The army says it foiled several suspected attempts to smuggle drugs into Jordan from Syria, and that large quantities of narcotics were sized in separate interventions that also left several people wounded

Seventy-seven years after the liberation of the camps, nearly one in three holocaust survivors in Israel live in poverty

Winter storm Elpis has brought almost eight inches of snow to Jerusalem and continues to coat Israel's highest mountain

The strike was called in response to Prime Minister Bennett's decision to exempt all students from quarantine if exposed to a COVID carrier and instead they are required to undergo two home antigen tests per week before attending school

When the central and commercial banks are battling a shortage of dollars and the country is unable to pay for basic services, and is now defined as a failed state, unable to meet its obligations – electricity and gas will not be enough

Yad Vashem chairman Dani Dayan tells Haaretz he won't hang the famous photo of the 1941 meeting of Hitler and Jerusalem Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini at the Holocaust Museum: 'Hasbara is an utterly irrelevant consideration that shall not enter our gates...

The murder of Salmalalk Tesera by her husband in front of their daughter constitutes as aggravated murder, which requires a mandatory life sentence despite appeal by defendant

Dozens of settlers confront Israeli forces in the West Bank as Israel Police report clashes with Palestinians in East Jerusalem

Over the past two years, Erdogan has been working to strengthen ties, but Israel has been wary

Top Israeli health official expands vaccine campaign to only select few, a day after an expert panel recommended offering a fourth COVID shot to those aged 18 and above

Fellow detainees say Omar Abdalmajeed As'ad, who was cuffed, gagged, and blindfolded by Israeli soldiers, was left lying on the floor on his stomach for 30 minutes or more

Bipartisan U.S. lawmakers and 10 major cross-denominational Jewish groups push to double security grants for houses of worship from $180 million to $360 million

Bones inside the oldest brush hut in the world at Ohalo II, near the Sea of Galilee, reveals a diverse diet. But why did these folks eat anything that moved?

The secretary of state says U.S. delivered a written response to Russian demands for NATO to pull back troops and weapons from Eastern Europe and bar Ukraine from ever joining the alliance

The list of offend-and-apologizers has grown at a dizzying pace, with comparing something to the Holocaust one of the transgressions to be sorry for – but repeat

'Jewish people feel threatened, and they are threatened,' says European Council president, amid rising reports of antisemitism during the coronavirus

Police officer who killed 18-year-old Solomon Teka in 2019, a case that sparked nation-wide protests against racism and police brutality, argues he feared for his life before shooting

Prosecutors have not said which law may have been violated by users on social media, but rights activists and others have been prosecuted under the country's vaguely worded cybercrime law

Iranian activist Maziar Bahari became fascinated with the Holocaust after moving to Canada in 1988. Now he’s teaming up with the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum to try to combat Holocaust denial among his fellow Iranians

Nine organizations decry 'deeply concerning' caucus, urging founders to consult with Jewish leaders to find a more appropriate way to join the fight against antisemitism

Hundreds of volunteers, mainly young women, choose to perform vital research work at the memorial on the site of the former Nazi death camp. Haaretz joins some of them for a day

A new book by a former senior British officer reveals that U.K. warplanes flew over Israel on their way to bomb Islamic State targets in Iraq and Syria

'You need to be quiet because you're Jewish,' the teenagers who attacked the 12-year-old boy said, referencing Nazi death camps where Jews were murdered and their remains burned

'If the West continues its aggressive course, Moscow will take the necessary retaliatory measures'

‘Without vaccines, instead of 8,500 people we’d have close to 30,000 people dying – and that would be a disaster,’ says Prof. Nadav Davidovitch of Ben-Gurion University

You have to be crazy, curious and courageous to found a theater in a foreign country. Yevgeny Arye, who passed away at 74, was all three

80 percent of Serbia’s Jews were murdered by the Nazis. But in Belgrade, the Holocaust is still largely ignored. Not a single sign, memorial or monument lists the Jews who died. I want my grandfather to be named

The government will invest many more millions in restarting a non-governmental joint venture called 'Concert,' which failed in its previous attempt to reshape the perception of Israel in digital media spheres

Israeli NSO is also at the center of a massive political scandal in Poland where the government recently admitted to purchasing the Pegasus spyware after opposition figures in the country were found to have been targeted

Bennett announced his decision with hours to go, and against the advice of experts. All students – vaccinated or not – will undergo two home antigen tests per week before going to school

Reversing course, the organization representing Israel’s pediatricians is urging postpone the plan to exempt from quarantine schoolchildren who came into contact with a COVID carrier

Elpis has already brought snow to northern Israel, after causing disruptions in Greece and Turkey

At a Holocaust remembrance event, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says governments have a duty to teach about the Holocaust

Close to 1,900 kids in Israel receive homeschooling, with the coronavirus pandemic accelerating the number of applications by parents

Yemen's Houthis have stepped up their attacks on the UAE. Meanwhile, the more the U.S. is distracted by what is happening in Ukraine, the harder it is for Israel to continue applying pressure in the Iran nuclear talks

A young father has been in a psychotic state for weeks, his doctor and relatives say. Since he ran away and hit a soldier with his car, he's been in detention without access to medication. The Shin Bet isn't involved in the investigation, yet he's al...

Hundreds of children caught in the crossfire as Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces aided by U.S. troops attempt to storm the prison in after it was seized by militants last Thursday, leaving dozens dead

The power to impose a lockdown, require schools to switch to remote learning or impose restrictions on people leaving the country will be limited to a state of emergency only

No signs of violence were found on 27-year-old woman's body, leading the suspect's lawyer to suggest the cause of death was a ”medical complication” or that she had “used substances"

'My intention was to use examples of past barbarism to show the perils from new technologies of control,' anti-vaccine activist says after backlash

Ayelet Shaked exploits a legal loophole to permit construction on Poleg beach, which connects two nature reserves and serves as an ecological corridor for wildlife

Negotiations with Integrity Partners, which seeks to acquire control of NSO in 2022-2023, are in advance stages. The plan: rebuilding NSO

Hundreds of thousands of migrants hoping to reach Europe have made their way through Libya, where a lucrative trafficking and smuggling business has flourished in a country without a functioning government

Dara Horn has connected with the broadest spectrum of Jews with her award-winning nonfiction book ‘People Love Dead Jews.’ She talks about its success and why she is tired of Jews being the canary in the coal mine

Following Haaretz's revelations, further footage and testimonies show that Jamal Hakhrush left the murder scene in Kafr Kana right after it happened, and returned 10 minutes later to escalation and a victim who had bled out

When a prime minister who is accused of corruption uses his power against the judicial and law enforcement systems, it’s no wonder that Israel is slipping in its corruption score

President Herzog is due to meet Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed next week

Refusing to link Iran's economy to nuclear talks, the president has instead promoted a 'resistance economy' in order to circumvent sanctions, the benefits of which not felt by everyday citizens

J Street's 'action fund' for progressive pro-Israel candidates comes fresh on the heels of AIPAC's move last month, and explicitly seeks to counter groups 'spending millions' to push candidates to the right

A report by Israel's national coronavirus information center states COVID wards in hospitals across the country have reached 'all-time high' capacity

An immigrant to Israel from North Carolina got relatives of his Dutch-born wife to meet online and learn about their Jewish family that has been in the Netherlands for centuries

Relief at temple of pre-Islamic goddess shows that Hatra, a buffer state between the Persian and Roman empires, created hybrid camels by mating species from Central Asia and Arabia

Vegetarianism wasn’t born yesterday. Greek and Roman philosophers were among the earliest to practice a ‘green diet’ and to defend animal rights

Gaming in Israel is becoming as big as hi-tech. Local firms are rooted in online gambling, producing games designed to extract more and more money out of users

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is just the latest high-profile figure to equate COVID restrictions with the Shoah. Holocaust experts warn it could lead to more antisemitic attacks and create a new wave of deniers

NSO’s Pegasus spyware was reportedly used by Israeli police to snoop on mayors and protesters without warrant, but chairman says he’s leaving for other reasons

Israel had the potential to be the first country in the world to detect side effects of the coronavirus vaccines. And it did detect two, almost by accident. But its disregard for more minor effects cost it public trust

'How can I know that tomorrow they won’t come to my village and throw me out of there?' asks Palestinian columnist and author Odeh Bisharat. Upon publication of his new novel, he talks about understanding Arab youth's anger bursts and his readers b...

Adler, who established what would become one of Israel’s largest advertising firms, was a close advisor to political leaders, including former Prime Ministers Ariel Sharon and Ehud Olmert

As escalation grows, the Saudi-led coalition says the facility in Yemen's Saada was not included on a no-target list agreed with UN agencies

Naor was part of several landmark rulings, including overruling a law to keep asylum seekers in detention, and she authored the ruling abolishing the draft exemption for yeshiva students

His grandfather was assassinated, his father incapacitated. Now Hussein was king of Jordan, and Israel needed a covert, deniable but direct line to the palace in Amman. Newly declassified, here's the surprisingly intimate route its agents took

Seven U.S. Jewish organizations call on the Israeli government to take 'unequivocal action' against settler violence that has been 'increasing and intensifying over the past year'

The 29-year-old pregnant woman and her one-year-old daughter were rushed to hospital in a serious to moderate condition. The hospital says the fetus is a stable condition

77 years after Auschwitz was liberated, Yad Vashem releases several videos and launches a website to remember those who saved Jews during the Holocaust

Arye Dery, who is accused of tax evasion and has resigned his Knesset seat, will pay a 180,000 shekel fine and receive probation time

The recommendation will expand Israel's fourth COVID dose rollout, previously limited to Israelis above 60 and at-risk adults, but still awaits the Health Ministry director-general approval before implementation

Both Russia and China see the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, disengagement from the Middle East and its diminishing interest in intervening in crises as proof that the international system is ripe for change

Israeli health experts think it is too early to determine that omicron will make COVID endemic, and that antibodies from the less virulent variant won't necessarily provide long-term protection

Police Comissioner's testimony among those expected to be pushed back due to the death of Miriam Naor, former Supreme Court president and chair of the commission

Institute for National Security Studies' annual report also cites domestic polarization and failure to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as major strategic threats to Israel

The number of Jewish students in Israel taking the exam has dropped by a third over the past five years

Brig. Gen. Hakhrush offered no assistance to the victim, who died of his wounds, and an investigation found that senior police officials were aware of the incident but disregarded it

In a video of the incident, soldiers are seen standing at the side of the road and a military jeep is seen driving behind the settlers' vehicles

Israel started administering a fourth COVID dose to most vulnerable groups as omicron surged

As one of the few countries to have close diplomatic ties with both Kyiv and Moscow, Israel will be aiming to stay on the sidelines if the two sides go to war

Following clashes between Jews and Arabs across Israel during May’s Gaza war, the campaign by residents of the Tel Aviv suburbs of Kafr Qasem and Rosh Ha'ayin waned, but it has since been revived

Netanyahu’s announcement comes after his lawyers received a message from AG Mendelblit that negotiations with him would not be possible and that they would have to wait for the appointment of his successor

At least 180 inmates and militants and 27 security forces have reportedly died since ISIS fighters attacked the jail in Hasaka last week in a bid to free their members

Police use of NSO's spyware was never 'brought to my attention,' former minister Amir Ohana says ■ Public security minister orders staff to look into existing wiretapping laws

Acclaimed Israeli filmmakers Joseph Cedar and Hagai Levi respond to the uproar over 'JewFace,' the term coined by comedian Sarah Silverman for non-Jewish actors being cast as Jewish characters

Not only were the Mesopotamians growing millet, a thirsty summer crop, before the Neo-Assyrians introduced irrigation: They were early adopters of multi-cropping at least 3,500 years ago

With about 23 million people, more than half the country, facing severe hunger and nearly 9 million on the brink of starvation, the Taliban is expected to demand the release of $10 million in frozen assets

As Anshel Pfeffer and Dahlia Scheindlin dissect Bibi's latest legal drama, listen in as Omer Benjakob discusses the latest NSO scandal, all with host Allison Kaplan Sommer

Andrei ‘Andrusha’ Sawoniuk was the only Nazi collaborator to stand trial in a British court for his crimes. A gripping new book tells the remarkable story of how justice was finally served, 50 years late

Police say shots were fired during a brawl in the Bedouin village of Sawa