Artem Dolgopyat's routine was the highest level of difficulty, guarantying Israel's first medal in the Tokyo Olympics that is not bronze

Israeli PM Bennett says 'we have our own way of relaying our message to Iran'

The rate of positive tests – which currently stands at 3.13 – is the highest since the delta variant of COVID-19 started spreading across Israel

After losing to South Korea and the United States last week, Israeli team wins by seven runs

The Iranian attack on the Israeli-operated ship, which left two foreign nationals dead, provides the perfect opportunity for Bennett and the defense establishment to ramp up their diplomatic campaign against Tehran

Israeli authorities oppose the move that would apply to structures in the Negev and East Jerusalem, with officials telling Haaretz that the minister is not authorized to stop the demolitions, but only possibly delay them

Photographs of Jerusalem Pride Parade attack victim Shira Banki were also strewn outside the Bnei Brak synagogues

This comes after FM Lapid held talks with his British and Romanian counterparts after the alleged drone attack, which left two foreign nationals dead

The altercation was apparently linked to a Supreme Court decision last week to overrule former Interior Minister Arye Dery's dismissal of the Yarka's mayor, Wahib Habish

The Environmental Protection Ministry director-general says that 'to avoid the hell expected for us,' Israel has to work on reducing greenhouse gases

'Germany must always be aware of its historical responsibility for Poland's freedom and independence,' said Armin Laschet at Warsaw Uprising observances in Poland

Rate of positive COVID tests also highest in months, with 2,435 new cases on Friday. With a booster vaccine shot campaign underway, top official urges Israelis over 60 to get the jab

When officers criticized lenient sentencing by courts during a meeting with Justice Isaac Amit, he said he prefers objective evidence to an officer's version of events

Temperatures across Israel are predicted to linger above 30 degrees Celsius in the coming week

American and European sources said on Iran was their leading suspect for the strike that killed two crew members

Amid deadly heat waves, flooding and wildfires around the world, calls intensify for urgent action to cut the greenhouse gases heating the planet

The move against Judge Bechir Akremi came after President Kais Saied pledged to lead a campaign against corruption in all sectors

Israeli judokas Timna Nelson-Levy, Ori Sasson, Li Kochman, Gili Sharir, Tohar Butbul, Peter Paltchik, Sagi Muki, and Raz Hershko gave an impressive performance and snatched Israel's 11th Olympic medal overall

Taekwondo fighter wins first Tokyo 2020 medal for Israel ■ Israeli swimmer finishes in eighth place in 100m final in Tokyo

Israeli official's comments come after an Israeli-linked oil tanker came under attack off the coast of Oman in the Arabian Sea, killing two on board

The State Department gave the go-ahead for the package which will include engines, navigation systems, weaponry, and more, but no contract has yet been signed

UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan said that at least one security guard was killed by 'anti-government elements'

After a strong start Israel loses to U.S. baseball team, but still has a chance at a medal

Avichai Mendelblit, who is stepping down in February, is also expected to keep Arnon Mozes out of prison if the newspaper publisher confesses to bribery in one of the Netanyahu cases

The Tunisian president's decision this week to fire the prime minister and suspend parliament marks a new age in the country's politics – or the end of its relative calm

Yifat Shasha-Biton argued that inoculating kids against COVID in schools would create 'social pressure,' but others in her ministry believe she is fanning anti-vaxxers' fears

The Israeli company's Pegasus spyware has been found on a senior France 24 journalist's phone, in the first external and official corroboration of the massive investigation into NSO's targets

In recent polls for the upcoming contest in Ohio's 11th Congressional District, centrist Shontel Brown is closing the gap with progressive Nina Turner. The race represents a larger battle for the party's direction

The COVID delta variant is also more infectious and highly transmittable, even more so than viruses such as SARS and Ebola, a CDC internal document obtained by The New York Times says

Serious COVID cases rise as Israel launches third jab campaign to curb delta variant

The door of an Israeli army jeep that had entered the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh for no apparent reason suddenly opened and a soldier shot 17-year-old Mohammed Tamimi, while his cousin looked on in shock

The attack, which left two foreign nationals dead, was a retaliation against an Israeli strike on a Syrian airport last week, a source tells Iranian media

Non-Jews were and remain a disruption in Israel, whether they are Palestinians, children of labor migrants or offspring of immigrants from the former Soviet Union

Lipstadt rose to prominence in the 1990s after she was sued by author David Irving for accusing him of Holocaust denial; she won the case

Israel's young coalition has already sustained serious damage from the country's fourth COVID wave – as Netanyahu works manically to tighten his grip on Likud

The prime minister seems to have opted to risk more coronavirus cases without taking steps that would hinder Israelis’ lives ■ Why the current dilemma is reminiscent of the second intifada

The term ‘nuclear threshold’ is back, but Israel is unsure what it means exactly ■ The new commander of Iran’s Quds Force struggles to fill Qassem Soleimani’s big shoes

This week at the Tel Aviv airport: An East Jerusalem woman who as a kid thought war was normal, and a Russian who moved to Israel for her fiancé only to break up three months later

The results of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine trial were clear and dramatic. That's rare in medical research. Here's what often happens – and why it's so dangerous, according to an Israeli expert

Palestinian media reports that Hamas is threatening to escalate tensions if Israel did not allow the import of goods for commercial purposes

United Nations rights experts said last year that forcibly returning detainees to the largely lawless, war-torn Yemen could be a violation of international law.

The violence in Daraa, which claimed at least 16 lives in a single day, is one of the most serious challenges to a Russian-mediated 2018 tenuous deal between the two sides

At least one killed in Lebanon as giant blaze, described by state media as having spread over 4 miles by 1.2 miles, continues to run wild

He believes something is rotten in Islam (but don't call him an Islamophobe), advocates for consensual conversion therapy for gay people and warns against trying to achieve racial equality by 'sticking it to the whites.' A conversation with neoconser...

Since the beginning of 2021 alone, there have been 49 documented cases of severe violence against bus drivers

The former public security minister, Likud's Amir Ohana, said citizens also have the right to defend themselves when 'the state is unable to do so'

High temperatures forecast throughout Israel next week, with the discomfort index predicted to be moderate to extreme virtually everywhere in the country

Long a symbol of coexistence, Acre Theater is set to reopen its doors for its world-renowned fringe festival in September. But the tense clashes that took place during the Israel-Gaza war still cast a shadow

'Landslide,' 'I Alone Can Fix It' and 'Frankly, We Did Win this Election' all attempt to recreate the final year of the Trump presidency, and explain how he did almost everything to squander the second term he was on course to win

Israel's baseball team comes close to a shocking upset in its first-ever Olympic game, as South Korea ekes out 6-5 win in extra innings

British government says benefits of the location outweigh 'modest loss of open space,' rejecting campaigners' claims that it will remove valuable green space

'We’re four people here at the global top. That’s something special that hasn’t happened for a long time'

Ben & Jerry's is just the latest episode. Israel's governments consistently try and pressgang Diaspora Jews into its war over the legitimacy of settlements, often against their own political beliefs, and it's got to stop

Mohammed al-Jorf doesn’t have an official ID card of any kind. Hana Sha’aban is living in 'a big prison.' Hind al-Masri cannot sign a work contract. Life without status

Small-brained Homo erectus going east and wild dogs going west met in Dmanisi, which doesn’t mean they made friends

Model Gal Gvaram later managed to make the complaint against modeling agent Shai Avital, making her the 11th woman to accuse him of sexual offenses

Despite the reports, Hamas officials have told Haaretz they expect the funding, which would go to needy families, to be transferred next week since agreement in principle has already been reached

For decades, the island nation's Jewish community, numbering between 500 and 1,000, has come together in small makeshift spaces for services and social events but has lacked a large central meeting place

Israeli judo delegation will most likely come home from Olympics without any medals

Among those released after state fails to meet High Court deadline for resolving overcrowding are 10 sex offenders and the reputed head of organized crime in south

As U.S. troops withdraw from Afghanistan, the Biden administration is under heavy pressure to quickly evacuate Afghanis who helped U.S. forces during the two-decade war and now face risk of retribution by the Taliban

French authorities had recently mulled buying NSO software, and 'panicked' following the recent scandal, according to French newspaper Le Canard Enchaine

Satmar Hasidim were once known as a particularly monastic community. But life in Brooklyn has an impact

'Call your parents and grandparents now and make sure they get the third shot,' Israel's prime minister told a televised press briefing, announcing President Herzog will get his COVID vaccine booster shot on Friday

This hot foodie trend started in Israel before variations spread worldwide. We show you how to make the original whole roasted cauliflower, using the celebrity chef's own instructions

Israeli forces clashed with Palestinian mourners and protesters at Mohammed al-Alami's funeral in the West Bank. 'They took my heart from me, they snatched it from me,' boy's father says

There's a simple message Israel's new government should send to Modi, Orban, Gulf monarchies and other illiberal, bigoted but pro-Israel governments: Thank you for your support. We can be partners - but not allies

Despite the storm, NSO’s stakeholders aren’t going to crack down on it or its peers. If anything, the scandal has been a big marketing boost

Join Haaretz for a special Zoom briefing on Tuesday, August 3, at 8 P.M. Israel time, 1 P.M. EST, to hear from one of the top medical experts in Israel on the unforeseen problems with vaccines

Billionaire and two-time ex-premier Najib Mikati was named prime minister-designate, but his links to the old order of corrupt elites leaves Lebanon little to feel good about

The legal opinion was issued following a Haaretz report on the matter published earlier this week

As antisemitic incidents rise while minority advocacy groups resist seeing Jews as victims, a new exhibition in Amsterdam examines the question of so-called Jewish privilege and provokes an outcry in the process

Thanks to deft political pandering by Giorgia Meloni, leader of the fascist-friendly Brothers of Italy, anti-vaxxers now have a powerful political patron in the country that suffered Europe's second highest COVID death toll

Kushner keen on opening an office in Israel to pursue regional investments to connect Israel's economy and India, North Africa and the Gulf, said sources familiar with the plan

An investigative report reveals that hundreds of Gazans, including families of suspected Fatah terrorists, and young men not suspected of anything were jailed in detention camps in 1971 for almost a year

Two first place finishes and one third weren't enough for the Israeli to make up the gap between her and the top three competitors

Green Pass will be required in gatherings of over 100 people Delta spreads steadily, experts urge 3rd shot for elderly

While the law states that officials in charge of community service must make good efforts to find places where disabled convicts can serve their sentence, in reality they're being discriminated against compared to physically and mentally fit people

When it comes to fraud, police officials say that 'people are afraid of dealing with politicians'

Israel's Agriculture Ministry says it funds groups that provide volunteers for farm work in West Bank outposts. The groups received some $1.17 million for the outposts

Instead of being grateful, Israeli anti-vaxxers have subject us to a loud protest, an unwillingness to accept any sanctions against them, even if it means endangering others

The right-wing group's contract to run the Davidson Archaeological Park near the Western Wall will not be renewed and Israel will resume control of the site

The ice cream maker's Jewish founders wrote in a New York Times op-ed that they 'reject the notion that it is antisemitic to question the policies of the State of Israel'

As the coronavirus delta variant continues to spread across Israel, more restrictions on gatherings are restored

Most experts on the committee argue for a COVID booster shot for Israelis 60 and above as the delta variant spreads