A Shin Bet investigation leads to the arrest of a Tel Aviv area resident suspected of gathering intel on military bases on the Iron Dome system

While Syria calls humanitarian aid convoys unnecessary, UN officials, the U.S., Europeans and others says the cross-border deliveries are crucial

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

The America-loving world may struggle to suppress a smirk over such a loftily titled event as the Summit for Democracy when the screen is split with the events of January 6

The watch of an ardent triathlete broadcasts his location to fellow athletes over social media apps. The sportsman happens to be a senior commander at the VIP security unit of the Shin Bet

The prime minister assertion is correct if he counts the number of people who take part in the violence. However, it hides a greater evil. Israel builds settlements, prevents Palestinian villages from developing, and expels Palestinians from their la...

Air defenses downed most of the missiles, but the attack caused some material damage, says Syria

The agreement with UN scheme COVAX will let Israel decide which countries receive the donation of AstraZenica vaccines

'I don’t think there’s anything wrong with it. When you’re the head of Likud communications, you’re supposed to do everything to win the elections' Hefetz says of tilting coverage in Netanyahu's favor

There is increasing pressure to delay next week's vote for Libya's first president since the ouster of Muammar Gadhafi

Faina Kirschenbaum, once Israel's deputy interior minister, starts her sentence after the Supreme Court rejected her request to postpone it until after her appeal

Parents in an Arab part of Lod, a mixed city just minutes away from Tel Aviv, fear sending their kids to school, and it's not because of COVID. The situation got so dire that a principal asked for classes to be held on Zoom, but authorities denied he...

Interior Minister Shaked moved to exempt 'Jewish tourism' from the COVID ban on foreign nationals entering the country, but Christians note that Christmas is fast approaching: 'The only difference is that they are Jews'

Addressing the Kyiv Jewish Forum, Volodymyr Zelensky says 'We know what it's like not to have [one's] own state. We know what it means to defend one’s own state and land with weapons in hand, at the cost of [their] own lives'

Report alleges over-policing of Arab residents during May's widespread violence, which saw destruction of places of worship, looting and mob attacks

Ruth Wisse is a towering intellectual. But her polemics on U.S. Jews and how they should relate to Israel are truly outrageous, and reflect the deeply troubling stance of mainstream U.S. Jewish conservatives

Despite officially recognizing the Abayudaya in 2016 and actively backing their struggle for the right to immigrate to Israel, the Agency is now acquiescing to Interior Ministry rulings rejecting conversions in the community

After a coalition Knesset member boycotted votes and the opposition refused to offset her absence, Yamina's Shirly Pinto returned to the Knesset with her newborn

Kaak knafeh, a variation on the traditional Arab dessert, is no gimmick. It is a part of MasterChef finalist Farah Raslan’s Lebanese heritage, and it’s taking the Israeli culinary scene by storm

The UAE is running a huge airlift arming an Ethiopian regime committing mass atrocities in Tigray. That inhumane adventurism is a strategic problem for Israel, too

Ankara had previously accused the UAE of funding a failed coup attempt in Turkey, while Abu Dhabi has blasted Turkey's regional military operations

Illinois Rep. Jan Schakowsky on the need to create an Islamophobia envoy, and how Jewish Americans are increasingly embracing social justice in the Israeli-Palestinian arena

An arrest warrant was issued last month against Rabbi Eliezer Berland, the leader of Jerusalem’s Shuvu Banim sect, on suspicion of his involvement in the killing of Nissim Shitrit and Avraham Edri

Yiddish singer and political activist Isabel Frey from Vienna has embraced a defunct socialist Jewish movement, which she believes holds the key to a new Jewish identity that has nothing to do with Israel and religion. Plus, Anshel Pfeffer on the sho...

Researchers and advocates hope the findings will be a ‘wake-up call’ for both philanthropists and the Israeli government to help address the massive underfunding of organizations that advocate for women and girls’ causes

Bennett and Horowitz announced on Tuesday that proof of COVID vaccination will be required to enter malls and other entertainment venues in Israel from Friday

Cameras will be reinstalled at Karaj site, months after Iran said a sabotage attack by Israel had taken place there, the IAEA confirmed on Wednesday, though inspectors will have limited access to footage

Defiant Israelis, despairing Palestinians: Why dire polls expressing rock-bottom belief in peace and disillusionment with democracy could also be cause for hope

Israeli officials worry COVID-19 vaccine holdouts may decide how serious the next wave becomes

Israel walks back plan on bracelets for vaccinated mall shoppers following criticism ■ Gantz in COVID quarantine after exposure to omicron carrier

Ayelet Shaked signs off on a plan letting the mother of the seven-year-old return to Thailand to apply to return and live in Israel legally, following protest over decision to deport her

The Religious Services Ministry advisor claimed the Interior Ministry, under the control of Shas leader Arye Dery, 'set the tone' for policy on the event, in which a deadly crowd crush killed 45

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

40 percent of Israelis have no protection against COVID omicron variant: 1 million refused the booster while just 110,000 out of 1.2 million young kids got the vaccine

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

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

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'

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

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