Ahmad Shamsa is the fourth Palestinian to be killed since protests against the Evyatar outpost broke out last month ■ Israeli army says the teen threw an explosive device toward soldiers

In his farewell TV interview, outgoing Mossad chief Yossi Cohen revealed secrets about Iran that Israeli authorities always censor out of journalists’ reports

The Bennett-Lapid government has not yet shown whether it will act with resolve and boldness against Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran, or whether it will adopt a more moderate stance

The reason for Netanyahu's 30-minute briefing with Bennett is that there was simply nothing to pass on, senior political official says

The upcoming challenge will be the vote on the budget, which at the moment is the most significant threat to the coalition’s survival

Defense lawyers had asked for recess until September to review additional evidence; the court relented on a 3-week pause in the trial after the two sides agreed on it

Leaders discuss Tehran's atomic program in summit meeting in Geneva, agree to launch nuclear arms control talks to build on New START treaty

The liberal pro-Israel group withdrew its application to join the largest U.S. Zionist umbrella group after conservative groups torpedoed its chances

In the footage of the incident in early June in Hebron, Israeli settlers can be seen attempting to aid the soldiers by moving other Palestinians away from the scene

Group's president says conditioning aid to Israel goes further than restricting it, which carries no consequences for human rights violations

The new plan will, among other things, encourage interagency cooperation and information sharing and have Washington allocate tens of millions of dollars for state and local programs

Blazes follow overnight airstrikes in Gaza in response to fires started by balloons launched Tuesday during the right-wing Flag March in Jerusalem

Nachman Shai pledges to work for equality, saying Israel must mend a rift that has developed with Diaspora Jewry over Israeli religious policies

For Jews, what is more offensive – and more threatening? Today’s philosemitic Evangelicals, some with their venomous takes on Israel's new government, or yesteryear’s Christian theological antisemitism?

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid cannot afford to make the same errors as their predecessor with regard to the United States, Iran or the company they keep

Former deputy commander Amnon Yahavi was in charge of Ketziot Prison in March 2019, when 55 Palestinian inmates were gathered and beaten. Since then, he has been promoted

After 18 months of exploitation, the Welfare Ministry refused to let M. into a shelter for prostitution survivors because she lacks legal status. Police tried to deport her to Gaza until a Defense Ministry department intervened

United Torah Judaism and Shas, in joint statement, say these political advisers to the Bennett-Lapid government are 'trying to drive a wedge in the wall of common struggle'

Filmmaker Jesse Dylan, the eldest son of Bob Dylan, tells Haaretz how he tried to get the real story on the Jewish billionaire philanthropist who’s loathed by far-right forces around the world

NSO, which is eyeing an IPO, saw its credit rating downgraded recently after suffering a serious coronavirus crunch

Israeli-American Harvard professor Avi Loeb is urging his colleagues to expand their horizons with some sky-high imagination. 'The chances are that we will be encountering alien equipment long before we encounter creatures from other worlds,' he tell...

'We're not expecting a big set of deliverables out of this meeting,' a senior U.S. official says of the first meeting between the two leaders since Biden took office

With observance of Jewish holidays and a Holocaust museum situated inside a church, Christian Zionist advocacy and influence are growing within Taiwan’s religious community

The 29-year-old Palestinian woman tried to run over and later stab soldiers near the West Bank village of Hizma, says the Israeli army

The lawmakers entered the Knesset under the controversial Norwegian Law which allows ministers to resign their Knesset seats in order to open up places in the Knesset for other party members

Self-absorbed, sanctimonious and often superficial, the American Jewish left is alienated from the real-life struggle for justice in Israel and Palestine. And its refusal to engage with the Jews and Arabs of the Israeli left has never been more hurtf...

Human rights groups have criticized these raids for years, which involve Israeli soldiers entering the homes of Palestinians who are not suspected of any offenses

From the Iranian race to the nuclear bomb to the frozen Palestinian peace process, violent riots in Arab-Jewish Israeli cities, an exhausted and unpopular police force and an embattled Supreme Court, Bennett's new government has a lot on its plate

As reported by Israel's public broadcaster Kan, Ayelet Balaban said that she believed the new toponym to be the result of a mistake

Analysis of 3,000-year-old statuettes from pharaonic burials suggests disruption of international trade following the Bronze Age Collapse was not as catastrophic as we thought

Tallal al-Hariri has big hopes for Iraqi politics if he gets to stand in this October’s parliamentary election, including the right of Iraqi Jews to return to their historic homeland

As prime minister, Bennett can make personal appointments to some 40 positions in his office and personal residence, but has yet to name a director-general of the Prime Minister's Office

Netanyahu hosted Haley in the prime minister's residence, where he is currently a guest. She described him as if he's still the country's leader. Together, they showed a lack of respect toward Israel's new government

At Tel Dor 3,800 years ago, relative sea level was 2.5 meters lower than it is now. Suddenly it began to rise fast in the Hellenistic period. Nobody knows why

According to security sources, supervision of materials entering Gaza is not sufficiently budgeted or staffed, and Hamas has taken advantage of that

Bennett can't afford to show restraint against Hamas, and thus, the army will have to recommend a response strong enough to be suitable but not so strong that it sparks renewed fighting

This marks the first escalation in violence since a cease-fire ended 11 days of conflict between Israel and Hamas last month

The High Court overturns a Knesset decision to deny tax benefits to an organization on account of it being 'publicly controversial'

As the former premier's bribery trial continues, lawyer says news site only wanted to balance its ‘leftist’ slant. Meanwhile, former Walla CEO admits to having spoken with journalists even after trial began

New minister Tamar Zandberg vows to promote legislation to reduce carbon emissions, plastic usage but faces an uphill battle in achieving these goals, however much unanimously supported by organizations and professionals

Nides has years of experience on both Wall Street and Capitol Hill and has been lauded for his ability to manage and navigate complex diplomatic and bureaucratic situations

Sources in the governing coalition say the move is meant to enable the new ministers and Knesset committees to start their work without delay

Pending a Senate confirmation, former Deputy Secretary of State Nides will be key to executing President Biden's Mideast policy with the new Bennett-Lapid government

These nine women ministers hold widely divergent backgrounds, values and policy priorities

The survey shows that 53 percent of Palestinians believe Hamas is 'most deserving of representing and leading the Palestinian people,' while only 14 percent prefer Abbas' secular Fatah party

Israel has one of the highest vaccination rates in the world – and one of the lowest rates of infection – but most vaccinated foreign tourists are not yet allowed to enter the country

In the years 2018-2020, at least 10 mosques and churches were vandalized, both in the West Bank and within Israel

Antisemitic incidents in the United States 'more than doubled during the May 2021 military conflict,' according to the Anti-Defamation League

This comes after former PM Netanyahu had already extended Nadav Argaman's term by a few months

Following Isaac Herzog's election as Israel's next president, his position as head of the Jewish Agency will soon be vacated. The race to replace him could have political implications in Israel and abroad

Tehran said in April it would begin enriching uranium to 60 percent, a move that would take it much closer to the 90 percent suitable for a nuclear bomb

British Karim Khan is set to take over from outgoing prosecutor Fatou Bensouda, inheriting probes opened in the Palestinian territories, Afghanistan, and other hotspots

While no country has claimed the air base, shipping traffic associated with a prior attempt to build a massive runway across the 3.5 mile-long island years ago links back to the UAE

Michael Ben-Yair was surprised to find that a religious nonprofit group had charged Palestinians living in his grandmother’s East Jerusalem house hundreds of thousands of shekels in rent, with the approval of a rabbinical court. His legal journey t...

Lawyer and human rights activist Sari Bashi explains why she wrote under the pen name ‘Umm Forat,’ and why she’s done hiding behind it ■ Post #32

According to official data, some 40 percent of the far-right extremists in Germany are believed to support the use of violence for political ends

Human Rights Watch said it documented many flaws in the Lebanese investigation of the explosion, including political interference

The former Bank of Israel governor and Federal Reserve vice chairman cited personal reasons for his resignation

Non-COVID hospital visits dropped in the early months of the pandemic, in part because people were afraid of being infected at the hospital and because hospitals were forced to postpone nonurgent care, the National Institute for Health Policy finds

Twenty fires broke out in Israel due to explosive-laden balloons launched from the Gaza Strip as tensions renew in Jerusalem

'We want our service to reflect the voices that shape the conversations that take place on our service,' said Twitter's communications head for the Middle East and North Africa

Uzia Galil, who pioneered radio, fiber optics and PCs and laid the groundwork for Israel's tech industry, passed away last week at 96

Biden was the first world leader to react to Bennett's swearing-in, which ended Netanyahu's 12 consecutive years as prime minister

The right-wing Flag March is a 'fuse for a new explosion,' Hamas spokesman says a day after PM Bennett takes office

The ministry approved 97 percent of requests by public bodies to receive data about most citizens, from names and addresses to test results, contact tracing, infection, quarantine and vaccination info

Israel's new leadership faces an immediate challenge in the form of right-wing Jerusalem march, but other security and political issues may be much more daunting and depend heavily on ties with the White House

Controversial congresswoman says she made a mistake by comparing logos for vaccinated employees to yellow stars Jews were forced to wear by the Nazis

'We think that there are no issues within U.S.-Turkey ties, and that areas of cooperation for us are richer and larger than problems,' Erdogan said at the NATO summit

Stone tools dating to 50,000 years ago found in the Negev desert signal the arrival of our ancestors from Africa and of a new technology that would spread with humans as they took over the world

Masks will still be required on flights, and in welfare institutions and institutions with elderly considered at high risk from coronavirus

President Erdogan has recently toned down his anti-Western rhetoric as he seeks foreign investments for his country

Having a weak prime minister is not normally a good thing for any country. But after Netanyahu, that is exactly what Israel now needs: a premier who will exercise what power he has sparingly

Secretary-General Stoltenberg said China's growing military presence from the Baltics to Africa meant nuclear-armed NATO had to be prepared

Ayelet Shaked dubs moves to deport asylum seekers 'a strategic matter'

A boat sank miles off the coast of al-Mokha, local official said

'Levy challenges the Israeli consensus in courageous work on the ground that brings the voices of Palestinians' in the West Bank and Gaza, Sokolow Prize committee says

Lawyer for three of six Arab suspects argues Shin Bet extracted false confessions from his clients ■ Investigators increasingly believe Lod murder of Jewish resident amid wave of ethnic violence was a hate crime

During Bennett's speech ahead of new government's swearing-in, Religious Zionism leader Smotrich held pictures of Israelis killed by Palestinians and was kicked out of the Knesset

Naftali Bennett’s decision not to relocate his family to the prime minister’s residence in Jerusalem is proving unpopular with his neighbors, who now face major upheaval to their daily routines

On entrenching the Hamas regime in the Gaza Strip and other recent achievements of the Israeli army that should not be dismissed

Dov Lipman is involved in a legal battle with two women over accusations of sexual misconduct, but was removed from his position at the World Confederation of United Zionists after details of the lawsuit broke. He denies being fired

Sawa - 'Together' in Arabic - fielded around 37,000 calls during the May violence, twice its usual workload

Will Bennett perpetuate Netanyahu’s toxic policies towards the Palestinians? Will the EU and the Biden administration back up their fine words about rights and freedom?

U.S. evangelical Mike Evans is outlier in comments comparing new coalition with ‘rabid dogs’ as Ted Cruz, Nikki Haley and other Republican leaders applaud Netanyahu for his achievements but bid welcome to Bennett and Lapid government

Israel's 36th government, comprised of eight parties, takes the reins after ousting Netanyahu