The fascist manifesto: what a recent article by a pro-Putin propagandist tells us about what Russia really means by the 'denazification' of Ukraine

Yamina party lawmakers Ayelet Shaked, Abir Kara, and Nir Orbach agree to coordinate next steps after Idit Silman's surprise resignation ended the majority of Israel's unity government

A U.S. report last year found that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman had approved an operation to capture or kill journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in 2018, though Riyadh denies this

Ex-Jewish Agency head says Israel should give defensive arms to Ukraine, and will pay a price in the free world for failing to take a clear moral stance against Russian war crimes in Ukraine

After more than a month of Russian bombardment, residents of this small Ukrainian town have come home to assess the damage and pick up the pieces

Dr. Chen Kugel of the National Institute of Forensic Medicine testifies in the retrial of convicted murderer Roman Zadorov

Silman's defection to the opposition has not only shattered the coalition's structure but its legitimacy, too.

Coalition whip Idit Silmans' defection took Bennett by surprise, leaving him with no majority and an uncertain political future

The three smuggled in revolvers with silencers for a Palestinian from Hebron, according to an Israeli security source

Europe's health agency says it is investigating dozens of reported and suspected cases of salmonella linked with eating the chocolate in at least nine countries

‘American Song Contest’ makes ‘Eurovision’ look classy, while the world’s angriest chef, Gordon Ramsay, is mellowing with age

As the brutal Russian invasion continues, Ukrainian band Kalush Orchestra, tipped to win this year's Eurovision song contest, is visiting Israel for the annual 'Israel Calling' event

Kantor, president of the European Jewish Congress and contributor to Israel's Holocaust memorial Yad Vashem, is considered close to Putin

Bennett calls on party members to focus on stabilizing the coalition after its whip Idit Sliman announced her resignation, catching the PM by surprise

New neighborhoods will be built on both sides of crowded Beit Safafa, but mainly for Israelis ■ Sheikh Jarrah faces possible evictions ■ Houses in Silwan are being demolished – and that’s just a partial list

Israeli Arabs live in a world of economic growth and opportunity that their Palestinian brothers can only dream of

The defense minister tells a diplomatic gathering that Israel is 'in a race against time' as Iran continues to enrich Uranium

Zhirinovsky was often dismissed as a clown for his antics, but effectively tapped into Russian frustrations at the chaos of the post-Soviet years

The hospital insists it is fully complying with an Israeli court ruling allowing food that is not kosher for Passover into its premises, but is still asking visitors to 'refrain from bringing chametz in’ as much as possible

Silman's career spanned teaching and healthcare work, before she ended up in the Knesset. Squeezed between her right-wing base and cooperating with left-wing partners, she became the first to bail on Israel's unity government

With his impassioned plea on Tuesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy unwittingly demonstrated what the United Nations is best at: powerful speeches but not the formulation of real-world policies

Idit Silman was supposed to meet with Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz on Wednesday, in which he hoped to persuade her to stay in Israel's coalition gov't in exchange for publicly attributing several achievements to her

Idit Silman was considered an unflagging part of Israel's unity government, but Likud sensed a change, and a key minister told Bennett to watch out

Elena Bunina, who is Jewish, is stepping down from her role as CEO of Yandex LLC, 'Russia's Google,' amid the war in Ukraine. Sources confirm she is in Israel and has no intention of returning to Russia

Israel needs to be thinking about new COVID variants rather than more waves, says a leading health expert, after new data suggests the country’s daily infection rate is receding again

She has issued demands to Israel’s government, is being wooed by Republican politicians and oversaw a revolution at her newspaper. Questions remain, however, about the corporate giant Israel's richest person, Miriam Adelson, now runs

Rabbi Brant Rosen expected a heated debate after his synagogue voted to designate itself as ‘anti-Zionist,’ but others in Chicago see the act as either alarming or a publicity stunt

Israel's ruling coalition just lost its majority in the Knesset, but Netanyahu is still far from getting his own majority to replace it. What does the latest drama mean for Bennett, Lapid, Gantz and other key players?

In the Cretaceous, meanwhile, why did the T-rex have such short arms?

Netanyahu is cranking up the pressure on other right-wing lawmakers to 'do the right thing' and join his ranks, after Idit Silman's shock resignation from Israel's government

Ukrainian President Zelenskyy's office calls for new wave of sanctions against Russian 'war crimes' found in Bucha following retreat of Russian troops

Idit Silman, a lawmaker from Israeli PM Bennett's party, is switching sides after deal with opposition leader Netanyahu: She will run in his slate in the next election and promised the role of health minister

Israeli military officials say hermetically sealing up the fence for Palestinians would be a fool's errand – and that they neutralize security threats much more effectively by other means

The inquiries come from a Ukrainian delegation, which has been in Israel for about a week, although the government is unlikely to approve any such deals after it declined to provide military assistance to Kyiv

A study, which analyzed data from over one million people over 60 in Israel, echoes previous data showing a fourth dose cuts severe illness rates by three times versus the thrice-vaccinated

Shlomo Filber also tells court he had destroyed correspondence at the request of Nir Hefetz, Netanyahu’s former media adviser, who has also turned state’s evidence

Israel has avoided sales of advanced systems like the Arrow 3 to maintain a military advantage. If approved by Washington too, this would be the first time the system is sold outside the U.S. and Israel

Israeli Mossad's 'strange' admission, per Supreme Court president, was made on a petition to disclose materials about Christian militias that massacred Palestinian in the refugee camps of Sabra and Chatila

A Tel Aviv court is set to hold the first hearing of its kind on the case, with both asylum seekers and immigration officials present

The Israeli Foreign Ministry says Ambassador Erdan’s schedule could contain sensitive information and would require considerable staff time to review – which hasn't happened at all

Olga Vasilevskaya-Smaglyuk, who represents the devastated city in Ukraine's parliament, adds that Ukrainians understand Israel's concerns about Russia's presence in Syria, 'but there is a human dimension as well'

Israeli officials don't believe claims Fida Kiwan was framed for drug smuggling, but Israel is working to reduce the prison sentence she is expected to serve

Gantz tells Palestinian President Abbas other restrictions may be lifted if calm persists after a wave of deadly attacks. Over the past two years, Palestinians' entry to the holy Jerusalem site has been restricted over COVID-related measures

Four suspects were arrested over the Imam Reza shrine attack in addition to the assailant, who is believed to be a foreign national, according to city prosecutor

'The images and testimony from Ukraine are horrific. Russian forces committed war crimes against a defenseless civilian population,' Israel's foreign minister says

Armed with advanced tools, Neanderthals may have been able to reconquer territory they had abandoned 1,500 years earlier – but not for long

'The terrorists' goal is to sow fear in the hearts of Israeli civilians. We must not let them win,' the prime minister says in a meeting with Israeli soldiers in the West Bank after attacks that claimed 11 lives

Many enlist because they don’t feel ready for college, according to a study in the journal Sociological Forum that challenges the notion that most 'lone soldiers' join Israel's military for ideological reasons

Mariuma Klein, who founded the Shanti House in 1984, was abandoned by her parents in her childhood and teen years and experienced sexual assault, violence and homelessness

Soldiers in 'cinemas, supermarkets, and people with weapons' is Ukraine's future, Zelenskyy tells reporters, as the country's leaders begin to imagine what a precariously post-war Ukraine might look like

Kuwait's prime minister has faced a combative legislature as the head of successive cabinets, with opposition MPs bent on questioning him over issues including perceived corruption

Putin could adopt increasingly brutal tactics in Ukraine and a military strike should be a 'last resort' against Iran, Israel's former Military Intelligence chief Amos Yadlin tells Haaretz

'I thought someone was trying to kill me,' said the 38-year-old Arab Israeli citizen, who was arrested by undercover officers, accused of forging a fake ID card and forced to walk home alone after being abandoned in a forest

The Israeli-made Pegasus spyware is suspected of infecting over 450 phones targeted by clients of NSO, who range from Saudi Arabia to Mexican drug lords. Here’s a list of the confirmed Pegasus victims

Jordanian human rights lawyers and journalists were likely targeted by the Kingdom's authorities and perhaps another Arab state, even after Apple sued Israeli NSO, the spyware's creator. NSO refused to comment

Touting thaw in Turkey ties during a trilateral meeting with foreign ministers from Greece and Cyprus, Lapid says opportunities exist to 'strengthen regional stability'

Ukraine accused Russian forces of carrying out a 'massacre' in Bucha, saying 300 civilians were killed during the town's month-long occupation. Russian officials have said images of corpses were 'staged'

Russia used its own hypersonic missile in Ukraine – the first use of such a weapon in combat – but U.S. officials downplayed the importance of that strike

Fida Kiwan's family, which according to her brother was refused the right to visit her in detention in Dubai, is asking Israeli politicians and Amnesty International to intervene

A new UN climate report provides ready solutions for solving climate change, but is just as grim as its predecessors

In Israel, a cruel, corrupt religious ordeal awaits thousands of Ukrainian refugees from Russia’s invasion. It will have fateful consequences for their future and for the character of the Jewish state itself

Ukraine's president's office calls for new wave of sanctions against Russia as 'atrocities' and 'war crimes' found in Bucha following retreat of Russian troops

Israeli army's plans were updated in the wake of riots in mixed Jewish-Arab cities during fighting with Hamas in May 2021

While Hamas has been encouraging violence in the West Bank, it is showing total restraint from the Gaza Strip in a bid to avoid being drawn into a direct conflict with Israel

Class hours for Bible, civics, history and literature are set to shrink under matriculation shake-up; term papers will replace matriculation exams

A comprehensive report by a panel of UN scientists details a long list of effective and available steps to slow the crisis. 'As emissions rise, so do the risks. The measures taken thus far are too weak,' says one expert

Jordan, Egypt and the Palestinian Authority say Israel bears responsibility for the escalation in Jerusalem and calls on them to stop any measures barring Muslim worshipers from entering the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound

Shlomo Filber, the ex-head of Communications Ministry, says he tried to move quickly to allow a merger of telecom giant Bezeq’s subsidiaries into a single company, which meant major financial savings for the company

U.S. President Joe Biden vows to impose additional sanctions against Russia, as evidence mounts of mass killings in the city of Bucha

Concerned about the large numbers of Jewish Ukrainians who are opting to settle in Germany, Israel's government plans to reach out personally to persuade them otherwise in a major new campaign

Israeli security forces killed three Palestinians in the West Bank on Saturday, apparently on their way to commit terror attacks in Israel

Israel's finance and energy ministries oppose legislation setting interim greenhouse gas emission targets, essentially rendering the climate law devoid of content

A study by the Israel Medical Association finds that even a prisoner missing a limb has been restrained, something that not only violates the person’s dignity but can impede the treatment itself

Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz visits Israeli-built field hospital ■ FM Lapid and Israel's envoy to Ukraine also denounced the killings in the Kyiv suburb of Bucha as a 'war crime'

After three terror attacks, two claimed by ISIS, a familiar, grisly ritual began: Israel's Arab leaders denounce the attacks, right-wingers accuse all Arabs of collective responsibility. Is there any way to break out of this dismal, racist cycle?

Police are not excluding the possibility that tensions such as those that sparked last year's Gaza war could repeat

Researchers recently claimed a groundbreaking find in biblical archaeology: the oldest Israelite inscription, dating from the 13th century B.C.E. In addition to doubts about whether it’s ‘kosher,’ the manner in which it was obtained in the West...

'America is responsible for the halt of these talks, a deal is very much within reach,' Iranian official states, while the U.S. says some issues are still outstanding

A well-known loophole exposes a rare stigma in Israel’s ultra-Orthodox community. Instead of fixing the issue – which is leading to expulsions from religious schools – Israel is ignoring it

Retired IDF General Amos Yadlin joins the podcast to discuss Putin's failure in Kyiv, the 'barbaric' Russian attack over the weekend, and what Iran, and also Israel, can learn from the dramatic events in Europe

Israel wants to collect the names, passport numbers and even credit cards of every person entering or leaving. ‘We cannot allow ourselves to become a dictatorship,’ experts warn

Wertheimer was considered a mainstay of the Israeli corporate scene and credited with selling his family-controlled business, Iscar, in one of the largest buyouts in the history of Israeli industry

Israel's COVID infection rate also continues to decline, suggesting that a surge in infection caused by the omicron variant BA.2 has been blunted

A work due to appear at a College exhibition includes the Islamic declaration of faith. Following protest, the curator called off the show instead of removing the piece. The artist: ‘The surrender to 'Im Tirtzu' is pathetic’

Lieberman says he 'foremost supports Israel's interests' ■ Ukraine envoy to Israel invites Lieberman to 'see the bodies and meet the women who were tied up and raped'