President Herzog says the trip is part of an attempt to forge a regional alliance against climate change and calls it 'an opportunity of historic proportions'

For Russia’s rulers, Ukraine is an oddity, a mistake of history defying its civilizational 'destiny' and threatening the Kremlin’s domestic propaganda. And Putin has now chosen a violent solution for his 'Ukrainian problem'

Numerous Palestinian applicants were denied permits to attend family funerals, weddings or visit a sick family member over the new practice

'Israel could be extraordinarily helpful in assisting other countries in the region,' says former U.S. secretary of state as he declares that the world has only a decade to head off the worst effects of climate change

The conference will include interviews with top decision-makers, activists and international experts – including Israeli President Herzog, Environmental Protection Minister Zandberg and the U.S. special envoy for climate John Kerry

Israeli bodyguards and security firms are cashing in on the IDF brand, whether protecting Hollywood stars or remote installations in Africa – even if regulation of the sector is sometimes scant

Ukraine-Russia live updates: Diplomatic efforts to resolve the crisis in eastern Ukraine continue amid escalating tensions and fears of a Russian invasion

Psychiatric evaluations detailed the damage caused to his mental condition by 'unusually harsh' detention conditions. The judge ruled that the prisoner is a danger to the staff and other prisoners

Monday’s ruling has delayed the eviction of an East Jerusalem family at least until after Ramadan, removing one component of the tensions. But it is still too early to celebrate

The woman's family built a new shack on the ruins of the house in which she has lived for the last 15 years to make it wheelchair-accessible. The Enforcement Unit: 'Demolitions are issued against buildings, not people'

Still intoxicated by the nostalgic scent of the sweat and water cannons from the anti-Netanyahu protests, the retiring minister turned independent lawmaker will be open for negotiations, on his own terms

Israel has mounted frequent attacks against what it has described as Iranian targets in Syria

After committee finds no evidence that police used spyware to monitor Israelis without warrants, Yaakov Shabtai says reports 'mortally damaged' trust in police

Members of Israel's higher education panel vote for the largely symbolic measure, whose supporters say corrects a historical injustice in Israel that favored the study of European Jewry

Fearing Russia may use antisemitic provocations to delegitimize their country, Jewish leaders in Ukraine's east say prepare to distribute food to 20,000 families

Israeli military says force shot at teen throwing a Molotov cocktail

UN inspections 'are critical but not enough' to ensure Tehran's nuclear program is kept in check, Israel's defense minister tells representatives of major U.S. Jewish groups visiting Jerusalem

With its razor-thin Knesset majority, just about any lawmaker is well-positioned to obstruct the government's entire agenda. Some of them already did

Sources say appointment of Ghaida Rinawie Zoabi – the first Arab woman on the senior diplomatic job – is meant to ensure coalition's stability after she votes against a government-sponsored bill

Hezbollah-linked Al-Akhbar newspaper boasts that a drone that crossed over and triggered Israel's air defense systems returned unscathed despite three attempts to shoot it down

Head of Union of Palestinian Women's Committees, one of six NGOs Israel designated as terror groups, is convicted of membership in Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine

The Open University joins Reichmen University in being the second Israeli institution granted permission to award PhDs over the past four years

Police fear the evacuation of a Palestinian family for a Jewish settler group could have reignited violence in Jerusalem, particularly due to its timing, just before Ramadan

Despite High Court ruling recognizing conversions performed in Israel for the purpose of the Law of Return, the Interior Ministry is withholding requests, telling some converts they don't attend synagogue often enough

A Study on the Jewish world in the 18th century reveals a bygone violent world

Under two different prime ministers, Israel has focused all its efforts on denouncing the Iran nuclear agreement. Deal or no deal, it needs to devise an alternative Iran strategy

Representatives on congressional delegation led by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi are defending their recent visit, while activists are increasing their public pressure campaigns against them and Rep. Jamaal Bowman

Earlier the Iran nuclear talks' coordinator, Enrique Mora, tweeted that 'key issues need to be fixed' but the end was near

Despite falling COVID metrics, Nachman Ash says Israel still coping with hospital overcrowding ■ Israel sees lowest R number since May

Avidar, who claimed no loyalty to the coalition without a ministerial position, is now returning to his post as a Knesset lawmaker

The legalization of recreational marijuana in Israel may still be far off, but the branding revolution is well underway

Israeli high-tech companies, which collectively employ 15,000 employees in Ukraine, have been offering them assistance, but so far most of the workers aren’t interested

Gaby Portnoy will take over Israel’s cyber authority. Does his background in both military intelligence and the private sector put him in a good place to defend Israeli cyberspace?

The column may have come from the splendid early Byzantine basilica in Ashdod Yam, Israel - or another early Christian church in the town

Ukraine, Russia and Iran: Nuclear historian Avner Cohen joins the podcast to discuss the nuke talks in Vienna and Biden's double headache between Tehran and Ukraine. Also: how climate change threatens Israel, Jordan and the Palestinians

The Culture Ministry's plan includes establishing a repertory theater, an art museum, a cinematheque and schools for the arts, in addition to adding thousands of Arab community structures to the historic sites registry

Ukraine-Russia crisis: With his decision to recognize separatist republics in Luhansk and Donetsk, and move to send ‘peacekeepers’ there, Putin remains the only one calling the shots

Ukraine-Russia live updates: Diplomatic efforts to resolve the crisis in eastern Ukraine continue amid escalating tensions and fears of a Russian invasion

The political majority’s representatives want an anemic court, and one that won't place any obstacle in their path. They likely won't show much judicial independence

By manipulating the flow of people, the dictator now commands ethnic loyalty of nearly half of Syrians, and Sunni citizens who don’t see a future in the new Syria are leaving

Israel doesn’t see the enclave as occupied, and it doesn’t see it as ‘liberated territory.’ The West Bank is thus abandoned

An ardent critic of Hezbollah, Bahaa Hariri said he hopes to bring political change to Lebanon a month after his brother stepped out of politics, marking the first time in three decades the family is not in power

Kuwait's recent string of religiously motivated moves infringing on women's rights has touched off sustained outrage in a country that was once seen as progressive versus its neighbors.

At least 1,000 coronavirus patients died over the past two weeks, putting the total number of deaths at 10,003

Kemal Kilicdaroglu is expected to be the presidential candidate of Turkey's six-party opposition alliance in elections due by June 2023

Fleet of some 100 unmanned drones will patrol vast swaths of the region’s volatile waters as Iran tensions simmer

Gantz said his party won't participate in votes because important issues aren't being addressed, but coalition sources say move doesn't threaten political stability

The George Polk Award for technology reporting was given to the international group – which includes Haaretz – that investigated the abuse of NSO's hacking spyware

Despite fears of an impending Russian invasion, demand for rescue flights back to Israel has been very low in recent days

Investigators release findings that contradict a series of reports claiming police used NSO's Pegasus without a warrant in at least a couple dozen cases

'I try not to do symbolic things that just make things worse,' Thomas Nides tells members of major U.S. Jewish group to explain refusal to visit Israeli settlements

U.S., European Union say they will impose sanctions over Russia's recognition of the separatist areas

Only a comprehensive inquiry will reveal what really happened, the financial daily Calcalist said. Funny, I thought the paper’s reporters conducted a comprehensive investigation before publishing

Ore from Sardinia was transformed into ingots with Cypro-Minoan markings and then shipped everywhere. This boat didn’t make it

Funded with profits from natural gas, its launch comes as Israel is having second thoughts about further development of fossil fuels. Some argue that the money should be used to finance the transition to renewables

Amidst the looming threat of Hezbollah's precision missiles, Israel announces the successful operation of a sea-based extension of the Iron Dome

Russian news agencies say five killed when Ukrainian 'diversionary reconnaissance' group attempts to cross border

What’s known is that Israel Police bought and used NSO’s Pegasus spyware. However, more and more questions about the reporting by an Israeli financial daily cast a shadow over the allegations

After being banned in Lebanon and Kuwait, 'Death on the Nile' is the target of activists in Jordan, where the Gal Gadot movie was approved by censors after a homosexual scene was cut

Sondra Wiener, 87, and her husband Marvin were found dead with gunshot wounds in Florida

Lapid, however, says that while 'traditionally we go with the Americans,' Israel has to be more cautious in its approach to the crisis with Russia

The Isawiya residents are suspected of firing fireworks and hurling firebombs and stones at Israeli forces

Alisa, a 38-year-old mother and media relations specialist in Kyiv, joined the Territorial Defense Forces last year and now might have to use her skills in a real war with Russia

Israel has already reconciled itself to the likelihood that the Iran nuke deal will be signed within days and now its public diplomacy effort is focused mainly on the day after

Declassified only weeks ago, secret Israeli intelligence and diplomatic files lay out an elaborate global operation to turn Egyptian President Nasser’s key adviser, Mohamed Hassanein Heikal. His Mossad code name? "Uzi"

Minister says Israel will address its misgivings about the emerging new Iran nuke deal in future bilateral arrangements with the United States

Representatives of the three largest churches in Jerusalem warned the plan was an attempt to 'minimize, not to say eliminate, any non-Jewish characteristics of the Holy City'

The four new justices are Tel Aviv District Court Judge Ruth Ronnen, Tel Aviv District Court Deputy President Chaled Kabub, Jerusalem District Court Deputy President Gila Canfy Steinitz and attorney Yechiel Kasher

The report alleged that Yossi Cohen had an affair with a married flight attendant and revealed sensitive information. After it aired, the lottery nixed ads worth millions at the TV channel

Biden agrees to meet the Russian leader only if 'an invasion hasn't happened yet,' while U.S. officials claim Russia has directly ordered its commanders to prepare for one based on new intelligence

Russia is using Syria to send hints to Erdogan that they can’t step on Moscow’s toes in Ukraine, but Turkey is not the only country getting such warnings

What revisions are likely to be included in the new Iran nuclear deal, what will happen further down the line, and why has Israel been caught by surprise? | Haaretz explains

The Justice Ministry says it's 'more likely' that Ahmad Hijazi was shot by one of the suspects and not one of the officers ■ Family plans to appeal the decision

The inquiry will examine the manner and diligence in which the government approved deals with the German corporation ThyssenKrupp

An Education Ministry committee will propose the first nationwide anti-racism program for Israeli schools, with preliminary recommendations to be submitted by the end of March

The Economist's Democracy Index placed Israel at 23rd out of 165 countries in its 2021 report, but shows a worsened 'political culture'

Residents of the Ukrainian seaside city of Mariupol seem nonplussed by recent shooting from the area controlled by pro-Russian separatists, and some are reminded of the siege they suffered eight years ago

Bennett says the deal would 'pour billions of dollars into the Iranian terror machine,' adding that 'there's no doubt that America is our biggest and strongest friend, ultimately it's us who live in the region'

Some 400 Jews from Ukraine are expected to move to Israel in the first two months of the year. There is not a big uptick in people looking to make aliyah, despite fears of Putin's Russia starting an invasion

Bialik pressed Palestine's Jews to speak Hebrew, but 'sinned' himself by using Yiddish, and Tel Aviv officials wanted residents to lie and say they dreamed in Hebrew. A scholar finds that the development of Hebrew as a lingua franca was beset by a co...

Leader of ultra-Orthodox party says proposal to end Rabbinate's monopoly on conversions 'endangers Jewish identity in the State of Israel'

A senior United Arab List official says there's a sense the government is 'poking them in the eye' by not advancing issues that are important to it

U.S. ambassadors rarely visit Knesset members' private homes, but Tom Nides' dinner with the United Arab List leader may hurt his standing among his base

The attorney general is expected to present the findings to Bennett in the coming days, which will likely show that police had court authorization to use spyware, but sometimes exceeded the powers of the warrant

Ukraine's foreign minister says 'it's time to act' as Russia extends military drills with Belarus. The Kremlin, meanwhile, says Western prediction of war 'directly lead to an increase in tension'

While Israel has largely achieved its goals with strikes on Iranian proxies in Syria, Iraq, Yemen and other countries, in Lebanon, 'we're walking on eggshells,' official says

The suspect didn't plan to kill his brother, sources say, but fled the scene and showed up at the funeral after mayor mediates deal with police