A Jewish-Arab youth group in the mixed city of Lod reflect on a tumultuous year

How ice cream joined Iran, coronavirus and climate change at the top of Israel's political agenda

As the delta variant drives 1,400 daily COVID cases in Israel, events of over 100 people in closed venues will require proof of immunity. Those who don't comply will face hefty fines

Then-Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tried to force Sam Grundwerg out last year, but Keren Hayesod chairman will stick around under court-sanctioned deal

'Israel needs to take a month in which it focuses on containment – to buy time and keep track of what’s happening in Britain,' a senior health official says, as the U.K. reopens amid the spread of the delta variant

Report says at least 50 people close to President Lopez Obrador may have been targeted by the previous administration using Pegasus spying software

Foreign Minister Lapid has expressed Israel's solidarity with Cyprus to its president over Turkey's decision to reopen residential area of Varosha

Complaints against Yossi Cohen include a cash gift from billionaire James Packer, his involvement in a business dispute over the Kia franchise in Israel, and his alleged disclosure of state secrets to a flight attendant

‘This shows Labour under Keir Starmer is serious about zero tolerance of antisemitism,’ says head of Jewish Labour Movement, after decision to oust four groups that supported former leader Jeremy Corbyn

The tweets by Yair Netanyahu also attacked the Ohio-based Wexner Foundation, where convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein once served as a trustee

Adding to Bennett's statements earlier, Lt. Gen. Aviv Kochavi said that Hezbollah has played a role in Lebanon's economic crisis

Five killed were working for Iran's Revolutionary Guard, Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says

At a Ben & Jerry’s scoop shop in central Israel, customers are unwavering in their support of the local franchise owner but less sure about the company’s Jewish co-founders in Vermont

Forbidden Stories, a Paris-based journalism nonprofit, and Amnesty International had access to a leak of more than 50,000 records of phone numbers that NSO clients selected for surveillance

Contestants of the famous beauty pageant, previously owned by Donald Trump, will head to the southern city of Eilat, and will broadcast in 180 countries worldwide

Privatization reform would spell a dramatic overhaul of the kashrut certification system for restaurants and food manufacturers, and met fierce opposition from chief rabbinate. 'The current system is sick,' religious affairs minister says

Based on leaked targeting data, cyber espionage company NSO Group is suspected of infiltrating devices belonging to a range of targets including political opponents in 50 countries

Hamas' Yahya Sinwar now sees himself as the leader of all Arabs, according to a personality profile compiled by the Israeli military. This may have ramifications for Gaza

The Polish law is expected to limit restitution claims on Jewish-owned land that was taken by the Nazis and nationalized after World War II by Poland’s Communist regime

For 21 years Bedouin shepherds had been moving with their flocks to Ras al-Tin for the summer, but last week Israel confiscated their shelters and equipment, leaving them without power or water

People may live longer but a new study supports the hypothesis that there are biological constraints on how much the human rate of aging can be slowed

Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, the president from 2007 to 2015, was indicted in 2018 for obstructing the investigation into the 1994 attack

Hamas says that Israel’s delay in transferring funds is a ‘foolish decision that hurts families in need’ as many remain homeless or jobless following the conflict in May

A surge of cases in Indonesia is believed to have been fueled by travel during another holiday — the Eid al-Fitr festival in May — and by the rapid spread of the delta variant

'Ben & Jerry’s isn’t the only company in BDS’ sights,' Israeli source says, after ice cream maker promises to halt sales in Israeli settlements

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit received a complaint that Mossad chief Cohen had breached operational security by sharing sensitive information with a flight attendant. Cohen denies the allegations

Investigation of potential Pegasus targets reveals: From Hungary to India and even Saudi Arabia, this is how Israel became the cyber industry’s patron and pushed spyware sales across the world

Omar Nazzal's Facebook account was suspended last week for sharing a letter by Khalida Jarrar, who Israel barred from attending her daughter's funeral

Whatever euphemisms the new Israeli government comes up with, such as ‘Narrowing the conflict,’ it will not be able to ignore the Palestinian issue – especially with the Palestinian Authority in such a weak state

Rampant racism, violations of international law in conflict zones, the dangers of big tech – Michelle Bachelet, groundbreaking ex-president of Chile and current UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, weighs in on the world's crises in an interview ...

Things are about to heat up in 30-plus states that have anti-boycott legislation on their books, following the move by Ben & Jerry’s to stop all sales of its ice cream in the occupied Palestinian territories

Video footage of the incident in Bat Yam shows that around 20 people involved in the attack on Said Moussa could be identified

Israel records 1,372 new COVID-19 infections, 62 serious cases

Despite a grueling regimen and losing her period, Israel's top female bodybuilder is fulfilling her goal of 'being the best, being the strongest'

Israeli defense officials believe that the rockets launched from Lebanon are not linked to the alleged Israeli airstrike on Syria hours earlier

The iconic Vermont-based ice cream company announced Monday that it would no longer sell ice cream in Israeli settlements but would continue to sell in the rest of Israel

Quite a few Israeli companies, aside from NSO, are developing dangerous digital weapons to be sold to the highest bidder, with no proper oversight of their export

Ziv Leibowitz, 28, 'never imagined' what would unfold when she filed a rape complaint. Now she recounts how the police and prosecution mishandled her case

Civil Service Commission had insisted there was only a stop-work order against Yair Hirsch, but freedom of information request reveals standing demolition order against his West Bank home since 2008

Housing project in Jaffa set aside discounted apartments for Arabs only. But even at 1.5 million shekels, housing units are beyond reach of many. 'I don’t have the money now, and the truth is that I'll never have it,' says resident

Israel intercepts one of the rockets, while the other lands in an open area after rockets launched from Lebanon set off sirens in several Western Galilee communities near the border

Western governments, human rights groups and senior journalists who discovered that their privacy was violated by NSO cyberweapons will not let this pass quietly

Amazon tells VICE accounts linked to cyber surveillance firm taken off AWS service as calls to crack down on company grow in wake of Pegasus Project investigation

Erdogan, who provided a base for Hamas and permitted the Mavi Marmara to sail to Gaza, will not suddenly turn into Anwar Sadat or King Hussein

Supreme Court justice deems the detainee ‘patently’ dangerous, but orders a psychiatric examination

Nachman Ash urges Israelis to refrain from travel abroad. 'Now is not the time to take unnecessary flights,' he says

Ben & Jerry's decision to halt sales in Israeli settlements shows that the company is rebranding itself as 'antisemitic ice cream,' Bennett says

Ayelet Shaked says health insurance will 'lead to illegal infiltrators settling in Israel,' vows to do all she can to 'bring about their departure'

Prime Minister Kadhimi places the commander of the federal police regiment responsible for the area of the market place under arrest, according to an Iraqi military statement

In a LinkedIn post, Google Cloud's exec sets down his solution to Israeli-Palestinian conflict, urges Diaspora Jews to 'butt out', and describes how he was taught to 'hate Jews' as a child in Egypt

Vermont-based company says Ben & Jerry's ice cream will stay in Israel through a different arrangement, but won't be sold in the 'occupied Palestinian territories'

While Bennett is raising the alarm following deadly floods in Western Europe, experts and activists have long warned that Israel is unprepared for the climate crisis

In sanctions-hit Iran, which has the highest COVID-19 death toll in the Middle East, less than 2 percent of the population of 84 million has received both doses, mainly of the imported Russian and Chinese vaccines

Amana movement may receive millions of shekels from West Bank councils, High Court says, rejecting Peace Now petition on a procedural issue

Archaeologists are wrong to assume that ‘nude female’ figurines found from Cyprus to Israel and beyond, dating to a vast span in time, must pertain to fertility and can be a source of data on childbearing in antiquity

Israel's Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz says government not talking about closing the Ben-Gurion Airport as COVID cases spread, but that more countries will likely enter the blacklist

'This Eid al-Adha, the Taliban should lay down their weapons for good and show the world their commitment to the peace process' representatives say. The statement was supported by a variety of countries

Biden thanks Jordan's king for helping to stabilize Mideast, and promised to help Jordan with COVID crisis. 'We come together as strong partners,' Abdullah says

Project Pegasus reveals massive list of potential targets of Israeli spyware, including Modi’s biggest rival – Rahul Gandhi – and even an old number belonging to Pakistani leader Khan

Remains of piglet from 2,700 years ago support the theory that ancient Israelites occasionally did eat pork, and the biblical taboo on this animal was only first observed in Second Temple era, Israeli archaeologists say

As seen in the cruel decision to ban a jailed Palestinian political activist from her own daughter's funeral, Israel's goal is to deter people from resisting the settler-colonialization regime

Sunday saw highest number of serious COVID cases in Israel since mid-May

The private diary of the war heroine and poet, who parachuted into Nazi-occupied Europe and was born 100 years ago this month, goes online for the first time. 'I’ve learned to launder and iron a little…. I could have imagined something more impor...

Defeat of communist candidate Daniel Jadue, who Chile's Jewish community says crosses the line into antisemitism, 'obviously changed the political scenario,' community leader says

Water worries in the past have sent angry demonstrators into the streets in Iran; the country has faced rolling blackouts for weeks now, in part over what authorities describe as a severe drought

Juicy giraffe foot or chewy cow udder anyone? A once-in-a-decade event in the West Bank offers a biblical menu mixing the kosher with the exotic

'There is no change in the status quo,' Bennett says after Islamist coalition party, PA slam Jewish visits to the Temple Mount during Tisha B'Av fast day

The demographic fuses are burning too quickly for Israel’s government to pussyfoot over forcing the ultra-Orthodox into the job market

An American Jewish Congress report finds that some Republicans are engaging in virtual spaces where ideologies of hate commingle, spread and amplify antisemitism

While Israel considers asylum seekers as 'foreigners who can’t be deported,' it still does not provide them with any social benefits

'In the Arab community there’s the feeling that we’re already immune,' an epidemiologist and public health expert says, as COVID infection rates in Israel continue to climb

Gal Sartov, who committed a sex offense in 2004 while he was deputy head of the investigation unit of the Eilat district police, was slated to moderate a panel on domestic violence for Israel Bar Association

An epidemiological institute's preliminary figures suggest this might be the case, though the percentages could be skewed because of heavy testing in hot spots

‘Basketball gave me a lot,’ player tells news conference announcing his retirement

A statement by him seems to mark the first time an Israeli prime minister has officially referred to preserving Jewish freedom of worship at the Jerusalem flash point

Minister publicly says 'closing the skies' hasn't been considered, while other cabinet members claim they are unaware of plans for it

At the 'last coral refuge in the world,' an European-Arab-Israeli research team aims to discover why Gulf of Eilat reefs have survived rising temperatures better than others

The foreign minister’s speech last week, in which he placed Jew-hatred in the wider context of other forms of abuse, is a welcome move away from Benjamin Netanyahu’s attempts to redefine antisemitism along party lines

Israel's foreign minister says the new government needs to conduct its own in-depth review of the potential ramifications of evicting Khan al-Ahmar's Palestinian residents

For the second year in a row, Tel Aviv is in second place out of 62 cities examined in Deloitte's survey

Six other suspects have been indicted over the beating of Said Moussa ■ Judge criticizes police for delay in arrests despite knowledge of suspects' identities

Unaffordable medicine, violence in the streets and valueless food stamps are just the latest symptoms of the country's political and economic dysfunction

Main targets were Arabs, followed by the ultra-Orthodox, Hate Index Report says after counting 5.2 million comments that were offensive or called for violence

From Khashoggi to reporters in India, journalists around the world have been selected as targets by clients of the cybersurveillance firm NSO, according to a new Forbidden Stories investigation, published today together with Haaretz

Close friends, colleagues and family members of the murdered journalist were all selected as targets by NSO clients, likely Saudis and UAE, according to Forbidden Stories investigation

Israeli firm NSO's Pegasus software is used to infect journalists phones in what is called 'zero clicks'. Here's how they did it and what we found out

The despot’s discretion cannot be trusted - and cyberweapons provide exactly what they need to stifle democracy | Analysis