President Emmanuel Macron may have defeated his far-right rival relatively comfortably in Sunday’s runoff, but the Jewish community says the hard work lies ahead: ‘The progress Marine Le Pen has made is frightening’

Blinken pledges military aid, U.S. embassy reopening in landmark Kyiv visit, as Russia's invasion of Ukraine enters its second month

Israel Police are investigating the possibility that Samir Omar was the victim of a family feud, after his body was found in his truck in a Bedouin town

The company urged the public to avoid recalled products, including Israeli favorites Pesek Zman and Kif Kef candy bars, leading to a two point drop in its stock exchange list price

The trip by U.S. Secretary of State Blinken and Defense Secretary Austin to visit President Volodymyr Zelenskyy culminated in a pledge for new aid worth $713 million for Zelenskyy's government and countries in the region

If renegade lawmaker Amichai Chikli is deemed a 'defector,' the law blocks him from joining an existing Knesset party in the next Israeli election, sending a message to other members of the dwindling Yamina faction

Eytan Stibbe reached the international Space Station on April 8 as part of the first all-private astronaut team ever flown there

The Israeli military spokesperson says Palestinian factions likely behind the rocket, which fell in an open area in northern Israel on Monday

In the past, deterrence in Gaza was based on the assumption that Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the rest of the Palestinian organizations knew what was waiting for them — but there are new factors at play now

The trip by U.S. Secretary of State Blinken and Defense Secretary Austin, is the highest-level visit to Kyiv by American officials since Russian invaded Ukraine

Israel's High Court of Justice rejects a petition seeking to again investigate the death of four Palestinian children who were killed in an Israeli airstrike in the 2014 war with Hamas

After COVID hit, newly unemployed tour guide Uzi Tauber, 68, discovered mosaics at his 130-meter Kfar Sava home

The final tally handed Macron a second term as president with 58.5 percent of the vote, trumping Le Pen's 41.5 percent, with many of those who voted for the incumbent president doing so to stop the far-right challenger from reaching the Élysée Pala...

After a Channel 13 report about spending at the prime minister's home, Bennett fires back: 'The expenses of the prime minister’s residence have dramatically decreased during my term'

Amir Lazar, chairman of a new franchise for mortgage brokers, says the solution to Israel's housing crisis does not lie in lotteries and proposes how to cool the sizzling housing market

The two also discuss Iran's demand that the U.S. delist its Revolutionary Guards from the terror organization blacklist ■ Israel’s national security advisor will visit Washington this week, White House says

Defense Minister Gantz cites security concerns related to Hamas escalation behind Israel's decision to keep the Erez crossing shut, which was closed over rocket fire from Gaza

While many French voters in Tel Aviv see the incumbent president Emmanuel Macron as the only option for France, voters in Netanya are willing to give Marine Le Pen a chance for the first time

Millions of Jews worldwide eat meat certified kosher by a New York-based organization. But in Israel, the rabbinate’s monopoly results in the sending of butchers abroad at very high salaries

The small boat carrying around 60 people sunk off the coat on Saturday night with both Lebanese and Syrians aboard

Israel has received criticism over its failure to provide Ukraine with defensive equipment or weapons, and recently announced it was sending a shipment of aid to the country

Brig. Gen. Shlomi Binder, Israel's outgoing commander of the 91st Galilee Division, adds however that as the Lebanese crisis deepens, Hezbollah is allowing for a bigger Iranian footprint. He also has a dire warning for Nasrallah

Bookmakers are now saying that Emmanuel Macron is the clear favorite to win reelection. Far-right challenger Le Pen has discovered once again that her links to Russia's leader are hurting her chances

Catalonia's Regional President Pere Aragonès, who was reportedly infected by Israeli NSO's Pegasus spyware, tells Haaretz that he places the blame on the Spanish government, and warns of dire consequences for democracy

HBO’s ‘The Invisible Pilot’ docu-series may be flawed, but the real-life story is still jaw-droppingly entertaining. Plus, Netflix’s ‘White Hot: The Rise & Fall of Abercrombie & Fitch’

In light of declining COVID rates, some health experts are urging Israel to cut its testing requirement for arriving passengers at Ben-Gurion Airport, one of only few where all travelers are still ordered to take a test

'Save our children': Why the Republicans' conspiratorial campaign accusing liberals of pedophilia sounds grimly familiar – and so ominous

Nablus area resident who worked in Petah Tikva was convicted last year of murdering Rabbi Shay Ohayon, an attack he told investigators was 'for the sake of Palestine'

In the first nationwide truce since 2016, the two sides agreed to operate two commercial flights a week to and from Sana'a to Jordan and Egypt, the first such exception to the Saudis' chokehold blockade of rebel-held Yemen

Settler leader hails 'another brick in the building of the land and the settlement in Judea and Samaria' in the Air Force's decision to fly over more parts of the West Bank

Tomás Zerón is wanted in connection with the torture and disappearance of 43 students. Officials also want to question him about his role in buying NSO’s Pegasus spyware and its misuse

During the Second Lebanon War, an Israeli clinical psychologist discovered the powers of Hibuki. Now the plush puppy, with long arms and a sad expression, is offering immediate relief to children in Ukraine: 'Children can’t wait, in a month it will...

A Passover miracle: Special project, carried out with the support of Egyptian authorities, seeks to preserve synagogues, cemeteries and priceless documents left behind after Jews were expelled

This pastry is considered to be the original Bedouin desert

Rahat residents say shooting carried on through the night, even after Rimas Abu Ali was wounded by a stray bullet. 'Arabs in this country have no security at all,' her mother says

American tourists in Israel who test positive for coronavirus in the 24 hours before jetting out of Tel Aviv are encountering not just a nasty virus, but also a bureaucratic system geared up for Hebrew speakers and Israelis only

Awama fried dough balls are usually sweet, and eaten with a thick coating of sugar syrup

The Crime Minister anti-Netanyahu organization sued former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s oldest son in 2020 following a tirade of attacks on Twitter against the group

Just last month, Turkey blocked Russian warships from crossing the narrow Bosporus strait that connects the Black Sea with the Mediterranean Sea, muddling its naval supply lines in Syria

Polls open for second round of French presidential election ■ Experts analyze where incumbent President Emmanuel Macron and his far-right challenger Marine Le Pen stand on key issues affecting Israel

'Emmanuel Macron is considered arrogant by more than one in two voters and Marine Le Pen remains scary for half of them,' one pollster puts it, as French voters head to the polls for the second round

Affluent families take better advantage of the savings plan, which deposits a monthly payment to every Israeli child in an attempt to reduce the impact of poverty on choices available to them later in life, study finds

A group of settlers was throwing stones at Palestinians near the Bat Ayin settlement, residents say, before one settler started firing shots, moderately wounding three people

With two tense weeks remaining until the end of Ramadan, Hamas is playing a duplicitous game by stoking Jerusalem flames and permitting rocket fire from Gaza – all the while saying it doesn't seek escalation

Zelenskyy will request that the U.S. become a security guarantor for Ukraine from future threats

The European Council accepted Israel's request to accede to the Istanbul Convention, even though it takes issue with clauses about compensating victims of gender-based violence and providing legal status to non-citizens

Umm al-Fahm Mayor Samir Mahameed stressed that the Arab community should channel its grievances against Israel's actions in Jerusalem 'in a legitimate way,' after he stopped Arab youths from vandalizing property

The meeting was the latest round in the secret Baghdad-brokered talks to resume ties – severed in 2016 after Saudi Arabia executed a prominent Sh'iite cleric – between the countries

The decision to scrap the mask mandate comes amid a marked drop in COVID cases in Israel and will not apply to high-risk places, such as hospitals

The 33-year-old was shot three times by a masked assailant outside her home in the central Israeli city of Kalansua

Israel limited the amount of the worshipers for the Easter ceremony at the Holy Sepulchre, fearing a repeat of the Mount Meron stampede which left 45 dead, but Christians say the move infringes on freedom of worship and threatens Jerusalem's precario...

Biolojic Design will conduct the trial for cancer patients in Australia with a new type of drug that makes full use of computational biology and big data

Russia resumes air strikes on the steel plant sheltering around 3,000 civilians and soldiers, in a U-turn from Putin's order to blockade the last Ukrainian bastion in Mariupol two days earlier ■ Strikes in Odesa kill at least five

The Sarmat, which Russia reportedly test-launched this week, is capable of carrying 10 or more nuclear warheads and decoys, and of striking targets thousands of miles away in the United States or Europe

Russian commander said Moscow wants control of southern and eastern Ukraine ■ Ukrainian forces pulled back from some settlements to regroup as an intensifying barrage pounded all cities in Luhansk region

The rock iguanas of Exuma are experiencing sugar highs after being treated to alien fruit. Prolonged high blood sugar is no better for them than it is for you

The origins of this ancient North African holiday are unknown, but could plausibly involve sinful Jews seeking release from damnation and the mixed feelings of their Berber neighbors

Gunmen opened fire on a vehicle carrying a general of Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, Gen. Hossein Almasi

The closure blocks thousands of Gazan workers from entering Israel, a move the army hopes will put pressure on Hamas to avoid escalation

The man, a resident of Israel's central city of Lod, arrived at a police station near his family home and told officers he had stabbed his mother to death

If confirmed by the Senate, Michael Ratney would be taking the reins of a fraught U.S.-Saudi relationship, marred by disputes over the Iran nuclear deal and the release of intel charging the crown prince with Khashoggi's murder

Police claim Walid al-Sharif fell during confrontations with security forces after throwing stones and sustained a head injury ■ 'He suffers from extensive brain damage, a skull fracture,' MK Ahmad Tibi announced

An unspecified projectile launched from Gaza landed in an open area in southern Israel, hours after the Israeli army reported two rockets launched by militants landed within the Strip after failing to cross the border fence

A series of deadly bombings have wreaked havoc across Afghanistan since the Taliban rose to power in August

Moscow says it won the war's biggest fight – the battle for the main port of the Donbas, Mariupol – after a nearly two-month siege

Over 50 Palestinians were wounded, 26 of which were suffered from gas inhalation. Fifteen were evacuated to hospitals, with three in serious condition ■ Police sources criticize use of tear gas grenades

Helena Czernek and Aleksander Prugar cast old Mezuzah traces left behind across Poland and recreate them: 'Synagogues are traces of communities, mezuzahs are traces of those who were murdered'

Fourteen Palestinians were taken to the hospital, with two in serious condition, the Red Crescent says ■ Israel Police Commissioner orders Border Police reserve forces to be on immediate alert for deployment

Images of more than 200 mass graves emerged hours after Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed victory in the battle for Mariupol

Lutfi Labadi was wounded in the head during an exchange of gunfire with Israeli troops in the West Bank village of Yamoun

This week at the Tel Aviv airport: A Catholic priest explains what it's like being a spiritual leader in Jerusalem

Attorney Mohammed Assaf would take his son and two nephews to school in Nablus every morning. Last week they encountered clashes by Joseph’s Tomb. When Assaf left his car; a soldier in a speeding jeep opened the door and shot him

A tiny firm in Binyamina is planning to create a chain of robot-based supermarkets in Israel and underprice the competition. Do they stand a chance?

'The Purim Superhero' is one of 58 books removed from the district in the latest addition to a national book-banning trend led by conservative activists

Foreign Minister Lapid tells senior envoys Israel 'stopped Jewish extremists' from fanning the flames in Jerusalem's Old City

'The enemy keeps sending messages that if we give up on avenging Soleimani, they will give us some concessions or lift some sanctions. This is pure fantasy,' says Revolutionary Guards' Navy chief

After Putin claims victory in Mariupol, U.S. president says Washington and allies are 'moving as fast as possible' to provide Ukraine with the equipment and weapons it needs to fend off a fresh Russian onslaught

After 84 cases of hepatitis in children were discovered in the U.K. without a known cause, Israel begins monitoring similar cases in hopes of finding an explanation for the recent surge

Before World War II, the Dutch East Indies colony was home to hundreds of ‘Baghdadi’ Jews from Iraq who emigrated to Southeast Asia. While most had left, their presence is still felt in the world’s most populous Muslim country

Three explosions rocked Afghanistan on Thursday, all targeting the country's minority Shi'ite Muslims

A new book reveals how a group of wealthy German industrialists thrived during the Third Reich – and afterward too. Author David de Jong explains why some firms still haven’t faced up to their wartime sins

With home prices rising 13 percent in a year, a quarter million Israelis rushed to take part in the lottery that will give winners a discount of up to 1 million shekels

Five people contributed directly to a 13-percent surge in Israel's housing prices in the past year. If prices had dropped rather than shot up you can be sure the central bank would have intervened

Is the number of cases in Israel unusually high, what are the symptoms of the disease and is it linked to the coronavirus? Haaretz explains

The victim's family reported he was abducted on Tuesday outside the central Israel city of Tira ■ The police have so far detained two suspects and issued a gag order on the case

The Azovstal plant has served as a shelter for civilians, police and soldiers in the besieged Ukrainian city ■ Zelenskyy: Russia controls most of the city, about 120,000 civilians are trapped

Ecological camping, beehives and artists try to give new life to one of Jerusalem's most notorious buildings – and change how we view wasted rooftop space

Palestinians threw stones and fireworks at Israeli police officers, who responded by firing sponge-tipped bullets and tear gas, leaving at least one injured

The Israeli decision to refrain from imposing a complete closure on the Palestinian Territories could have conflicting results ■ How Israel failed to explain its Temple Mount policy

Globalization can survive without Russia, but it can’t without China. Israel would be one of the biggest losers if it collapses.

Unlike previous years, Israel did not maintain the curfew on Palestinians from the West Bank and the Gaza Strip through the interim days of Passover