Armin Laschet, seeking to become Germany's next chancellor, wants 'entry and residence bans, expulsions and deportations – as far as possible'

Shmuel Peleg was questioned by Israeli police on kidnapping suspicions and placed under house arrest amid an ongoing investigation

The 22-year-old former nursing student killed one woman and wounded three others, including an 8-year-old girl and the rabbi, who lost a finger

As part of Pegasus Project, Belgian media outlets say military intelligence report reveals a journalist and his wife were targeted by Israel's NSO

The Pentagon had said the strike targeted an Islamic State suicide bomber who posed an imminent threat to U.S. troops at Kabul airport. A top U.S. army official says he now believed it unlikely that those killed were dangerous

It may be convenient for Bennett to blame the failures on Netanyahu, but in this case he’s mostly right ■ Israel should consider a different approach on Gaza captives and fallen soldiers

Inmates linked with Islamic Jihad were dispersed across Israel's jails after six prisoners escaped from Gilboa Prison in the north, four of whom were captured last week

Dr. Michal Prins, founder of the Center for Jewish Intimacy, urges Israel's Orthodox community to reexamine the boundaries of its sexuality and be receptive to a more open discourse. She’s also not afraid to discuss the prohibition on touching. Jus...

Foreign Minister Lapid says the 'club is open for new members,' while the signatories hope other countries will join 'this new era of cooperation and friendship'

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization was formed in 2001 for Russia, China and ex-Soviet states in Central Asia to function as a counterweight to Western influence in the region

A new unit in the Israeli army’s Northern Command seeks to address the shortcomings

'There is no doubt that this is a row of ancient trees which includes magnificent and impressive specimens,' Israel's forestry commissioner said

This comes after the panel of experts overwhelmingly rejected widespread COVID booster shots, complaining that data provided by Israeli researchers might not be suitable for predicting the U.S. experience

For Yom Kippur, the Egyptians surprised Israel once again, but this time for the better ■ Bennett and Sissi got along famously, not that the prime minister wanted to stay overnight ■ Lapid encroaches on Gantz’s turf

Beyond the familiar veneer, a substantial gap in definition and policy toward Iran's nuclear plans is forming between Jerusalem and Washington

Secretary of State Antony Blinken is virtually hosting officials from Bahrain, the UAE, and Israel to celebrate the one-year anniversary of diplomatic agreements

Ukrainian-born Boris Redko says the papers he submitted were not false and he would go to court to prove they were real

Over 3 million in Israel have now received the COVID booster shot

The most important message in Bennett’s holiday interviews didn’t lie in his style, but in his policy

Just days before the scheduled birth of her son, security prisoner Anhar al-Dik was released, under restrictive conditions, so the baby would not be born behind bars. Anhar, who suffers from mental illness, is accused of attempting to stab a settler

Bar-Ilan University scholar Netanel Flamer explains the difference between state intelligence and that of terrorist organizations like Hamas and Hezbollah – and warns of the serious tech threat to Israel

Indicted former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's attorneys presented evidence that Walla also gave preferable coverage on demand to other senior politicians, as his trial resumed after a three-month hiatus

Despite the decline to 654 serious COVID cases, Israel's Health Ministry also reported a rise in infection rate

One man killed in Acre and another in Jisr al-Zarqa on Wednesday, as the number of murders in Israeli Arab community reaches 86 for all of 2020

Extraordinary declassified documents reveal the reasons cited by Israel’s top security officials for repressing the country’s Arab minority

Israel Police suspect the driver was under the influence, as emergency services report 226 accidents involving non-motorized vehicles during Yom Kippur ■ One-year-old pronounced dead after pulled out of sewage pit

The peer-reviewed research in New England Journal of Medicine also finds that severe illness from COVID is almost 20 times lower among those receiving a booster shot

This week at the Tel Aviv airport: How a French-Israeli couple who met in New York ended up in Munich ■ Why a young Israeli who started a naval officers course quit to join the Paratroops

On this Yom Kippur, the Haredi political leadership should have spent time asking itself one question: what brought a majority of Israelis to feel glad that the Ultra-Orthodox parties are finally in the opposition

Efforts to build a Jewish-Arab shared society in Israel are needed more than ever. Here are three main obstacles such attempts must overcome

If hominids who emerged from Africa reached the area of today’s Israel, they trod the same gravel we are walking on today. A sweaty journey to the place where there is literally nothing new under the sun, just 100 kilometers north of Eilat

The delivery is portrayed as a victory by Hezbollah, which stepped in to supply the oil from Iran, while Lebanon grapples with months-long fuel shortages

A foreign intelligence service reportedly tipped off German security officials about the threat after a 16-year-old Syrian national said in an online chat that he was planning an attack on a synagogue

Offer by billionaire Ellison is estimated at some $450,000 ■ The former prime minister would have to quit Knesset to accept a job in the private sector ■ Netanyahu, who recently stayed on Oracle founder's Hawaiian island, denies the report

Vice Adm. Eli Sharvit describes Iranian activities on the high seas as a top Israeli concern, adding the navy is able to strike wherever necessary to protect economic and security interests

Bennett has pledged that a Palestinian state will not arise on his watch, while his Arab-Israeli coalition partner Mansour Abbas leads a party that champions Palestinian self-determination

The victim is a 49-year-old Christian from East Jerusalem ■ Police believe assailant planned to harm Jews ■ Searches for two additional suspects continue

The move will ease travel in the bloc for Israelis, but each country still has the right to impose further restrictions on visitors

With COVID figures, Israel's Health Ministry aims to increase awareness on the countries from which people are bringing in the virus

Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz hinted that Israel has a military option prepared if necessary. 'If push comes to shove, we’ll get there,' he said in an interview

The group of fugitives had no intention of committing acts of terror despite having passed by many Jewish towns, says an attorney of one of the prisoners who was caught

Over 1,000 Palestinian prisoners had planned to go on a hunger strike as part of a campaign against the recent treatment of inmates in the aftermath of the escape of six high-risk captives

The attack occurred shortly after the group crossed into Syria from Iraq, near the city of Albukamal

Israel's 17% unvaccinated now account for 65% of all serious COVID-19 cases

PsyRX wants to use natural, consciousness-altering materials to make new drugs to treat disorders like depression and PTSD – and to reduce the side effects of existing ones

The American Jewish establishment, which has wrongly and perniciously attacked Jimmy Carter as an intransigent foe of Israel and even a Jew-hater, needs to start apologizing. Call it atonement

Scores of community members had been living in Israel for years illegally when they received deportation orders. They still hope they can remain in the place they believe God has sent them.

A new study shows that 17 percent of Israeli families suffer from food insecurity, but only 11 percent of those families are known to the authorities

Proof of immunity will also no longer be required to enter swimming pools, according to new regulations approved by Israel's coronavirus cabinet

Earlier this week, the 6-year-old survivor's family in Italy said that the child was abducted to Israel

Israel's prime minister gave an interview to Channel 12, stating he left politics behind when he entered 'the most important' office in the world.' Smotrich, however, slammed Bennett: 'Everything is politics with him'

Initially thought to be ‘only’ 2,000 years old, the life-size animal reliefs found in Saudi Arabia were actually carved nearly 8,000 years ago, during the Neolithic, when the desert was green

The report, published in the Lancet, cites WHO and FDA officials, but fails to take into account recent data from Israel

The Israeli Prime Minister and Egyptian President rightfully view each other as valuable partners, each for his own reasons. Meanwhile, a new report on the Iranian nuclear program is overblown, but much work is still to be done

Nudel was a Zionist activist who fought to allow Russian Jews to come to Israel and helped Jews arrested because of their Zionist activity

The UAE ambassador to the U.S. credited the accords with saving the two-state solution, while the Israeli ambassador explicitly mentioned Saudi Arabia as a potential future member

Ali Salalha led his high school in a Druze community in northern Israel to become a national success story. From his new position as a recently elected Member of Knesset, he has even greater plans for the future

Hagai Levi manages to ‘outglum’ Ingmar Bergman in his remake of the ’70s classic, while Steve Martin makes a welcome return to our screens with ‘Only Murders in the Building’

Despite religious edicts forbidding Jewish prayer, the status quo appears to be under threat at the Jerusalem holy site that’s sacred to both Muslims and Jews – and historically is at the heart of regional sectarian violence

Male security guards reportedly inappropriately touched female inspectors in 'sensitive places,' demanded that they remove items of clothing at the country’s main atomic facility at Natanz, diplomats tell WSJ

The new chief, Ali Bagheri, was a senior negotiator in nuclear talks between Iran and the West under former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from 2007 to 2013

Time has not been kind to the goat, but we have been living alongside them for thousands of years. Where this started is still up for debate

The decision, reported by Politico, marks shift by Biden administration from predecessors, who had opted not to touch the $1.3 billion the U.S. gives Egypt annually despite mounting concerns over human rights violations

Establishing a large family is the most harmful thing we humans can do. One child per couple is all the planet can bear

Tel Sebastia in the West Bank has become a battleground for both control of the site as well as over its historical narrative. The Israeli army, a huge Palestinian flag and Ahab, seventh king of Israel, have all been co-opted for the cause

In a statement, the Anti-Defamation League said the Georgia high school’s letter addressing the graffiti had 'failed to characterize the incident as antisemitic'

Yoni Dinur forged links with Egyptian veterans and dug up missing items that were taken from Israeli soldiers who fought in '73. Now he wants to issue an appeal to Israelis who have similar ‘souvenirs’ in their possession

MK Gilad Kariv, the first non-Orthodox rabbi to be elected to the Knesset, slams the former PM for the ‘damage’ he did to Reform, Conservative and unaffiliated egalitarian movements in Israel and overseas

Investigators believe that one of the two prisoners still at large, Iham Kamamji, was a last gasp replacement for another prisoner who withdrew ■ Roughly 11 prisoners were in on the plot, with six of them making the break

The German Chancellor's trip was initially cancelled last month in reaction to the Kabul bombings

UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria notes hostilities in several areas of the fractured country, its collapsing economy, drying riverbeds and increased attacks by Islamic State militants

Vault lets employees report everything from racism to fraud to COVID violations – before it becomes a reason to quit, a media scandal or an environmental disaster

'The [Palestinian] security prisoners run their own affairs and are in control from the inside,' a guard told a state committee

Per capita, for every death of an Israeli over 60 that had received the booster shot, there are 15 deaths of unvaccinated Israelis in same age group

Russia's air force played a critical role in turning the tide of the Syrian conflict in Assad's favor, helping him recover most territory lost to insurgents

President Mahmoud Abbas 'pays money to terrorists that murder Jews and files lawsuits in The Hague against Israel Defense Forces soldiers – he’s not a partner,' says Ayelet Shaked

Even as his condition deteriorated, Hai Shaulian posted a message to his followers urging them not to give up. Some of them now believe that he was killed by the Israeli ‘establishment’ for revealing the ‘truth’ about COVID

A year after the Abraham Accords were signed under Trump and Netanyahu, how are Biden and Bennett promoting new agreements between Israel and Arab states? Also: the Israeli lawmaker who won his battle with COVID

After remaking the Swedish master's seminal miniseries ‘Scenes From a Marriage’ for HBO, Hagai Levi, the co-creator of ‘In Treatment’ and ‘The Affair,’ reveals why he is drawn to exploring the topic of infidelity

Health Ministery survey conducted among parents found that between 1.8% and 4.6% of Israel's youth aged up to 18 experienced COVID symptoms six months after recovery

Variations in 'purring, chirping, chattering, trilling, tweedling, murmuring, meowing, moaning, squeaking, hissing, yowling, howling, growling, and other modes of cat–human communication' can tell us a lot, it turns out

Cultivating the Modi myth: How the illustrated booklets I bought for 50 rupees at a train station kiosk explain his devotees’ loyalty, despite COVID and Pegasus, eclipsing Trump and Netanyahu, and why it’s such grim news for India

Researchers said they had high confidence that the world’s most infamous hacker-for-hire firm, Israel’s NSO Group, was behind the attack, which planted spyware on a Saudi activist’s iPhone

Iran is one month out of having enough material for 'a single nuclear weapon,' the New York Times reported, but assembling the warhead itself will take much longer - months, perhaps even years

The R number, which represents the infection rate, dropped to 0.81 last Monday, suggesting that the latest wave of infection was weakening. But it has risen over the past week to 1.01

Digging went on for over 6 months without prison officials ever noticing, a Palestinian source close to the prisoners confirmed

If the move is approved, one of the most difficult consequences of the COVID pandemic – school closures – would no longer be an obstacle, bringing relief to children, parents and the economy