It hadn’t been clear whether super-massive Wolf-Rayet stars even go nova. They do, but some may collapse into black holes as well

Seyed Hossein Mousavian, a visiting scholar at Princeton and an influential figure in the corridors of power in his country, recently spoke with a smirk of satisfaction about the threats directed against former American official Brian Hook

Global health experts just said repeated, frequent booster shots are not a viable solution for defeating the pandemic. So what lies ahead for COVID vaccines in Israel and beyond?

The annual Israeli Democracy Institute survey, which found public support for the Israeli army at a 13-year low, raised concerns of a rift between the public and the military. But some experts say the alarm is uncalled for

Outgoing attorney general could offer Netanyahu a sweet deal ■ Bennett is battling with COVID restrictions and his own ministers

Everyone laments the vanishing of the Dead Sea. Yet discussions, articles and forecasts of decades ago show that every stage of the sea’s demise was actually anticipated in advance

Despite efforts to curb the practice, which results in the suffering and death of some of the animals while on the ships, the number of live animal shipments jumped last year by 42%

Russia said dialogue was hitting a dead end as 100,000 were deployed within reach of Ukraine border ◾ U.S. claims proof Russia is inventing pretext for invasion

The conflict over JNF tree-planting in the Negev is about the police, the Bedouin and the coalition's stability. But it’s also about the abasement of halakha, Jewish religious tradition, to justify injustice

A crisis over planting trees next to Bedouin communities exposed the government’s fragile standing. What does it all have to do with a decades-old split within Israel’s Islamic Movement? Haaretz explains

AG Mendelblit has conditioned a plea deal on banning Netanyahu from the public service for seven years, but the former prime minister refuses

This week at the Tel Aviv airport: A woman who promotes vagina positivity and wants to make sex toys more accessible to Israelis, and two vacationers in search of a destination

Benjamin Netanyahu, who is charged with fraud, breach of trust and bribery, is willing to admit to some of the crimes, but opposes the deal's clause barring him from politics

In a city more densely populated than Karachi, families are crammed in basements, bomb shelters double as classrooms and traffic is atrocious. But there's an unparalleled sense of community

The rockets were shot down before reaching the embassy compound, causing no casualties or damage, according to Iraqi military officials

'My target audience was people who have felt excluded by the traditional language of prayer. I wanted it to be a gift to trans Jews, disabled Jews, and people from interfaith families, among many others,' creator brin solomon said

After days of violent clashes over forestation work on land used by local Bedouin farmers, six board members of the Jewish National Fund criticized the group's chairman for failing to provide 'any information' on the plans

For years Israeli cyber companies supplied spyware that serves dictators and myriad corrupt entities around the globe. But by carefully ‘watching the watchers,’ a small research institute based at a Canadian university has put the brakes on their...

The deaths of two Israeli officers, caused by a series of unnecessary mistakes which exacted a dreadful price, were inexcusable and entirely preventable

Unilever is under fire from investor Terry Smith for being politically correct at the expense of profits. He’s half right

Police disperse hundreds of protesters with stun grenades and tear gas, as Israel's Negev erupts in protest over Jewish National Fund's tree-planting on land used for agriculture by local Bedouin

For Israel’s ultra-Orthodox leaders, MK Gilad Kariv is the key figure in a grand conspiracy theory that features Reform Judaism as Satan and scapegoat. And as the rebellion against their authority grows, so does their chilling invective

Israeli researchers accidentally make a breakthrough in growing meat in the lab – at lightning-fast speed

The Comedy Cellar in Greenwich Village is a place where Dave Chapelle, Amy Schumer, Sarah Silverman and Ray Romano just drop by to perform unannounced. The bosses there tell Haaretz why

An animated video published on Khmenei's official website joins Iran's commemoration of the U.S. strike that killed Gen. Qassem Soleimani two years ago

The study of outcomes in small claims cases found that legal proceedings were more thorough and that fewer cases were settled than tried where caseloads were smaller

Proof of vaccination or recovery from COVID is necessary to gain admission to a range of public places, but Palestinians with legal residency in Israel cite several obstacles in receiving the so-called Green Pass

Thieves circumvent 24-hour-security to steal expensive sacred objects from the Persian synagogue in Tel Aviv's southern Abu Kabir neighborhood

MuddyWater, said to be working for Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, has been linked to attacks and cyberespionage operations across the world, including an attempted airline hack

Uri Ashi can be seen on a Tel Aviv bridge every Friday afternoon, trying to convince passersby and motorists that peace with the Palestinians is still possible. Now he has a new book on the subject

Women account for slightly less than 30 percent of the Israeli hi-tech industry - but turns out they are even further underrepresented in stories about the startup nation

Roads were blocked across Lebanon as a general strike kicks off in protest of deteriorating living conditions

Anwar Raslan, a secret police officer for the Assad regime, gets life in prison for overseeing the 'systematic and brutal torture' of more than 4,000 people, in a ruling that advocates say sets a precedent for victims seeking justice

Israel's left-wing parties, Meretz and Labor, gambled their deepest principles to join a government led by a right-wing nationalist champion of settlements. Is their political bargain paying off? Are they influencers, or fig leaves?

Adam Kinzinger is the only Republican so far to publicly criticize Rep. Warren Davidson, who has joined a chorus of mostly right-wing voices who have invoked Nazi Germany in their campaigns against COVID curbs

No casualties were reported following the blast at the Hezbollah depot, with conflicting reports in Lebanon about whether the site was used for military purposes by the Iran-backed group

As the omicron variant spreads like wildfire in Israel, a clear pattern emerges: Israelis who are unvaccinated against COVID, less than a fifth of adult population, are quickly filling up Israel's hospital beds

Unvaccinated elderly are 15 times more likely to get serious ill, according to data from Israel's Health Ministry ■ COVID carriers in Israel now have to isolate for seven days rather than 10

The researchers say it is 'very likely' that the government was behind the wave of infections with the Israeli company's cyberware ■ The President's Office denies the claims, says El Salvador has no license to use Pegasus

Two company commanders in Israeli army's Egoz commando unit were shot dead after being misidentified by a fellow soldier

With the UAL being outflanked from the left and Bennett's Yamina from the right, the coalition has found itself in a tricky situation that risks spilling into greater violence

Dr. Yehoshua Shkedy says that feeding cranes may further fuel the spread of the avian flu whose outbreak has caused the deaths of some 8,000 birds

Prison Service Commissioner Katy Perry tells commission of inquiry that commander should not have allowed two prisoners deemed escape risks to be cellmates

Former PM Netanyahu's Likud party took advantage of the Negev's importance to Islamist leader Mansour Abbas, destabilizing an imbalanced coalition

Israel's foreign minister and Palestinian intelligence chief Majed Faraj did not discuss diplomatic issues, Israeli sources say

Aura Herzog – the wife of late president Chaim Herzog and mother of Isaac Herzog – was a leading figure in environmental protection

Six suspects have been arrested so far after a three-year-old was killed by a stray bullet in a Bedouin town near Nazareth last week

The indictments against four Israeli women in their 50s for spying for Iran are rather laughable, but they mainly serve as an indication of how difficult it is to recruit human agents these days

Rep. Warren Davidson compared COVID-19 restrictions in Washington to Nazi health certificates, in what a has become a growing trend among Republican politicians

With United Arab List's boycott and several Knesset members out due to COVID, opposition lawmakers enjoyed a rare majority, passing five bills in preliminary votes

The showdown between the State of Israel and local Bedouin over a tract of land in the south is just the latest chapter in an ongoing struggle – but one that could bring down Bennett's government

Five people have been arrested for disturbing the peace, stone-throwing and torching tires, hours after the government said future work by JNF in the Negev will be negotiated by coalition partners

The move follows the breakdown of mediation efforts following bitter controversy over the removal of the work ‘Jerusalem’ by Israeli artist David Reeb

Negotiations were reportedly held over the past several weeks but ended because Netanyahu refused to include a jail term in the deal

In a blog post from August 2021, a researcher points to a 1953 letter suggesting Stanford was anxious about the increasing enrollment of Jews to the institution

Washington requests clarification after Palestinians say Omar Abdalmajeed As'ad, who is a dual U.S. citizen, was handcuffed and beaten by Israeli soldiers

Back in 2017, Saudi Arabia's Mohammed bin Salman calculated that tiny, blockaded Qatar would fold immediately. Riyadh was wrong, but did Doha win? Now celebrating its first anniversary, how long will reconciliation last?

Four women, all Jewish immigrants from Iran, were recruited over social media and asked by their handler to photograph sites in Israel, including U.S. Embassy, according to the indictment served against them

Justices reinstate a plea agreement deemed by a lower court too lenient, but call for harsher penalties on such offenses in the future

The museum must now decide what to do with the stolen artifacts and whether to leave the name of the person who ‘displayed a rapacious appetite for plundered artifacts’ on its prominent list of donors around the building. 'The museum’s role is ...

New analysis based on ash from volcanic cataclysm dates an early human found at Omo, Ethiopia, to 233,000 years, supporting the ‘early evolution’ theory for Homo sapiens

What do corporations really want: to save the environment, protect their reputation, or redeem capitalism?

Which variant do seriously ill Israeli COVID patients have, and how many have underlying conditions? Lack of clear information is making it difficult for doctors to precisely assess the nature of severe illness caused by omicron

We cannot be naïve. The recent WWII genocide law, which falsely equalizes the Holocaust with Nazi reprisals against non-Jewish Belarusians, is as much about history as it is about today: Anchoring the totalizing repression of the Lukashenko regime

The Israeli military largely avoids formal activities with Hebron settlers, and now defense officials warn the latest tour, organized by a senior Israeli commander, could reignite tensions with Palestinian Authority

A German court is scheduled to deliver a trial against a former Syrian police officer who supervised the systematic and brutal torture of more than 4,000 prisoners, resulting in the deaths of at least 58 people

Israeli historian Aron Shneyer has found himself at the forefront of a campaign by Moscow against Russia’s leading human rights organization

Major organizations call out Republican Rand Paul, who has insisted since the House overwhelmingly approved the emergency funding in September that the money for Israel should come from proposed U.S. aid to Afghanistan

Hebrew University scientists say omicron wave could lead to as many as 2 million active COVID cases in Israel, straining the health care system and the economy, as the number of patients in serious condition keep climbing

There are hundreds of biblical sites in Israel – some have been identified with certainty by archaeologists while others require an act of faith. To what extent can we use the Tanakh, and its stories of David and Goliath, Samson et al, as a reliabl...

Islamist party threatened to boycott Knesset votes in protest as the Jewish National Fund plants trees on land used for agriculture by local Bedouin farmers ■ Future phases of the forestation project will be negotiated

Former Police Commissioner Roni Alsheich told a state committee that repeated warnings of mortal danger at the pilgrimage site were ignored, despite 'writing on the wall'

The cellphones belong to aides of Netanyahu who are being investigated for harassing a prosecution witness in one of the three pending criminal cases against the former prime minister

Foreign Minister Lapid calls to stop forestation after clashes in Israel's south erupt over plan to plant on land used by local Bedouin for farming

'The suspect grabbed the complainant and ripped her hijab off her head and then pulled her hair,' states an indictment against an officer who allegedly assaulted a Palestinian in Jerusalem

The chairman who allegedly sexually harassed his assistant and paid her hush money wrote in his resignation letter that he had 'fallen victim to a political and personal attack'

Israel's Foreign Ministry said the aid to Afghan refugees who fled to Tajikistan is part of Israel's commitment to the international community

It had been assumed that humans recognize faces thanks to their humongous brains, but Israeli scientists discovered that our most primitive brain parts are involved as well. Enter the crocodile

19-year-old wounded in what the Israeli army dubbed as car-ramming attack in the northern West Bank

'It is unacceptable,' says Rome's Jewish community after right-wing extremists place a Nazi flag on a casket outside the parish of St. Lucy in a central Rome neighborhood

Prime Minister Bennett expresses his concerns about infection in children too young to be vaccinated as experts urge hospitals to gear up after the number of serious cases doubles in a week

The new COVID rules will go into effect overnight into Thursday as the number of Israelis in isolation reaches 150,000

Iran-backed Houthis dealt a blow as government takes Shabwa, cutting major supply lines used by the rebel forces

Israel’s cabinet secretary tells non-Orthodox religious leaders the state will neither freeze compromise agreement nor push ahead at full force

The military attacked a medical facility filled with protestors as deadly post-coup chaos continues

Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked, who ordered her ministry to hold off on processing Palestinian requests for family reunification, is leading an effort to reinstate a controversial law that expired in July