ISIS is good at spotting weakness, as it has done in Iraq. Plus the Kurdish loyalties spread among Russia, Syria, Iran and the United States make it hard to predict a Kurdish reconciliation or a diplomatic solution in Syria

Larissa doesn’t believe the media and refuses to leave. Vadim prefers not to think about it but is ready for power outages. Despite the authorities’ soothing words, the anxiety is high

About 24,000 Israeli teachers have confirmed cases of COVID, and others are in quarantine with their young children who are also infected with the virus

Earlier, the NYT reported that Netanyahu used NSO's spyware as a central pillar of Israel's diplomatic policy in recent years, confirming past reporting by Haaretz

In newly issued instructions, Israel's state prosecutor details how to treat sex crime victims during criminal proceedings, including mandating lawyers to speak to complainants before closing cases

Xi Jinping’s regime is forcibly bringing back Chinese citizens suspected of corruption who've fled the country. This practice, which includes kidnapping, targets anyone seen as a threat, says a new human rights group report

Getting the vote on the table was described as a 'success' by Algeria, which has spearheaded the campaign ■ Major players like Egypt, Nigeria and South Africa back it, but still no clear majority

If appointed, Kruger, the daughter of a Jamaican immigrant mother and a Jewish father, will become the first Black female justice and the fifth justice of Jewish heritage over the last 100 year

Cabinet ministers accused her of treason and she routinely received threats on her life. Yuli Novak, who headed the anti-occupation group Breaking the Silence, felt that her only recourse was to flee. After a long journey far from Israel, she conclud...

An investigation by the New York Times reveals NSO offered new spyware called Phantom to the FBI in 2019 ■ Saudi Arabia's MBS was reauthorized to use Pegasus only after a personal phone call with Netanyahu

'They need our oil, and we need to find a market to sell our oil. The road goes two ways'

Israel buys 5 million Novavax COVID vaccines ■ Top health official mulls scrapping proof of vaccination or recovery for venue entry, as daily COVID cases and rate of infection begin to tail off

At least three rockets landed in the Baghdad International Airport compound and damaged a disused plane, according to the police

Jessie Sander was only employed for 16 days before being let go for a blog post against Israel's 'apartheid regime' in light of the escalation with Gaza in May

‘Without vaccines, instead of 8,500 people we’d have close to 30,000 people dying – and that would be a disaster,’ says Prof. Nadav Davidovitch of Ben-Gurion University

Bennett recalls Netanyahu threatening him in coalition talks. In Syria, Israel has 'significantly increased activity,' and on Iran, 'I’m not looking for a quarrel with the Americans for the sake of a quarrel'

Behind the scenes, a myriad of political and personal interests played a part in the decision to nix COVID quarantine for Israeli schoolchildren

As opposed to his corruption trial, Netanyahu will find it harder to intimidate those who will have to rule on the submarine affair ■ Recent accident underscores the problem in Israel’s commando units

"We simply do not believe that this work is an appropriate text for our students to study," the McMinn County Board of Education said, emphasizing the Pulitzer-winning graphic novel's use of curse words

Stepping up his recent criticism of Hezbollah, Jumblatt said Lebanon was not a rocket-launching platform, in reference to the group's massive arsenal

Details still emerge weeks after Israeli troops violently arrested an 80-year-old Palestinian. Omar Abdalmajeed As'ad was bound, beaten and tossed to the ground. An autopsy found that the brutality he suffered resulted in a fatal heart attack, but ar...

All eyes are now on President Vladimir Putin, who will decide how Russia will respond to NATO's near total rejection of his list of demands amid fears that Europe could again be plunged into war

Vladimir Putin may have calculated that the fear of war in Ukraine would force the U.S. and NATO to compromise, but the Biden administration has surprised him with its firm resolve

She disputes the anomalous image of the imperial Reich, likens the history of Prussia to that of the U.S. and is even intervening in formulation of domestic policy. Unsurprisingly, Germany's Prof. Hedwig Richter is drawing fire

Palestinian authorities say only a third of Gaza's residents are fully vaccinated against the coronavirus

Attorney General Mendelblit said police were not criminally responsible because the chase, in which 16-year-old Ahuvia Sandak was killed, was justified due to suspicions that the occupants of the car threw stones at Palestinians

Nitzan Horowitz backs health insurance subsidies for children of those living in Israel without legal status, overruling panel calling to halt it

Hundreds of thousands of Israelis aged 12-15 have received a coronavirus vaccine shot, and a new study shows it's very rare for them to develop myocarditis

Workers in the public sector will soon be getting more, but many are concerned the pay increase will be tied to other moves that will leave Egyptians worse off

Moshe Aviad will be put behind bars for brutally attacking Shira Isakov, nearly killing her, in front of their toddler son

The survey also found that respondents with a comparatively higher level of Holocaust awareness had warmer feelings toward minority groups

This week at the Tel Aviv airport: A photographer who has taken pictures of more than 400 Holocaust survivors, and a PhD student researching technology that makes texts accessible to readers of all levels

The ministry director general approved the coronavirus booster for those who declare they may be ‘significantly exposed to the virus at work,’ but no proof is required

A campaign showing a pop star against a backdrop of children in the Holocaust, and a deepfake video of Hitler’s lover interviewing the Polish prime minister is one NGO’s attempt to keep the Holocaust relevant for the youth

There was confusion, even ridicule, when two non-Jewish members of Congress recently launched a caucus for the "Advancement of Torah Values." The lobby's real agenda is even more remarkable, and disturbing

Their parents immigrated to Israel years ago from the former Soviet Union, but these children still prefer to speak, watch movies and use TikTok in Russian. They explain why

Tuly Ziv’s mother sorted toys looted from Jewish children at Auschwitz. In a new exhibit he shows drawings of doll skeletons and gutted teddy bears, and recalls his father, who created the oven where Eichmann’s body was cremated

The Forward has found 178 statues, monuments, streets or other ways of memorializing Nazi collaborators across Germany and Austria

Former deputy health minister signed a plea deal in case that saw him accused of using his influence to help keep alleged child rapist from being extradited to Australia

In excerpts from a Haaretz interview – to be published in full on Friday – Bennett reveals what happened in his meeting with the former PM before he decided to run against him, and what he thinks about a plea deal for Netanyahu. And what does he ...

An anomalously large prehistoric cemetery in Russia precisely overlaps a 160-year cold spell in the Early Holocene epoch

‘From the streets of Charlottesville, Virginia, to a synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, we are continually and painfully reminded that hate doesn’t go away; it only hides,' the U.S. president said

It may sound counter-intuitive to ask why we need to count Jews, after a third of our number were exterminated in the Holocaust. But there are critical ethical, if not statistical, reasons to push back against our demographic obsession, not least whe...

A virus that had ravaged the bodies of so many made mine feel as if I had developed an ordinary, mild cold. The man with the soft Southern accent was right when he said we’d get through it just fine ■ Post #43

Marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day at Yad Vashem, President Herzog says that the world has forgotten its lessons and that the phrase 'Never Again' has become a meaningless mantra

As an international center for business and pleasure, the United Arab Emirates is especially vulnerable to security threats – and the Houthis know it

Under the current system, tens of thousands of Palestinian workers are each forced to pay 2,500 shekels ($780) a month for a work permit in Israel. The money is divvied up between a Palestinian middleman and an Israeli contractor

For nearly 10 seconds, Iranian TV showed the leaders of the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq and the name of a group of hackers who broadcast the message praising the dissidents

Members of Congress say UN commission's open-ended status will allow for investigations into 'any allegations against Israel in the past or in the future'

'We need to remove all our ambitions, and do everything to prevent war. I beg you,' Rabbi Moshe Azman says, addressing the Russian president

Author Art Spiegelman calls the decision ‘Orwellian,’ while the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum notes the ‘vital role’ the graphic novel has played in educating about the Shoah

Rasha Sitawi attempted to protect herself by standing behind her daughter, but her ex-husband shot her in the head before fleeing the scene, the indictment read

In the only European capital without a synagogue, Iceland’s first rabbi, Avi Feldman, is working to establish a Jewish community against all odds – and facing unique challenges such as deciding when Shabbat starts when the sun never fully sets in...

American Jews like me grew up in with an incomprehensible loss of language and living Jewish culture. But those ‘flown letters,’ targeted for erasure by the Holocaust and Soviet repression, are now coming home

Omar Abdalmajeed As'ad was detained while returning home from a social gathering by Israeli soldiers who had set up a checkpoint in his home village in the West Bank

Asya Lukin’s paintings depicts Israel’s hospitals with incisive accuracy and empathy. She speaks just as frankly about her own illness, stereotypes about Russians and how Israeli art school teachers don’t know how to paint

Mickey Levy also cautioned against rising antisemitism against German Jews in his speech to lawmakers on Holocaust Memorial Day

The incident, which took place during a drug smuggling bust at the Egyptian border, comes months after the IDF loosened its open-fire rules

Considering the amount of original Holocaust research that has been done in recent decades, is this number still considered accurate by scholars of the subject?

The Israeli-made Pegasus spyware is suspected of infecting over 450 phones targeted by clients of NSO, who range from Saudi Arabia to Mexican drug lords. Here’s a list of the confirmed Pegasus victims

Protesters against coronavirus measures who liken them to Jews under Nazi persecution have become 'widespread,' a report by the Israeli government finds

Parents and board members decide to remove the book, which had won a Pulitzer Prize, from the school's curriculum because of its language and nude graphics

Archeologists from Israel, Poland and the Netherlands uncover jewelry belonging to Jewish inmates murdered at the Nazi camp

The Israeli government’s cloud computing project tender has been won by Google and Amazon – but the battle continues as Oracle hires big defense officials to lobby for ‘underground’ role in Nimbus

The army says it foiled several suspected attempts to smuggle drugs into Jordan from Syria, and that large quantities of narcotics were sized in separate interventions that also left several people wounded

Seventy-seven years after the liberation of the camps, nearly one in three holocaust survivors in Israel live in poverty

Winter storm Elpis has brought almost eight inches of snow to Jerusalem and continues to coat Israel's highest mountain

The strike was called in response to Prime Minister Bennett's decision to exempt all students from quarantine if exposed to a COVID carrier and instead they are required to undergo two home antigen tests per week before attending school

When the central and commercial banks are battling a shortage of dollars and the state is unable to pay for basic services, electricity and gas will not be enough to save to Lebanon

Yad Vashem chairman Dani Dayan tells Haaretz he won't hang the famous photo of the 1941 meeting of Hitler and Jerusalem Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini at the Holocaust Museum: 'Hasbara is an utterly irrelevant consideration that shall not enter our gates...

The murder of Salmalalk Tesera by her husband in front of their daughter constitutes as aggravated murder, which requires a mandatory life sentence despite appeal by defendant

Dozens of settlers confront Israeli forces in the West Bank as Israel Police report clashes with Palestinians in East Jerusalem

Over the past two years, Erdogan has been working to strengthen ties, but Israel has been wary

Top Israeli health official expands vaccine campaign to only select few, a day after an expert panel recommended offering a fourth COVID shot to those aged 18 and above

Fellow detainees say Omar Abdalmajeed As'ad, who was cuffed, gagged, and blindfolded by Israeli soldiers, was left lying on the floor on his stomach for 30 minutes or more

Bipartisan U.S. lawmakers and 10 major cross-denominational Jewish groups push to double security grants for houses of worship from $180 million to $360 million

Bones inside the oldest brush hut in the world at Ohalo II, near the Sea of Galilee, reveals a diverse diet. But why did these folks eat anything that moved?

The secretary of state says U.S. delivered a written response to Russian demands for NATO to pull back troops and weapons from Eastern Europe and bar Ukraine from ever joining the alliance

The list of offend-and-apologizers has grown at a dizzying pace, with comparing something to the Holocaust one of the transgressions to be sorry for – but repeat

'Jewish people feel threatened, and they are threatened,' says European Council president, amid rising reports of antisemitism during the coronavirus

Police officer who killed 18-year-old Solomon Teka in 2019, a case that sparked nation-wide protests against racism and police brutality, argues he feared for his life before shooting

Prosecutors have not said which law may have been violated by users on social media, but rights activists and others have been prosecuted under the country's vaguely worded cybercrime law

Iranian activist Maziar Bahari became fascinated with the Holocaust after moving to Canada in 1988. Now he’s teaming up with the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum to try to combat Holocaust denial among his fellow Iranians

Nine organizations decry 'deeply concerning' caucus, urging founders to consult with Jewish leaders to find a more appropriate way to join the fight against antisemitism

Hundreds of volunteers, mainly young women, choose to perform vital research work at the memorial on the site of the former Nazi death camp. Haaretz joins some of them for a day

A new book by a former senior British officer reveals that U.K. warplanes flew over Israel on their way to bomb Islamic State targets in Iraq and Syria

'You need to be quiet because you're Jewish,' the teenagers who attacked the 12-year-old boy said, referencing Nazi death camps where Jews were murdered and their remains burned

'If the West continues its aggressive course, Moscow will take the necessary retaliatory measures'

You have to be crazy, curious and courageous to found a theater in a foreign country. Yevgeny Arye, who passed away at 74, was all three