require disclosure of involvement in occupied territories, arguing this would help Israelis recognize the abnormality of current political realities.
2018 Kashua and his family relocated to St. Louis, Missouri, where he enrolled in the PhD program in Comparative Literature at Washington University in St. Louis and began teaching Hebrew for the Department of Jewish, Islamic, and Near Eastern Languages & Cultures.
September 15 2018
Boaz Evron
Boaz Evron passed away, concluding his influential career as a left-wing Israeli journalist and critic.
August 15 2018
Shani Cooper
Appointed as the Ambassador of Israel to Ghana, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, becoming the only woman serving as an ambassador in Africa at the time.
February 2018 Published a biography of David Ben-Gurion in Hebrew.

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