Swearing-in ceremony to follow presentation of new cabinet and debate, including response by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Pollsters tell Haaretz that while American support for the Palestinian cause has clearly grown over the past decade, it’s too early to know how the latest flare-up in Gaza will affect support for either side

Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi said on Wednesday that the IDF managed to stop the officer 'at the last minute,' before he caused harm

Bennett only signed a coalition agreement with Lapid, and did not sign agreements with the other parties ■ lawmakers to vote on new government on Sunday

Paleontologists found the pierced skull of a cave bear in a Siberian cave. It could have been caused naturally – or may have been made for ritual purposes

Jean-Luc Melenchon, who has previously made remarks considered to be antisemitic, suggests there is something shadowy in the timing of the 2012 murder of four Jews in Toulouse

The right-wing prime minister-designate Bennett would have a hard time explaining to his voters why he was working to stop the march, which security officials have warned against holding

Earlier, Syrian air defenses intercepted an Israeli missile strike over Damascus, state media reported, as military defectors said the missiles may have targeted Iranian-backed militias

Environmental Protection Minister Gila Gamliel warned of the damage of transporting petrol from the Gulf state through Israel

The right-wing politician has kept advisers on for long stretches, so he might have to dip into his contacts from his years in high-tech

Sheikh Kamal Khatib was charged with incitement to terrorism, incitement to violence, and more following the violence at the Al-Aqsa Mosque last month

The looming June 18 vote will see Iranians pick a candidate to replace Hassan Rohani, who is term limited from running again

Minister Dery says the measure was no longer necessary because Bat Yam has met its budget milestones and is expected to reach a balanced budget by 2022

The prosecution mistakenly gave the defense attorneys some correspondence between the former Walla CEO and several politicians

With a hardline-led election watchdog barring leading moderate and conservative candidates, the turnout is likely to be low in seven-man race

The executive is suspected of directing employees to donate to organizations affiliated with former health minister's Ger Hasidic sect to torpedo a reform on labeling food products by nutritional value

Abdullah Abu Jaber, who served 20 years for a bomb attack, said: 'I left behind my brothers in the prisons of the occupation... but thank God I have been reunited with my family and people in the refugee camp'

Israel's Health Ministry confirmed it appealed to the British government on behalf of the family, who argue their ultra-Orthodox faith means they can't agree with any action that would bring their child's death closer

Artificial reefs made from palm branches are fixed to the seabed with stones to create spaces for cuttlefish and other creatures to lay eggs. In the past, coastal farmers would throw palm fronds into the sea after harvesting dates

Zyklon B was the Nazis’ gas of choice during the Holocaust and was used at Auschwitz to systematically murder more than one million people. Now Arizona wants to use it to execute condemned prisoners

Gilad Erdan met with top officials at the news agency 'to restore the relations' following a strike that destroyed a Gaza tower used by media organizations. AP says it has yet to see any evidence of an 'urgent threat'

Naftali Bennett, accused by Haredi parties of leading a coalition that will 'destroy' the Jewish character and identity of the state, claps back with accusations of 'political culture of neglect and nepotism'

Are Naftali Bennett and some of his colleagues getting cold feet ahead of Sunday’s vote of confidence in their potential new government – or is it all the culmination of a cunning plan to finally oust Benjamin Netanyahu?

'A human being is a human being, you get sick or tired sometimes,' Nasrallah says in a televised speech a couple of weeks after he appeared unwell in his last public appearance

The leader of U.S. Jewry’s largest organization, Rabbi Rick Jacobs, is optimistic about Israel’s likely new government, but cautions that ideological differences will still distance Americans and Israelis.

'China isn’t against us and is not our enemy,' recently retired Yossi Cohen says, questioning an American push for an investigation into China’s possible role in the spread of the coronavirus

The site where Jesus’ disciplines were born and the birthplace of pre-Roman culture have much to teach archaeologists from the two teams, explains Kinneret College’s Prof. Mordechai Aviam

Formerly a high-tech entrepreneur, Bennett invested a few hundred thousand shekels in the company years ago. His shares are expected to be worth millions following an SPAC merger announced earlier this year

Palestinian and Egyptian sources did not say whether the delegations from the rival Palestinian groups would meet each other

Gavriel Smith, 18, raps in English and wants to tour the world, but calls Israel his home and wants to use his music to speak about the reality of growing up in the Hebrew Israelite community in Dimona

The plan is to replace Haifa's many factories and Israel's largest oil refinery with a green 'metropolitan park,' but the move is facing opposition from labor unions over the loss of an estimated 2,000 jobs

Likud, headed by Benjamin Netanyahu accuses Bennett and his coalition partner Lapid of 'turning Israel into a dark dictatorship with personal laws aimed at Netanyahu akin to the dictates of North Korea or Iran' over their reported support for term li...

Celebrated contemporary artist Michal Rovner – who represents Israel at the Venice Architecture Biennale this year – speaks about being enthralled by nature but also deeply concerned over the future of humanity

Websites operated by news outlets including the Financial Times, the Guardian, the New York Times, Haaretz and Bloomberg News also face outages

In a statement following a public backlash, the magazine said that it had abided by 'the rules set by Torah sages,' according to which 'photographs of women may not be shown in our newspapers'

Bennett only signed a coalition agreement with Lapid, and did not sign agreements with the other parties ■ Knesset Speaker announces new government but does not set date for swearing-in

The swearing-in for the anti-Netanyahu government will take place after the government passes a vote of confidence by Knesset lawmakers

Netanyahu, Gantz agree route would be agreed upon by both police and organizers, amid fears that the Jewish parade through the Old City's Muslim Quarter and Damascus Gate would reignite violence

Quadream, led by a former Israeli military intelligence official, and the phone-hacking tech was sold to Saudi Arabia. It allows clients a ‘zero-click’ hack into a target's iPhone

Palestinian residents of Jerusalem's Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, whose plight has captured the world’s attention, await a decision by the Israeli Supreme Court on whether they will be evicted from their homes

If Netanyahu was aware of what’s said behind his back by most of the senior Likud leaders, his panic and loss of reason would increase immensely

Netanyahu’s lawyer cross examines ex-Walla CEO Ilan Yeshua, claiming the Walla news site gave hostile coverage to Netanyahu’s speech to the U.S. Congress in 2015

Government-sanctioned rape often does not receive wide media coverage, but many women are assaulted in Syria, Ethiopia and even in the European countries to which they have fled

The aim of settlers at Evyatar, which already boasts some 40 buildings, is to prevent any contiguity between the three villages on whose lands they are currently building. Civil Administration inspectors can’t keep up with the pace of construction ...

The defendant had refused to let his 42-year-old sister leave the house unaccompanied or have a cellphone after her divorce two years ago

The Israeli citizen claims a soldier shot a tear gas grenade at him at close range while he was demonstrating at the village of Bil’in in the West Bank

Charging deposit on 1.5-liter plastic bottles, better facilities for separating waste needed to ensure plants’ success

Since the affair seems to reveal suspected failures on the part of the Israeli military, the sweeping ban was perceived as an attempt to shove things under the carpet

Mike Evans compared members of the proposed unity government to 'rabid dogs' who wish to 'crucify' the prime minister

The rabbi was indicted in February for defrauding followers who came to him for help; will pay his victims 100,000 shekels ($30,775) in compensation

Russian scientists thaw and revive tiny ancient animals that didn’t just come back to life and kick, they cloned themselves

Wisconsin Rep. Mark Pocan tells Haaretz why he welcomes a new Israeli government, even one led by a right-winger like Naftali Bennett who has renounced the two-state solution

Despite a demarcation order, giving settlers eight days to vacate, a Knesset member from Shas brought additional construction materials to the Evyatar outpost Monday

With the clock ticking on Benjamin Netanyahu's record-breaking tenure as prime minister, what can he still do to cling onto power - and what obstacles face those who are waiting to replace him?

The army said that the officer did not have nationalistic, ideological or economic motives, and attempted to cover up his deeds ■ Officer was charged with harming state security

More than 120 people, most of them women from Eastern Europe and their children, were rescued from Gaza by Ukraine's government last month. Haaretz spoke to citizens about their long journey from Gaza, through Egypt, to Kyiv.

Six people have been charged in connection with the attack that left Said Moussa in serious condition, which Haaretz found involved over 20 people

A court has ordered several of the cases to be handed over to the police internal investigations unit after being shown images of bruises on the bodies of several of the detainees at a Nazareth police station

Asked to reconsider her language, Likud's May Golan declared 'I won’t recant. They decided to die with the Philistines,' in an allusion to the Biblical Samson, who killed himself in the process of slaying his enemies

Inspections had revealed traces of uranium of man-made origin at three sites, suggesting they were once connected to Iran’s nuclear program

Officials in Israeli AG's office say they believe the Palestinian families' case is too weak and that his legal opinion would not be able to prevent their pending eviction from the East Jerusalem neighborhood

The clashes broke out in South Darfur province between the Arab Taaisha and the non-Arab Falata tribes and also wounded at least 32, posing a significant challenge to efforts by Sudan’s transitional government

Kahanist lawmaker plans anyway to march through the Old City's Damascus Gate – a flashpoint of tensions in the lead-up to the most recent Gaza fighting – but is likely to do so on his own

The weekly videos released from the fugitive crime boss' base in Dubai, have been viewed more than 75 million times, causing an uproar, heightening state corruption concerns and putting officials on the defensive

Ihab Dawahidi is in an East Jerusalem hospital, surviving with half his body paralyzed after being hit with shrapnel during the recent Israeli-Hamas war

As a young Red Army soldier, David Dushman flattened in 1945 the forbidding electric fence around the notorious Nazi death camp with his T-34 tank

Recent violence in the streets has driven Israelis away from Jaffa's Flea Market area, the only mixed neighborhood in the city. 'It is the most extreme situation we’ve ever had'

Prosecutors ask military court to allow some of the details of the officer's death, as well as his name, to be released to the public, arguing it would stave off conspiracy theories and fake news

Ali Akbar Mohtashamipour reportedly survived an Israeli assassination attempt in 1984, before becoming Iran's interior minister and serving as a hard-line lawmaker in parliament

Speaking at a celebratory event for healthcare workers, the premier said when he saw planes carrying vaccines he 'felt it was more or less like when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, you knew it was the beginning of the end'

Educators at this unique Jaffa school – where 40 percent of the pupils are Arab – found new ways to defuse tensions, fear and harsh rhetoric between the pupils

The road to 'discovery' is now even harder in Israel and the local music industry is missing Spotify's 'algorithmic eavesdropping'

Bennett only signed a coalition agreement with Lapid, and did not sign agreements with the other parties ■ Knesset Speaker announces new government but does not set date for swearing-in

Review of the parasites of extinct animals from coprolites and genetics to mummies finds they’ve been around roughly since life began

Organizers of this week’s Flag March are trying to throw a lit match into the gasoline fumes accumulating over Jerusalem

Aides to Yaakov Litzman, currently housing and construction minister, are suspected of accepting bribes when he was health minister

'In recent weeks there is a violent machine being operated against lawmakers from Yamina,' Bennett said in response to Netanyahu ■ Coalition leaders reiterated the need to swear-in the government to move the country forward

Media outlets speculate the man heard in the recording is Avera Mengistu, but its authenticity remains unclear. 'I hope to see him soon,' says his mother amid reports of potential Israel-Hamas prisoner exchange talks

In the secretive affair of the recent death of a detained Military Intelligence officer, the Israeli security establishment is failing to learn from its past mistakes

'Don't leave scorched earth behind you,' Bennett pleaded directly to the prime minister, as incitement continues to spiral against lawmakers from Yamina and New Hope

Avi Har-Even, who was the former director of the Israel Space Agency, was critically injured last month after the hotel he was staying at in Acre was set on fire by Arab rioters

Climate change and pollution contribute to a blanket of thick slimy matter, which has been building up along the sea south of Istanbul

Rihanna the rhino had a baby boy where the waterbucks usually go - and now he's been named after Israel's outgoing president Reuven "Rubi" Rivlin

Not a single Jewish-Arab clash was reported in the mixed northern Israeli city of Nof Hagalil last month as mobs rioted elsewhere. Locals say it was no fluke, but that more work must be done to improve Jewish-Arab relations

For U.S. evangelicals like Mike Evans, who claims 77 million followers, Israel's new coalition is such an affront to their covenant with Netanyahu that it's a second crucifixion. And that's just one of the antisemitic slurs he employs

Earlier on Sunday, Israel began vaccinating teenagers aged 12 to 15 against COVID-19