Israel faces growing pressure to take a more explicitly pro-Ukrainian position, but it fears angering Russia. On Iron Dome, mediation, field hospitals and cold hard reality, this is what Israel can actually offer Ukraine

Israel is trying to align with the world against the Russian invasion while still maintaining dialogue with Moscow, and that's allowed Naftali Bennett to serve as a surprise mediator between Putin and Zelenskyy

No sapiens bones were found at Xiamabei, but archaeologists found a pigment-processing industry and miniaturized stone tools far in advance of their broad adoption in prehistoric China

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 sanctions on Russian banks and...

The prime minister's surprise weekend excursion to Moscow and Berlin may draw some frowns in Washington, but Bennett's eye was more likely on nuclear talks in Vienna

Karim El Kusami from East Jerusalem, attacked the police officers at 4.30 A.M. at a gate to Jerusalem's Old City

Over the course of a few hours at the government credit clearing system, relatives of Ukrainians who fled Russia's invasion to come to Israel described numerous bureaucratic hurdles, interrogations

When war refugees are stopped at Israel’s airport, deported or required to deposit huge sums they don’t have in order to taste freedom and security, it’s clear that something in Israel’s moral compass is warped

For there to be any kind of mediation, both warring sides need to be open to some kind of deal. Everything Putin has said and done over the past 10 days suggests any sort of compromise on Ukraine is not on the table

In the first visit by an Israeli leader since 2008, Herzog will also meet with members of the Jewish community in Istanbul

The Biden administration had been informed about the Moscow meeting in advance. Bennett continued from there to Berlin to meet with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz

Mariupol has been a scene of growing misery in recent days amid an assault that knocked out power and raised the prospect of food and water shortages for hundreds of thousands of people

Finland shares the longest European border with Russia, and while not a NATO member, Putin's invasion of Ukraine has renewed debate over the prospect of joining

Iran agrees to a roadmap to resolve all of its issues with the UN nuclear watchdog by late June after the agency's chief says a nuclear deal would not possible without it

The war in Ukraine is creating a sense of urgency to conclude talks as cooperation with Moscow may prove more difficult in the near future

As the international community mobilizes to punish Russia for its invasion of Ukraine, the West must ask itself if sanctions are a viable substitute for war

Anna Kalinichenko, who escaped the Nazis as a young girl, is among 280 Jewish refugees who have found sanctuary. For some, the next stop is Israel

After conducting the longest hunger strike of any Palestinian administrative detainee ever, Hisham Abu Hawash was held by Israel for more than another month until his release from prison last weekend

The political and psychological ramifications reverberate today even as suicide attacks have subsided

Ministries dispute how many Ukrainians to grant entry into Israel under such scheme, while the number of arrivals from the war-torn country is set to exceed 2,000 early next week

Clashes break out as Palestinians protest against a military post set up in Hebron

As prime minister, Netanyahu brokered a deal in 2016 that would have allowed mixed-gender prayer at the site. While the plan was suspended after 18 months, Bennett says it's still on the table

While the Russian military is bombing Ukraine, international sanctions are crushing Russia's economy. The unspoken hope in Western capitals is that Moscow's generals, oligarchs and spy chiefs will reach a breaking point

With just a few hours notice, yeshiva students hailing from the U.S. and other Ukrainian cities embarked on a journey to escape the Russian invasion. 'God willing, we'll go back,' says the local Chabad emissary

The residents Jawarish in Ramle, the most dangerous neighborhood in Israel last year, are split about the police campaign but they all feel that the checkpoint is a burden on their daily lives

The Shin Bet announces that a dispute over flight security, which threatened to halt flights between Israel and the UAE, has been resolved and that all flights between the two countries will resume as normal

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 sanctions on Russian banks and...

If Russia decides to take Ukraine’s capital, it will be difficult to stop without the active involvement of Western states

Amar Shafiq Abu Afifa was a 'peaceful' person on a hike ■ 'If he had wanted to clash with the army, he had plenty of opportunities in the refugee camp'

In the Ukraine crisis, Israel had to be dragged to the side of the righteous ■ Netanyahu, the human air raid siren, again chose to pander to his base ■ Why Lapid pulled Erdan from the UN stage

This week at the Tel Aviv airport: A former Israeli army officer whose job involved handling bombs and missiles, and a woman whose work revolves around collector stamps

How to avoid decisions you might regret, how to cope with regret and how regret can move you forward. An interview with author Daniel Pink

Israel’s leaders display a shamefully craven posture towards Vladimir Putin, with weak, opaque condemnations of his attack on Ukraine and on Holocaust memory, while his pet oligarchs have spread tainted influence and money throughout the Jewish wor...

Israelis seeking to host a Ukrainian must deposit 10,000 shekels; Dozens of people stuck at the airport counter

Living in wooden cabins and mud huts, isolated from the world around them, residents of the settlement of Rotem are facing a problem: Visitors are starting to discover their Jordan Valley haven

Jewish groups slam Rep. Danny Bentley's remarks, which they said made outlandish claims about the sex lives of Jewish women and that Jews created the 'abortion pill' during the Holocaust to profit financially

On Ukraine's border with Moldova, families are crossing into the unknown, leaving behind a bleeding country and their entire lives. This is the front line of Europe's new refugee crisis

Some 60 percent of all physicians in Israel studied medicine abroad. Alongside excellent schools in Jordan and Hungary, many of these doctors have attended institutions health officials call ‘business enterprises’ or ‘fake schools’ – and so...

Israel's Holocaust memorial center got into a tit-for-tat with the Kremlin over Putin's words. Chairman Dani Dayan tells the podcast what are the organization's 'red lines' and answers criticism over an oligarch's donation

Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the Yemen war and Iran talks are straining the strategic partnership between the U.S. and the Gulf state

BA.2 is accounting for a growing share of new COVID cases, but experts are divided on its significance

A temporary ceasefire in some part of Ukraine 'will be possible' to let civilians leave, negotiator says after second round of talks with Moscow

After a week of fighting, Russian forces captured the strategic southern town of Kherson that lies en route to Odessa, amid warnings of a humanitarian crisis

Rabbi Yonatan Markovitch says efforts are underway to evacuate Jews from Kyiv, as 150 Ukrainians with Israeli citizenship land in Tel Aviv

Four testimonies from Ukrainians whose lives were turned upside down when Russia invaded

Prosecutors say they deemed the witnesses’ testimony credible but that 'the acts about which they testified didn’t cross the threshold of criminality'

Israel won't reach its renewable energy targets without additional land, the Finance Ministry says. The Environmental Protection Ministry, however, says existing space just needs to be used properly – and a decision on the matter was postponed unti...

Russia's release in 2020 of an Israeli convicted on drug charges during a stopover at a Moscow airport is thought to be linked to the now-stalled transfer of the Russian Orthodox church

The agreement allows U.S. authorities to check whether Israeli visa applicants have criminal records

Russian troops are within 35 km of the Zaporizhzhia plant and the South Ukraine power plant, although both plants are working normally

Fathi Bashagha, designated prime minister, is studying 'all options to take over in Tripoli' as his opponent refuses to cede power

Lawsuit filed in U.S. federal court Thursday alleges that Ben & Jerry’s and Unilever violated U.S. and Israeli law after ending the business relationship with the local licensee because of sales in West Bank settlements

He was a high-tech programmer. Then he left the big city and moved to the Golan Heights to photograph wolves and jackals. ‘I realized that earning big and burying myself in the office was not my ambition,’ says Gilad Guy

Belarus updated its constitution on Sunday in a referendum to ditch its non-nuclear commitments, which could open the gates for the first nuclear warheads on Belarusian soil since 1991

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman also said he intends to continue 'detailed talks' with Iran to reconcile the two parties

The furor over an exhibition featuring a painting with the text ‘Jerusalem of Gold – Jerusalem of Shit’ may well have killed the career of its curator. Svetlana Reingold explains why she has no regrets

Caution over jeopardizing security coordination with Moscow in Syria, concerns over Russian Jews and Bennett's big dreams of mediation have hushed any full-throttled condemnation of Russia's invasion of Ukraine

The Russian attack on Ukraine, including the bombing this week of Kyiv's television tower, shows that Putin's brutality knows no bounds. What started in Crimea in 2014 should end at The Hague

Since 2014, Ukraine's military has abandoned much of its Red Army heritage and become a far more professional outfit, as Russia is now discovering

Russian bombardments struck both the local Hillel House and the Or Avner day school in Kharkiv, as accusations of indiscriminate Russian bombing emerge from Ukrainian cities

We are facing a humanitarian catastrophe for Ukraine and for our community, but Israel is failing to stand up for us. The Talmud teaches: Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire. It’s not too late for Israel to remember it

El Al was notified that due to sanctions imposed on Russia over Ukraine, aircraft flying the Tel Aviv-Moscow route would no longer be insured ■ Three lawmakers approve $2 billion government guarantee

Israel's prime minister says world must 'act rapidly' to bring Russia and Ukraine to the negotiating table and prevent 'untold loss of life' ■ Comments come after Israeli PM speaks with Putin, Zelenskyy

The UN nuclear watchdog's chief is expected in Tehran as talks in Vienna on salvaging the 2015 agreement with world powers inch closer to completion

UN refugee agency said 1 million people have fled Ukraine since Russian forces invaded last week

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 sanctions on Russian banks and...

Suspect apprehended after twin stabbings leave two Israeli men in moderate condition in the Hizma area

'The thing about Putin is, if he has an instrument, he wants to use it. Why have it if you can’t?,' a U.S. expert on Russia cautions

'I simply asked them not to shoot at people,' says Kherson's mayor after Russian forces enter city hall

A Justice Ministry review found corporate misconduct in 2014-17 nearly warranted the dissolution of the settlement organization that predates the state itself

The speech showcased the American president as the leader of the free world, providing a new draft for the Biden global doctrine

Without passports or birth certificates, the children from a Chabad-run home were spirited out of Odessa, en route to Berlin. Who helped? ‘Who didn’t help?’ says the rabbi at the heart of the operation

Legislation would allow partner or parents of the deceased soldier to have his sperm harvested within three days of his death

Sources in the forces criticize the Jerusalem District commander's policies, saying officers seem like they're preparing for battle in East Jerusalem and warning of escalation in the city and elsewhere

Israeli expert says Kyiv's use of Turkish-made UAV's produce 'very accurate hits,' but are not the game-changer they appear to be

From Brighton Beach to the East Village, the notion of a second Iron Curtain descending is shocking, so Ukrainian New Yorkers are canvassing for more military support from the West – when they’re not stressing about the fate of their families

What is the worst that the Ukraine war can throw at Israel? A little inflation and some lost exports. But there might be some economic benefits too

Israel has maintained a cautious stance on Russia's invasion of Ukraine, even as it voted in favor of a UN resolution denouncing Putin's assault

The agency has received some 5,000 requests to immigrate to Israel, with the first bus of Ukrainian olim already having crossed over into Poland

Israel joined 140 other countries in voting for the largely symbolic measure. Only four countries other than Russia voted against the motion

A prominent patron of Israeli cultural institutions like the Israel Museum, Steinhardt has so far surrendered 180 trafficked artifacts from around the Middle East

As negotiating parties inch closer to reviving the 2015 nuclear pact, Iran is insisting that Western nations drop their concerns over trace uranium discovered at undeclared sites across Iran

NATO has refused to combat Russian aggression because Ukraine is not a member state. This cold policy, however, hasn’t stopped the organization intervening in past conflicts

Greg Casar triumphed Tuesday with over 60 percent of the vote, while a second Texas congressional district featuring a young progressive backed by J Street goes to a runoff in May

Gal Gadot has abundant measures of grace, refinement and regality. But her performance in 'Death on the Nile' is fast becoming a camp classic