Israel's ban on travel to U.S., Canada to go into effect at midnight on Tuesday ■ Nearly one in six students infected in local COVID outbreak diagnosed with omicron

A biblical exegesis attributed to the followers of the first and second century sage Rabbi Yishmael was believed to be gone forever. But using new technology, researchers were able to comb a 19th century text for the original work

Index measuring ‘religious freedom’ names Tel Aviv’s neighboring city Givatayim as Israel’s most pluralistic place

Before omicron fears prompted Israel’s latest tourist ban, residents of the biblical town of Bethlehem were preparing for a sea of pilgrims this Christmas season. Now the magnificent church, the hotels and the shops stand empty, and locals are wond...

The staff member at the Washington, D.C. school also reportedly told students to reenact Holocaust scenes, like dying in a gas chamber

The woman with whom ex-Mossad chief is reported to have had an affair with is seeking to gag the TV report, citing concern for her children's privacy and wellbeing

The evacuation of Hassan Irloo from Yemen initially led to swirling speculation that his departure signals emerging friction between the Houthis and their Iranian backers

The storm will fizzle out by Wednesday, with high winds and strong rain set to slam central and northern Israel

With omicron cases expected to more than double by the end of the week and waning immunity the country braces for a fifth wave

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, Foreign Minister Yair Lapid and Defense Minister Benny Gantz will meet with Jake Sullivan, who could shift the American strategy toward Iran

Lebanon’s journalists’ union is facing a new challenge from younger, more aggressive professionals. But the media just reflects the political battle heating up ahead of the elections to be held

Nir Hefetz met with businessman Shaul Elovitch, who indirectly controlled the Walla news site that allegedly provided positive coverage of Netanyahu for regulatory favors

For more than 20 years now, Israel has tried to block Iran’s quest for nuclear weapons – and the time has come to draw conclusions from these efforts

Gilad Erdan condemns the planned UN contributions to two of the six civil organizations Israel deemed terrorist groups in October

The deal would make it unnecessary to rule whether the former interior minister's acts constituted moral turpitude, thereby allowing him to run in the next Knesset election

Haaretz takes you back into the ups and downs of Israel's COVID vaccination campaign

UAL member Walid Taha cancels all meetings for the coming week in protest of the interior minister's opposition to the bill

The groups will be the last Birthright participants allowed into the country, following the designation of the U.S. and other countries to Israel's 'red list' barring entry

Humans did cause mass extinction throughout the Pleistocene, Israeli archaeologists and zoologists prove in first meta-study on megafaunal extinction in the southern Levant

Yusef Mabhouh, from the Gaza Strip, was sentenced to 15 years in an Israeli prison last year for his activities on behalf of Hamas

William Daroff joins Haaretz Weekly to discuss Israeli travel restrictions, and slams Donald Trump over his Mideast peace assertions. Plus, Esther Solomon on why Jews must speak out against abuses in Bosnia

'Soleimani’s assassination is an achievement, since our main enemy, in my eyes, are the Iranians,' the head of Israeli military intelligence says

Prominent activist Alaa Abdel Fattah was sentenced to five years for spreading fake news. President Sissi announced the end of the state of emergency in October, but special court continues operating

Critics say Naftali Bennett’s team is bound to succumb to infighting, but clashing policies are a useful venting mechanism. As Ariel Sharon said, just watch what the prime minister does, not what Minister X. says

After 15 years in charge, Hamas has only become more resilient, and Israel has been forced to accept that its enemy is here to stay

In response to the pro-Palestine left's charge that Zionism is colonialism, a rising tide of pro-Israel supporters claim Jews are genetically 'indigenous' to Israel. That argument swims in fascist waters

After 50 years of supporting the two-state solution, I see its growing helplessness in the face of the West Bank's gloomy reality

Israeli PM Bennett warns omicron outbreak makes it essential to vaccinate kids, as the R number hits 4-month high and daily COVID cases hit a 2-month peak

At Ben-Gurion Airport they yelled at us and threatened us as we were accused of 'planned participation in human rights demonstrations' – something that should be allowed in a democratic country anyway

Uri Geller, self-proclaimed telekineticist, said he received his supernatural powers from aliens, a claim he later rolled back somewhat.

Kamel Jendoubi, who was chairman of the UN-backed panel tasked with investigating human rights violations and possible war crimes in Yemen, was targeted by the Israeli firm's Pegasus spyware in 2019

Ukraine is asking the world to recognize the death by starvation of millions of its people in 1932-33 as an act of genocide by the Soviet Union. In recent years, victims of the 'Holodomor' are being memorialized, echoing Holocaust commemorations

Media regulator in the UAE introduces 21+ age category, instead of the current practice of removing whole scenes deemed offensive

A 28-year-old man died after being shot by security forces near the capital Khartoum, a medical union says, a day after scores of protesters marched on the presidential palace

Bennett is about to be the guest of honor at a Google event. What is the Antitrust Authority or the Tax Authority supposed to think?

I refuse to label them terrorists and am not obligated to use the lexicon of the usurper. Dispossession is a high form of terrorism

Drill is Iran's second at a nuclear site this month, as negotiations with the U.S. and Europe over Tehran's nuclear program are adjourned

Israel Air Force posted a photo on Twitter of secret IDF unit combatants after they won a marathon. It forgot to blur out one essential detail

Germany and Italy are also on the list of so-called red countries, as Israel's total omicron cases reach 175

The storm will reach its peak on Monday and fizzle out by Wednesday, with high winds and strong rain set to slam central and northern Israel ■ Egypt closes ports, suspends classes

Elisha Haibatov found himself again in prison last week after protesting the state's failure to compensate him. 'This isn’t how a criminal investigation should be conducted in a democratic country,' the justices wrote in 2018

Haaretz explains Israel's criteria for restricting travel to a country and which are expected to join the 'red countries' list over omicron

The demonstrators were protesting near the Israeli premier minister's residence against the government’s COVID policies and restrictions imposed to fight the pandemic

Israel is slated to expand its list of 'red countries' to include the U.S. and Canada on Sunday, as the number of omicron cases climbs to 175

The army said that about 200 settlers attempted to reach Homesh, which was evicted as part of Israel's 2005 disengagement plan, but encountered large forces at checkpoints en route

Many 'were able to get into Israel and later on found out that they were sick,' said a participant, after 17 passengers on a Miami flight to Israel tested positive for COVID, with almost all suspected of carrying omicron variant

Iran's new condition is announced only days after a breakthrough agreement was reached between the UN nuclear watchdog and Tehran

Anastasia Gorbenko's 100-meter win comes days after setting a new Israeli record in the Abu Dhabi competition

From ‘The Rescue’ to ‘Allen v. Farrow,’ here are 21 must-see documentary films and series from the past year

Turkey’s economy is in free fall: The lira is diving, inflation is rising and food costs are spiraling. The government is resorting to Kremlin-style misinformation and conspiracy theories to divert blame. But sabotaging livelihoods and the country'...

The host country and the local organizers of the event in Eilat managed to eke out a significant public relations victory in the face of multiple obstacles, including COVID and BDS

Israeli sources believe parties won't return to the original agreement signed in 2015, and that the international community faces two possible outcomes instead

Turkish President Erdogan is counting on the tumbling lira to turn his country into an export powerhouse and keep him in power in 2023. It won’t work

The researchers, who collected their data while spelunking into shafts and digging through mud and chilly water, also discovered the aqueduct’s 'cutting-edge' method of construction

Bennett is frustrated by the public's relative indifference to the early steps taken against omicron. The main effort against it is being sabotaged by the Education Ministry  

'On the one hand I realize that it is a very Jewish song but in my opinion it’s also racist,' says Tel Aviv basketball club point guard about Israel's national anthem

The storm will reach its peak on Monday and fizzle out by Wednesday, with high winds and strong rain set to slam central and northern Israel

Demonstrators are marking three years since the start of protests that led to Bashir's overthrow, while calling for the military to loosen its grip on Sudan's political life

The quick and bloodless capture of the suspects in the murder of an Israeli settler may restore some deterrence, but a weakened PA and rising settler violence mean Palestinian attacks are likely to continue

'Like turning Eichmann into a folk hero': How far right nationalists in the Balkans are rehabilitating war criminals and their atrocities, from the perpetrators of the Holocaust to Srebrenica genocidaires, and why

The death of Yehuda Dimentman on Thursday sparked the attempt to reestablish Homesh, which Israelis are forbidden from entering since it was dismantled in 2005

Tehran said Hassan Irloo required urgent medical attention, and while reports suggest otherwise, the Saudis have agreed to a rare exemption from its air blockade of Yemen to let him leave

Iran, which has the worst COVID fatality rate in the Middle East, has been ramping up its vaccine campaign in the past weeks

Israel is set to discuss expanding the list of 'red countries' to include the U.S. and Canada on Sunday, as number of omicron cases climbs to 175

Bennett decides to follow the lead of other countries in dropping the subsidy for quarantine hotels, after sucking up half a billion shekels since COVID struck the country

As the highly contagious omicron variant of COVID-19 spreads, cabinet to consider further expanding the list of countries that Israelis cannot fly to

Israeli historians warn that the new legislation defining the Nazi mass killings of Belarusians as 'genocide' would blur the distinction with the Holocaust, and even constitutes a form of Holocaust denial

The suspects opened fire on a vehicle near the former settlement of Homesh on Thursday, killing Yehuda Dimentman and wounding two other students

The opinion, issued following an appeal by asylum seekers against the Tel Aviv Municipality, claims integration will 'harm the cultural and family roots of the students'

Based on the findings, the number of future participants is to be restricted and a special organizer to be appointed by the religious services minister

One rocket was destroyed in the air and the other landed near the zone's festivals arena and damaged two cars, the report said

The deal to create an egalitarian prayer space had been approved by the government headed by former PM Benjamin Netanyahu in January 2016, but was suspended under pressure from his ultra-Orthodox coalition partners

150 hospital employees will take part in a trial examining effects of another booster shot, as restrictions return amid spread of omicron variant

Trump's remarks to an Israeli journalist are 'overtly antisemitic and disgusting,' says Democratic senator, as ADL blasts 'classic antisemitic stereotypes about Israeli and Jewish control of Congress and the press'

Some Americans in Israel are panicking, hoping that weddings, bar mitzvahs and other events won’t be marred by a paltry showing, as COVID omicron infections spread

Three people were identified as carriers of the highly infectious omicron variant, the Egyptian Health Ministry says

The 38-year-old Israeli suffered light injuries and the Palestinian woman was arrested on the spot

For star Swedish composer Jacob Mühlrad, 'making music is like practicing religion.' Indeed, his works are heavily informed by Jewish themes, Hebrew words and Holocaust trauma

Four employees of the Israeli parliament have COVID, Knesset says, sending 130 staffers into quarantine

Biden has learned from the experience of previous administrations and is willing to accept authoritarian regimes if they create a suitable facade

With quiet determination, the leader of the United Arab List is pushing ahead with redefining the identity of Israel's Arab public

Iran's breakout time to producing enough enriched uranium for one nuclear weapon is 'really short,' U.S. official says, as seventh round of talks concludes at Tehran's request

Brad Lander will audit yeshivas and determine which are falling short of state standards, but says he does not have the power to force them to change their curricula

During a hospital renovation, a Star of David was discovered, leading engineers to amend their plan, so they can preserve what remains of the 19th-century synagogue

Although the pipeline agreement is likely to go ahead, the government decided to let the Environmental Protection Ministry limit the quantity of oil it lets Israel's pipeline company transport

A.B. Yehoshua has always been opposed to the idea of boundary blurring, particularly between Jews and Palestinians. Why, then, in his ninth decade, is he promoting a one-state solution?

Under a new plan pending a cabinet vote, the number of customers inside shopping centers will be restricted. The government mulls further COVID restrictions on big stores as omicron cases in Israel climb to 134