Tensions over the lead judge's investigation into the blast, one of the largest non-nuclear explosions ever recorded, are fuelling divisions in Lebanon

The poor representation stems from years of inequality in the school system, plus Arabs lack the army-tech connections that many Jews have, a Bank of Israel study says

All agree that the biggest mistake this summer was to believe Israel had defeated COVID, while vaccination still remains the key tool in the fight

Two people were wounded in the drive-by shooting in northern Israel; police are searching for the shooter

The Biden administration is so far refraining, at least publicly, from pressuring Israel to freeze construction plans beyond the Green Line

The driver rammed a Border Police officer while he was standing next to Civil Administration inspectors overseeing construction violations in the West Bank

The death toll is the worst of any attack in Norway since 2011, when far-right extremist Anders Behring Breivik killed 77 people, most of them teenagers at a youth camp

'We always had ties with settlers and other Israelis. Now they suddenly say we can’t have a plan for the village because we pose a danger? That hurts me, it’s simply not true,' says a Palestinian village council chief

The Syrian Defense Ministry said, however, that a Syrian soldier was killed, and three others were wounded in the Israeli strike

According to an eyewitness, an IDF officer arrived to the area to talk to a Palestinian farmer who witnessed arson

Ronen Bar also comments on Iran, saying 'the Iranian threat will continue to figure at the core of our operations in Israel, overseas and in the cyber world'

Lapid sought to delay vote on high-profile position after government-backed Elazar Stern withdrew from the race over comments on handling of sexual assault complaints during his time as an army general

Government and social media representatives in Malmo vow to crack down on hate speech, disinformation and denial

Party leader Smotrich, often accused of racism, launches latest tirade against Arab lawmakers in the Knesset, calling them 'terror supporters.' Joint List MK: We're dealing with 'this filthy fascism' every day

Palestinian officials are concerned over COVID restrictions barring tourists from spending the night in the city, just before the holiday season. Israeli officials say talks are underway to permit overnight stays

The EU document on antisemitism failed to mention bans in multiple EU countries preventing the production of kosher and halal meat through ritual slaughter and attempts to outlaw nonmedical circumcision

Mahmoud Aardeh took his interrogators step by step through the escape plan – from the planning, through the digging, to the escape itself. 'Where will I be in seven years? I’ll be freed in a Hamas deal,' he told them

In a video of the incident, a Jerusalem officer forcefully hits a Palestinian man with a bat, after he identified a different officer who assaulted him

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid meets with his U.S., Emirati counterparts in Washington, a year after normalizing ties

The soldiers are expected to be charged with aggravated assault at a military court. One of them is also suspected of pressing his gun against the Palestinian man's behind

The Oxford School of Rare Jewish Languages has launched its inaugural semester of courses in 12 Jewish languages, from Judeo-Greek to Karaim

Shatner is one of four passengers to journey to the edge of space aboard the white fully autonomous New Shepard spacecraft, as U.S. billionaire businessman Jeff Bezos's company carried out its second tourist flight

Lawyers for unnamed 21-year-old ultra-Orthodox man who is trying to avoid service in Israeli military say victory in British court could open asylum doors to Israeli conscientious objectors, as well as Palestinians

Vaccinated citizens from 40 countries could be welcomed back in Israel as early as November 1, but U.S. tourists will likely need to request individual approval to get into the country

Economics laureate Joshua Angrist left Hebrew University after a few years in the holy land and returned to America. Unfortunately, his decision is all too typical, not just in academia but also in high-tech

Instead of keeping to its agreements, Israel offers ‘a gesture’ in the form of Palestinian IDs to people without status in the West Bank and Gaza. Still on hold is family unification for residents of the territories married to Israeli citizens

Islamist leader, whose party thwarted the bill in 2019, threw support behind it because of its medical aspects

Lenny Bruce began with impersonations, then pushed the boundaries of good taste - and the law.

Employees condemn cloud service deal with Israel, saying 'products we build are used to deny Palestinians their basic rights'

The standoff illustrates Jerusalem’s challenge in preserving urban nature – areas inside cities that are home to plants and animals – in the face of development

With front-runner Elazar Stern dropping out of the race, center-left parties and non-Orthodox movements scramble to find new candidate who shares their liberal values

Last month, an Azeri who holds a Russian passport was arrested in Nicosia on suspicion of planning to assassinate Israeli businesspeople

Sally Rooney’s refusal to work with Israeli publishers deemed complicit with the occupation certainly isn’t antisemitic. But adopting the BDS movement’s cultural boycott of Israel won’t help the Palestinian cause, either

Writings reading 'Price tag' and 'Destroying for enemies and not for Jews' were spray-painted on eight vehicles and the walls of buildings in the Palestinian village of Marda

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 Gadhafi's reactor ambitions – and still passed away from nat...

German European affairs minister says 'the situation worldwide' is 'extremely worrying,' in reference to recent anti-Jewish attacks in Germany

Shas leader Arye Deri calls Bennett 'a clown,' adding the PM is trying to 'strike out at the Haredim and widen his base'

Moon Active was going nowhere in the mobile gaming market until in 2016 it released ‘Coin Master,’ a game that became a sensation and generated billions of dollars. So why isn’t the company a source of unbridled pride in Startup Nation?

Ahead of Blinken's meetings with Israeli FM Lapid and his Emirati counterparts, officials express hope that 'normalization can be leveraged to advance progress on the Israeli-Palestinian tracks'

If the talks between Iran and Saudi Arabia would end in reconciliation, the rest of the Arab world could swiftly follow suit. The Middle East would look like a very different place – and so would Israel's place within it

In the second day of his testimony in Netanyahu's bribery trial, former Walla editor in chief Aviram Elad said he quit in 2014 because he didn’t want 'to be part of this'

In a radio interview, Superintendent Hagai Saban said that he did not make extensive use of riot control means because he understood he was in a Jewish community

Prosecutors to call 15 new witnesses to the stand as retrial of Roman Zadorov, convicted of killing 13-year-old Tair Rada, commences

Police sources say four brothers, who were subsequently arrested, sought to hurt the women, not bring her to family home

The team, headed by a senior Shin Bet official, is asked to examine to what extent the law allows the agency to be involved in issues that are beyond national security

Minister Elazar Stern, once considered the front-runner for one of the most high-profile positions in the Jewish organizational world, withdrew his candidacy following outcry over comments on handling of sexual harassment complaints

Police to purchase 400 new tasers to add to its stockpile of 3,100, despite complaints that they can cause serious injury and death

First witness in pre-trial hearing says Tree of Life massacre suspect made several comments about wanting Jews to die

In his new book, Mark Oppenheimer investigates both the hideous massacre and the great Jewish heritage of one Pittsburgh neighborhood

Survey of people in 16 European countries finds that some countries with few violent attacks have high incidence of antisemitic attitudes, and vice versa

Berlin's antisemitism commissioner says right-wing extremists deliberately chose a Jewish grave for the burial of a Holocaust denier

The changing attitude toward the nuclear accord is the new government’s most significant policy change, but Netanyahu’s campaign to shape public opinion on the subject still looms large

Now that Walla CEO Ilan Yeshua has stepped down from the witness stand, the prosecution and defense can both point to aspects of his testimony that they find favorable when it comes to the bribery charges against the former prime minister

Bennett tells conference he expects world powers to 'hold Iran accountable,' while former Mossad chief says Iran hasn't getting any closer to acquiring nuclear weapons

The hunger strike, which expected to mainly involve members of Islamic Jihad, is in response to what they say is a clampdown by prison authorities since the escape of six Palestinians from Gilboa Prison

The 49 people who were ordered deported are members of a group with origins in the African American community in Chicago, most of whom had been given resident status in 2004

Surrounded by colleagues from the previous administration, former ambassador David Friedman told Haaretz at the launch of his new center why he doesn't regret that the Abraham Accords pushed aside annexation

Speaking on the Haaretz Weekly podcast, former Mossad chief Efraim Halevy explained how Netanyahu's tactics brought Iran closer than ever to a nuclear weapon and suggested that Israel should negotiate with Hamas

Acclaimed Irish author says she cannot sign a contract with an Israeli company 'that does not publicly distance itself from apartheid'

'In the current atmosphere, I find it wrong to put myself forward for a job to head the Jewish Agency,' Elazar Stern announced on Facebook

Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked had been negotiating with opposition lawmaker on a bill to reinstate legislation that barred giving Israeli residency and citizenship to Palestinians who marry Israelis

It is still unknown whether the convenience store chain, which operates on 24/7 basis, will keep its stores open on Shabbat

Unlike countries such as France, Britain and Germany, many popular nature sites in Israel charge for admittance. Now, with overcrowding and trash at free sites an increasing problem, the argument is heating up over what to do next

The two leaders will meet in the Russian town of Sochi and will discuss a range of political, security and economic issues

Efraim Halevy, former director of Israel's Mossad, warns that while Iran is the most urgent challenge to Israel, China could pose an even greater one in the future. Also: how Trump and Netanyahu pushed Tehran to the bomb

Palestinians cannot farm their land as a result of the lack of enforcement by Israel Police and military

Seventy percent of COVID-related deaths in Israel over the past week were unvaccinated, far exceeding their 15-percent share of Israelis eligible for a vaccine

The Hebrew-language publisher of Rooney’s first two books said last month that the author won’t allow her new book to be published in Hebrew due to her BDS support

Iran regularly holds such drills and says they assess the troops' combat readiness and demonstrate the nation's military capabilities

Schools across Israel decided to use experience gained during COVID and allow students a day for ‘independent study’ in an effort to prepare them for a 21st century working environment

A white South African on her experience during the apartheid regime, and the moral failure of progressives to challenge the racist system

A new study published in 'Climate and Atmospheric Science' claims that a quarter of extreme rainfall events over the past decade can be attributed to climate change

Israelis are paying less than what the OECD estimated for housing and utilities, a new study shows, but they're still shelling out much more in general, for many goods and services, than their foreign peers

According to the indictment, Abd al-Rahman Abu Ja'afar of Jenin and Ihab Salama provided shelter and food to prisoners Iham Kamamji and Monadal Infiat

Settlers attack and mildly wound one Border Police officer near Yitzhar, where several incidents of settler violence have occurred over the past year

Six lawmakers were removed from the session for disrupting Bennett, while opposition head Netanyahu said 'he's not the real prime minister'

Moqtada al-Sadr's party increased its number of seats in parliament, while former prime minister Nouri al-Maliki came in second amongst Shi'ite parties

As first step in series of understandings reached between Benny Gantz and Mahmoud Abbas, Israel to approve legalizing residency for first time in 13 years

Over 250 Microsoft Office 365 accounts belonging to the security companies were targeted by hackers associated with Tehran, according to the tech giant

Yuli Edelstein says Likud could form a government if Netanyahu was not at the helm, noting that Netanyahu failed to form a coalition four times in a row

Former Walla editor-in-chief testifies that owner meddled for Netanyahu's benefit by ordering positive coverage in exchange for regulatory benefits

The son of Houda Nonoo – Bahrain’s former envoy to the United States and the first Jewish Bahraini to hold the position of ambassador – wed his wife in a milestone for the Jewish community in the Gulf nation

Josh Mandel, a Republican candidate in Ohio, claims the Jewish financier worked with the 'deep state' on ‘organized operations’ concerning the coronavirus, January 6 insurrection and the Black Lives Matter movement

The foreign minister also described VP Kamala Harris as 'one of the best friends Israel has in Washington' in their first meeting since 2017, while she committed the U.S.' 'unwavering' support for Israel and its security

The water-lily pool in Yarkon National Park offers different beautiful views: gargantuan eucalyptus, a rock ford across the stream and a British Mandate-era guard post

Burnt seeds found in a prehistoric site in Utah desert suggest Native Americans were chewing on tobacco 12,300 years ago – some 9,000 years earlier than previously thought

Israel's fourth wave hasn’t ended yet, the 'virus is still among us,' COVID czar says