Ukrainian leaders are eager to claim her as a native daughter, with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy saying the first female Israeli prime minister was 'a great woman who I admire'

Russia invades Ukraine: As the war enters its third week, none of Putin's key objectives have been reached, despite thousands of people killed and more than two million made refugee

Lines for basic goods in Kherson are lengthening, and in Melitopol residents are protesting the Russian kidnapping of the mayor. 'The occupiers thought they’d be greeted with flowers, but it didn’t happen'

Drawn up by the Department for Socioeconomic Development of the Bedouin Society, the plan's investments range from employment and infrastructure to education and youth programs

Jerusalem city hall removes images of both flags after harsh criticism

Throughout the tenure of five prime ministers, Israel's top court hasn't managed to reach a ruling on a cluster of Palestinian villages in the arid South Hebron Hills to make way for IDF training grounds

Tehran has adopted a policy of responding to any attack against it attributed to Israel, such as the one last week in Syria. Meanwhile, Israel fears new demands would see Iran getting more out of Vienna nuclear talks

Washington is signaling to Israel that joining the economic pressure on Putin's regime, including the oligarchs closest to him, is more important than mediating between Russia and Ukraine

As millions of Ukrainians flee Russia's invasion of their country, tens of thousands of elderly Jews, including Holocaust survivors, have remained behind

Israel's Foreign Minister Lapid has tried to schedule a call with his Ukrainian counterpart, who 'said he had been busy,' official says. Despite Kyiv's growing criticism of Israel's stance, a political source says the two are likely to speak soon

Interior Minister Shaked moves to further relax Israel's policy on Ukrainian refugees fleeing Russia's invasion, as its implementation stalls because forms aren't available online

Iran says the attack on Iraq's northern Kurdish regional capital of Irbil was retaliation for an Israeli strike in Syria, which killed two members of its Revolutionary Guard earlier this week

The airstrike on a base in the Lviv region, near the border with Poland, represents the westernmost target hit by Russia since its invasion of Ukraine began 18 days ago

Amid China's latest COVID surge, mainland authorities are enforcing a 'zero tolerance' strategy and have locked down entire cities to find and isolate every infected person

Ukraine has said it is willing to negotiate, but not to surrender or accept any ultimatums, while Russia says talks made substantial progress

'The coexistence between Jews and Palestinians is like a man who beats his wife at home, yet they look like a perfect couple on the outside,' says Tamer Nafar, Israel's most successful Palestinian rapper

Filmmaker Brent Renaud, who had a New York Times press badge but was not on assignment for the newspaper at the time, was killed in Irpin, near the Ukrainian capital

Iran reportedly halts aimed at defusing tensions between Tehran and Riyadh, a day after Saudi Arabia carries out its largest known mass execution

Associated with the Bronze Age Tagar culture, the amulet provides rare insight into the rituals associated with death in this balmy region of Siberia

For nearly 10 years the unicorn StoreDot promised a breakthrough – a battery that charges in a few minutes. With no product on the market, their story proves a lesson for Israeli tech

Why is AIPAC, which condemned Trump's incitement of violence on Jan 6th and the assault on America's democratic values, endorsing 'pro-Israel' candidates who align with insurrectionists and white supremacists?

Western powers were close to reaching a deal with Tehran on its nuclear program, before Russia intervened to seek guarantees on its trade with Iran

Turkey’s options, amid shifting economic and political considerations in the region, now include Israel as well

From the collapse of the Russian cyber prowess to the links between the Kremlin and cybergangs, here are the big changes in the cyber world and what they mean

'This year we will celebrate Purim in schools one day earlier,' Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Lion says as weather forecasts predict snowfall

Almost three weeks into Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Putin's propaganda machine is laying the groundwork for a chemical attack with false accusations that Kyiv is working on 'military biological programs'

Salah Hamouri, hailing from East Jerusalem, faces a four-month administrative detention for membership of the outlawed Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine

Putin sees his assault on Ukraine as part of a wider war for a multipolar world, but his 'alternative model' is failing. China is the only real rival to Western dominance, and that's what America and the West should worry about

What is its origin? When did it begin? Why did many Jews scorn Purim – and is the underlying tale of love, murder and betrayal true?

Israel's foreign minister condemns 'unjustified' invasion in a tour of Ukraine's neighbors, and says Israel has a 'moral duty' to take in more refugees at a visit to the Romania-Ukraine border

Though Israel claims that Bennett's mediation efforts are much appreciated by Kyiv and Washington, U.S. and Ukraine officials are expecting Bennett will step up his mediation attempts

Rabbi Julia Gris – a Russian-born Jew, said she always felt very much at home in Ukraine, and had never felt discrimination

Russia invades Ukraine: As the war enters its third week, none of Putin's key objectives have been reached, despite thousands of people killed and more than two million made refugee

Kurdish and U.S. officials say there are no confirmed casualties so far from the estimated 12 missiles fired by Iran at Iraq’s northern city of Erbil. Iran's Revolutionary Guards took responsibility for the attack

The new law replaces temporary legislation that barred Palestinians who marry Israeli nationals from resident status in Israel

Israel's military has been on heightened alert since Iran threatened retaliation for the deaths of two officers in Syria, which foreign media attributed to Israel

The Biden administration is welcoming Israeli mediation efforts, but insisted Israel join the growing list of 'democracies' sanctioning Russia over its brutal invasion of Ukraine

The executed Saudis were convicted of murder and membership in Islamic militant groups, local news agencies say

Alpine skier Sheina Vaspi, an above-the-knee amputee, talks to Haaretz about facing her fears and the challenge of combining an athletic career with Chabad Hasidism

The Israeli silence as Iran nuke talks continue signals that Jerusalem has accepted a new deal will be signed, and is preparing for next steps ■ Russia-Ukraine war highlights the demand – and danger – of cyberweapons

Saturday's meeting was the first sit-down meeting between the two countries' foreign ministers since 2009

Oil minister's remarks follow reports of a recent seizure of an Iranian oil tanker in the Bahamas, even as indirect Iran-U.S. nuclear deal talks could see the lifting of U.S. sanctions in return for Tehran curbing its nuclear work

On Friday, an unnamed Ukrainian senior government official harshly criticized Bennett's effort to mediate the crisis with Russia, saying that Bennett pressured Zelenskyy to accept Putin's conditions for ending the war

While thousands of refugees are begging to enter Israel, a few hundred people are making the trip in the opposite direction, including some aiming to join the fight

Rabbi Daniel Litvak detained as part of an ongoing inquiry by public prosecutors into the Portuguese citizenship granted to the oligarch in 2021 as part of naturalization process for Sephardi Jews

The U.S. administration aims to rebuild the Mideast scaffolding that it started to dismantle as it strives to shore up its Russia sanctions policy without destroying the global oil market or economy

We may think that veganism can play only a limited roll in combating global warming, as greenhouse gases have so many other sources. But a new study suggests a shift to plant-based nutrition could indeed turn the tables

There is talk in Israel of a ‘wave of terror attacks,’ but the surge in killings of Palestinians is barely mentioned

Throughout history many heads of state have seemingly made their mark thanks to their powerful personalities. In fact, something else entirely makes a leader great

When even traditionally dovish Social Democrats are beginning to change their minds about joining NATO, it's clear that Putin's assault on Ukraine is causing Sweden and Finland serious second thoughts on the subject

These Ukrainian refugees – unlike many other refugees – are eligible to come to Israel under the Law of Return, creating a fault line between them and those who don't have the privilege of being titled 'new immigrant'

The 21-year-old settler is suspected of acts of terror, arson, vandalizing, and assault of left-wing activists in the West Bank as well as in Israel

The Canadian operations of Russian steelmaker Evraz, of which Abramovich is the largest shareholder, will not be affected by the move

The official says Bennett is 'using mediation as an excuse to justify the fact that Israel is avoiding transferring military aid to Ukraine or joining the sanction slapped on Russia.' Bennett's office denies the claims

Iranian spokesperson said the pause could be 'momentum' for resolving remaining issues

Lapid will meet with the leaders of both nations, and visit ministry officials at the border crossing between Romania and Ukraine ■ The Ukrainian envoy calls on Israel to provide medical equipment and to sanction Russia

The team discovered that octopuses learn when neural activity sparks long-term changes in their synapses

Russia invades Ukraine: As the war enters its third week, none of Putin's key objectives have been reached, despite thousands of people killed and more than two million made refugee

As Ukraine war rages and the West tightens the screws on Russian oligarchs, many of them look to Israel to escape ■ Some already hold Israeli citizenship, exactly for these kinds of circumstances ■ Billionaires will benefit from Israeli law, allo...

When we decided to stand behind Jessie Sander, a teacher who was fired by a New York synagogue for her anti-Zionist views, Eric Yoffie asked: 'What were you thinking?' Here's our response

Students will no longer be required to show a negative COVID test twice a week, and employees at Israeli schools who are neither vaccinated nor recovered won't need to present a negative test every 48 hours

It's not certain that Israel's prime minister had a chance to repair the damage caused by his predecessor and his pal Trump, but Bennett's Russia-Ukraine mediation is much more than theatrics

Russia-Ukraine war: Whatever credit Israel hoped to gain with Bennett's mediation efforts, it lost with its embarrassing handling of refugees

The Senate passed the bill one day after the House and will be sent to President Biden who will sign it into law

This week at the Tel Aviv airport: A psychotherapist who travels the world while treating patients remotely, and an occupational therapist heading to India to find herself

Anthropologist Emanuel Marx took a new look at Nazi state violence

A new book claims, falsely, that Bulgaria’s army saved the country’s Jews from the Holocaust. Elbit funded it

Israel announced it will limit on the number of Ukrainian refugees allowed in its territory. Haaretz explains the nuts and bolts of Israel's policy from entry and work permits, to health insurance

'I can't watch mothers not shower for three days and sleep on mats with their children,' the director of Ben-Gurion International Airport said of the situation

Militiamen, wounded children, police patrols, volunteers delivering food and panicky residents – all hoarding whatever food comes their way, all summoning whatever strength they have left. A week on the Ukrainian front

Why the Russian leader was 'surprised' by Biden's tough sanctions, and how Americans' belief in happy endings contributed to the Ukraine crisis: journalist Julia Ioffe joins the podcast to discuss Ukraine, Russia and NATO

The writer won the award for fiction in English translation in 2017 for 'A Horse Walks into a Bar' and is now being nominated for the translation of his work 'More Than I Love My Life'

The Lebanon Tribunal reverses its acquittal based on an erroneous assessment of evidence, convicting the two men for their part in the killing then-Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in a 2005 car bombing in Beirut

The 'Wing of Zion' cost Israeli taxpayers 600 million shekels ($183M), and some people turned a profit from it. So why are the culprits nowhere to be found in the new report?

Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi was killed during a raid by U.S. forces in Syria last month, and his replacement will be Abu Al-Hassan Al-hashemi Al-Quraishi

According to a statement from the Jordanian palace, Abdullah reiterated the importance of establishing a Palestinian state along the 1967 borders

‘The pilot realized he had exceeded the speed limit and immediately decreased speed,’ Israeli army says

Bosnians look at Ukraine and shudder with déjà vu: The unprovoked aggression, refugees, indiscriminate shelling, besieged cities. And they fear pro-Russia actors using the crisis to stir up big trouble in the Balkans

The personal use of marijuana will become an administrative – and not criminal – violation with a fine of 500 shekels, pending approval by a committee in Israel's parliament

The former vice president got a tour of occupied Hebron with far-right leaders who are boycotted by Israel’s own prime minister and the pro-Israel establishment in the U.S.

The British Isles were awash in gorgeous gold jewelry and objects but there’s no sign they were regularized by mass, deduces Raphael Hermann of the University of Goettingen

One video from a suburb of Kyiv appeared to show over 20 Russian armored vehicles retreating under fire, but Ukraine's efforts may not be enough to turn the tide

The Holocaust memorial had previously come to the defense of Abramovich, Israel's second-richest person, considered a Putin ally, who now faces sanctions in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine

The bill managed to pass comfortably in a last-ditch vote before the Israeli parliament enters recess, despite opposition from the United Arab List and Meretz

Iran and Hezbollah are officially neutral on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, not expressing official support for Moscow or for Kyiv. But a deeper dive reveals a very different picture of what they call the 'Russia vs America' war