It doesn’t take a doctorate of divinity to see the parallel to this ludicrous idol worship and the biblical episode of the golden calf

In a political twist for the new Democratic administration, several leading Congress members in Biden’s own party denounced the strikes, which were the first military actions he authorized

The visit to Dubai comes days after an Israeli-owned ship in the Gulf of Oman was damaged by at least one missile, which Israeli defense officials assess was fired by Iran's Revolutionary Guards

Planet Labs photographed an area west of Beit Shemesh, which appears on ordinary Israeli maps as open space. It’s not clear who commissioned the satellite photographs

The single dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine is the third approved for use in the U.S.

New measures, in effect for 12 days, include a night curfew and closure of most classrooms

The announcement comes after Biden came under fire for his inaction on a U.S. intel report that attributed responsibility for the killing of Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi to the crown prince

Moving toward a deal with Iran traps Biden in a convoluted loop that largely blocks his intention, assuming there is one, to impose sanctions in the wake of the Khashoggi report

As Yemen's war grinds on, Houthi missile and drone attacks on the kingdom have become increasingly common, only rarely causing damage

Iran's Foreign Minister Zarif condemned the strikes as 'illegal and a violation of Syria's sovereignty'

The mother, who was 36-weeks pregnant, was admitted to hospital after she stopped feeling the fetus moving

The oil spill has polluted beaches covering some 40 percent of Israel’s Mediterranean coast

Incident near Tel Aviv is the 13th time protesters were pepper-sprayed during demonstrations since the weekly anti-corruption protests began last year

London-based website Rai al-Youm says that Eli Cohen's body may be returned to Israel as part of a deal if it was found, but there was no indication of what Israel would be giving in exchange

Fritz Berggren has been sharing his extremist and antisemitic views under his real name for years while working as a mid-level civil servant

Schools have become targets for mass kidnappings for ransom in northern Nigeria by armed groups, many of whom carry guns and ride motorcycles

Last month, the prime minister changed 11 ministers in a contentious reshuffle, but the president has refused to swear four of them in. The Ennahda party rally backed the PM while demanding concord

PA announces West Bank lockdown ■ Thousands gather in Tel Aviv for holiday celebrations ■ Experts worried about rising infection rates ■ Netanyahu's plan to send COVID-19 vaccines abroad halted

As U.S. and Iran exchange violent messages, Netanyahu is left with two options

How it came to pass that Palestinians availing themselves of ancestry kits discover they’re ‘Italian’ or ‘Syrian Jews,’ among other things – and what Canaanites have to do with it

4.6 million Israelis have received the first dose of the coronavirus vaccine, while 3.3 million have received the second jab

The U.S. president said he would be announcing 'significant changes' to the bilateral relationship between Washington and Riyadh

Concerns remain as hundreds of volunteers still attempt to clean up the tar on the country's beaches after a massive oil spill

Riyadh has denied any involvement by the crown prince, Saudi Arabia's de facto ruler, in the murder of the dissident journalist

Social worker Tamar Dahan helps women convicted of murdering abusive husbands and has brought about the early release of many of them from prison. She tells Haaretz why she doesn’t consider her clients murderers and what must be done to avert new c...

Vessel and crew of Israeli-owned ship, the MV HELIOS RAY, are safe, officials say, as reason behind the explosion remains unclear

Five of the 32 directors claim the organization's chairman silenced criticism and provided incorrect data during the contentious vote

Synagogues are being reconstructed, huge celebrations in honor of 1,700 years of Jewish history are being planned and new initiatives have been launched to integrate rabbis in the police and the army. Can the revival of Jewish life make Germany great...

While the circumstances of the explosion remain unclear, maritime intelligence firm Dryad Global said it may have been the result of 'asymmetric activity by Iranian military'

The school kidnapping is Nigeria's third since December, and the second in little over a week

Demonstration in the northern city of Umm al-Fahm is the latest in a string of protests decrying an inadequate response by authorities to a rise in crime and gun violence in the Israeli Arab community

The 21-year-old, who is being held in a detention camp in Syria, was stripped her of her British citizenship in 2019 on national security grounds

The Saudi crown prince, Erdogan and Sissi are promising reforms, but the people have heard that one before. Will Biden be willing to sacrifice Washington’s strategic and diplomatic interests?

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed claimed victory on November 28, the day that TPLF forces withdrew from Mekelle – and the day Amnesty says Eritreans were killing civilians in Axum

The Iranian and Syrian foreign ministers also spoke hours after the airstrikes that reportedly killed at least 17. A U.S. official said the move was meant to send a signal to Iran-backed militias in the region

Iran this week effectively set a deadline to lift the U.S. sanctions within three months, after which it said it would erase surveillance footage of its nuclear facilities

A change to resolution limits of satellite imagery of Israel and the Palestinian territories, under a 1997 regulation enacted to protect Israel's security interests, means more images of Israeli sites may be expected soon

The man, who resides in both Gaza and Israel, collected information on the locations of Iron Dome air defense batteries, the Shin Bet security service says

80 percent of the 210 million doses of coronavirus vaccines administered worldwide have been given in only 10 countries, highlighting the fraught ethical landscape of who can get it and how to lift the burden of COVID-19

The 'multiple facilities located at a border control point used by a number of Iranian-backed militant groups' comes amid a tense standoff over the nuclear deal with Iran and rocket fire on U.S. sites in Iraq

Gradi Koko and Navy Malela, auditors at a Democratic Republic of Congo bank, had to flee to Europe after exposing cash deposits worth millions by associates of Israeli billionaire Dan Gertler, who was at the time subject to international sanctions. G...

Large amounts of tar are lying on sea floor and rocky areas, constituting a third of Israel's shore, while investigations into origin of the incident continue

Between the election, COVID-19 and warnings about Iran, Israel is hardly paying attention to what’s happening right under its nose

After a long and convoluted journey from indictment to courtroom, Avichai Mendelblit finally believes the prime minister's trial for corruption charges is an inevitability

The IDF is expected to become the first organization in the world to reach 85 percent fully vaccinated or recovered. Meanwhile, Israel faces the great Purim test

Lapid’s candidacy for premiership takes blow from his former ‘brother’ Bennett ■ The Knesset's Kahanist guest of honor points his finger at a female Arab Labor candidate in a grotesque display fitting of the Purim adloyada

CNN Executive Vice President Mike McCarthy explains in an interview how the network finally beat Fox in the ratings war

U.S. intel report says Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman approved murder of Khashoggi in Istanbul, which Saudi Arabia adamantly denies, as Biden also raises the kingdom's human rights record

This week at the Tel Aviv airport: A family that uprooted itself to move to a new country, with plans to return, and a man who teaches blind people to surf

The police say that Ahmad Erekat tried to ram a Border Police officer at a checkpoint. An international organization investigated, and came up with very different findings

Sen. Ben Cardin, a Democrat, and Sen. Rob Portman, a Republican say that the ICC probe "unfairly targets Israel, biases any subsequent investigation or trial, and hinders the path towards regional peace."

Why I’ve started to tune out most cases of alleged antisemitism

New research by Israeli HMO Clalit shows that among 50,000 Israeli coronavirus patients, 70 percent deteriorated into serious condition than among patients before the U.K. strain was detected in Israel

The Channel 13 News poll predicts pro-Netanyahu bloc to win 45 seats, and the anti-Netanyahu bloc to win 60 seats, one short of a Knesset majority. 'People don’t want to go back to an unstable government,' the premier says in a rare interview

The new helicopter will replace the CH-53 Yas’ur helicopters which have been serving the Air Force since the late 1960s

Is a Californian model ethnic studies curriculum trying to cleanse Jews from history, as some critics have claimed? Not according to the Jewish groups who helped revise it

Before 2019, the idea of Iranian judoka Saeid Mollaei competing in Tel Aviv would have been a pipe dream. But Mollaei's new reality comes with a heavy price, he tells Haaretz in an interview

Beijing's burgeoning ties with African countries, accelerating during the era of so-called vaccine nationalism, are raising questions about its motives

One day after U.S. regulators concluded the shot offers strong protection against severe COVID-19, the island kingdom says it will dole out J&J’s vaccine to the most vulnerable people

Election Overdose, episode 9: The new Israeli right-wing, what are the chances Gantz drops out, who pledged allegiance to Bibi and who's preparing a voting fraud conspiracy theory for the day after?

‘The Health Ministry workers will not forget,’ reads anonymous message sent to Ran Bar-Zik, which mentions his family and ID number

The plan is for natural gas from the Leviathan field operated by Chevron in the eastern Mediterranean to flow through an existing pipeline into Israel, and from there into Gaza

Scientists say it's far too risky to keep fishing in the Mediterranean as they continue to analyze the disaster, but fishermen in Jisr al-Zarqa and Jaffa, already hit by the coronavirus crisis, fear even a bigger hit to their livelihood

Social Services Ministry says its staff intervened ‘in real time’; police are investigating

In the third of a series of articles ahead of the March 23 vote, a brief history of how Israel was led by 'WASP's whose social-democratic vision was never fully achieved

Leader stresses 'importance of the participation of regional countries' in Iran negotiations, according to official Bahrain News Agency in the first response from a Gulf Arab leader amid Biden's attempt to revive negotiations

The bill aims to improve farmers' incomes, protect them from drug traffickers who now control the trade in cannabis and gain access to the booming legal international market for the drug

Despite the vote by the board of the Jewish National Fund, which is separate from JNF USA, the organization has not decided whether to actually engage in purchasing West Bank land for Israeli settlements

The Israeli military said the closure will take effect on Thursday night at midnight and continue until Sunday night 'subject to the assessment of the situation'

Israeli media have reported that Israel agreed to fund the purchase of Russian vaccines for Syria, its longtime enemy, in order to secure the release last week of an Israeli woman who had been held there

Plan is aimed at next government calls for teaching computer science in elementary schools, returning brain power to Israel, setting up local version of FDA

The attorney general is looking into the legality of the plan, which Netanyahu decided on without cabinet approval

Support for same-sex marriage, legalized in 2015 and largely seen as synonymous with backing for LGBT+ rights, has risen to 62% of Americans, according to the Public Religion Research Institute

So far, seven cases of the California strain and 444 of the South African strain have been detected in Israel

The Land of the Cedars' economic crisis and the stalled probe into last year's massive explosion at the port of Beirut are only making matters worse

Saudi Arabia is working on creating a consolidated balance sheet of its assets and liabilities which will include items currently kept off the oil-rich economy's books

The comments by the senior Iraqi militia official mark the first time an Iran-backed group has acknowledged that Iraq was the origin of such an attack

A new coronavirus variant that shares some similarities with a more transmissible and intractable variant discovered in South Africa is on the rise in New York City

Ban on radical Islamist group coincided with raids across Berlin

A Shin Bet coordinator told Waqf employee Fadi Alian six months ago that there was a '90 percent chance' his home would be torn down

Keshet is receiving the prestigious award for his 'pioneering contribution' to the understandings of excess and low oxygen on blood vessel growth, which has 'far-reaching effects on the development of many diseases'

The American Jewish Committee tweeted that the depiction was 'disgusting'

Read the full first chapter of 'Something Disguised as Love' by Galia Oz

Tel Aviv University archaeologists Miki Ben-Dor and Ran Barkai proffer novel hypothesis, showing how the greed of Homo erectus set us careening down an anomalous evolutionary path

U.S. officials said the report, for which the CIA was the main contributor, assessed that the crown prince approved and likely ordered the murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi

Historians of American Judaism point to Purim as an important holiday that did much to increase Jews’ visibility in the United States in the 19th century

Digging, concrete pads seen around the nuclear research center in Dimona – possibly to retrofit its aging reactor – but the reasons remain unclear

51.5 percent of Israel's population have been vaccinated with first dose of the coronavirus vaccine, while about 36.5 percent have received second jab