Erected in the era of the reviled King Herod the Great, this grandiose nonreligious structure – minus some of its fine marble – is finally being rebuilt after some 1,800 years

Photographer Abdel-Afo Bassam was shot twice by police on that violent Friday on Temple Mount. This column opts to cover the routine, the unsensational, the repetitious

The man who introduced fraud and deception into Israel’s political lexicon accused Bennett of cheating his voters. The outgoing prime minister's speech illustrated how his continued rule has warped his psyche

The past several weeks has seen an unprecedented focus on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict within the Democratic Party, with rival blocs increasingly unafraid to nail their colors to the mast

Bennett backs deal to oust Netanyahu; PM decries 'fraud'

Israel preventing entry of patients requiring chemotherapy that is unavailable in Gaza, in a move human rights group call decision 'extremely unreasonable'

Israel Police and the Shin Bet examining whether the stabbing was an attempted terror attack

Netanyahu supporters are converging into an increasingly rabid sect, which is detached from the rest of society and sees everyone who isn’t them as enemies

In recent weeks UAL party leader Mansour Abbas has reiterated that if any side managed to form a government, he would consider supporting it if it agrees to his demands

Links between Cyprus's anti-migrant nationalist party ELAM and Greece's extreme-right Golden Dawn have been well documented

Judge says there is no dispute about suspects' involvement in violent attack in the Tel Aviv suburb of Bat Yam, which was captured on video

India, one of the world hot spots for coronavirus infections, is one of nine countries that Israelis are currently prohibited from traveling to because of the high incidence of infection

Bennett demonstrated a rare ability – unprecedented in Israel’s political history. And Netanyahu didn't sound like someone who expects to visit the White House soon

Cheryl Lutts had worked for Philadelphia's Jewish Exponent as director of business for 18 years. The newspaper discovered the fraud only after she was fired for unsatisfactory performance

After years operating without zoning approval, the south Tel Aviv Tasso cemetery gets the nod from the local planning committee, a move that still requires the district planning committee’s consent

Since early May stores, malls and restaurants had to close by 9 P.M. after a rise in infections ■ Cairo mulls resuming regular flights to and from Israel

Prime minister launches attack on right-wing lawmaker after Bennett announces that he will work to form a coalition with Lapid

'We can stop the madness and take responsibility' and stop Israel from collapsing under the weight of its divisions, Bennett says

World leaders who have cracked down on social media and the press include authoritarian figures who have figured prominently in Netanyahu’s political campaigns in recent years

Indictment says the suspects decided to assault an Arab after participating in a right-wing march ■ Four Arabs arrested for allegedly attacking Jewish family in Israel's north amid unrest

The decision of five Yamina lawmakers to back leader Naftali Bennett’s likely decision to sit in an anti-Netanyahu government leaves the prime minister with precious few options of clinging to power

Israel may be dry but these natural springs will help you cope with the broiling-hot days ahead

A 19-year-old said she was assaulted by three men who saw her reading a book about Jews and hurled anti-Jewish insults at her, but police told her the attack could not be classified as antisemitic because she was not a Jew

Qatar was among several regional states that backed rebels in Syria's decade-old civil war, and it's foreign minister now says 'We see nothing on the horizon for a political solution acceptable to the Syrian people'

Head of Egyptian intelligence visits Jerusalem as Israeli foreign minister meets Egyptian counterpart in Cairo

Foreign Ministry says Manila's vote in favor of probe to examine alleged human rights violations in Gaza, the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Israel was 'unacceptable'

Studying fruit bats in a tunnel, Nachum Ulanovsky and the Weizmann team hone the Nobel-winning theory of how we (and bats) navigate in the vast real world, not a box in the lab

The move was not pursued following opposition from Attorney General Mendelblit and the Shin Bet security service, according to a source familiar with the matter

When does Lapid's mandate to form a government expire? What's the other election happening next week all about? A guide to a turbulent week

The app is meant to help soldiers fill out their attendance forms. But it’s not an official army app, and could therefore result in a massive leak in soldiers’ personal information

Weary negotiators appear increasingly unlikely to revive the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers before the Islamic Republic’s June presidential election

Naftali Bennett would be prime minister initially, Yair Lapid foreign minister and Avigdor Lieberman finance minister

According to Yisrael Katz, Netanyahu rejected the offer

Israel's 11-day campaign against Hamas has left the Gaza Strip in ruins - but, as Hamas claims victory, Palestinians are encouraged by global solidarity protests.

Besides the seriously wounded 16-year-old, six were hurt as police used sponge-tipped bullets and stun grenades, despite witnesses saying officers weren't under attack

The path to a Lapid-Bennett government is long and hard, but Netanyahu has shown why he mustn't stay in power

The chief prosecutor of the city of Verbania, Olimpia Bossi, confirmed the judge's ruling in comments made to Italian television

Jerusalem, the most diverse city between the Jordan River and the sea, is also the most segregated city in Israel. In the wake of rekindled tensions, one Al Quds professor says, 'I’m optimistic, even if there’s a long way to go'

Too often, the progressive left has failed to see Jews as a marginalized community, one that does face violence and adversity.

'I don't trust the police to protect us, and we call on armed people to come and help us,' Amichai Langfeld says ■ Police arrest Arab suspect in firebombing of Jewish home

Ayelet Shaked has yet to give her backing, which would be decisive for effort to form a coalition, source says

Gabi Ashkenazi makes first trip to Egypt by an Israeli foreign minister since 2008 to discuss Gaza reconstructions and efforts to plan a joint summit involving Palestinian officials

His most famous works include 'Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem,' a relief mural installed in the Knesset chamber in 1965

Hamas’ strength is a result of several factors – including a misguided policy on Gaza that has run its course. Stumbling from war to war isn’t a policy option, it’s a policy failure.

Archaeologists suggest ancient battles in Sudan featured some truly horrific weapons – multipoint arrows and spears, purposely designed to cause maximal laceration and bleeding

When the Aramean king laid siege to biblical Gath 2,800 years ago, the defenders resorted to desperate measures, including, it seems, making flimsy arrowheads out of bone

A day after the university’s Students for Justice in Palestine group slams original statement, chancellor promises to be 'much more sensitive and balanced'

'We must all stand together to silence these terrible and terrifying echoes of the worst chapters in world history, and pledge to give hate no safe harbor,' the president says in an extensive statement

Israeli celebrities and influencers flocked to Instagram in order to go after American supermodel sisters Bella and Gigi Hadid, who criticized Israel's actions in Gaza. They failed miserably

In the wake of this month's Jewish-Arab violence, the police have raided a woman’s home while she was sleeping and pulled a man out of the hospital for an interrogation. Rights groups say they're 'crossing every possible red line'

Election win delivers Assad seven more years in power and lengthens his family's rule to nearly six decades

The film adaptation of J.T. Rogers’ drama about the secret talks between Israel and the Palestinians in 1993 comes at yet another fraught moment, while ‘200 Meters’ is a powerful Palestinian drama

28-year-old Zakaria Hamayel was shot in the chest during a demonstration against Israeli settlements near Nablus, media reports and health officials say

Democrats and some moderate Republicans have called for a commission to probe the events leading up to and on January 6, when hundreds of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol

Judges want to wait for a Supreme Court ruling in similar cases before deciding on seven families' eviction orders from their homes in East Jerusalem's Silwan, built on land owned by Jews before 1948

'We cannot wait for another attack to turn deadly before we respond,' a draft letter to Biden reads, in the wake of a wave of violence exacerbated by the latest Israel-Gaza fighting

Russia and Argentina to be added to the list

Three weeks after the killing of Moussa Hassouna, the family has seen little progress in his case ■ Joint List leader Odeh says the murderers of Arabs 'receive full backing from the law enforcement and justice systems'

Yesh Atid leader, facing a Wednesday deadline, now has agreements with Yisrael Beiteinu, Meretz and Labor, whose members would get the transportation, diaspora affairs and public security ministries. Meanwhile, Lapid agrees to grant the right veto po...

Wave of arrests leave Israeli Arabs asking why there were no such arrests after the mass protests of Ethiopian Israelis, the ultra-Orthodox and settlers

A resident of the Fawwar camp, Hussein Titi, went up to his roof to watch troops leave after they'd snatched his neighbor. Titi peeked out – and was shot dead

Netanyahu has squandered a position of strength, where Arab rulers had to reckon with Israel as an immovable object, into a new one of public opposition and private annoyance

Other big-name musicians who signed include rap group Run the Jewels, Serj Tankian of System of a Down, and the DJ and drummer Questlove and rapper Black Thought of The Roots

Eyewitnesses say that the group who beat the Bedouin man was made up of Jews ■ In the mixed Jewish-Arab city of Lod, firebombs were hurled toward a Jewish home but no injuries reported

Joshua Cohen talks about his hilarious but dead-serious book ‘The Netanyahus,’ which he purportedly based on a real-life visit by Benzion Netanyahu (Bibi’s dad) to Cornell University in 1960

For the progressive left, antisemitism is bad because it harms not the Jews but rather the Palestinians; they are the real victims and the real reason that we should be concerned

After Israel killed Gaza's 'MacGyvers,' an uphill battle awaits Hamas as it tries to rearm itself

The Jewish-Arab violence inside Israel surprised officials even more than the Gaza flare-up. And Netanyahu's vision of soldiers in Israeli cities is still on the table

Lapid’s offer to Bennett is still on the table, but even if the saga ends with Bennett as prime minister, the past two months raise serious concerns as to his suitability for the position

The agreement would assist the incoming president in rehabilitating Iran, battered by the recession and COVID-19, but to achieve his goals, Khamenei will have to be flexible

U.S. and European officials have questioned the legitimacy of the election, saying it violates UN resolutions to resolve the conflict, lacks international monitoring, and is unrepresentative of all Syrians

Bones of men and child soldiers were buried with chariot-drawing donkeys and military gear 4,400 years ago at Tell Banat, in what may have been the first effort to honor war dead

More than 100 kapos were interrogated in Israel for collaborating with the Nazis, but even 70 years later, their investigative files are classified

Figures discussed at a heated Knesset meeting reveal that of the 1,892 people arrested this month for involvement in riots, only 183 are Jewish

This week at the Tel Aviv airport: An Israeli X-Ray technician who has lived in 12 cities so far, and an American aspiring psychiatrist who is training a psychiatric assistance dog

Recent studies conducted around the globe are revealing that flora actually have acute senses, impressive cognitive skills and sophisticated communication abilities. Some researchers think these discoveries obligate the human race to start treating v...

An Israeli official said that the government is working closely with Egyptian officials ‘to reinforce the cease-fire,' but would not confirm whether Israeli officials would be attending more official talks soon

The relations among Israel, Egypt and the United States in the reconstruction effort are complex and have economic implications for Israel and Egypt

The Irish motion, which received cross-party support, condemned 'the scale, pace and strategic nature of Israel's actions on settlements, demolitions & evictions'

As editor, Elliot Resnick proved to be an abrasive and controversial leader, drawing reprimands from the Anti-Defamation League for anti-LGBT rhetoric, as well as for running articles praising Rabbi Meir Kahane

Tourists are required to show negative COVID-19 tests before flying and take another test after landing in Tel Aviv

Water buffalo were wiped out, fruit bats were exterminated and black goats were almost completely eradicated. The story of animals of the Land of Israel that were eliminated under Zionism is now being told at the Venice Biennale

'I'm definitely no leftist,' explains Shlomi Salma. 'But a person is a person.' Meanwhile, his brother refuses to cooperate with the police, fearing they won’t protect him from his neighbors

The killings, and the murky ties between organized crime and politicians that they pointed to, are firmly back on Turkey's agenda

The military said it will make do with stressing guidelines, including 'the importance of the right to movement, in accordance with necessary security considerations'

For Aviv Kochavi, Gaza isn’t a place where people live, it’s a spatial problem to be solved. Its millions of Palestinian inhabitants were for him this month at most an obstacle to his ambition to magnify the scale of destruction

The U.S. president should stay away from the Mideast "peace process" as long as the Israelis and Palestinians are unwilling to engage in a serious conflict-resolution effort