Statement comes amid slow progress in the talks between the hardline Islamic group and Afghan government representatives in Qatar ahead of withdrawal of foreign forces by September 11

Speaking at the first cabinet meeting, Bennet says Raisi's appoitnment may be the West's last chance to understand 'who they're dealing with'

The Spanish commentator said that Israel's 'international presence' in sports was a 'strategy for whitewashing the genocide' against Palestinians

Authorities announced on Saturday that 45 children in Binyamina were diagnosed with the virus, and they suspect it is the Indian COVID variant

Lapid has aspired to the role of foreign minister for years. Now that he's filled it, he must rehabilitate a ministry 'disgracefully neglected' during the Netanyahu years

IDF chief Kochavi is expected to present Israel’s reservations regarding the Iran nuclear accord, as well as some suggestions for improving it

'This is a terrorist attack against the LGBT community,' Fort Lauderdale Mayor Dean Trantalis said about the incident, which left another attendee seriously injured

Walaa Muawad slammed the brakes at a temporary roadblock in Jerusalem, and police accused her of trying to run over a cop at the scene. A judge ruled that police tried to force a confession from her

Rivlin’s visit to the U.S. on June 28 'will highlight the enduring partnership between the United States and Israel and the deep ties between our governments and our people,' the White House Press Secretary said

The controversial cleric received praises from Iran's allies following his election; human rights groups and Israel meanwhile point to Ebrahim Raisi's bloody past

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has allowed Opposition Leader Netanyahu and his family to stay in the residence on Balfour street for an 'adjustment period'

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid and his ministry's spokesperson blast Ebrahim Raisi for his commitment to the Iran's nuclear ambitions and alleged role in the execution of thousands of political prisoners

On Thursday, Haaretz reported that documents stored in safes in the Prime Minister’s Office were shredded in violation of the law, shortly before Bennett took office

Emergency regulation from 2003 allows Israel to refuse residency visas to Palestinians married to Israeli citizens; Meretz MK Friege says he will vote against renewing the measure

Police respond to reports of an altercation and gunfire in Deir al-Assad; one officer moderately wounded and one lightly injured, two police cars set ablaze, 11 arrested

Bennett passes one Gaza test, but Hamas is still laying traps. This week's threat of an Israel-Hamas escalation once again placed a question mark on the Israeli army's victory claims

The U.S. is shifting the placement of its armed forces to better confront military threats from China and Russia, according to a Wall Street Journal report

In a vote that appears to see the lowest voter turnout in Iran's history, conservative judge Raisi won 17.8 million votes of the 28 million cast

Balloting came to a close at 2.a.m. Saturday after voting was extended to accommodate 'crowding.' Opinion polls indicate judiciary chief Ebrahim Raisi — already under U.S. sanctions — as front-runner for the presidency

Defense Minister Gantz has ordered to resume the stringiest blockade on Gaza and only goods classified by Israel as humanitarian, such as food and medicine, are allowed in

Shalom Shlomo received thousands of euros for advising Michael Ganor, who is suspected of obstructing an investigation, tax offenses and bribery

'Our child was murdered, even if not directly and from time to time his good name is also being murdered,' the officer's father says

Many countries are concerned about plunging birthrates, but Israel has the opposite problem

Israeli health officials say the PA was completely aware of the vaccines' expiration date when it agreed to reimburse Israel with Pfizer's inoculations

Even though the unauthorized West Bank outpost was supposed to be cleared at the beginning of the week, its residents believe the new government will shun controversy

Five other Palestinians were injured in clashes with Israeli soldiers south of Nablus during a demonstration against a new illegal West Bank outpost

Many Israelis have received messages in recent weeks about frequent changes to their flight times for July and August ■ The cause is a shortage of workers in security – which only Israeli companies must adhere to ■ ‘About 30% of the flights h...

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is allowing Opposition Leader Netanyahu and his family stay in the residence on Balfour street for an 'adjustment period'

With the ratio of Arab-to-Jewish indictees at nine to one, a civil rights group is calling the action ‘a militarized war against Palestinian citizens of Israel.’ The police deny any accusations of discrimination

Explosion causes major damage to Ynet reporter Hassan Shaalan's home, two weeks after his house was targeted in a shooting attack. No casualties reported

Israeli professors Bashir Bashir and Amos Goldberg propose an original way of relating to these historical events that just might offer a new path toward ending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Hardliner Ebrahim Raisi is under U.S. sanctions for alleged involvement in executions of political prisoners decades ago, but says he backs the current nuclear talks

The agreement is essentially a loan which will see a later shipment of COVID vaccines to the Palestinian Authority redirected to Israel

Interviews conducted by a researcher at Ben-Gurion University shed light on the difficulties Bedouin women run into when seeking medical care

After a tumultuous first week, Bennett needs to define his leadership style, abandon his election statements and find an alternative 'base' of supporters ■ What skeletons and ghosts did the Netanyahus leave behind in Balfour? ■ And what lies behi...

Chinese companies are vying for a Tel Aviv light rail tender. Bennett will have to tread carefully on an issue that is of strategic concern for the U.S.

Three former top security officials say there is little time left to try to affect the Iran nuclear deal. Otherwise, they caution, Western powers can claim Israel has had its chance to be heard – and missed it

Voter turnout is expected to be around 40 percent, down from 73 percent in the 2017 election. If the polls are right, this will be the lowest turnout since the Islamic Revolution in 1979

According to the State Department, Blinken and Lapid discussed opportunities and challenges for Israel and the region

Sheikh Yusuf Albaz, whose city saw severe Jewish-Arab violence last month, was arrested following a Facebook post in which he included a link to a video that allegedly encourages attacks on the police

Sanaa Shalabi says her husband, who recently murdered a yeshiva student in the West Bank, lives in the U.S., has other wives and is mentally unstable. Israel wants to demolish her and her kids' home as punishment

This week at the Tel Aviv airport: A tango dancer who left a life of oppression behind in Russia, and a jazz composer who wants to make it before he's 30

Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi is expected to meet with the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley, National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin as well as other U.S. officials

The IDF did not identify any rocket launches, saying the sirens were triggered by other fire close to the border; Military officials warn that fighting with Gazan militants may renew

Harshly criticizing Republican moves to block aid to Gaza, Sen. Menendez says U.S. investment in foreign aid is meant to be 'in pursuit of our common humanity, our values, and our own security interests'

Eighteenth-century thinkers rejected the existence of God not because they proved that there is no God, but because for them belief in his existence was an affront to their dignity. The shallowness of contemporary atheism, which mocks believers, miss...

In stopping this army practice, fewer West Bank residents will wake up to find that armed Israeli soldiers have broken into their homes. But tracking and monitoring is a central component of Israel’s control over the Palestinians

The move is connected to the position of British Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, the school’s president, against rabbinical ordination for women, school employees say

After court orders military to reveal order allowing raids on homes of Palestinians who aren’t suspected of anything, Israel Defense Forces largely prohibits practice

Court rules that article's use of term 'Polish extermination camp' did infringe on plaintiff's rights, but that case cannot be brought as he was not individually named

The first institute focusing on Israel’s culinary world is about to open in Tel Aviv. Founder Naama Shefi tells Haaretz what makes local chefs creative, which legendary meal originated in the kibbutz dining room and also, despite claims to the cont...

The three defendants, Arab residents of the city 'torched houses and apartments that they believed were the homes of Jews' during last month's wave of Jewish-Arab unrest, according to the charges against them

The material was kept in safes in the so-called ‘aquarium,’ where prime ministers and their most senior aides sit. It’s unclear which, or how many, documents were destroyed at Netanyahu’s orders

Repeal of act that allowed the war in Iraq now heads to the Senate, as lawmakers move to pull back White House's authority to declare war on its own

Protesters blocked Beirut's airport highway with trash bins, setting them on fire, and causing large clouds of black smoke to hang over the motorway

The Transportation Ministry is involving a team with an environmental perspective and an eye to climate change, newly appointed Minister Merav Michaeli says

Commission would investigate both the disaster that killed 45 people and the need to regulate or even nationalize some religious sites at which mass events are held

HDP said the 20-year-old woman was covering a shift for her mother at the office

Vogue called her ‘Gigi Hadid’s secret style weapon.’ Jennifer Aniston says her designs would have been loved by her fashionista 'Friends' character Rachel Greene. New York designer Nili Lotan is quietly building an empire – and she has big pl...

24-year-old Imad Sufi acted out of 'political, religious, nationalistic and ideological motives' during the latest round of Israel-Hamas fighting, the indictment argues

Ankara's purchase of Russian S-400 missile defenses has strained ties with the U.S. and NATO allies over concerns that the systems are not compatible with the alliance's defenses and may threaten U.S. F-35 fighter jets

Israel's ultra-Orthodox politicians are throwing curses at the 'evil crook' who now occupies the prime minister's seat. In the Jewish identity wars, Naftali Bennett is their nemesis, the greatest threat to Jewish fundamentalism

Ismail Haniyeh arrives in Morocco for a four-day visit to meet with Islamist PJD, the biggest party in the governing coalition, and several other parties, in a move meant to demonstrate Rabat's commitment to the Palestinians

The Minnesota Congresswoman was criticized by Republicans for her comments on Israel and Hamas. But Jewish Democratic lawmakers, including one who was "pained" by the quote, say punishing her is the wrong response

Alon Tal has spent his four decades in Israel founding, leading and playing an active role in the country's environmental efforts. The newly sworn-in Kahol Lavan lawmaker tells Haaretz what he'll do with that power

Israel's Singapore ambassador says the 'door is open' to improve relations with Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei, despite fierce condemnation of Israel's Gaza operation by the Muslim-majority countries in South East Asia

TikTok has faced backlash in Israel — including calls by Netanyahu to suspend the platform — after violent videos of clashes between Jews and Arabs went viral

In an interview with the Brooklyn-based ultra-Orthodox weekly Ami, the former U.S. President mused that had American Jews been more attached to Israel, they would have supported him in greater numbers

The Biden administration is proposing changes in how U.S. schools teach the history of racism and the lasting legacies of white supremacy. It’s time we Jews do the same

The 20-year-old Border Police officer is charged with reckless homicide

Ahmad Shamsa is the fourth Palestinian to be killed since protests against the Evyatar outpost broke out last month ■ Israeli army says the teen threw an explosive device toward soldiers

In his farewell TV interview, outgoing Mossad chief Yossi Cohen revealed secrets about Iran that Israeli authorities always censor out of journalists’ reports

The Bennett-Lapid government has not yet shown whether it will act with resolve and boldness against Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran, or whether it will adopt a more moderate stance

The reason for Netanyahu's 30-minute briefing with Bennett is that there was simply nothing to pass on, senior political official says

The upcoming challenge will be the vote on the budget, which at the moment is the most significant threat to the coalition’s survival

Defense lawyers had asked for recess until September to review additional evidence; the court relented on a 3-week pause in the trial after the two sides agreed on it

Leaders discuss Tehran's atomic program in summit meeting in Geneva, agree to launch nuclear arms control talks to build on New START treaty

The liberal pro-Israel group withdrew its application to join the largest U.S. Zionist umbrella group after conservative groups torpedoed its chances

In the footage of the incident in early June in Hebron, Israeli settlers can be seen attempting to aid the soldiers by moving other Palestinians away from the scene

Group's president says conditioning aid to Israel goes further than restricting it, which carries no consequences for human rights violations

The new plan will, among other things, encourage interagency cooperation and information sharing and have Washington allocate tens of millions of dollars for state and local programs

Blazes follow overnight airstrikes in Gaza in response to fires started by balloons launched Tuesday during the right-wing Flag March in Jerusalem

Nachman Shai pledges to work for equality, saying Israel must mend a rift that has developed with Diaspora Jewry over Israeli religious policies