Nissenkorn, who recently left Benny Gantz's Kahol Lavan to join Ron Huldai's new party, says he's stepping aside from overcrowded center-left bloc ahead of March election

Israeli army says suspect rushed at soldier armed with a stick with three knives attached at a West Bank junction south of Bethlehem, army says; no soldiers or civilians were wounded

More than 3 million Israelis have received first dose of coronavirus vaccine; 1.7 million Israelis have received both doses, according to the latest data released by Health Ministry

Netanyahu and Gantz approved the transfer, making this the second time Israel has sent coronavirus vaccines to Palestinians ■ No word on whether Gaza will receive vaccines from Israel at this stage

Despite nearly 20 percent of Israelis being vaccinated for coronavirus, the death toll is rising swiftly. Israel's Health Ministry is adamant that the restrictions should be renewed for at least another week

Between mergers, messages and 'stars' to be unveiled, Israeli parties have five days to present their list. Here is where they stand

During third week of demonstrations, police say protesters threw stones and threw firecrackers at them while protesters accuse police of using disproportionate force and violence against them

City issues statement defending decision about ‘illegal infiltrators,’ although those in question have valid residency permits as asylum seekers

The killing this week of a prominent accountant stoked a sense of insecurity in Jaffa. Some locals say Israelis just don’t care when Arabs are murdered

Michael Stepakoff, who leads a Messianic congregation in Florida, had been captured on security footage and identified by a witness

One officer injured as protesters rally in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Caesarea and at bridges and intersections nationwide for the 32nd week

French president also warns a very short time remains to prevent Tehran from having a nuclear weapon, Al Arabiya reports

Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have said that Gulf Arab states should be involved this time in talks, which they say should also address Iran's ballistic missile program and its support for Mideast proxies

Unlike its online outreach to the Gulf states, the Foreign Ministry's ‘Israel in the Iraqi Dialect’ Facebook page draws on Iraq’s rich Jewish history. Could it help secure the unlikeliest Arab accord of them all?

The letter also mentions the father of Iran's nuclear weapons program assassinated in November, saying the blast was only the 'preview'

A rare window into the early life of the generation that fought Israel’s wars and built the country

The Paper Brigade set out to rescue Jewish intellectual treasures, first from the Nazis, then the Russians – even at peril of their lives

It’s convenient for Netanyahu to have security officials disagree with the U.S., ostensibly with no political agenda. But officials describe the military chief’s Iran speech this week as an own goal, even as he insists he carried out his duty

Staff shortages, patients expiring quickly, families coming to say goodbye. A social worker, resident, nurse, physiotherapist and doctor tell Haaretz about the current treacherous wave of the coronavirus

Israel's overall plan for the energy industry and infrastructure through 2050 should be approved soon, and then likely come under the wrath of some environmentalists

Marjorie Taylor Greene has also drawn condemnation from lawmakers on both sides of aisle after it was revealed that she spread several QAnon-related antisemitic conspiracy theories

Knesset set to approve increased COVID fines ■ Israel to transfer 5,000 vaccines to PA medical staff ■ HM advises pregnant women to get vaccinated only after first trimester ■ Israel closes borders, airport

M. was held by police for 12 hours before he was released to house arrest for five days and said he was interrogated in the absence of his parents, which is generally prohibited by law

Jake Sullivan emphasizes multilateral approach to dealing with Iran's growing nuclear capabilities and ballistic missile program, as well as reiterating commitment to expanding Israel's normalization deals with Arab states

History shows that politics based on incitement flares up fast – 
but it is also likely to fade away fast

More than 30 lawmakers signed a letter on Thursday calling for greater protection in their districts. They highlighted that threats against members of Congress have spiked in recent years

The article quoted only anonymous sources, including multiple who suggested that Neuberger’s ties to AIPAC donations 'would raise a lot of eyebrows' about her impartiality

Ayelet Zurer, Lihi Kornowski and creator Sigal Avin reveal all about their Apple TV show ‘Losing Alice’ – and which of them shaved off their hair for nothing at the start of lockdown last year

Stewart defended the army of small investors behind this week's dramatic squeeze on Wall Street hedge funds

Following an initial wave of condemnation, Republicans appear to be warming toward Trump, fully aware that his supporters are poised to punish anyone who displays disloyalty

The Israeli Foreign Ministry confirmed no casualties, no damage to the embassy building ■ Israeli official says it is treated as a terror incident ■ Indian police issues alert to airports, government buildings

With Biden in charge, the Turkish president suddenly faces someone who cares about things like human rights. So Ankara is talking about restoring full diplomatic relations with Israel

GameStop vs. Wall Street: Here’s what you need to know

Threatening disciplinary action against Haifa school that hosted B'Tselem's director, Gallant is the latest of several education ministers who betrayed their duty and sought to restrict thought through censorship and reprimands

The protests in the northern Lebanese city came as Lebanon grapples with both the coronavirus pandemic and a dire economic crisis

After the U.S. then ramped up sanctions, Iran gradually and publicly abandoned the deal’s limits on its nuclear development

Sanders put the first of the so-called 'Chairman Sanders' merchandise on his campaign website Thursday night and the first run sold out in less than 30 minutes

Like others who have amplified the QAnon theory, Marjorie Taylor Greene frequently calls George Soros, a Hungarian-American Jewish billionaire and mega-donor, an enemy of the people

The Pakistani Supreme Court acquitted British-born Ahmad Omar Saeed Sheikh and three others convicted of the 2002 kidnap and murder

President Biden’s repeal of the ban brought a sigh of relief from citizens in the countries covered by the measure. But amid the celebrations are tales of broken dreams

Since late December, Israel has required those coming from the UAE to go into a two-week quarantine, but authorities say returnees created a chain of infections numbering more than 4,000 people

Hinting at the Trump administration, the United Nations' Guterres says 'we were completely locked down in a situation in which there was no progress visible'

Election Overdose podcast, episode 5: Will COVID clashes have a wider effect on Israel's election? Can newly elected Labor leader make something better out of the worst job in politics? Plus: some last-minute predictions

Unless its small parties unite, their wasted votes will reelect Netanyahu

A State Department spokesperson refutes claims by Republican lawmakers that administering aid would violate U.S. law that limits funding for the Palestinian Authority over its payments to people convicted of terrorism charges

Data from National Insurance Institute show that the grant plan forwarded by the prime minister and finance minister offers the lowest contribution to reducing poverty

Amendments to legislation aimed to publicize millions in tax revenue collected from natural gas companies may in fact delay the process, some lobby groups claim

Do Jews 1941=Uighurs 2021? Who decides, and according to what criteria, which atrocities and crimes against humanity ‘deserve’ a Never Again campaign?

Malley has long been a target of the right-wing for his alleged anti-Israel bias, and was forced to cut ties with Obama's 2008 presidential campaign after reports emerged that he had met with members of Hamas

Abdel Nasser Halawa, a deaf man with mental disabilities, died of his wounds four months after being shot at a checkpoint. His brother accuses a Jerusalem hospital of releasing him despite his dire condition

This week at the Tel Aviv airport: A young Israeli heads to Vienna to find herself, and two even younger Israelis who relocated to Mexico visit their homeland

New presidential decrees, which empower the PA president to appoint senior judges and allow arbitrary dismissal of judges, have sparked protest in the West Bank

Both U.S. and Israeli intelligence communities agree that Iran began to violate the nuclear agreement in a measurable manner only a year after Trump withdrew from it

More than 250 servers in the United States, Britain, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Israel and the West Bank have been breached, ClearSky Cyber Security says

Different colonies of naked mole rat speak different dialects, scientists discover, and suspect it’s because the little rodents despise each other

3,000-year-old textiles unearthed in the copper mines of Timna were dyed with purple extracted from seashells, said to have been used by biblical kings and priests

St. Joseph Hospital is easing the load on Israeli hospitals and taking on Jewish patients, too, but Israel’s Health Ministry has no plans to allot it more beds in the coming decades

In his three minute video address for International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Turkey's president didn’t even mention the word ‘Jew.’ And in his listing of genocides, one was notably missing

Ministry says first trimester is characterized by various complications, recommends avoiding jab to prevent suspicion of connection to vaccine

'No justification for false attacks based on ethnic, racial or religious identity,' Biden administration says

Avigdor Lieberman’s Yisrael Beiteinu and Likud are accused of collecting data on voters through the Elector app without their consent

Why people prefer to believe the lie, according to an Israeli activist who exposes fake social media profiles that spread misinformation

Dozens hold a rally in support for the of the Hebrew Reali School's decision to allow B’Tselem director Hagai El-Ad to talk to students

Construction work at the first Israeli prime minister’s house in central Tel Aviv, now a museum, has revealed some strange odors

Normalization agreements are beyond 'point of no return,' Netanyahu says after Biden administration freezes F-35 Sale to UAE ■ U.S. Secretary of State Blinken says not uncommon for new admin to examine pending sales

Maya Sarfaty tells Haaretz how she pieced together the story of the affair between the SS officer and the young Jew in her new award-winning documentary

On Wednesday, Blinken reaffirmed Biden's policy that Tehran must resume complying with curbs on its nuclear activity under the deal before the United States rejoins the pact

Talks on nuclear deal with Biden administration couldn't come soon enough for the country beset by raging COVID-19 and sanctions, but a questionable pact with China could provide Iran an alternative route

U.S. ambassador to Lithuania slams Valdas Rakutis for distorting the memory of the Holocaust and 'shamefully' accusing Jews of being the perpetrators

The 20-percent enrichment of uranium reported by Tehran is just a short technical step away from weapons-grade 90-percent enrichment

What began as mass protests against corruption and economic hardship turned into what has been described as the world's biggest humanitarian crisis

Thousands were initially invited, but leaders of the Sanz and Toldos Aharon sects ordered to to scale the event down due to the nationwide coronavirus lockdown

New Zealand and Denmark took the top spots for the best reputation while Syria, Somalia and South Sudan scored worst in the ranking by the Berlin-based organization Transparency International

Issa Amro, founder of the Youth Against Settlements group, was convicted earlier this month of minor offenses from about a decade ago. At the same time, the Palestinian prosecution is accusing him of insulting senior officials and endangering public ...

The Pearl family was in 'complete shock,' lawyer says after the Supreme Court releases main suspect in high-profile 2002 kidnapping and murder

A Finance Ministry report found that parental education and financial security were key factors in entrepreneurial success, and that the exalted universe of Israeli startups is far from meritocratic

George Haswani denied any wrongdoing after Reuters reported that his company shared an address with the company responsible for ordering the chemicals that led to August's deadly explosion

After much deliberation, the museum will be located in the capital city to make it easier for the general public to visit

Israeli defense officials say upcoming election and new U.S. president make Kochavi’s comments on the 2015 nuclear deal and plans for military action ill-timed

Leifer, who is standing trial by video link following her extradition from Israel in January, was silent as the 74 charges against her were read out

Hoping to inquire into human-turtle relations in prehistory, a study finds spotty evidence of turtle consumption in the East Mediterranean – and it wasn’t because they were hard to catch

Call between Blinken and Ashkenazi is second high-level one between U.S. and Israeli officials in the week since Inauguration Day – while Netanyahu has yet to get a call from President Biden

In terms of encouraging people to move to Israel's northern and southern peripheries, the coronavirus has succeeded where decades of government policy have failed

Some 25,000 self-employed people and their family members fell into poverty in Israel in 2020, advocacy group reports

The airports authority says there shouldn’t be a problem with cargo flights and therefore shipping times shouldn’t be impacted, but shipping companies say some packages arrive on passenger flights

Israelis coming back from a Dubai vacation sometimes find themselves throwing chairs when learning about their country’s latest tool for tackling the coronavirus