During its 15 years, Khiam Prison in Lebanon saw detainees imprisoned indefinitely with no trial, food shortages, electrocution, denial of medical care and other grave issues, newly declassified documents show

While Russia's economy collapses under sanctions and Putin's army bombs Ukraine, the U.S. is closely following China's response to the war, hoping it doesn't get involved, says Haaretz analyst Alon Pinkas

Shlomo Filber turned state’s evidence in a case in which Netanyahu is accused of providing regulatory concessions to the Bezeq telecommunications company in exchange for favorable coverage

Four weeks into Russia's invasion of Ukraine, President Putin shows no sign of backing off even as Russian troops have failed to take over major Ukrainian cities. More than 3.5 million people have fled from Ukraine, and the latest civilian death toll...

All the perpetrators of recent stabbing attacks in Jerusalem were Palestinians from East Jerusalem who are permanent Israeli residents. Pavlovian responses could lead to unwanted escalation

The warming of ties between Israel and Arab countries shows that its international standing doesn't depend on its leader – but another issue is being pushed to the side

Justice Isaac Amit, who is next in line for the post, is an expert in civil law and has a history of liberal rulings

Belarus’ contribution to the war effort could be as many as 15,000 troops, giving Russia another opportunity to capture Kyiv ■ A senior security source says Belarusian commanders are deeply opposed to joining the invasion

As a nuclear deal between Iran and world powers inches closer, Israeli PM Bennett, Egyptian President Sissi, and Emirati crown prince discuss various opportunities for regional cooperation

The man, suspected of an unprovoked stabbing attack, has restraints on his hands and feet while unconscious at the hospital. Police have yet to acquiesce to doctors' request that they be removed

Eurocom, which was controlled by co-defendant Shaul Elovitch, will pay a fine of 400,000 shekels ($124,000) and will admit to charges of bribe and fraud

Kahanist activist Baruch Marzel calls to enforce a martial law on the Negev: 'If the Negev falls, the entire country will fall'

'Mariupol looks like Warsaw did in 1944 when Nazis, Hitler’s Germans, were brutally bombing houses, killing people, killing civilians with no mercy at all,' Polish President Duda says

After several years of strain, the Russia-Ukraine war has pushed the U.S. to strengthen the relationship between the two countries

Ukraine's large land mass and the sophistication of Russia's projectiles mean an export of Israel's coveted Iron Dome defense system would be unlikely to protect the country from bombardment

Two are in serious condition ■ The assailant, an Israeli citizen, was shot by a bus driver. He is a convicted felon and a supporter of ISIS ■ This is the third stabbing attack in Israel in the past week

Following Russia's violent invasion of Ukraine, Marina Davydova, a central figure in the theater world, called on people to sign a manifesto aimed at President Putin. 'Russia was taken over by secret services’

President Vladimir Putin’s longtime foe rejected the fraud charges against him as bogus

Mixed Arab-Jewish orchestra Firqat Alnoor and its conductor Ariel Cohen are fighting stereotypes — around the music they play and around Israeli Haredim and Arabic culture. And they do it all without sheet music

96-year-old Boris Romanchenko 'survived four concentration camps and was now killed in the Russian war of aggression on Ukraine,' German minister says

The settlement is not 'an admission of wrongdoing,' Israel's Teva claims, while Rhode Island says no sum of money can 'undo the harm' caused by the opioid epidemic

From registering refugees to managing the needs of intake centers in Poland and Moldova, Israeli tech firm Monday is helping aid workers optimize

After learning the art of cheesemaking in Italy for two years, Tamir Peretz and Dana Tal opened a small dairy near Hadera. Their aged cheeses soon started flying off the shelves

Protest letter signed by hundreds of Reform Jews urges immediate action for greater accountability and transparency, following a report about alleged sexual misconduct in the movement in past decades

The three leaders focused on the food security and the energy crisis precipitated by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, while Israel also ramps up efforts to defuse growing tensions between the U.S. and Gulf states

A climate expert believes that warming at the earth's poles is to blame for the influx of cold winds in Israel

Author Matti Friedman’s book on Leonard Cohen’s tour of the Sinai Desert during the October 1973 war between Israel and Egypt is an expedition into the troubled soul of one of the world’s greatest songwriters

More than 14,000 new COVID-19 infections recorded in Israel on Monday as highly contagious new variant quickens its spread

Rabbi Gesa Ederberg has led the German capital’s New Synagogue for 15 years, but has never faced bigger challenges than in the last two due to COVID restrictions and now an influx of Ukrainian refugees

Israel's Channel 12 airs accusations by three more women against Grant, the former manager of Roman Abramovich's Chelsea FC

A controversial new film called ‘Huda’s Salon’ explores the Palestinian narrative from a unique perspective: the double occupation of women

The Asian city-state, already one of Israel's major markets for arms, is looking to expand ties with both Israel and the Palestinians

Russia invades Ukraine: Russian troops have failed to capture any major Ukrainian city more than four weeks into their invasion, and increasingly are resorting to causing massive destruction to residential areas

Israeli experts say that those who contracted the omicron variant are likely better protected against the new BA.2. variant, which already accounts for around 60-70 percent of cases in Israel, according to the Health Ministry

Mahmoud Abbas plans to use the visit to convey to the Biden administration the Palestinians' desire to initiate a diplomatic process with Israel

Many Ukrainian educators have turned to Israel for advice about how to cope in the classroom in wartime

Following a week in which the Russians made no advances on the ground, intelligence assessments assert Russian troops are preparing a second major offensive, including a renewed attempt to encircle Ukraine's capital

About 300 Palestinians are set to lose their homes in the village of Walaja, outside Jerusalem, drawing U.S. lawmakers' sharp protest against the planned Israeli action

Jewish refugees fleeing war-torn Ukraine would be allowed to fly to Israel before proving that they are eligible for immigration ■ Over 4,000 immigrants from Ukraine have arrived in Israel since Russian invasion began

Boris Romanchenko was one of thousands of elderly Jews who were unable to flee Ukraine and remained under Russian bombardment

The talks will focus on Iran, Syria and the war in Ukraine as part of an effort to forge a coalition with American backing among countries that in the past were considered adversaries of Israel – including Egypt, the Gulf states and Turkey

A second child died, then a third. Ambulances stopped picking up the wounded because people couldn’t call them without a signal, and they couldn’t navigate the bombed-out streets

U.S. Secretary of State Blinken says attacks against Rohingya were 'widespread, systematic' and evidence points to a clear intent to destroy the mainly Muslim minority

Among the oligarchs who were sanctioned over ties with Vladimir Putin following the war in Ukraine are a few billionaires who hold Israeli citizenship – or are eligible for it ■ If they now decide to make their home in Israel, they could change t...

Mossad chief’s supposed pay stub is the latest leak claimed by a group of Iranian hackers; experts say the leaks are more PR exercise than genuine attack on Israel

Joining the Haaretz Weekly podcast from Kyiv, Anshel Pfeffer gives an update on the war in Ukraine, analyzes the Ukrainian military's effective resistance, and explains why ending the war is proving so difficult

Rep. Adam Kinzinger says that while he 'deeply supports' the U.S.-Israel relationship, everyone must pick a side in the battle 'between Good and Evil'

Graphic designer Tamara Cycman wanted to do something to help the Ukrainian refugees forced to flee their homeland. Now her 'children’s corner' at Berlin’s main train station is keeping thousands entertained

Three decades after the Soviet empire's fall, as Putin’s vicious war continues, Israel once again faces an immigration spike from Ukraine, Belarus and Russia, as well as Ukrainian refugees. Does Israel's government have the political will and capac...

Tatiana Kumok, a fashion blogger who has lived in Melitopol for about a year after living in Israel for a decade, has in recent weeks reported on what is happening in the city under Russian occupation

Other Ukrainian refugees will be eligible for first aid and emergency medicine at private clinics paid for by the Israeli government

Zelenskyy, in his address to Israeli lawmakers, made a number of claims about Ukraine and the Holocaust — but some of them are not quite accurate

In the 1920s, composer-lyricist Cole Porter started inserting Jewish-sounding motifs into his songs. Was his invented Jewishness part of the array of disguises he assumed in order to escape his sexual identity?

Zelenskyy stated during a fiery live-stream to Israeli lawmakers on Sunday that Russia was using the 'language of the final solution'

'Tell me, am I crazy for thinking we should start planning our evacuation?' I asked my friend, a third generation Holocaust survivor living in Warsaw. In Poland, watching the Ukraine conflict so close to our borders, fear and old traumas are rising

There is no immediate confirmation of numbers of dead and injured, according to Chinese media, as firefighters work to tame a blaze ignited by the crash

There was a sense of relief in Ukraine's capital over the weekend, with the dread of an expected entrance of Russian armored columns now replaced by talk – premature, perhaps – of a shocking Ukrainian victory

The Iranian drones were shot down by American fighter jets while heading westward. Last month, an alleged Israeli attack caused heavy damage to the Iranian drone system

I was 37 when COVID broke out, but that was quite a few wrinkles ago. All around the world, people are complaining about feeling they have gotten older during COVID. Is that, too, part of the coronavirus’ little scheme?

Israel's serious COVID cases, however, remain stable

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

Bennett's government views Netanyahu's 2015 speech as a strategic failure, and therefore sees no reason to repeat the mistake ■ An attack on Iranian drones last week and increased coordination with Gulf states reveal Israel's new strategy

The choice of 98-year-old Rabbi Gershon Edelstein, who symbolizes the classical Lithuanian leadership style, signals a shift in the ultra-Orthodox community

Most common incidents involve illegal discrimination in providing a service, hiring and employment in general followed by racist expressions, racist speech or stereotypical advertising made in the public sphere

The deceased rabbi represented an ideal of religious life, but he didn't actually leave an imprint on Haredi society

Although the lawyer for the government said the petition should be thrown out because the quota has not been reached, the court still pressed to know why the quota was necessary

The shooting is the latest in a series of violent incidents that have occurred since Shalom Domrani was released from prison in October following a six-year term

Ukrainian President Zelenskyy, who is addressing parliaments around the world, was speaking over the heads of Israeli lawmakers to global public opinion

Secretary of State Blinken is set to announce the decision at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, which features an exhibit on the plight of the Rohingya. The decision should bolster efforts to hold Myanmar's leaders accountable

The full transcript of Zelenskyy's address to Israeli lawmakers and the public about the ongoing Russian invasion in Ukraine

Some Israeli lawmakers and ministers call to continue supporting Ukraine, despite the Ukrainian president's use of terms like 'final solution'

Israel plans to absorb tens of thousands of immigrants due to the Ukraine war. However, it is unlikely to spark the same economic boom as the massive aliyah wave that arrived after the fall of the Soviet Union

'We can ask why we can’t receive weapons from you, why Israel hasn't imposed sanctions on Russia, but you must then live with your answer,' Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenksyy says in address

Over the past two years COVID has only enhanced the trend of streaming TV shows. We spoke to seven Israelis aged between 9 and 73 about how their viewing habits have changed

Clearly people living around the Dead Sea in biblical times had displeased the deity – just look at the place. Thus modern research into the Jordan Valley began

The attack is the second stabbing in the last day, when an Israeli jogger was wounded following an attack by a Palestinian resident of the city who was shot by officers at the scene

What do politicians and pundits really mean when they say things like ‘de-escalate,’ ‘hybrid war’ and ‘miscalculation’ to describe the situation in Ukraine? Our lexicon guides you through the fog of war clichés

Twenty petitioners complained to Rahat's local council about the gender-segregated Umm Kulthum cover concert, a decision which some local leaders defended as part of Bedouin tradition that ought to be respected

Henry Hershkovitz, athlete and clockmaker, carried the flag at the opening of the Olympic Games. He survived the massacre of 11 teammates, but their deaths weighed on him – until his own clock stopped ticking, at age 95

Although the Joint List, a coalition of Arab-majority parties, has not taken an official stance on the Ukrainian president's speech, two Israeli lawmakers say they will not be watching

According to Israeli researchers, who conducted experiments in the U.S. and Israel, people tend to overestimate the presence of minorities around them – regardless of political views

After 25 days of fighting, it looks increasingly likely that Russia's armored columns won’t be driving victoriously down Kyiv’s broad boulevards. But that doesn’t mean Ukraine will avoid even greater suffering

The famed Judean dates began as one variant 2,400 years ago, by the Common Era had become something else and today, are different again

One Western country has the unique experience and capacity to help Ukraine protect civilian lives from Putin's bombardment: Israel. Unfortunately, despite repeated requests from Kyiv, it has chosen not to do