Ukraine's armed forces are outnumbered and outgunned by Russia's, but in the face of what may be a large-scale invasion, experts say they could mount significant resistance

'Its goal is to protect people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide... for the last eight years. And for this we will strive for the demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine,' the Russian president says

Qatar has taken extreme measures to create a memorable World Cup tournament later this year – even at the cost of human life. But will the investment pay off?

After Russia invades Ukraine, Israeli Ambassador Michael Brodsky says ‘We had never imagined that such a thing was possible’

The Megiddo site soothes the soul, and unlike the red fields in southern Israel, the wildflowers here are painting the valley in white, pink and purple

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

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

Biden said he briefed Zelenskyy on U.S. and allies' planned next steps against Russia

Prison service figures show that thousands, including minors, are isolated despite consensus on negative health impacts

The attack came a day after Syria said that several missiles from northern Israel struck areas around the southern town of Quneitra, causing only material damage

Video featuring Tamer Nafar will be removed from the Authority for the Advancement of Women’s website after complaints by the rightwing group Btsalmo and the Srugim website

Yoel Marcus wrote about politics as a play whose actors were the prime minister, the other ministers, the American ambassador, the chief of staff – now lionizing his protagonists, now lampooning them

Government votes to end Israel's state of emergency that has been in place since the start of the COVID pandemic, declares a ‘special health situation’ instead

At a climate conference in Jerusalem, PLO minister and Israel's climate-change envoy say that the entire region must work together to avert disaster brought on by climate change

Netanyahu's party retracts a proposed bill to form a state commission of inquiry into the activities of Fifth Dimension, a firm once headed by Gantz

The find 'sheds an entirely new light on the symbolism, artistic expression as well as spiritual culture' of the previously unknown Neolithic populations, researchers say

Very early in the history of modern humans, a deep divergence emerged, a new study reveals. The groups would only encounter each other again over 100,000 years later

Committee tasked with selecting the Agency’s next chairperson needs to put forward a candidate on Sunday, but neither of the two front-runners – Danny Danon and Ruth Calderon – may win enough support

Right-wing lawmaker David Amsalem says Netanyahu is 'harming the dignity of the national camp' after the former PM distanced himself from Amsalem's claims that the High Court is racist against Mizrahi Jews

Russia invades Ukraine: Troops launched anticipated attack on Ukraine as President Vladimir Putin cast aside international condemnation and sanctions - 'any attempt to interfere would lead to consequences you have never seen'

French geographer Victor Guérin arrived in the Land of Israel in 1852, and returned for additional visits over the course of the next 36 years. His in-depth book conveys what has remained and what has been renewed here since his time, and shows that...

Israel is offering Gaza residents 10,000 work permits as tensions ease following last year's war between Israel and Hamas, opening a substantial income source for the poverty-stricken enclave

Pegasus and its rivals are dangerous due to their level of sophistication, but less advanced predators like Hamas can be just as dangerous

There are still many in the West impressed and enamored with Russian President Vladimir Putin – and not just his number one groupie at Mar-a-Lago. Perhaps the current crisis will lead to the revision of this skewed view

Israel released a statement supporting Ukraine, without mentioning Russia ■ Israeli official: We did the minimum, we can go back to sitting on the fence ■ Ukrainian diplomat disappointed: We expected more

Miriam Anzovin may portray a ditzy character in her popular ‘Daf Reactions’ videos online, but the 36-year-old Massachusetts native recently surprised her followers by blasting the religious establishment’s treatment of women

Yoel Marcus, 'one of the greatest commentators in the history of Hebrew journalism,' has worked as a reporter for more than 60 years and revealed plans for an Israeli withdrawal from Gaza

Oman’s foreign minister arrived in Tehran for talks with his Iranian counterpart as nuclear talks between Iran and world powers continue in Vienna

Israeli 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'

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

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 is the second Israeli institution in the past four years approved to award PhDs, joining Reichman University

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

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