Meanwhile, Bennett is gathering members of the anti-Netanyahu bloc for a meeting as some MKs mull leaving the faction amid mounting public pressure

Turkey's ultranationalists, led by President Erdogan, must be applauding the revisionism of academics like Benny Morris, who seem determined to let Turkey get away with genocide

The deal is meant to bolster bilateral trade by cutting out customs duties and offering safety nets on investments

Several incendiary balloons were launched from Gaza in recent days, sparking wildfires ■ Gazans demonstrate on border with Israel in solidarity with East Jerusalem protests

Clashes break out near Damascus Gate and in Sheikh Jarrah ■ Israeli police deploy tear gas, stun grenades and sponge-tipped bullets ■ Some 90,000 worshippers gather to pray at Al-Aqsa

It seems that something fundamental has gone very wrong in the judgment of Israel's police commissioner and his officers in East Jerusalem

Several Democratic lawmakers are calling for an investigation on whether Israel’s ‘forced displacement for Palestinians’ violates U.S. laws

Friday was the worst night of violence Jerusalem has seen in years. The police and the authorities must act to restore calm – under the current conditions, the conflagration cannot be stamped out

The arson balloons are adding tensions to the ongoing clashes between Israeli security forces and Palestinians in East Jerusalem

What's causing the latest clash between Palestinians and Israel in Jerusalem ■ The technological breakthroughs behind capture of a West Bank terrorist ■ A week later, the Mount Meron disaster gets a new horrific dimension

Palestinian residents of the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah have been fighting for nearly a decade and a half against their eviction

Jordan's Foreign Ministry spokesperson emphasized that an international law tasks Israel responsible for upholding peace for worshippers at Al-Aqsa; Egypt has also slammed Israel's abuse of Palestinian rights

'The United States urges both sides to exercise decisive leadership and work cooperatively together to lower tensions,' said State Department spokesperson Ned Price

Who lived in East Jerusalem's Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood before the 1948 Israeli-Arab war, how did right-wing groups gain control of land there and what turned the fight into a cause for Palestinians everywhere?

U.K. approves 12 countries for travel, will review system every three weeks ■ The top 4 destinations for U.K. residents in 2019 left off the list

Members of Congress say plans to demolish homes in Al-Bustan and evict Palestinians from Sheikh Jarrah, where settlers are claiming land rights, violate international law

Saudi official says talks aim to lower regional tensions ■ Riyadh and Tehran have backed opposing sides in Yemen, Lebanon, and Syria

It’s too early to discuss a new bloc in the region, but Egypt, Turkey, Israel and Saudi Arabia might be forging a common stance against a 'threatening' White House

The military started putting up the fence in the northern Arava to prevent illegal crossings, but is reevaluating the route after complaints from Israel's Parks and Nature Authority

Worshippers stayed at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound after the final Friday prayer of Ramadan to protest planned evictions in Sheikh Jarrah, where police also clashed with protesters ■ 17 Israeli officers were wounded during the clashes

After a fourth round of meetings in Vienna, Russian delegate says delegates appear ready to continue negotiations as long as necessary

Though the watchdog didn't name the agent, they said the material is present in previously declared chemical weapons facility, which may imply undeclared production activities

Firefighters put out seven blazes in the area, as Palestinian groups in Gaza apparently resume launching balloons laden with explosives after an eight-month respite

As coalition efforts continue, Bennett also meets with Labor's Michaeli, Yisrael Beiteinu's Lieberman while far-right party leader Smotrich attacks Yamina as opportunistic

The statement comes after three Palestinians opened fire at Border Police at the gate of the Salem military base, near Jenin, after crossing into Israel

Ben-Gvir and Netanyahu agree to maintain heavy police presence in the East Jerusalem until end of Ramadan

Dvora Tzvieli, a teacher of Tibetan Buddhism, has enthralled hundreds of believers. They compete for the privilege of serving her and are certain she will lead them to enlightenment. Members of the community describe their teacher as a being who suff...

'The fight against this despotic regime is the fight against oppression and the fight against terrorism'

‘We know they won’t investigate, for Israel it's just another dead Palestinian,' Saeed Oudeh's aunt says

A government is being quietly constructed at this very moment, but it seems that any coalition agreement will be very sparse, and have nothing to say about Israel's controversial topics

The pandemic drove Fehmiye Hrub to put herself in harm's way. She approached an IDF checkpoint, knife in hand, confused and frightened. Soldiers shot her in the stomach, later saying she was hit in the legs. Then the army took her body away

A third Palestinian is critically wounded after shootout outside an Israeli military base. Defense officials say suspects planned attack deeper into Israel, and police presence has been bolstered in areas near the West Bank

The joint statement comes as tensions mount in East Jerusalem ahead of a hearing that could see Palestinian families evicted from Sheikh Jarrah

A large police presence has been spread throughout Jerusalem's Old City ahead of the arrival of tens of thousands of Muslim worshippers to the Temple Mount

Netanyahu's Likud party has launched a campaign to pressure Yamina lawmakers in bid to block the formation of a government by Bennett and Lapid

Over half a decade since Russia introduced the Israeli-designed and licensed Forprost drone into Syria, it's now clear how pivotal a role it has played in Putin’s endless bombing campaign in defense of the Assad regime – including the illegal tar...

Netanyahu tries to thwart formation of new government as Lapid, Bennett race against clock

First extensive report in recent decades on attitudes toward Jews Down Under finds that nearly two-thirds of Australians support banning the swastika

A British officer who saved the lives of some 100 Jews during the 1921 Arab riots in Jaffa was finally honored this week. As tension simmers in the still-volatile mixed city a century later, a historian whose uncle was saved by Major Lionel Mansell J...

The Education Ministry is withholding Israel Prize over claims of BDS support. Prof. Oded Goldreich's lawyer said he refuses to attend the hearing

We let their children forgo general studies that would equip them for life, while cases of physical and sexual abuse rarely come to light. We accept the second-class status of women in the Haredi community

David Ben-Gurion's journals, written between 1948 and 1953, expose many secrets: having Mizrahi Jews surveilled, trying to get Palestinian refugees to leave and detailing rapes committed by soldiers are just a few of them

Financial stress is still driving many Syrians to leave, but Turkey-EU deal keeps them out of the continent; now some countries say it's safe enough in parts of Syria to repatriate certain refugees

Charged in a West Bank military court with helping the PFLP, Juana Ruiz Sánchez has been held by Israel since her arrest near her Bethlehem home on April 13

Former Israeli prime minister said on national television that the prime minister and his family have a 'mental illness' that is 'not fixable'

This week at the Tel Aviv airport: An Israeli whose dream is to help people – whether on stage or elsewhere, and an Indian whose dream is to give his family a better life

East Jerusalem residents, settlers fail to reach compromise on controversial land sales. Meanwhile, Kahanist lawmaker sets up makeshift office near home taken over by Jewish settlers

The Toldos Aharon ultra-Orthodox sect illegally created the path 20 years ago to enable entry to the Mount Meron compound without coming into contact with women

Move is aimed to avoid the police investigating itself regarding stampede that left 45 dead, but critics say unusual move is problematic in itself

Tel Aviv launches campaign to attract visitors from abroad, boasting that over 80 percent of eligible residents have been fully vaccinated

Arad fought with the partisans against the Nazis during World War II, before immigrating to Israel and becoming a historian, brigadier general and longtime chairman of Israel’s Holocaust remembrance center

American officials return to Vienna this week for a fourth round of indirect talks with Iran on how to resume compliance with the deal

Meanwhile, ultra-Orthodox parties stand by Netanyahu, attack Bennett for enabling an 'anti-religious' government

Berman has been approached by both online streaming giant Netflix and movie studio MGM in recent days

The fires, which were all brought under control, come amid tensions in the wake of the a decision to delay the Palestinian elections

Ministries agree to allocate over $90 million to treatment of veterans, with an emphasis on former soldiers living with post-trauma

Lebanon's parliament approved in March a $200 million emergency loan for fuel imports for power generation, but money has so far not received final approval

The next government must think big in terms of economics, education, health care and housing, because we may be about to miss our final chance

Activist Maisam Jaljuli, 49, explains what's causing the surge of violence and crime in Israeli-Arab communities, and what it's like to live in constant fear

Alon Bar-Shany is making the leap from color printers to printing steaks out of protein substitutes. In an interview, he admitted he eats real meat, but says alternatives are the world’s only chance

Attendance at the site, where 45 people were killed, was to be limited to 3,159 people, but an estimated crowd of 20,000 actually attended

The 185 signatories to a letter to the International Criminal Court, including 10 Israel Prize laureates, suggest that the court rely instead on information from Israeli human rights groups

While the threat of a Palestinian hacking attack has waned in recent years, the possibility of an Iranian attack for Al-Quds Day has gained steam – but experts warn that the real threat is all year round

19-year-old Yehuda Guetta is being interred in Jerusalem's Givat Shaul cemetery after succumbing to his wounds on Wednesday

A flash point during the second intifada, Jenin enjoyed a dramatic economic transformation after Jalameh checkpoint became a key crossing point for visiting Arab Israelis in 2007. Now, a prolonged and unexplained closure threatens to sink the city

Reopening to Israeli tourists comes as the EU is moving to ease its current COVID blanket ban on non-essential travel from foreign countries

Israeli lawmaker Amichai Chikli has doubled down on his refusal to join forces with the left, throwing Bennett's proposed unity government into jeopardy

WHO head praises the move, which will allow developing countries to produce their own vaccines based on U.S. companies' intellectual property, while pharmaceutical companies censure Biden

From election-by-raffle to a sectarian system like in Lebanon, here’s some out-of-the-ballot-box thinking for how Israel might finally get a functioning government. Sounds crazy? Not any more than a fifth election in the summer

The bronze oil lamp was found in the wall of a building dating to almost 2,000 years ago, situated on the old pilgrimage route into the city

Methuselah the tree was grown from a 2,000-year-old seed found at Masada. Now more have been grown and genetic analysis finds a twist in the origin story of the ‘Judean date’

The alleged attack comes a day after Syrian state media reported that Israel fired missiles toward northwest Syria, killing one person and wounding six

It’s said that haste is of the devil; in Lapid and Bennett’s current political reality, they have to establish a government as if they were being chased by demons

Hadash and Ta'al recommended Lapid. Balad and the Abbas' United Arab List didn't. If a government is formed, however, they will have to start delivering results

The Palestinian Health Ministry identified the 16-year-old as Saeed Yusuf Muhammad Oudeh, and said another Palestinian was moderately wounded

The police leadership also supports the establishment of a state commission of inquiry to probe the disaster itself, as well as responsibility for the hillula and the safety of the site

19-year-old Yehuda Guetta succumbs to wounds from drive-by shooting attack. Israel says captured suspected shooter, Muntassir Shalabi, who is also a U.S. citizen

Defense attorney quotes Ilan Yeshua’s statements to police that all news sites owned by tycoons, including Walla, play favorites

Yosef Elitzur received a four-month suspended sentence for his inflammatory opinion pieces; state prosecutors want nine to 12 months either in prison or community service. The maximum is five years behind bars

The pandemic has dealt a particularly heavy blow to asylum-seekers who lost their jobs and are not entitled for government benefits

As American resumes flights to Israel, competition for U.S. destinations is heating up. This summer 86 weekly flights are expected between Ben-Gurion Airport and New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and Miami

'For the first time we have a peer institution in the Arab world which is interested in active partnership,' said the NLI

This support was most pronounced on the left, where the idea enjoyed 83 percent support as of late April, up from 77 percent in February and 71 percent in September

The glue that holds the anti-Netanyahu bloc together is a fundamental rejection of the prime minister. In the next week or so, we’ll see if that's enough

‘Cuba Ransomware’ group found via bitcoin payments, showing crypto-currency transfers aren’t as anonymous as thought

Baghdad hosted talks between officials from its two neighbors and mutual adversaries on April 9 in the only round of talks to have been previously reported