We all contain a sliver of Ukraine; our hearts remain with the remote villages that raised the best of our poets, writers, religious figures and miracle makers

Herbert C. Kelman, who died this week, stressed that for each of us certain values are nonnegotiable – and we're ready to die and kill for them

The New York Times also reported that some U.S. officials said the attack was carried out by Israeli operatives stationed in Iraq, though a senior Biden administration official rebutted that assessment

Dozens of Palestinian-Ukrainian families watch the unfolding war in Ukraine with trepidation, but Zelenskyy's support for Israel and historic ties with Russia leave the population split

Russia invades Ukraine: In third week of fighting, none of Putin's key objectives have been reached, despite thousands of people killed and more than two million made refugees

The arrest follows a vandalism incident in which graffiti was spray-painted and tires were slashed in the Palestinian village of Fara’ata on Monday night

As an alternative to military service, volunteers are 'protecting' illegal Jewish-owned farms in the West Bank by helping them expand rapidly and push Palestinian farmers out

The border police officer who shot al-Harbad, a father of five, twice from behind has been suspended from duty

Since the beginning of the war, 6,500 Ukrainians not eligible for immigration under the Law of Return have reached Israel, most of them receiving a 3-month tourist visa

Iran's continued enrichment of uranium above the limits of the proposed nuclear deal could make implementation more complicated

The kothon of Motya in southern Sicily had first been assumed to be an artificial harbor. It wasn’t, archaeologist Lorenzo Nigro of Sapienza proves

Israel's Bennett has been holding back-to-back calls with Zelenskyy and Putin in the Ukraine-Russia talks ■ Significant progress has reportedly been made on a peace plan

In return, recipients would commit to working in Israel's periphery cities and towns, which have a hard time attracting doctors

Would a peace deal severely limiting Ukraine's sovereignty be in its best interest or play into Putin's quest to snuff out the country's independence?

Protests led the state to say it would address LGBTQ adoption. But after five years on Israel says there's no political feasibility of amending the legislation

The decision comes after the government announced a series of moves aimed at easing the lives of West Bank Palestinians who work in Israel

As far as is known, Mossad chief David Barnea's phone and personal devices, which are encrypted and secured, were not hacked

Staff at local luxury hotels describe entitled behavior by pandemic-era domestic guests. ‘The White Lotus,’ anyone?

Any association with Russia’s Ukraine war will expose China to strong sanctions that could seriously harm its economy and disconnect it from the West

The invasion of Ukraine has dealt a serious if not lethal blow to Russia’s hi-tech sector, and those who can are already seeking refuge in the startup nation

Read the full text of Ukrainian President Zelenskyy's address to the U.S. government

'With all due respect to Tel Aviv, LGBTQ community members have a right to live anywhere in Israel': Meet the Israeli queers building new families and communities in surprising locations

It’s hard not to get lost in the sights, scents and sounds of the market's bustling alleys, so this primer is to make sure you choose wisely

Left-wing activist Udi Aloni made many people angry when he described Israel as fascist. Now he has made a film about Black civil rights icon Amiri Baraka and found similarities to his mother, late Meretz leader Shulamit Aloni

Israeli settlers at Homesh drove into IDF troops stationed at the outpost on Monday, following another incident in which Palestinian vehicles were pelted with stones on Saturday

Amid rising calls to send military aid, despite Israel's unbending policy of refusal, here are Israel’s top defense experts on whether Israel can risk arming Kyiv, how to deal with the fallout from Russia, and what is really at stake

The closing remarks of lawyer Richard Malka in the trial of the Charlie Hebdo and Hyper Cacher attacks were recently published in France. Malka, who is being compared to Emile Zola, explains why it is necessary to criticize religion

The destruction of hundreds of Iranian drones, a cyberattack on Israeli sites and maybe even a strange Las Vegas stabbing are just the latest examples of the Israel-Iranian proxy wars

As the military conflict between both countries becomes progressively brutal and more public, these are the key events over past months

Most offices, restaurants and stores in Odessa are closed, but people are walking their dogs and meeting with friends in perhaps the last moments of peace before Russia carries out the next stage of Putin's Ukraine war

The two dual nationals, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anousheh Ashouri, are on their way back to the U.K. after serving year-long prison sentences

Announcement follows first flight from Israel's flag carrier from Cairo to Tel Aviv in October

Worn out but hopeful, Ukrainians fleeing war in Russia arrive at a frantic makeshift absorption center at Ben-Gurion International Airport. Israel, too, spies an economic opportunity in the immigrants

Two Israelis who returned to Israel from abroad were found to be carrying a combination of omicron and the infectious BA.2 variant of coronavirus, which has not been sequenced elsewhere in the world

Russia invades Ukraine: In third week of fighting, none of Putin's key objectives have been reached, despite thousands of people killed and more than two million made refugees

Including some kosher kitchens and reasonable prices, the move marks the first time a major international cruise line has chosen Israel as a base of operations

In 1948, a temporary border separated Arab families from their land in Israel’s Triangle region. Several months later, the border was erased. But in 2017, in a stunning upset of norms, Israel justified seizing the lands under the Absentee Property ...

The West Bank outpost has prevented local Palestinians from accessing their lands

The neighbors are at odds over several issues, primarily the 1.5 million people Armenia says were killed in 1915 in a genocide by the Ottoman Empire, the predecessor to modern Turkey

'The prime minister has not made a move without talking to the White House,' U.S. Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides says

Israel Prize selection committee for music highlights Medina’s long struggle for the legitimacy of Mizrahi music in Israel

The outgoing CENTCOM chief says the move can help Israel boost its ties with regional partners, as well as help counteract the 'over 3,000 ballistic missiles of various types, some of which can reach Tel Aviv' in Iran's hands

Palestinian diplomats hurried to Europe in a last-ditch bid to torpedo a Hungarian proposal to condition aid on removing inciting material from schoolbooks

Israeli government websites were targeted in what was called a ‘wide-scale’ attack, perhaps the biggest in Israel’s history. A day after, this is what we know – and what we don’t

The cabinet decided to approve the group's immigration to Israel in November, before a petition challenging their Jewish roots halted the process in its tracks

With MBS declaring Israel is 'not an enemy' but a 'potential ally,' and Biden’s upcoming trip to Riyadh, the war in Ukraine is triggering the belated return of sober thinking about relations between Saudi Arabia, Israel and the U.S.

COVID in Israel: Despite spread of coronavirus variant, experts say mass reinfection unlikely after 'omicron infected half the country'

A rabbi’s arrest, reports of irregularities in the approval process, and demands for transparency: The granting of citizenship to the Russian oligarch and Putin's ally has attracted public attention to the Portuguese passports industry

Defense Minister Gantz's representative on the board of JNF-owned Himnuta, suggests purchasing the islands as a haven for Jews, with JNF money. The proposal is met with sweeping opposition

Rabbi Litvak was accused of helping the Russian-Israeli oligarch fraudulently secure Portuguese citizenship last year, in a case that resurfaced after Ukraine-related sanctions targeted Abramovich

European powers have warned that Russia's demands to have its trade guaranteed with Iran could wreck an attempt to restore the Iranian nuclear deal

Israel's attempts to mediate between Russia and Ukraine could come with a heavy price, warns Eran Etzion, a former senior Israeli diplomat. Also on this episode: Meet the Israelis who joined the Ukrainian army to fight Putin

With Republicans consolidated in opposition to Biden’s diplomacy and some Democrats also criticizing a potential new deal, pressure on the president is rising

The Knesset speaker pledged that at least half of the parliament's 120 members be present for the address, but no final date has been set yet

Speaking for the first time since Russia invaded Ukraine, the two foreign ministers discuss sanctions, mediation, aid and refugees

Abdel-Latif el-Sayed, commander of the so-called Security Belt force in the southern Abyan province, survived the explosion

Moscow hoped that Ukraine's third-largest city, with its large Russian-speaking population, would rise up against Kyiv. So far, the usual pro-Kremlin voices have gone silent, while air raid sirens go off every night

Russia's top propagandists, many of whom have disseminated vicious antisemitism for decades, are now eagerly commandeering Jewish identity and the Holocaust as the next step in the grotesque "Nazi Ukraine" slur

March has seen unprecedented cold weather, though low temperatures are expected to rise slowly throughout the week

Hurry! The blooming of almond trees in Israel has just reached its peak

Why do Jews dress up for Purim? ■ Why do Jews eat hamantaschen on Purim ■ Was Jesus the real villain in the Purim story? ■ And also: 15 hamantaschen recipes

Poppyseed for the mainstream, chocolate for the addicted, vanilla cream for those who like it gooey, and Lotus spread for the innovative – four variations of traditional Purim treats

The Purim custom seems to have arisen in 13th century Italy, as festivities and masquerading escalated toward Shrove Tuesday

Russia invades Ukraine: After 20 days of fighting, none of Putin's key objectives have been reached, despite thousands of people killed and more than two million made refugees

A 16-year-old was shot dead in the Balata refugee camp during an Israeli raid, and another Palestinian was killed near Jerusalem

According to police, the incident occurred during a Shin Bet arrest of two suspects. There were no police casualties reported

Six Israeli drones struck a base in western Iran, reports say, in what may have been the motive for Tehran's Saturday night missile strike on Irbil

The ruling overturned the acquittal of a Border Police officer who was indicted for fraud and breach of trust despite the warrant against him seeking to prove bribery, a more serious crime

The Israeli Holocaust memorial had turned down a request by Ukraine to hold an event at the site in which Zelenskyy would speak, but sources at Yad Vashem say that the discussions are still ongoing

Amnesty International's executive director claimed U.S. Jews don't want Israel to be a Jewish state, just one month after the release of AI's report accusing Israel of being an 'apartheid state'

Iran has also reportedly made several arrests in a plot by an Israeli-recruited ring to sabotage the country's Fordow nuclear site

During cabinet meeting, Aliyah and Integration Minister Pnina Tamano-Shata demands the urgent rescue of eligible Ethiopian immigrants, who have themselves been in a war zone for over a year

A defense establishment source claims that this is the largest-ever cyberattack carried out against Israel

A Ukrainian woman who fled shelling in Kyiv cannot be deported until a final decision is made on her request to stay, judge rules

Schwarzbaum was the only one of his family to survive the concentration camps at Auschwitz and appeared on German television and schools to speak about the Holocaust's unbearable sufferings

Abramovich, who denies having close ties to Putin, is on the U.K. and EU's sanctions list meant to isolate the Russian president for his invasion of Ukraine

Israel and the UAE pressure the U.S. to bolster their aerial defense systems and to boost intelligence cooperation should the Iran nuclear talks be successful, Bloomberg reports

In a letter co-signed by 27 organizations, the Jewish community tells the Biden administration they know all too well what happens when 'America shuts its doors'

The newspaper claims that sources in the police stand by their claims and that a Justice Ministry team investigating the allegations of the force's misuse of NSO's Pegasus spyware has not been thoroughly examined

Russian disinformation about the invasion of Ukraine has been met with fierce opposition on Wikipedia; now, a top editor has been arrested for 'distributing fake anti-Russian information'

Tehran is backing Putin, happy with the upset to the U.S.-led international order, but many Iranians – even former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad – are impressed by Ukraine’s resistance

Though the digital boycott of Russia is much more widespread outside of Israel, more and more Israeli tech firms are halting operations over Ukraine

Russia's president has only bad options left, which makes him even more dangerous. Biden should offer him a way out of his own Ukraine mess, but only at the right moment, which hasn't yet arrived

Israel's current R number is the highest recorded since January 26, although it is far from the recent peak of 2.12 on December 30

When the two presidents met in Ankara last week, there were handshakes, flag-bearing horses, even a slick if revisionist film on Turkish-Jewish history. But how long will Erdogan’s U-turn towards Israel last, and how far can it go?

Lebanese Iron Maidens: They curse, sing about sexuality and social injustice and argue with relatives who want them to wear pink instead of “the devil’s color.” This is the story of 'Slave to Sirens,' which responds to gender and cultural stere...