The families are torn between support for the strikers and fear for their lives, which is mounting as two of the detainees have been striking for nearly three months

The resourcefulness of a commander of a reconnaissance unit of the Armored Corps in the Yom Kippur War is a riveting example of the power and importance of emotional ‘containment’

Upon her release from prison last week, Palestinian legislator Khalida Jarrar visited the grave of her daughter, whose funeral Israel barred her from attending. ‘They think we have no feelings, that we are not human beings,’ she says

The Iraqi public’s confidence in the democratic system crashed years ago. The voter turnout is expected to be low this time too

'The Israeli enemy carried out an air aggression from the direction of the military area of Al-Tanf with bursts of missiles towards the T-4 military airport in the central region,' a Syrian source says

Although the number of seriously ill COVID patients is dropping in Israel, 56 people are currently connected to ECMO machines, 50 of them unvaccinated

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The candidate, who now serves as deputy head of Shin Bet, appeared before the vetting committee to respond to an anonymous letter accusing him of misconduct

Tamer Nafar, a prominent rapper who identifies as a Palestinian citizen of Israel, has worked on a campaign to assist children who have been molested in the country's Arab community

One after another they took the witness stand, and in soft voices described what they endured in the camps China has built to incarcerate its Muslim citizens. A report from the tribunal that convened in London to decide one question: Is genocide bein...

Activities such as kayaking, rafting and school visits to museums in Israel will no longer require proof of immunity, as serious COVID cases plummet to a two-month low

Following the designation of the Jordan Valley land as a closed military zone in 1969, its Palestinian owners have been barred from entering the land while settlers were allowed to work it

The Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court had ruled that prayer 'by itself is not enough to violate the police's instructions' at the holy site

A survey commissioned by Haaretz found a correlation between vaccination rates and political leanings; in areas that supported Netanyahu, people were more likely to get the first two doses than the third, while the opposite is true of liberal strongh...

Although Likud's antics seem not to be leading anywhere, Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked may be a far greater threat to the stability of this diverse government

As Israel's state budget nears its big day, the arguments over the state and use of ground forces is again gathering steam. The commander in charge sits down to answer the hard questions

Speaking at Americans for Peace Now gala Thursday, Sen. Bernie Sanders explicitly calls for U.S. to attach conditions on military aid to Israel

The husband is believed to have staged his wife's death to look like a suicide because the woman's autopsy shows she died of strangulation

This week at the Tel Aviv airport: A father who travels the world teaching yoga, and his daughter, who travels the world collecting vintage clothing

"With this vote, the Council has effectively ended its reporting mandate, it has cut this lifeline of the Yemeni people to the international community."

'A voice that is based on lies is not a legitimate voice,' is what Vice President Harris should have said

A large proportion of young Israeli parents admit that they don’t spend enough time with their children – and that between work and family, it’s family that suffers. The coronavirus crisis with its isolation and quarantines changed that picture...

Israel Teachers' Union and government ministries will examine ways to increase salaries after years of poor income

The government wants to encourage more Israelis who aren’t officially recognized as Jews to convert, but will its new legislation actually achieve that? Some experts question its chances of success

Prime Minister Bennett wants to expand to all schools a pilot program that stresses home swab testing as the key to avoid mass quarantines, but some parents wonder how they'll get their small children to agree

Milchan, a billionaire former friend of Netanyahu who is now a prosecution witness against him, owns seven offshore companies, leaked papers say

'The United States had given a clear commitment to the Kurds,' senior official says amid fears over America's declining role in the region

Resident of West Bank settlement arrested after blaze breaks out near Beit Shemesh, weeks after a mega-fire devastated parts of the Jerusalem Hills

If you equate Women of the Wall's decades-long fight for the right to pray at the Western Wall, with a Torah scroll and without fear of violence, to Jews praying openly on the Temple Mount, then there's just one issue you may have missed

The 49, who lack legal resident status, live in Dimona along with thousands of others in the Hebrew Israelite community who received permanent resident status in 2004

In his first visit to Beirut since taking office, Iran's new foreign minister also offered to help Lebanon end its decades-old electricity crisis by building new power plants

The Daily Wire's Matt Walsh says activists for trans rights are far more 'repulsive' than the unfairly maligned Inquisition. It's a perfect example of how, for white Christian nationalists, antisemitism and transphobia fit so well together

More than 1,000 residents submitted letters of resignation on Thursday, despite the Israeli government’s plan to cut their work hours. Both sides have good arguments, and the drama has only just begun

Director Mahnaz Mohammadi makes films that expose the oppression of Iranian women. She won't let arrests and bans stop her from making more films or screening them in Israel

Hidden in Israel's northern periphery, Fresh Start is a startup incubator investing in tomorrow's food revolutions

While Europe and China face the threat of blackouts this winter, Israel is sitting pretty thanks largely to a 2015 natural-gas agreement that faced much pushback at the time of its signing

MK Alon Tal warns that any plans that don’t allow the Reform and Conservative movements to issue their own kashrut certification ‘turns Orthodox intolerance into Israeli public policy’

The purpose of the Israeli parliament lobby is to strengthen economic, tourist and other ties with the Gulf states as well as 'formulating future agreements with other countries'

According to sources, the defense minister was enraged by the prime minister's revelation of the mission to gather intel on MIA navigator Ron Arad in his speech kicking off the winter session in Israel's parliament

In an interview with Haaretz, former ambassador Colette Avital talks about how she had to contend with persistent rumors of an inappropriate relationship with Shimon Peres

The 7,000 permits are being given to merchants rather than laborers – reportedly at Hamas' request – with Gaza's official jobless rate reportedly at 50 percent even before the May war with Israel

The two-week pilot in Tel Aviv will determine whether Israel switches over to the less intrusive method of testing for COVID

Despite the enthusiasm, the collaboration was not heartwarming

Crusader knights lived on the move, which may explain why no camps have ever been found. Now one has, in Israel, and now we know how the soldiers whiled away their time while waiting for war

Tunisia’s arc from igniting the Arab Spring ten years ago into an autocratic winter is tragic. For its 2000-year-old Jewish community, however, Kais Saied's coup is a tragedy with potentially existential consequences

Lebanon is reportedly seeking financing from the World Bank for this project

The defendant is charged with 3,518 counts of accessory to murder at Sachsenhausen concentration camp near Berlin between 1936 and 1945, where more than 200,000 people were held

Researchers estimate one of 26,000 men is at risk of developing myocarditis after taking COVID-19 vaccine, while one of 218,000 women are at risk ■ Most at-risk group are men and women between 16 and 19

The alarming data, obtained by Haaretz, demonstrates how many weapons have fallen into the wrong hands in recent years

The Israeli military refused to identify the settler from the June attack. They also did not confirm whether proceedings were initiated against a masked soldier, who grabbed a gun and shot at Palestinians in May

While Israeli citizens could also access the footage through Freedom of Information requests, they are rarely accepted by the police

Study of 5,000 Israeli hospital workers aimed to obtain a better understanding of the process in which COVID antibodies wane

As key COVID indicators fall to lowest levels since August, which Health Minsitry director attributes to vaccinations, Israel begins relaxing some restrictions

This is the second time an asylum bid is rejected despite panel's recommendation ■ Minister Ayelet Shaked says there were contradictions in the man’s statements and that there was no risk he would be deported to his country of origin

Eliran Malul found guilty of murdering Michal Sela under aggravating circumstances, with judges saying his claims of self-defense and abuse are 'baseless'

The people’s manufacture of hooks from animal bones or ivory, for fly fishing or otherwise, was extraordinary. These were the last hunter-gatherers in Israel

New study sheds light on the burial found on an Italian island. But questions remain as to who wrote the bawdy limerick that contains the first written reference to Homer’s epic poems

The Prime Minister's decision to reveal a recent Mossad mission to discover information on Ron Arad's fate, brought back memories of Netanyahu's use of the spy agency for political purposes – and that’s a problem

The move comes after England's High Court ruled that Sheikh Mohammed used the Israeli firm NSO's 'Pegasus' technology to track Princess Haya bint al-Hussein

18-year-old in police custody after four injured at high school in Arlington, Texas

In a speech read out by director, 'Let it Be Morning' actress Juna Suleiman laments 'ongoing colonialist traditions of erasing historic identities'

‘Yes,’ I told my daughter. ‘Here in the United States you’re white. You’re also Arab. Some people say Arabs are brown.’ Her American journey begins

While Republican Senator Rand Paul drew criticism this week from the likes of AIPAC, it was nowhere near the level heaped on Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, as well as other progressives, for their stance on Iron Dome

To mark the 48th anniversary of the start of the war, the State Archive is releasing historical documents that uncover new details – like what happened to the plan to bomb Damascus

Tehiya Bat Oren wrote the first feminist manifesto in Hebrew. Marcia Freedman, the Knesset’s only out lesbian, introduced abortion reforms. Both were born in North America and both died on the same day last month

Pushing pro-Israel slogans and posing as allies against antisemitism and the ‘Muslim invasion’ of Europe, a fiercely xenophobic, frequently Holocaust revisionist party in Germany has won over an unlikely core of committed Jewish activists

While a statement from Bennett’s office earlier this week tied Iran to the suspected attack on Israeli businesspeople on the island, Cypriot officials played down concerns that Tehran was involved

Starting Wednesday, drones will be flying goods to customers in central Israel for the first time, as Israel's drone delivery experiment expands

Veteran Israeli filmmaker Avi Mograbi’s latest documentary draws on soldiers' damning testimonies to expose the Israeli occupation. Don't expect to see it on Israeli TV or at any local film festival

Discovered in the ruins of an Iron Age palace overlooking the Old City, the toilet and its septic tank were hewn into the bedrock

Russian foreign minister and his American counterpart discuss possible ways of renewing stalled nuclear talks with Tehran. Russia's Lavrov is also slated to meet with his Iranian counterpart later today

A crystal ball from Salvador Dali ('It belonged to Leonardo da Vinci'), a gilded egg John Lennon used to communicate with aliens, and a model plane from Muammar Gadhafi. Israel’s larger-than-life mentalist has built a shrine to himself – with som...

Key COVID metrics hit the lowest point since August, as Israel's unvaccinated 15 percent account for 75 percent of serious cases

A review of nearly 11.9 million documents found that some of the offshore accounts belong to the same ruling elite blamed for the collapse of Lebanon

The group of Israelis allegedly conned tens of millions of shekels from dozens of U.S. citizens under the guise of foreign exchange cryptocurrency transactions

The testimony were released by the Ukraine Holocaust center to the public for the first time on the 80th anniversary of the killings

Holocaust survivors who lived through the siege of Leningrad, about 2,000 of whom now live in Israel, will be eligible for the 375 euros a month stipend

The state must increase oversight of psychiatric institutions, a ministry official tells Israeli parliament, after a nurse at a ward was arrested on charges of killing a 17-year-old who was once hospitalized there

The toddler suffered a head injury when stones were thrown at his house during the attack on Khirbet al-Mufkara last week

The Mossad operation had involved kidnapping an Iranian general in Syria, interrogating him in an African country and then releasing him, according to an Arab news report

'Not everything I wrote was correct,' said Ilan Yeshua, the CEO of the news portal Walla

Taliban leaders seek to boost trade relations with Iran, as Afghanistan faces the possibility of economic collapse

Number of severe COVID cases in Israel drops below 500 for first time since mid-August, while expert report says death rate has stabilized at 20% of severe cases

'By nature, a prolonged tenure in this powerful post is liable to lead to an excessive concentration of power,' says the Israeli Justice Ministry's draft legislation aiming to limit PM's tenure to eight years

The Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum and Memorial said that the act is 'an outrageous attack on the symbol of one of the greatest tragedies in human history'

New strategy for campaign against antisemitism will include 24 million euro for protecting Jewish spaces and plans for an annual civil society forum

Not only women but some female birds and animals also feel colder than males of the species – and it may save their lives, Tel Aviv University discovers

'Egypt offered helping in the energy sector through the possibility of offering extra quantities of gas,' Lebanese Energy Minister ■ Last Month, Iran also started shipping oil to relieve the power crisis