12 families in the southern Tel Aviv neighborhood of Kfar Shalem have refused to leave until they receive adequate compensation for their evictions, meant to make way for construction of a new light rail

Like a terrorist, Putin is holding Ukraine hostage to extort ransom demands from the West. So why is Germany backing the autocrat in the Kremlin who is so actively working towards a ‘Greater Russia’?

As threat of Russian invasion looms, top officials examine possibility of emergency evacuation for up to 75,000 Ukrainians thought to be eligible for Israeli citizenship under Law of Return

Naor has been part of several landmark rulings, including overruling a law to keep asylum seekers in detention, and authored the ruling abolishing the draft exemption for yeshiva students

'Military action by Russia could come at any time,' the U.S. Embassy said in a statement as tensions in Ukraine rise

Missile fragments fell harmlessly over the capital, the state news agency said, a week after Yemen's Houthi rebels claimed an attack on the capital that killed three people

Brig. Gen. Jamal Hakhrush, who headed the administration to improve police services to the Arab community, offered the victim no aid, and didn't try to stop the suspect

Even if the inquiry approved by the government doesn’t incriminate Netanyahu, as many of its supporters ardently believe it will, evidence has accumulated about the rot in the defense establishment’s procurement system

Maher Anati, arrested last April, was suspected of attempting a knife attack in the West Bank, but was released and immediately placed under administrative detention

The current COVID wave is expected to peak in the coming week, with as many as 100,000 confirmed cases a day, and in early February herd immunity will lead to a 'significant decline' in figures

For a prime minister like Bennett, sitting on the fence isn’t a model of leadership. Meanwhile, Netanyahu has another big (and expensive) problem that he has brought on himself

'It is very hard for us to imagine getting back into the nuclear deal while four innocent Americans are being held hostage by Iran,' Special Envoy Robert Malley said, as eighth round of indirect negotiations continue

Most violent attacks by West Bank settlers are not random acts of hooliganism. They are harnessed to a strategy, a political objective wholehearted endorsed by sections of the current Israeli government

The Israeli cabinet had made earlier changes amid demands for diversity, but it was particularly slow to add Arab Israelis

Esrail forged passports and identity documents, helping many avoid death at the hands of the Nazis, before being sent to Auschwitz and forced to walk in a death march

Israeli source says ministers discuss initiatives to improve the Palestinian economy ■ Lapid recently also met with the head of Palestinian intelligence services

The demonstration by the Islamic Jihad threatened to embarrass Hamas, which already is largely isolated in the Arab world, and draw attention to its own ties to Iran

The Netanyahu family filed a libel suit against former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert for 837,000 shekels after he claimed that they suffer from mental illness

Investigation finds Palestinian-American Omar Abdalmajeed As'ad may have begun suffering from hypothermia and gag may have impeded his breathing when soldiers detained him, sources say

Analysis based on data from hundreds of thousands of Israelis shows fourth COVID shot significantly increases protection compared to those who got just one booster

The Never Again Association is on a list of groups that will not be allowed to engage with students, even if their parents allow it, if a regional supervisor blocks their admission

Quakes measuring 3.7 and 3.5 felt in northern Israel, police say no injuries or damage reported

Though little has remained of the Islamic State, which once ruled a third of both Syria and Iraq, two major offensives that left scores dead put forces in both countries on high alert

Aware that the day is not far off when there will be no Holocaust survivors around to tell their own stories, a new project trains their offspring to speak in their names

The police only secured legal backing for the use of NSO's Pegasus spyware after the hacking, and the investigations into the three Israeli mayors were all eventually closed, a new Calcalist report finds

The Numbeo crowdsourced global database has Israel ahead of countries such as Singapore, Luxembourg and Hong Kong

If you loved ‘Downton Abbey,’ get the cucumber sandwiches out for HBO’s ‘The Gilded Age.’ But there’s much more fun to be had in Amazon Prime’s ‘As We See It’

The plea bargain in the tax evasion case will not require jail time and will enable Arye Dery, who is expected to stay on as Shas' chairman, to run for the Knesset again in the future

Israel's public security minister called the masked settlers who attacked human rights activists on Friday a 'terror organization,' but stated that it is 'very difficult' for police to arrest the perpetrators

Seoul says it had paid $18 million in delinquent dues after consulting with the United States, in a possible sign of flexibility amid floundering nuclear talks

Britain's foreign secretary says Russian military invasion would be a 'massive strategic mistake' and would lead to 'severe' costs, as Russia continues to amass troops near its border with Ukraine

PM Bennett abstains ■ This is the second national commission formed by Bennett's government ■ Commission to probe deals discussed between 2009 and 2016

Urban renewal plans see mature trees of great environmental import cut down across Israel, and activists warn of long-term damage

Environmentalists split over Mayor Moshe Leon’s alternative proposal to limit environmental damage in Lavan Ridge

Health Minister Horowitz could decide not to adopt the recommendation, which applies to children of foreigners whose visas have expired, but not to asylum seekers' children, who have separate health coverage

The death of a 36-year-old Suhaila Jarushi in Ramle is the seventh fatal case of crime and gun violence in Israel's Arab community this month alone

After report that police used Pegasus spyware to spy on civilians, Public Security Minister Bar-Lev says all claims – except that the police are using 'advanced technology' – are untrue

The law on insulting the president, which carries a jail sentence of up to four years, was used to sentence thousands of people in the seven years since Erdogan became Turkey's president

40-year-old Haifa resident who once worked for the Environmental Protection Ministry is on house arrest and barred from leaving the country through May

The Saudi-led coalition denies targeting a prison in the northern Saada province run by Yemen's Iran-backed rebels, days after a Houthi attack on the UAE

NBC report says the United States has distanced itself from the talks as Washington does not believe the arrangement is being discussed seriously by the parties

A young father has been in a psychotic state for weeks, his doctor and relatives say. Since he ran away and hit a soldier with his car, he's been in detention without access to medication. The Shin Bet isn't involved in the investigation, yet he's al...

Loolwa Khazzoom has devoted her life to telling the story of Jews with roots in the wider Middle East and Africa. The seminal 2003 anthology of essays she edited, ‘The Flying Camel,’ is back in a revised edition

In the world's most expensive city, refugees, asylum seekers and migrant workers are living in abysmal poverty and overcrowding. The surge in housing prices in Neve Sha'anan and nearby neighborhoods, and the lack of concrete efforts on the part of th...

Qatar reached an agreement in February to deliver natural gas from Israel to the Gaza Strip's sole power station

After taking hostages Saturday, British citizen Malik Faisal Akram could be heard on a Facebook livestream demanding the release of Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani neuroscientist who is suspected of having ties to al-Qaida

A year since Biden declared that Yemen’s civil war must end, the fighting has spilled over into the Gulf states. But Washington thinks Iran will want to end the war to prepare for closer ties with its neighbors

Drone and missile attack on UAE oil facilities and airport sends a message about the war in Yemen, and an equally strong signal to the U.S. and Israel about Iran’s determination

The booster shot seems to be 90 percent effective against hospitalizations with the omicron variant, the study finds

Despite hints dropped by the Turkey and Erdogan's desire to meet President Herzog, Israel is worried about strengthening ties due to Erdogan's fickle nature

Israel's decision to exempt schoolchildren from COVID quarantine will go into effect on the day the country is expected to hit the omicron wave's peak

The intense campaign comes after Yemen's Houthis claimed a drone and missile attack that struck inside the capital of the UAE earlier this week

One of the victims, a wheelchair-bound man who suffers from ALS, was struck on the head and hit in the chest

A group of masked settlers attack and injure four human rights activists with clubs, stones before eventually setting their car on fire

Police chief says force will keep improving technological tools after Israel's Attorney General launches a probe into the force's use of NSO spyware against citizens

A number of Israeli lawmakers have been infected with COVID in recent weeks, including the foreign and finance ministers

The separate attacks are believed to be some of the largest since ISIS lost the final sliver of territory it held nearly three years ago

The third trilateral drill, held in the Indian Ocean, is launched as Iran seeks to boost military cooperation, stronger ties with Beijing and Moscow amid tensions with Washington

Mendelblit was willing to negotiate a deal but now, after the talks were revealed and he lost support from prosecutors, he believes its best to let the trial end in conviction

Israelis are weaning themselves off the daily COVID numbers at a symbolic time when the trend is pointing in one direction: Up

U.S. sanctions and other factor may doom NSO, but this week showed how much information it still holds ■ What's missing from the submarine discourse

Netanyahu is probably guilty, but he might also be Berlusconi ■ Why Sara Netanyahu supports a deal and why her husband might not retire from political life ■ Mansour Abbas allies with an Arab MK on the left

A 28-year-old woman was found stabbed to death in northern Israel. Police arrest her husband after he allegedly called to report he has killed her

This week at the Tel Aviv airport: How a 1 A.M. text message led a young Israeli to volunteer in Kentucky after it was hit by a tornado

'Fist of the Free' seeks to showcase 'fighting spirit that resists the occupation,' says head of artistic production unit for Gaza’s ruling group

Three decades ago, what had been the most ambitious ideological project in contemporary human history – involving the rise of a truly fearsome superpower – ended in a whimper. Nine men and women who grew up in the USSR look back at the trials and...

Mendelblit writes to police commissioner that a preliminary probe has so far not found proof of methodical, illegal use of the tools it has

The court based its ruling on a finding that depriving someone of electricity harms their minimum right to a dignified existence

In first public remarks on negotiations with the former prime minister, Deputy State Prosecutor Shlomi Lemberger says 'it is inconceivable' that the final indictment would not include moral turpitude

The seven-year-old conflict has seen more than 100,000 people die as attacks on military sites belonging to the Houthis ramped up cross-border missile and drone launches on Saudi Arabia the United Arab Emirates

Algeria says 165,000 Sahrawi refugees are in Tindouf, as the latest diplomatic moves to resolve the long-frozen conflict between Morocco and Algeria over their territory feel a long way from resolution

Suspects accused of throwing stones and rioting during protests against what Bedouin protesters say is a JNF seizure of farmland

The income gap between tech and the rest is growing as the industry booms, but many Israelis can’t even aspire to a piece of the action

Call comes days after Turkish president revealed potential visit by Israeli President Isaac Herzog was being discussed

80 years ago, fifteen high-ranking Nazis held a meeting in Wannsee. The item on the agenda was the logistics of the Final Solution, the bureaucratization of the Holocaust

January 20, 1942 wasn’t such a pivotal moment: The 'Final Solution' was already well in motion. A million Jews were already dead. But the Wannsee Conference still has a crucial message for us all

The Israeli veterans of the 1948 battle at Tantura village finally come clean about the mass killing of Arabs that took place after the village's surrender

Jewish community leaders in eastern Ukraine say there is no sense of panic, despite the deteriorating security situation with Russia, and that previous experiences are helping them now

Israel Electric Corporation blames disruptions on a combination of unusually cold weather and illegal hookups that overload the grid

The bill, sponsored by Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked, will go back to the cabinet for further discussions

A year after Merav Michaeli took over the slumping outfit that ruled the country in its early decades, young people are joining as the new team focuses on gender issues, the environment and peace

The resolution is expected to set a new international standard in combatting Holocaust denial and places responsibility on social media and internet companies to remove such content