Biden has made it clear that containing China's influence is a priority. Israel's warming trade relations with the superpower can throw a wrench in an already-complicated relationship

Emirati Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed is outraged at what he views as Netanyahu exploiting the normalization deal with Israel as a part of his election campaign

Naftali Bennett and party colleague Ayelet Shaked havent forgotten the trauma of the 2019 election or the last one

Theoretically, the competition between the Joint List and the United Arab List ought to boost turnout, but mudslinging and negative campaigning could also turn off many voters, especially young ones

Organizers will have to overcome several obstacles, including a petition filed against the protest and Jerusalem's decision to start comprehensive work to upgrade Paris Square the main site of the protests this week

Plan still in an early working stage but sources say it could eventually form the basis for rolling back parts of Trump's approach that Palestinians denounced as heavily biased in favor of Israel

'What has been heard from the U.S. since the emergence of the new regime is only lunatic theory of 'threat from North Korea' and groundless rhetoric about 'complete denuclearisation,'' top diplomat says

Domestic extremists who promote white racial superiority have potentially troubling contacts with foreign extremists, the spy agencies assess

Local Jewish leader says 'Anti-Asian hate crimes have been on the rise' after attack the left eight people dead, likely exacerbating the Asian community's fears

COVID strain fears stall green light for Israel's tourism industry to fully reopen

Dean Yaakov Shoshani and Stav Harari died last year after being trapped in an elevator, presumably due to a short circuit

Israeli officials and experts agree herd immunity can't be achieved without vaccinating under-16s. Clinical trials on Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine are still not completed, but that's far from being the trickiest part of it

Aoun and Hariri have been at loggerheads over government formation for almost five months, as Lebanon nears an economic abyss that is posing the biggest threat to its stability

In wake of a massive protest wave over police inaction on violence in the Israeli Arab community, Netanyahu tells senior officers they should act to 'bring crime organizations to a breaking point'

In a letter to the 46th president, left-wing Jewish leaders and activists urged him to pick an envoy for combatting antisemitism who will fight anti-Jewish bigotry within the context of other progressive issues

Documents show two figures in the so-called submarine affair were involved in businesses in Israel and Cyprus reliant on regulation, foreign relations

Israel's envoy to the Netherlands pushes back after criticism of Netanyahu's response to 'antisemitic' ICC war crimes probe

Rania Amdouni had been jailed on charges of 'insulting police and abuse of morals,' in a high-profile case that raised concerns about freedom of expression in Tunisia

President Biden said Russia's Putin is a killer and will face consequences for directing efforts to swing the 2020 U.S. election in Trump's favor

Residents say lines for bread across government-controlled areas can run up to five hours long as wheat imports dwindle. Despite popular discontent, Assad appears to be on course to win elections

Levine was one of the dominant figures in opera and American classical music until being fired in 2018 in the face of sexual misconduct allegations

The sale of rare artifacts from the museum was canceled at the last minute in September, casting a pall over Nadim Sheibans tenure as museum director

Sanaa Seif was accused by prosecutors of broadcasting fake news and rumors about the country's health conditions and the spread of the coronavirus in prisons

The prime minister's former lawyer and cousin is suing for $129,000 in compensation for the claims David Artzi made in a recently release video ■ Shimron denies all allegations

Turkey's parliament also increased pressure on HDP by stripping a prominent member of his seat over a criminal conviction for spreading 'terrorist propaganda'

In Jacob Hanna's lab at the Weizmann Institute, for the first time in the world, scientists succeeded in growing a mammal embryo outside the womb. The implications of this unprecedented achievement could be enormous: From growing synthetic embryos fo...

About 80 percent of Israel's public beaches along the coast are now considered clean, ministry says, as investigation continues

Israel is trying to attract international companies to relocate to Israel by allowing them to pay a reduced rate for intellectual property

The story of the original 5th century Patrick, who became the patron saint of Ireland, has numerous parallels to the Biblical stories of Joseph and Moses

The foundation already received 200,000 euros in funds as part of the anniversary of 1,700 years of Jewish life in Germany

Republicans are increasingly expressing deep concerns about immigration as waves of unaccompanied children and families continue to show up at the U.S.-Mexico border

The visit, the first for a Tunisian leader since 2012, came a day after Libyas interim government took power in Tripoli

The rise in propaganda to the highest figures in a decade may be attributable to the U.S. presidential election, according to the Anti-Defamation League

Kachol Lavan head: We stopped a series of dangerous Netanyahu geopolitical debacles, from annexation to Israel losing its qualitative military edge to the UAE

Theatres, shopping malls, hotels and cinemas will be closed starting on Saturday, Health Minister Adam Niedzielski told a news conference

Tehran is encouraging Hezbollah and Hamas to manufacture weapons independently ■ Despite Netanyahu's hawkish rhetoric, Israel is coming to terms with the prospect of U.S-Iran nuke talks

Rafaya said that only two months ago he had completed renovations in his house 'and now its all soot and smoke and smells of gas in all the rooms'

Psychologist Anav Youlevich, creator of a volunteer project that assists victims of narcissistic and psychopathic exploitation, explains what can be done to help victims of gaslighting

Join Haaretz writers Noa Landau, Anshel Pfeffer and Allison Kaplan Sommer for a special pre-election briefing on Sunday at 2 P.M. EDT, 8 P.M. Israel time, hosted by Amir Tibon

Voter turnout will determine whether Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu can form a coalition and whether a slew of smaller parties will make it into the Knesset at all

The protester was detained as Prime Minister Netanyahu's motorcade passed by even though there were no legal restrictions on protesting in the area. Shin Bet says arrest has nothing to do with what was yelled

Experts discuss how the coalitions that could emerge after Tuesday's election, from an extreme right-wing government led by Netanyahu to a more moderate one without him, would impact U.S.-Israel relations

Former Foreign Minister Anwar Gargash says the UAE 'will not be a part of any internal electioneering in Israel, now or ever,' amid reports Netanyahu was scheduled to visit the Gulf on Thursday

The R-number reached a of 0.7, while the number of seriously ill patients and negative tests also hits new lows

The High Court ruled that a quota capping entry to Israel to 3,000 people per day and restricting departures for those who are unvaccinated are not constitutional

Washington is expected to impose sanctions on Moscow, sources say following intelligence report concluding that Putin likely directed efforts to try to swinging the 2020 U.S. presidential election to Donald Trump

One of Meshi-Zahav's alleged victims came to police Wednesday and testified that Meshi-Zahav had sexually exploited and attempted to rape him when he was 14-years-old

An Israeli start-up called Deci will play a key role Intels bid to block Nvidias domination of the cloud and AI computing capabilities

COVID vaccines provided by WHO's COVAX initiative ■ Palestinian Health Minister says they will await WHO approval before using AstraZeneca shots

Rohani's close ally Foreign Minister Javad Zarif said this week that unless progress is made soon on restoring the nuclear deal, diplomacy would be halted for months by Iran's presidential election

Republicans in Congress say the Biden administration sparked the border surge by promising to unwind some of former President Donald Trump's hardline policies against illegal immigration

The North Atlantic country, which will become one of the first countries to open its borders since the beginning of the pandemic

Critics have warned that the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's alliance of antisemitism is too broad and limits debate on Israel

This question and more were debated at Haaretz's Conference on Jewish-Arab Political Partnership

U.S. intelligence agencies and former Special Counsel Robert Mueller previously concluded that Russia also interfered in the 2016 U.S. election to boost Trump's candidacy

In the past week Netanyahu has punished Jordan, mocked Egypt, irked the Saudis and gotten the UAE to send a plane for nothing. For his election campaign he's also revealing secrets; it's nothing new

The geriatric, ineffectual, corrupt and authoritarian Palestinian president has finally called elections and an unprecedented array of candidates is snapping at his heels. But there's little chance he'll go quietly

Israel reopens skies ahead of election, but COVID czar 'worried' it might lead to renewed outbreak ■ 60,000 COVAX vaccines en route to Palestinians ■ West Bank deaths top 2,000

55.4 percent of Israelis has received the first dose of the coronavirus vaccine, and 47.4 percent the second. Vaccine data shows promising results

A suspect was detained after an attack on three massage parlors across the state, amid a recent wave of anti-Asian racism across the U.S.

For years, the city and residents of Silwan's al-Bustan neighborhood were in talks on housing solutions for Palestinian families whose homes would be torn down to build an archaeological park

Iran has recently accelerated its breaches of the deal's restrictions on its nuclear activities in an apparent bid to pressure U.S. President Joe Biden

The child's parents, neighbors are protesting the 'humiliating' sentence ■ Leshem can walk free in a few months without having to undergo a rehab program for sex offenders, according to the sentence terms

The plan could also see malls, movie theaters, sports stadiums and offices built under the under the ground

Netanyahus unrestrained autocracy is not the rule of the right-wing, but rather a soulless machine designed solely to keep him in power, while destroying all vestiges of nonpartisan governance in the process

The project in Israel's north was hailed as an 'important step toward making Israel a food technology powerhouse,' but TheMarker finds that the project is struggling to get off the ground

UN mediator tells council that there has been a dramatic deterioration in the more than six-year-long war with a Houthi offensive on Marib the Yemeni government's last northern stronghold putting millions of civilians at risk

Syria's military confirmed that air defenses were triggered to respond to strikes around 10:35 P.M. ■ No deaths reported by Syrian authorities

The 10-percent target of renewable energy fell short, with Israel producing only 5.8 percent of its energy from wind and sun last year

The original owner had to sell the painting 'Rosiers sous les Arbres' at a knock-down price to survive financially after the Nazis annexed Austria in 1938, says France's culture minister

The Jerusalem police investigations unit had information on sex crimes Yehuda Meshi-Zahav allegedly committed against minors, but it wasn't examined until accusations resurfaced following Haaretz investigation

Speaking at a Haaretz conference ahead of next week's election, the Joint List's Ayman Odeh urges Israeli center-left parties to build a new path based on more than 'Anyone but Netanyahu'

As campaigning enters its final stretch, Channel 12 poll has Likud pulling ahead to 30 seats, while four small parties facing electoral oblivion scrape into the Knesset

French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian says that while there was a stated will to return to talks, tensions remained

Former lawmaker Haneen Zoabi is one of three dozen Balad figures suspected of concealing nearly $1 million in 2013 election campaign funding

The currency has lost a quarter of its value in the last week alone, while half of the population resides in poverty. The protesters and France are blaming the government

After 40 years of cold peace, Cairo is signaling that it wants more trade, investment and tourism with its neighbor. Are ordinary Egyptians ready?

With most campaigning being done online this year, it's never been easier for parties to engage with potential voters from Israel's English-speaking community

The investigation into the incident in which 9-year-old Malek Issa lost an eye has revealed contradictory versions from officers, and the Justice Ministry seems to have skipped key parts of the probe. The case was closed anyway

Kotto, who was born in New York to a Jewish father from Cameroon and a mother who converted to Judaism, had a long career in film and television

Demonstrators accuse the police of turning a blind eye to the violence, which has taken the lives of at least 24 Arab citizens of Israel this year

The exploratory talks are meant to lay the ground for formal negotiations but the two countries have made little progress in more than 60 rounds of meetings since 2002 and cannot even agree on what issues to discuss

With Israel's vaccination drive being a success story, Israel is expected to invest an additional 2.5 billion shekels to buy more COVID vaccines, Health Ministry official tells lawmakers

Timothy Hale-Cusanelli was reportedly was known by his friends and co-workers as a white supremacist, Nazi sympathizer and Holocaust denier

The lead singer for the Charming Hostess, who was a fixture of the avant-garde and experimental music scenes in the Bay Area and New York, has died after struggling with a rare autoimmune disease

Iran's third local inoculation enters its clinical trial phase, with just 2 percent of the population vaccinated amid one of the worst outbreaks in the Middle East

Taylor Greenes embrace of QAnon conspiracy theories and comments suggesting that a Jewish space laser had sparked wildfires in California in 2018 have put her at odds with many Jewish leaders

Surging coronavirus infections took hold in much of Italy and parts of Poland on Monday, while in France, Paris risks being slapped with a weekend lockdown as ICUs near saturation

On the campaign trail, Labor's Merav Michaeli rallies the party faithful but has no illusions about the huge task facing her ahead of Israel election

Europe has the luxury to be able to pick from several COVID vaccine candidates but the decision is still not an easy one on the continent

The so-called social investment platform had a very good year. eToro lets users invest in a range of assets - including stocks, commodities and cryptocurrencies