The hacking of Ebtisam Al-Saegh and Hala Ahed Deeb's phones with NSO’s Pegasus highlights the gendered threat that spyware poses to female activists, a report by Front Line Defenders says

It is 'very likely' that Jewish notary Arnold van den Bergh gave up the Franks to save his own family, says team of researchers that includes retired FBI agent and about 20 historians

The Jerusalem Municipality has expropriated the land on which the Israeli-Palestinian family home is built in order to build a school

As infection rates surge and lines at testing centers stretch on, some begin to question the usefulness of Israel's COVID policy which drives thousands of people into isolation

Fingerprint collection is not included in the Biometric Database Law passed in 2017, but rather an emergency order set to expire in June

The proposed sentence of several months of community service is seen by many as too light, which may force the court to intervene

Even if Benjamin Netanyahu accepts all conditions of the deal, including one barring him from political office for years, it might still be too late to settle all the details before Israel's attorney general retires

A ministerial committee votes to back a version of the controversial legislation in an effort to keep the door open for negotiations with the opposition

The high court rejected a petition against the attorney general's decision not to include moral turpitude in Dery's deal since he already promised to resign from the Knesset

Meanwhile, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett speaks with Governor Greg Abbott expressing his gratitude for the rapid resolution of the situation that unfolded in Texas

The second season of Sam Levinson’s drug-fueled series is best left to those who can relate to the Gen Z characters – while another HBO show, ‘Somebody Somewhere,’ starring Bridget Everett, is a little gem

Rabbis and leaders say the events in Colleyville on Saturday emphasize why security has become an increasingly major concern in the community again, even as the pandemic has moved many activities online

The examination was pursued from a legal rather than political standpoint amid negotiations on a possible plea agreement that would end Netanyahu's corruption trial

In protest, four members of Israel’s cabinet abstained from voting on the government proposal to funnel millions of shekels into Western Wall infrastructure while ignoring the site’s equalitarian prayer space

'There'll be attempts to make today’s events in Texas about everything except antisemitism,' says one Jewish leader after the FBI asserted hostage situation wasn't 'specifically related' to Jewish community

Israel's AG has backtracked on all his decisions in the cases against the former prime minister, determined to sign a deal with the man who terrorized him. But even after both sides show their cards, talks could still blow up

A tale of three neighborhoods with the winners and losers of Tel Aviv’s booming real estate market

The full program, which appears to involve the development of autonomously guided weaponry, involves a 12-year commitment and experts warn against the use of children by the military

A year ago, Israel faced a nearly perfect storm, from Netanyahu’s assault on democracy to unprecedented domestic disquiet and rising tensions with the U.S. Now, an almost banal, but critical, sense of normalcy has returned

How did the devastating, albeit too round number of 6 million Jewish victims of the Holocaust become so profoundly embedded in our minds? In his new documentary Israeli filmmaker David Fisher dares to try and recount

Femtech startups face an uphill battle. This Israeli entrepreneur is hoping to succeed where others have failed

The meeting with President Raisi comes amid faltering talks between Iran and world powers to revive the 2015 nuclear agreement

What is Russian President Vladimir Putin really thinking with regard to Ukraine and Russia’s place in the world? If we could interview him, this is probably what he would have to say

Although rain is set to tail off on Sunday, very low temperatures and frost are anticipated in Israel at night ■ Lake Kenneret water level sees sharpest rises since the beginning of winter

Lawmakers from Mansour Abbas' party are set to arrive in the Negev for discussions with Bedouin leaders, as clashes subside after days of violence between locals and Israeli police over a controversial forestation plan

Jordanian officials say Lebanon's Hezbollah and other militias are behind smuggling of one of a popular stimulant, Captagon, which has a thriving market in the Gulf

The four hostages taken at the Beth Israel synagogue in the Fort Worth suburb of Colleyville were ulimately all released unharmed after a long standoff

With the omicron wave driving over 100,000 students across Israel into isolation, the Education Ministry is calling on Prime Minister Bennett to loosen the COVID quarantine policy

The model describing a material where order doesn’t disappear as heat is applied also has implications for our understanding of the early universe

Former Supreme Court President Aharon Barak calls Netanyahu 'one of the great defenders of the justice system' ■ Former PM, lawyers back settlement, Netanyahu family divided

A ‘moral turpitude’ clause would keep Netanyahu from running in elections until he’s around 80, effectively ending the career of your average politician

Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker tried to calm down the man holding him hostage and offered him food, says a congregant who was tuned into the livestream from the Texas synagogue

Rabbi Cytron-Walker, who doubled his community's size during his 15-year tenure, was leading the Sabbath service at Beth Israel in Colleyville as usual when the suspect took him and three other congregants hostage

Global health experts just said repeated, frequent booster shots are not a viable solution. So what lies ahead for COVID vaccines in Israel and beyond?

The hostage taker in Texas demanded the release of Aafia Siddiqui, who is serving 86 years in prison for attacking U.S. forces in Afghanistan. Who is this Pakistani neuroscientist turned 'al-Qaida operative and facilitator'?

Protesters called to 'investigate the Attorney General.' Concurrently, several dozens protested at the home of Alternate PM Yair Lapid demanding establishment of inquiry commission in submarines affair

The policy of severely punishing soldiers for the loss of equipment may be reasonable, but one of its unreasonable results is that commanders frequently go out on improvised hunts for thieves with fatal consequences

Ending the boycott, which was issued over investigation of Beirut port blast, means the Lebanese cabinet will convene for the first time in three months

The rabbi and three congregants were held hostage for more than 10 hours by a man seeking the release of Aafia Siddiqui, who is serving life for planning to kill U.S. servicemen who questioned her in Afghanistan

The structure, which has been set ablaze a number of times in the past, stands adjacent to the West Bank settlement of Ma'ale Hever

The death of two Israeli military commanders has prompted renewed debate on open-fire regulations, which were eased last November despite opposition from an internal IDF report in 2020

The Israel Association of Public Health Physicians' chairman calls on Bennett to treat COVID like any other infectious disease ■ Health Ministry replies: 'An irresponsible conversation aimed at eroding the public trust'

Israel Police launch an investigation after the man in his forties was found dead near Dimona

PA officials say Palestinian-American Omar Abdalmajeed As'ad, who previously lived in Wisconsin, had a heart attack after being bound and beaten by Israeli soldiers; the IDF says he had been released much earlier

Israeli researchers accidentally make a breakthrough in growing meat in the lab – at lightning-fast speed

Ballistic missile launched hours after North Korea slammed the United States for pursuing new sanctions in response to its recent missile launches, warning of retaliation

Everyone laments the vanishing of the Dead Sea. Yet discussions, articles and forecasts of decades ago show that every stage of the sea’s demise was actually anticipated in advance

The housing projects and public structures of Israel's early decades were considered boring and ugly, and have been forgotten. But the story of one remarkable building could offer an alternative to Tel Aviv's glittery towers

A tow truck escorted by a police vehicle hit Haj Suleiman Hathaleen, an older anti-occupation activist, in the South Hebron Hills. Both Israeli vehicles fled without summoning assistance for the fearless protester, who now in vegetative state

The outbreak struck fowl, killing over 8,000 cranes in northern Israel and infecting about 1million chickens in coops

Nearly three months since the military coup, U.S. mediation efforts are flagging, and the crisis has been overshadowed by the resignation of a U.S. envoy

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett still not sure whether or not he will vote in favor or against of an official inquiry, which Defense Minister Gantz dubbed as 'a national need'

kahanist lawmaker Itamar Ben-Gvir will also be investigated for a separate incident, in which he pulled his gun on Arab security guards during a parking dispute

Former Haaretz journalist Yehuda Litani was known as one of the first to cover the lives of Palestinians under Israeli rule — and as a renowned hummus expert

The movement led by Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr already re-elected a parliamentary speaker opposed by the Iran-aligned camp, and could leave them in Iraq's opposition for the first time in the post-Saddam era

While the Sydney Festival has rebuffed BDS' demands to refuse Israeli funding, its board will consider whether the festival should accept government funding of festival acts in the future

Data from the Health Ministry shows that unvaccinated Israelis are overrepresented among the 306 severe COVID cases

Following days of intense clashes between protesters and police in the southern Israel over Bedouin land rights, the government agreed to negotiate future work by the JNF in the region

It hadn’t been clear whether super-massive Wolf-Rayet stars even go nova. They do, but some may collapse into black holes as well

Seyed Hossein Mousavian, a visiting scholar at Princeton and an influential figure in the corridors of power in his country, recently spoke with a smirk of satisfaction about the threats directed against former American official Brian Hook

The annual Israeli Democracy Institute survey, which found public support for the Israeli army at a 13-year low, raised concerns of a rift between the public and the military. But some experts say the alarm is uncalled for

Netanyahu is heading for the plea deal of the century ■ Bennett, meanwhile, is battling both COVID and the 'agents of chaos sowing fear,' but has kept silent during the Bedouin protests in the south

Despite efforts to curb the practice, which results in the suffering and death of some of the animals while on the ships, the number of live animal shipments jumped last year by 42%

Russia said dialogue was hitting a dead end as 100,000 were deployed within reach of Ukraine border ◾ U.S. claims proof Russia is inventing pretext for invasion

The conflict over JNF tree-planting in the Negev is about the police, the Bedouin and the coalition's stability. But it’s also about the abasement of halakha, Jewish religious tradition, to justify injustice

A crisis over planting trees next to Bedouin communities exposed the government’s fragile standing. What does it all have to do with a decades-old split within Israel’s Islamic Movement? Haaretz explains

AG Mendelblit has conditioned a plea deal on banning Netanyahu from the public service for seven years, but the former prime minister refuses

This week at the Tel Aviv airport: A woman who promotes vagina positivity and wants to make sex toys more accessible to Israelis, and two vacationers in search of a destination

Benjamin Netanyahu, who is charged with fraud, breach of trust and bribery, is willing to admit to some of the crimes, but opposes the deal's clause barring him from politics

In a city more densely populated than Karachi, families are crammed in basements, bomb shelters double as classrooms and traffic is atrocious. But there's an unparalleled sense of community

The rockets were shot down before reaching the embassy compound, causing no casualties or damage, according to Iraqi military officials

'My target audience was people who have felt excluded by the traditional language of prayer. I wanted it to be a gift to trans Jews, disabled Jews, and people from interfaith families, among many others,' creator brin solomon said

After days of violent clashes over forestation work on land used by local Bedouin farmers, six board members of the Jewish National Fund criticized the group's chairman for failing to provide 'any information' on the plans

For years Israeli cyber companies supplied spyware that serves dictators and myriad corrupt entities around the globe. But by carefully ‘watching the watchers,’ a small research institute based at a Canadian university has put the brakes on their...

The deaths of two Israeli officers, caused by a series of unnecessary mistakes which exacted a dreadful price, were inexcusable and entirely preventable

The kunga was a cross between a female donkey and a male wild ass, genetic study shows. In a time before domesticated horses, it was bred at enormous cost for one main purpose: War

Unilever is under fire from investor Terry Smith for being politically correct at the expense of profits. He’s half right

Police disperse hundreds of protesters with stun grenades and tear gas, as Israel's Negev erupts in protest over Jewish National Fund's tree-planting on land used for agriculture by local Bedouin

For Israel’s ultra-Orthodox leaders, MK Gilad Kariv is the key figure in a grand conspiracy theory that features Reform Judaism as Satan and scapegoat. And as the rebellion against their authority grows, so does their chilling invective

The Comedy Cellar in Greenwich Village is a place where Dave Chapelle, Amy Schumer, Sarah Silverman and Ray Romano just drop by to perform unannounced. The bosses there tell Haaretz why

An animated video published on Khmenei's official website joins Iran's commemoration of the U.S. strike that killed Gen. Qassem Soleimani two years ago

The study of outcomes in small claims cases found that legal proceedings were more thorough and that fewer cases were settled than tried where caseloads were smaller

Proof of vaccination or recovery from COVID is necessary to gain admission to a range of public places, but Palestinians with legal residency in Israel cite several obstacles in receiving the so-called Green Pass

Thieves circumvent 24-hour-security to steal expensive sacred objects from the Persian synagogue in Tel Aviv's southern Abu Kabir neighborhood

MuddyWater, said to be working for Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, has been linked to attacks and cyberespionage operations across the world, including an attempted airline hack

Uri Ashi can be seen on a Tel Aviv bridge every Friday afternoon, trying to convince passersby and motorists that peace with the Palestinians is still possible. Now he has a new book on the subject

Women account for slightly less than 30 percent of the Israeli hi-tech industry - but turns out they are even further underrepresented in stories about the startup nation