As seen in the cruel decision to ban a jailed Palestinian political activist from her own daughter's funeral, Israel's goal is to deter people from resisting the settler-colonialization regime

Sunday saw highest number of serious COVID cases in Israel since mid-May

The private diary of the war heroine and poet, who parachuted into Nazi-occupied Europe and was born 100 years ago this month, goes online for the first time. 'I’ve learned to launder and iron a little…. I could have imagined something more impor...

Defeat of communist candidate Daniel Jadue, who Chile's Jewish community says crosses the line into antisemitism, 'obviously changed the political scenario,' community leader says

Water worries in the past have sent angry demonstrators into the streets in Iran; the country has faced rolling blackouts for weeks now, in part over what authorities describe as a severe drought

A once-a-decade event in a West Bank settlement offered a biblical menu like few others

'There is no change in the status quo,' Bennett says after Islamist coalition party, PA slam Jewish visits to the Temple Mount during Tisha B'Av fast day

The demographic fuses are burning too quickly for Israel’s government to pussyfoot over forcing the ultra-Orthodox into the job market

An American Jewish Congress report finds that some Republicans are engaging in virtual spaces where ideologies of hate commingle, spread and amplify antisemitism

While Israel considers asylum seekers as 'foreigners who can’t be deported,' it still does not provide them with any social benefits

'In the Arab community there’s the feeling that we’re already immune,' an epidemiologist and public health expert says, as COVID infection rates in Israel continue to climb

Gal Sartov, who committed a sex offense in 2004 while he was deputy head of the investigation unit of the Eilat district police, was slated to moderate a panel on domestic violence for Israel Bar Association

An epidemiological institute's preliminary figures suggest this might be the case, though the percentages could be skewed because of heavy testing in hot spots

‘Basketball gave me a lot,’ player tells news conference announcing his retirement

A statement by him seems to mark the first time an Israeli prime minister has officially referred to preserving Jewish freedom of worship at the Jerusalem flash point

Minister publicly says 'closing the skies' hasn't been considered, while other cabinet members claim they are unaware of plans for it

At the 'last coral refuge in the world,' an European-Arab-Israeli research team aims to discover why Gulf of Eilat reefs have survived rising temperatures better than others

The foreign minister’s speech last week, in which he placed Jew-hatred in the wider context of other forms of abuse, is a welcome move away from Benjamin Netanyahu’s attempts to redefine antisemitism along party lines

Israel's foreign minister says the new government needs to conduct its own in-depth review of the potential ramifications of evicting Khan al-Ahmar's Palestinian residents

For the second year in a row, Tel Aviv is in second place out of 62 cities examined in Deloitte's survey

Six other suspects have been indicted over the beating of Said Moussa ■ Judge criticizes police for delay in arrests despite knowledge of suspects' identities

Unaffordable medicine, violence in the streets and valueless food stamps are just the latest symptoms of the country's political and economic dysfunction

Main targets were Arabs, followed by the ultra-Orthodox, Hate Index Report says after counting 5.2 million comments that were offensive or called for violence

From Khashoggi to reporters in India, journalists around the world have been selected as targets by clients of the cybersurveillance firm NSO, according to a new Forbidden Stories investigation, published today together with Haaretz

Close friends, colleagues and family members of the murdered journalist were all selected as targets by NSO clients, likely Saudis and UAE, according to Forbidden Stories investigation

Israeli firm NSO's Pegasus software is used to infect journalists phones in what is called 'zero clicks'. Here's how they did it and what we found out

The despot’s discretion cannot be trusted - and cyberweapons provide exactly what they need to stifle democracy | Analysis

PFLP-GC names Talal Naji will replace Ahmed Jibril as leader of the organization, which carried out high-profile attacks on Israelis in the 1970s and 1980s

Delegations are meeting for negotiations in Qatar, with hopes for quiet at least during Eid al-Adha

Despite Israel's decades-long effort to fragment, control and constrict us, the last few months have forged a newly unified Palestinian identity, from Jerusalem to Haifa to Gaza: Young Palestinians deciding enough is enough

For the first time in a decade, McDonald's has reintroduced falafel to its Israeli menu. Haaretz’s in-house McNuggets correspondent was not impressed

Foreign Minister Lapid decries 'baseless hatred' by 'a group of extremists' after youth set up barricades and drowned out the egalitarian service with shouting and cursing

Five released after months in pre-trial detention, following outcry by rights advocates when prosecutors recently referred a leading journalist to trial

Rejecting request by NGO Combatants for Peace, government agency says it does not have the authority to declare that locations in the West Bank are not part of Israel

Ewan McGregor narrates ‘Jerusalem: City of Faith and Fury,’ but he’s not had a script like this since ‘Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace’

What once drew some 2.5 million Muslims from all walks of life from across the globe, the hajj pilgrimage is now almost unrecognizable in scale with some 60,000 vaccinated Saudi citizens or residents of the kingdom attending

Suspended over a treadmill and treated to movies, jumping spiders prove to have visual capacities thought to be the fief of advanced animals

Zionism is about creating a democratic state with a Jewish majority. It knows demography is destiny. Since when did that become unacceptable and indefensible for the Zionist left?

Rescuers are using their hands to dig for survivors, as authorities fear more people could be trapped underneath the debris

Hamas calls on Palestinians to visit Al-Aqsa Mosque at the complex and remain until Tuesday's Eid al-Adha holiday prayers ■ Five protesters arrested

Israel sees a slight increase in serious COVID-19 cases over the weekend, with 63 people hospitalized, 17 of whom on ventilators

After winning two medals in the '92 Olympics, Israel's love of success drove the sport's unlikely growth in the country

From quantum computing to AI and smart baby cribs, these are the most interesting startups in Israel that are worth watching

Facebook CEO Zuckerberg posts a photo of his Hungarian sheepdog — wearing a yarmulke and a canine-sized tallit — and is barraged with pro-Palestinian comments, including antisemitic rhetoric and imagery

This ruling is the latest obstacle in the strained relations between Turkey and European nations, largely stemming from a maritime dispute with Greece

Iran's top nuclear negotiator says that the United States and Britain must stop linking a humanitarian exchange with the nuclear talks

Army officials say they took the unusual measure of sending the officer’s samples with a personal escort due to the sensitivity of the case

According to an upcoming book on Trump's last months in the White House, after Trump lost the presidential election, Bibi pushed for an attack on Iran

The takeover was organized by an extreme right-wing group, known as Liba, which has been trying to prevent a revival of the Western Wall deal

Khalida Jarrar wrote to her daughter, after the funeral last Tuesday: yours is 'a life of a Palestinian who loves life and hope and freedom and hates slavery and colonialism'

Nizar Banat's relatives claim PA is trying to settle matter out of court: 'Nizar’s file is a political assassination and will remain open until justice is achieved, even if it takes 1,000 years'

The official adds that prisoner exchanges need to stop being linked to negotiations, and some may be released on Sunday if U.S. and U.K. fulfill their part of the deal

The delta variant drives another four-month peak in daily infections, as Israel's COVID czar says Knesset to vote on reinstating vaccine passports for event halls

The May elections, in which Bashar Assad won over 95 percent of the vote, were described by the West and by his opposition as a sham

The shooting occurred while the two were sitting in a parked car on the main street of the Bedouin village of Hura

Hady Amr, the U.S. deputy assistant secretary of state for Israel and Palestinian affairs, ended a week-long visit in the region, urging Israel to increase the PA's cash flow to ensure stability, officials say

Students and teachers at Istanbul's Bogazici University have defied a government ban on protests since Erdogan installed the rector Melih Bulu, decrying government interference in academia

Hisham al-Hashimi was gunned down last July outside his home in Baghdad in a drive-by shooting that involved two attackers on a motorcycle

The IDF blew up the family home of a Palestinian accused of murdering an Israeli. The High Court rejected a petition against the demolition, which argued that the assailant lives in the U.S. Even the intervention of the American secretary of state wa...

Encounters aimed at bringing people closer, joint sports, diversity training. None significantly alter discriminatory views and behavior. What does work?

Tensions in this part of the West Bank have been running high over the evacuation of the Evyatar outpost, with clashes between residents, settlers and the army claiming the life of a 20-year-old Palestinian two weeks ago

The village of Ghajar, located half in Israel and half in Lebanon, is virtually cut off from the world but local residents are gradually finding ways to introduce outsiders to its unique cuisine and other wonders

Lebanon looks set to fall ever deeper into economic collapse, with many of its sectarian political leader switching their focus to elections next year rather than a new government or financial rescue plan

Two Palestinians were killed in May clashes near the West Bank settlement of Yitzhar, but it is unclear which shooters were responsible

Ahmad al-Khedr, also known as Abu Khuder, was a member of the Nusra Front rebel group, at one point Al-Qaida's affiliate in Syria

Danish Siddiqui had been embedded as a journalist since earlier this week with Afghan special forces based in the southern province of Kandahar

The detainees – hailing from Russia and Asia – agreed to leave, but the pandemic upset deportation plans, and even when ordered to be released, some couldn't make bail

The incident comes less than two weeks after a similar aircraft crashed into a cliff in poor visibility conditions on a remote peninsula in Russia's far east, killing all 28 people on board

The announcements come following Lebanon's Prime Minister-Designate Hariri's resignation over divisions with the president

Iranian Foreign Minister's final report in office indicates a new nuclear deal awaits the incoming president's signature, and suggests that the U.S. will lift all sanctions on Tehran

In U-turn, the court in central Israel said there is 'no pretext or argument' to strip the mother of custody of the two children, after her husband accused her of adultery without providing evidence

Daily COVID cases in Israel reach another four-month peak of 855, but data is showing signs that the increase in seriously ill patients is starting to steady ■ Arrivals from U.K., Cyprus to require week-long quarantine

Senior U.S. military officials were actively trying to dissuade Donald Trump from striking Iran after he lost the 2020 election, The New Yorker reports

Herzog sends condolences to German president Steinmeier, citing climate change as key factor in disaster

Israel's new prime minister also proves he can't quite comprehend the new coronavirus outbreak ■ Stripped of his power, Netanyahu continues to play dirty, and to court Benny Gantz

Bret Weinstein was a popular professor at Washington’s Evergreen State College. His life was turned upside down when he opposed a day free of white people on campus. Now his controversial remarks on COVID-19 could get him kicked off YouTube

This week at the Tel Aviv airport: A Swiss student who has recently experienced her first war in Israel, and an Israeli who shocked her family when she married a man 14 years her senior and became religious

The question marks revolve around Israel’s ground troops. Will it take the risk to deploy them, and is this still a relevant military maneuver?

Tehran’s growing use of drones reflects an old Iranian ethos of combining technological progress with self-reliance. Meanwhile, Israel is taking drone warfare one step further

Since the beginning of the month nine people were killed in work accidents, and 37 were killed since the beginning of the year, 20 of them were killed while working on construction sites

In a trial that rocked Israel, Roman Zadorov was convicted of murdering Tair Rada, 13, at the girl’s school in the Golan Heights in 2006

The strikes, which protest intolerably high workloads, will be suspended for 45 days in exchange for negotiations with top health and finance ministry officials

The May attack was aimed at rekindling rioting in mixed Arab-Jewish cities and was unique in that it was premeditated, Shin Bet source says

Haaretz reveals details of a series of deals carried out by Himanuta, a Jewish National Fund subsidiary, in the West Bank, one of which involved the Defense Ministry. The Bakri house in Hebron, for example, was bought for settlers who had squatted th...

Not only do the hyena kids have the same friends as Mom, but the higher in rank she is, the better the babies do in life

The plan, which calls for stricter enforcement, would allow Israelis who have been vaccinated against COVID-19, have recovered, or have tested negative to attend indoor events with more than 100 people