No real economic reform is going to come out of Najib Miktaki’s government. Behind Lebanon’s new technocratic cabinet lies more of the same old corruption

COVID testing sites throughout Israel will be closed for Yom Kippur between Wednesday and Friday

The Israeli military said 27-year-old man holding a screwdriver was pushed away by one soldier, shot by another

According to Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, grandfather Shmuel Peleg picked up the boy for a court-ordered visit, drove him to Switzerland and then the two boarded a chartered business jet to Tel Aviv

They say that all the kugel one ate in honor of Shabbat is weighed in heavenly court alongside one’s deeds and misdeeds

Way before Campbell’s iconic cans, Jews around the world prepared the savory broth. We take a closer look at its unique origins, just in time for Yom Kippur

Leifer’s accusers said Israeli authorities had dragged out the case, while the former school principal, who faces 74 charges including rape and indecent assault, claimed she was mentally unfit to stand trial

Tel Aviv District Court Judge Khaled Kabub was reportedly bitter when passed over in 2017

Barak Ben Ami confessed to the charges under a plea deal. Prosecution seeks life sentence for him

Residents evacuated from 40-year-old Holon building: 'Our entire lives were here in this house, and now we’ve been left with nothing'

There were no reports of casualties, as tensions spike over Palestinian prison break

The foreign minister calls for 'economy in exchange for security,' champions internationally-brokered deal but not direct negotiations with Hamas, ahead of planned Bennett-Sissi meeting

'We did not kidnap him. We brought him home,' says Eitan’s maternal aunt Gali Peleg

Arab citizens of Israel are facing once again the question that has followed it for decades, and some fear a renewed wave of Jewish-Arab violence

Four Israelis remember the mood in the city following September 11, how it compared to the homeland they had left behind, and one explains why he felt compelled to immediately go to Ground Zero

Iraq has been trying to mediate between Tehran and its Gulf Arab foes, including Saudi Arabia, in the hope of stopping its neighbors settling scores on its territory

About 1,600 Israelis who returned from Uman over the weekend tested positive for COVID. Police suspect hundreds forged negative test results to enter Israel, including some who tested positive before flying back

The past method of transferring the Qatari funds – which was in suitcases full of cash – 'will not repeat itself,' Prime Minister's Office says. Meanwhile, UN says money slated for poor Gazans will be distributed Monday

While U.S. citizens accounted for just over 10 percent of all newcomers arriving in 2020, their share among those settling in the West Bank was nearly a third

Pope Francis calls antisemitism a 'fuse that must not be allowed to burn' in a snap visit to Hungary that underlines differences with his political opposite, nationalist PM Viktor Orban

Ayman al-Zawahri praises Al-Qaida attacks including one that targeted Russian troops in Syria in January

‘Apples and Oranges,’ a new documentary, looks back with nostalgia at an era when young idealists from around the world flocked to Israel to participate in its great experiment of communal living

Iran's Atomic Energy Organization agrees to replace memory cards in IAEA cameras and allow the UN watchdog to service equipment that allows for the oversight of Iran's nuclear program

PM Bennett says 'some of the government's establishments have backslid in recent years,' as he addresses the escape of six Palestinian prisoners from an Israeli jail last week

Security researchers discovered a paid Facebook post that posed as the Isracard credit card company. It promised security, but actually sought to obtain people’s credit card information

A brief guide to productive procrastination: Some kinds are fatal to useful endeavor but there’s one kind that’s a must

Almost a week since the prison break, and after four of the inmates were apprehended, many details remain murky

Meeting with leaders in Jerusalem and Ramallah, a quartet of U.S. lawmakers found grounds for optimism in Israel's new government, but also warned of vital need to address situation in Gaza

Police suspect an Arab crime organization is behind the shots fired at the home of Jamal Hakroush, the head of the division for preventing crime in Israel's Arab communities

Eli Schwartz claims 'Big Pharma' suppressed his research into Ivermectin, which vaccine deniers hail as a cure for COVID. In a conversation with Haaretz, however, he warns against using horse paste and supports vaccinations

Israel sees decline in new COVID deaths and serious cases remain stable

'Kashan is leading Iran's export of aerial terrorism in the region,' Gantz says

The partially redacted 16-page document shows no evidence the Saudi government was complicit in the 9/11 attacks, which killed nearly 3,000 people

Climate change, tons of waste and storms are endangering Eilat’s reef, the northernmost coral reef in the world

The organization's inmates are 'insanely brave,' one prison official said. If the two Islamic Jihad escapees still at large are hurt, a wave of prison violence is almost certain

Militants fire rocket from the Gaza Strip after the announcement of the capture of escaped Palestinian prisoners

If the Palestinian escapees had been killed while on the run, their status as national heroes would have been guaranteed – and escalation with Israel would have been all but ensured

The community is expected to appeal the decision, even after all the requests were reviewed individually and then rejected, Israel's Population Authority says

The charge carries a sentence of up to 15 years, as the prisoners face a closed-court remand hearing

Hamas' military wing spokesman's remarks came as clashes broke out between Palestinians and Israeli soldiers in the West Bank, and as rocket sirens sounded in Israeli border towns for a second night in a row

Number of seriously ill patients rises to nearly 700, with almost 10,000 new COVID cases diagnosed in Israel on Friday

No injuries or damage to property was immediately reported, as Israel's iron dome defense system intercepts one missile

'The Green Line now seems much thicker than the concrete separation barrier,' one activist said, as anger mounted in the West Bank, and Jenin in particular, after reports that an Arab family helped Israel capture fugitives

The anniversary unfolded under the pall of a pandemic and in the shadow of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, now ruled by the same militants who gave safe haven to the 9/11 plotters

The statement comes as the UN nuclear watchdog chief prepares to visit Tehran this weekend for talks, with progress stalling on two major issues involving Iran's nuclear program

70 percent of Israelis aged 60-69 have already received a third Pfizer COVID vaccine shot. Experts claim it has curbed the surging delta wave

Escaped prisoners Zakaria Zubeidi and Mohammed Aradeh were captured by the police counter-terror unit in northern Israel, and will attend court in Nazareth along with the other two captured fugitives on Saturday evening

Palestinian militants launch a rocket from Gaza shortly after the arrest of two escaped prisoners, while nearly a thousand clash with Israeli forces in the West Bank

The Prison Service is not solely culpable for the prisoners’ escape. There were screw-ups in higher places, too. If only Israel would leverage this fiasco for constructive dialogue

Islamic Jihad members Mahmoud Aradeh and Yakub Kadari were caught after civilians spotted two suspicious figures in Nazareth and reported them to the police

Over the last 4,500 years, the Jerusalem area’s groundwater has depended almost exclusively on the amount of rainfall, the researchers were surprised to find. That may change

Palestinian banks in West Bank, through which the funds were supposed to be transferred, fear they could face lawsuits ■ Deal to transfer Qatari money to poor Gazan families still valid

As a child, Zakaria Zubeidi took part in a theater established by an Israeli peace activist. Years later, as Israel planned to put him on trial for several terror attacks, he became one of six prison-breakers on the run

Suspect shot dead as tensions run high following the escape of six Palestinian inmates from a maximum security Israeli prison earlier this week

The psychologist and neuroscientist Dr. Tomer Bakalash explains what happens to our brain in situations of uncertainty – and how we can exploit it to our advantage

Some new variations on the sherbet – chilled drinks made from natural fruits – which used to be a perfect way to mark the end of Yom Kippur

There is a thin line for the West Bank's Palestinians between life and death, and frequently that line runs through a prison cell

Lebanon's Prime Minister Najib Mikati says he hopes to stop his country collapse and bring back prosperity

The R number, representing the average number of people a COVID patient will go on to infect, dropped to 0.8

'Of course, we won’t have any relation with Israel. We want to have relations with other countries; Israel is not among these countries,' Taliban spokesman tells Russian Sputnik News

A senior Palestinian official says factions have put their differences aside to call for confrontations with the Israeli military, as the volatility unleashed by Monday's prison break looks set to reach a boiling point

Just as Mahmoud Abbas was poised to cap a month of diplomatic gains with an address to the UN General Assembly, the escape of six Palestinians from an Israeli prison reshuffled the deck

Israeli methods such as targeted assassinations were gradually adopted by the U.S. as it got bogged down in Iraq and Afghanistan

Israeli security services may say 'no leads' in hunt for Palestinians, but they are employing powerful tools many Israelis only discovered during the pandemic

This week at the Tel Aviv airport: An unaccompanied minor ponders the hardships of being the youngest sibling, and a programmer travels to Israel from Europe to bid farewell to grandma

'The health and educational systems aren’t synchronized,' said one principal of a Tel Aviv school, as complaints mount about the Education Ministry’s COVID unit

IDF soldiers shot a 39-year-old Palestinian gardener, but they didn’t bother to check their handiwork. For an hour and a half he lay dying or dead on the road – until his teenage son found him

The idea of God’s oneness sounds like an essential tenet of Judaism. But there are equally essential tenets that Jews have learned to forgo

When Nick Jones came to sell New York on a branch of his private members’ club, the World Trade Center was attacked. Political disasters accompanied Soho House openings in Istanbul and Hong Kong. Now a club has opened in Tel Aviv's Jaffa district, ...

According to the latest Israeli intel assessment, the six inmates who escaped from Gilboa Prison are no longer moving as a group, potentially prolonging the manhunt

Data passed on to the U.S. drugmaker doesn't include information about individual patients, according to freedom of information disclosure. Confidential parts of the agreement are still not published

The Taliban and its ilk may have made their comeback, for now, but they remain on the losing side of history. 9/11 failed to change that, and neither will the scenes of the last few weeks in Kabul

Police say charges will be pressed against Hasidic pilgrims who were infected with the coronavirus but presented forged tests to avoid quarantine

‘Surviving 9/11’ and ‘Turning Point: 9/11 and the War on Terror’ offer powerful new looks at the world after September 11, 2001, adding to the catalog of worthy works on the tragedy

As a result of the study conducted by Israel’s Gertner Institute, the Health Ministry is recommending that patients who have recovered from the virus receive only one dose of the vaccine

The headstones were near the section of the cemetery containing the remains of victims from the 1994 terrorist bombing at the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires

The Israeli establishment’s attitude toward East Jerusalem has transformed in recent years, as seen in investment in infrastructure and other improvements. Who is behind this process?

Even in my small town, the images from New York polarized our discussions. Two decades later, it's clear they also transformed the country. This article is part of a special Haaretz project marking 20 years to 9/11

The panic in the streets of New York led to a global war on terror that swept the entire world, and to a vicious cycle of fear and prejudice. This article is part of a special Haaretz project marking 20 years to 9/11

As U.S. ambassador to Israel in 2001, Dan Kurtzer received three crucial tips on fighting terrorism. America ignored all three of them. This article is part of a special Haaretz project marking 20 years to 9/11

From Istanbul, the tragic events that happened in America seemed at the time very distant. But it didn't take long for the impact to reach us as well. This article is part of a special Haaretz project marking 20 years to 9/11

The attacks led the U.S. to lead a global 'war on terror', but two decades later, America's allies in the fight against groups like ISIS have been left behind. This article is part of a special Haaretz project marking 20 years to 9/11

Following the attacks, Ariel Sharon framed his government's fight against the Palestinians as part of the global 'war on terror.' It worked brilliantly. This article is part of a special Haaretz project marking 20 years to 9/11