'If the Americans were able to produce a vaccine, they would not have such a coronavirus fiasco in their own country,' supreme leader says

With little or no government support, more Israelis are struggling to make ends meet ■ ‘I’ve always gotten by on my own, but now I have no choice but to ask friends and family for money,’ says a woman whose business collapsed

Despite the challenges of conflict, these young Gazans are working to preserve these historic structures which are threatened by neglect, decay and demolition

Israel is the only country that has openly admitted its previous lockdown was make believe ■ The U.K. mutation is cited as the reason for tougher restrictions, but one can't ignore the reality in ultra-Orthodox communities and the false sense of he...

Any Israeli over 16 could vaccinate by March, Netanyahu says ■ First shipment of Moderna vaccine arrives in Israel ■ Active cases in West Bank, Gaza drop below 10,000

Earlier this week, the Jerusalem court has denied Netanyahu's lawyers their request to delay the hearing after an amended indictment was filed

ID tags unearthed at the site of the death camp reveal that hundreds of the victims had roots in countries such as Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria

Officer Brian Sicknick's death brings the fatality count from the siege to five

Israelis watch Trump insurrection aghast: Netanyahu supporters could do that here ■ In time of coronavirus, petty politics kills ■ Lapid deals blow to Netanyahu and Gantz

Israelis who spent all night watching the news from Washington asked themselves if it could happen here. Several incidents from the past year hint at the unsettling answer

Russian information warfare ops have had one goal ever since the Cold War began: to sow chaos and undermine Americans’ sense of a shared reality. Trump was just a means to that end

Israeli company, owned by a Chinese holding group, files to raise as much as $1.67 billion in share sale

Trump releases video message as Democratic leaders in Congress demand cabinet strip him of his powers, threaten to impeach him for second time

78-year-old Oded Alish who builds devices protesters use to form human chains at demonstrations, was interrogated by police for hours ■ 70-year-old Rami Matan was arrested by police, and is currently being detained in a Jerusalem police station

Decision makers and the public oscillated between fear for people’s health and fear for their social and economic well-being, and both focused on the immediate picture rather than the long term

A person who violates a curfew shouldn't be killed, but they can be slapped and hit with a rifle: Newly declassified documents reveal the ways military rule embittered the lives of Israeli Arabs

'You are cattle today,' says man who shoved into frame during Channel 13 News' segment from Washington as Trump supporters stormed U.S. Capitol

An Israeli tour guide takes a second jaunt to Dubai, and an expat teaches American at-risk youths to survive in the wild

In his book, the late Rafi Eitan recounts central events in his life and that of Israel. But many stories are censored, so readers don't really get to know the Mossad man who nabbed Eichmann and was behind the Pollard affair

The ZOA, in a series of posts excoriating Biden’s appointments and nominations as unqualified, has taken recently to calling him 'projected President-elect Joe Biden'

As early as 2009, an inquiry was held into possible corruption in Israel's bid to buy submarines from Germany. The secret probe, triggered by an anonymous whistle-blower, took testimony from high-ranking officials about signs of bribery – but the p...

Alon Pinkas and Ben Samuels join the team, while Danielle Ziri changes focus

If members of Trump's cabinet invoke Section 4 of the 25th Amendment and remove the president from office, it may ensure Trump’s legacy among his millions of evangelical followers

Will the Capitol Hill storming be felt in Jerusalem? Can the COVID vaccination drive make voters forget the government’s shambles? And will Netanyahu win over Israeli Arabs? Haaretz’s Election Overdose Podcast - episode 2

Iran and China, countries that face routine U.S. criticism over violations of human rights and democratic values, jumped on the insurrection as proof of American hypocrisy

Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger also calls for the removal of Trump as Ilhan Omar said Wednesday she was drawing up articles of impeachment

Facebook has previously been blasted by lawmakers and employees for not taking action on inflammatory posts from President Trump, including those that have been labeled by Twitter

Trump’s personal attorney former Mayor Rudy Giuliani did not delete a tweet from Wednesday that called the rioters patriots

Leaked documents, probably the work of a cyberattack led by a foreign government, will make it harder for Hezbollah to manage its money

Georgia’s secretary of state and his staff evacuated their offices at the Capitol as about 100 protesters gathered outside, some armed with long guns

In a stark contrast to this summer's Black Lives Matter protests which saw aggressive deployment of security forces, the Capitol Police force did not request help in advance despite glaring warning signs of potential violence

‘Remember this day forever’: Trump has radicalized America’s violent, insurgent, racist Right for years and, like him, they will never concede

The ADL’s Jonathan Greenblatt and AJC’s Holly Huffnagle tell Haaretz how the new administration should combat hate crimes, which spiked during the Trump presidency and aren’t disappearing when he vacates the White House

The hypocrisy and mayhem of the mob invasion of the Capitol is the critical issue of the moment. The historic Georgia runoff results should be the more lasting monument to American democracy

The warrant was issued by a judge in Baghdad's investigative court tasked with probing the Washington-directed drone strike that killed Gen. Qassim Soleimani

Comments during the occupation of the Capitol on TheDonald.win, a web site of Trump enthusiasts, included 'WE WANT BLOOD' and 'murder Pelosi,' according to research firm Advance Democracy Inc

Request made during investigation of two suspects; news company had opportunity to object but handed over 70 minutes of video

The Knesset member, Israel Eichler, had been at political meeting two days before announcing he had contracted COVID-19

It's convenient to assume that Israel's whole ultra-Orthodox population listens to Rabbi Kanievsky, but the truth is the Haredi population is far from homogenous

Trump's rally speech on Wednesday was filled with grievances and voter fraud allegations that have not been backed up with evidence

Israeli archaeologist identifies massive siege ramp erected by Muslim or Christian warriors to conquer Ashkelon – which has been shielding the city from encroaching sand dunes ever since

While many Israeli lawmakers decry the siege, some compare the pro-Trump protesters to anti-Netanyahu demonstrators

After seeing a record surge in cases, Lebanon enters its third lockdown, with new limits on traffic and a night curfew

Known white supremacists Tim Gionet and Nick Fuentes also attended the infamous Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia in August 2017

Netanyahu: 'The attack on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C. was disgraceful, and we must condemn every such attack.'

But the violent siege on Capitol Hill offers a new, and perhaps final, moment of reckoning for the GOP

All year, and especially after President Donald Trump said he would not accept the election results in November, people who monitor the far right in America warned about where America could be headed

IDF says 24 year old Harun Abu Aram, who was shot in the neck, was hit by stray fire ■ Human rights group B'Tselem: '53 years of occupation and the IDF still justifies murdering and injuring Palestinians'

A military spokesman said missiles flying over the Golan Heights targeted several locations and air defenses downed several missiles

Fears from parents that the UAE was trying to shape the next generation of Egyptians through their textbooks were overblown. But the UAE may be able to shape a new Egyptian elite through schools

Trump promises 'orderly' transition on January 20 ■ Netanyahu reacts to Capitol siege: American democracy will prevail ■ Biden slams ‘assault on democracy’ as four left dead, 52 arrested, and several police officers injured

Authorities believe the incidents are connected to an investigation against people suspected of extorting protection money

The daily number of infected people has to be less than 1,000 and the vaccine drive will not influence the decision, Prof. Chezy Levy said

Survival chances are limited without the ECMO oxygenation machine, which was denied to patients amid severe overcrowding

The rapid rollout combined with the country’s vast medical database 
is a gold mine that will serve doctors and scientists in the years to come

Protesters march through Kafr Qara after the killing of 25-year-old Sliman Naziye Masarwa, the latest in a string of murders in the Arab community

Senator Ben Cardin, slammed Trump's insipid tweet, saying he was 'pouring the gasoline, lighting the match and then praising the firefighters,' as the outgoing president drew fire from both sides of the aisle

A clear line of violence and antisemitism connects the dots of Trump's presidency. This is the single most important thing he will go down in history for

Results come in as crowds protesting Biden's victory stormed the Capitol while Congress was debating the certification of his electoral win over President Donald Trump

Police warn that they will deal harshly with violations during the tightened lockdown, but officials tell Haaretz they won't enter schools and synagogues, despite calls to open them even new rules go into effect

The tombstone of the woman who lived in the Nitzana area about 1,400 years ago joins others unearthed in excavations that belonged to Christians interred in local churches and burial grounds

Riyadh is attempting to score points with a lukewarm Biden administration, but reconciliation with Qatar will take more than a tight hug

As Congress moves to confirm Biden’s win, Trump supporters clash with law enforcement ■ 'We will never concede,' Trump tells the crowd

Many took to social media to lambast the celebration of a foreign military leader in Lebanon's capital, using #BeirutFree_IranOut

Judges concluded that Masresha Moshe Wasa murdered his wife because of 'self-control' issues, also ordering him to pay his children $78,000

Court dismisses amendments to indictment in the premier's corruption trial as reason for delay, says defense team had ample time to prepare

Issa Amor's lawyer calls out military court for 'ridiculous charges that would not be under discussion at all if he were not a person living under occupation'

'We will never give up,' president tells supporters as Senator Ted Cruz joins Republican lawmakers in challenging slate of electors from Arizona

Discussed his Jewish heritage after his nomination, Judge Garland credited his grandparents for 'fleeing antisemitism and hoping to make a better life for their children in America'

Archaeological evidence indicates that the Jerusalem foothills, the Judean lowlands and northern West Bank were relatively heavily farmed while the rainier Galilee was less so. Now geologists think they know why

Worried about the consequences of angering Saudi Arabia, major distributors failed to pick up the film, raising questions regarding the future of political films

Trump continues to insist, falsely, that Pence can decertify results

Police was called after hundreds gathered for a Hasidic wedding in the West Bank settlement of Betar Ilit. They allegedly left after receiving a blessing from a rabbi

'The original Antifa was a Jewish anti-Nazi militia,' the flyers, posted by the New Jersey European Heritage Association, read

Britain, France and Germany say there is 'no credible civil justification' to Tehran's decision to restart uranium enrichment at 20 percent

The 33-year-old candidate will be the first Jewish senator elected to a southern state since the 1880s, and the youngest Democrat elected to the Senate since Biden nearly five decades ago

The projected Democratic win in Georgia will usher in a new reality for Democrats, Republicans and American Jews of all stripes. But there's one Jewish politician who will likely be very disappointed with the results

Attorneys ask that the next hearing in the premier's corruption trial be postponed, citing lockdown, indicating a potential move to ask lawmakers to grant him immunity from prosecution

Several HMOs confirmed that some cities had asked them to vaccinate teachers, but that they have no intention of violating the official orders

Sudan announces agreement signed with Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, who is expected in Israel for talks on further Iran sanctions

Vice President Pence is set to preside over a joint session of Congress on Wednesday as it receives the results of the state-by-state Electoral College that determines the winner of presidential elections

Population and Immigration Authority head says situation in Sudan is 'unpredictable’ and that deporting asylum seekers is not on the table

In first, annual report of Institute for National Security Studies includes leadership failures — and not only external enemies — among key threats to country

'The wound is very deep': Gulf leaders put on a good show of newfound brotherly love at the GCC summit, but their formal end of conflict can’t paper over deeper social and political fractures

Inoculations have to be part of a wider national strategy, one that the Netanyahu government, because of its internecine conflict and the prime minister’s personal and political calculations, is incapable of producing

Warnock will become the first Black senator in Georgia history

Only 12 months ago, Bethlehem was celebrating its busiest festive season for two decades, amid a sustained drop in violence and a corresponding surge in the number of pilgrims and tourists

A year after the assassination of its Revolutionary Guards commander Qassem Soleimani, Tehran realizes that belated revenge would provoke an immediate, painful response, so it’s settling for posturing a-la “hold me back” — for now

Police say they won't be able to enforce the ban on some large gatherings like Friday prayers on Temple Mount

'You have failed the people who use this platform,' Antisemitism Cow tweeted, tagging Twitter and its CEO, Jack Dorsey

Since the embargo in 2017, Qatar has defied expectations to build new alliances and a more resilient economy. In the regional standoff, it is the Saudi-led Gulf Cooperation Council that blinked first

Facebook’s policy chief called a Haaretz Editorial ‘fake news,’ claiming the platform works to maintain Israel’s election integrity. That’s a joke

Trump's term ends on Jan. 20, when Democrat President-elect Joe Biden is to be sworn in to succeed