Itzik Benbenisti announced his resignation after the U.S. Commerce Department blacklisted the Israeli spyware firm NSO and due to ongoing challenges the company faces, sources say

Palestinian, queer and disenchanted: How constant talk about pinkwashing, settler colonialism and intersectionality pushed me out of the Palestinian LGBTQ movement

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

After a recent much-documented performance in Hebron, rising star Mike Sharif is now setting his sights on singing in Gaza. The ‘Druze wunderkind’ explains why it’s so important for him to perform for Palestinians too

The men 'brazenly kidnapped two children in the middle of the night to return a girl to an illegal sexual relationship with an adult man," a U.S. attorney said in a statment

The court deemed the crime antisemitic because the offenders had targeted Mireille Knoll because she is Jewish

Physical violence, guns and grenades, have only been deployed from the right against the left. If Gantz is facing death threats from the left, let him prove it

In an interview with Haaretz during his visit to Israel, Iván Duque says his country is committed to fighting Hezbollah and its ties to Iran: 'no country can have relationships with terrorist groups'

'Letters don’t come, deliveries do not arrive' as Population Authority refuses to register tribe addresses

Modern, innovative waste management facilities are supposed to be equipped with measures to prevent hazards, but disillusioned residents aren’t buying it

While Juana Ruiz Rishwami didn't belong to any of the six organizations, sources involved in the investigation claimed that collected evidence unequivocally incriminates them, but the material remains confidential

PM Mohammad Shtayyeh says Palestinians now outnumber Jews in Israel and the West Bank, with 6.9 million Palestinians and 6.7 million Jews between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River

United Arab List chairman Mansour Abbas, who is in the coalition, opposed the bill, which seeks to correct the lack of hospital infrastructure in Israel's Arab towns and communities

Complicating efforts to indict him, Eduard Kachura says he dug the pit where 17-year-old Yael Melnik’s body was later found last month as ‘therapy’ to quell her suicidal thoughts

Eldad Peri was one of Israel’s best-known property developers with a personal debt of about $106 million, in addition to about 500 million shekels owed by his company

The report highlights gaps in Europe's plan to combat antisemitism, including chronic underreporting, amid mounting fears among European Jewish communities

The museum has previously stopped short of leveling a charge of genocide against the Chinese government, which has been accused of detaining more than a million members of the Muslim minority in camps

Six employees of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, including the school's president and chancellor, were named in an independent probe into decades-long sexual abuse

Israel's public health system will now prepare for a countrywide COVID vaccination drive for 5- to 11-year-old children that is expected to begin within 10 days

From the director who sparked 2018's 'Bride of Istanbul' craze in Israel (and elsewhere), "The Club," now out on Netflix, has all the elements of another smash hit

After over a year of restrictions, DJs from all over the world are flocking to perform for eager Israeli audiences. Producers celebrate the scene's revival, but strict coronavirus policies lead to clashes with an audience that espouses freedom

A hacking group's breach of CyberServe's servers and the leak of sensitive personal information that followed prove that the authorities that are supposed to protect us were asleep at the wheel

The arrests also demonstrate that the police have the necessary tools to address crime in the Arab community without involving the Shin Bet

What appears to be a prehistoric yen for quality eats has led to enlightenment about how early humans made use of Qesem Cave in central Israel from 400,000 years ago

Iran wants China’s help in neutralizing sanctions and erasing Western influence from the Middle East, but Beijing’s interests are more transactional

Despite Israeli Health Ministry briefly taking down its website due to ‘technical problem’ on Tuesday, visitors can still skirt entry rules if they state they are fully vaccinated against COVID - without providing actual proof

After pro-settlement Ambassador Tzipi Hotovely was met with demonstrators when leaving an event at the London School of Economics, the Israeli embassy said it will be 'undeterred by extremists'

Bowman has been a strong critic of the occupation since he was elected to Congress last year. He has also stated in the past that the U.S. should consider conditioning military aid to Israel

Prominent activist Etai Pinkas Arad denies allegations of sexual misconduct

52 percent of adults polled did not know how many Jews died in the Holocaust and 22 percent couldn’t name a single concentration camp

‘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

Eitan Biran survived a cable car accident that killed both parents. A second warrant issued by Italy against Israeli aide said to be tied to U.S. military contractor Blackwater

In an unprecedented retrospective exhibit, Yayoi Kusama's obsessive 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'

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 2,700 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?