Homosexuality is illegal in Iran, which remains one of the most oppressive places in the world for LGBTQ people

The international rights group says Israel commits apartheid against Palestinians living in Israel, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip ■ Israeli Foreign Ministry slams report as an effort to 'defame and delegitimize Israel'

This is the third such report in a year to label Israel an apartheid state, but Jerusalem has only succeeded in generating greater interest in Amnesty’s accusations

Israeli ministers consider alternatives to the current Green Pass scheme, which experts believe has become ineffective in the face of the omicron wave

Whoopi Goldberg's comments came on the heels of a Tennessee school board banning Holocaust graphic novel 'Maus,' which has spurred widespread outrage

The Emiratis have kept relatively hush over a string of recent Houthi missile attacks on the desert oasis, which some experts say has cloaked the fact that they are 'bleeding money' in order to face their hostile neighbors

At a time when conservatism in the Arab world is on the rise, controversial new films like 'Perfect Strangers' that raise the ire of politicians and pull no punches, are absolutely vital

The Canaanites built the fortress to defend themselves against the Philistines

COVID vaccines for young children could be available in the U.S. as soon as end-February, under a plan that would lead to the potential authorization of a two-shot regimen in coming weeks

Gali Baharav-Miara, who worked for 30 years in the civil division of the State Prosecutor's Office, would be the first woman attorney general in Israel's history

Experts have been hard-pressed with evaluating the risk of the BA.2 subvariant, stumped by why it has become dominant in some countries while failing to take off in others

The rare phone call to the Palestinian president comes after recent increased direct contacts between Israeli and Palestinian leaders

One commander will be rebuked, and two subordinate company and platoon commanders will be immediately dismissed, the military said

After a months-long standoff that threatened the wider nuclear talks, Iran agreed last month to let the IAEA reinstall its cameras at Karaj production facility, which as now ceased production

Amnesty has said attempts to smear the report, which accuses Israel of apartheid, are meant to divert attention away from human rights violations against Palestinians

The legislation, which would lower the age at which yeshiva students are exempt from military conscription, was defeated two weeks ago when a coalition member voted against it

Doubling down on his recent high-profile diplomatic meetings with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Gantz says 'Israel's relationship with the Palestinians is critical for its security'

New research has uncovered an Israeli military operation commanded by Moshe Dayan, whose goal was to forcibly remove Bedouin citizens from their lands. ‘Transferring the Bedouin to new territories would annul their rights as landowners and make the...

The quote, which was misattributed by Congressman Thomas Massie to French philosopher Voltaire, was coined by neo-Nazi Kevin Alfred Strom

The debate surrounding free-roaming street cats – oops, ‘community cats’ – is raging in Israel ■ A recent 12-year field study claiming that neutering kittens does not stop them proliferating is another cause for dispute ■ And the surprisi...

Despite three members of the U.S. negotiating team quitting in recent months, officials talk of progress being made in talks with Tehran and being ‘in the ballpark of a possible deal’

Analysis of smoke dispersal 170,000 years ago in Lazaret Cave shows the hearth had been perfectly positioned, and other activities had been designed around it

A citizen was also reportedly injured after a gunman attacks a Revolutionary Guards intelligence office in southern Iran

Mainstream Jewish groups, including the ADL and AJC, slam the new report as biased and one-sided, accusing the human rights group of presenting an unbalanced, inaccurate and incomplete review

Efforts to uncover the ring reportedly began four weeks ago and some 35 suspects were arrested thus far after the ring infiltrates Palestinian groups working in Lebanon

The woman, who was 19 at the time of the incident in 2019, claims that police forced her to retract her claim that she was gang raped by a dozen Israelis between the ages of 15 and 20

Boaz Bismuth, who has served as the editor-in-chief since 2017, has found himself increasingly at odds with the Israel Hayom's revised support of Netanyahu and embrace of Bennett's premiership

The ultra-Orthodox cult Lev Tahor, which shuns technology and forces female members to wear black robes, have taken residence near Sarajevo after mounting allegations of crimes in their home countries

Steve Williams, the man with the dream of turning childhood horseplay into a professional combat sport, says PFC delivers all the drama of hand-to-hand combat without the gore of mixed martial arts or boxing

After fleeing Syria’s civil war and resettling in Germany, refugees from Assad’s reign of terror are still persecuted by his agents

For the American Right, teaching that Jews died in the Holocaust, Nazis are bad and racism is unjust is so controversially 'woke' they must be banned. And 'Maus' won’t be the last victim of this rising tide of censorship

UAE prosecutors' office summons people for posting footage on social media of the interception of Houthi missiles during Israeli President Herzog visit

Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz says 'there is light at the end of the tunnel,' as Israel continues to see a decline in the spread of COVID

The first visit by an Israeli president to the Emirates presses on after the UAE says it intercepted Houthi missiles on Sunday night

Jamal Hakroosh, who headed Israel's division on tackling crime in the Arab community, didn't try to stop the suspect or offer aid to the victim, who eventually succumbed to his wounds

Jonathan Pollard's wife, who was battling cancer even before her move to Israel in December 2020, contracted the coronavirus two weeks ago

The attack amid President Isaac Herzog's visit only fuels the ongoing tensions affecting the wider Persian Gulf which has seen a series of attacks as Yemen's yearlong war rages

Despite former Prime Minister Netanyahu beliefs that Avichai Mendelblit will offer a lifeline from his ongoing corruption trial, the outgoing attorney general's decision to prosecute Netanyahu will be his legacy

The first strike of the year, which caused material damage but left no reported injuries, comes after Israel struck Syria 29 times in 2021, according to an opposition war monitor

This is the fourth senior Mossad official to resign since new agency head David Barnea took charge some seven months ago

The Kuwaiti Foreign Minister did not give any details of Lebanon's response, a draft of which had sidestepped the issue of disarming Hezbollah

Some Israeli experts warn that program may give false sense of security ■ Ministry sources say extension of COVID vaccination pass mainly intended to give time to finalize new proposal

Finalists are former Tel Aviv District Attorney Gali Baharav-Miara, deputy attorney general for international affairs Roy Schondorf and Itay Offir, the Defense Ministry’s legal adviser

Scheduled to open in 2023, a permanent exhibit on Hollywood’s Jewish pioneers will explore how and why they established the film industry in Los Angeles

It comes when public confidence in the police was already undermined by its crowd-control measures at Mt. Meron, where 45 people died in a stampede, and now over its use of NSO spyware against civilians

Iraq sees an uptick in violence as military strikes ISIS militants in retaliation for attack that left 11 soldiers dead

Washington is brokering negotiations between Beirut and Jerusalem, which are both claiming an area in the Mediterranean lies in their exclusive economic zones

Demonstrations in front of the Prime Minister's Office is the continuation of protests against the JNF's forestation work in the Negev, where Israel's Bedouin demand recognition and development

Inquiry findings set to be presented to Israeli military chief of staff ■ Officers say suspected conduct of those involved in detaining the man is highly concerning

The bill making its way through Polish parliament would mainly target groups focused on human rights and Holocaust education, and is being peddled by Poland's nationalist leaders and educators

In a string of interviews to weekend newspapers, the prime minister tried to draw a line beneath the Netanyahu era and lay the foundations for a different kind of right-wing politics in Israel

One killed as protesters are met with sponge-tipped bullets and tear gas during an attempted march to Sudan's presidential palace

Don’t be like the pundits blaming NATO expansion, or the West’s post-Cold War hubris, for the pointless, terrifying crisis around Ukraine. Just listen to Putin, and his decades of crude imperial coercion

The secular, mixed Jewish-Arab city of Haifa is belying its sleepy stereotype and attracting more Israelis thanks to its affordable housing, diversity and relaxed vibe. Just watch out for the wild boars

Aristotle was first to note fish vocalizations and even speculate on language. Now, Cornell scientists have proven it: Most fish can generate sounds, an ability that goes back at least 155 million years

Special permits given to Gazan laborers don't include social benefits, unlike permits for workers from the West Bank. In an accident, no one will compensate them, says a representing lawyer

The hosts of ‘Real Time’ and ‘Last Week Tonight’ increasingly represent two sides of the American left. Who will have the last laugh?

The Tel Aviv municipality is fed up with the world's most expensive city looking like a dump. So it is demanding that homeowners underwrite façade face-lifts on derelict buildings

Six victims of Pegasus, represented by the ACLU in Hungary, are taking Orban’s government and Israeli spyware firm NSO to court over hacking

Overall, the country got 13 inches of total rainfall so far this season, constituting 65 percent of full season normal, the Israel Meteorological Service reported

Fox News marked Holocaust Remembrance Day with a Tucker Carlson 'Special' glorifying Hungary’s white Christian nationalism and accusing Holocaust survivor George Soros of waging a 'secret war' on Western civilization. There should have been far mor...

Have you heard the latest in progressive trolling – Jewface, from the family of blackface crimes?

Russia has forced the U.S.-led defense alliance to negotiate over regional security by massing around 100,000 troops near Ukraine

As an international center for business and pleasure, the United Arab Emirates is especially vulnerable to security threats – and the Houthis know it

Jonathan Pollard's wife, who has been battling cancer for several years, contracted the coronavirus two weeks ago and is now suffering from a case of sepsis brought on by her infection, a spokesman for the family confirms

Serious COVID cases rise to 1,069 ■ Israel extends proof of vaccination scheme for another week amid calls to scrap it ■ Teachers' strike averted after deal reached

Although serious COVID cases surpass 1,000 and the mortality rate witnesses an 80 percent rise in the past week, Israel is starting to see a consistent decrease in the number and spread of infection

Meteorological service forecasts include seven heat waves of over 48 degrees Celsius at Lake Kinneret a year, double the days above 34 in Jerusalem and much more extreme heat on the coast 

The Turkish president has been making efforts to warm relations between the two countries recently, including publicly inviting the Israeli President last week to visit Ankara

The president tells Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed that Israel 'completely supports your security requirements' following attacks by Yemen's Houthis

A nearby comic-book store is pledging to give away the Holocaust book for free to every student in the county, an area church plans to hold a discussion on its themes and a professor intends to offer free classes on it

Today, Ukraine's army is far from marching in flip-flops to war against Russia, but it still continues to march on the efforts of citizen volunteers. Haaretz meets those leading the efforts on Ukraine's home front since 2014

The Turkish president's removal of the chairman of the statistics agency comes as potentially damaging economic data is set to be published, with inflation hitting its highest level during Erdogan's 19-year rule last month

The boy was sitting in a car in the Bedouin city of Rahat when a shot was fired at him from a passing vehicle

ISIS is good at spotting weakness, as it has done in Iraq. Plus the Kurdish loyalties spread among Russia, Syria, Iran and the United States make it hard to predict a Kurdish reconciliation or a diplomatic solution in Syria

Larissa doesn’t believe the media and refuses to leave. Vadim prefers not to think about it but is ready for power outages. Despite the authorities’ soothing words, the anxiety is high

About 24,000 Israeli teachers have confirmed cases of COVID, and others are in quarantine with their young children who are also infected with the virus

Earlier, the NYT reported that Netanyahu used NSO's spyware as a central pillar of Israel's diplomatic policy in recent years, confirming past reporting by Haaretz

In newly issued instructions, Israel's state prosecutor details how to treat sex crime victims during criminal proceedings, including mandating lawyers to speak to complainants before closing cases

Xi Jinping’s regime is forcibly bringing back Chinese citizens suspected of corruption who've fled the country. This practice, which includes kidnapping, targets anyone seen as a threat, says a new human rights group report

Getting the vote on the table was described as a 'success' by Algeria, which has spearheaded the campaign ■ Major players like Egypt, Nigeria and South Africa back it, but still no clear majority

If appointed, Kruger, the daughter of a Jamaican immigrant mother and a Jewish father, will become the first Black female justice and the fifth justice of Jewish heritage over the last 100 year

Cabinet ministers accused her of treason and she routinely received threats on her life. Yuli Novak, who headed the anti-occupation group Breaking the Silence, felt that her only recourse was to flee. After a long journey far from Israel, she conclud...

An investigation by the New York Times reveals NSO offered new spyware called Phantom to the FBI in 2019 ■ Saudi Arabia's MBS was reauthorized to use Pegasus only after a personal phone call with Netanyahu

'They need our oil, and we need to find a market to sell our oil. The road goes two ways'

Israel buys 5 million Novavax COVID vaccines ■ Top health official mulls scrapping proof of vaccination or recovery for venue entry, as daily COVID cases and rate of infection begin to tail off