Police send reinforcements after clashes wound 12 ■ In Lod, a synagogue and 30 cars were set on fire ■ In nearby Ramle, a number of synagogues were vandalized by rioters, a Muslim cemetery was set on fire

By firing rockets on Jerusalem, Hamas broke the unwritten rules, and the barrages on central Israel added fuel to the fires

Two women were killed in Ashkelon, one in Rishon Letzion and a father and daughter in an unrecognized village near Lod

Operation Protective Edge was the past decade's major round of hostilities, in which the Israeli army launched a ground operation in the Gaza Strip in 2014 to put an end to rocket fire into Israel, but the quiet that followed didn't hold

Teen, father killed in city of Lod as central Israel comes under Gaza rocket attack ■ 43 Gazans, including 13 children, reported killed ■ Israeli Arab lawmaker Mansour Abbas calls to end violent protests in central Israel ■ 850 Gaza rockets fro...

Eighteen other residents were wounded in Gaza, among them a woman and 10 children

At a meeting Sunday, IDF General Staff were confident about Hamas’ intentions. Shin Bet and Military Intelligence were not

Elovitch, the controlling shareholder of media giant Bezeq, which owns Walla, is charged with bribery, obstruction of justice and obstruction of the investigation in the case against Netanyahu

'We are deeply concerned about the escalation between Israel and those launching rockets from Gaza, and we call for restraint and for calm,' State Department spokesperson Ned Price said

12 people injured in series of mob attacks, targeting both Jews and Arabs ■ Synagogue, Muslim cemetery and dozens of cars set ablaze amid growing Jerusalem, Gaza tensions

Israel says it assassinated senior Islamic Jihad, Hamas operatives ■ 35 Gazans, including 12 children, reported killed ■ Direct hit to Israeli houses, dozens wounded, as Iron Dome battery malfunctions

What do American Jews value more – prayer or a game of fetch with Spot? Is eschewing pork or performing stand-up more integral to Jewish identity? Pew’s latest Jewish community survey offers some unexpected insights

More than 40 percent of Jewish Americans are intermarried, nearly a quarter earn over $200,000 a year, more than half seldom or never attend synagogue and only a quarter believe in God, ‘Jewish Americans in 2020’ survey by Pew Research Center fin...

At some points during the long and tense Jerusalem Day on Monday, it seemed that the Israel-Palestine conflict is now being fought by teenagers, on both sides of the divided city

An emergency meeting of the 57-member Organization of Islamic Cooperation calls on the international community to hold Israel liable for the latest escalation in Jerusalem ■ Iran's Khamenei called on Palestinians to build up their fighting power

The firm said it had not been paid for 18 months, a period coinciding with Lebanon's financial crunch

Palestinian-American supermodel Bella Hadid and British singer Dua Lipa also share posts in solidarity with East Jerusalem Palestinians facing eviction from lands claimed by Jewish settlers

Experts tell Haaretz that the White House’s deliberate strategy of downgrading the conflict’s centrality to U.S. policy will backfire

Hamas emerges as the winner of the day’s events, while Israeli police were left to handling the most complex security event in years | Five comments

The former Walla CEO, Ilan Yeshua, is in the dock over accusations that the controlling shareholder of the news site promoted biased coverage of the Netanyahu family

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To mark today's memorial day for Ethiopians who didn't survive the journey to Israel, the state's archives released formerly inaccessible testimonies from bereaved families

Israel's declining COVID morbidity rate may cause many parents to hesitate to or opt not to vaccinate their kids

David Baddiel has attracted widespread praise for his book ‘Jews Don’t Count’ and his online condemnations of antisemitism. But how did a ‘fundamental atheist’ best-known for his sweary stand-up end up a pillar of the community?

Police arrest two Jewish suspects on suspicion of involvement in the shooting of Moussa Hassouna after masked protesters threw stones at Jewish homes

Over 250 rockets fired toward Israel as Israeli army strikes 140 targets in Gaza

United Arab List Chairman Mansour Abbas suspends talks with Lapid amid violence in Jerusalem and Gaza, giving Netanyahu an incentive to keep tensions high

After Hamas gave Israel an ultimatum and fired at Jerusalem, the security cabinet approved a broad strike on Hamas targets

Statement would call on Israel to halt Palestinian evictions ■ U.S. says it wants to ensure any statement does not further escalate the violence

Yair Lapid says that not all potential coalition partners will get what they want, but argues everyone understands Israel 'needs to change direction'

The Pentagon said the warning shots were fired after the Iranian fast boats came as close as 150 yards of six U.S. military vessels

Isaac Herzog is seen as the likely front-runner, but has yet to officially declare his candidacy

State Department spokesperson Ned Price said the U.S. recognized Israel's right to defend itself, adding that the U.S. is deeply concerned about the situation on a broader level

Instagram and Twitter said the accounts were 'suspended in error by our automated systems' and the issue had been resolved and content reinstated

In many cases, it's police judgement that could decide whether Jerusalem descends into violence

The synagogue is part of a larger complex being built by the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center, which is slated to include a research center and museum

Investigators say top brass at the police's Northern District should be questioned as suspects

Ilan Yeshua testified that 'I wouldn’t have gone near anything criminal. I wouldn’t have done it for fear of punishment, period'

Mevlut Cavusoglu was due to hold talks in the kingdom after years of tensions between the two regional powers, exacerbated by the 2018 killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul

Red Crescent reports 520 Palestinians injured in Jerusalem clashes on Monday

After hundreds of Palestinian casualties in clashes with Israeli forces, police commissioner says they 'showed too much restraint'

'How is your ass? The bullet is still there, that’s why he’s limping,' Deputy Mayor Arieh King screamed, referring to a gunshot wound the Palestinian activist had previously suffered

The 60 percent decline in sperm count from the 1970s, reported in 2017 by Hagai Levine, is based on studies with problematic assumptions and could be based on normal variability, critique suggests

Author Shmuel T. Meyer was informed that he won the Spring Goncourt Prize during a family visit to Israel. 'My culture is French, my heart is in Switzerland, but my soul is in Israel,' he tells Haaretz

The intent of Islamic State 'to destroy the Yazidi, physically and biologically, was manifest in the ultimatum that was repeated in so many different villages in Iraq,' head of investigating team says

Consul General Andrew Miller is aware he may be the most unpopular American in Israel right now, as his embassy struggles with a massive backlog of passport and visa applications caused by COVID-19. ‘This sucks for us too,’ he tells Haaretz

The Danish resistance saved Jews, but Denmark's wartime authorities collaborated with the Nazis to send them to their deaths. Now, its government is condemning Syrian refugees to the same fate

Hamas said it fired rockets 'in response to the enemy's aggression in the holy city' ■ Nine Palestinian children reported killed ■ Barrage on Ashkelon wounds six

As millions around the globe desperately seek coronavirus vaccines, Israel's transportation and tourism ministries are hoping to find ways to open the economy and the tourism industry

ThyssenKrupp representative charged with bribery and money laundering, while former treasury and National Security Council executives indicted for accepting bribes

Reported Golan Heights attack came days after a similar attack by an Israeli helicopter on Quneitra that did not inflict casualties, according to Syrian state media

Palestinian protesters threw rocks and Israeli police fired stun grenades and rubber bullets as Israel marked the anniversary of its capture of parts of Jerusalem in the 1967 Six Day war

Israel is banking on ‘bioconvergence’ and wants to more scientists working in bio and health tech

Alex Gibney’s brilliant ‘The Crime of the Century’ may actually be selling itself short with its title, while Netflix thriller ‘The Innocent’ relocates Harlan Coben’s novel to Spain with mixed results

The Zionist movement, until relatively recently, never regarded Jerusalem as the Jewish people's 'eternal, unified' capital. Now, Israel's nationalists are willing to set the Middle East ablaze for the sake of Greater Jerusalem

Bezalel Smotrich announces he will visit East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, while Kahanist Itamar Ben-Gvir appears at Temple Mount amid clashes between Israel Police and Palestinian woshippers

Deciding to focus on strengthening relationship with evangelicals at the expense of the Jewish community is a numbers game, says ex-Israeli envoy to D.C. Ron Dermer

Israelis neglected by their government, war vets with PTSD, plus millions of Palestinians under occupation – all of these things are being swept under the rug, while we are being asked to celebrate

Other video circulating on Twitter shows Israeli police officers beating photojournalist on Temple Mount

Iran and Saudi Arabia are locked in a rivalry that has played out in proxy conflicts across the region, from Yemen to Syria to Iraq

If so, that may be good news for the environment but it’s bad news for Israel’s high-tech economy

Recent weeks have seen increasingly violent clashes between Jews and Arabs in Jerusalem and the West Bank, escalating over the weekend with more than 300 Palestinians and 17 Israeli police forces wounded

Efforts are now being made to keep Palestinians and Jews away from each other in areas of Jerusalem where friction is liable to occur

Israel's Arab lawmakers are finding themselves embroiled in a prime Palestinian national issue – but with zero power to influence it

The flag march through Old City was redirected at the last moment, then broken up

Sources close to Lapid fears that a right-wing majority on panel will prevent center-left parties from blocking controversial picks

Jake Sullivan tells Israeli counterpart that U.S. is seriously concerned about violence in Jerusalem and the prospective eviction of Palestinians in the city

In another chapter in the ongoing Hebron saga, Israeli soldiers and police were deployed on a mission to guard a pile of plywood that had been dumped on a Palestinian family’s land for a Lag Ba’omer bonfire

King Abdullah calls on Israel to cease 'dangerous provacations,' while Amman's foreign minister calls prospective evictions of Palestinians a war crime

The researchers focused on the core subjects - language, math and English and the sciences - physics, chemistry and biology

The two were armed and threatened Shai, Zahavi’s wife, who was tied up by the robbers in front of her three children

Israel shuts Erez border crossing ■ Rocket fire comes amid clashes between Palestinians and Israeli police in East Jerusalem

PLUS: Israel is inching toward its weirdest-ever coalition and is planning on deporting members of the Black Hebrews

The Israeli army is looking to ease tensions in East Jerusalem by changing the route of Monday's Jerusalem Day march, as well as limiting the number of participant

Clashes unfolding at Damascus Gate, Sheikh Jarrah, Hebrew University, Haifa and Nazareth ■ Police say six protesters, three cops injured ■ Police okay Jerusalem Day Flag March despite tensions

The plan, known as One Heart, was crafted in response to the widespread outrage in the wake of the self-immolation of a veteran with PTSD last month

On Saturday only 17 new coronavirus cases were identified – a tiny 0.2 percent out of 11,500 tests administered that day

Loujain al-Hathloul was released from prison in February after 1001 days in detention, including stretches of solitary confinement and allegations she’d been tortured

Former city council candidate Heshy Tischler admitted that he egged on a crowd against journalist who was reporting violations of pandemic rules by members of New York’s ultra-orthodox community

The confluence of events in Jerusalem over the past few weeks has turned the city into a powder keg once more, with aggressive policing from inexperienced leaders one of the main culprits. But that doesn't mean a third intifada is now inevitable

The launching of arson balloons comes as clashes in East Jerusalem left more than 300 Palestinians and at least 20 Israeli police forces injured over the weekend

Multiple blasts on Saturday shook a neighborhood outside Kabul, home to a large community of Shi'ites from the Hazaras, killing mostly school girls

After attorney general requests deferral, High Court says a new date for the hearing will be set within 30 days and that the Palestinian families in Sheikh Jarrah will remain in their homes until a decision is made

The former Israeli lawmaker calls the allegations ‘evil lies’ in court documents, while a woman claims in a countersuit that the rabbi engaged in repeated ‘inappropriate and terrible behavior’

Traditionally, Arab citizens of Israel have refrained from joining the struggles of Palestinians. The recent protests in Jerusalem, however, mark a dramatic shift

Netanyahu 'firmly rejects' pressure not to expand Jewish presence following Jerusalem clashes and growing international condemnation of planned evictions of Palestinians in Sheikh Jarrah

Licensed to kill: A surveillance drone, designed in Israel and made in Russia, has played a shocking, pivotal role in Putin’s endless bombing campaign to rescue the Assad regime and illegally target civilians, including hospitals

Leaders should have no more privileges than ordinary users, says Emi Palmor, who serves on Facebook's Oversight Board, adding: ‘Facebook must learn to provide explanations’