‘Kristallnacht’ is not only a woefully inadequate term to describe the November 1938 attacks on German Jews: It lends legitimacy to the Nazi propagandists who coined it

A second warrant was issued by Italy against another Israeli said to be tied to U.S. military contractor Blackwater

In a unprecedented retrospective exhibit, 92-year-old Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama's works take over the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. But her art, and life, run much deeper than her Instagram-friendly reputation

A six-panel comic illustrated by August Maria Froehlich first appeared as part of a January 1945 pamphlet entitled 'the bloody record of Nazi atrocities'

Attacks on weapons shipments and Iranian interests in Syria don't appear to be of much concern to Assad either, and the Americans have more pressing matters to attend to – including the NSO scandal and Israel's response to it

Speaking at the Haaretz Israel Democracy Conference, Beinisch said that Israeli society must hold a serious debate on the kind of democracy we want

The analogy, which one attendee told the Times was inappropriate, could be interpreted to imply that Starbucks spreads scarce resources across its workforce

'The Republic of Austria is sending out a visible sign of its responsibility,' cabinet member says. 'The victims are given their names and thus at least part of their dignity'

Competition Authority investigators questioned Shufersal CEO Itzhak Aberkohen and Strauss CEO Eyal Dror, in the first antitrust probe of major food retailers since 2009

'Levy challenges the Israeli consensus in courageous work on the ground that brings the voices of Palestinians' in the West Bank and Gaza, Sokolow Prize committee said

Judge argues the 70-year-old man couldn't have waited for police while 'the deceased and his accomplices do what they wanted'

The Israeli decision 'is a further erosion of civic and humanitarian space,' a joint statement says, stressing 'Past allegations of misuse of our funds by Palestinian civil society organization partners have not been substantiated'

An Oxford college accepted a $6.8 million donation from a trust set up by the son of Oswald Mosley, and initially planned to name a student building Alexander Mosley House

The blackout has made resistance to the military coup more difficult

Aviv Kochavi tells Knesset committee that the new state budget allows military to meet ‘a variety of challenges’

The king and Mansour Abbas, a member of Israel's governing coalition, met in Amman and discussed peace agreements, the two-state solution and Jordan's custodianship of Jerusalem's Muslim holy sites, Jordanian state media says

The UAE has been at the forefront of efforts by some Arab states to normalize ties with Damascus, and earlier this year called for Syria to be readmitted to the Arab League

Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz said that the fourth wave of the pandemic has ended, though the public should view this as a 'hiatus'

Environmental Protection Minister Tamar Zandberg insists on returning to original understandings but does not regret decision to join government

The graffiti sprayed on cars and on a building in El Bireh is the latest in a string of vandalism incidents involving West Bank Palestinian property

Speaking on the radio with a resident of the Havat Gilad outpost, Mossi Raz said that if living conditions there are inadequate then the resident should move into Israel or move his children to foster care

The agreement between the aliyah and interior ministers could mean up to 5,000 Ethiopians would be brought to Israel, as the civil war in the country rages on

Most countries haven't implemented the policies or legislation needed to meet long-term climate goals, and the world is on track to blow past the 1.5C warming limit scientists say is needed to avert devastating climate change

Iron Dome would provide little defense against ballistic missiles launched from China, but could be used against cruise missiles launched from Chinese bombers, according to The Wall Street Journal

Speaking to his Iranian counterpart, the French Foreign Minister said that negotiations must continue on the basis negotiated on June 20, with the end goal being 'a rapid return' to the accord

From women's prayer in the Western Wall to a reform in how Kosher food is sold in Israel, the ultra-Orthodox parties feel they're on the losing side for the first time in years. Also: what Biden's best friend is doing in Jerusalem

Most of the improvement is in the West Bank, but the Palestinian Authority may find it difficult to meet its financial commitments towards the end of the year, the Washington-based financial institution stated

In summit speech Tuesday, Jonathan Greenblatt says that anti-Jewish hatred is rising in left-wing circles and ‘this situation threatens to upend life as we know it’

New protocols are meant to ensure that only fully vaccinated or recovered visitors can enter Israel, but loopholes based around an online ‘honor system’ raise major concerns

According to the indictment, while Katz chaired the Knesset Labor Committee, he invited a capital market trader to testify before the committee without disclosing the ties between the two

Merav Michaeli’s statement at Haaretz's conference will likely generate intense opposition among the ultra-Orthodox, whose leaders have vigorously protested various proposals to reform the religious status quo

In recent weeks, Health Ministry inspectors have been involved in an enforcement campaign against food businesses with suspected links to organized crime in the Arab community in Israel

Does the 'unfettered pursuit of truth' solely motivate Bari Weiss’ new academic enterprise, when its faculty uniformly agrees that only the left threatens academic freedom and its finances are already so opaque?

'The toxic environment in the country is unacceptable. It stems primarily from the unwillingness to accept the rules of the democratic game,' said Israel's Defense Minister at Haaretz's Conference on Democracy

Israel will try to push the Biden administration into a U-turn, after NSO was blacklisted for spying on journalists and human rights activists around the world, two senior Israeli officials tell the New York Times

The state broadcaster said the U.S. drones changed their route after approaching the Iranian exercise, as nuclear talks between worlds powers and Tehran are set to resume

Haarez photographer Ohad Zwingenberg went to Jerusalem’s first Kiki ball designed to increase queer visibility and provide a safe space for LGBT people in the conservative city

Suspects from all around the West Bank and Israel were arrested, as the coalition's plan to tackle crime in the Arab community kicks off in earnest

Study of siege ramp at Judahite town of Lachish shows that 2,300 years ago, the military juggernaut of King Sennacherib could conquer a city in less than a month

Israeli spyware maker NSO earned its criticism when it turned out that dictatorships to which it sold had used Pegasus against human rights activists and journalists

Ethiopian migration, halting an indicted individual from serving as PM, mixed prayer at the Western Wall: the budget's passage has unleashed a torrent of contentious bills exposing differences in Israel's motley coalition

Halting Iran was supposed to be Netanyahu’s great mission in life; could it really have been managed with such negligence and arrogance?

A confluence of conflicting interests, economic crisis, and regional disputes threaten Iraq even with a new government or prime minister in charge

NSO's claim to foreign immunity rejected by U.S. court in legal row with Facebook over unauthorized access to WhatsApp servers

This is the first meeting between a J Street delegation and an Israeli cabinet official in at least four years, after Netanyahu and former ambassador Ron Dermer boycotted the organization during their years in power

Meanwhile, opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu says that coalition lawmaker lied about being attacked

Three Arab crime organizations account for most of the shootings and other violence in the Arab community

Israeli minister seeks to bring Ethiopians whose Jewishness has not been confirmed; other government leaders are silent on the matter, not only for political reasons

Meanwhile, the cabinet's decision to allow tourists into Israel from countries with a lower COVID infection rate sparks criticism among Health Ministry staffers

Syria's state media said some 'hostile targets' were intercepted, but a war monitor said that air defenses were unable to block the Israeli strikes

Schoffman, who died Sunday at the age of 73, was a widely respected figure in the American-Israeli literary scene, though his storied career also included writing a Rob Lowe movie

In an exclusive interview with Haaretz, Swedish prime minister Stefan Löfven explains his policies on Israel, and reaffirms his support for Holocaust commemoration, better U.S.-Europe relations and a revived Iran nuclear deal

Party leaders from the ruling coalition's secular flank are also pressing for reforms to the Chief Rabbinate's monopoly on conversion in Israel, drawing ire from religious parties

The incident occurred in the West Bank after settlers watered their flock at a cistern that they had been told by Israeli authorities was off limits to them

Under the new bill passed by Congress on Friday, houses of worship and nonprofits can apply for grants up to $200,000 to upgrade their buildings' energy efficiency

An Iraqi army general said the investigation into the drone attack against Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi is ongoing but that indications point to Iran-backed factions

One of the heads of the Palestinian NGOs targeted by Israeli firm NSO's cyberware slammed the hacking as a bid to 'control civil Palestinian society'

Pnina Tamano-Shata warns she 'cannot continue to be part of the government at a time when Ethiopian Jewry is being slaughtered'

Renowned Israeli anthropologist Emanuel Marx long refused to even think about the Holocaust or the day when his father was dragged off to Dachau. So what made him finally confront the past?

One of the highlights of this week’s Other Israel Film Festival in New York is ‘Cinema Sabaya,’ which, much like the festival, captures the complexities of Jewish and Arab life in Israel

The TV adaptation of the 2019 podcast is just as Jewish but lacks the original’s most disturbing elements, opting instead to play up the comedy with Will Ferrell and Paul Rudd. It’s good, but it could have been great

Duque also met with President Isaac Herzog, who cast Bogotá and Jerusalem as allies against Iranian aggression

Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, UAE and Kuwait pulled their envoys from Lebanon following remarks made by Lebanon's information minister on the war in Yemen

An explosive argument on conversion and kashrut has repercussions far beyond the Knesset, laying bare why the term 'Orthodox' Judaism has outlived its usefulness, and should be discarded

The drone was monitored by Israel's air traffic control unit before crashing into the sea, the military said

Israeli soldiers have begun using a facial recognition technology called Blue Wolf that alerts them whether Palestinians should be detained based on prior information about them, The Washington Post reports

The seed bank of the Palestinian Union of Agricultural Work Committees is saving heritage seeds from extinction and reviving a tradition of eco-friendly agriculture. Gantz must not be allowed to destroy it

An unusual burial unearthed in El Rayo, Nicaragua drastically differs from the common method of burying the dead in cacao pots

Four of the infected phones have Israeli numbers, and their owners are East Jerusalem residents with Israeli identity cards. This is the first time Pegasus software has been found on a cellphone with an Israeli number

Tourists will be allowed into Israel if they received two doses of a COVID vaccine authorized by the WHO, even if six months have elapsed since their second shot

With Libyan presidential elections set for late December, Saddam Haftar touched down in Tel Aviv last week for a secret meeting. Could Israeli normalization with Libya be on the horizon?

The Air Force bombing of the high-rise, which housed offices of the Associated Press and Al Jazeera, represented a serious PR blow to Israel in the May flare-up with Gaza

Netanyahu's legal aid says the witness' weakness could be exploited by his presence in the courtroom

The ruling recognizes an Israeli woman without a partner as the mother of a child born via surrogacy abroad

In a live-streamed Torah lecture the Rabbi Meir Mazuz called out Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman following reforms planned by the government

Global human rights is a key pillar of Biden’s foreign policy, but it comes with many exemptions

Out of some 3,000 sexual assault cases last year, prosecutors closed 2,700 without issuing an indictment, mostly due to insufficient evidence

Former janitor at school where Ta’ir Rada was murdered tells court he saw blood coming from victim’s body hours after her death, countering Supreme Court justice’s claim in ordering retrial

Israel's Population Authority agrees to issue temporary residence visas to immigrants from Ethiopia’s Tigray region, where the country's civil war erupted

Most of the 61 Ethiopians who were brought to Israel on a secret operation had no Jewish roots, and their lives hadn’t exactly been in danger, either. Israel's population authority deemed the event a 'conspiracy'

Wasteful construction, a double road system, trips lengthened by checkpoints and asphalt at the expense of open spaces: Israel’s policy in the West Bank and Gaza has a green price tag

U.S. vice president tells ADL antisemitism summit that hate crime against American Jews is on the rise, but the Biden administration is ‘fully committed to fighting antisemitism’

The monthly clashes at the Kotel between Jewish feminists and ultra-Orthodox protesters are likely to become a major parliamentary issue – and it’s clear whose side Benjamin Netanyahu will be on

The military order builds on Defense Ministry Gantz's terror designation in Israel, and could permit the IDF to arrest the employees, raid the offices and confiscate equipment of the Palestinian groups

The neo-fascist, anti-immigrant, Nazi-founded Sweden Democrats is rising in the polls while continuing its mendacious efforts to rebrand as 'moderate' nationalists – and 'pro-Israel' to boot. This is what they really think, and how Israel's ambassa...

We overdraw on the planet’s resources every day but there are ways forward, if we have the vision to see them, and the courage to take them

As media personalities close to Netanyahu slam her Israel Hayom paper, long seen as a pro-Bibi bastion, for supposedly not attacking Bennett, Miriam Adelson and new PM will share a stage at ZOA gala next month

The theater apologized for 'unconscious bias' in naming Elon Musk-inspired character Hershel Fink