'There’s no doubt that if the victim had been Jewish and the suspects Palestinian, there would already be people under arrest,' human rights group's CEO says, as police and victim's brother offer clashing accounts

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A town in central Israel is listed as 'orange' on Israel's so-called 'traffic light' system for first time since April, as delta variant spreads

Israel finally has its first ever graffiti magazine, Insomnia. 'We’re looking for work by Palestinian graffiti writers,' says one of its founders

Satellite images suggest a second attempt is in the offing, after U.S. officials, rocket experts and imagery all confirmed Iran's failed launch in early June

Left wing comedian Noam Shuster planned to conquer American nightclub stages. Instead, she found herself battling the coronavirus — but emerged with stronger convictions than ever

A show at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art exposes in a thrilling yet disturbing way, from the air and the ground, abandoned villages, fenced-off lands and unrecognized locales

Israel's intelligence services are bracing for Raisi's first move on Thursday: whether the new president will allow inspections of Iran's nuclear facilities to continue

The Finance Ministry said that since Israel's economy reopened after coronavirus, recovery has been swift. However, those aged 45 and over are returning to work more slowly, and there is still excess unemployment

The fate of the turtle – who was rescued, monitored and travelled thousands of kilometers only to apparently get trapped again – exemplifies the threats faced by these marine animals

Aisman, currently serving as Israel's acting state prosecutor, is considered a 'brilliant jurist' and has forwarded several justice reforms to tackle crime rates in Arab communities and revision of police conduct

The U.S. seized roughly three dozen websites, the majority of which are linked to Iranian disinformation efforts, said a U.S. official who spoke on condition of anonymity

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid taps Zamir, formerly tourism minister, to the role of consul general

Study finds nature reserves, forests and farmland were set ablaze by rocket fire and incendiary balloons sent from Gaza, endangering the diversity of flora and potentially wildlife in the local ecosystem

Armaments worth 300,000 shekels were purchased, and officers of the Guard were trained by the elite Police Anti-Terror Unit

Bennett called on Israelis to cancel travel plans if they 'don't need to fly,' and announced a new mask mandate for Ben-Gurion Airport

The two-year-old has been on life support since birth and medical experts do not believe she has a chance of recovering or feeling pleasure. The parents say the move contradicts their Jewish faith

Issa Amro, who has been arrested by both Israel and the PA in the past, was held overnight on Monday after online posts calling on Ramallah to arrest corrupt officials

Saudi Arabia and Gulf allies continue to pressure Iran over its nuclear program and its ballistic missiles

Candidates court Jewish voters, estimated to make up some 20% of the electorate in Democratic primaries, in last push before voting takes place

Agency says former lawmaker Gadeer Mreeh, the first Druze woman to serve in the Knesset, will focus in her role on advocacy work on college campuses

Army intelligence units attract brilliant young people who get tempting offers from the private sector even during their service. To keep them in the system, the defense establishment needs creative solutions

U.S. criticism of presidential election is interference in Iran's domestic affairs, government spokesman says

As well as the fight to replace Isaac Herzog as chairman, there is also a skirmish over who gets to be temporary chair – and it’s dividing the main Zionist institutions

Treasury approves fast-track process to buy riot-control gear, after police exhausted supplies in last month’s riots. ‘The quiet right now is skin deep,' police source says

Eighty years after the Nazis let Otto Warburg continue his research into cancer during the Holocaust, the Nobel Prize winner’s breakthroughs are receiving a renewed scientific focus

Democratic Rep. Andy Levin tells Haaretz how his Reconstructionist Judaism informs his work as a congressman, even when it comes to criticizing Israeli policy

The delta variant has been identified in more than 80 countries, and Israel fears that infections will spike without renewed restrictions. What makes it so contagious and how effective is the vaccine against it?

Antisemitism or legitimate protest? U.S. activists against the occupation are divided after Philadelphia food festival Eat Up the Borders uninvited an Israeli food truck

A New Orleans museum that opened last month sheds light on surprising aspects of Jewish life in the 13 Southern states since the mid-1700s

Dozens of the returning Israelis tested positive for coronavirus while Health Ministry officials say they were pressed to remove Russia from the list of high-risk countries

125 Israelis test positive for coronavirus on Monday, Health Ministry says, as the delta variant continues to make headway in Israel

The two delis say message including discount code was sent by outside marketing firm without consulting owners

Four Palestinians arrested, including two minors for throwing the firebomb in the East Jerusalem neighborhood◾ Israeli police disperse Palestinians with batons, tear gas and grenades, leaving dozens injured

The state commission of inquiry to investigate April’s disaster at Mount Meron will begin once Justice Esther Hayut taps the committee members

With Israel’s continued control over Gaza and with not even a trace of effort to reach a diplomatic solution, one cannot make a persuasive case to a liberal audience

The former prime minister's continued hold on the Likud leadership is what is preventing his colleagues from returning to power - and they know it

PM Naftali Bennett and FM Yair Lapid have both explicitly discussed the concerted effort their government will undertake to improve ties with the Democrats

The main protest headed to the illegal outpost of Evyatar, which settlers continue to build despite an eviction order by the Israeli army

Numerous instances have been recorded of police officers dragging Palestinian protesters to the posts and beating them outside Jerusalem's Old City

Once employed mainly in riots and severe cases of public disturbance, one of the most violent and intimidating tools available to police is now being widely used, particularly in Jerusalem

While Jerusalem is focusing on President-elect Ebrahim Raisi’s reportedly bloody past and denouncing Tehran’s ‘regime of executioners,’ Washington is continuing to pursue reentry into the Iran nuclear deal

Habib Abu Habib, 41, is accused of throwing a rock at Mordechai Katz and, along with other rioters, of kicking and hitting him with rocks and sticks in Acre, a town with a mixed Jewish-Arab population

Palestinian negotiators in the 1990s thought it would be purely a technical matter to facilitate family reunifications and the return of people to the territories

Despite adding two additional chairpersons to the Israeli Interior Ministry committee to speed up approvals, it still takes a year and a half from the time a refugee status application is received until it is reviewed

MK Gilad Kariv looks to secure backing from all parties in the government to implement Western Wall deal that would recognize rights of non-Orthodox Jewish groups at the holy site

New Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has never publicly addressed allegations that he oversaw the extrajudicial executions of thousands of political prisoners

Ebrahim Raisi may be known as the ‘Executioner of Tehran,’ but his election is unlikely to change Iran’s thinking concerning its nuclear program. Israel’s new government has a major challenge ahead

Test involved aerial laser system installed on a plane which 'intercepted and destroyed UAVs at different ranges and flight altitudes,' Israel's Defense Ministry says

The Ukrainian delegation, led by the deputy commissioner of the national police, came to study how to handle the large religious festival before the annual celebration in Uman

The recent conflict was a major test of the Abraham Accords' durability. The Israel-Gulf alliance against Iran's tentacles of terror emerged not only intact, but stronger

In light of the recent outbreaks, HMOs report that 18,000 new vaccine appointments for children and teens have been booked with more expected in coming days

After giving up a brilliant legal career in the U.S. to found a rights group, Sari Bashi worked in a nonprofit organization created by Jamal Khashoggi, fell in love with a Palestinian man – and moved to Ramallah to raise an unusual family. An inter...

Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar says meeting with UN envoy ended in failure, accuses Israel of 'trying to harm every Palestinian'

The HDP has come under intensified pressure in recent months, with nationalist allies of Erdogan's AK Party calling for it to be banned over alleged ties to the outlawed PKK militant group

Speaking publicly for the first time since being voted in as Iran's president, Ebrahim Raisi added the U.S. must rejoin the 2015 nuclear deal and lift all sanctions on Iran

Lapid's trip, scheduled for next week, would be the first official Israeli visit to Abu Dhabi and Dubai after the signing of the normalization deals in September 2020

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

Head of Central Command 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

We know modern humans and Neanderthals met, because we have some of their genes. Now archaeologists have found sites not far from one another, which were used at about the same time

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