The lyricist, considered amongst the greatest creators in the history of musical theater, wrote timeless hits such as 'West Side Story,' 'Into the Woods,' and 'Sweeney Todd'

Demonstrators, protesting the water shortages in Iran, reportedly threw rocks and set fire to a police motorcycle, while security forces used tear gas and batons

Egypt has taken a cut of the money with the help of a private contractor. In the meantime, Cairo's help bolsters Israel's strategy of keeping Gaza and the West Bank separated, blocking a diplomatic solution

The U.K. asserted that the designation is part of their fight against antisemitism, while Palestinians slammed the decision, arguing it creates obstacles for a peace deal with Israel

The new COVID omicron variant – discovered in South Africa and identified in Israel – has a very large number of mutations in critical parts of its spike protein

Israel, Jordan and the UAE signed the deal earlier this week in the presence of U.S. climate envoy John Kerry

Herzog's visit 'to a settlement in the center of Hebron legitimizes the apartheid regime and the incessant settler violence under which the city’s Palestinian residents live'

Alan Leveritt, publisher of the Arkansas Times, explains how he found himself at the forefront of a legal battle against Israeli-sponsored legislation against the BDS movement.

Netanyahu's former Mossad chief, defense minister and IDF commander are speaking out on Trump's departure from the Iran deal, years after the then-prime minister celebrated it

'Yes, it’s true. My great-great grandfather’s grandfather was a slave trader.' Agur Schiff’s latest book features an Israeli man, with the same name as his, traveling to Africa and standing trial for being the descendant of a slave trafficker. ...

A South African variant, boosters and inoculating kids: Israeli public health expert Dr. Sharon Alroy-Preis, in an exclusive briefing for Haaretz, explained that Israel's COVID infection is fueled by unvaccinated individuals: 'It’s not the booster ...

Turkey is building 22 dams that will greatly reduce the water flow to Iraq, while Iran too is prioritizing its own people as the drought in the region bites down

Ahead of Iran nuclear talks, Bennett's hands are tied ■ From his ongoing trial to the Knesset, Netanyahu has known better weeks ■ What a key Likudnik didn't mention in his praise of Menachem Begin

Photographer Lior Sperandeo, 34, documents what he calls life at the 'desperate ends of the world,' including that of Sudanese refugees deported from Israel and other hunger-stricken, far-flung communities. Now he hopes to use more than his camera to...

IDF troops raided two homes and nabbed three boys suspected of throwing stones. Bound and blindfolded, they spent a cold night in custody before being freed without explanation

Cypriot police said they had arrested 50-year-old Gabriel Abutbul Alon after an Italian judge issued an arrest warrant for him earlier this month

Israel's top court is set to hold its final hearing on Sunday on petitions against plans for a cable car to the Western Wall, whose final stop would be in a Palestinian neighborhood

Human rights groups said in May that elected Emirati Inspector General Ahmed Nasser al-Raisi's department had not investigated credible allegations of torture by security forces

Israel bears responsibility for many years of neglect and discrimination, but it is time the Arab community will also share the blame

A Shin Bet agent corresponded with a 14-year-old Palestinian for two months before he was killed, and his father is convinced that he provoked him

A curious case involving a Romanian mall, an American embassy and a London judge shows that even under Blinken and Biden, America does business with those who don't respect human rights and the rule of law

Israel's prime minister warns of emergency as he meets with top health officials after a passenger returning from Malawi diagnosed with the new COVID Omicron variant

'Not a single partner is saying to us, "We’ve come to terms with the Iranians getting a bomb." Quite the contrary,' says Alon Ushpiz, a former career diplomat

Drought refugees, equipment failure among scenarios the military begins to consider

Hamas continues to play its double game: preserving the quiet in the Gaza Strip, while increasingly encouraging “individual attacks” in Jerusalem and the West Bank.

This week at the Tel Aviv airport: A woman who became a medium after her daughter's spiritual encounter, and a couple that met on a kibbutz when they were 18

Are Israeli Jews the ‘privileged whites’ in the conflict with the Palestinians?

In his new book, historian Shlomo Sand, author of the provocative ‘The Invention of the Jewish People,’ asserts that social democracy has failed (it never stood a chance in Israel), that capitalism actually heightens equality and that the left in...

The judicial ombudsman asks minister to consider dismissing Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef from his position on the Great Rabbinical Court over of public remarks blasting the government's proposed movs to liberalize kashrut, Jewish conversion rules

A treasury official said that the sum was found in deposits and that the ministry does not know what to do with the amount

Rasha Sitawi, 32, is the 15th Arab woman murdered this year

A municipal board gave an initial nod for a new neighborhood in a part of East Jerusalem that had been earmarked for the Palestinians in previous peace talks

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett announced South Africa and some neighboring countries were added to the list of 'red' countries after scientists announced the detection of the B.1.1.529 COVID-19 variant

Israeli financial newspaper Calcalist reports that the cyber export list has shrunk from 102 countries to 37, and now excludes NSO customers like the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Morocco and Mexico

The lawyer of the former dictator's son, whose candidacy in the Libyan presidential race was disqualified by the election committee, was blocked by armed men when trying to submit an appeal

Commander of Gilboa prison says an intelligence officer provided female guards doing their compulsory military service to a Fatah-affiliated prisoner in exchange for intelligence

18-year-old Bashar Masalha suffered multiple fractures after five young men assaulted him near Independence Park, friend recounts

I hate my smartphone – that black hole in the shape of a rectangle that swallows everything that could be beautiful and good in my life. I decided to investigate five methods to help me disconnect

A paper published by Tel Aviv University's Institute of National Security Studies argues the threat the Red Sea pipeline poses to Israel's security warrants cancelling the deal

While the main focus of the coalition agreement is climate change, this German government is the first to pledge to 'strengthen initiatives that promote Jewish life and promote its diversity'

The case against 32-year-old Shaul Karni had been closed for lack of evidence, until he recently turned himself in over the 2018 assault

The Israeli defense minister, capping a first official visit to Morocco, says Israel must make sure that it 'doesn't get caught up in American politics as was the case in the past'

Complaints that two giants of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish world - Chaim Walder and Yehuda Meshi-Zahav - have sexually abused children have encouraged more victims to speak out and wrenched the community out of its complacency. Some of them are my frien...

The protests came just days after the military signed a new power-sharing deal with the prime minister, after releasing him from house arrest and reinstating him as head of government

Despite a big red sign warning them against entering, groups of Israelis are venturing back to the lowest city on Earth. ‘It’s something I’ve wanted to do for a long time,’ says one veteran tour guide

Titus Brandsma was sent to the Dachau concentration camp in 1942 after speaking out against Nazi ideology

'I am disappointed in Miss Universe for this. It was my childhood dream for me, but I really don't care. I care about my people,' Rafaela Plastira says

An Israeli team of researchers has discovered a mechanism that leads to tiredness in the nervous system of the zebrafish, with supportive evidence for the existence of such a mechanism in mice. Remember the name: Parp1

Moshe Hogeg allegedly tried to force himself on a model in her hotel room in an incident that was subsequently covered up with the help of an Israeli modeling agent

The approval comes as Europe is again the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic again, accounting for about half of cases and deaths

It had been assumed that Startup Nation would turn to the UAE for investment, but a new Israeli venture will be doing the opposite and backing Emirati tech firms

Israel plans to sign the Istanbul Convention, a major step in fighting violence against women. But the interior minister, who does not want to turn gender-based violence into justification for residency, has her own terms

Israel is also increasing access to Jerusalem for Christians living in the West Bank

Visiting the beleaguered Christian communities of Iraq, Syria, the Gaza Strip and Egypt, Janine di Giovanni discovers a people facing an existential threat but determined to persevere

According to the UN, some 56,000 homes across Gaza were damaged in the conflict between Israel and Hamas, and reconstruction efforts have yet to get off the ground

Somalia Islamist group al-Shabaab carried out the attack, which collapsed a school and hospital in the Mogadishu capital

Documents and testimony obtained by Haaretz shed further light on how the political leanings of members of the Judicial Selection Committee play out in the behind-the-scenes appointment process

Immigration and Border Authority treated a human trafficking victim from the Ukraine as a suspected prostitute, leading to the loss of her residency permit

The plans will allow Israel to handle increasing demands while spurring local economies, however green groups including the Environmental Protection Ministry oppose the move

While only 12 people were arrested during the operation, police confiscated makeshift weapons and drugs in an attempt to stifle the ongoing violence in Israel's southern district

Netanyahu received 300,000 dollars from his cousin Nathan Milikowsky, and U.S. businessman Spencer Partrich gave 600,000 dollars as a loan - to cover Netanyahu's legal defense

Dozens of Israeli officials traveled to the UN climate conference, but none were assigned to stay for the decisive final two days of negotiations

Police forces were deployed to the hospital the man was admitted to as part of new protocol following a brawl outside another Israeli hospital last week that left 4 injured and saw 19 arrested

Notices were posted during Israel's flare-up with Hamas in May that coincided with Arab-Jewish violence across the country's mixed cities

Head of U.S. Central Command says Iran 'very close' to having the materials to build a nuclear bomb, while special envoy on Iran voices pessimism about new talks

If established, it would be the first large Jewish neighborhood in East Jerusalem since the 1990s

Yellow stars and Nazi symbols at anti-vaccine protests have been spreading as quickly as the virus itself over the past 18 months and represent a real threat to the legacy of the Holocaust, experts warn

Alex Edelman, a Jewish stand-up comic from Boston, is about to launch his solo tour next month in which he'll joke about everything from white nationalists to housing prices

Izzeldin Abuelaish has been on a 13-year campaign to seek justice for what he says was a terrible mistake by the Israeli military

Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Idan Roll snubs meetings with Belgian officials after landing in Brussels

The United States is not enforcing sanctions and is allowing Iran to export oil, limiting its options, while Israel struggles to devise a persuasive strategy

‘The word Jewish was never mentioned at home,’ says the author, whose new book, ‘The Postcard,’ is about five generations of her family – from pogroms in Russia to her grandmother’s love triangle

IAEA chief Rafael Grossi has warned that time is running out to reach an agreement with Iran to end a long standoff over inspection of nuclear sites

Israel recalled Tal Ben-Ari Yaalon in August after Poland approved a controversial law restricting the possibility of restitution claims for property stolen from Jews during the Holocaust

Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani tells i24 News that any new Iran deal cannot ignore 'the Islamic Republic’s other efforts to destabilize other countries in the region through terrorism and proxy wars'

The memorandum of understanding signed in Rabat lays out plans to deepen intelligence and military cooperation

While Israel's booster campaign has proven a success, the forth wave is not over yet, the country's top health expert tells Haaretz in an exclusive briefing

The lira has lost 40% of its value this year and nearly 20% since the beginning of last week alone, amid concerns over broader fallout for the economy after President Erdogan defended recent sharp rate cuts

Freddy Ben-Shitrit testified before the government commission investigating the escape of the six Palestinian security prisoners in September

Graffiti sprayed at the scene in Kiryat Arba apparently refers to the death of 16-year-old Ahuvia Sandak, who was killed a year ago in high-speed police chase

Nir Hefetz, a former adviser turned state's evidence in Netanyahu's corruption trial, tells court that the former prime minister's party had control over coverage at Walla

New technology is a baby step toward detecting liars everywhere based on nothing but their twitching, lying face

U.S. officials say it's already much more difficult to carry out a cyberattack to set back Iran’s nuclear program as Iran improves air defenses and places nuclear facilities underground

Cat wants treat. Box is shut. Cat asks for help, yes, she does! How she does that is another matter, and it depends on you

Hezbollah’s External Security Organization was designated a terrorist organization under Australia’s Criminal Code in 2003, but the latest move would see all Hezbollah entities banned

Israeli officials point to a correlation between the timing of attacks and interests that Iran was pursuing in talks with the U.S. and other powers