Israeli soldiers carry out an operation to arrests Palestinian militants near Ramallah, Jenin ■ The IDF says it is preparing for retaliatory rocket fire from Gaza ■ Bennett says the troops acted against 'Hamas terrorists who planned immediate att...

Arab municipal leaders pen letter saying director-general has canceled multiple meetings at the last minute, signaling disrespect toward Arab community

Just before boarding an outbound flight late Saturday night, Bennett says he's 'very happy for the opportunity to bring the voice of Israel, of Israelis' to the United Nations

Since Thursday, four people were murdered in Arab communities across Israel

Israel's unvaccinated account for the majority of the country's seriously ill COVID patients

Observers are paying close attention to how the main democratic parties shake out on the big Jewish issues: antisemitism and its various sources, and Israel and other foreign policy

Israel's Prime Minister is set to adopt a more conciliatory approach than his predecessor Netanyahu in his address, which will discuss the Iran nuke deal and perceived discrimination against Israel at the UN

The prime minister tells his critics from the advisory coronavirus panel that 'the government' is in charge, as data from Israel's Health Ministry shows that booster shot recipients make up only 8% of serious cases

Mahmoud Abbas knows it is demography that will determine the future of the conflict, while there are early signs that the Palestinian Authority may collapse

Ninety-three murders in the Arab community this year comprise 71 percent of all murders in Israel in 2021

Talks that began in April to revive the nuclear deal have been stalled since hardline cleric Ebrahimi Raisi was elected president in June

Come for the comfortable living space, stay for the many amenities: New high-rises in Israel are providing residents with a plethora of activities right under their apartments

What do couples do once the kids leave the nest? Move back to the city, trade a garden for a seaview and live in a home with no stairs are a few of the more popular options

Armed with highly structured organization, a clear religious ideology and considerable resources, they move into neighborhoods around Israel and integrate into community activity, convinced that they're doing a good deed. So why is there such strong ...

Sudan was an ally of Hamas under former President Omar al-Bashir, but since he was overthrown, Sudanese authorities have taken control of Hamas -affiliated companies

The former head of Mexico's criminal investigation agency, Tomas Zeron, fled to Israel last year to evade a probe into his handling of an investigation of the disappearance of 43 student-teachers

Though Iran will resume negotiations, its foreign minister expressed skepticism about U.S. intentions, stressing that actions are more important than 'empty but beautiful words'

Once believed to have migrated to central Italy from Anatolia, analysis of Etruscan genomes shows a shared ancestry with their archenemies

After a year of political deadlock which compounded an economic meltdown, Lebanon's new government is turning to the international community for financial support

Physicist Prof. Eliezer Rabinovich, who will become the first Israeli to hold the senior position at CERN, also had a leading role in the establishment of the Middle Eastern particle accelerator in Jordan

The president threatens to withdraw recognition of 1967 border and press charges in the Hague if Israel doesn't withdraw from Palestinian territory within one year

Muhammad Ali Khabisa is the seventh Palestinian to be killed in Beita since the hilltop outpost of Evyatar was established nearby

A survey of five Israeli civics textbooks turns up a worrisome picture: only male Supreme Court justices, Daphni Leef was never part of the social justice protest movement and women are shown mostly poking through garbage

A shooting in Umm al-Fahm injures three, with a 6-year-old in serious condition

The move comes after a CDC advisory panel did not recommend that people in high-risk jobs, such as teachers, and risky living conditions should get COVID booster shots

Judge Menachem Finkelstein will lead a three-member panel investigating apparent mishaps that let the six Palestinian security prisoners – since recaptured – flee

Could I afford to stay in my Tel Aviv neighborhood? Should I buy something – anything – as an investment? Do I need a mortgage broker? A guide to trying to beat the ever-increasing real-estate prices in Israel

Those in Israel who have not been vaccinated against COVID account for 17% of the population

At the age of 28, Mohammad Magadli, the first Arab to become a regular commentator on a major newscast, has no intention of wasting the rare platform he’s been given at the heart of Israeli prime time. But he also knows that the slightest mistake c...

Hussam Othman, a 24-year-old from Haifa, is the third victim of gun violence this week in Israel's Arab community

As she replaces Rabbi Gilad Kariv at the helm of the Reform movement in Israel, Anna Kislanski is looking to capitalize on a unique political opportunity created by the eclectic new government in Jerusalem

Israel spent $9.4 million to buy Regeneron's COVID drug, however those who would probably benefit from it are the unvaccinated

This week Bennett suffered a double blow, in the FDA's decision on COVID booster shots and the progressive rebellion at the U.S. House of Representatives. Meanwhile, Netanyahu loses his inhibitions

This year, however, not all glossy interviews and special reports are pure PR, and reflect some of the achievements – and shortcomings – of the Israeli army

The group of progressive lawmakers can never be convinced ■ Even if Bennett's entire UN speech is not devoted to Iran, the issue will likely dominate his U.S. visit

This week at the Tel Aviv airport: Two friends who have had enough of Tel Aviv, and a therapist who used to help patients cope with cancer, and later got cancer herself

The Housing Ministry is initiating affirmative action for the Arab population. The policy reflects an improved status for Israel’s Arab citizens – but also highlights the problems they have to cope with

The activists who were attacked by Israeli soldiers in the South Hebron Hills were bringing water to the Hamamdi family – who are denied that resource by Israel. Opposite them are the water pipes and electric cables of an outlaw settler outpost

The ministers' cellphones had 'suspicious marks,' according to a leaked document, suggesting at least an attempt to infect the device with the Pegasus spyware in 2019

After 420 voted for the bill and nine against, Democrats who pushed against progressive efforts to strip Iron Dome aid from the spending bill laud 'overwhelming support for Israel'

Teens and their pesky kid siblings were walking around a lake in New Mexico also thronged by mammoths and camels during the peak of the Ice Age, new study claims

Vote on the stand-alone bill comes days after progressive Democrats successfully managed to get it removed from a stopgap spending bill, igniting uproar

Police are still investigating the failures that led to the escape of six high-risk Palestinian inmates earlier this month

The advisory panel demanded the government adopt a new policy and impose more restrictions, arguing COVID infection is 'exacting a heavy price on people’s lives'

Israeli Arab actor Dau will play Egyptian billionaire Mohamed Al-Fayed, the father of Princess Diana's partner Dodi with whom she died in a car accident in 1997

While unlikely to pass, Rep. Andy Levin’s bill is notable for coming from more than a dozen lawmakers who consider themselves pro-Israel but anti-occupation

Recent attacks by the Islamic State in Khorasan, which has been reinvigorated since the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, underline threat to stability from violent groups who remain unreconciled

Gerhard Conrad tells Haaretz about his dealings with Mideast terror organizations over the years, and his advice for Israel’s current negotiators with Hamas

Israel’s approach to progressive Democrats is a case study in dilettantism, laziness and convenient denial of trends in U.S. politics and society. The vote this week on Iron Dome funding is only a symptom

The Israeli prime minister is expected to allege an anti-Israel bias abroad and try to rally the international community against Iran's expanding influence in the Mideast

Hamas has lost a foreign base where members and supporters could live, raise money, and channel Iranian weapons and funds to the Gaza Strip

I can no longer run from settler violence. Nor can I run from tear gas shot by the IDF, or from being shoved to the ground. Now, after decades of activism, I’m too scared to protest

El Al is about to lay off 1,500 employees, and sell or stop leasing a third of its jets, in the company's latest financial maneuvers

The child's Israeli grandfather was questioned by police last week on suspicion of kidnapping a minor from Italy and released with restrictions

Isolated rain is predicted to fall in areas from the Negev desert up to northern Israel as well as thunderstorms on Friday

Delta became the dominant COVID variant in Israel at record speed and led to an exponential increase of cases for eight weeks. Will Pfizer's booster save us?

'If police officers try to hide evidence, what will criminals say?' the judge asked a police representative during the suspect's hearing

MeMed's test, which takes 15 minutes, can determine whether an infection is bacterial or viral with one blood sample

Meanwhile, Israel announces no teachers will be allowed in schools without proof of COVID vaccination or negative test

Interior Minister Shaked refused to give Afghan women temporary asylum, saying she didn't want to 'break the dam' on refugees, according to Yediot Ahronoth

Leifer, whom Israel extradited to Australia in January, pleaded not guilty to all charges

After the biggest eruption in the Holocene, the people of San Andres in El Salvador began to build giant structures – and then they did it again

The decision paves the way for a quick rollout of COVID booster shots as soon as this week for millions of people who had their second dose of the vaccine at least six months ago

If, or when, Iran develops a nuke, Israel will have to balance reassuring the public, deterring the Iranians and securing American backing

Israel's final decision on whether to expand a pilot program exempting students who were exposed to COVID from quarantine will be made after a two-week trial

Are their ends just? There is nothing more just. Are the means they adopt to achieve them criminal, cruel and shocking? Certainly so.

'You study just to get the certificate and to raise your salary,' says a former police commander

Many Israeli anti-vaxxers are former protesters against former prime minister Netanyahu who have merely replaced the anti-Bibi protest with the anti-vaccine protest

The law, which is still in force from the period of Jordanian rule in the West Bank, is no longer in effect in Jordan itself

France had recalled its ambassador when the U.S. and Britain signed a nuclear submarine deal that replaced a prior agreement by Australia to buy French subs

The Israeli military is investigating whether information had leaked from the drone

Groundbreaking discovery that humans in howling Ice Age cold as well supports the thesis that we bested the Neanderthals because we developed better adaptability

Israeli officials say Iron Dome aid dispute is merely a technical issue of how the money is transferred, as U.S. Democratic Party prepares alternative legislation to approve the funding

Tom Nides calls Israel one of the United States' 'closest security partners,' vows to uphold security aid and 'oppose all efforts to isolate and delegitimize Israel'

Withholding finance from life-saving Iron Dome is a stupid move if you actually care about Palestinian lives, but from a purely selfish Israeli perspective, it's actually a good development

Potentially first time non-African fighter found working with an Islamist armed group led by Ugandans, blamed for dozens of massacres, mostly in remote villages

Israeli Health Ministry director-general calls life-saving COVID drug 'national resource in short supply,' vows to avoid waste and to carefully determine eligibility criteria

Police believe the 22-year-old suspect, who was arrested on the Tel Aviv seafront, was not acting out of terrorist motives

Despite the outrage, none of the progressives who opposed the inclusion of the Iron Dome funding in the spending bill have vocally pushed against the emergency aid itself

An estimated 0.2% of Ukraine's population is Jewish, after its pre-war Jewish population of about 1.5 million was virtually wiped in the Nazi Holocaust

'How many more children will die before the world wakes up?' Jordan's King Abdullah asked in a speech to the UN General Assembly ■ Saudi King Salman said Iran shouldn't obtain nuclear weapons

The sukkah, built on public grounds, is latest in a series of moves designed to commemorate the pre-Inquisition presence of Jews in Mallorca

President Erdogan's political foes says the cleric's growing profile is at odds with Turkey's secular constitution, and shows the president is using religion to boost his ratings ahead of the 2023 election

The Human Rights Council statement, presented by Bahrain in an online conference, calls for the integration of women in international diplomacy