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

Women who had to flee their homes across Ukraine tell how they managed to find shelter, food and water in the war-torn country

The main questioning hovering above Lapid's European tour, Bennett's Ukraine-Russia mediation, and Lieberman's battle with the farmer lobby is whether Ayelet Shaked will stick around to see Lapid become PM

'Dark interests have taken over our narrative,' says one member of the Bulgarian Jewish community, amid intensifying divisions over Sofia's thorny Holocaust legacy

The reality on the ground in Ukraine has surprised most military experts, and could lead to a shift in relations among the world's superpowers ■ Israel can also learn several lessons

This week at the Tel Aviv airport: Three siblings who raised money from their friends and are hoping to help Ukrainians fleeing the war, and a doctor who realized how good Israel's medical system is after working in New York

Mózes Salamon, rabbi of a small Hungarian community, decided he could not remain silent in the face of Judaism’s injustices to women

Animated by volunteers, donations and goodwill, Europe’s humanitarian response to the flood of refugees from Ukraine is inspiring. We Jewish refugee aid groups have to plan for when funds and energy begin to wane

Secretary of State Blinken says Biden will make it clear to President Xi that China will bear the responsibility for any action it takes to support Russia, doubling down on war crimes accusations

Former police officer Almog Cohen was set to sign over one hundred volunteers to what he envisioned as an armed citizen brigade, but marred by accusations of racism and funding issues, police take a step back

Googoosh’s classic pre-1979 Islamic Revolution songs drew cheers and shouts of recognition, as Iranian concert-goers sang every word jump-danced to her discotheque tunes at Dubai’s Expo 2020 world fair

Industrial sewage from phosphate plants have already caused acute damaged to palm trees in the Zin and Akrabim streams nature reserve

For Aleksandr Dugin, the most influential thinker in Russia, the war in Ukraine is a historic moment that will usher in a new world order

Women have harder time finishing studies, while first-generation academics have more financial difficulties, according to a survey of some 1,700 students from Israel's seven research institutes

The Houthis said Saudi Arabia cannot be a mediator or host talks since it's a party in the war, but would be open to talks in a 'neutral country'

The new laser systems to intercept rockets and drones primarily from the Strip Gaza, with almost negligible operational costs, are slated to be ready in three years

The UN-backed Medicines Patent Pool says agreements signed with companies in Asia, the Caribbean, the Middle East and Eastern Europe to begin producing Pfizer's antiviral drug for coronavirus

Hundreds of civilians had been taking shelter in the grand theater in Ukraine's besieged Mariupol that was blown apart by a Russian airstrike

Putin’s claims about the 'historical unity' of Russia and Ukraine are rife with Hitlerian motifs

Ukrainian officials have offered glimpses into what's on the table in negotiations with Russia, but Putin's latest bellicose address, broadcast on live television, showed a leader unwilling to relent

Both are of the same period, their construction dragged on for years and provoked similar reactions. What distinguishes Berlin’s Mouse Bunker from Tel Aviv’s New Central Bus Station?

U.S. and Israeli experts say patience in D.C. is wearing thin with Jerusalem's position on Russia sanctions, after Israel tempered expectations that it will keep oligarchs close to Putin from finding safe harbor

As my car headed west amid the small country towns far from Kyiv, Ukrainians let their guard down regarding Putin – and even handed you their child – once they got to know you

Menachem Begin was the eternal leader of the opposition in Israel. But unlike Benjamin Netanyahu, who today fills that role, becoming premier was not the be-all and end-all of his political life. Reflections on the 30th anniversary of his death

The Ukrainian president's speech to Israeli lawmakers will be screened to a rally at Habima Theater on Sunday

For the past weeks, Mykolaiv has been an immovable obstacle to Russia's plans to cut off Ukraine from the sea. Thousands of volunteers organized themselves to make sure the city keeps functioning under heavy fire

Mikhail Fridman slams Ukraine-related sanctions, saying wealthy Russian tycoons cannot sway Putin. Denouncing the Russian invasion, he says, 'would be suicide for anyone'

London-based Noma Bar is used to illustrate dictators. Russian President Vladimir Putin is his latest obsession — together with Trump

The company plans on hiring students and engineers from the area, joining other major multinationals such as IBM, Oracle and Dell-EMC who have set up R&D centers in southern Israel

The R number, indicating the spread of the COVID pandemic, rose to 0.92 on Thursday, the highest number Israel has seen in weeks

With the battle still raging over the legacy of Amos Oz, the writer’s son, Daniel Oz, adds his voice in an intimate memoir that is part of a much larger cultural drama

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

Israelis doing national service are now able to 'protect' illegal Jewish-owned farms in the West Bank, pushing out local Palestinian farmers, by signing up through an NGO

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 covert war

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