During the incident, the driver loudly protested the women's outfit choices, saying they were un-Islamic, local reports say; Girls aged nine and older have to wear a head covering in Iran

Eighty-eight percent of participants in the survey reported that they felt 'similar or better' to how they felt after the second shot in the days after receiving the third dose

Zoya Cherkassky is influenced by Toulouse-Lautrec, YouTube videos and the streets of south Tel Aviv in her provocative new show

A Romanian law prohibiting live exports when temperatures surpass 45 degrees Celsius was breached during a recent import from Romania to Israel that contained thousands of cattle

William J. Burns, who is expected to meet with senior Israeli and Palestinian officials, visits the region as tensions run high

Number of seriously-ill COVID cases in Israel rises to 394, Health Ministry data shows

In the past three months over 40 Palestinians have been killed by soldiers, including some non-combatants who were killed by mistake

Additionally, only 16 percent of children age 12-15 in the Arab community have been vaccinated compared to 34.6 percent in the general population

The assailant reportedly tried to stab a soldier at the Yitzhar junction in the West Bank and was shot in response; her condition remains unknown

International cybersecurity company FireEye says the attack was part of a broader campaign that targeted many other countries, in the first documented case of a large-scale Chinese attack on Israel

Chiding the police for failing to justify the arrest, let alone explain it, the judge referred the case to the Justice Ministry's police misconduct unit due to suspicions that officers beat the man while arresting him

Real change in lifestyle and habits are needed to mitigate climate change, and Israel needs to recognize the importance of regional cooperation

Number of seriously-ill COVID cases in Israel rises to 373, Health Ministry data shows

Israel reportedly also mulls adding the United States to its list of countries barred from traveling, fearing the spread of COVID variants

David Bitan, indicted a month after the attorney general said he had received 715,000 shekels in bribes over the course of several years

An Amnesty poll in the wake of global investigation into NSO finds half of Jewish Israelis support increasing oversight on offensive cyber technology

Eviction orders were delivered last month to 15 families that have lived in Givat Amal Bet for years. A day before the scheduled eviction it was delayed, as lawmakers work on compensation scheme

The Finance Ministry proposes that the unvaccinated shouldn't be eligible for government grants in case of a coronavirus lockdown

Israel's government continues to encourage search for more gas fields before 'window of opportunity' closes, as UN says a third of global warming caused by methane

Jerusalem rabbinical court sides with ex-husband in divorce dispute, saying High Court's ruling on higher alimony was against Jewish law

First flights arrive after lifting of ban imposed in 2015 after crash that killed over 200 ■ Moscow attributed the crash to a bomb, and ISIS claimed responsibility

Following disapproval from his ultra-Orthodox political allies, Israel's opposition leader says his staff does not understand that 'what applies to a prime minister applies to me now as well'

Before the pandemic struck, Birthright would bring tens of thousands of young Jewish adults to Israel each year

Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum tells Haaretz she can’t wait to get started on ‘the last bipartisan entity in Washington that actually functions,’ balancing the new role with her day job running the world’s largest LGBTQ congregation

Nachman Shai says he briefed cabinet on the dangers of losing bipartisan support for Israel, implicitly criticizes Netanyahu's prioritization of evangelicals

The Brazilian president's proximity to neo-Nazi groups is nothing new. But Jair Bolsonaro's brazen welcome for the German AfD party last month still sent shockwaves through the Jewish community, media and civil society. How does he hug the antisemiti...

The unvaccinated elderly are over five times more likely to experience a severe case of COVID-19 than their immunized counterparts, according to Health Ministry data

French President Macron, for his part, called on Iran's new president to 'quickly resume' stalled negotiations to revive the 2015 nuclear deal

UN panel determines that humans are 'unequivocally' to blame for climate crisis. Deadly heat waves, gargantuan hurricanes and other weather extremes that are already happening will only become more severe

Attorney General Mendelblit argues the demolition order does not violate the integrity of the new Interior Ministry director-general

Number of seriously-ill COVID cases in Israel rises to 360, overall cases grow by 3,372, Health Ministry data shows

Israel's former Health Ministry director Moshe Bar Siman Tov talks about the politicization of pandemic decision-making, the challenges of the fourth wave of COVID-19, and admits: 'The green passport will not stop the pandemic'

Climate change is exacerbating conditions conducive to fires, but in the Levant - including Greece, Turkey and Israel - at least we don’t have dry lightning; we have fools and firebugs instead

Why Hezbollah deviated from the rules of the game that have served it and Israel well since the end of the Second Lebanon War

785 Palestinians married to Israelis have applied for residence permit since the opposition voted down the law's extension, far exceeding the usual 1,000 yearly applications

The plan will exempt students who were exposed to COVID-19 from having to isolate – a policy which could accelerate the spread of the disease and turn Israel's schools into infection hubs

Kubaneh is a Yemeni shabbat dish of a yeast bread that’s cooked all night

The best-selling authors and leading London chefs have brought Jerusalem's cuisine to the world, but are left with a bitter aftertaste about Israel

If there's one thing that Israelis and Palestinians miss when they're abroad, it's that taste of home in a good bowl of hummus

With Netanyahu finally out and Tunisia stumbling, Israel's new coalition leaders are keen to regain the title of the only democracy in the Middle East, to the relief of many of its allies. There's only one problem

High-end bourekas are made from hand-stretched phyllo dough. Here's a trick that will give you something nearly as good without all the labor

The number of digital subscribers has been climbing steadily since launch in March 2012 ■ Haaretz and TheMarker sites are visited by about 11.7 million unique visitors a month

Serving tabbouleh reminds us of how our forefathers celebrated the harvest in the wilderness

Israeli health officials debate whether to add the U.S. to its growing list of COVID 'high risk' travel destinations, though the decision may have political ramifications

Israelis will be barred from traveling to Bulgaria, Brazil, Georgia, Mexico, Spain and Turkey starting mid-August ■ New measures will go into effect on August 16

The High Court is set to consider a petition by opposition members regarding number of party sits in Knesset committees

Sexual assault victims wait for months to get mental health treatment, yet no money was allocated to fix these problems in the new state budget, experts warn

Israeli athletes received their medals from media tycoon Alex Gilady, the Israeli representative to the International Olympic Committee, who is also the star of one of the first Israeli #MeToo affairs

Some 10,000 new cases were reported over the past three days, with epidemiological investigations conducted on only 40 percent of them. The military's contact-tracing center is short-staffed after cuts were made since the peak of the COVID pandemic

Israeli court rules in favor of a Tel Aviv waitress whom the court found was forced to lie on a bar while a customer drank alcohol off her belly

Bahrain's official overseeing relationship with Israel meets FM Lapid, President Herzog, announces plans for direct flights between the two countries

Michael Herzog’s most important contributions to the peace process took place between 2010 and 2014, when Netanyahu was leading Israel and Obama was U.S. president

According to the plan, if exposed to a COVID carrier, teachers and students who have not been vaccinated or recovered will be given rapid antigen tests, but they will not be required to quarantine

A coronavirus plan for the Israeli school system was approved less than 24 hours before Haredi schools opened

The three brothers, residents of the northern Bedouin village of Zarzir, were arrested on suspicion of murdering their mother, whose body was uncovered near the Jordan River

Reservists called up for operations or training will now have to present proof of immunity against COVID upon arrival at base as delta variant takes it toll

By taking down the Russian rhythmic gymnastics dynasty, the Israeli Olympian shocked the world and changed the sport

'I am Jewish, and I know what genocide means': How Serb nationalists co-opted Israeli academics to whitewash atrocities, bigotry and irredentism in cynically revisionist reports on wartime Srebrenica and Sarajevo

PM Bennett warns Lebanese government and army, indicating Israel could expand its response if rockets continue, regardless of who launched them

The battle lines have been drawn between the party's opposing factions on Israel, and things could get even uglier in at least three upcoming primaries

Israel's then-future premier had doubts about the activities of the secret service, even before the government admitted its existence. In the 1950s, he essentially predicted the so-called Bus 300 affair, when two Palestinian hijackers were ordered ki...

As Australia confronts its failures to combat violence against women, the country's Jewish community is also reeling. Survivors of sexual violence within the community tell Haaretz about efforts to tackle the problem

Meet the fruit of the tamarind tree, which has conquered various cuisines thanks to its deeply sweet-and-sour flavor and ability to improve a wide range of dishes

Israel’s official national supercomputer project is launched - at a cost of almost 300 million shekels. There’s only one problem: Those who are supposed to use it say it may be redundant

After the international success of Fauda, Avi Issacharoff talks about 'Hit & Run,' his new venture with partner Lior Raz, working with Americans and what's left of the two-state solution

Over a decade ago, Meidan Sadeh abandoned some of his Arab origins and became a member of a kibbutz. But once he entered the kitchen, he went back to foraging and returned to his roots

Most Arab towns in Israel lack public open areas, including parks and playgrounds. The COVID crisis has raised awareness of the problem

A Persian-inspired dish, with a host of different textures

The newly-installed Ebrahim Raisi has ambitions to be more than just Iran's president – and that's why Tehran's partners in violence, from Hezbollah to Hamas, in Syria and Iraq, are celebrating his arrival

In the hands of a creative chef, this protein-rich grain is good for more than just breakfast and cookies

Israel won two gold medals and two bronzes at the Tokyo Olympic Games, topping the performance in the last three Olympics combined. This was a success story many years in the making

From meat and chicken to cauliflower florets, pot-roasting produces memorable results

The town of Vidin has barely enough Jews left for a minyan, but a $6 million renovation to the old synagogue will serve as a reminder of the place's Jewish heritage for Jews and non-Jews alike

Authorities dedicated the most resources to tackling four major blazes: one, on Greece’s second-largest island of Evia, that has burned for five days, and three in the southern Peloponnese region

The small southern city of Netivot is expanding beyond its pious past, with the help of one eccentric developer

For five years, Israeli rhythmic gymnast Linoy Ashram was bearing a heavy weight on her shoulders, but it was the obstacles along the way that showed the world what she's made of

Gath, the hometown of the biblical giant Goliath, was destroyed 2,800 years ago by the Arameans. Now, researchers may have found how exactly it was done

Going into a lockdown is 'a last resort,' Israeli Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz said on Sunday, as a slew of new restrictions go into effect to stop the spread of the delta COVID variant

After 5-year-old killed in May by shrapnel that penetrated his family's safe room in Sderot, the army chalked it up to a 'rare ballistic trajectory,' but didn't mention the other safe room three floors up that was also breached

The Israeli government budgeted over $310 million to fight crime in the Arab community, but national officials admit they’re failing

Only 31 percent of teachers responding to survey said meaningful learning took place when all instruction went remote last year. Meanwhile, in parallel survey of parents, 97 percent reported their children did learn online

Mohammed al-Alaami went shopping with his father and siblings, when ‘insane shooting started,’ as the father described it. He told the children to keep their heads down and drove on

Israel reaches the highest number of COVID patients in serious condition since Gregorian calendar month before the green passport – proof of immunity or a negative coronavirus test – is once again required for certain services

The big news over the weekend wasn’t cross-border fire, but Lebanese Druze who attacked the Hezbollah fighters who shot rockets at Israel. As Lebanon faces a dire crisis, many have had enough

New coronavirus restrictions require unvaccinated Israelis who haven't recovered from COVID in the past to present negative test results to access certain venues. But what's the difference between the two kinds of tests?

Nasrallah says that despite Lebanon's dire economic and political situation, Hezbollah will not hesitate to take action against Israel, after Hezbollah fired 19 rockets at Israel last week

U.S. organizations from across the political spectrum hail Michael Herzog's smarts, skills, experience and record after his appointment as U.S. envoy by Prime Minister Bennett