I explored Greek island Hydra, where he lived for years. A diary of a personal journey inspired by music

A century ago Zionist leaders strove to keep ‘weak people’ from immigrating. 'It is one of the most controversial disputes in the history of the Zionist movement'

A new COVID variant was discovered in Israel last week, after previously spreading mostly in South Africa. Will vaccines work against omicron, and what about medications? Hear from top Israeli experts on our podcast

In his latest best seller, French-Jewish journalist and far-right rising star Éric Zemmour aspires to be remembered alongside Napoleon and de Gaulle, and asks: 'Has anyone truly proved that Dreyfus wasn't guilty?'

Five travelers from South Africa, who were already en route when Israel decided to close its borders due to the Omicron COVID variant, describe a disturbing ordeal at Ben-Gurion Airport after landing

Israel and Britain will also sign a 10-year agreement to work closely on areas such as cybersecurity, technology, trade and defense

Israeli sources assess that the round of talks will not lead to real progress with Iran in the immediate term

Tehran has clearly become highly skilled at the tactic of going to the brink – but not beyond it

After Israel has recently simulated the outbreak of a particularly virulent variant during a national drill, how will it contain the new COVID omicron variant?

Bennett may pay dearly for underestimating the man who could in the future be his 61st vote in the Knesset

Aaron Rabinowitz and Shira Elk win Israel Press Institute annual prize for excellence in journalism for investigation into Israel Prize winner’s decades of sexual abuse

Hezbollah is using rebel minister Kordahi as a pawn in its bid to influence elections, but new players on Lebanon's fast-changing political map threaten their plan

Lapid will meet several high-ranking British officials including Prime Minister Boris Johnson and French President Emmanuel Macron

Experts add that it will be two weeks before there is credible data on the omicron variant's vaccine resistance, while Health minister says Israel has been preparing for the arrival of a new variant for some time

When COVID first erupted, Israel decided to have the Shin Bet digitally track patients to locate people that might have been infected, however the agency asks the government to set up a civilian group for this purpose

Despite an appointments committee concluded that Perez lack the required qualifications, Attorney General Avichai Mendelblit enabled the cabinet vote on Peretz’s appointment

Peter Jackson’s wonderful three-part documentary on Disney+ captures the Fab Four at the end of their long and winding road

The airline company decides to postpone direct flights between the countries after Israel bared tourists from entering the country over the highly infectious omicron coronavirus variant

'The Jewish people's historical connection to Hebron is unquestionable,' President Herzog says at the ceremony amid calls for protest from Palestinians and left-wing groups against the Hanukkah event

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

The cabinet approved a plan that would allow those waiting for years to reunite with their families in Israel, following months of disagreements and amid a rapidly deteriorating situation in Ethiopia

When grave robbers muff it: Archaeological excavation in Ukraine find evidence of the ‘great’ wooden city of tribes described by Herodotus, home to a melting pot of tribes, including the Scythians

The suspect has been working with Kenyans to gather intel with the goal of attacking Kenyan and Israeli interests, report says

More and more young Israelis leave their country to find a better and easier future somewhere else. Sara-Lee and Gilad Sivan left Israel behind to live on a beautiful beachfront in Panama. The views are breathtaking and they commune with nature, but ...

Green Party co-leader Annalena Baerbock has condemned Hamas’ rocket strikes against Israeli civilians and opposes the BDS movement, adding: ‘In these trying times, we stand with the Israelis’

A can of Coke for $0.63, a dental filling for $63: The relative calm in the West Bank in recent years has created a booming economy along the ‘seam line’ as thousands of Israelis snap up everything, from toys and tents to fixing their cars

After omicron was detected in Israel, experts add that it will be two weeks before there is credible data on the variant's vaccine resistance. Health minister says Israel has been preparing for the arrival of a new variant for some time

53-year-old resident of Yarka, in Israel's north, was found dead at a locksmith's shop with bullet wounds across his body

Ahead of a fresh round of talks in Vienna, U.S. envoy promises 'increased pressure' if Iran uses it to boost its nuclear program

The woman's lawyers say she could face up to seven years in prison if not released soon, urge the Israeli government to intervene

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

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

Interrogators at Tel Aviv airport asked one of them about her political views and accused her of intending to participate in demonstrations

According to a statement from the Greek organizers, Rafaela Plastira, who said she would not attend the event in Eilat over Israel's occupation of the Palestinians, was never her country's representative

A Bedouin man, Israeli citizen, testified to military police that he and two Palestinian friends were assaulted, left cuffed by Israeli soldiers while picnicking near a West Bank settlement

The COVID cabinet also agrees to resume tracking of confirmed carriers of the new variant by Israel's Shin Bet security service

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

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

The families are asking that the UN grant them compensation from the funds left over by former Libyan dictator Muammar Gadhafi, who Israel says was connected to the deadly Munich attack, according to a German report

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

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.

'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. ...

Omicron, 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 waning'

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

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

An agent corresponded with a Palestinian teen for two months before he was killed, and his father is convinced that he provoked him. Has cyberbullying become Shin Bet's new pastime in Palestine?

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

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