Israel will try to push the Biden administration into a U-turn, after NSO was blacklisted for spying on journalists and human rights activists around the world, two senior Israeli officials tell the New York Times

The state broadcaster said the U.S. drones changed their route after approaching the Iranian exercise, as nuclear talks between worlds powers and Tehran are set to resume

Haarez photographer Ohad Zwingenberg went to Jerusalem’s first Kiki ball designed to increase queer visibility and provide a safe space for LGBT people in the conservative city

Suspects from all around the West Bank and Israel were arrested, as the coalition's plan to tackle crime in the Arab community kicks off in earnest

Study of siege ramp at Judahite town of Lachish shows that 2,300 years ago, the military juggernaut of King Sennacherib could conquer a city in less than a month

Israeli spyware maker NSO earned its criticism when it turned out that dictatorships to which it sold had used Pegasus against human rights activists and journalists

Ethiopian migration, halting an indicted individual from serving as PM, mixed prayer at the Western Wall: the budget's passage has unleashed a torrent of contentious bills exposing differences in Israel's motley coalition

Halting Iran was supposed to be Netanyahu’s great mission in life; could it really have been managed with such negligence and arrogance?

A confluence of conflicting interests, economic crisis, and regional disputes threaten Iraq even with a new government or prime minister in charge

NSO's claim to foreign immunity rejected by U.S. court in legal row with Facebook over unauthorized access to WhatsApp servers

This is the first meeting between a J Street delegation and an Israeli cabinet official in at least four years, after Netanyahu and former ambassador Ron Dermer boycotted the organization during their years in power

Meanwhile, opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu says that coalition lawmaker lied about being attacked

Three Arab crime organizations account for most of the shootings and other violence in the Arab community

Israeli minister seeks to bring Ethiopians whose Jewishness has not been confirmed; other government leaders are silent on the matter, not only for political reasons

Meanwhile, the cabinet's decision to allow tourists into Israel from countries with a lower COVID infection rate sparks criticism among Health Ministry staffers

Syria's state media said some 'hostile targets' were intercepted, but a war monitor said that air defenses were unable to block the Israeli strikes

Schoffman, who died Sunday at 74, was a widely respected figure in the American-Israeli literary scene, though his storied career also included writing a Rob Lowe movie

In an exclusive interview with Haaretz, Swedish prime minister Stefan Löfven explains his policies on Israel, and reaffirms his support for Holocaust commemoration, better U.S.-Europe relations and a revived Iran nuclear deal

Party leaders from the ruling coalition's secular flank are also pressing for reforms to the Chief Rabbinate's monopoly on conversion in Israel, drawing ire from religious parties

A six-panel comic illustrated by August Maria Froehlich first appeared as part of a January 1945 pamphlet entitled 'the bloody record of Nazi atrocities'

The incident occurred in the West Bank after settlers watered their flock at a cistern that they had been told by Israeli authorities was off limits to them

Under the new bill passed by Congress on Friday, houses of worship and nonprofits can apply for grants up to $200,000 to upgrade their buildings' energy efficiency

An Iraqi army general said the investigation into the drone attack against Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi is ongoing but that indications point to Iran-backed factions

One of the heads of the Palestinian NGOs targeted by Israeli firm NSO's cyberware slammed the hacking as a bid to 'control civil Palestinian society'

Pnina Tamano-Shata warns she 'cannot continue to be part of the government at a time when Ethiopian Jewry is being slaughtered'

Renowned Israeli anthropologist Emanuel Marx long refused to even think about the Holocaust or the day when his father was dragged off to Dachau. So what made him finally confront the past?

One of the highlights of this week’s Other Israel Film Festival in New York is ‘Cinema Sabaya,’ which, much like the festival, captures the complexities of Jewish and Arab life in Israel

The TV adaptation of the 2019 podcast is just as Jewish but lacks the original’s most disturbing elements, opting instead to play up the comedy with Will Ferrell and Paul Rudd. It’s good, but it could have been great

Duque also met with President Isaac Herzog, who cast Bogotá and Jerusalem as allies against Iranian aggression

Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, UAE and Kuwait pulled their envoys from Lebanon following remarks made by Lebanon's information minister on the war in Yemen

An explosive argument on conversion and kashrut has repercussions far beyond the Knesset, laying bare why the term 'Orthodox' Judaism has outlived its usefulness, and should be discarded

The drone was monitored by Israel's air traffic control unit before crashing into the sea, the military said

Israeli soldiers have begun using a facial recognition technology called Blue Wolf that alerts them whether Palestinians should be detained based on prior information about them, The Washington Post reports

The seed bank of the Palestinian Union of Agricultural Work Committees is saving heritage seeds from extinction and reviving a tradition of eco-friendly agriculture. Gantz must not be allowed to destroy it

An unusual burial unearthed in El Rayo, Nicaragua drastically differs from the common method of burying the dead in cacao pots

Four of the infected phones have Israeli numbers, and their owners are East Jerusalem residents with Israeli identity cards. This is the first time Pegasus software has been found on a cellphone with an Israeli number

Tourists will be allowed into Israel if they received two doses of a COVID vaccine authorized by the WHO, even if six months have elapsed since their second shot

With Libyan presidential elections set for late December, Saddam Haftar touched down in Tel Aviv last week for a secret meeting. Could Israeli normalization with Libya be on the horizon?

The Air Force bombing of the high-rise, which housed offices of the Associated Press and Al Jazeera, represented a serious PR blow to Israel in the May flare-up with Gaza

Netanyahu's legal aid says the witness' weakness could be exploited by his presence in the courtroom

The ruling recognizes an Israeli woman without a partner as the mother of a child born via surrogacy abroad

In a live-streamed Torah lecture the Rabbi Meir Mazuz called out Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman following reforms planned by the government

Global human rights is a key pillar of Biden’s foreign policy, but it comes with many exemptions

Out of some 3,000 sexual assault cases last year, prosecutors closed 2,700 without issuing an indictment, mostly due to insufficient evidence

Former janitor at school where Ta’ir Rada was murdered tells court he saw blood coming from victim’s body hours after her death, countering Supreme Court justice’s claim in ordering retrial

Israel's Population Authority agrees to issue temporary residence visas to immigrants from Ethiopia’s Tigray region, where the country's civil war erupted

Most of the 61 Ethiopians who were brought to Israel on a secret operation had no Jewish roots, and their lives hadn’t exactly been in danger, either. Israel's population authority deemed the event a 'conspiracy'

Wasteful construction, a double road system, trips lengthened by checkpoints and asphalt at the expense of open spaces: Israel’s policy in the West Bank and Gaza has a green price tag

U.S. vice president tells ADL antisemitism summit that hate crime against American Jews is on the rise, but the Biden administration is ‘fully committed to fighting antisemitism’

The monthly clashes at the Kotel between Jewish feminists and ultra-Orthodox protesters are likely to become a major parliamentary issue – and it’s clear whose side Benjamin Netanyahu will be on

The military order builds on Defense Ministry Gantz's terror designation in Israel, and could permit the IDF to arrest the employees, raid the offices and confiscate equipment of the Palestinian groups

The neo-fascist, anti-immigrant, Nazi-founded Sweden Democrats is rising in the polls while continuing its mendacious efforts to rebrand as 'moderate' nationalists – and 'pro-Israel' to boot. This is what they really think, and how Israel's ambassa...

We overdraw on the planet’s resources every day but there are ways forward, if we have the vision to see them, and the courage to take them

As media personalities close to Netanyahu slam her Israel Hayom paper, long seen as a pro-Bibi bastion, for supposedly not attacking Bennett, Miriam Adelson and new PM will share a stage at ZOA gala next month

The theater apologized for 'unconscious bias' in naming Elon Musk-inspired character Hershel Fink

The protracted path of Lena and Vladimir Oliker's journey to Israel began with Soviet refusal, then met Israeli nitpicking over paperwork. The last obstacles were finally overcome following a report in Haaretz on their case

Senator Chris Coons, a Democrat representing Biden’s home state of Delaware, is often described in the U.S. media as Biden's closest friend in the Senate

Star quarterback Aaron Rodgers falsely cited an Israeli study to argue that recovered COVID patients shouldn't get vaccinated. Israeli experts stress in reply the importance of vaccinations, even after recovery from the virus

Prime Minister Bennett says experimental COVID pill can 'be another significant tool to manage the pandemic'

A murky oil-pipeline deal, some shady 'security-related' projects, the memory of Yitzhak Rabin and malicious cyberware all hovered over recent splashy nuptials in Marrakesh

The grandson of the movie star has steered clear of Egypt for a decade, but in his new memoir – and a Haaretz interview – the 37-year-old actor tells how even his classmates in Canada gave him grief over his sexual orientation

Internet services have been badly disrupted since the coup two weeks ago, and phone coverage remains patchy

The standoff between the government and the presidential council is likely to increase political tensions in the embattled country and complicate the long-awaited vote, scheduled for late December

The decree on personal status is the UAE's latest move to establish itself 'as one of the most attractive destinations for talent and skills,' state media says

The first ToHa Tower was the talk of the town and a social media star. ToHa 2, with an estimated cost of 3 billion shekels, is going to be just as illogical is its predecessor

For decades, A.Q. Khan charmed civil and military leaders with his lies, just as he did when I met him. But his profiteering off proliferation, and Islamabad's dubious denials of his nuclear shenanigans, will fade away if Pakistan needs him to justif...

German President Steinmeier is planning to hold a day of remembrance both for the Nazi pogrom of 1938 and the fall of the Berlin Wall on Tuesday

Harvard, MIT and... Al-Qasemi: According to remote-learning giant edX, Al-Qasemi Academic College from a small Arab-Israeli town boasts one the world’s 12 best digital courses

In letters sent to senior Biden officials, four Democratic lawmakers demanded more steps be taken against companies like Israel's NSO and Candiru, following their recent blacklisting by the Commerce Department

Speaking at the Republican Jewish Coalition, Haley slammed the AIPAC for working with politicians who support the Iran nuclear deal, arguing the pro-Israel lobby took bipartisanship too far

The future won't look like a Facebook boardroom, but like an Islamic caliphate

The United States and several other countries also began repatriating diplomats and citizens, as tensions between federal forces and Tigray rebels brew

State TV reports that navy, air force and ground forces were participating in a major drill east of the strategic Strait of Hormuz

Hussein al-Sheikh notes the Biden administration 'has announced repeatedly' it plans to reopen a consulate in Jerusalem that would serve the Palestinians, after the Israeli prime minister said 'there is no place' for it

The statistic is partial and includes only the killing of Palestinians during demonstrations or clashes in the West Bank. The military argues it hasn't changed its guidelines on using the Ruger rifle

Experts agree that the coronavirus will not disappear entirely, but instead wax and wane. As long as the pandemic rages around the world, Israel will still face a threat

It is not clear who is behind the attack, which injured seven of Mustafa al-Kadhimi's security guards in Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone

Lower prices to attract ultra-Orthodox customers are not new, nor are they exclusive to Shufersal

The settlers broke the gate to the playground in Sussia, and one was filmed chasing off a Palestinian child with a dog

The U.S. has sent a clear warning to NSO and its global peers: Stop facilitating malicious attacks on human rights. But to curb an advanced, invasive, uncontrolled cyber surveillance industry, we need to do far more

'There is no place for an American consulate that serves the Palestinians in Jerusalem,' Prime Minister Naftali Bennett says at a joint press conference after the state budget passed, ensuring stability for the ruling coalition

Afaf al-Najar, who won a scholarship to study in Turkey, was denied exit from Gaza after Hamas ruled that unaccompanied women must get permission from a male guardian to leave the Strip

Normal planning processes to expand landfills are lengthy and complicated, and the Environmental Protection Ministry hopes to change that

Despite mediation efforts within Sudan and from the international community, negotiations to resolve the political crisis have stalled after the military refused a return to a democratic transition

'Capitalism is killing the planet,' banners read, as protesters marched through the Scottish city calling for bolder action on climate crisis

Just over a decade ago, ground was broken on Rawabi – which was billed as a game-changer in the West Bank. A visit to the hilltop city is a confusing experience, though, with a lively center contrasting with empty neighborhoods