The remarks come despite security forces' crack down on drought demonstrations, which have included live fire

‘The Palestinian Authority does not systematically persecute people because of their sexual orientation,’ Israel's state prosecution wrote

One Palestinian, who was reportedly seriously wounded on Friday near the village of Nabi Saleh, succumbed to his wounds overnight into Saturday

According to the amended version, which will now return to the lower house of parliament, existing claims will continue being reviewed, but with restrictions on possibility of retrieving stolen property

Police say demonstrators refused to disperse, reached secure area ■ Protest comes a day after Bennett criticized vaccine refusers in a televised speech

Lawmakers call for investigation, regulation of spyware industry after reports of Israeli company NSO's leasing of its tools to authoritarian regimes around the world

The verdict, which overturns a lower court's decision, says that a convicted ex-police officer's tracing methods violated the privacy of a soldier he had sexually assaulted

Move signals potential unraveling of lax gun laws implemented by executive orders over the Netanyahu years, which saw the number of civilians holding gun permits rise to 140,000

If the bill passes during the winter Knesset session, opposition leader Netanyahu, who has been indicted for bribery, fraud and breach of trust would not be able to form a government in the next election

Although Israel witnessed a slight decline in daily infections, the percentage of positive COVID tests increased, suggesting the delta variant's spread is continuing unabated

Israel refuses to approve family reunification for thousands of citizens of Arab countries who are married to Palestinians

Plans to build more than 250 luxury homes on the ruins of the Palestinian village of Lifta are coming to fruition. A tour among the homes of the stunning village with one of its last living refugees

NSO's Pegasus spyware, a cyberweapon enabling state-sponsored terrorism against civil society, has outraged the world. In Israel, there's complicity – or complete indifference

Did it approve, or was it supposed to approve, selling the software to each of NSO’s clients? Did it initiate the tapping of targets by means of NSO and its clients?

The attempt to break up the Rabbinate's monopoly on the system for certifying kosher food is impressive, but there's still the feeling that decisions are getting postponed and slogans are being spewed

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid also hasn’t talked with the Palestinian leader, but other politicians, including President Isaac Herzog and Defense Minister Benny Gantz, have reached out to Abbas

What good is a threat to destroy infrastructure if there is no Lebanon?

Officials will soon begin meeting to formulate new government's position on pipeline deal, as energy minister says her ministry doesn't see it as economically beneficial

Between COVID and Bibi’s shadow, the new prime minister is struggling to find a straight path

This week at the Tel Aviv airport: A woman who made her husband swear he would become an Israeli; a Jazz musician and an opera singer reunite after months apart

A messianic figure recaptures Berlin for the Jews, who once called it home: That’s the thesis of a startling new artwork which poses hard questions about 'redeeming' history, exile, justice and the nationalist myths beloved of Europe’s populist l...

Rabbis were uncertain whether it was permitted to drink it, and places that served it were accused of encouraging homosexuality. A new exhibition examines the origins of the coffee scene in Jerusalem, which caused scandals and prompted investigations...

While some calls to boycott Israel can justify a withholding of the Israel Prize, however, in Prof. Oded Goldreich case these calls were 'isolated' and 'took place many years ago,' attorney general says

February's massive influx of tar polluted beaches across Israel, killing hundreds of animals, including many sea turtles

Historian Merav Schnitzer talks about the medieval clothing revolution, a bra described by 11th-century scholar Rashi and how Jewish women managed to take their house keys with them to synagogue on Shabbat

High Court won't order the creation of a commission of inquiry into a government purchase of naval vessels from Germany

Proposal to increase the number of Palestinians workers in Israel comes following a visit by U.S. official Hady Amr last week

Same Israeli data shows effectiveness of COVID vaccine in preventing hospitalizations and severe symptoms at 88 percent and 91 percent, respectively

Israel returns to 55-state pan-African organization in what the Foreign Ministry's head of African affairs calls an extremely important political recognition

Human Rights Council says Navi Pillay will head international commission of inquiry into alleged crimes by Israel and Hamas during Israel's latest flare-up with Gaza

The bone structure of flaplings in two pterosaur species indicate they may have been nimble in the air from day one – which argues against parental nurture

Sonar finds 2,000-year-old remains of paving and structures now underwater, belying the tradition that Venice’s lagoon was only settled in the early Middle Ages

They saw death, torture and persecution in Eritrea and Darfur, but managed to escape and find shelter in Israel. Now they’re part of the refugee team at the Tokyo Olympics. Despite the racism they have encountered, they assert clearly: ‘I am an I...

At the end of a week in which Ben & Jerry’s sent Israeli politicians into meltdown, a joint exercise with five Western air forces, has injected some perspective on the multiple levels of Israel’s standing in the world

After a global investigation into a list of potential targets selected by their clients, NSO faces a string of very serious challenges - with one simple solution

Foreign Minister Lapid leading talks with Washington in bid to pressure Warsaw not to pass legislation that would dismiss older restitution claims

Since the outbreak of the pandemic, growing numbers of young Jews on Masa-sponsored internship programs are opting to make aliyah. Employment opportunities, it turns out, are not the only incentive

Kibbutz Ma’agan Michael was supposed to build proper public access to the beach within its territory, but 12 years have passed and it hasn’t happened. Environmental groups and activists are already making waves

West Bank factory owner says he found gas canister after pursuing fleeing car, as suspects' lawyer says they just happened to be in the area and were uninvolved

Forty Indian journalists were on a list of potential names to be targeted by Pegasus software. ‘It’s utterly shameful of the Israeli government,’ they say

A month ago, my union, PSC-CUNY, passed two resolutions: On China and on Palestine. They couldn't have been more different – and illustrate how antisemitism today operates in subtle but powerful ways

The Irgun, headed by Menachem Begin, tried to warn the British to evacuate the King David in advance. But nobody listened, and 91 people died.

CEO distances the conglomerate from the watershed decision, but does not indicate that Ben & Jerry's, which is owned by Unilever but maintains independence on social justice policy, would be forced to reverse course

In total, 10 were arrested over the televised incident in the central Israeli city of Bat Yam

A revived nuclear accord could provide some timely respite for Iran's new leadership, but it is no panacea to the long-standing corruption and economic woes driving the desperation among ordinary people

NSO said ‘list has nothing to do with us’ and report claimed Amnesty backtracked findings, but official statement says otherwise: ‘Data is irrefutably linked to potential targets of NSO’s Pegasus spyware'

The number of new COVID cases remains largely stable, but an uptick in serious cases leads the cabinet to impose restrictions as the delta variant keeps spreading across Israel

President Rohani says Iran has set its sights on exporting 1 billion barrels of oil per day from the new terminal, which allows Tehran to avoid the Strait of Hormuz, a bottleneck crossing where Iranian and U.S. forces have clashed

Pfizer's shot is effective at preventing symptomatic disease from the now-dominant variant, according to a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Data from Israel has estimated lower effectiveness

'I don't know whether it's helping or sabotaging' Israel's efforts to ensure COVID vaccines are available for all, Health Ministry director-general says

French presidency spokesman says progress has been made in the probe into potential Moroccan surveillance of Macron using software by Israeli company NSO

Israel has appointed an interministerial team to assess reports following a global investigation that said NSO's Pegasus software had been used to target journalists, government officials and human rights activists

A day ahead of the opening ceremony in Tokyo, organizing committee president says director Kentaro Kobayashi has been dismissed

Residents of two towns hugging the border with Lebanon were briefly ordered to stay home overnight

When Ethiopia announced it had completed the second phase of filling the dam’s reservoir, Egypt realized that its diplomatic efforts and threats of using military force against Ethiopia had run aground

Palestinian families who have made requests to the Israeli Population and Immigration Authority have been told that they cannot 'make new appointments'

Abd Yusuf al-Khatib al-Tamimi, arrested for driving offenses, may have been attacked in prison before his death, family claims, rejecting Israeli authorities' claim he may have suffered from preexisting medical conditions

If Ben & Jerry’s keeps to its word and pulls its product from the settlements, I will start eating its ice cream

War monitor says Hezbollah ammunitions and weapons depots were destroyed

Judges level criticism in deliberations over suit demanding ex-prime minister’s wife return money she was paid from her cousin Nathan Milikowsky and U.S. businessman Spencer Partrich

There have been six days of continuous protests in Iran's oil-rich Khuzestan province, home to ethnic Arabs who complain of discrimination by Iran’s Shiite theocracy

Signatories to the climate change pact were supposed to submit greenhouse gas emission reduction targets by end of last year, but Israel has yet to do so. It now has a week left

The plan is touted by the Religious Affairs Ministry as a way of reducing the price of kosher food in Israel, and its impact could extend well beyond the country's borders

At this year's Christians United for Israel summit in Dallas, Foreign Minister Yair Lapid sought to reassure evangelical supporters, while Sen. Ted Cruz sounded an unusual warning about the new Israeli government

In a letter co-led by a Muslim lawmaker and a Jewish one, Democrats say the U.S. is past due for the position in light of the 'dramatic increase in violent Islamophobia and the persecution of Muslims' around the world

Meanwhile, a new interim health minister takes office after his predecessor was fired over a surprise decision to open vaccination centers to adults of all ages, prompting confusion and chaos

The authorities have until September 5 to submit their position on evicting the residents of the West Bank Bedouin village, which the ICC prosecutor has said may constitute a war crime

Princess Latifa fled her father, the emir of Dubai, in 2018; Princess Haya, one of his wives and half-sister to the Jordanian king, left him too. Both were selected as potential NSO targets, Washington Post report says

Health Minister Horowitz says the battle against the delta variant could last many months. So far, Israel has relied on the Pfizer vaccine in its inoculation drive, but as of August, much of the public will be getting Moderna

Newly sworn-in Isaac Herzog argues 'terrorism tries to harm the citizens of Israel and the economy of Israel. We must oppose this boycott and terrorism in any form,' after ice cream company vows to stop sales to settlements

President Orban's spokesman tweets that a global investigation revealing Hungary used Israeli spyware to target journalists was 'funded by Soros,' a prominent Hungarian-American Jewish philanthropist, and therefore may not be objective

'A dangerous, Nazi-like act of economic terrorism that dehumanizes the Jewish people': Why Ben & Jerry's tokenistic decision to pull out of West Bank settlements has triggered such outsized, unhinged and dishonest outrage

Current and former employees at Kan tell Haaretz that they face a hostile work environment, including retribution for complaining

An examination by Haaretz has found a series of shortcomings In Israel’s preparedness for floods that pose an ever-growing threat in the face of climate change

From the Arab League's Boycott Office in Cairo to the Anti-Defamation League's push to pressure Coca Cola into Israel, Ben & Jerry's and BDS are only the latest chapters in a long history

Also on Wednesday, Luxembourg's Foreign Minister sends a letter expressing grave concern to local directors of units of Israeli spyware developer NSO

Ben & Jerry’s says it’s taking a stand against the occupation, but very few other companies have quit Israel in recent years – and even fewer attribute it to politics

Disagreements 'should be voiced with respect and dignity' says Rabbinical Council of America days after Orthodox youth set up barricades and drowned out Conservative egalitarian service with shouting and cursing

BDS supporters see the ice cream company's removal of its products from settlement shelves as an important step in cutting all ties with Israel

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

The 19-year-old left Gaza several weeks ago to ensure he faces no issues travelling to the Games in which he secured his place after having participated in six international qualifying contests since 2019

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