Hardliner Ebrahim Raisi is under U.S. sanctions for alleged involvement in executions of political prisoners decades ago, but says he backs the current nuclear talks

The coronavirus jabs are earmarked for Gaza and the West Bank, and are essentially a loan which will see a later shipment of vaccines to the Palestinian Authority redirected to Israel

Interviews conducted by a researcher at Ben-Gurion University shed light on the difficulties Bedouin women run into when seeking medical care

After a tumultuous first week, Bennett needs to define his leadership style, abandon his election statements and find an alternative 'base' of supporters ■ What skeletons and ghosts did the Netanyahus leave behind in Balfour? ■ And what lies behi...

Chinese companies are vying for a Tel Aviv light rail tender. Bennett will have to tread carefully on an issue that is of strategic concern for the U.S.

This week's threat of an Israel-Hamas escalation once again placed a question mark on the Israeli army's victory claims

Three former top security officials say there is little time left to try to affect the Iran nuclear deal. Otherwise, they caution, Western powers can claim Israel has had its chance to be heard – and missed it

Voter turnout is expected to be around 40 percent, down from 73 percent in the 2017 election. If the polls are right, this will be the lowest turnout since the Islamic Revolution in 1979

According to the State Department, Blinken and Lapid discussed opportunities and challenges for Israel and the region

Sheikh Yusuf Albaz, whose city saw severe Jewish-Arab violence last month, was arrested following a Facebook post in which he included a link to a video that allegedly encourages attacks on the police

Sanaa Shalabi says her husband, who recently murdered a yeshiva student in the West Bank, lives in the U.S., has other wives and is mentally unstable. Israel wants to demolish her and her kids' home as punishment

This week at the Tel Aviv airport: A tango dancer who left a life of oppression behind in Russia, and a jazz composer who wants to make it before he's 30

Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi is expected to meet with the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley, National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin as well as other U.S. officials

The IDF did not identify any rocket launches, saying the sirens were triggered by other fire close to the border; Military officials warn that fighting with Gazan militants may renew

Harshly criticizing Republican moves to block aid to Gaza, Sen. Menendez says U.S. investment in foreign aid is meant to be 'in pursuit of our common humanity, our values, and our own security interests'

Eighteenth-century thinkers rejected the existence of God not because they proved that there is no God, but because for them belief in his existence was an affront to their dignity. The shallowness of contemporary atheism, which mocks believers, miss...

In stopping this army practice, fewer West Bank residents will wake up to find that armed Israeli soldiers have broken into their homes. But tracking and monitoring is a central component of Israel’s control over the Palestinians

The move is connected to the position of British Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, the school’s president, against rabbinical ordination for women, school employees say

After court orders military to reveal order allowing raids on homes of Palestinians who aren’t suspected of anything, Israel Defense Forces largely prohibits practice

Court rules that article's use of term 'Polish extermination camp' did infringe on plaintiff's rights, but that case cannot be brought as he was not individually named

The first institute focusing on Israel’s culinary world is about to open in Tel Aviv. Founder Naama Shefi tells Haaretz what makes local chefs creative, which legendary meal originated in the kibbutz dining room and also, despite claims to the cont...

The three defendants, Arab residents of the city 'torched houses and apartments that they believed were the homes of Jews' during last month's wave of Jewish-Arab unrest, according to the charges against them

The material was kept in safes in the so-called ‘aquarium,’ where prime ministers and their most senior aides sit. It’s unclear which, or how many, documents were destroyed at Netanyahu’s orders

Repeal of act that allowed the war in Iraq now heads to the Senate, as lawmakers move to pull back White House's authority to declare war on its own

Protesters blocked Beirut's airport highway with trash bins, setting them on fire, and causing large clouds of black smoke to hang over the motorway

The Transportation Ministry is involving a team with an environmental perspective and an eye to climate change, newly appointed Minister Merav Michaeli says

Commission would investigate both the disaster that killed 45 people and the need to regulate or even nationalize some religious sites at which mass events are held

HDP said the 20-year-old woman was covering a shift for her mother at the office

Vogue called her ‘Gigi Hadid’s secret style weapon.’ Jennifer Aniston says her designs would have been loved by her fashionista 'Friends' character Rachel Greene. New York designer Nili Lotan is quietly building an empire – and she has big pl...

24-year-old Imad Sufi acted out of 'political, religious, nationalistic and ideological motives' during the latest round of Israel-Hamas fighting, the indictment argues

Ankara's purchase of Russian S-400 missile defenses has strained ties with the U.S. and NATO allies over concerns that the systems are not compatible with the alliance's defenses and may threaten U.S. F-35 fighter jets

Israel's ultra-Orthodox politicians are throwing curses at the 'evil crook' who now occupies the prime minister's seat. In the Jewish identity wars, Naftali Bennett is their nemesis, the greatest threat to Jewish fundamentalism

Ismail Haniyeh arrives in Morocco for a four-day visit to meet with Islamist PJD, the biggest party in the governing coalition, and several other parties, in a move meant to demonstrate Rabat's commitment to the Palestinians

The Minnesota Congresswoman was criticized by Republicans for her comments on Israel and Hamas. But Jewish Democratic lawmakers, including one who was "pained" by the quote, say punishing her is the wrong response

Alon Tal has spent his four decades in Israel founding, leading and playing an active role in the country's environmental efforts. The newly sworn-in Kahol Lavan lawmaker tells Haaretz what he'll do with that power

Israel's Singapore ambassador says the 'door is open' to improve relations with Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei, despite fierce condemnation of Israel's Gaza operation by the Muslim-majority countries in South East Asia

TikTok has faced backlash in Israel — including calls by Netanyahu to suspend the platform — after violent videos of clashes between Jews and Arabs went viral

In an interview with the Brooklyn-based ultra-Orthodox weekly Ami, the former U.S. President mused that had American Jews been more attached to Israel, they would have supported him in greater numbers

The Biden administration is proposing changes in how U.S. schools teach the history of racism and the lasting legacies of white supremacy. It’s time we Jews do the same

The 20-year-old Border Police officer is charged with reckless homicide

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

Environmental Protection Minister Tamar Zandberg also vows to promote legislation to reduce carbon emissions and plastic usage but faces an uphill battle in achieving these goals

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