Never before have two synagogues been found in the ancient towns of the Galilee dating to the Second Temple era. The new discovery seems to have served the Magdala industrial zone

The host country and the local organizers of the event in Eilat managed to eke out a significant public relations victory in the face of multiple obstacles, including COVID and BDS

Israel's State Prosecutor acts after prison commander revives accusations during testimony about the September jailbreak at Gilboa Prison

The factories are a fresh opportunity for the Orban government to present Hungary as the guardian of liberties that are being curtailed elsewhere in Europe, amid allegations of civil rights violations

Police have promised to tackle violent crime in Israel's Arab community, but the number of murders this year is higher than last year's record number

The UAE said on Tuesday it would put negotiations with the Biden administration on hold over the $23 billion weapons deal for the warplanes and other military equipment

After a Palestinian woman's application for Israeli citizenship was denied, a supreme court justice criticized Interior Minister Shaked for ignoring the July expiration of the family reunification ban

Heads of the Senate Finance Committee and House Intelligence Committee, along with 16 other Democratic lawmakers, call on the Biden administration to sanction NSO and other spyware firms

According to B'Tselem this year saw a rise in settler violence of 28.6 percent compared to last year

Move comes amid dispute with Education Minister Yifat Shasha-Biton over school vaccinations policy

Israeli health care officials worry booster holdouts may decide how serious the next COVID wave becomes

Sugared drinks will be taxed one shekel ($0.32) per liter, while the tax for diet drinks and fresh-squeezed natural juices will be 0.70 shekels per liter

Officials from the U.S. government and Palestinian Authority met virtually to discuss economic cooperation, strongly indicating Biden's commitment to improving U.S.-Palestinian relations

The construction comes as part of a broader plan by Bennett to double the population of the Golan Heights by the end of the decade

On the latest episode of Haaretz Weekly podcast, our guest Prof. Gisela Dachs analyzes Germany’s relationship with Israel in the era of the former Chancellor, and predicts 'continuity' under new leader Olaf Scholz

Iran has faced nearly continuous protests by workers in the past year over inflation exceeding 40 percent, high unemployment and mismanagement

The sale of 50 F-35 warplanes to the UAE had slowed amid concerns in Washington over Abu Dhabi's relationship with China, but now UAE has said they have reconsidered 'the cost-benefit analysis'

Officials are also set to reexamine the 'red list' – countries with high rates of COVID infection to and from which travel is banned – later on Tuesday, as 22 new omicron cases are discovered in Israel

40 percent of the population have low immunity to the omicron variant, with many refusing the booster, while just 110,000 kids aged five to 11 have been vaccinated out of 1.2 million since Israel gave it the green light

From Israeli settlement annexation to Saudi apathy toward the Palestinians, ten takeaways from Barak Ravid’s new book, ‘Trump’s Peace,’ which is about much more than just the former U.S. president cursing Netanyahu

Earlier in December, Abbas was labelled as a 'terrorist' in a far-right protest against the participation of Arabs in Israel's government ■ Suspect accused of threatening Internal Security Minister gets detention extended

Recent public comments by a senior religious figure have given women hope that the ban, which only applies to observant Druze women, is on its way out

Before building Charles Clore Park on its ruins, landscape architect Hillel Omer filmed a neighborhood on the cusp of destruction. Some 50 years on, his grandchild, Mai Omer, revisits Manshiya for a new exhibition

Both leaders emphasized the importance of the strong connection between Israel and Germany, and agreed to continue the productive relationship between the countries

The students at are accused of funneling money, organizing rallies in support of Hamas as well as incitement, according to a military statement

Israel profits twice from Palestinians living in the capital: once from the fines they pay for the city’s own crimes, and again when the community is forced into a life of low-paying jobs and abject poverty

Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky receives death threats after he endorsed Israel's children COVID vaccine drive, stating that getting inoculated was mandatory under Torah law

Uncertainties, Torah quotes and Maimonides' philosophy were all given voice in the newly-declassified 1949 debate about Israel's death penalty. And why Haaretz opposed abolishing it

The prime minister's remarks come after Public Security Minister Bar-Lev doubled down on his critiques of settler violence, which has drawn ire from multiple government officials

First mistaken for ship boards, then a harp, the lyre in the Sutton Hoo ship burial hints that the instrument may have developed in Asia

Historian Adam Raz joins Haaretz Weekly to discuss his investigation on massacres in 1948, and what the early leadership of Israel knew about it. Also: how will the new governments in Berlin and Jerusalem get along

An Israeli holocaust historian recruited for a controversial panel, a Bosnian-Serb leader's visit to Jerusalem, and now a letter to Yair Lapid seeking action on the issue of genocide denial. How a Balkan crisis came to Israel

Former chairman of the Israeli soccer association Avi Luzon said that his team's loss to an Arab-Israeli team was partly due to an Arab referee

While the 'motherhood penalty' in Israel for Jewish secular women reaches 28 percent after the birth of their first child, for men the effect of parenthood is negligible

'Some actors persist in their blame game habit, instead of real diplomacy,' said Iran's top negotiator after world powers are pessimistic over the chances of rescuing the 2015 nuclear deal

The 175-year-old BT is in the middle of a $20 billion transformational program to build a national fiber network, a strategy crucial both to the company and the government, which is looking to boost regional growth levels

Out of the 50 apartments in our building, just one other houses a teenager, and ours are the only children here. In Israel, if you don't have children, they criticize you, but in North Carolina, it's the opposite ■ Post #41

Some 3,000 years ago, Gezer vied with Jerusalem and Beit She'an for importance. Now it’s a rewarding archaeological site

Public Security Minister Bar-Lev said that he will continue 'to fight Palestinian terrorism as if there was no violence by extremist settlers, and the violence of extremist settlers as if there was no Palestinian terror' despite criticism

You might have been able to outrun a T. rex, but not the theropod that left its tracks in Cretaceous Spain

Meanwhile, the Health Ministry is planning to considerably expand the list of countries to which Israelis are barred from traveling, amid the ongoing spread of the omicron variant

Doll found in girl’s grave from 2,000 years ago in Rome show these toys weren’t just for frivolity. They were meant to prepare girls for maternity at a very young age

The days in which NSO worked in secret with the active encouragement of PM Netanyahu and the intelligence community are over, never to return

Long delayed and over budget, a VIP-configured Boeing 767 is waiting to take Israeli leaders around the world – but they are not sure they want it ■ Netanyahu had grounded the jet out of fear of criticism during the coronavirus pandemic ■ Take ...

After Obama described the use of chemical weapons as red line, Israel's alleged attacks were done not out of the fear of nerve gas used against the opposition in Syria, but to preserve the status quo

Walla's former CEO claims that Nir Hefetz intervened in a 2015 election interview to make it 'in favor of Netanyahu

Victims of child abuse refrained from seeking help from Israel's health care system, education system or courts, due to negative experiences with the authorities, hundreds of testimonies reveal

Senior European diplomats warn that 'time is running out' in the nuclear negotiations with Iran, as no real progress has been reported yet

All three come from the Justice Ministry, though additional candidates may be submitted by December 20

Just like Bennett presumably sought to persuade his host to join the military threat against Iran, Mohammed bin Zayed presumably sought to calm the flood of aggressive verbiage coming from Jerusalem

Internal Security Minister Bar-Lev faced an attack from right-wing lawmakers, from the government and opposition alike, after he told a Biden administration official that Israel would deal with the settler violence spike

The lawmakers slammed the ministry's decision to deport Kultida Lev, after her Israeli husband died of a heart attack

Ultra-Orthodox religious and political leaders in New York decried last Thursday’s mandate, which would require employees of over 900 private schools, including yeshivas, to be immunized against COVID

Israel opted to be sensitive to the United Arab Emirates’ need for diplomacy with Tehran

Moshe Hogeg, the owner of the Beitar Jerusalem soccer club, was arrested last month on suspicion of fraud and multiple sexual offenses

Only 47 percent of 25-34-year-olds and 46 percent of 35-44-year-olds believe that children aged five to 11 should receive the COVID shot, compared to 56 percent among the general population

Officials briefed on the matter told the Washington Post that Israel believes that Syria is attempting to relaunch its chemical weapons program

President Biden has an opportunity to demand much more of Israel than his predecessors. Instead, and alarmingly, he has chosen the path of least resistance

Hezbollah has no desire to challenge the longtime Lebanese government policy of banning Palestinian refugees from working in dozens of professions and earning a decent wage

Under the Law of Return, converts to Judaism are eligible to immigrate to Israel and obtain automatic citizenship as long as they have been converted in a 'recognized Jewish community'

Edel Rodriguez claims the book jacket of Barak Ravid’s ‘Trump’s Peace’ was copied from an illustration he created for TIME magazine, but the Israeli designer of the book says the resemblance is close, but not identical

While Netanyahu sprayed claims alleging that the lives of his family would be in danger if their security detail was taken away from them, Israel's law enforcement and security agencies asserted there is no intelligence indicating such a threat

Benjamin Netanyahu’s passionate embrace of Donald Trump reflected his inability to keep Israel a bipartisan issue in U.S. politics, and helps explain why his relations with other U.S. presidents were also fraught with acrimony

Tensions between the minister and the director general came to a head last week over the school COVID vaccination issue, sources say, but Minister Yifat Shasha-Biton denies it was the reason for his dismissal

While the meeting in Amman was 'held in an atmosphere of mutual respect,' Saudi Arabia says that no major results were achieved

Prof. Moran Bercovici and Dr. Valeri Frumkin developed cheap technology for making optic lenses, with the potential to produce glasses for developing nations where many have no access to them. Now, NASA says it could be used to make space telescopes

Matt Brooks, the Republican Jewish Coalition's executive director, said the controversy over Trump's remarks doesn't mean he wasn't 'the most pro-Israel president'

Israel's immigration agency argues that children whose parents overstayed their visas must be deported, despite most of them having been born and raised in the country

Israeli Journalist Barak Ravid's new book, 'Trump's Peace,' reveals through on-the-record interviews that the relationship between the two former leaders was a lot rockier behind the scenes than what was publicly exhibited

Claroty chalks up one of the biggest funding rounds in Israeli tech this year, with Yossi Cohen joining its board. It is also buying startup Medigate – the biggest acquisition of one Israeli cybersecurity company by another

An overnight U.S. operation, backed by local rebel forces, targeted ISIS operatives near Deir al-Zor, opposition war monitor says

Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan is optimistic the first formal visit by an Israeli prime minister would lead to 'more positive steps in the interests of the people of the two nations and of the region'

“In the end what’s happening here is that the Arabs have forgotten the Nakba. And the time has come to begin reminding them of the Nakba”

The most pressing questions on omicron, the latest COVID-19 variant of concern, and its spread through Israel

Documents obtained by Haaretz include proposals for a new neighborhood in Sheikh Jarrah, one near Damascus Gate, two near Beit Safafa, and one each in Sur Baher and Beit Hanina

Soldiers opened fire in response to explosives hurled at them during an arrest operation in Nablus, killing one Palestinian and wounding three others

Health Ministry moves to focus on the 42 percent of eligible Israelis that are not fully vaccinated as omicron variant spreads

A new directive from Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz brings both members of female same-sex couples a step closer to being recognized as parents of their children

'For decades there has been a broad consensus – both in Israel and the United States – that investments in the health and wellbeing of Palestinians benefits everyone, including Israelis,' says USAID chief

Earlier, Britain's Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said the negotiations in Vienna are Iran's 'last chance'

Whether Netanyahu's true concern regarding the security details is truly his family's safety will soon be clear, as he is able to arrange private security for them if he wishes

The travel ban to and from these countries will go into effect in 72 hours – after that, would-be visitors need the permission of the exceptions committee to enter Israel ■ 67 omicron cases detected in Israel thus far

As the new prime minister took off to make history in the United Arab Emirates, his predecessor had to deal with a crisis at home. But Netanyahu's shadow still lingers over the government's diplomatic and military dilemmas

Palestinian sources said gunmen opened fire indiscriminately, while others reported that the incident developed after a conflict between Fatah and Hamas members, Lebanese state media reports