Adam Kinzinger is the only Republican so far to publicly criticize Rep. Warren Davidson, who has joined a chorus of mostly right-wing voices who have invoked Nazi Germany in their campaigns against COVID curbs

No casualties were reported following the blast at the Hezbollah depot, with conflicting reports in Lebanon about whether the site was used for military purposes by the Iran-backed group

As the omicron variant spreads like wildfire in Israel, a clear pattern emerges: Israelis who are unvaccinated against COVID, less than a fifth of adult population, are quickly filling up Israel's hospital beds

Unvaccinated elderly are 15 times more likely to get serious ill, according to data from Israel's Health Ministry ■ COVID carriers in Israel now have to isolate for seven days rather than 10

The researchers say it is 'very likely' that the government was behind the wave of infections with the Israeli company's cyberware ■ The President's Office denies the claims, says El Salvador has no license to use Pegasus

Two company commanders in Israeli army's Egoz commando unit were shot dead after being misidentified by a fellow soldier

With the UAL being outflanked from the left and Bennett's Yamina from the right, the coalition has found itself in a tricky situation that risks spilling into greater violence

Dr. Yehoshua Shkedy says that feeding cranes may further fuel the spread of the avian flu whose outbreak has caused the deaths of some 8,000 birds

Prison Service Commissioner Katy Perry tells commission of inquiry that commander should not have allowed two prisoners deemed escape risks to be cellmates

Former PM Netanyahu's Likud party took advantage of the Negev's importance to Islamist leader Mansour Abbas, destabilizing an imbalanced coalition

Israel's foreign minister and Palestinian intelligence chief Majed Faraj did not discuss diplomatic issues, Israeli sources say

Aura Herzog – the wife of late president Chaim Herzog and mother of Isaac Herzog – was a leading figure in environmental protection

Six suspects have been arrested so far after a three-year-old was killed by a stray bullet in a Bedouin town near Nazareth last week

The indictments against four Israeli women in their 50s for spying for Iran are rather laughable, but they mainly serve as an indication of how difficult it is to recruit human agents these days

Rep. Warren Davidson compared COVID-19 restrictions in Washington to Nazi health certificates, in what a has become a growing trend among Republican politicians

With United Arab List's boycott and several Knesset members out due to COVID, opposition lawmakers enjoyed a rare majority, passing five bills in preliminary votes

The showdown between the State of Israel and local Bedouin over a tract of land in the south is just the latest chapter in an ongoing struggle – but one that could bring down Bennett's government

Five people have been arrested for disturbing the peace, stone-throwing and torching tires, hours after the government said future work by JNF in the Negev will be negotiated by coalition partners

The move follows the breakdown of mediation efforts following bitter controversy over the removal of the work ‘Jerusalem’ by Israeli artist David Reeb

Negotiations were reportedly held over the past several weeks but ended because Netanyahu refused to include a jail term in the deal

In a blog post from August 2021, a researcher points to a 1953 letter suggesting Stanford was anxious about the increasing enrollment of Jews to the institution

Washington requests clarification after Palestinians say Omar Abdalmajeed As'ad, who is a dual U.S. citizen, was handcuffed and beaten by Israeli soldiers

Back in 2017, Saudi Arabia's Mohammed bin Salman calculated that tiny, blockaded Qatar would fold immediately. Riyadh was wrong, but did Doha win? Now celebrating its first anniversary, how long will reconciliation last?

Four women, all Jewish immigrants from Iran, were recruited over social media and asked by their handler to photograph sites in Israel, including U.S. Embassy, according to the indictment served against them

Justices reinstate a plea agreement deemed by a lower court too lenient, but call for harsher penalties on such offenses in the future

The museum must now decide what to do with the stolen artifacts and whether to leave the name of the person who ‘displayed a rapacious appetite for plundered artifacts’ on its prominent list of donors around the building. 'The museum’s role is ...

New analysis based on ash from volcanic cataclysm dates an early human found at Omo, Ethiopia, to 233,000 years, supporting the ‘early evolution’ theory for Homo sapiens

What do corporations really want: to save the environment, protect their reputation, or redeem capitalism?

Seyed Hossein Mousavian, a visiting scholar at Princeton and an influential figure in the corridors of power in his country, recently spoke with a smirk of satisfaction about the threats directed against former American official Brian Hook

Which variant do seriously ill Israeli COVID patients have, and how many have underlying conditions? Lack of clear information is making it difficult for doctors to precisely assess the nature of severe illness caused by omicron

We cannot be naïve. The recent WWII genocide law, which falsely equalizes the Holocaust with Nazi reprisals against non-Jewish Belarusians, is as much about history as it is about today: Anchoring the totalizing repression of the Lukashenko regime

The Israeli military largely avoids formal activities with Hebron settlers, and now defense officials warn the latest tour, organized by a senior Israeli commander, could reignite tensions with Palestinian Authority

A German court is scheduled to deliver a trial against a former Syrian police officer who supervised the systematic and brutal torture of more than 4,000 prisoners, resulting in the deaths of at least 58 people

Israeli historian Aron Shneyer has found himself at the forefront of a campaign by Moscow against Russia’s leading human rights organization

Major organizations call out Republican Rand Paul, who has insisted since the House overwhelmingly approved the emergency funding in September that the money for Israel should come from proposed U.S. aid to Afghanistan

Hebrew University scientists say omicron wave could lead to as many as 2 million active COVID cases in Israel, straining the health care system and the economy, as the number of patients in serious condition keep climbing

There are hundreds of biblical sites in Israel – some have been identified with certainty by archaeologists while others require an act of faith. To what extent can we use the Tanakh, and its stories of David and Goliath, Samson et al, as a reliabl...

Islamist party threatened to boycott Knesset votes in protest as the Jewish National Fund plants trees on land used for agriculture by local Bedouin farmers ■ Future phases of the forestation project will be negotiated

Former Police Commissioner Roni Alsheich told a state committee that repeated warnings of mortal danger at the pilgrimage site were ignored, despite 'writing on the wall'

The cellphones belong to aides of Netanyahu who are being investigated for harassing a prosecution witness in one of the three pending criminal cases against the former prime minister

Foreign Minister Lapid calls to stop forestation after clashes in Israel's south erupt over plan to plant on land used by local Bedouin for farming

'The suspect grabbed the complainant and ripped her hijab off her head and then pulled her hair,' states an indictment against an officer who allegedly assaulted a Palestinian in Jerusalem

The chairman who allegedly sexually harassed his assistant and paid her hush money wrote in his resignation letter that he had 'fallen victim to a political and personal attack'

Israel's Foreign Ministry said the aid to Afghan refugees who fled to Tajikistan is part of Israel's commitment to the international community

It had been assumed that humans recognize faces thanks to their humongous brains, but Israeli scientists discovered that our most primitive brain parts are involved as well. Enter the crocodile

19-year-old wounded in what the Israeli army dubbed as car-ramming attack in the northern West Bank

'It is unacceptable,' says Rome's Jewish community after right-wing extremists place a Nazi flag on a casket outside the parish of St. Lucy in a central Rome neighborhood

Prime Minister Bennett expresses his concerns about infection in children too young to be vaccinated as experts urge hospitals to gear up after the number of serious cases doubles in a week

The new COVID rules will go into effect overnight into Thursday as the number of Israelis in isolation reaches 150,000

Iran-backed Houthis dealt a blow as government takes Shabwa, cutting major supply lines used by the rebel forces

Israel’s cabinet secretary tells non-Orthodox religious leaders the state will neither freeze compromise agreement nor push ahead at full force

The military attacked a medical facility filled with protestors as deadly post-coup chaos continues

Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked, who ordered her ministry to hold off on processing Palestinian requests for family reunification, is leading an effort to reinstate a controversial law that expired in July

Arabs – more than 20 percent of Israel's population – represent fewer than 10 percent of Israelis tested. Officials point to skepticism, lack of trust, and 'economic burden,' and warn that local government is 'tapped out'

The EU's coordinator on fighting antisemitism says the list, which named BBC and Germany 'top antisemitic entities' of 2021, discredits the work of the key Jewish research institute

Though Doug Mastriano isn't Jewish, he used elements of Jewish worship to announce his gubernatorial campaign, in what has become a growing trend at U.S. right-wing political events

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett hates COVID lockdowns, but mass quarantines and long testing lines as a result of the omicron variant's uncontrolled spread come at a cost too

The new COVID variant is spreading like wildfire, and Israelis are angry with ever-changing testing regulations. What can be done? Also in this episode: analyst John Judis talks January 6 and the future of American democracy

The shooting of a Palestinian in the West Bank settlement of Anatot raised questions on the 'problematic' scope of armed security coordinators' work, as one defense official put it. 'This system is often exploited for ideological interests,' attorney...

Skull patches are out, skullcaps are in at Denmark’s MuJu & Co. biker club, whose members dream of a Middle East road trip

Druze director Ameer Fakher Eldin examines 'the forgotten Israeli occupation' in the Golan Heights in his new film ‘The Stranger.’ He tells Haaretz why he won’t condemn Assad’s crimes in Syria and has no problem representing Palestine at the ...

The number of serious COVID cases more than doubles in a week, raising concerns over omicron-driven patient surge in crowded Israeli hospitals

The oldest profession isn't what you thought, and other myths about breastfeeding that have been persisting for thousands of years

Seven-day average for new COVID cases nearly triples in two weeks, as U.S. hospital systems prepare for strain

The Central Asian republic of Kazakhstan, which has been experiencing massive protests, is an important source of oil and a lucrative market for Israeli arms sales

Although the High Court abstained from issuing the order against the home of Eliyahu Kay's murderer, the filing of the petition against it automatically freezes the demolition

While the epicenter was reported in western Cyprus, shocks from the earthquake led dozens of Israelis to call the police

Orban's 2018 visit to Israel drew sharp condemnation from Yair Lapid, then in the opposition and now foreign minister – and who is planning an official visit to Hungary

More than a third of children and teens in grades five to 12 reported suffering emotional problems in 2021, up 10 percentage points from 2019, a study conducted by Bar-Ilan University has found

The Gaza Health Ministry urges the international community to press Israel to let more medical equipment in

Lapid's deputy at the Foreign Ministry is also isolating after having contracted COVID

The former officials express concern over the formation of two Political Action Committees to help fund candidates’ election races, questioning whether it will endanger the group’s lobbying efforts on behalf of Israel

Fifteen sewage treatment plants were torched in recent years, mostly for suspected protection rackets. The police tell corporations to hire security guards

'Nothing was done that wasn’t done to other detainees in other cases,' says officer who interrogated Netanyahu's ex-aide turned state's evidence Nir Hefetz, after allegations of cruel treatment

The Health Ministry's advisory panel says data shows quarantine time can be reduced to a week, while also saying there still isn't enough information justifying giving second COVID boosters to people under 60

When an argument ensues over which side made concessions in the nuclear negotiations, it is safe to say that concessions were made. The question is were they enough to reach an agreement

Nearly half a million Israelis qualify for citizenship, but are not defined as Jewish by halakha. The Central Bureau of Statistics is now expected to stop using the offensive term ‘other’ to define them

PA calls on the Netherlands to continue its funding for one of six Palestinian civil society groups Israel labeled as terrorist organizations

Israel has officially reopened its borders to tourists, yet many tourists are staying away as COVID infection rates skyrocket. But that doesn’t mean no one is planning to visit

The Egyptian government's years-long crackdown on dissent has stifled many of the country's civil society groups and jailed thousands

Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian will also be in China at the end of this week, but it remains unclear whether he will join his counterparts from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman and Bahrain

Yad Vashem director calls growing trade in Nazi memorabilia ‘a moral stain’ and is examining legislation that would outlaw it

United Arab List leader threatens to boycott Knesset deliberations on Jewish National Fund work on land used by locals for agriculture

The real engine behind the incredible returns Israelis have been enjoying is the U.S. stock market. Double-digit returns have become the standard – but for how long and at what cost to the economy and society?

The Orthodox world has been shaken before by charismatic figures who have abused and defiled our faith in them. But something feels grimly different in the case of Chaim Walder, accused of serial sexual abuse

Tel Aviv's mayor has publicized a plan to renovate part of the Carmel Market for the sake of 'the coming generations.' But behind the words lurks a process that will destroy the last remnant of Tel Aviv of yore