As Russian troops engage in heavy fighting with Ukrainian forces in Ukraine's second-largest city, its residents are caught in the middle

Israel is taking a much more restrained line than Europe when it comes to Ukraine. Even its public condemnations are bland compared to European and American rhetoric

Head of police intelligence division says that entire files containing classified intelligence had been deleted from Israel Prison Service’s internal systems

Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked will extend the stay permits of tourists from Ukraine by two months

The cabinet is expected to discuss offering additional humanitarian aid to Ukraine and efforts to rescue Israelis from the country

'Yad Vashem condemns this trivialization and distortion of the historical facts of the Holocaust,' chairman Dani Dayan says

Yaakov Hagoel, the head of the selection committee, will continue serving as acting chairman

Israel has two unique interests that differentiate it from other countries, and because of those interests it's not taking sides in the conflict. But justice and morality, as well as utilitarianism, must dictate the way to go

The global success of series such as ‘Line of Duty’ and ‘Broadchurch’ turned British TV into one giant crime scene – and it’s all grown a little stale

The heads of the Reform and Conservative movements voice optimism that a proper prayer space can still be implemented: ‘This is the government and this is the prime minister that can make it happen’

While the Turkish President dares to criticize Russia, Iran is accusing the U.S. and the West of causing the 'problem' in Ukraine

Scripture is conflicting about the hometown of Peter the Apostle, but historian R. Steven Notley believes he has uncovered key clues that point in only one direction

A renewed schism in Christianity: Ukraine is fighting for its independence from Russia in the churches as well as in the streets. And Kyiv has a surprising model for its struggle for sovereignty and religious identity

From claiming there’s a Nazi regime in Kyiv, to hiding the number of Russian fatalities and media censorship – Moscow is channeling the rabid ‘Protocols of the Elders of Zion’ in its propaganda blitz, and refuses to use the word ‘war’

Russia confirms Israeli offer to mediate, after Ukraine reportedly asked Jerusalem to host talks between Moscow and Kyiv last week

The FBI, NSA and U.K. cyber authorities warn of Iranian government-sponsored hackers ‘conducting cyber espionage’ against targets across the world

According to a report, organizations in Israel supported by the Russian oligarch have lobbied the U.S. against imposing sanctions on Roman Abramovich over Putin's Ukraine invasion

More than 5,000 Ukrainian Jews had already put in calls to the special Jewish Agency hotline and about half of the callers expressed interest in immigrating to Israel immediately

Israel’s largest union wants to enter high-tech - and its using the sale of an Israeli giant to Intel to make headway

'We’ll help anyone who we can help to get to the border,' Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman says, as the country is evacuating thousands from Ukraine amidst the ongoing Russian invasion

'No restriction on time can prevent the continuation of the talks for a good agreement,' an Iranian newspaper wrote as Ali Bagheri Kani returns to Vienna to resolve remaining disputes

After withdrawing its ambassador two years ago, Foreign Minister Lapid announces Israeli envoy to Poland will head to Warsaw 'to assist Israelis crossing the border from Ukraine'

The war is still in its infancy, but the Russian president’s claims that Ukraine is an artificial entity have been upended by Ukrainians fighting fiercely to save their homeland

NSO claims the daily's reporting was foreign to 'professional, responsible, and impartial journalism'

Finding historical treasures everywhere from safes to trash: But no, he wouldn’t auction off Eichmann’s matchbox, no matter how ‘super-rare’

Eyad al-Hallaq, a 32-year-old Palestinian, was shot and killed by an Israeli officer in Jerusalem's Old City while on his way to his special needs school in May 2020

I am 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’m learning what patriotism really means

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 ...

Israel rejects U.S. request to back Security Council move to condemn Moscow, but is expected to vote yes in the General Assembly

The Religious Services Ministry says that this initiative is designed 'to change the status of Shabbat in Israeli society,' and that it will be implemented in all segments of society

The excuses Putin uses to justify his wars, his toolbox of threats, coercive diplomacy, deception and Russian military force, are far too reminiscent of Hitler’s tactics and rhetoric. Ukraine is the latest, but most extreme, example

Abramovich, an ally of Vladimir Putin, has handed 'stewardship' of the Chelsea soccer club to its trustees amid pressure to sanction him over Russia's invasion of Ukraine

In two days, 100,000 new refugees fled from Ukraine through the Medyka crossing point. A few made the reverse trip

The Jewish Agency will open six document-processing stations at Ukrainian border crossing points with Poland, Moldova, Romania and Hungary

U.S. lawmakers Marjorie Taylor Greene and Paul Gosar attended and spoke at a conference organized by Nick Fuentes who has been deemed a 'white supremacist' by the Justice Department

U.S. says negotiators made significant progress in the past week or so on reviving the nuclear deal but very tough issues remain

The embassy removed the post calling to volunteer after Ukrainian Ambassador Yevgen Korniychuk told Haaretz that Kyiv is particularly interested in combat medics

Protesters took to the streets across major cities around the world, demanding an end to the Russian assault of Ukraine after its third day

Moscow says coordination with Jerusalem over Syria is 'useful and will continue to work,' after Israel condemns Russia's invasion of Ukraine

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 ...

'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

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

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’