77 years after Auschwitz was liberated, Yad Vashem releases several videos and launches a website to remember those who saved Jews during the Holocaust

Arye Dery, who is accused of tax evasion and has resigned his Knesset seat, will pay a 180,000 shekel fine and receive probation time

The recommendation, which will expand Israel's limited fourth COVID dose rollout for Israelis above 60 and at-risk adults, still awaits the Health Ministry director-general approval before it will be implemented

Both Russia and China see the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, disengagement from the Middle East and its diminishing interest in intervening in crises as proof that the international system is ripe for change

Israeli health experts think it is too early to determine that omicron will make COVID endemic, and that antibodies from the less virulent variant won't necessarily provide long-term protection

Police Comissioner's testimony among those expected to be pushed back due to the death of Miriam Naor, former Supreme Court president and chair of the commission

Institute for National Security Studies' annual report also cites domestic polarization and failure to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as major strategic threats to Israel

The number of Jewish students in Israel taking the exam has dropped by a third over the past five years

Brig. Gen. Hakhrush offered no assistance to the victim, who died of his wounds, and an investigation found that senior police officials were aware of the incident but disregarded it

In a video of the incident, soldiers are seen standing at the side of the road and a military jeep is seen driving behind the settlers' vehicles

Israel started administering a fourth COVID dose to most vulnerable groups as omicron surged

As one of the few countries to have close diplomatic ties with both Kyiv and Moscow, Israel will be aiming to stay on the sidelines if the two sides go to war

Following clashes between Jews and Arabs across Israel during May’s Gaza war, the campaign by residents of the Tel Aviv suburbs of Kafr Qasem and Rosh Ha'ayin waned, but it has since been revived

Netanyahu’s announcement comes after his lawyers received a message from AG Mendelblit that negotiations with him would not be possible and that they would have to wait for the appointment of his successor

At least 180 inmates and militants and 27 security forces have reportedly died since ISIS fighters attacked the jail in Hasaka last week in a bid to free their members

Police use of NSO's spyware was never 'brought to my attention,' former minister Amir Ohana says ■ Public security minister orders staff to look into existing wiretapping laws

Acclaimed Israeli filmmakers Joseph Cedar and Hagai Levi respond to the uproar over 'JewFace,' the term coined by comedian Sarah Silverman for non-Jewish actors being cast as Jewish characters

Not only were the Mesopotamians growing millet, a thirsty summer crop, before the Neo-Assyrians introduced irrigation: They were early adopters of multi-cropping at least 3,500 years ago

With about 23 million people, more than half the country, facing severe hunger and nearly 9 million on the brink of starvation, the Taliban is expected to demand the release of $10 million in frozen assets

As Anshel Pfeffer and Dahlia Scheindlin dissect Bibi's latest legal drama, listen in as Omer Benjakob discusses the latest NSO scandal, all with host Allison Kaplan Sommer

Andrei ‘Andrusha’ Sawoniuk was the only Nazi collaborator to stand trial in a British court for his crimes. A gripping new book tells the remarkable story of how justice was finally served, 50 years late

Police say shots were fired during a brawl in the Bedouin village of Sawa

Turkey and Greece face frigid temperatures and heavy snow, as Israel braces for winter storm Elpis

The Tunisian president claims that the new political system he is proposing would provide the public with better representation, but his real goal is to assume more powers for himself

Having difficulty remembering information? Size might matter for you. Larger pictures are remembered better than small ones, regardless of resolution, Israeli researchers discover. Size might also affect the way we remember texts

'Iran has never accepted any preconditions by the United States,' Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman says after U.S. lead negotiator says nuclear deal unlikely if Iran does not release American hostages

Elpis, which will bring with it 'a significant drop in temperatures' on Wednesday, is the fifth one to be assigned a moniker by the newly formed East Mediterranean Storm Naming Group of Greece, Cyprus and Israel

America’s decision to withdraw its support for the EastMed pipeline, upsetting Greece and to Turkey's delight, is due partly to confused climate change politics

Nusrat Ghani’s claim has deepened the rifts roiling Johnson’s governing party, which is being wracked by allegations of lockdown-breaching parties in the prime minister’s office

The patrol over Syria's borders, which involved fighter, fighter-bomber and early warning and control aircraft, will occur regularly, Moscow says

The 2022 draft budget is expected to include tax increases in a country struggling to deal with soaring poverty levels and hyperinflation, also proposing deficit spending which critics charge will further hyperinflation

NSO-Israel Police affair proves we need to rethink the way we oversee surveillance technologies. The solution: Israel needs a privacy czar

Tensions in Ukraine have been climbing for months after the Kremlin massed some 100,000 troops near its border, in what Western countries see as preparation for war to prevent Ukraine from joining NATO

The leading Sunni Muslim politician's announcement comes as Lebanon suffers an economic meltdown which the World Bank has described as one of the sharpest ever globally

In Nazi Germany, 'You could hide in an attic like Anne Frank did,' anti-vaccine activist says on public health policies – triggering strong backlash, including from Auschwitz memorial museum

Some residents of 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 ■ Police announce investigation, Hakhrush on leave

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