Serious COVID cases drop to 1,085 and R number falls to 0.91, potentially signaling that Israel's omicron wave is beginning to ebb

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

COVID 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 Environmental Protection Ministry spotted what it suspects is an oil spill stretching over 12.5 to 25 miles off central Israel's coast

New York-based congregation files motion in state Superior Court to take control of Touro Synagogue by removing its current tenants as part of an ongoing legal feud

Goldberg's suspension comes a day after a comment during a discussion on 'The View' that the Holocaust 'was not about race'

Research among 12 communities also finds that European Jews are more likely to see themselves as a religious minority than an ethnic one, even if they're nonobservant

Israel, Bahrain, Egypt, Greece, Qatar and UAE have confirmed attendance in the conference to combat climate change, organized by Cyprus; Iraq, Lebanon, Syria are possible holdouts

Officials fear that the term 'apartheid' will become prevalent enough to become accepted by several UN investigative bodies, and could lead to Israel's exclusion from international events

Arye Dery, who had spent time in jail in a prior case, recently resigned from the Knesset as part of a plea bargain on tax evasion charges

While the rate of positive COVID tests broke records due to omicron, a comparison with January 2021 shows that the profile of the pandemic in Israel goes far beyond statistics

Jewish organization heads welcomed the news of Deborah Lipstadt's hearing after heightened concern following the Colleyville, Texas synagogue attack and other antisemitic incidents

Vertebrae from robbed burials, strung together on reeds in the Chincha Valley may have been put together by people picking up the pieces of their ancestors

The Israeli court accepted the prosecution's argument that Ahmad Asafra should be convicted of murder despite not being at the scene of the attack, nor being the person to actually stab 19-year-old Dvir Sorek

In a farewell ceremony, Justice Minister Gideon Sa’ar tells outgoing Attorney General Avichai Mendelblit, ‘You stood for truth in face of unprecedented attacks on your authority’

Palestinian Authority PM Mohammad Shtayyeh decries the Israeli army's investigation as a 'sham,' as 80-year-old Omar Abdalmajeed As’ad's family continues to call for an independent inquiry

'The Jewish people must not be denied their right to self-determination, and we must ensure there isn't a double standard being applied,' says U.S. State Department spokesman following Amnesty International report

It is far from certain that Miriam Adelson has selected Bennett as her new favorite, but it's clear that she intends to have one

Israel's Interior Ministry decided to take applications from Palestinians married to Israeli citizens aged 50 or over, but rights groups say that the partial and belated move does not guarantee the applications will be processed

Elad Melamed, who taught mathematics in a school in central Israel, committed the various offenses while on the job

Israel's prime minister also expressed hopes that talks between world powers and Iran over its nuclear program would end without an agreement

U.S. whistleblower reveals 2017 meeting between Israeli spyware firm NSO and a telecoms firm in which cash was allegedly offered in exchange for access to an easily exploitable mobile network; NSO denies the claims

The Netzah Yehuda Battalion, whose troops left an 80-year-old man to die in the cold, has a concerning past and extremist ideology – and something in common with the friendly-fire incident that took two Israeli officers' lives

The House speaker is planned to be in Israel at a time when negotiations will be taking place in the U.S. to prevent a government shutdown

Residents of the breakaway provinces travel to Ukraine to visit relatives, while Ukrainians go in the other direction to Russia

In the midst of the Ukraine crisis, workers at the local Israeli embassy threatened to shut it down over a hazard pay dispute. Israel's Foreign Ministry eventually reached a last-minute compromise with them

Police say new information 'changes in some ways' an earlier statement that ruled out any wrongdoing in using Pegasus to target Israelis

The Israeli-made Pegasus spyware is suspected of infecting over 450 phones targeted by clients of NSO, who range from Saudi Arabia to Mexican drug lords. Here’s a list of the confirmed Pegasus victims

During the first intifada, Palestinian musician Riad Awwad released a tape with protest songs calling for resistance to the occupation. The Israeli army confiscated all copies of the album and arrested him. Now, after his death, a new project is brin...

Qatar Airways has resumed passenger flights out of Afghanistan after a two-month halt

The eyes of the world are focused on Ukraine, and so is our podcast: Haaretz reporter Liza Rozovsky joins us live from the ground, while in studio, Alon Pinkas discusses what the drama means for Biden and Putin

Hundreds of schools in Israel will be included in a new — and costly — program with the aim of teaching ultra-Orthodox pupils Hebrew, math and English

Engineers were accompanied by some 150 police officers at the Shuafat refugee camp in East Jerusalem to seal off the home Fadi Abu Shkhaidem, who was shot dead in November after opening fire at Israeli forces on the Temple Mount

Social media giant Meta is closing down its Express Wi-Fi project, which had been a major part of Facebook's operations in its Israel R&D center

An online firestorm over the veteran Jewish group's hiring of Tema Smith highlights a stumbling block mainstream Jewish groups face as they bring in a new generation of young professionals

Maj. Gen. Yehuda Fuchs said soldiers' actions in 80-year-old man’s arrest represent a ‘fundamental failure’ to respect human dignity

Jerusalem court approves 'balanced' plea deal with Shas leader Arye Dery, who resigned from the Knesset last week

This is the second known time American troops launch interceptor missiles in the UAE, which has kept a lid on its operational activity

Once respected for his research on Auschwitz, Israeli historian Gideon Greif now promotes falsehoods, propaganda and pseudo-scholarship in the service of ultranationalist Serb genocide deniers. It is a deeply troubling story

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

Israel's COVID cabinet votes to end mandatory tests for those exiting the country ■ Serious cases dip slightly after a prolonged spike as new cases and infection rate continue to drop

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

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 investigation findings

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