Ukraine-Russia conflict: Biden needs to assure his Indo-Pacific allies that the United States is capable of managing simultaneous crises in both Europe and East Asia. So far, he's doing it

War in Ukraine, despite all that’s happening on the ground, is not yet inevitable. Putin can still reach the conclusion that he has an option of getting at least some of what he wants through bullying and bluffing

Far-right lawmaker Itamar Ben-Gvir's reopening of his office in the East Jerusalem neighborhood sparks clashes between Israelis and Palestinians

NSO employees tell Haaretz that Mossad officials frequently visited its HQ under former head Yossi Cohen, sometimes with foreign officials. They asked to hack certain phones with Pegasus spyware

A new study by the Geological Survey of Israel offers suggestions and solutions to the recent increase in sinkholes around the Dead Sea

Jacob Bardugo had taken control of one of the two main national and public news shows, turning it into a stage for settling his benefactor's personal and political scores

Sudan's military leader says security and intelligence ties are 'legitimate,' but stresses no political officials joined delegations to Israel

Military officials say they believe civilian deaths were caused by Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi’s suicide bomb rather than at the hands of American forces

The deployment comes after the Iranian-backed Houthis launched three attacks targeting Abu Dhabi last month, including one targeting a fuel depot that killed three people and wounded six

U.S. official says phone call was 'professional and substantive,' but produced no fundamental change on Ukraine tensions

The London team, which has a sizeable Jewish fan base and a reputation of being Jewish among rival fans, made the request 'as a defense mechanism against antisemitic abuse'

'Biden’s decision is one-sided and does not match with international law,' says adviser to Afghanistan’s former U.S.-backed government. $7 billion in Afghan reserves frozen after Taliban's rise to power will also be allocated for humanitarian aid

The move follows the signing of a security agreement between the countries and will be related to the work of an international coalition of more than 34 countries, Bahrain's Foreign Ministry says

Airlines offer rescue flights after thousands of Israelis ask to leave Ukraine ■ U.S. warned Israeli officials that Russian forces could invade as early as Tuesday

No one has talked to NSO to verify allegations — but only they can provide the Israeli public with the truth, experts say

The explosion, which occurred near the Arab village of Dahmash, left two men in their thirties dead and a third in moderate condition

Russia’s treatment of its neighbor Ukraine shows what can happen if you're dependent on one main energy supplier. Middle Eastern countries will become bigger natural gas partners

National security adviser Sullivan says the U.S. still does not know if Putin has decided to invade Ukraine, but that all the elements are now in place for a rapid incursion ■ Putin and Biden will reportedly speak by phone on Saturday

The Foreign Ministry also releases a travel warning advising Israelis who are planning to visit Ukraine to refrain from doing so

The study compared babies born to vaccinated and unvaccinated Israeli mothers based on five parameters – the percentage of premature births, low birth weights, hospitalizations, birth defects and infant mortality

In first since seizing control over Afghanistan, the Talbian has detained two foreign nationals as well as a number of UNHCR's Afghan staff

Two Israeli military judges have ordered Amal Nakhleh's release, but the larger predatory system has insisted on keeping him jailed

Cybersecurity experts are over 90 percent certain that two former directors general of Israeli ministries were hacked, following the appearance of their names in a report on police use of NSO spyware

Moscow denies plans to invade Ukraine, but says could take 'military-technical' action unless a series of demands are met, including promises from NATO never to admit Ukraine and to withdraw forces from Eastern Europe

El Al, Israir and Arkia urge the Israeli government to find a solution for a dispute over security protocols or else the number of daily flights to Dubai will be reduced

The Israeli army chief ultimately decided not to remove the commander of the unit in which two soldiers were killed by friendly fire. But the drama behind the decision still persists

Legal experts say that the Israel Police phone hacking affair may end in prison terms for those involved – or no criminal implications at all

According to the Daily Sabah, an Iranian cell targeted Israeli-Turkish businessman Yair Geller in retaliation for the 2020 assassination of an Iranian nuclear scientist

Jacob Bardugo called his dismissal from the show 'cowardly and political' and said the instructions came from the government

Activist Samah Salaime, a leading voice for women's rights in Israel's Arab community, joins the podcast to discuss recent developments. Also: Our TV critic on Apple TV+'s 'Suspicion' and Amazon Prime's 'As We See It'

The Russian threat to invade Ukraine, where Turkey is the largest foreign investor, could create more tensions between Moscow and Ankara – especially as the Turkish president has economic and personal interests in Ukraine

Foreign Minster Lapid announces a joint Israeli-German team that will consider ways of transferring funds to six Palestinian NGOs outlawed by Defense Minister Gantz in October

The unit handling far-right extremism in the West Bank has been split in two

Bennett insists on establishing a commission that will investigate EVERYTHING, and so does Netanyahu – as long as the panel's roster is to his liking

Despite joint Syria-Russia aerial drills, Israel proved it feels free to carry out strikes ■ How a row over socioeconomics, deaths and the army ethos turned an army commander into a raging poet

This week at the Tel Aviv airport: What it's like to be a German exchange student in Jerusalem, and what goes through the mind of an air ambulance pilot while on duty

Joan Didion’s sharp words about the ‘national unity’ discourse spawned by the 9/11 attacks in the U.S. echo in the peace-and-security discourse Israeli policy makers are creating

The kids who grew up on the ‘Harry Potter’ books are no longer kids – or even fans. How J.K. Rowling morphed from an inspirational author to an enemy of the trans community and persona non grata among millennials

A ceremony in Jerusalem took place this week in memoriam of the 71 people who died in workplace accidents in Israel last year

Russia's Foreign Ministry spokeswoman says strikes attributed to Israel in Syria, where Russia's forces bolster President Assad, 'may trigger a sharp escalation of tensions' and endanger passenger flights

UN envoys trade barbs as Western diplomats hope to convince China to not side again with Russia after a Security Council vote on the Ukraine crisis

Jewish-Hungarian skiers and siblings Barnabas and Noa Szollos represent Israel at the Winter Olympics. The icing on the cake: On Thursday, Barnabas tied Israel’s best-ever showing at a Winter Olympics

After 15 years, Latvian parliament passes law allocating 40 million euro over a decade to compensate the Jewish community for lost property and revitalize the country's Jewish community

What’s the real scope of Israel's unreported economic activity? Has COVID made it worse?

How is it that this new antisemitism enjoys the support and backing of the Jewish state?

New indictments follow charges pressed last week against a 17-year-old Palestinian in the same shooting attack that killed Yehuda Dimentman

Four Israelis, including two minors, were indicted for throwing stones at Palestinian cars – an act that led to the West Bank car chase with police that killed Ahuvia Sandak

British Jews rightly, and very explicitly, told Israeli politician and Jewish supremacist Bezalel Smotrich to get lost and go home. For Diaspora Jews, the era of sitting on the fence, and not just about Israeli racists, is ending

The men, all residents of the Bedouin town of Segev Shalom, are accused of attacking Nati Yeffet and setting his car on fire during clashes over JNF forestation work last month

Jacob Bardugo, once a Likud activist, made a name for himself as a staunch critic of Netanyahu’s opponents. He will stop anchoring the daily news roundup, but will stay on as a commentator

Former Interior Minister Fathi Bashagha is chosen to be prime minister as the eastern-based parliament seeks to take control of Libya's political future after the collapse of election plans

Texts written by terrified scribes in plague-wracked cities don’t attest to the state of rural communities, but the crops they were growing (or not growing) certainly do

This is the first time that non-Jews are participating in a tour guide program at the lavish new ANU – Museum of the Jewish People in Tel Aviv. Here's what they had to say

Resolving the ongoing maritime border dispute between Israel and Lebanon would have significant implications for natural gas exploration in the eastern Mediterranean Sea

Israel’s Interior Ministry is cracking down on the phenomenon known as ‘passport aliyah,’ which is bad news for anyone eyeing an Israeli passport for ease of access in pandemic-era times

Western intellectuals and liberal NGOs who serially eulogize two-state partition are keen boosters of the one state solution. There’s just one problem: Israelis and Palestinians are not

Panicking over inflation, Israel's government is coming up with solutions that please the public but ignore the problem

NSO says financial daily Calcalist did not provide evidence in its latest report on the Pegasus spyware

Just in time for the Beijing Olympics: Analysis of horse bones from ancient Novgorod shows not one but two types of ice skates, neither, possibly, for any useful purpose

'If Russia chooses confrontation, it will pay a higher price,' says NATO secretary general as Russia boosts military power and holds joint drills in Belarus

Israel's Prime Minister Bennett tells Annalena Baerbock, who arrived for her first official visit in the region, that extending talks on Tehran's nuclear program 'only serves Iranian interests'

The U.S. administration links the desire to rejoin the UN cultural body to China's rising influence, years after Trump withdrew from UNESCO over allegations of anti-Israel bias

The Holocaust memorial investigation finds that a partial kit offered last year by a Jerusalem auctioneer 'would appear highly unlikely to have been used to tattoo Jews'

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

President Joe Biden’s efforts to reenter the Iran nuclear deal have revealed clashing Democratic views, while GOP Sen. Ted Cruz and fellow Republicans vow to fight restoration of the JCPOA

Israel faces a perfect storm of problems if Russia chooses large-scale military aggression against Ukraine, Israel’s quiet but critical partner

The injured included travelers and workers of various nationalities, Saudi state media reports

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

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