Israel’s strategy on the nuke deal relies on both muscle-flexing on Capitol Hill and the instability of Iran’s leadership

Declassified only weeks ago, secret Israeli intelligence and diplomatic files lay out an elaborate global operation to turn Egyptian President Nasser’s key adviser, Mohamed Hassanein Heikal. His Mossad code name? "Uzi"

Minister says Israel will address its misgivings about the emerging new Iran nuke deal in future bilateral arrangements with the United States

Representatives of the three largest churches in Jerusalem warn against attempts of 'various entities' who 'are seeing to minimize, not to say eliminate any non-Jewish characteristics of the Holy City'

After lengthy dispute over nominatons, panel meeting on Monday to vote on candidates

The report alleged that Yossi Cohen had an affair with a married flight attendant and revealed sensitive information. After it aired, the lottery nixed ads worth millions at the TV channel

Biden agrees to meet the Russian leader only if 'an invasion hasn't happened yet,' while U.S. officials claim Russia has directly ordered its commanders to prepare for one based on new intelligence

Russia is using Syria to send hints to Erdogan that they can’t step on Moscow’s toes in Ukraine, but Turkey is not the only country getting such warnings

What revisions are likely to be included in the new Iran nuclear deal, what will happen further down the line, and why has Israel been caught by surprise? | Haaretz explains

The Justice Ministry says it's 'more likely' that Ahmad Hijazi was shot by one of the suspects and not one of the officers ■ Family plans to appeal the decision

The inquiry will examine the manner and diligence in which the government approved deals with the German corporation ThyssenKrupp

An Education Ministry committee will propose the first nationwide anti-racism program for Israeli schools, with preliminary recommendations to be submitted by the end of March

The Economist's Democracy Index placed Israel at 23rd out of 165 countries in its 2021 report, but shows a worsened 'political culture'

Residents of the Ukrainian seaside city of Mariupol seem nonplussed by recent shooting from the area controlled by pro-Russian separatists, and some are reminded of the siege they suffered eight years ago

Bennett says the deal would 'pour billions of dollars into the Iranian terror machine,' adding that 'there's no doubt that America is our biggest and strongest friend, ultimately it's us who live in the region'

Some 400 Jews from Ukraine are expected to move to Israel in the first two months of the year. There is not a big uptick in people looking to make aliyah, despite fears of Putin's Russia starting an invasion

Bialik pressed Palestine's Jews to speak Hebrew, but 'sinned' himself by using Yiddish, and Tel Aviv officials wanted residents to lie and say they dreamed in Hebrew. A scholar finds that the development of Hebrew as a lingua franca was beset by a co...

Leader of ultra-Orthodox party says proposal to end Rabbinate's monopoly on conversions 'endangers Jewish identity in the State of Israel'

A senior United Arab List official says there's a sense the government is 'poking them in the eye' by not advancing issues that are important to it

Representatives on congressional delegation led by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi are defending their recent visit, while activists are increasing their public pressure campaigns against them and Rep. Jamaal Bowman

U.S. ambassadors rarely visit Knesset members' private homes, but Tom Nides' dinner with the United Arab List leader may hurt his standing among his base

The attorney general is expected to present the findings to Bennett in the coming days, which will likely show that police had court authorization to use spyware, but sometimes exceeded the powers of the warrant

Ukraine's foreign minister says 'it's time to act' as Russia extends military drills with Belarus. The Kremlin, meanwhile, says Western prediction of war 'directly lead to an increase in tension'

While Israel has largely achieved its goals with strikes on Iranian proxies in Syria, Iraq, Yemen and other countries, in Lebanon, 'we're walking on eggshells,' official says

The suspect didn't plan to kill his brother, sources say, but fled the scene and showed up at the funeral after mayor mediates deal with police

Apple TV+ gives us an instant classic with ‘Severance,’ which will make you question your work-life balance. Our critic also reviews Netflix’s ‘Downfall: The Case Against Boeing’ and ChaiFlicks’ ‘The New Black’

The change means that for the first time in almost two years, families with children aged 5 or younger can travel to Israel

'Israel will never come to terms' with a nuclear Iran, Gantz says at security conference in Munich, urging 'action' even with new deal

The mortuary habits of the Tashtyks had been known. Now archaeologists have found rare signals from their life in the early first millennium C.E.– including a unique engraved stone slab

A schism in Ger Hasidim has caused people who left to lose their jobs, communities – and sometimes their children, who are admonished to remain loyal to the rabbi at all cost

The municipality joined the fight after residents' protests, claiming there have been serious defects in planning for the plant, including violations of government policy and conflicts of interest

Senior police officials say decision shows placement of barriers last year, which led to escalating unrest, was a serious mistake

Russian forces begin to 'uncoil and move closer' to Ukrainian border, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says

A tiny aircraft that hovered over Israel surprised the military, seeming like a message from Hezbollah. But Israel’s aerial dominance over Lebanon is clear, at least for now

The U.S. and Russia are spinning convenient stories of war, both failing to take the sovereign government in Kyiv and the will of Ukraine’s people into account

'I don't know what the president of the Russian Federation wants, so I am proposing a meeting,' Ukraine's Zelenskyy says at the Munich Security Conference as fears of invasion increase

Meeting with Harris at Munich Security Conference touched on 'the importance of confidence-building measures with the Palestinians,' Gantz says

German chancellor says 'Israel's security is not negotiable' ■ Macron urges Iran to agree to a deal

Foreign Ministry warns 'outbreak of hostilities in Ukraine may be swift and harsh' as West warns of Russian invasion and Ukrainian separatists mobilize

A repulsive and depraved trio, Josh Hawley, Tucker Carlson and Donald Trump, are active partners in Putin’s efforts to gaslight the West on Ukraine – and to undermine the United States itself

While not actively wanting a Russian invasion, Ukraine's Azov ultranationalist movement will see it as a chance to build its brand, warns far-right expert Michael Colborne

New analysis of Iron Age stronghold in the heart of Israel's mountainous Upper Galilee explains who may have built it, why it was built and why it didn’t last long

Drills involve launches from warships, submarines and warplanes as well as from land and include the launch of hypersonic ballistic missiles

Earlier, top Ukrainian military officials came under a shelling attack during a tour of the front of the separatist conflict in the country's east

The hybrid warfare developed and practiced by Russia over the past two decades relies - like in the Ukraine crisis - on propaganda, psychological warfare and cyberattacks as much as on conventional firepower

After the fighting started in eastern Ukraine in 2014, a group of veterans launched a drone-making company. Now they pledge to share their experience to stop the Russians and their separatist allies

After weeks of uncertainty, Biden says the U.S. assessment on a widespread invasion has changed, citing the Americans' 'significant intelligence capability'

The retired FBI agent who investigated the saga of Anne Frank’s family related to it as if it were a true crime episode. Thus the complex human story of the famous young woman was reduced to pointlessness

Dozens of settlers swoop down on a pastoral shepherding community on the dark edge of the Judean Desert

In two separate incidents, a man in his 50s was seriously injured by an explosive device rigged to his car in Taibe and another man was wounded by live fire while sitting in a coffee shop in Kafr Qasem

2021 infections targeted opposition figures in Bahrain, Citizen Lab finds; lawmakers, members of top religious council were also selected for possible snooping; NSO denies ‘unsubstantiated allegations’

Another man was injured while attempting to run away from Israeli soldiers during a weekly protest in the West Bank village of Kafr Qaddum

Gabriel Bach fled Nazi Germany with his family in 1938, first to Amsterdam and then to Palestine in 1940. He would later serve as a member of the legal team that prosecuted Adolf Eichmann in Israel in 1961

The self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic announces a mass evacuation of the region's residents to Russia earlier after an increase in shelling

Key issues in the Vienna talks include how long the first stage of unfreezing assets will last, and whether the United States will guarantee it won’t impose sanctions ‘indirectly’ or withdraw from the new agreement in the future

The Arab Middle East is becoming the region's most important strategic bloc, but is Turkey willing to cover the diplomatic costs of rejoining it?

Lebanon's Hezbollah says it had flown a drone over Israel on a reconnaissance mission for 40 minutes

A new initiative would force aliyah applicants to provide proof that they intend to live in Israel 'permanently,' but advocates say it's based on misinterpretation of the law: 'This is essentially a policy change, and it is not the job of civil serva...

Diplomatic efforts continue amid escalating tensions in Ukraine and fears of an imminent Russian invasion

Naftali Bennett was physically in Bahrain this week, but his mind was back in Sheikh Jarrah, making sure that MK Itamar Ben-Gvir's antics don't ignite a war with Hamas

Former intel officer Moshe Tal charts the strategy he hopes will aid in bringing the missing Israelis and soldiers' bodies back, and reveals a shift in Egypt's approach

However, one former Israeli army official says the real risk is not an armed conflict but the growing reality of one state for two peoples

This week at the Tel Aviv airport: A Costa Rican readjusts to life back home after 32 years in the U.S., and a mother-daughter team returns from a bat-mitzvah trip that was meant to bring them closer together

Algorithms developed at Harvard by Ben Reis can predict psychosis and detect domestic abuse by analyzing medical files

The incident occurred just as Mayor Eric Adams was set to hold a meeting on the rise of antisemitic incidents in the city

Official sources say the agreement will be a version of the 2015 deal with minor changes, which Israel is expected to oppose. Iran, meanwhile, denies reported draft agreement

The Tesla CEO posted a meme of a photo of Hitler with the text: 'Stop comparing me to Justin Trudeau. I had a budget.' Musk later deleted the tweet

The ultra-Orthodox Netzah Yehuda battalion, based in the West Bank, has become a byword for insubordination, lawlessness and racist violence against Palestinians. And that’s not its only critical failure – nor Israel's

An average of 15 people go missing in Israel every year, never to be heard from again. Sociologist Ori Katz is examining what people do when they discover that a relative has vanished into thin air

Tamir corporation, which is responsible for placing the bins, says that the 2,000 orange bins allotted are far too few to meet the needs of a city the size of Jerusalem

Avi Shalev swapped the Israeli army for classes conducted in classical Arabic, surrounded mainly by young Bedouin women who educated him on another side of life in Israel

Struck-down Kuwaiti law banned 'imitation of the opposite sex' and set the maximum penalty at a year in prison or a fine of $3,300

Michael Sfard talks about ‘the new antisemites’ – spoiler, they're Jewish extremists attacking Palestinians – and Judy Maltz discusses the plight of Ukrainian Jews living in the shadow of potential Russian invasion

The Shin Bet's former No. 3 thinks it's time for Israel to rethink its modus operandi

'I was devastated when the shop was destroyed and our friends and loved ones have boosted my morale. But today I was born again, today is a new birthday for me'

According to the Palestinian Red Crescent, over 87 people required medical attention in Friday's demonstrations against the illegal outpost of Evyatar as protesters clashed with the Israeli army

The Israeli president is set to make a visit to Turkey, with media outlets in that country saying it will take place on March 9

In a strongly worded letter from the Foreign Ministry, Israel accuses members of UN commission of inquiry into latest Gaza war of 'politically motivated' bias and anti-Israel positions

Sixth drone interception in a year comes a day after Nasrallah boasts to followers about gaining technology to turn thousands of missiles into precision-guided munitions

New study at Tel Aviv University suggests that the presence of microplastics can exacerbate the toxicity of organic pollution in the environment roughly tenfold

The draft agreement on Iran's nuclear program spells out steps to be implemented before sanction waivers

A software glitch on the phone of Saudi activist Loujain al-Hathloul has revealed hack blueprint of NSO software, leading to Apple lawsuit and trade blacklisting

Twenty ornately decorated Roman graves have been located so far, and the excavation team expects to unearth 80 in total. Two graves have been opened, one contained skeletal remains and some clay jars

Prime Minister Bennett and U.S. House Speaker Pelosi also discuss the ongoing negotiations between Iran and Western countries over the Islamic republic's nuclear program, which are in their 'final stages'

Biodegradable caskets, mushroom suits, traditional Jewish bone collection or launching grandpa’s ashes into space: Minds in Israel and throughout the world are thinking up alternatives to wasteful burials