Even though Israeli officials know that the next chancellor will remember the Holocaust and fight antisemitism, they’re not convinced he’ll be as energetic on security – as Iran gets closer to a nuclear bomb

Abdul Qadeer Khan, who died this week in Islamabad, got Pakistan the bomb, stole and sold atomic secrets, profited from a shady global proliferation network, helped Iran go nuclear, aided Qaddafi's reactor ambitions – and still passed away from nat...

Iraqi prime minister identifies the man as Sami Jassem, who oversees ISIS' financial operations and served as the deputy leader under the late Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

Discovery of Byzantine mega-factory in Yavneh that could produce 2 million liters of wine a year stuns archaeologists

Officials met face-to-face in Doha, but there has been no word of any agreements reached

Hamas' demands seem unrealistic, but steps are being taken in the meanwhile to ease the situation in Gaza – by Israel too but mainly the Egyptians – to maintain an uneasy quiet

Sadrist majority in parliament would not dramatically alter the balance of power, but could the conservative Islamist could increase his sway over the government

Ganem Fahmi Jabarin is the 98th Arab murder victim in Israel this year alone, advocacy group says

Some Israelis are COVID anti-vaxxers who distrust Regeneron, but others just don’t see the need or are talked out of it at the last moment

Since the air force navigator vanished in 1986, Israel has missed many chances to free Ron Arad or get information about him

Israel's call for tougher sanctions on Iran fell on deaf ears during last week’s strategic dialogue with the Americans in Washington

Worldwide startup investment in the third quarter of 2021 totaled $158 billion, twice the level of a year ago

A panel has heard two weeks of testimony describing the Lag Ba’omer disaster that took the lives of 45 people and injured another 150 in Israel's ultra-Orthodox community. Here's what we know so far

Several human bones were found during construction work near a large Muslim graveyard, after which many Palestinian residents rushed to the area to protest. Ten reportedly wounded in clashes with police

Tech giant Microsoft has set itself an ambitious goal: Doubling the workforce in Israel within four years and opening five new R&D centers ■ Are the high-tech multinationals taking too big a piece of the employment pie?

Aid and rights groups voice alarm as forces in Tripoli began a series of mass arrests a week ago, detaining more than 5,000 people in overcrowded detention centers

The two German-speaking chancellors were both strong supporters of Israel, but had wildly different relations with its previous prime minister, who they're about to join in the club of former national leaders

With the country plunged into darkness due to electricity shortages, Lebanon will be looking to energy supplies from Egypt and Jordan that are ‘mixed’ with Israeli gas and electric power in the long term

Six astronauts from across the globe moved into a unique, space-station-like structure in Makhtesh Ramon, one of the few places in the world that resembles the extreme conditions on the red planet

The mayor of Malmö discusses her work with the Jewish community to combat hate, and welcomes this week’s arrival of the International Forum on Holocaust Remembrance and Combating Antisemitism to the city

‘The shredder worked very quickly,’ said Elazar Stern, the former chief of the manpower in the Israeli military, about anonymous sexual harassment complaints, but later said he did no such thing during his time in office

One of the settler movement's key successes has been to create a fear of civil war if settlements are ever evacuated. But intensifying settler violence, the blackmail of hoodlums and terrorists, must not enjoy that leverage

Powerful new documentary ‘Getting Away with Murder(s)’ points a finger at the West for willfully abandoning victims of the Holocaust. Plus, British thriller ‘Ridley Road’ is set among London’s Jewish community in the 1960s

We should stop pretending that a couple of neo-isolationist libertarians, outliers in the GOP, are just as bad as the antisemitism and vicious libels against Israel that have found a home on the 'progressive' left

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

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

While Merkel refrained from criticizing Israel's position of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the German chancellor says 'that Israel's neighbors should be taken care of'

'We have to return to the negotiation table,' even though 'Iran hasn't signaled that it wants to resume talks,' says the chancellor speaking alongside Prime Minister Bennett

Tehran's nuclear chief justifies move by saying enriched uranium for research reactor, which other signatories to the 2015 nuclear deal were meant to provide, 'was not delivered'

The group SNOB Tel Aviv is using street theater to connect to the local culture. They reenact key moments in the history of Zionism but prefer formal wear to the Israeli casualness

In Kabul hundreds of homeless men addicted to heroin and methamphetamines are rounded up, beaten and forcibly taken to treatment centers

Khan launched Pakistan on the path to becoming a nuclear power in the early 1970s was later accused of stealing the centrifuge uranium enrichment technology from the Netherlands. Khan was accused of trading nuclear secrets to Iran, North Korea

Bennett welcomes Merkel, 'dear friend of Israel,' in final visit before leaving office

At least 3,200 candidates are competing for Iraq's 329 seats in parliament, in an election held under a new law designed to help independent candidates

Students will have to present a Green Pass before entering the campus, with some institutions requiring students to be physically present in class with few exceptions

Neither rival organization is keen on the idea, but neither wants to be seen by Cairo and Washington as the reason for its failure

The assumption that children are protected has informed the medical and public discourse concerning vaccinations in Israel and around the world, but COVID has long-term effects, the extent and severity of which are not yet clear

Prime Minister Bennett has cleared most of his schedule, and the weekly cabinet meeting is dedicated to bidding farewell to the long-reigning German chancellor

'We lost him in a second without a reason,' Issam Asam Salti's uncle says ■ Murder victims this year in Israel's Arab community on course to surpass last year's record

A plan to spare kids quarantine will be implemented gradually over the next days, the Education Ministry says. Meanwhile, key COVID metrics in Israel remain relatively low

Israel said Foreign Minister Lapid and his counterparts 'will discuss progress in Israel-UAE ties over the past year,' since the two countries signed a U.S.-brokered normalization deal

Retailers can't import milk because of Israel's quota system on dairy produce

Senior Taliban officials and U.S. representatives are to meet Saturday and Sunday in Doha, in first since America withdrew from Afghanistan in August

Abolhassan Bani-Sadr became president in 1980, but fled to France the following year after a power struggle with radical clerics

The shutdown of the two power stations had 'directly affected the stability of the power network and led to its complete outage, with no possibility of resuming operations in the meantime,' an official statement said

Iran has been accused of orchestrating the 1994 attack targeting a Jewish center, which killed 85 people and injured hundreds

Ali Atwa was placed on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Terrorists list in 2001 with two other alleged participants in the 1985 hijacking of TWA Flight 847

Born in Germany and raised in Peru, Maiman immigrated to Israel in 1971, where he founded multinational group Merhav

German police described the event, in which an Israeli was sprayed by irritant gas and knocked to the ground, as an antisemitic incident

Eden Jamal Fiyumi is the first child to die from the post-COVID PIMS syndrome in Israel, experts say

Inmates' 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

Syrian state media says Israel targeted the T4 military airport near Homs

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

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