Health Ministry data shows that over three million Israelis – in a country with a population of roughly 9.4 million – recovered from COVID

The number of antisemitic incidents has risen by 34 percent in 2021 and spiked during the 11-day Gaza conflict in May last year, the report says

Abarbanel, a psychiatric hospital with a dreaded reputation, expects to see positive changes as the two hospitals embark on a journey of medical collaboration

The tax benefits will put more money into consumers' pockets, which instead of lowering the cost of living, may raise it

The World Bank says the transition to e-commerce and digital financial services in the West Bank and Gaza have so far been slow and a transition to digital economy could accelerate growth

Taylor Greene charged Pelosi with spying on members of Congress and American citizens, alluding to the Gestapo, Germany's Nazi-era secret police

The Netzah Yehuda Battalion has a long history of bad behavior, driven by an ideology imbibed from the settler movement

Most alleged cases of Pegasus spyware use occurred during former Israel Police Commissioner Alsheich's three-year tenure

According to the police, the alleged shooting did not involve live fire and was driven by criminal rather than nationalist motivations

The measures from Israel's prime minister include cutting customs on several essential goods, tax benefits for the working- and middle-class and electricity subsidies

The decision will be enacted only if approved by the Palestine Liberation Organization’s executive committee, the highest-level Palestinian political body

Recreational usage of marijuana will be considered an administrative offense punishable only by fine, according to drafted regulations released by Israel's justice minister

As an American return to the Iran nuclear deal looms, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is preparing the Israeli public for it – but with a fearful eye on his former boss Benjamin Netanyahu

Outraged by decision, Rabbi Michael Beals terms it ‘racist’ and ‘an insult to the Conservative movement’

The Palestinians returned to the Gaza Strip after the incident, the Israeli military's Spokesperson Unit says

Since the Taliban takeover six months ago, hospitals have shut down and health workers have gone months without pay while nearly half of all COVID tests throughout Afghanistan are coming back positive

Learning the long menu of potential sparks for the next Israeli-Palestinian escalation – from Sheikh Jarrah to spiking food prices, Hamas to Homesh – is grim, but better to do it before the next war

Tehran is managing rather well with the U.S. sanctions. Not only is Washington not intensifying them, it is even being lenient – in an effort to urge Iran to move toward a deal in the nuclear talks

A Palestinian man says he saw at least seven people defacing his car and tractor and heard them speaking Hebrew

Rights groups fear for Tunisia's future after President Kais Saied pledges to dissolve the Supreme Judicial Council

Ukraine's foreign minister says there are already grounds for sanctions as Russia has violated international law by issuing passports to separatist-controlled areas in the east of the country

Veteran Israeli peace negotiator Yossi Beilin and Palestinian attorney Hiba Husseini suggest the creation of a confederation, with people swaps involving settlers and refugees, as a way to revive the two state solution

Salah Abdeslam is believed to be the only surviving member of the Islamist commando that carried out the gun and bomb attacks that killed 130 people

Homo sapiens remains found ‘sandwiched’ between layers of Neanderthal habitation in Rhone Valley cave push back the clock on earliest known arrival of modern humans in Europe by 10,000 years

The R number, which shows whether the COVID pandemic is expanding or shrinking in Israel, fell below 0.8

Soldiers embroiled in Omar Abdalmajeed As’ad's death in the West Bank last month claim the photo, published by the Yedioth Ahronoth daily, exonerates them

Bezalel Smotrich, a lawmaker from a far-right Religious Zionism party, is touring Europe in a bid to rally communal leaders against conversion and kashrut reform in Israel

Israel has a special committee couples can apply to if they’ve had four children of the same sex, but West Bank clinics make the service available to anyone who can afford the few thousand dollars

New documentary film delves into Shimon Hayut's Ponzi scheme, the shocking story of which emerged in 2019

The infamous Pegasus spyware created by Israeli firm NSO can turn any infected smartphone into a remote microphone or camera. Here’s how to stay safe and know if you’ve been hacked

In a special briefing, Haaretz experts discussed the spyware scandal rocking Israeli politics, its impact on Benjamin Netanyahu's corruption trial, and what it means for Israel's foreign relations. Listen to the full discussion

From food shortages to stalled start-ups, Lebanese civil unrest to an Iranian nuclear coup, these are the ‘ten plagues’ facing Israel if Russia chooses large-scale military aggression against Ukraine, Israel’s quiet but critical partner

Motherboard reveals that as part of NSO Group’s bid to enter American market, ‘NYPD intel’ received showcase of spyware

The visit, which neither government has confirmed or commented on, follows a string of moves to bolster relations and promote democratic rule in Sudan

While thousands of enslaved Yazidi women and girls are still missing, director Hogir Hirori traveled to Syria in order to document both victims and the women fighting to free them. 'Everybody thought I was crazy,' he tells Haaretz

While officially, the amendment to the Citizenship Law restrictions is based on security concerns, senior officials admit it is a tool aimed at ensuring a Jewish majority in Israel

Iran is touting its high-accuracy 'Khaibar-buster' missile, named after a Jewish castle overrun by Muslim warriors in the early days of Islam

The U.S. Embassy issued a warning of 'reports of a possible missile or drone strike,' but later clarified this was not the case

Olmert made the request last month after the Netanyahu family sued him after he said the former prime minister, his wife Sara and son Yair were mentally ill and repeatedly refused to apologize

The protagonist of Maya Arad's latest book is a stressed-out writer who yearns for a prestigious literary prize and falls in love with a woman. 'My husband told me, 'Maya, if the reader doesn’t think that you’ve left me for a woman, then you didn...

At least 15 were briefly detained after refusing to leave 'Ma'aleh Paula,' which was set up by activists looking to pressure authorities on Bedouin construction in the Negev

One Syrian soldier was killed and five others wounded in Israel's counter-strike on Syrian weapon targets, Syria's official news agency says

Channel 13 News reported that during a meeting with the Shin Bet in 2016, two officers dressed in civilian clothing said that members of the Ethiopian protest movement and Justice Ministry director general Emi Palmor were being surveilled

Maj. Gen. Jamal Hakroosh, who headed the unit fighting crime in the Arab community in Israel, said he stayed at the scene of the murder – and the acting police commissioner accepted his version of events

Republicans had delayed Lipstadt's hearing due to past tweets critical of Republican lawmakers, to the disappointment of a broad array of U.S. Jewish organizations who supported her candidacy

The answers to all your questions regarding the latest NSO scandal, which has seen the company's Pegasus spyware turned on Israelis

Defense Minister Gantz accepts panel’s recommendation to expand criteria, after decades of struggle by Israeli navy veterans who dived in the Kishon River in the 1970s and ‘80s

Israel's president says the 'completely unnecessary' death of 78-year-old Omar As'ad must be investigated, but reiterates that IDF soldiers are the 'best of the best'

Prime minister orders further examination of Pegasus reports before deciding on a wider investigation. Bennett told police only managed to successfully hack one of the three phones

The damages follow her earlier legal victory challenging the Israel Prison Service’s policy of isolating or separating transgender prisoners

Men who undergo Orthodox conversions are entitled to a free circumcision. Now, the country's Reform and Conservative movements demand the same, and Israel's top court will hear arguments on the sensitive issue

In the weeks since the Colleyville attack, Jewish establishments and nearly 200 lawmakers have pushed to double funding for the Nonprofit Security Grant Program from $180 million to $360 million

Said Moussa, who is in stable condition, has suffered severe depression since he was severely beaten in Bat Yam in May, and has not fully cooperated with Israeli authorities to receive the benefits he is entitled to

While negotiations accelerated last month, many key issues remain unresolved, and most experts say that Iran's breakout time to enrich weapons-grade uranium is shorter than when the 2015 deal was struck

The Meretz lawmaker's chief of staff said that Freige is conscious and was able to communicate with his family

President Erdogan said his Israeli counterpart Isaac Herzog is likely to visit Turkey in mid-March to discuss energy cooperation, as the two countries take steps to mend relations

The defendants, including Palestinians and Syrians, were arrested in October in an operation by Turkey’s national intelligence agency, according to a pro-government newspaper

Over the last seven years, India-Israel relations have warmed up faster than the six preceding decades, thanks to a propitious mix of ideology, pragmatism and geopolitical realignments. How shockproof is the entente now?

The price of fruits and vegetables has skyrocketed, and gasoline, electricity and dairy products have also gone up substantially, but the Palestinian Authority has had a hard time providing solutions

As the country’s first woman attorney general takes over, allegations of illegal use of spyware by police would be one of Gali Baharav-Miara's first priorities

In the early 1930s, ex-Marine Smedley Butler helped foil a plot not unlike the march on the U.S. Capitol a year ago. The author of a new book about him, Jonathan M. Katz, tells Haaretz about this inspiring turnaround

Constantly fleeing death, they live in fear, desperation and chaos, with little protection or help: These are the stories of young Arab people whose lives were upended by violence. Can the cycle be broken?

Over 1 million immigrants from the former Soviet Union live in Israel, and many are concerned about another war breaking out between Russia and Ukraine. Loyalties, however, aren’t as straightforward as you might imagine

The free time during the pandemic has ramped up Israelis’ interest in websites and stores for secondhand goods, but the main motive appears to be savings, not sustainability

Mosquitoes are attracted to the CO2 we exhale, which stimulates them to check out your sartorial choices – bad news for goths

The Palestinian Health Ministry confirms three deaths, calling the Israeli operation 'an assassination'

Prosecutors were initially given a day to respond to a report that police used NSO's Pegasus spyware to hack the phones of associates of former Prime Minister Netanyahu and witnesses in his corruption trial

The next leader for the radicalizing far right Alternative for Germany is likely to be a Third Reich revisionist whom German intelligence considers a threat to national security. That’s good news for Germany

A first study of its kind in decades finds a staggering 75 percent of all dead green turtles and 57 percent of all loggerhead turtles retrieved from the shores of the emirate of Sharjah had eaten marine debris

A life worth living: Ellen West, born into a Jewish family in the U.S., was one of the first ever patients with anorexia to be documented. To this day nobody knows her real name

Police started investigating the case after the three children were reported absent from school for several days. The youngest child, who is 5 years old, was found with serious wounds and taken to hospital

Police Commissioner Shabtai dismisses media reports, telling officers 'so far, no indication has been found' of police misuse of NSO spyware. Top Israeli officials allegedly targeted by police demand probe

Hussein Al-Sheikh and Rawhi Fattouh, nominated by the Western-backed Abbas and his Fatah Party, are not expected to promote any shift in policies over the handling of the conflict with Israel

Social media users pointed specifically to Gadot’s public praise of the Israeli army, which she also served in

After Tennessee school board decision, Spiegelman acknowledges that he has mixed feelings about his illustrated Holocaust memoir being used in middle schools as 'Auschwitz for beginners'

Israel's Truaa system can give people in quake-vulnerable areas precious seconds to save their lives before the destruction waves hit their city

With 43,852 new COVID cases confirmed in Israel, all major metrics remain relatively high but on a downward trend

Police misuse of NSO spyware must be probed, but it also exposes a much bigger problem

Latest reports on police misuse of NSO spyware paint a very dark picture for Israeli democracy, and raise new questions about Netanyahu's enigmatic choice of police chief

After a Texas synagogue was held hostage, U.S. intelligence fears copycat attacks by domestic and foreign extremist groups

Chief of Staff Kochavi rejects findings of external committee into incident that killed Maj. Ofek Aharon and Maj. Itamar Elharar, instead accepting findings of internal committee that absolved unit commander of responsibility

The shock of Prime Minister Bennett and other lawmakers are more disturbing in light of the fact that the tracking of the cellphones of politicians, activists and journalists, has existed for years in connection with Palestinians within and beyond Is...

Fearing the return of Bashir-era officials, thousands of Sudanese take to the streets as the nation enters its fourth month of military rule ■ Three BBC journalists were arrested while covering the protest

Ex-Attorney General Avichai Mendelblit limited police use of controversial NSO spyware to exceptional cases ■ Police official calls unit which used spyware 'a monster that operated without oversight or control'

On Sunday, Israel's National Security Adviser Dr. Eyal Hulata presented the government with the NSC’s annual assessment, warning that the U.S. may return to the nuclear deal and Israel must prepare for every possibility

Meretz and the United Arab List, who oppose the bill, left the parliament chamber during the vote to allow its passage

I’m trying to resist the appropriation of the Hebrew language by the Israeli authorities, who have ingrained Hebrew in the Palestinian consciousness as a language of violence and occupation ■ Post #44