The prime minister says he has agreed with U.S. President Biden on 'a joint strategic effort' to stop Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, as he heads back after a first Washington visit since assuming office

Malyar breaks another world record in the men's 400m freestyle event, after rower Moran Samuel snags silver, bringing Israel's medal count at the Paralympic Games up to five

Scholars have struggled how to explain the lack of more permanent residences at Qumran, but a new theory suggests that the grounds served as a religious competitor to Jerusalem

The Biden administration has a very simple reason for pulling its weight behind the new prime minister: They both just don't want Netanyahu back in power. The president's tough talk on Iran, however, is likely hollow

While Biden did not explicitly pose a military threat to Iran should it continue its nuclear arming efforts, his meeting with Bennett, solidified the rules of engagement for the two administrations

At least 11 Palestinians were wounded by Israeli fire during protests on the Gaza border

Prof. Nachman Ash says that over the past ten days, the number of people each coronavirus carrier infects – known as the R number – has declined

Despite the bad timing of the visit, in the shadow of the Kabul attack, Prime Minister Bennett can call his encounter with the U.S. president a success

Western leaders acknowledge that they are still leaving many of their citizens and local allies behind

The meeting included Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi, Jordan’s King Abdullah and Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani as well as French President Emmanuel Macron

Aref Jaber defies settlers’ attempts to take over his plot of land near Hebron, and finds himself facing harassment from the army too

Israel’s plan for the school year is fragile and ridden with holes but still reflects Bennett’s sober, more balanced COVID approach ■ The Israeli army and treasury escalate their psychological warfare

Analysis of Vesuvius' victims in the town of Herculaneum indicate that eggs and dairy may have been considered unmanly – and that a seafood diet was not for girls

Arab Israeli leaders demand answers as Anas Wahwaah, 18, was shot to death in his car in Lod, shortly after Ibrahim Nasser Abu Amra, in his 30s, was shot outside his home in the southern Bedouin town of Tel Sheva

Dadaon's medal is Israel's third in the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo — all of which have been won in swimming

The Iranian leader said the U.S. 'ridiculed' nuclear negotiations, top official tweets in Hebrew that Biden comment 'establishes Iran's right to reciprocate'

Hamas faction says will renew nighttime riots on the fence and demand Gaza blockade be fully lifted ■ Arson balloons launched from the Strip cause fires in southern Israel

Parents say they will not send their children to school to protest the enrollment of eight children of asylum seekers

According to U.S. sources, a member of Afghanistan's Islamic State affiliate was killed via drone, as the death toll from the airport attack reached 169

Hezbollah's foes have warned that the shipments may lead to sanctions on Lebanon

It seems both Biden and Bennett stuck to the old Washington playbook for meetings with Israeli leaders: Iran, visa waivers and a smattering of the Palestinians

The Islamic State and the Taliban are taking over the country, and the battle between the groups could give ISIS the boost it needs after its defeat in Iraq and Syria

The groups' reactions, however, were a bit more varied concerning the Bennett and Biden's willingness to engage on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

The Kabul airport attack on Thursday, which killed 13 U.S. troops and at least 79 Afghans, was claimed by Islamic State militants

Alongside Biden, Bennett says 'strategies to halt Iran's aggression have been formulated'

Harassment is alive and well in the notes that male officers in the IDF pass among themselves – and to female officers – during work meetings

New York Times reports that the attack at Iran's Natanz nuclear enrichment facility – for which Israel never took responsibility – reflected Netanyahu's distrust of the Biden administration

Israel’s most expensive getaway has opened in the Arava desert. What’s it like to vacation at a cost of some $1,600 a night (in one of the cheaper suites)?

Judge Tarek Bitar, who leads the inquiry into the deadly explosion at Beirut's port last year, requested in July to question Diab and other top Lebanese officials

21-year-old Malyar took up swimming at age five with his twin brother Ariel, who also has cerebral palsy

Islamic State Khorasan has survived military targeting by U.S.-led coalition to launch new assault as U.S. and other NATO partners withdraw from Afghanistan and Taliban return to power

Hebrew University researchers advising the Israeli government say that even a rise in COVID cases with the start of the school year would not change the overall downward trend

'We will not forgive. We will not forget. We will hunt you down and make you pay,' President Biden said

What could have been a peaceful protest ended up making waves on social media when dozens of protesters were arrested by Palestinian police

Israel is due to play a complicated role in the upcoming Moroccan elections, as the rift between the kingdom and neighboring Algeria grows

Anticipation of the Bennett-Biden meeting ruined someone’s Hawaiian vacation, to the summiteers’ delight

The planned high point of the Israeli prime minister's visit was derailed by the bomb attack in Kabul, but he does have one thing going for him – he's not Netanyahu

U.S. president says he ordered commanders to develop operational plans to strike ISIS-K after attack that killed dozens, including 13 American service members

At the supposedly evacuated settlement of Homesh last week, a Palestinian teen was seized by settlers and subjected to physical abuse for more than two hours. It's a regular practice at this site that the court long ago ordered to be open to Palestin...

A political source says that the U.S. president's willingness to host Bennett given the circumstances in Afghanistan shows the importance they attribute to the visit

Biden was supposed to spend Thursday talking foreign policy with Bennett and domestic issues with governors, until disaster struck at Kabul's airport

This week at the Tel Aviv airport: A young American Jew discovers Israel and the generous people of Tel Aviv ■ An Israeli with Bukharan roots describes the moment she learned there's a world beyond her rundown neighborhood

The ruling by Israel's top court wasn't viewed as a total loss by the plaintiffs, as some benefits were afforded to Moroccan immigrants during the long legal battle

Who started the 1948 war? What was the Jewish community in Palestine supposed to do? What if the outcome had been different? Thanks to identity politics this essential discussion is at a dead end

The surprising things that happen when you truly listen

This was prompted by reports of early media screenings that criticized the Oscar-winning filmmaker

How can former settler leader Dani Dayan, who doesn’t believe Palestinians deserve equal rights, head an institution dedicated to documenting the most horrific consequences of the actions of a nationalistic, racist regime?

Over 50,000 civilians lived in Deraa al Balaad, which has now become a ghost town since after weeks of intermittent fighting

The Great Synagogue, which was destroyed by the Nazis and the Soviets, was built in the 17th century and was part of a larger complex of Jewish institutions that included 12 synagogues or prayer halls

Three months after Jewish mobs hunted down and attacked Arab citizens in two separate incidents, councillors from a quiet Israeli town want to know why the local police are seemingly disinterested in investigating the attacks

A leading voice on U.S. foreign policy, Rep. Ted Deutch tells Haaretz why he’s still optimistic about a lasting peace in the Middle East, how Judaism informs his politics and why antisemitism must be called out on all sides

In a separate case, police arrested two men suspected of killing three members of the Jarushi crime family in June

Top military official confirms two suicide bombers believed to be from a local ISIS affiliate carried out the attack, which left dozens of Afghans killed and wounded amid a chaotic U.S. withdrawal

There is little to be achieved at this meeting other than a photo-opportunity and ruining Netanyahu’s vacation

The German chancellor was set to meet with Bennett for the first time since he was sworn in as prime minister, and just weeks before she steps down from the premiership

Hassan Diab failed to show up for questioning. No senior official has been held accountable yet for last year's disaster

Kentucky Congressman Thomas Massie posted an image of a hand raised in a fist with a tattooed number visible on the wrist, implying that presenting proof of vaccination is akin to being tattooed by the Nazis

Netflix's hit show ‘AlRawabi School for Girls’ reveals both the total rule by men and the hypocrisy of mothers more worried about gossip than their daughters’ emotional scars

A single perforated coin minted in Famagusta in 1570 was found in the Black Sea port of Phanagoria: It was a souvenir of the war, expert tells Haaretz

The easing of restrictions would be 'conditional upon the continued preservation of the region’s security,' Israel says

Buried in a flexed position with large rocks, she was genetically closest to indigenous Australians and Papuans – but her lineage was unknown, and seems to have been lost

The fast spreading gentrification taking over Jaffa is eradicating the 'city of the Palestinian bourgeoisie'

British official warns about 'very, very credible reporting of an imminent attack' at the airport, possibly within 'hours'

ADHD and the medicine used to treat it is still heavily reliant on patients’ self-disclosure. This couple is creating a smartwatch to personalize and streamline treatment

Prosecutors had agreed to retry Roman Zadorov, who was convicted in 2010 for the murder of a 13-year-old girl, but objected to his release from prison while the new trial was underway

While the number of unvaccinated Israelis who suffer serious COVID-19 symptoms continues to rise, serious cases among vaccinated are dropping

Dozens of silos, figurines and arrows: The 2021 summer dig in the shelter of a bridge on the Tel Aviv-Jerusalem highway

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett hopes today's meeting will lead to a personal channel of communication with President Biden as the two are slated to discuss Iran's nuclear deal, Gaza, U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and climate change

In letter, rabbinate says Pope Francis' appeared to denigrate Jewish law, by suggesting it was obsolete when he recently told a general audience that 'The law (Torah) however does not give life'

When the officers returned from their coffee break, about 15 minutes later, they could hear shouting. The disaster, one of the officers said, 'was at the exact location of our position'

Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz, meanwhile, says the decision on whether to admit unvaccinated children 'is an issue we're leaving to the schools'

Criticism over the wounding of an Israeli officer led to a tighter deployment at the Gaza fence, but Hamas is still striving to get all its Qatari money and the border crossings opened

Aviad Moshe found guilty of stabbing Shira Isakov 20 times and brutally beating her while forcing their son to watch

Some experts urged PM Bennett to set a more ambitious target for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, sources say

Two Israeli officers look back at Operation Solomon that evacuated 15,000 Ethiopian Jews from Addis Ababa and compare it with current events in Afghanistan

Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, who has been criticized for keeping yeshivas open during COVID's first wave, now says Jewish law requires the observance of public health guidelines

Following critical wounding of soldier in previous protest, Israeli forces have been instructed to respond 'more aggressively' to attempts to breach fence

PM Bennett expected to tell Biden that Jerusalem reserves the right to act unilaterally against Tehran, while defense officials believe slowdown result of renewed talks

The Cypriot government views the upgrade to a Turkish airbase on the divided island as part of Ankara's 'expansionist' agenda

Hundreds of thousands of Israelis received messages from the Post Office to pick up their package. However, investigators say it was a scam by political hackers from Gaza and London

Hamas identifies dead man as a member of its armed wing, mourning him as a 'heroic martyr'

Prime Minister Bennett promised a 'new spirit,' but on his way to the White House he is sticking to a long-standing tradition set by his predecessor Netanyahu