The healthy distrust Israelis display toward official statements by government and private entities that have a say in their own socioeconomic situation, vanishes in the context of the occupation

Hungarian-born Zsolt Balla is to be inaugurated as the Bundeswehr's rabbi at the synagogue in Leipzig

Maj. Gen. Tamir Yadai rejects petition by residents of Evyatar to appeal their expulsion, in what a settlement leader calls a political move that rewards terrorism

COVID czar eyes reopening of testing centers across Israel due to outbreaks

As the likes of Hamas, Hezbollah and Boko Haram increasingly look for donations in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, it is becoming increasingly difficult for crypto-activity experts to track their fundraising

As seen in its support of the so-called family unification law, the danger facing the coalition is not that its right-wing leaders will adopt the policies of the left, but rather the opposite

With the approval of Israel's political leaders, there will also be a one-time export of Gazan textiles to Israeli businesses

Netanyahu ordered the shredding at the Prime Minister's Office right before the handover to Bennett

The 45 people killed in Israel’s worst-ever civilian disaster at Mount Meron were clearly insufficiently heart-rending for ultra-Orthodox lawmakers, who are more concerned with their own seats, to establish their own probe

Members of Knesset are only allowed to hire three members of staff, but at least five lawmakers from Netanyahu's party chose to keep their personal driver

The Nature and Parks Authority plans to make the area accessible to the public by developing hiking trails, bicycle paths, observation points and other stopping points along the road

With no consensus among coalition parties and the opposition declaring they won't support it, the annual renewal of the law blocking Palestinians from a route to citizenship via marrying an Israeli will not get past Knesset

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett also tasks 250 police officers with enforcing quarantine regulations as the Indian COVID strain spreads in Israel

Police arrested 11 people suspected of assaulting officers at a wedding where one civilian was seriously wounded, and three cops were lightly hurt

Salaries, already meager, have shrunk and more than 3,000 Lebanese soldiers have left military service because they can’t support their families

Ukraine closed its borders in August 2020 amidst a surge in COVID-19 infections, blocking most pilgrims from entering the country

Bushehr power plant is fueled by uranium produced in Russia, not Iran, and is monitored by the United Nations’ International Atomic Energy Agency

The Palestinian Health Ministry has said that it intends to resume negotiations with Israel and Pfizer about 'safe vaccines that meet our standards'

Naftali Bennett's governing coalition is split on ideological grounds over whether to extend the law, which controls the reunification of Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza with their partners who are Israeli citizens

Nancy Buirski’s ‘A Crime on the Bayou’ is a moving documentary about a pivotal but little-known case in Louisiana in the 1960s. She talks about civil rights lawyer Richard B. Sobol, and why she had to convince him his story needed telling

Health experts are mainly concerned about the Indian COVID strain entering Israel as it might be vaccine-resistant ■ Health Ministry officials fear Ben-Gurion Airport isn't prepared for the summer

'Our enemies will learn the rules – we won’t tolerate violence, we won’t tolerate trickles of rocket,' Bennett says a week after being sworn in as prime minister

Some diplomats express concern that Iran's election of hardline Raisi as president could complicate a possible return to 2015 agreement

Armin Laschet, the top CDU politician bidding to succeed Merkel, called for the flag to be banned last month following a series of anti-Israel demonstrations that have seen violent clashes with police

'You have to offer something in return to go to the bathroom, to call family or to avoid beating,' says one 17-year-old Somali woman

How to distinguish between the American Jewish moderate majority and the far left on Israel, the occupation and the Palestinians

Ex-royal court chief and minor royal accused of conspiring with former heir Prince Hamzah to destabilize the monarchy face up to 20 years in prison

President Elect Ebrahim Raisi’s hard line is as much about politics as it is defending the corruption that rules Iran’s economy

Information relating to patents is worth a lot — and it turns out that Israel’s Justice Ministry is storing it on a private server. Their excuse shows how reckless they are

Bennett's new government approved on Sunday morning to launch the state commission of inquiry into the tragedy where 45 people were crushed to death at the annual pilgrimage to the grave of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai

Israel should be reaching out to the 90,000 or so Jews in Brazil, a new study suggests, where the majority of the community is under 34 and highly educated

Eat Up the Borders, which seeks to 'help promote small, family, or immigrant owned businesses', made the decision to uninvite the Israeli food truck after 'listening to the concerns of [a] community that we love'

Parties are unsure when the talks will resume, after ongoing negotiations between the U.S., Iran and other parties since April

Photographer Itamar Dotan Katz documented abandoned hotels and resorts in the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt. The absence of visitors and the decision to accentuate the wonderful formations in black and white disconnect the observer from the familiar experie...

Seven of those arrested are suspected of racially-motivated murder, murder as an act of terrorism, stone-throwing and other crimes; The other man is suspected of obstructing the investigation

President Biden and the Democrats cannot cut Israel slack on the occupation just because Netanyahu is out. There should be no 'bipartisan support' for the subjugation of Palestinians

Commission would investigate both the Mount Meron disaster that killed 45 people and whether to regulate or nationalize religious sites where mass events are held

Statement comes amid slow progress in the talks between the hardline Islamic group and Afghan government representatives in Qatar ahead of withdrawal of foreign forces by September 11

Speaking at the first cabinet meeting, Bennet says Raisi's appoitnment may be the West's last chance to understand 'who they're dealing with'

The Spanish commentator said that Israel's 'international presence' in sports was a 'strategy for whitewashing the genocide' against Palestinians

Authorities announced on Saturday that 45 children in Binyamina were diagnosed with the virus, and they suspect it is the Indian COVID variant

Lapid has aspired to the role of foreign minister for years. Now that he's filled it, he must rehabilitate a ministry 'disgracefully neglected' during the Netanyahu years

IDF chief Kochavi is expected to present Israel’s reservations regarding the Iran nuclear accord, as well as some suggestions for improving it

'This is a terrorist attack against the LGBT community,' Fort Lauderdale Mayor Dean Trantalis said about the incident, which left another attendee seriously injured

Walaa Muawad slammed the brakes at a temporary roadblock in Jerusalem, and police accused her of trying to run over a cop at the scene. A judge ruled that police tried to force a confession from her

Rivlin’s visit to the U.S. on June 28 'will highlight the enduring partnership between the United States and Israel and the deep ties between our governments and our people,' the White House Press Secretary said

The controversial cleric received praises from Iran's allies following his election; human rights groups and Israel meanwhile point to Ebrahim Raisi's bloody past

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has allowed Opposition Leader Netanyahu and his family to stay in the residence on Balfour street for an 'adjustment period'

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid and his ministry's spokesperson blast Ebrahim Raisi for his commitment to the Iran's nuclear ambitions and alleged role in the execution of thousands of political prisoners

On Thursday, Haaretz reported that documents stored in safes in the Prime Minister’s Office were shredded in violation of the law, shortly before Bennett took office

Emergency regulation from 2003 allows Israel to refuse residency visas to Palestinians married to Israeli citizens; Meretz MK Friege says he will vote against renewing the measure

One man was seriously injured after altercation and gunfire in Deir al-Assad; one officer moderately wounded and one lightly injured, two police cars set ablaze

Bennett passes one Gaza test, but Hamas is still laying traps. This week's threat of an Israel-Hamas escalation once again placed a question mark on the Israeli army's victory claims

The U.S. is shifting the placement of its armed forces to better confront military threats from China and Russia, according to a Wall Street Journal report

In a vote that appears to see the lowest voter turnout in Iran's history, conservative judge Raisi won 17.8 million votes of the 28 million cast

Balloting came to a close at 2.a.m. Saturday after voting was extended to accommodate 'crowding.' Opinion polls indicate judiciary chief Ebrahim Raisi — already under U.S. sanctions — as front-runner for the presidency

Defense Minister Gantz has ordered to resume the stringiest blockade on Gaza and only goods classified by Israel as humanitarian, such as food and medicine, are allowed in

Shalom Shlomo received thousands of euros for advising Michael Ganor, who is suspected of obstructing an investigation, tax offenses and bribery

'Our child was murdered, even if not directly and from time to time his good name is also being murdered,' the officer's father says

Many countries are concerned about plunging birthrates, but Israel has the opposite problem

Israeli health officials say the PA was completely aware of the vaccines' expiration date when it agreed to reimburse Israel with Pfizer's inoculations

Even though the unauthorized West Bank outpost was supposed to be cleared at the beginning of the week, its residents believe the new government will shun controversy

Five other Palestinians were injured in clashes with Israeli soldiers south of Nablus during a demonstration against a new illegal West Bank outpost

Many Israelis have received messages in recent weeks about frequent changes to their flight times for July and August ■ The cause is a shortage of workers in security – which only Israeli companies must adhere to ■ ‘About 30% of the flights h...

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is allowing Opposition Leader Netanyahu and his family stay in the residence on Balfour street for an 'adjustment period'

With the ratio of Arab-to-Jewish indictees at nine to one, a civil rights group is calling the action ‘a militarized war against Palestinian citizens of Israel.’ The police deny any accusations of discrimination

Explosion causes major damage to Ynet reporter Hassan Shaalan's home, two weeks after his house was targeted in a shooting attack. No casualties reported

Israeli professors Bashir Bashir and Amos Goldberg propose an original way of relating to these historical events that just might offer a new path toward ending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

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 agreement is essentially a loan which will see a later shipment of COVID 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.

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...