'We do believe that Israel is the only democratic state in the world that has great relations with both Ukraine and Russia,' Ukrainian envoy to Israel tells The New York Times

How do charismatic leaders and big corporations use language to exploit people who long to belong? In ‘Cultish,’ author Amanda Montell offers fascinating insight into this linguistic and social phenomenon

Turning Israeli army pensions into a divisive political issue could even lead to a new social protest ■ Who's in charge of stopping violent settlers, the army or the police?

Life in 2022 is a case of long COVID. The pandemic won't go away, and neither will Trumpism, Brexit or Princess Diana

This comes after Bennett offered humanitarian aid to Ukraine and Lapid condemned the Russian attack on the country

The 2015 nuclear deal restricts the purity to which Iran can enrich uranium to 3.67%, far below the roughly 90% that is weapons-grade or the 20% Iran reached before the deal

If confirmed by the senate, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson will become the first Black woman, and the sixth woman overall, to serve on The Supreme Court

Despite the lack of a formal ban in Afghanistan, girls grade seven and up have effectively been barred from going to school in most of the country since the Taliban's takeover six months ago

The Russian president is fighting a rearguard battle, but it’s still bloody and depraved. Any incursion or destabilization attempts against the Baltic NATO members will inevitably lead to a major escalation in Europe

I am a an academic at a Kharkiv university, an officer in the reserves and a historian of the Holocaust. And facing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Putin's attack on my home, I’ve learnt what patriotism really means

Israel also announced $3 million in aid to Ukraine's Jewish community amid Russian invasion

Putin sees the region as a zero-sum game against the United States and can respond with sanctions of his own, having created a Mideast presence while America slept

'Syria stands with the Russian Federation, based on its conviction of the correctness of its position,' statement from Syrian presidency says

As missiles pound Ukraine's cities, resident begin fleeing internally and into neighboring countries, with tens of thousands already gone

Some come with the grandkids, some with tractors: Every day an archaeological site in Israel is looted. How Hillel Silberklang and the Israel Antiquities Authority try to foil the rampant thievery

Defense officials are concerned that the aftermath of Russia's invasion of Ukraine may disrupt Israel's efforts to fend off Iranian entrenchment in Syria and the region

Despite the massive (and repeated) rise in pay, Israelis are leaving their hi-tech jobs at a record level

The University of Washington puts program on hold after prominent Seattle philanthropist Becky Benaroya's move

'If in Moscow they say they want to hold talks, we are not afraid of this,' says Ukrainian presidential adviser

Russia invades Ukraine: Russia pressed its invasion of Ukraine to the outskirts of the capital after unleashing airstrikes on cities and military bases and sending in troops and tanks from three sides, prompting Western sanction on Russian banks and ...

When senior Israeli defense officials are asked this about China, an uncomfortable silence usually falls on the room

Prof. Dima Adamsky, an expert on Russian strategic thinking, admits he was shocked by Putin's speech and drew five conclusions ■ What the Russia-Ukraine war could mean for the Iran nuke deal

Unruliness on domestic affairs spread from the United Arab List to the left to Benny Gantz's centrist party. Even tougher: expressing empathy for the Ukrainians without upsetting Syria's big-power patron Russia

The man was seriously wounded by Israeli fire and taken to hospital in Jenin. Israel says he threw an explosive device at soldiers, but none were hit

This week at the Tel Aviv airport: A young soccer player heads for his first tournament abroad, and a video mapping expert heads to Jerusalem to prepare for a festival

The racist leader of the Kach movement was deeply inspired by 1960s intellectuals who attacked the U.S. liberal establishment from the left, and by radical Black thinkers. That is the provocative thesis of a new biography of Meir Kahane – which has...

A young woman who fled Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover talks about the devastation faced by those who remain behind and about the moment she thought she was going to be executed

For 30 years, Dr. Muhammad Mohiuddin removed the hearts of rats and pigs, implanted organs in monkeys, and genetically modified different animals. Last month, under his supervision, physicians successfully transplanted a pig heart into a human for th...

Democratic Congressmen Jamaal Bowman and Ro Khanna faced strong criticism for visiting Israel, even though they also met Palestinian officials and activists. What does this mean for Israel’s standing in Washington?

Roads will be closed between 4 A.M. and 2 P.M., along a course that begins at Rokach Boulevard West and ends nearby at Hayarkon Park

The new project will focus on combat soldiers, providing rides near their home, more varied meals, shorter waits for specialist physicians

Demonstrations against Russian President Putin's decision to invade Ukraine took place in a number of cities across the world, including in Moscow and Putin's hometown of St. Petersburg

Ukrainian Interior Ministry adviser Anton Herashenko warned that any attack on the waste repository could send radioactive dust over 'the territory of Ukraine, Belarus and countries of the EU'

The talks in Vienna on reviving the 2015 nuclear deal have reached a 'sensitive and important point', according to Iran

Biden announces new export control measures that could halt half of high-tech imports into Russia, and also said his administration would limit Russia's ability to do business in dollars as well as other currencies

Officials decide to manage reserves of main staples such as wheat, sugar, cooking oil and rice for the next two months, closely watch the distribution of the commodities and ration them

Russian law prohibits conscripts from being sent to the front unless they choose to sign a contract and become career soldiers. But in Ukraine, 'there are a lot of draftees. None of them signed up'

Russia invades Ukraine: Troops launched anticipated attack on Ukraine as President Vladimir Putin cast aside international condemnation and sanctions – 'any attempt to interfere would lead to consequences you have never seen'

Jewish community sends groups on buses to unspecified locations abroad ■ Israel's diaspora minister says ministry is 'preparing an aid package for Jewish communities in Ukraine and will assist them any way we can'

Still imprisoned are top former officials under the civilian-military power-sharing arrangement prior to the coup, held on corruption charges, as well as protesters accused of killing a police brigadier-general

In message of solidarity with Ukraine, the holocaust memorial says 'the free and democratic world must show if it has learned its lesson from the passivity of the 1930s'

Israel's ambassador accused rights organizations and the UN, which has opened a war crimes probe against Israel, of waging 'a Jihad war against the only vibrant democracy in the Middle East'

After the Russian leader evoked the term 'denazification' to explain his invasion of Ukraine, local Jews call him 'totally nuts' and say they have not experienced antisemitism under the current government

Until Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the organization had seen no evidence of Jews trying to get out of the country over the Russian threat

Bronze Age burials in Khakassia, Russia show women wore exquisite dresses and jewelry in the Bronze Age, at least in their afterlife. Dogs sometimes came along for that last ride too

Despite Russia’s overwhelming military superiority, Vladimir Putin’s efforts to end 30 years of Ukrainian independence will not be as easy as he seems to think

Six decades after his death, India’s first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru is making headlines again, hand-in-hand with Israel’s founder David Ben-Gurion, whom Nehru cold-shouldered during his lifetime

Russia's invasion: Maps of Ukraine's breakaway regions, Ukraine military strength, Ukraine's main populated areas, Germany suspends Nord Stream 2 pipeline

Russia's UN envoy voices 'concern' about Israel's plans for expansion in the north, saying Russia does not recognize its sovereignty over the region, hours before Russian attacks on Ukraine

The chief rabbi of Moldova, which borders Ukraine, says ‘extensive preparations’ were made in recent weeks ‘with the aim of absorbing thousands of Israelis and Jews fleeing the war zones’

Russia-Ukraine war: Experts say the Biden administration understands the bind Israel is in over Ukraine, given Russia's role in Syria, but that may change now that Russia is waging a full on war

Israel's foreign minister decries the large-scale strikes and adds Jerusalem is ready to provide humanitarian assistance to Ukrainians

Ukraine's armed forces are outnumbered and outgunned by Russia's, but in the face of what may be a large-scale invasion, experts say they could mount significant resistance

'Its goal is to protect people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide... for the last eight years. And for this we will strive for the demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine,' the Russian president says

Qatar has taken extreme measures to create a memorable World Cup tournament later this year – even at the cost of human life. But will the investment pay off?

After Russia invades Ukraine, Israeli Ambassador Michael Brodsky says ‘We had never imagined that such a thing was possible’

The Megiddo site soothes the soul, and unlike the red fields in southern Israel, the wildflowers here are painting the valley in white, pink and purple

Ore from Sardinia was transformed into ingots with Cypro-Minoan markings and then shipped everywhere. This boat didn’t make it

For Russia’s rulers, Ukraine is an oddity, a mistake of history defying its civilizational 'destiny' and threatening the Kremlin’s domestic propaganda. For Putin, there is now only a violent solution for his 'Ukraine problem'

Prison service figures show that thousands, including minors, are isolated despite consensus on negative health impacts

The attack came a day after Syria said that several missiles from northern Israel struck areas around the southern town of Quneitra, causing only material damage

Video featuring Tamer Nafar will be removed from the Authority for the Advancement of Women’s website after complaints by the rightwing group Btsalmo and the Srugim website

Yoel Marcus wrote about politics as a play whose actors were the prime minister, the other ministers, the American ambassador, the chief of staff – now lionizing his protagonists, now lampooning them

Government votes to end Israel's state of emergency that has been in place since the start of the COVID pandemic, declares a ‘special health situation’ instead

At a climate conference in Jerusalem, PLO minister and Israel's climate-change envoy say that the entire region must work together to avert disaster brought on by climate change

Netanyahu's party retracts a proposed bill to form a state commission of inquiry into the activities of Fifth Dimension, a firm once headed by Gantz

The find 'sheds an entirely new light on the symbolism, artistic expression as well as spiritual culture' of the previously unknown Neolithic populations, researchers say

Very early in the history of modern humans, a deep divergence emerged, a new study reveals. The groups would only encounter each other again over 100,000 years later

Committee tasked with selecting the Agency’s next chairperson needs to put forward a candidate on Sunday, but neither of the two front-runners – Danny Danon and Ruth Calderon – may win enough support

Right-wing lawmaker David Amsalem says Netanyahu is 'harming the dignity of the national camp' after the former PM distanced himself from Amsalem's claims that the High Court is racist against Mizrahi Jews

French geographer Victor Guérin arrived in the Land of Israel in 1852, and returned for additional visits over the course of the next 36 years. His in-depth book conveys what has remained and what has been renewed here since his time, and shows that...

Israel is offering Gaza residents 10,000 work permits as tensions ease following last year's war between Israel and Hamas, opening a substantial income source for the poverty-stricken enclave

Pegasus and its rivals are dangerous due to their level of sophistication, but less advanced predators like Hamas can be just as dangerous

There are still many in the West impressed and enamored with Russian President Vladimir Putin – and not just his number one groupie at Mar-a-Lago. Perhaps the current crisis will lead to the revision of this skewed view

Israel released a statement supporting Ukraine, without mentioning Russia ■ Israeli official: We did the minimum, we can go back to sitting on the fence ■ Ukrainian diplomat disappointed: We expected more

Miriam Anzovin may portray a ditzy character in her popular ‘Daf Reactions’ videos online, but the 36-year-old Massachusetts native recently surprised her followers by blasting the religious establishment’s treatment of women

Yoel Marcus, 'one of the greatest commentators in the history of Hebrew journalism,' has worked as a reporter for more than 60 years and revealed plans for an Israeli withdrawal from Gaza

Oman’s foreign minister arrived in Tehran for talks with his Iranian counterpart as nuclear talks between Iran and world powers continue in Vienna

Israeli President Herzog says the trip is part of an attempt to forge a regional alliance against climate change and calls it 'an opportunity of historic proportions'

Numerous Palestinian applicants were denied permits to attend family funerals, weddings or visit a sick family member over the new practice

'Israel could be extraordinarily helpful in assisting other countries in the region,' says former U.S. secretary of state as he declares that the world has only a decade to head off the worst effects of climate change

The conference will include interviews with top decision-makers, activists and international experts – including Israeli President Herzog, Environmental Protection Minister Zandberg and the U.S. special envoy for climate John Kerry

Israeli bodyguards and security firms are cashing in on the IDF brand, whether protecting Hollywood stars or remote installations in Africa – even if regulation of the sector is sometimes scant

Psychiatric evaluations detailed the damage caused to his mental condition by 'unusually harsh' detention conditions. The judge ruled that the prisoner is a danger to the staff and other prisoners

Monday’s ruling has delayed the eviction of an East Jerusalem family at least until after Ramadan, removing one component of the tensions. But it is still too early to celebrate

The woman's family built a new shack on the ruins of the house in which she has lived for the last 15 years to make it wheelchair-accessible. The Enforcement Unit: 'Demolitions are issued against buildings, not people'

Still intoxicated by the nostalgic scent of the sweat and water cannons from the anti-Netanyahu protests, the retiring minister turned independent lawmaker will be open for negotiations, on his own terms

Israel has mounted frequent attacks against what it has described as Iranian targets in Syria