World leaders descend on Abu Dhabi to offer condolences on President Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan's death

How Palestinians began officially marking the Nakba, the loss of their homeland, 50 years after the event

In the first election held since 2018, Iran-backed Hezbollah is put to the test as many voters hope to topple the politicians they hold responsible for the country's economic meltdown

Ukraine's Kalush Orchestra gets a record number of televote points in a clear show of popular support for the war-ravaged nation

With his back against the wall, political considerations might affect Bennett's strategic moves. Dramatic shifts in the prime minister's office and major national days make fertile ground for a flare-up

This year's Nakba commemoration coincides with the funeral of a man shot dead by Israeli forces at Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa during Ramadan violence ■ Gaza crossing reopens to Palestinian laborers

The Israeli military had kept that name of its officer classified. Lt. Col. Mahmoud Kheireddine 'deserves that everyone know who he was, an Israeli hero,' the army's Operations Directorate head says

Two police officers, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, say a suspect is in custody as it is still unclear how many people were shot

Bennett always took pride in his management skills; in this case, the Israeli premier hasn’t managed to take charge of the chaos, and the failure is entirely his

At a conference in the West Bank, the Nachala settler movement presents its vision: To establish 10 new illegal outposts at once on July 20

Due to information on Hamas-led incitement related to recent terror attacks in Israel, the closure was extended beyond its initial expected opening

The decisions of Israeli police at events like journalist Shireen Abu Akleh's funeral display their inability to see the humanity and pain of the Palestinian people

Palestinian Authority President Abbas is also expected to visit Abu Dhabi for a condolence call, but no meeting is planned as of yet between Abbas and Israel's Herzog

The half brother of the late president has served as the de facto leader since Sheikh Khalifa suffered a stroke in 2014

Uri Savir, who served as a Knesset member and director general of the Foreign Ministry, served alongside Shimon Peres for 30 years, and helped organize the then-prime minister's historic visit to Morocco

Police came under heavy international criticism following Shireen Abu Akleh's funeral, in which footage showed officers striking mourners with batons

Despite the rise of the R number to 1.03, which indicates that the virus is spreading faster than it is disappearing, the Health Ministry is unlikely to renew covid restrictions

The man was critically injured in April during clashes at Al Aqsa Mosque after being shot by a sponge-tipped bullet, Palestinian sources said. Police said the man sustained a head injury from a fall during the clashes

The man was apprehended while carrying a knife and a letter detailing his intention to carry out a terror attack in Israel

The vote is taking place during an economic crisis marked by 50 percent unemployment in some districts, but with 103 party slates competing among the Sunnis, Shi’ites, Druze and Christians, a rescue seems far-fetched

This is the 27th murder in the Israeli Arab community since the beginning of the year

Left-winger Ofer Cassif said a police officer threatened to shoot him during a protest against the eviction of thousands of Palestinians from a region in the West Bank

This is the third reported airstrike within a week against targets affiliated with the Syrian regime ■ A Syrian military source says that five people were killed and seven were injured, including a child

U.S. Secretary of State Blinken said the U.S. was 'deeply troubled' by the event adding 'every family deserves to lay their loved ones to rest in a dignified and unimpeded manner.'

Iran’s official inflation rate is around 40 percent, and some estimate it is over 50 percent. Almost half the country's 82 million population are now below the poverty line

Dr. Stephen Fulder, one of Israel’s leading meditation teachers, explains how to find calm in a chaotic, threatening world, and admits that he, too, sometimes experiences anxiety

Sheikh Yusuf Albaz, the imam at Lod's Great Mosque, has praised Palestinians who defend the Al-Aqsa Mosque 'with their blood'

Living in exile in Los Angeles during World War II, Alfred Döblin stunned his fellow German émigrés with his conversion to Catholicism – the main theme of his 1949 memoir. But after returning to his homeland, he failed to reinvent himself

Matan Kahana's return to the Knesset blocks the possibility that another Yamina lawmaker will defect to the opposition

Arrested for the first time at age 14, Yahya Adwan spent the rest of his short life in jail for throwing Molotov cocktails and stones at Israeli troops. Last week a soldier shot and killed the 27-year-old Palestinian

Erdogan explains his opposition by citing Sweden and other Scandinavian countries’ alleged support for Kurdish militants and others whom Turkey considers to be terrorists

The UAE announces 40-day mourning period as condolences pour in from across the region. Israel's president hails his 'contribution to the growing partnership between our countries'

After envoy's return from Tehran, the European Union's foreign policy chief says he believed negotiations toward reviving the 2015 nuclear deal could resume

Russia potentially faces a hostile 1,335-kilometer border with a country that has F-35 jets and an agile navy. If there's one war Putin doesn't want to remind the Russian public of, it's the Winter War against Finland

In an interim report from the Israeli military's probe says investigators are still unable to determine who killed Shireen Abu Akleh

Shimrit Meir, considered a close confidante to the prime minister, announces her resignation amid accusations from colleagues who claim she bears responsibility for coalition whip's defection

Five left-wing activists are reported wounded as some 200 march to Masafer Yatta, a week after Israel's top court greenlights eviction

Footage shows the Joint List's Ahmad Tibi arguing with officers while the suspect flees from near a church where relatives of slain journalist Shireen Abu Akleh were gathering

The Russian soldier is accused of war crimes for shooting a 62-year-old Ukrainian man in the head through his car window

if Jesus was indeed baptized, then where? Biblical scholar Shimon Gibson reviews the geo-historical and archaeological evidence, or lack thereof, and presents a new theory

Islamic Jihad militants surrender after hours of fighting around the Jenin refugee camp, where journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was killed earlier this week

Likud members started calling dibs on portfolios, but the coalition revived as Yair Lapid got the United Arab List back on side for the Knesset's summer session

The prime minister said in private talks that he is concerned that Israeli Arab citizens will succumb to incitement about Mansour Abbas and his decision to participate in the governing coalition

Logistics and bureaucracy hamper Israel's attempts to secure the border fence across which tens of thousands of Palestinians cross ■ An Israeli general warns: Iran's nuke program is only a part of the threat it poses

Israel eventually softened its PR counterattack into accusations it had killed Shireen Abu Akleh, but that is unlikely to sway the world's opinion. There are, however, some notable mitigating circumstances

This week at the Tel Aviv airport: An Australian army man who went from driving tanks to photographing battlefields, and a woman who grew up in Israel's 'Russian ghetto'

The urge to reconsecrate the Temple Mount debases what's distinguished Jews for two millennia: recognition of the need for substitutes to sacred space

If the world's flora and fauna will need millions of years to rebound from the damage humanity has wrought on the planet, recovering from the ecological and aesthetic ravages of Zionism will take twice as long

Tareq Abu Hamad is the first Jerusalem Palestinian to reach a senior position in an Israeli government ministry. Now, as director of the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies, he describes what it's like to function as a Palestinian within the Is...

While Russia may be losing on the battlefield in Ukraine, it could still triumph if the Ukrainian economy collapses. The warning signs are there

In an interview with Haaretz, Svyatoslav Palama, deputy commander of the besieged unit in Ukraine's Mariupol, is calling for aid from the leadership in Kyiv and the international community to rescue people from the iron and steel plant

Israel has never decided if such killings are effective, or just an emotional reaction. The spectrum between revenge and rational judgment is murky

President Lasso, accompanied by a delegation of 100 Ecuadorian government officials and entrepreneurs in Jerusalem, is working to develop economic, tech, and defense ties with Israel

The Jews of Ukraine don't want to ignore their history, and antisemitism hasn't disappeared. But amid so much suffering, they've made a conscious choice

Israeli pollster Dahlia Scheindlin explains why Arab political leader Mansour Abbas is keeping prime minister Naftali Bennett in power. Also: A year after rioters destroyed his hotel, Evan Fallenberg still believes in coexistence

'The most gruesome human rights violations on the European continent in decades' have occurred in Ukraine since the beginning of the Russian invasion, Ukraine's deputy foreign minister told the Human Rights Council

Israel's Ambassador to the U.S. Michael Herzog slams Democratic lawmaker for a tweet accusing Israel for the death of Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh, in a first for the ambassador in the six months he's been in office

Israel is still expected to join the Istanbul Convention, officials say, but Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked forces new government debate on provisions concerning immigration policy

One of the Conservative Party's biggest donors is suspected of secretly transferring hundreds of thousands of dollars to the party from a Russian account, the New York Times reported

Asian spices reached the Mediterranean via Arabia in the third century B.C.E. What went in the other direction, or did the camels go home empty?

Let’s put an end to the tired lament that there’s nothing to eat in Eilat. If you leave your hotel, you’ll discover no shortage of intriguing and delicious venues. We checked out the scene and came back with 13 recommendations

Lurching between economic crises, an attempted royal coup and rising popular discontent, Jordan has inaugurated (another) reform program. This time, America should step up and sponsor a democratic transition unprecedented in the Arab world

An investigation by Wikipedia’s community-run newspaper reveals that up to 50 fake accounts linked to PR firms have edited the articles of Russian oligarchs, some of them with close ties to President Vladimir Putin

Russia says it will have to take steps 'to stop threats to its national security,' after Finnish leaders state country must apply to join NATO 'without delay'

The council session approving the settlement construction was one of the conditions set by Nir Orbach of Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s Yamina party for remaining in the coalition

Russia's war has shattered Merkel's legacy. But her coddling of Putin didn't stop at Ukraine: Germany befriended and empowered every one of his malign, authoritarian-leaning nationalist minions across Europe – in the Balkans

Ilana Sporta Hania is suspected of the crimes of threatening a terrorist act, extortion through threats, transporting weaponry, and conspiracy to commit a crime

One firm has 10 workers now fighting on the front lines in Ukraine, but the tech ‘industry is displaying impressive resilience. We’re wondering whether it’s time to re-open offices in Kyiv’

Hundreds of meters and several buildings divide the Palestinian gunman shown in the video and the place where Shireen Abu Akleh was killed. Despite this, the possibility remains that gunfire from other Palestinian militants caused her death

A new study predicts that Egypt’s public debt will climb to half a trillion dollars in coming years. But while economists offer pessimistic views, the public is likely to find itself in prison if it dares criticize the high cost of living

Iran's President Raisi seized the opportunity to slam Western nations, insisting that their presence is not 'providing security in the region' but 'harming the security'

Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was killed in an exchange of fire between Palestinian gunmen and the Israeli army in the West Bank, will be buried on Friday in East Jerusalem

We know in advance what the results of any investigation will be: No one can be held responsible because there isn’t sufficient evidence or because the army acted according to the rules, and actually, it’s the Palestinians’ fault

Diaspora Minister Nachman Shai, a former Israeli military spokesperson, says that 'based on the past,' Israel's credibility is lacking in such incidents

Dahmash came into focus last year following the death of a man and his daughter due to Hamas rocket fire – it was revealed that the village had no public shelters, and was not connected to a local authority

Israel requested the bullet that killed Shireen Abu Akleh for forensic testing, and to conduct a joint investigation into her death – both of which were rejected Palestinian Minister Hussein al-Shiekh says

Palestinian, Israeli or foreign journalists who cover the Israeli-Palestinian conflict have become an inseparable part of the war, seen not only as representatives of the media outlets that employ them but as members of the rival side

Israel made the request in order to conduct forensic tests on the bullet to determine the source of the weapons fire that killed the journalist, offering to have representatives of the Palestinian Authority and the U.S. present

Masafer Yatta residents say the latest demolitions are the largest such action since 2016

Shireen Abu Akleh was about 150 meters (328 feet) away from Israeli military forces when she was shot and killed, an initial IDF investigation shows

Incoming Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre penned a 2019 op-ed saying that the pro-Israel group 'has often been the antithesis of what it means to be progressive'

Israel has maintained diverse, albeit clandestine, ties with Qatar, and has asked the country to curb Al Jazeera's fiery criticism of Israel following the death of reporter Shireen Abu Akleh

Speaking at a demonstration in Haifa, former Israeli lawmaker Issam Makhoul calls the death of Shireen Abu Akleh a 'targeted execution' and a 'war crime'

The new proposal aims to raise the number of men taking paternity leave in Israel, while also making sure to not affect the length of the mother’s leave

According to the police, the man jumped at police forces while shouting 'Allahu Akbar'

'Shireen Abu Akleh was murdered by a government that receives unconditional funding by our country with zero accountability,' Rep. Rashida Tlaib says, though Israel claims the reporter was killed by Palestinian fire

Prof. Gideon Greif rebuked for allegedly inflating the death toll at Jasenovac, a Croatian death camp during World War II, in order to boost the Serbian national narrative; he denies the accusations

Israel's evasion, coupled with its failure to provide evidence for its claim, are only bolstering the Palestinian narrative of the incident. Meanwhile, some Israeli officials appear not to understand the gravity of the situation