Israel elections 2021: Rivlin says will start coalition talks next week ■ Gantz declares he wouldn't back Netanyahu for prime minister ■ Arab party set to present demands in coalition talks with Lapid

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres calls Syria a 'living nightmare,' says 60 percent of Syrians are at risk of going hungry

Statement comes after Politico reports that Washington would offer a new proposal to jump-start talks

Israel's Sinai crossing reopens after a year ■ Health Ministry, emergency services dispute leaves thousands of East Jerusalem Palestinian unvaccinated ■ Daily COVID infections in Israel hit nine-month low ■ Knesset blocks additional Shin Bet tr...

For the first time, an Arab party can be kingmaker, and crown a prime minister; Mansour Abbas' demands carry some heft, but he understands this and relishes it

Magen David Adom played key role in vaccinating East Jerusalem residents in recent months, but Israel's Health Ministry has stopped working with organization over financial dispute

Energy, manufacturing, water, space, health care, agri-tech likely to be prime targets

Israel election 2021: Netanyahu challenger Sa'ar is already in 'serious talks' with ultra-Orthodox parties, but all those involved in coalition talks still see a fifth election as a likely scenario

Israeli officials fear Tehran still wants to avenge the killing of Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh

A fifth Israeli election cycle might seem like the most likely outcome, but there are still nearly three months before the deadline arrives and politicians promises are made to be broken. Here's how coalition talks could play out

New courses violate strategy of focusing on higher-skilled professions

'This can cause me losses I cant even contemplate,' the company's CEO says, but organizers argue it may be violating discrimination laws

In its various incarnations, religious Zionism has been dictating for years the conditions of the Palestinian population in the West Bank, which can't vote for the true rulers that shape and endanger their lives

Investigative findings show one of the accused took the teen to a forest, where his friends were waiting

Some ministries have not been handing over any documents at all

According to Health Ministry data provided to the parliamentary committee, Shin Bet tracking helped identify a mere 2.2 percent of new COVID-19 cases over the past week

$3 million pact may grow as Gulf emirate faces growing water shortages

Co-founder and ousted CEO Neumann played a key role in getting last week's SPAC deal off the ground

Israel election 2021: The leaders of the camp, Lapid and Sa'ar and possibly Bennett, are seeking to oust Netanyahu, but aren't coordinating their efforts. In the meantime, Islamist leader Mansour Abbas wants to play kingmaker

While men and women in Hasidic communities typically marry young, marriages are generally not done before the age of 18

Authorities have been mounting a limited vaccination drive, using vaccines provided by Israel, Russia, the United Arab Emirates and the global COVAX vaccine-sharing initiative

The Justice Ministry is looking into the killing of 33-year-old Munir Anabtawi, who police say tried to stab them

Lebanon already lacks power generation capacity and homes and businesses have to cope with power cuts for several hours a day, forcing many to turn to private generators

Israel election 2021: Thirteen parties will be represented in the next Knesset, but unless at least one of them retracts a campaign pledge about who it will work with in the next government, a fifth election beckons this summer

British investigative journalist Josh Baker thought he'd seen it all. Then he met Samantha Sally, an American who'd traveled to Syria to join ISIS, and created the hit podcast 'I'm Not a Monster' about her story. In an interview with Haaretz, he reve...

The coronavirus pandemic has changed how people use their homes. Meeting today's needs with the right renovation can create long-term value, say industry players

At the top of the chart are Azerbaijan's 8,000 Jews, who consume a provision of 2.7 pounds per person, a ratio nearly three times whats on stock for the average soldier in the Israeli army

Genetic analysis shows that while the Scythians seemingly came from several places to the central Asian steppe, the Basques were not big on moving and mixing

Israeli developers are importing the foreign trend of selling fully furnished apartments; the buyer shows up with just a suitcase. When does this make sense, and what will it cost you?

With everybody working from home, how do you create a pleasant workspace without disturbing the rest of the household? Designers offer some suggestions

Rivlin has invited the heads of parties to meet with him Monday, the same day the evidentiary stage in Netanyahu's trial starts, and is expected to decide on whom to tap to form the next government two days later

With almost a third of Israelis renting, established organizations are entering the rental market and starting an upheaval that could turn rented housing from a 'fragile and unequal' market into one that suits young people's needs

I'd been treating the COVID anti-vaxxer conspiracies as a farce, lunacies to laugh about. But then I witnessed their true cost

Hundreds of people, both local and foreigners, were rescued from the town of Palma, located next to gas projects worth $60 billion

The Dutch football federation (KNVB) said it was 'absolutely appalling' to see reports that more than 6,500 migrant workers in Qatar from India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka have died in the last decade

Another ultra-Orthodox factions has declared it will endorse Netanyahu, despite no final world from United Torah Judaism party leader

'There were about 100,000 deaths that came from that original surge,' Birx said. 'All of the rest of them, in my mind, could have been mitigated or decreased substantially'

A serious crisis is prevailing between Amman and Jerusalem. The recent history with Egypt could attest to what Israel benefits from a stable, friendly Jordan

The Kurdish-led forces said they have nearly 5,000 fighters participating in the operation

As President Joe Biden and Tehran spar over the terms of return to the nuclear deal, and with China now becoming part of the equation, Iranian Americans are optimistic, concerned, divided and anxious to see what comes next

'Q: Into the Storm' is at its best when it avoids diving into rabbit holes, while 'The Last Cruise' barely skims the surface of the world's first global COVID-19 crisis

Planning authorities shun the single-family, detached homes, but young couples covet them: The search for a private, spacious property is pushing Israelis to far-flung towns, kibbutzim and settlements

The findings were largely as expected and left many questions unanswered, but the report provided in-depth detail on the reasoning behind the teams conclusions

Daily COVID infections in Israel hit nine-month low ■ Israel set to purchase 30 million more COVID vaccines ■ Sinai border to reopen to vaccinated Israelis

Jisr al-Zarqa on the Mediterranean coast is one of Israel's poorest places, but with apartments at a new development starting at around $900,000, the village's housing shortage might last a while longer

Frazier Miller spent nearly an hour during his trial complaining that Jewish people were running the government, media and Federal Reserve. He yelled 'Heil Hitler' when he was sentenced to death

Israel vaccine date: Models show that a 55 percent vaccination rate is enough to open the economy and for the pandemic to subside

The Ever Given became jammed diagonally across a southern section of the canal in high winds early last Tuesday, halting shipping traffic on the shortest shipping route between Europe and Asia

Health Ministry resqust will add to the 25 million doses expected to arrive this year ■ New delivery will apparently not include updated vaccines against new strains ■ Gantz cancels cabinet meeting slated to approve vaccine purchase

Meanwhile, many members of Israel's defense establishment have reservations about Netanyahu's tough stance against Jordan

Noam's representatives have emphasized time and again their opposition to LGBTQ and Reform Jews' rights, as well as their will to reform the judiciary system

Starting Tuesday, up to 300 vaccinated, recovered Israelis will be allowed to cross into Sinai at the Taba border crossing each day through April 12

Even after meeting Lapid, Gantz doesn't promise to back his former partner as PM candidate ■ Right-wing flank of anti-Netanyahu bloc displeased with Lapid for holding talks with Arab party leaders during Passover

Posters of women musicians were also vandalized at light rail station, but no suspects have been arrested

Israel elections 2021: Rivlin says will start coalition talks next week ■ Gantz declares he wouldn't back Netanyahu for prime minister ■ Arab party set to present demands in coalition talks with Lapid

Yisrael Beiteinu chairman vows to promote two-term limit on premiership as well as bill requiring that a prime minister resign after being criminally indicted

Putin tells state media he expects Russia to reach herd immunity and lift pandemic-related restrictions by the end of summer

Army statement says suspect sped toward several soldiers near the Ein Mabua spring and crashed into a number of Israeli vehicles, causing no casualties

Dredgers working to dislodge the stranded ship have so far shifted 27,000 cubic metres of sand around the ship to reach a depth of 18 meters

The attack comes as the country is on high alert following December's arrest of the leader of Southeast Asian terror group Jemaah Islamiyah

Israel election 2021: Lapid and Abbas agree to resume talks in coming days after the Yesh Atid leader deems meeting 'excellent'

The coalition also says it has intercepted and destroyed three armed drones launched toward southern Saudi Arabia

More than 440 civilians, including children, have been reportedly killed since the February 1 coup ■ UN investigator says the army has carried out 'mass murder'

Authorities had replaced the rail track in the area where the collision took place, as the damaged tracks and wrecked train cars were left on the side of the railway

Beijing has been pushing back against sanctions imposed by U.S., EU, Britain and Canada for what they say are rights violations against Uighur Muslims

The office-sharing startup announces agreement with BowX, after a botched initial public offering that imploded due to investor concerns over its business model and its founder Adam Neumann's management style

New attempts planned to free the huge vessel stuck in the canal, in which about 10 percent of world's trade flows, as concerns grow the incident would affect oil and gas shipments to Europe from the Middle East

Israel election 2021 ■ With virtually all the vote counted, these are the candidates making it into the Knesset after Israel's fourth election in less than two years

Coronavirus infection rate in Israel keeps dropping, the economy is reopening and the vaccine drive has been a success. But there's one major thing Israel is missing before it can recover

PM-designate Hariri and President Aoun have been at loggerheads over the cabinet for months, dashing hopes of a reversal of Lebanon's deepening financial meltdown

The agreement between the countries, which are both under U.S. sanctions, is expected to include Chinese investments in Iran's energy and infrastructure sectors

The estimated number of people killed in the turmoil since the February 1 coup against Aung San Suu Kyi's elected government is now well over 400

The official says it isn't the Biden administration's stance that Tehran must take a first step to comply with the 2015 nuclear accord before Washington resumes any of its commitments

Israel's Arab citizens are finally playing a role in coalition negotiations for a new government, a step that seemed unimaginable not too long ago

'As we close our Seders with the familiar refrain, 'Next year in Jerusalem,' we will now offer an additional prayer: Next year in person. Next year, together,' Biden says

Israel-Iran naval war: Haaretz reported that in recent years Israel struck several dozen Iranian oil tankers, which caused Iran cumulative damage of billions of dollars

Palestinians from Beit Dajan started holding weekly protests when a settler armed with a machine gun set up an outpost on their land; the Israeli army responded with tear gas, stun grenades and bullets

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed statement comes after U.S., pressure to address the deadly crisis in Tigray

For the first time in history, the United Arab List will be the biggest Arab faction in the Knesset, leaving the rest of the Joint List to do some soul-searching

Videos emerge from the scene showing flipped wagons with passengers trapped inside and surrounded by rubble. Some victims seemed unconscious, while others could be see bleeding

Avichai Mendelblit says failure to appoint permanent ministers would 'seriously harm the ministry's work and the functioning of the government'

Some ships are starting to reroute away from the canal as analysts expect a larger upward impact on smaller tankers and oil products if the canal remained shut for weeks

Election 2021: Netanyahu seems to be at a dead end, as far-right allies announce they refuse to sit in government with or supported by Islamist party after official election results ■ Anti-Netanyahu bloc divided on next step

Of the four election cycles Israel has gone to since 2019, this one was supposed to be the easiest for Netanyahu to win. Instead, he lost support in his own party's strongholds

Israel elections 2021: Bennett calls on party heads to 'extricate Israel from the chaos' ■ Lieberman says will promote bill to bar criminal defendant from forming gov't ■ Far-right leader rules out Netanyahu-led coalition with Islamist party

Israel lags among comparable democracies in political representation of women

Ankara has denied that an extradition treaty, awaiting ratification by parliament, would lead to Uighurs being sent back to China

Brooklyn-born Meir Kahane was banned from Israeli politics in 1988, but the spirit of his anti-Arab Kach party lives on in an extremist alliance that just won six Knesset seats ■ Israel election 2021

Passover recipes: Beyond the narrow confines of the Seder plate, Haaretz has compiled a series of our best holiday recipes, spanning and revising the heterogeneous customs of Seder