Israel is also increasing access to Jerusalem for Christians living in the West Bank

Visiting the beleaguered Christian communities of Iraq, Syria, the Gaza Strip and Egypt, Janine di Giovanni discovers a people facing an existential threat but determined to persevere

According to the UN, some 56,000 homes across Gaza were damaged in the conflict between Israel and Hamas, and reconstruction efforts have yet to get off the ground

Somalia Islamist group al-Shabaab carried out the attack, which collapsed a school and hospital in the Mogadishu capital

In attempt to gain a conservative majority in the Supreme Court, conservative think tanks were hired to evaluate candidates for the Judicial Selection Committee

Immigration and Border Authority treated a human trafficking victim from the Ukraine as a suspected prostitute, leading to the loss of her residency permit

The plans will supposedly allow Israel to handle increasing demands at its ports while spurring local economies, but environmental groups including the Environmental Protection Agency say the reasoning is not justified

While only 12 people were arrested during the operation, police confiscated makeshift weapons and drugs in an attempt to stifle the ongoing violence in Israel's southern district

Netanyahu received 300,000 dollars from his cousin Nathan Milikowsky, while American businessman Spencer Partridge gave the former PM over 600,000 as a loan

Dozens of Israeli officials traveled to the UN climate conference, but none were assigned to stay for the decisive final two days of negotiations

Police forces were deployed to the hospital the man was admitted to as part of new protocol following a brawl outside another Israeli hospital last week that left 4 injured and saw 19 arrested

Notices were posted during Israel's flare-up with Hamas in May that coincided with Arab-Jewish violence across the country's mixed cities

Head of U.S. Central Command says Iran 'very close' to having the materials to build a nuclear bomb, while special envoy on Iran voices pessimism about new talks

If established, it would be the first large Jewish neighborhood in East Jerusalem since the 1990s

Yellow stars and Nazi symbols at anti-vaccine protests have been spreading as quickly as the virus itself over the past 18 months and represent a real threat to the legacy of the Holocaust, experts warn

Alex Edelman, a Jewish stand-up comic from Boston, is about to launch his solo tour next month in which he'll joke about everything from white nationalists to housing prices

Izzeldin Abuelaish has been on a 13-year campaign to seek justice for what he says was a terrible mistake by the Israeli military

Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Idan Roll snubs meetings with Belgian officials after landing in Brussels

The United States is not enforcing sanctions and is allowing Iran to export oil, limiting its options, while Israel struggles to devise a persuasive strategy

‘The word Jewish was never mentioned at home,’ says the author, whose new book, ‘The Postcard,’ is about five generations of her family – from pogroms in Russia to her grandmother’s love triangle

IAEA chief Rafael Grossi has warned that time is running out to reach an agreement with Iran to end a long standoff over inspection of nuclear sites

Israel recalled Tal Ben-Ari Yaalon in August after Poland approved a controversial law restricting the possibility of restitution claims for property stolen from Jews during the Holocaust

Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani tells i24 News that any new Iran deal cannot ignore 'the Islamic Republic’s other efforts to destabilize other countries in the region through terrorism and proxy wars'

The memorandum of understanding signed in Rabat lays out plans to deepen intelligence and military cooperation

While Israel's booster campaign has proven a success, the forth wave is not over yet, the country's top health expert tells Haaretz in an exclusive briefing

The lira has lost 40% of its value this year and nearly 20% since the beginning of last week alone, amid concerns over broader fallout for the economy after President Erdogan defended recent sharp rate cuts

Freddy Ben-Shitrit testified before the government commission investigating the escape of the six Palestinian security prisoners in September

Graffiti sprayed at the scene in Kiryat Arba apparently refers to the death of 16-year-old Ahuvia Sandak, who was killed a year ago in high-speed police chase

Complaints that two giants of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish world - Chaim Walder and Yehuda Meshi-Zahav - have sexually abused children have encouraged more victims to speak out and wrenched the community out of its complacency. Some of them are my frien...

Nir Hefetz, a former adviser turned state's evidence in Netanyahu's corruption trial, tells court that the former prime minister's party had control over coverage at Walla

New technology is a baby step toward detecting liars everywhere based on nothing but their twitching, lying face

U.S. officials say it's already much more difficult to carry out a cyberattack to set back Iran’s nuclear program as Iran improves air defenses and places nuclear facilities underground

Cat wants treat. Box is shut. Cat asks for help, yes, she does! How she does that is another matter, and it depends on you

Hezbollah’s External Security Organization was designated a terrorist organization under Australia’s Criminal Code in 2003, but the latest move would see all Hezbollah entities banned

Israeli officials point to a correlation between the timing of attacks and interests that Iran was pursuing in talks with the U.S. and other powers

The study comes as Israel launches a vaccination drive to inoculate 5-11-year-olds amid rising infection rates

Israeli officials deny earlier reports of a Syrian anti-aircraft missile that crossed into Israel following the strike in the Homs area

This year, as the COVID lockdowns that had intensified domestic violence eased, Israel finally broke its apathy about femicide. That may already have saved women’s lives

$25 million was awarded to nine people who suffered physical or emotional injuries during two days of demonstrations in Charlottesville, but no verdict was reached on two additional counts

Many economists in Turkey are calling the interest rate cuts reckless and opposition politicians are intensifying calls for elections

The local council member, Fabio Meroni, referred to Liliana Segre by her concentration camp tattoo number in a Facebook comment on COVID restrictions, claiming he would have been censored otherwise

The expert cabinet advising the Israel's government said that the children's vaccination drive would not be enough by itself to halt the spread of COVID

Tech giant also wants to ban NSO, whose software has reportedly been used by governments to spy on journalists and dissidents, from using its products

No damage or injuries after five rockets target U.S. base in northern Syria, Damascus' official news agency says

Prime Minister Johnson added that the designation of Hamas as a terror group 'was almost immediately vindicated by the appalling incident that we saw in Israel,' referring to the Old City attack that killed a 25-year-old

Dozens of legislators are pushing to admit Israel into the program allowing 90-day visits without visas, but officials say Israel doesn't meet the strict standards

Food, medical care and education increasingly become luxuries as Lebanon's historic economic collapse sees currency hit new low

The international community lauded the agreement between the army and the ousted prime minister, but with the deal lacking details, the U.S., UAE, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Israel may have to ensure calm

A new design center and amusement park have just opened in the settlement of Ma’aleh Adumim, close to the controversial E1 corridor next to Jerusalem. Is someone being taken for a ride?

India, a rising world power, enjoys good relations with both Israel and Iran – a fact that hasn’t gone unnoticed by either country, and has turned it into a new stage for competition between the Middle Eastern rivals

StarkWare was born to deal with two familiar problems in the crypto world: the limited ability to make transactions and the cost of using blockchain. It is already valued at $2 billion

The decision by the defense and finance ministries is expected to cost $291 million next year

Israel begins to vaccinate younger children as figures signal an end to the country's downward trend in new coronavirus cases and alarming experts

The long-standing political debate over the composition of justices in the Supreme Court threatens to keep seats vacant on Israel's top judicial court

The president's dramatic announcement was supposed to restore normal civil life. Will it?

Graffiti in Pompeii could be usually emotionally charged: 'Cruel Lalagus, why do you not love me?' And guess what’s drawn next to the caution ‘Handle with care’

Moody's drops credit rating for Israel's NSO Group, whose Pegasus software is used to hack cell phones. The firm was added to an American trade blacklist earlier this month

The corruption trial of Benjamin Netanyahu took a dramatic turn Monday with the arrival of Nir Hefetz – former close aide and confidant, spin doctor, and, now, key state witness against his former boss

The defense minister also revealed the locations of two Iranian drone bases used for maritime attacks during his speech at the Reichman University in Herzliya

Ahead of a restart of talks to revive the Iran nuclear deal, IAEA head Rafael Grossi is in Tehran over a range of queries – from replacing surveillance cameras to investigating trace uranium at undeclared sites

As pressure in Germany grows to introduce a COVID-19 vaccine mandate, residents of Saxony are grappling with the highest infection rates, the lowest rates of vaccination – and a rise in antisemitism related to the pandemic

The main protagonist is brilliant, the script is more intelligent than most of those you've seen in similar shows. Here's what our critic thought of 'Tehran,' the winner of the International Emmys

The Lebanese government just took the unusual step of inviting Jews who’d left Lebanon to a 'family reunion' in its Paris embassy. But this wasn’t a welcome home event: it was a cynical fundraising ploy by a Hezbollah-dominated state utterly inho...

Prime minister says 2015 nuclear agreement was 'like a sleeping pill' for Israel, adds that this would not be the first time Israel has disagreements with 'the best of friends'

'Like her, we will continue to respond to the Palestinian call for effective solidarity, just as millions supported the campaign against apartheid in South Africa,' says pro-Palestinian group Artists for Palestine UK

The Kan and Apple TV+ show's executive producer Dana Eden says 'Tehran' win 'gives a lot of hope for the future' in reconciling Israelis and Iranians

Most Israelis are impressed by the IDF's capabilities and moral conduct during war, but concerns over its treatment of conscripts is driving the highest ever support for a professional army

Children and teens have been the main source of infections in recent weeks, and Israeli officials hope to reverse this trend as the COVID inoculation drive for younger children begins

The testimony of 'Trojan horse' Nir Hefetz in the corruption trial of Netanyahu and the ex-Walla was limited from the start because he never won the full confidence of either man

The agency head said Iran broke an agreement to allow monitoring of a uranium centrifuge workshop and restricted the work of the IAEA, ahead of the resumption of nuclear talks

Despite an IDF probe alleging that in September ‘violence was employed against the army,’ police decided against opening an investigation into six activists arrested at the time in the West Bank, citing lack of evidence

The E1 settlements, which cut off East Jerusalem from the rest of the West Bank, are a cause for 'immense concern,' the 26 lawmakers say

The panel's recommendations also included banning tents and pirate vendors to free up space at the site

The 19-year-old Israeli defendant allegedly struck a human rights activist with a club in the West Bank, who was consequently taken to the hospital

Carved into the city square by bored Roman soldiers, the identity of the strange game had been a mystery until an expert got involved

Fadi Abu Shkhaidem from East Jerusalem used an automatic weapon to open fire in the Old City on Sunday, killing one and wounding four

As part of the project, Jordan will produce solar energy for Israel, which will in turn desalinate Mediterranean water for the Kingdom's supply

Meanwhile, Israel's pandemic advisory panel recommended a COVID booster shot to be administered to teens

Natali Oknin, the Israeli absurdly detained in Istanbul for spying, says she'll never return to Turkey. But despite yet another diplomatic crisis, this time wisely de-escalated, the cultural dialogue between Turkey, Jews and Israel is going through a...

Daniel Keidar planned the assassination after real-estate developer Eldad Peri, under ballooning debt, demanded hundreds of thousands of shekels for two apartments he had already bought

The Shin Bet security agency says it disrupted a major Hamas plot to resume suicide bombings. The network, which was based in the West Bank, had enough explosives for two to four suicide vests

Eliyahu David Kay, who worked as a guide at the Western Wall, was shot dead by a Hamas gunman in Jerusalem on Sunday

For female soldiers in jail, writing is the rarest of ‘privileges’

On this week's episode: how a Haaretz investigation rattled the courts of the strongest ultra-Orthodox rabbis, and also, why 'Sultan' Recep Tayyip Erdogan agreed to release two innocent Israeli tourists from prison