The report notes 'massive scale of detention' and abuses perpetrated by Syrian President Bashar Assad’s government and also lists detentions by insurgent groups, including Turkey-backed opposition fighters

On Monday, President Joe Biden, a longtime Cuomo ally, declined to stand behind the embattled governor

In 'The Vigil,' Keith Thomas’ directorial debut, a mazzik provides the spooks for one of the most uniquely Jewish mainstream horror films ever made

The controversial measure would exempt Israelis from being sent to a state-run COVID-19 quarantine facility

The signatories of the letter published Friday supporting David Miller include linguist Noam Chomsky and gender theorist Judith Butler, both Jewish Americans

In Israel’s election, one woman wants to hold men to account for their apathy towards and even defense of gender-based violence. No wonder the backlash against Ibtisam Mara’ana is so sweeping – and vicious

Golden Globe nominee known for her role in 'Unorthodox' will portray Israel’s only female prime minister in an upcoming TV series

Third video shows the same resident of an unauthorized West Bank outpost demanding ID cards, adding to testimony by others saying they were forced to leave the area

After his predecessor's move to establish ties with Israel, Kosovo's PM-designate Albin Kurti reconsiders the embassy's location

Israeli construction work at the nuke site began in late 2018 or early 2019. It may be for burying radioactive waste or simply be an anti-aging effort

Israel to reopen restaurants and event halls on Sunday ■ Austria, Denmark to work with Israel on COVID vaccines ■ Israel launches tracking bracelet pilot program

The ceremony could only be described as a campaign appearance designed to appeal to Transportation Minister Miri Regev's electorate, but Israel Roads Company says the 'important benchmark' justifies her 'visit'

International accountancy firm PwC warned that activity at company tied to Israeli billionaire may not comply with U.S. sanctions, yet cash kept flowing

‘I’m not intervening in this at all, neither promoting it nor blocking it,’ the prime minister insists after a lawmaker from his Likud party said he plans to table legislation

The prime minister had intended to use surplus vaccine doses as a bargaining chip with other countries

This goes against the advice of the Health Ministry, which advocated for a slower exit in light of rising infection rates

It’s no surprise that no other country is barring its own citizens from returning. This is an Israeli innovation

Sources in Haredi factions say they’ve dealt with hundreds of applications from secular and Arab Israelis to the Exceptions Committee that permits entry to Israel

The battle lines between Netanyahu’s Likud and its ultra-Orthodox allies who are determined to minimize the power of the High Court and the parties that continue to support the court, are already deeply drawn

Rep. Ted Deutch is perhaps the most prominent figure yet to call on President Biden to adopt the controversial definition, which has faced stiff resistance from key liberal Zionist groups

Reform Judaism leader says landmark decision finally shows acceptance for the movement's 'commitment to bringing more Jews into the Jewish People.'

Officials say release was granted to preempt criticism that the prisoner died because Israel's Prison Service failed to vaccinate inmates in a timely manner

The Energy Ministry said that the increase was due to a 48.4% increase in natural gas production from Israel’s large offshore gas reserves, after the Leviathan reserve came online at the end of 2019

Cabinet approves IDF’s November 2020 decision to recognize years 1985-2000, following first Lebanon War, as a campaign. Medal will also be awarded to SLA soldiers

Anybody over the age of 16 who recovered at least three or months ago will be eligible to receive one dose of the coronavirus vaccine starting Tuesday

How are topical shows like ‘Last Week Tonight’ coping without voracious news generator Donald Trump? Pretty well, it turns out – but enjoy it while it lasts

When the Culture Ministry honored a Nazi sympathizer who mocked democracy and called for the forced subjugation of the Muslim minority, it was a chilling indication of where Narendra Modi is leading Hindu nationalism – and India

Court accepts petitions by 12 people who underwent Conservative or Reform conversion in Israel, but had their requests for Israeli citizenship denied by the state

Fossils from the earliest primate group, the appropriately named Purgatorius found in Hell Creek, Montana, date to before the mass extinction 65 million years ago

Experts say fake news-driven vaccine hesitancy and the U.K. COVID variant have been driving infection rates among Arab communities in past weeks, and hospitals are feeling the strain

When the prime minister’s plans go awry and the polls don’t brighten, he opts for dustups with interviewers and silly gestures that delight his base

Israel has a list of 23 ships it thinks might be responsible for the unreported spill that has caused its worst maritime pollution in decades

Agora, a Chinese-American company, supplies Clubhouse and other apps with the ability to transmit audio and video, raising privacy concerns. We spoke with its senior Israeli exec to learn more

Mohamed Al Khaja began his search for an embassy location and told Foreign Minister Ashkenazi that he is 'very proud and honored to be the first Emirati ambassador' to Israel

UN investigators argue 'enforced disappearance' by Syrian authorities during a decade of conflict, with many tortured, raped or killed, may amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity

The ‘Jewish Moms of Raleigh’ shower us with clothing and toys following our arrival from Ramallah, but injustice is never far away ■ Post #29

Anyone who expected the Biden administration to immediately sever ties with Crown Prince Mohammed is overlooking the Saudis’ strategic importance, several experts tell Haaretz

As allegations of human rights violations in Xinjiang mount, Beijing is accusing some Uighur witnesses of having affairs and one of having a sexually transmitted disease

Britain, France and Germany voice 'serious concern' amid Iran's growing nuclear breaches

Jarrar has been in detention since October 2019 after arrests related to the murder of an Israeli teen, and will only serve seven more months

The bitter, combative rhetoric is helping the officials grow their constituencies on social media and gain outsized influence in their communities, city councils, county boards and state assemblies

Hundreds of graduates of affiliated youth movement 'implore' Hadassah's Jewish National Fund representative to reconsider position on funds to purchase West Bank plots, after she abstained in a board of directors vote

Supreme Court president says the move to collect data on coronavirus patients in quarantine, justified as a temporary measure, might become permanent

COVID strains will not take into account Israel's lies that it's 'not responsible' for Palestinians' health

Prof. Trajtenberg is the first economist to helm the Institute for National Security Studies, which is usually run by former senior defense officials

'If the crown prince is not punished, it will forever signal that the main culprit can get away with murder,' Hatice Cengiz writes after U.S. intelligence report released

Iran's foreign minister warns 'Israel knows very well that our response in the field of national security has always been fierce and accurate' after accusing the country of 'suspicious actions in the region'

He doesn’t believe Assad gasses Syrians, or Russia poisons defectors. But for David Miller, the ‘Zionist enemy’ and its agents – Jewish students – are all-powerful and always guilty, and Noam Chomsky runs to defend him

Shin Bet tracking must stop almost entirely by March 14, court rules ■ Figures show rising coronavirus infection rate in Israeli Arab community ■ Netanyahu defends vaccine transfers to other countries

Iran 'strongly rejects' claim it was behind Gulf attack on ship, saying Netanyahu, who hinted Israel would retaliate, is 'suffering from an obsession'

The government's incompetence in handling the coronavirus crisis, with little enforcement when it comes to the ultra-Orthodox public, led to a Purim show of defiance. But with more than half the population inoculated, infection rates are almost bound...

Driver was fleeing attack during ultra-Orthodox protest outside press conference by prime minister and education minister, according to police

'They just lost the White House. But who knows, who knows, I may even decide to beat them for a third time,' Trump said

An official said the multinational force had requested vaccines for 1,200 personnel and was willing to pay for them

The president's attempts to 'revive the religious discourse' is unwelcome in Egypt, a country that once brought the Muslim Brotherhood to power

Advocates for the definition say having a clear definition of anti-Semitism is helpful in identifying Jew-hatred, but its critics say it stifles free speech

A Syrian army statement said the attack came from the Golan Heights and that it had downed most of the missiles

For years, this woman would complain about violence and threats from her husband. Ultimately, prosecutors filed charges – not against her abusive husband, but against her

The Biden administration will not be abandoning Saudi Arabia despite a damning U.S. intel report into the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, but it may not be so keen on Crown Prince Mohammed

The third stage of reopening, set to begin on March 7, would have pupils in grades 7 to 10 returning to the classroom in cities with low infection rates, but the Health Ministry might seek to delay it

Four months after a right-wing wave in the Zionist Congress, a new Jewish National Fund proposal is only one of several policy shifts designed to serve the settlement enterprise

4,800 foreign nationals allowed in during same period, as nearly 1,000 requests to enter or leave the country for medical reasons have yet to be decided upon

The Prime Minister's decision to send thousands of vaccine doses abroad, at the same time that millions of Palestinians living next door haven't yet been vaccinated, could come with a heavy price

Thousands of people circumvent the ban on transportation to and from the city — to prevent large crowds during the Purim holiday — by marching along the highways

Lawmakers representing 22 European countries say Israeli policy in the West Bank is 'eliminating the possibility of a two-state solution and entrenching a one-state reality of unequal rights and perpetual conflict'

Levi Zini struggled to raise money for his three-part series on the late right-wing leader – perhaps, he believes, because his show paints the former prime minister’s final actions in a more generous political light

Senior Western diplomats told the Wall Street Journal Tehran rejected a European-American proposal to hold talks in the coming weeks over its nuclear program

Election panel previously granted far-right party's demand to disqualify Ibtisam Mara’ana, claiming past comments called for Israel’s destruction

Two Germans are pressing Berlin to save the grave of decorated World War I pilot Wilhelm Frankl from future destruction by declaring it a ‘grave of honor’ – but the city is refusing

The event so far at a Hyatt hotel in Orlando, Florida, has been a tribute to Trump and Trumpism, complete with a golden statue in his likeness

Israel blames missile fire at an Israeli-owned ship on Iran, which IDF chief Kochavi argues 'not only constitutes a nuclear threat, but carries out terrorism and acts against civilian targets'

Israelis seeking to return from abroad while COVID restrictions are in place need approval from a committee to be allowed back in, and voting isn't on the list of criteria

Prof. Richard Falk, professor emeritus of international law at Princeton University and a former UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in Occupied Palestine, talks to Haaretz Weekly about the ICC, Zionism and his new political memoir

Myanmar's military seized power and detailed elected government leader Aung San Suu Kyi earlier this month, drawing hundreds of thousands onto the streets

Richard Holzer, 28, appeared in a federal courtroom in Denver for a sentencing that capped an undercover FBI investigation of a plan to blow up Temple Emanuel in Pueblo, Colorado

Israeli medical staff to administer Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine across West Bank. Some 100,000 Palestinian laborers are estimated to hold a working permit in Israel, settlements

Iran is also accelerating efforts to produce a domestic vaccine, beginning human trials for its second vaccine on Sunday

Rabbi Gilad Kariv is well positioned to finally become a member of the Knesset after several near-misses. Personal attacks by Haredi lawmakers don’t unnerve him, but the nonresponse from other parties does

Though the country’s borders are supposed to be ‘hermetically sealed,’ a TV news report alleges that ultra-Orthodox citizens can more easily obtain special permission to fly back from abroad ahead of the March 23 election

Netflix comes in with a commanding 42 nominations, including a leading six nods for David Fincher’s 'Mank' and 'The Crown' also topping TV nominees with six nods

The Kentucky Republican told Fox News that there’s still 'a lot to happen between now' and the next presidential election

Instead of taking office jobs typically handed to female petrochemical engineers in Iraq, a handful of women are choosing to become trailblazers in the country’s oil industry, taking up the grueling work of drilling

To prevent ‘serious cyber attacks’, new bill wants to expand cyber directorate’s authority substantially, giving them access to private firms' computers - with little oversight

The Environment Ministry cleared the Miinerva Helen of blame for the worst oil spill in the country’s history following a ‘professional and comprehensive inspection’

Cecily Strong brought back her impression of the controversial congresswoman following Greene's anti-transgender statements urging people to 'trust the science'

One crew member was killed and others were wounded, Syria's state news agency reports

My dad’s an IDF veteran. My grandparents founded a kibbutz. Growing up in Denmark, I took my Jewishness for granted. But my experience of Israel’s degrading, racist immigration process changed all that

The reports of internet interference come as Iranian authorities and semiofficial news agencies increasingly acknowledge the turmoil challenging local authorities in the southeast

The Israeli group, led by Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, had hoped that Israel’s reputation and the normalization of ties with the UAE would clinch the deal

Coates is best known as the author of bestsellers including 'Between the World and Me,' 'The Beautiful Struggle' and 'We Were Eight Years in Power'

Incident comes amid sharply rising tension between the U.S. and Iran over its unraveling 2015 nuclear deal

Asked about punishing the Saudi crown prince, President Biden said: 'There’ll be an announcement on Monday on what we’re going to be doing with Saudi Arabia generally'