Controversial Rabbi Eliezer began a prison sentence last week after being convicted of swindling terminally ill people out of large sums by promising to heal them

Beyond the public diplomacy campaign, the cyberattacks and Syria strikes attributed to Israel are also failing to budge the Biden administration to ramp up pressure on Tehran

The government’s main strategy for keeping housing costs steady – making more land available for residential construction

The number of school children infected by COVID fell by over 50 percent as the Health Ministry gets set to hold a televised hearing on vaccinating children ages 5 to 11 on Thursday

Creators hope the new matchmaking service for singles looking for soulmates will help ‘grow’ Jewish life in the region

In the first interview of an IDF official to Bahraini media, the officer said that Israel prefers a diplomatic option over a military one in dealing with the Iranian nuclear program

Meanwhile, Biden told President Erdogan that the purchase would depend on Turkey's human rights records, as the two met in Rome at the G20 summit

Prime Minister Bennett expresses confidence the budget will pass and deliver 'stability for the government,' but securing a majority for Israel state budget for the first time in two years is far from a foregone conclusion

Two Pulitzer Prize-winning photographers have covered four Gaza wars from opposite sides of the battle lines, now they're trying to capture a shared reality

The Supreme Court ruled that a school without Israeli students does not serve the public's interest and that the Oslo Accords designate responsibility for Palestinian educational institutions to the PA

While the IDF does not require its soldiers to be vaccinated, this August it announced that it would only call up reservists who have been vaccinated or have recovered from COVID

If the Bennett-Lapid government succeeds in passing a state budget before the end of the week, ex-PM Netanyahu will be facing nothing but bad choices

Big business is facing growing pressure to meet a host of standards concerning human rights, with more investors beginning to divest from Israeli companies that have ties to the occupation

Four Israeli shows from the past decade are now available to a wider audience, including ‘The Motive’ on Netflix, the thrillers ‘Asylum City’ and ‘Hostages,’ and the surprisingly funny ‘Checkout’ (on ChaiFlicks and Topic)

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says Iran is 'moving forward aggressively' with its nuclear program as talks are set to resume in November

For years, Bosnian Serb leader, separatist, autocrat and genocide denier Milorad Dodik has worked hard to discredit the post-war Bosnian state and demonize Muslim Bosniaks. Now, as he gathers critical momentum, will Biden, NATO or others in the West ...

Under his conflict-of-interest agreement, the Energy Ministry’s new director general will need permission to pick up his pen in his own office

The incident came only weeks after Australia announced that it was adopting the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s working definition of antisemitism

The Black Shadow group, released the data of 1,000 users of the Atraf dating site, some of whom are likely closeted, which it stole by hacking the Cyberserve web hosting company

Bennett heads Israel's delegation to the UN climate summit, where he will present new, modest targets. Officials hope the visit will wake Israel up to the urgency of climate crisis, which threatens the Middle Eastern state in particular

A Polish government ministry released a statement online earlier this month saying that Poland recognizes the IHRA working definition of antisemitism, a move meant to coincide with an international Holocaust forum in Sweden

Biden sending a B1-B bomber into the region allows him to send 'a clear message of reassurance' to regional allies, U.S. Air Force's Central Command tweeted

To fit American criteria, Israel would need to amend security procedures put in place during the intifada. Other bureaucratic challenges are also likely to slow, or stop, Israel's hopes of joining the visa waiver program

I always thought I had no problem with my naked body. I’m not proud of it or ashamed of it. But would this theoretical feeling withstand the test of reality? Ultimately, the sign was given. In under a minute we were all naked and waiting for photog...

Interior Minister Shaked advocated for segregating schools in a meeting with Tel Aviv municipality officials, arguing the move will push asylum seekers 'to leave Israel as soon as possible'

A Palestinian rape victim withdrew her complaint after police in the West Bank threatened her and treated her as a suspect. Three years later, her assailant raped another woman

Following violent riots during the latest Gaza conflict, Israel will include internal disturbances during wartime in a five-day military exercise this week

Iran's civil defense chief says Israel, U.S. 'and their agents' likely behind cyberattack that disrupted gasoline sales across the Islamic Republic

Education Ministry examining application by CTeen, which says its work includes 'giving Torah lessons to teens' and 'increasing Jewish identity activities' in schools

Remembering Libyan-Jewish Holocaust survivor Joseph Labi, who went from home to Italy to the Nazi concentration camp before finding himself in the Palmach

According to the U.S., the drones are used by terror groups supported by Iran, including Hezbollah, Hamas and the Houthis in Yemen. The sanctions against heads of UAV program may also give the U.S. leverage in nuke talks

The Turkish president's tough stance toward EU ambassadors looks to have been the wrong call, and his shticks and tricks to boost the economy haven't been working either

The two countries recalled their envoys from Lebanon, following comments of a cabinet minister regarding the war in Yemen

The Health Ministry's director of public health, Sharon Alroy-Preis, is facing the maximum level of threat, according to Israel Police

This is the second killing within a family to take place this week in the city of Beit Shemesh, near Jerusalem

Sudan's Central Doctors Committee said the three protesters were shot dead by troops in the capital Khartoum's twin city of Omdurman as hundreds of thousands of people across Sudan protested the military coup

Syrian state media blamed Israel for the surface-to-surface missile attack, which was unusually conducted in broad daylight

Black Shadow, a hacker group linked to Iran, threatens to leak information from Israeli web hosting site Cyberserve in its latest cyberattack

The study by Israel's Clalit Research Institute and Harvard confirms research showing a fading of the COVID vaccine’s effectiveness after a few months

A UN committee created to investigate May's Gaza conflict condemned Israel and disregarded Hamas' attacks on Israeli civilians

The secret of Tel Aviv’s attraction once lay in its ability to transform nothing into a wonder that allows movement and life. Now it turns out to be a very costly nothing

Should children be taught computer programming and be exposed to high-tech at an early age? ‘After reading, writing and arithmetic, 'one expert stresses, 'it’s important for kids to know programming’

The Midburn festival in the desert hosted as many as 5,000 people instead of 13,000 last time, as foreign tourists remain a fantasy for now. Still, under a theme of 'Return,' participants tried to put COVID in the rearview mirror

If vaccinations for younger children are approved by the CDC, and then in Israel, about 1 million more Israelis could potentially be vaccinated against COVID

Biden and Pope Francis ran overtime in highly personal discussions

The move comes days after a video circulated on social media in which Lebanon’s Information Minister George Kordahi described the war in Yemen as an aggression by Saudi Arabia and the UAE

According to foreign reports, Singapore is one of the main importers of Israeli weapons, and a clutch of Israeli security firms have representatives in the country

The journalist and political activist Yuval Abraham spends a lot of time in the South Hebron Hills witnessing a new type of organized settler violence

The move comes after Iran's top nuclear negotiator announced that the nuke talks with six major powers would resume by the end of November

Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked speaks to ministers Lapid and Gantz, after a recording of Shaked disparaging them was aired earlier this week

Several mediation efforts have been announced since the army dissolved Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok's cabinet earlier this week and derailed a transition meant to steer Sudan to democracy

The murder of the Israeli athletes at the '72 Munich Olympics, and the Israeli revenge campaign that followed, spawned many books and films. But in all of them, one figure remains anonymous: Ahmed Bouchikhi

'I bow my head in memory of the 49 people murdered, bow my head before you, their family members, and before the residents of Kafr Qasem,' President Isaac Herzog says

83-year-old Tova Moradi fled the country with her 10 children and nearly two dozen grandchildren last week out of fear for their safety

The opposition leader hopes Bennett's Yamina party will disintegrate so he can topple the government as the crucial vote on the state budget nears ■ Where did Gantz go wrong

Prime Minister Bennett pledges to lower Israel's net carbon emissions to zero by 2050 as thousands call on leaders to take action

Israel sees a day with zero COVID deaths for the first time in nearly four months

Trump’s return would mean a constitutional crisis, a slide into authoritarianism and mob rule in the streets, endangering all of America’s minorities. So why do U.S. Jews seem so bizarrely unconcerned?

The officer told six women he holds a classified position with the police and proposed them to join the unit, under the condition that they had sex with him

At 2:00 A.M. Sunday morning, clocks will return to 1:00 A.M.

Twelve years after an Israeli shell hit his home and killed his daughters during Operation Cast Lead, Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish is taking his battle for a formal apology to the Supreme Court. He knows the odds are against him

With a 120-member delegation to COP26, is Israel finally waking up to the dangers posed by the climate crisis – including matters of national security? PLUS: Indiana Jones and the Lost Church?

The regime in Iran has already survived mass protests with scores of fatalities. But for Israel, taking the initiative trumps watching on the sidelines

The Israeli army is expanding its program to tend, using expert professionals, to soldiers' psychological needs. And a new generation of soldiers is much more ready to open up about their service

Attacking civilian targets won't increase public distrust in the Iranian regime, which is already at a low. Still, economic pressure may bring Tehran back to nuke talks

Kayed Fasfous has been on a hunger strike for over three months. He is hospitalized in critical condition, interrupting his detention without trial, but he refuses to give in until he’s released

This week at the Tel Aviv airport: Two Israelis embarking on new chapters of their lives

Interrogators in Israel are allowed to lie to suspects in order to extract confessions of guilt, an examination method forbidden in most democracies

I accompanied my parents on a trip to our homeland, Azerbaijan. No one prepared me for the moment when I would meet the other side of my family, which is stuck in an endless Borat movie

The Health Ministry's director of public health, Sharon Alroy-Preis, is at high-risk of being targeted for harm, Israel Police say

The European Union said it 'takes very seriously' Israel's labeling of six Palestinian rights and civil society groups as terror organizations, but adds that previous allegations were unsubstantiated

The 'blatant violence' and the failure to take testimony from witnesses in the police beating of two residents of East Jerusalem’s Isawiyah neighborhood in 2019 represents a major failing, the ombudsman says

Israel's PM is eager to capitalize on the UN climate conference, where 200 senior figures and leaders of countries will be in attendance

Some call the Israeli government plan ‘unprecedented,’ while others say it fails to address key problems such as food insecurity

Rep. Betty McCollum of Minnesota introduced a resolution condemning Israel's actions as 'a repressive act designed to criminalize and persecute important Palestinian human rights organizations'

She sold ‘Fauda’ to Netflix, and a series on autistic friends to Amazon Prime. But after 22 years at the helm, Danna Stern is stepping down from her executive position. She explains how she signed huge international deals, predicts the future of ...

Israel will allow entry to tourists vaccinated against COVID-19 from November 1, and the Health Ministry recommends years-long bans on entry for rule-breakers

The saga of Rabbi Eliezer Melamed exposes the fault-lines emerging in Jewish fundamentalism and religious ultra-nationalism over engaging with non-Orthodox Jews. They pose radical challenges – for both sides

Israel's prime minister asks Switzerland's president to use his country's seat on the UN nuclear watchdog's board of governors to combat Tehran's program during a meeting between the two in Jerusalem

The race will start at 6:00 A.M. Friday next to the Israel Museum and finish off at Sacher Park

Ziv Nevo Kulman said Israel does not and will not have ties to the far-right Sweden Democrats party, stating a 'moral position' and mentioning the party's 'roots in Nazism.' Not everyone in Stockholm agrees with him

And a lost opportunity for a symbolic gesture that would have cost Israel nothing

The statement comes after a harsh U.S. rebuke on Israel's plan to construct housing units in West Bank settlements

In order to avoid an unintentional slide into a war of folly between the United States and China, the Biden administration needs a more cohesive policy on Taiwan – even if its diplomatic and military options are limited

Arab citizens constituted 35 percent of those convicted in mixed Jewish-Arab cities, a rate 3.7 times their proportion of the general population