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        <title>A Mandatory Listen &#8211; Haviv Rettig Gur: Is the IDF justified in picking off Hamas terrorists?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 14:27:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the first episode of our new podcast series, ToI's senior analyst joins Amanda Borschel-Dan to take on the morality of the operations hunting down all who perpetrated the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre<figure><img src="https://static-cdn.toi-media.com/www/uploads/2026/09/16_10-1024x640.jpg" title="A Mandatory Listen &#8211; Haviv Rettig Gur: Is the IDF justified in picking off Hamas terrorists?" border="0" width="160" height="100" class="type:primaryImage"></figure>]]></description>
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        <title>Haviv Rettig Gur: Why is Israel still the first campaign stop for wannabe US presidents?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 16:16:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ToI's senior analyst on the shift of balance felt by the death of US Sen. Lindsey Graham and recent visits by Rahm Emanuel and US Rep. Ro Khanna<figure><img src="https://static-cdn.toi-media.com/www/uploads/2026/07/2-1-1024x640.jpg" title="Haviv Rettig Gur: Why is Israel still the first campaign stop for wannabe US presidents?" border="0" width="160" height="100" class="type:primaryImage"></figure>]]></description>
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        <title>Haviv Rettig Gur: Political footballs and politicians&#8217; fumbles</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 20:53:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this Israeli election year, ToI's senior analyst gives the play-by-play on the newly announced joint party of two former prime ministers and flags broadening societal schisms<figure><img src="https://static-cdn.toi-media.com/www/uploads/2026/04/Haviv2-1024x640.jpg" title="Haviv Rettig Gur: Political footballs and politicians&#8217; fumbles" border="0" width="160" height="100" class="type:primaryImage"></figure>]]></description>
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        <title>Haviv Rettig Gur: Hamas is holding Gazans hostage</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2026 10:33:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ToI's senior analyst on Israel's moment of relief with the recovery of the body of Master Sgt. Ran Gvili, and the current implausibility of the vision of 'New Gaza'<figure><img src="https://static-cdn.toi-media.com/www/uploads/2026/01/1-9-1024x640.jpg" title="Haviv Rettig Gur: Hamas is holding Gazans hostage" border="0" width="160" height="100" class="type:primaryImage"></figure>]]></description>
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        <title>Lazar Focus: Haviv Rettig Gur with 6 projections for Israel in 2026</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2026 06:04:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ToI's senior analyst accepts a homework assignment and comes prepared to present likely scenarios facing the Jewish state in this new calendar year<figure><img src="https://static-cdn.toi-media.com/www/uploads/2026/01/1-fotor-2026010113934-1024x640.jpg" title="Lazar Focus: Haviv Rettig Gur with 6 projections for Israel in 2026" border="0" width="160" height="100" class="type:primaryImage"></figure>]]></description>
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        <title>What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: The case for pardoning Netanyahu</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2025 20:58:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ToI's senior analyst reports on US President Donald Trump's unusual request to Herzog and explains why he could support it. Plus, just back from London, Rettig Gur conveys fears among UK Jewry<figure><img src="https://static-cdn.toi-media.com/www/uploads/2025/11/1-4-1024x640.jpg" title="What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: The case for pardoning Netanyahu" border="0" width="160" height="100" class="type:primaryImage"></figure>]]></description>
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        <title>What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: Israel&#8217;s next front is its own fractures</title>
		<link>https://www.timesofisrael.com/what-matters-now-to-haviv-rettig-gur-israels-next-front-is-its-own-fractures/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2025 20:29:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ToI's senior analyst addresses a sobering new study by Agam Labs and Hebrew University that reveals a pessimistic shift in Israeli public sentiment two years into the Gaza war<figure><img src="https://static-cdn.toi-media.com/www/uploads/2025/10/1-1024x640.jpg" title="What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: Israel&#8217;s next front is its own fractures" border="0" width="160" height="100" class="type:primaryImage"></figure>]]></description>
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        <title>What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: Did Israel &#8216;break the rules&#8217; in Qatar strike?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2025 20:02:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ToI's senior analyst gets philosophical about whether Israel may have lost all remaining diplomatic goodwill over an assassination attempt on top Hamas leadership in Doha<figure><img src="https://static-cdn.toi-media.com/www/uploads/2025/09/1-4-1024x640.jpg" title="What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: Did Israel &#8216;break the rules&#8217; in Qatar strike?" border="0" width="160" height="100" class="type:primaryImage"></figure>]]></description>
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        <title>What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: When Temple Mount prayer is a call to settle Gaza</title>
		<link>https://www.timesofisrael.com/what-matters-now-to-haviv-rettig-gur-when-temple-mount-prayer-is-a-call-to-settle-gaza/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2025 19:55:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ToI's senior analyst on National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir's prayer-leading on Tisha B'Av, why World War III didn't erupt and what the far-right politician hoped to gain<figure><img src="https://static-cdn.toi-media.com/www/uploads/2025/08/WMN-Aug-5-1024x640-1754570408.jpg" title="What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: When Temple Mount prayer is a call to settle Gaza" border="0" width="160" height="100" class="type:primaryImage"></figure>]]></description>
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        <title>What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: When Israeli extremists go to war &#8211; against Israel</title>
		<link>https://www.timesofisrael.com/what-matters-now-to-haviv-rettig-gur-when-israeli-extremists-go-to-war-against-israel/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2025 19:39:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ToI's senior analyst on the Labor Party-roots of early settlements and how the post-1967 vision of security and returning to the Land of Israel has been warped<figure><img src="https://static-cdn.toi-media.com/www/uploads/2025/07/WMN-1.7.25-1024x640.jpg" title="What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: When Israeli extremists go to war &#8211; against Israel" border="0" width="160" height="100" class="type:primaryImage"></figure>]]></description>
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        <title>Daily Briefing June 25: Day 628 &#8211; For Iranian regime, does survival equal victory?</title>
		<link>https://www.timesofisrael.com/daily-briefing-june-25-day-628-for-iranian-regime-does-survival-equal-victory/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2025 10:47:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Senior analyst Haviv Rettig Gur sifts through the debris of war to discern whether Israel and the US met their goals and why Iranians didn't shake off their oppressive regime<figure><img src="https://static-cdn.toi-media.com/www/uploads/2025/06/AFP__20250624__63M87GX__v2__HighRes__IranIsraelUsConflict-1024x640.jpg" title="Daily Briefing June 25: Day 628 &#8211; For Iranian regime, does survival equal victory?" border="0" width="160" height="100" class="type:primaryImage"></figure>]]></description>
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        <title>Daily Briefing June 18: Day 621 &#8211; How warfare is being rewritten in the skies of Tehran</title>
		<link>https://www.timesofisrael.com/daily-briefing-june-18-day-621-how-warfare-is-being-rewritten-in-the-skies-of-tehran/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2025 11:12:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Senior analyst Haviv Rettig Gur on how Israel's tech tweaks and integration of intelligence and IDF prowess have shifted military thinking in the region<figure><img src="https://static-cdn.toi-media.com/www/uploads/2025/06/AFP__20250615__62F69AK__v1__HighRes__IranIsraelConflict-1024x640.jpg" title="Daily Briefing June 18: Day 621 &#8211; How warfare is being rewritten in the skies of Tehran" border="0" width="160" height="100" class="type:primaryImage"></figure>]]></description>
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        <title>What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: The existential Israel-Iran War</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2025 20:52:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ToI's senior analyst weighs in on the prime minister's courage for taking on Iran before it achieves a nuclear bomb and his hope that the Iranian people will overthrow the regime<figure><img src="https://static-cdn.toi-media.com/www/uploads/2025/06/WMN-YT-Thumbnail-14.6.25-2-1024x640.jpg" title="What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: The existential Israel-Iran War" border="0" width="160" height="100" class="type:primaryImage"></figure>]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2025 20:25:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To understand the US vision for the Mideast, ToI's senior analyst takes a deep look at President Donald Trump's address to the Saudi-US Investment Forum in Riyadh on May 13
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        <title>Daily Briefing May 1: Day 573 &#8211; Ben-Gurion&#8217;s anguish upon the founding of Israel</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2025 08:58:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a special Independence Day episode, senior analyst Haviv Rettig Gur takes us back to the first prime minister's conflicted emotions as the nascent state fought enemies and division<figure><img src="https://static-cdn.toi-media.com/www/uploads/2025/05/AP480125013-1024x640.jpg" title="Daily Briefing May 1: Day 573 &#8211; Ben-Gurion&#8217;s anguish upon the founding of Israel" border="0" width="160" height="100" class="type:primaryImage"></figure>]]></description>
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