Very little early Christian art has survived the centuries in the Holy Land – but then an Israeli art historian looked at the apse of a ruined Byzantine church in Shivta, and saw Jesus’ face and short curly hair

As Hezbollah drones increasingly conduct tactical reconnaissance missions, the Israeli army's situation room dedicated to the aerial threat has also become efficient

The currency is at roughly half the value of a year ago, but Turkey’s president refuses to raise interest rates. His popularity is plummeting as prices rise; lucky for him, he can forestall an election by over a year

Why is Israel still appeasing the ultra-Orthodox radicals who seek to erase and exclude women?

The number of seriously ill COVID patients has tripled in 18 days ■ 14 percent of Israelis over 20 are unvaccinated, yet they account for 50 percent of serious cases

‘Targeting our kid’s play space is so disturbing': When violent settlers pick on Palestinian children in the West Bank village of Susya, backed by the Israeli army, it’s part of a larger strategy of intimidation and dispossession

Israel prepares to welcome vaccinated tourists back amid omicron outbreak, logs record 18,780 new COVID infections and a rise in severe cases

The army, rebel groups, political parties and representatives from protest movements in Sudan will be invited to the UN talks in a bid to get the transition to 'democracy and peace' back on track after the October coup

Transcripts obtained by Haaretz reveal that the deputy prison commissioner disobeyed an order to block cellphone service in Gilboa Prison, a move which assisted six Palestinian prisoners escape in September

The Education Ministry failed to implement necessary changes when the school system was faced with COVID-induced problems, report concludes

Parts that took less than a month to get into Gaza now take up to five months, leading to breakdowns, releasing sewage to the sea and reducing the quality of drinking water

The move, which awaits the results of a government-run research, would cut quarantine in half for COVID carriers, in line with CDC recommendations

In 2020, Princess and rights activist Basmah Bint Saud bin Abdulaziz Al Saud said via her social media channels that she had been held in the capital Riyadh for more than a year and was sick

UN mediation in the weeks after the coup succeeded in reinstating Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok, but his resignation last week sparked a wave of deadly protests

Ramy Shaath, the son of a prominent Palestinian politician, was deported after more than two years in pre-trial detention over allegations of having ties with the Muslim Brotherhood

The strikes hit a camp for displaced people, though Ethiopia denies targeting civilians in the 14-month conflict with rebellious Tigrayan forces

Whether COVID lingers or disappears for good, it looks like Zoom is here to stay, having upended how interior designers and architects work. Welcome to the world of virtual design

Ramy Shaath was arrested in July 2019 at his home in Cairo and accused of having links to the Muslim Brotherhood, which the Egyptian government designated as a terrorist organization in 2013

Levan Kogeashvili, 22, was killed in the city of Almaty amid ongoing anti-government protests

The FeelBeit project is trying to harness art to forge ties between Jerusalem's Jewish, Palestinian, secular and religious communities. Participants push each other's most sensitive buttons – but the experience is transformative

One of the three arrested includes the son of Zakaria Zubeidi, who escaped from Gilboa prison in September, as footage of the arrest caused dozens of gunmen to take to the streets

Two of the three, Travis McMichael and his father Gregory McMichael, are sentenced to life with no parole, while William “Roddie” Bryan could seek parole in 30 years

The world-famous star was known for taking on roles that were not permitted to Black actors before him, portraying nuanced characters during a time of profound changes in American race relations

The army continues to expel residents of this Jordan Valley village when it trains on their land

Billions have been wasted trying to rebuild Afghanistan, a failure akin to the Iraqi army’s 2014 defeat to ISIS. With countries from Turkey to China talking with the Taliban, it will be very hard for Biden’s sanctions to work

Forget about Black Friday: Global supply chain problems, EU regulations and the end of the pandemic boon spell major problems for Israel’s Riskified

Demonstrations that began as a response to a fuel price hike have swelled into a movement against the government and ex-leader Nursultan Nazarbayev

Researchers at Ben-Gurion University taught six goldfish to drive a motorized fish tank in just 10 days – creating a very unique driving school

Western diplomats have indicated that they hope to have a breakthrough by the end of January or early February, but sharp differences remain with the toughest issues still unresolved

Head of Poland’s ruling conservative party admits that country bought Israeli spyware, days after a report revealed three Polish government critics were hacked using NSO's spyware

150,000 Eritrean refugees live in Ethiopia and some have been violently targeted and cut off from aid for months at a time, as air strikes on the Tigray region continue

While Israel logged 16,830 new cases Friday, a government shift in testing policy could soon render COVID statistics less reliable

We asked an El Al executive to explain an incident in which Guardian reporter Bethan McKernan was forced to miss her flight to the Netherlands due an invasive security check because her boyfriend's name is Mohammed

PM Bennett has no regrets over Knesset quarrel ■ Electricity bill shocks opposition ■ Defense Minister Gantz gets special treatment

Masks, tests, travel bans: Your guide to Israel's ever-changing COVID regulations, and the strategy behind them

Though Israeli criticism of the army has spiked in recent weeks, it turns out all state institutions have lost public confidence since the COVID pandemic began

Bad Gaza weather or a Hamas drill gone wrong cannot explain the series of incidents over the past two weeks ■ 2021 saw further decline in suicide bombings worldwide

One in 10 Israelis is at risk of becoming addicted to painkillers. The Health Ministry set up a task force to consider regulation of opioids three years ago – but it has yet to take action. The Shomrim media nonprofit reveals the panel's protocols

Pierre Girgis, a dual Egyptian-U.S. citizen living in Manhattan, operated between 2014 and April 2019 to advance the Egyptian government's interests in the United States, indictment alleges

65-year-old man was trying to stop the truck from confiscating unregistered vehicles in his village in the Hebron area, witnesses say. Police accuse 'rioters' of hurling stone at them, and the man for 'sprinting toward' the truck

Attorney General Avichai Mendelblit is due to end his tenure at the end of the month, and Amit Aisman will fill the post until a permanent appointment is confirmed

A week after Sudan's prime minister resigned from office, thousands took to the streets in the capital of Khartoum and other cities to protest the October military coup and call for a civilian-led transition to democracy

Police say member of a Lod family in an ongoing dispute with another family was shot dead, hours after a 4-year-old was killed by a stray bullet in Israel's north

The Jordanian government seeks to restore public trust and defuse anger over successive failures to deliver on pledges of reducing corruption and fixing the economy

Army still most trusted institution among Jewish Israelis, but the level has slid from 90 percent last June to 78 percent in October

How a surprise call to then-Jewish Agency chief Isaac Herzog in 2020 led to the compass from the ship ‘that launched a nation’ finding its way home from a small village in Cornwall

U.S. democracy ultimately prevailed last year but America’s allies – and enemies – now know just how precarious it is, even if it is not yet on the verge of becoming an ‘anocracy’

Dr. Iris Yaish, head of transgender health at Tel Aviv's Ichilov Hospital, talks about the challenges Israeli trans people encounter, how the army treats them and the misconceptions Israelis have

The rock shelters of Bhimbetka in central India go back to the dawn of humanity, but what is the deal with ancient pictures of people astride horses and elephants?

'We must be absolutely clear about what is true and what is a lie,' says President Biden a year after unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud, fueled by his predecessor, ignited an attack on the U.S. Capitol

Travel between Israel and the U.S., U.K., Canada, along with a host of other countries, for both Israelis and foreigners, is permitted as of Friday

Palestinian President Abbas declares a day of mourning over the deadly accident between a truck and a van driving laborers

The demand – and price – of penthouses in most Israeli cities has risen sharply, particularly since the start of the coronavirus outbreak, as people seek space, privacy and prestige

With Deborah Lipstadt’s approval as antisemitism envoy still held up in Congress, there are signs of buyer’s remorse among some Jewish establishment figures after the role became politicized

With Israel's testing facilities overwhelmed due to omicron outbreak, the Health Ministry has decided to change the rules: Who can get a PCR test and how long will they have to go into quarantine?

Haym Salomon funded not only the Revolutionary War but several leading politicians. He died on January 6, 1785 - bankrupt

This week at the Tel Aviv airport: Soheil Khoury left Israel decades ago and built a life in Germany. He explains why he no longer thinks of moving back, and how his 'spiritual father' changed his life

The comments by Meretz's Yair Golan on the spike in settler violence near the illegal outpost of Homesh sparked a flurry of condemnations, with Netanyahu and a settlement organization calling for his dismissal

'We were playing. A white car passed by and two people got out of it and started firing. We all ran, but Ammar was on the swing and couldn't run fast,' says 7-year-old witness

The Capitol riot was a disgrace. But the more Democrats talk about the January 6th ‘insurrection,’ the ‘Trump coup’ or threats to democracy, the less Republicans, including Jews, are listening

Ahmed was only 14 when he swapped school for delivering guns. Alaa became fascinated with rifles while in boarding school. Samer enjoyed the designer clothes and fast cars. They were all convinced to steal and kill to escape a life of poverty

The zoo-like unruliness in the Israeli opposition benches, together with the nationalist-racist metaphors that accompanied it, did more to bring the government's unlikely ruling coalition closer together than to tear it apart

In an email reaching NBA stars and senior politicians, tech millionaire David Bateman's antisemitic screed claimed the COVID-19 vaccine was a 'systematic extermination of billions of people'

Top Israeli official urges parents to inoculate kids, as omicron spurs accelerated infection ■ The children had serious, complex health problems, but were not vaccinated against COVID

Later in his career, Taharlev transitioned to writing books and producing 'intelligent stand-up comedy,' citing a disillusionment with Israeli music which he was so central in shaping

Over 16,000 new cases are diagnosed in Israel, more than double the number a few days earlier, though serious COVID cases are increasing at a slower late

The accuser, the film actor Yehuda Nahari, told the Walla news site that he recently passed a polygraph test to discuss the meeting a decade ago with Azar, who denies the allegations

BDS movement’s campaign is protesting a $15,000 donation by the Israeli embassy for an Australian dance company show choreographed by Ohad Naharin at the Sydney Festival

With Israel’s population density set to surge, Jerusalem, Haifa and Be’er Sheva might divert demand from the center, or smaller towns from Nahariya to Dimona could fill the gap

The Palestinian was shot dead by Israeli security forces during an attempted arrest near Balata refugee camp by the city of Nablus

Yehuda Dimentman's murder last month has intensified setters' revival efforts around the illegal Homesh outpost, and has led to a number of attacks against the local Palestinians

Home COVID testing prioritizes at-risk groups and prevention of hospitalization. In the current omicron wave, unlike before, Israel has to choose what to focus on

An unprecedented outbreak of avian flu takes a toll on migrating birds, turning an Israeli nature reserve into a danger zone

Minister's remarks in 1948 that he can 'forgive instances of rape' and Ben-Gurion's assertion that some Palestinian villages must be 'wiped out' were censored from unclassified docs, but exposed due to technical error

The Population Authority approved only 16 out of 1,063 asylum applications that were slated for re-examination in light of new acceptance criteria in the last two years, a much lower rate than among EU countries

Human Rights Watch reported a list of abuses against the Tigrayans in Ethiopia, including being beaten by rubber or wooden rods, deprived access to families and denied food and water

Right-wing activists were demonstrating against the release of hunger striker Hisham Abu Hawash from administrative detention in front of Assaf Harofeh Hospital in central Israel

No casualties were reported in the latest attacks, part of a series that began Monday, on the anniversary of a U.S. airstrike that killed top Iranian general Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad

The application, turned down by the Interior Ministry, was viewed as a test case for a landmark court ruling recognizing conversions performed in Israel by non-Orthodox movements

Activists in Beit Shemesh are skeptical about the new steps: 'Girls are still growing up with modesty signs being part of their daily reality'

Studies have shown that while the Pfizer vaccine marginally increases the risk of myocarditis, it is still higher among those infected with the coronavirus

'I simply don’t see how I or in fact any Jew who has any pride in that name can be associated with the Corporation anymore,' Rabbi YY Rubinstein argued

European hedgehogs were carrying ‘enhanced’ staph bacteria, MRSA, a century before artificial antibiotics were invented. But Israelis can still love our local spiky animals without fear

The flare-up came during the vote on the Electricity Law, which seeks to connect Israelis in unrecognized Bedouin villages to basic infrastructure, and which passed 61 to 0 after an opposition boycott

The outcry over a song by one of Israel’s biggest stars, featuring crude caricatures of alcoholic, hypersexualized Russian-speaking immigrants, has even reached Moscow. But what it says about Israeli identity is even more revealing

20-year-old Jewish man gets a year in prison over incitement and racist violence in Bat Yam attack that left an Arab driver in seriously wounded

While Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin warned about the settlers, Shimon Peres pushed to negotiate with them