Clashes erupt between Palestinians and Israeli soldiers as forces demolish home of gunman charged with killing Yehuda Dimentman near the evacuated outpost of Homesh in December

A 62-year-old woman was found dead in Kiryat Ata and her 42-year-old son was arrested at the scene

Suspiciousness of physicians and politicians, a call for personal freedom – these are only a small part of the individualistic, antisocial and antinational cascade we’re experiencing. It’s a tendency with dangerous roots

War in Ukraine has helped Erdogan rehabilitate sullied relations with Washington, along with renewed ties with Gulf states – but the reopening channels don't contradict his strategic ‘Turkey First’ philosophy

Israel’s Civil Administration says 1,452 units are expected to be advanced while 2,536 more are awaiting approval by Defense Minister Benny Gantz. Biden administration: 'We strongly oppose the expansion of settlements'

The move, which still needs the Knesset's approval, is designed to keep a legislator from Naftali Bennett's Yamina party in the shaky governing coalition

The Russian president doesn’t want Israel to abandon its near neutrality in the Ukraine war, but Israel doesn't have any game-changing weapons to offer anyway

Three people were murdered and four wounded Thursday evening in the latest in a string of deadly attacks in Israel

A Swedish-Iranian national sentenced to death in Iran on charges of spying for Israel will be executed by May 21, according to Iran's semi-official ISNA news agency

Russian-Jewish Anatoly Chubais was the Kremlin’s special representative for ties with international organizations, and had been an architect of economic reforms and privatization under Boris Yeltsin in the 1990s

Israel has been drawing its own conclusions from Putin's failure in Ukraine: From the resurgence of large-scale wars to the drawbacks of urban fighting

Rabbi Dr. Elad Dukov, a faculty member and synagogue leader at the Technion, encouraged opponents to the gay pride events to 'take responsibility' and urged them to join anti-LGBTQ groups

While Israel's government is far from ideal, this year's Independence Day ceremony, dedicated to people with disabilities, aimed to heal society's wounds

Dozens of settlers swooped down on a Palestinian family tending its olive grove, throwing stones and beating them. Three Palestinians were wounded; the eldest remains hospitalized. When the family filed a complaint, they were interrogated for alleged...

Seven artillery pieces, on top of five such systems, will come out of the German military inventories and be delivered to Ukraine as soon over the next weeks

Hundreds mourn at the funerals of Yonatan Havakuk, Boaz Gol and Oren Ben Yiftah, who were killed in the terror attack in central Israel and together are survived by 16 children

There is just one problem. Timing

Associates of the prime minister say there’s an 80 percent chance the government will last another month or so, as Bennett and sidekick Lapid suspiciously eye each other. Meanwhile, Netanyahu's incitement has marred Memorial Day, too

The decision was released on the eve of Independence Day, when the Jews celebrate the founding of the State of Israel and Palestinians grieve for the loss of their homeland

The sixth volume of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s series ‘My Struggle’ proposes a provocative way of looking at the sources of the Nazis’ evil – one that might jolt those who believe they would have behaved differently from the Germans during the H...

Mired in problems, Bennett efforts to mediate between Russia and Ukraine stopped. A Ukrainian request, however, prompted the Israeli premier to call Putin

You can travel to the Far East to meditate in a Zen temple. But there are other spiritual options closer to home – in the Galilee, for example

U.S.-imposed sanctions on the Syrian regime mostly hurt ordinary citizens, 90 percent of whom live below the poverty line with the average salary being about $50 a month

Security official says attackers influenced by Hamas' Yahya Sinwar ■ Three victims identified as three fathers survived by 16 children ■ PM Bennett vows assailants 'will pay the price'

A new exhibition in New York, ‘Am Yisrael High,’ explores the relationship between the Jewish people and pot, dating back to the first mention of cannabis in the Bible

Committee of Arab leaders calls on United Arab List to resign from Bennett's coalition as demonstrators march through the village of Miar, depopulated in 1948

Bennett accepted Putin's apology over Lavrov's remarks that Hitler 'had Jewish blood' and thanked him for clarifying the Russian president's position, his office said

This week at the Tel Aviv airport: Two Israeli hikers who enjoy pushing themselves beyond their limits

Sociologist Eva Illouz’s book about the ‘happiness industry’ assails positive psychology and the coaching culture, which place human happiness at the center

The High Court of Justice accepted the state's claim that residents of the villages in Masafer Yatta near Hebron began squatting in the area after it was declared a firing zone by the Israeli military in 1981

A new book and a separate exhibition in Paris focus on the Jewishness of the author of ‘In Search of Lost Time.’ ‘Everybody knew that he was half-Jewish and gay,’ one expert says, but the Jewish influence on his writing is only becoming clear...

Following a clash-filled Ramadan month, Palestinians warned against raising the Israeli flag at the holy site, and accused Israeli police of disconnecting the speakers at the Al-Aqsa mosque on Memorial Day

The purely symbolic motion, which garnered significant support from Democrats, is a troubling sign for the U.S. administration as it tries to break a nearly two-month stalemate in talks with Iran to revive a nuclear deal

The country marks 74 years of independence with its annual ceremony on Jerusalem's Mount Herzl honoring Israelis who have contributed to society, including the head of the police's Yamam police counterterrorism unit

Addameer's Shahar Francis not allowed to board plane at Ben-Gurion despite having a visa; U.S. has said it is reviewing information it has received from Israel regarding her group and others

In the booming world of real estate in Israel and abroad, companies that have arisen from the pressure cooker of elite IDF units are morphing into successful enterprises

Testimonies by survivors reveal the magnitude of death and destruction at Ukraine's Mariupol theater where civilians were sheltering

Dov Gilboa called in an unusual minority opinion in 2018 to impose the death penalty on a Palestinian man. 'He was brave to say the terrorist needs to be put in the electric chair,' party leader Itamar Ben-Gvir said

Arrivals over the summer season are expected to be half pre-pandemic levels, amid continued global aviation disruptions and Israel’s strict COVID testing policy

What causes an Israeli mother to reach out to the Palestinian sniper who shot her son? Hear our special episode for Israel's Memorial Day, and also: what are U.S. Jews saying about the Supreme Court's abortion bombshell?

After Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov called Ukraine a Nazi state, his ministry quoted research by Jewish experts to support that claim. Those experts tell Haaretz they're angry, and disgusted, by Moscow's propaganda

Report by semi-official Iranian news agency on Ahmad Reza Jalali's planned execution comes as a former Iranian official faces life sentence in Sweden

A spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry reportedly said Israelis were 'practically shoulder to shoulder' with militants of the ultranationalist Azov Regiment in Ukraine

'You're allowed to shout, and you're allowed to hurt,' the prime minister tells families in the crowd. In his speech, he says the Palestinian 'enemy' chooses to 'wallow in poverty, misery and a constant sense of victimhood'

'Restrictive abortion laws, rooted in just one understanding of when life begins, limit our ability to fully practice our religious tradition,' says head of National Council of Jewish Women

After years, Israel's Shin Bet realized its personnel also deals with post-traumatic stress disorder after prolonged security activity. An initiative by a former senior official allows them to break their silence

'The era of immunity has ended. They will pay a price even if they are a thousand kilometers away to the east,' the prime minister says ■ Shin Bet chief warns of 'violent discourse and incitement'

'Putin must pay a high price for his brutal aggression,' the EU president commission said, admitting the move won't be easy as some member states are dependent on Russian oil

Strategic antisemitism: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s tirade on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Jews and Hitler was no slip of the tongue. It was part of a calculated, and escalating, campaign targeting Israel

Arab demographic growth could tip the scales and make the occupation unsustainable ■ The Israeli military's intense PR efforts can't compensate for its collapsing draft model ■ Can Israel protect its cyberspace?

Israel's Independence Day air force flyover on Thursday will pass cities and communities across the country, as well as some Jewish settlements in the West Bank

After two years of COVID, this year's Israeli-Palestinian event stayed largely online. Despite organizers' concerns, a counter-protest drew less than a dozen people

30 years after it was built, the old railroad track to Jerusalem stands deserted. We took the chance to hike along it

Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov’s extreme statements are just another link in a chain of diplomatic incidents between the two countries ■ Five key events that prove Israel and Russia relations are on the verge of serious deterioration

President Isaac Herzog on the 'terrible lies' spread by Lavrov, his insistence on maintaining political neutrality, Israel's budding relationship with Turkey, and his hopes for the country on the eve of its 74th Independence Day

'Defaulting to antisemitic tropes... reflects the gutless depravity of the Russian regime' the lawmakers wrote in a rare joint statement, adding that Lavrov's remarks were an affront to the Jews murdered in the Holocaust

Shamans and snakes, perhaps: The subjects of the glyphs on the ceiling of the ‘19th Unnamed Cave’ in Alabama are hard to make out, but then, they were drawing in the dark

Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked had decided to remove the repatriation ban last month, threatening dozens of asylum seekers from the Democratic Republic of Congo with expulsion

After enduring the Islamic State's brutal aggression, more than 3,000 Yazidis trying to reestablish their homes fled north after the Iraqi army engaged with members of a Yazidi militia

The military censor must learn to differentiate between trivial details and what is really important to keep in the shadows, with an emphasis on concealing information that could surprise the enemy in the future

Six bereaved families of Israeli soldiers who died by suicide talk to Haaretz about their memories, and about shame, self-flagellation and how the military and society can do better

The Wall Street Journal report quotes a U.S. official describing the meeting as having a 'better tone' than past engagements, with bilateral ties having deteriorated since the Biden administration assumed power

Following right-wing activists’ objections, Tel Aviv District Court Judge Michal Agmon-Gonen was ordered not to speak before the Association for Civil Rights in Israel over its frequent involvement in court litigation

The group of palm trees is defined as unique and is said to be a remnant of the first domesticated palms in the Middle East

Since the draft's release, protests are being planned nationwide and Democrats are scrambling to respond to the bombshell leak, with President Joe Biden vowing to try to protect abortion rights

The U.S. Supreme Court is siding with a distressed, angry minority taking legitimate but detestable advantage of a skewed political system. The bad news: things can still get worse with the current 6-3 conservative majority

According to a survey of Jewish Israelis, half of them support Jewish prayer at the holy Jerusalem site, despite recurring Israeli promises to maintain the status quo

For the second year, the alternative Memorial Day ceremony on Tuesday will be broadcast online with only a small crowd attending physically

UN-led rescue operation sees more than 100 civilians evacuated from the Azovstal steel plant, official says, as Russian forces seek to take over port city and cut Ukraine off from the Black Sea

Projected boom in Haredi population worldwide is attributed to other factors besides high fertility rates – including longevity, say researchers from the London-based Institute for Jewish Policy Research

The U.S. and European countries are already supplying Ukraine beyond Israel's capabilities, but Israeli officials fear not sending more help may erode global trust in its defense industries

The world's largest generic drug manufacturer based in Petah Tikva has already paid $1.1 billion in financial settlements with American state and county governments over its alleged role in the country's opioid crisis

The dual Israeli-Ukrainian citizen Sergei 'Aharon' Botynskaya was hit by shrapnel during the Russian assault on Mariupol as he was making his way to a synagogue in the coastal city

An Irish historian decided to assemble the lost puzzle of Hilde Koch’s life, revealing a Jewish artist who created works full of Christian imagery in an era with few known female illustrators

Far from being solely symbolic in purpose, use-wear analysis shows residue of animals on Italian Bronze Age blades. But humans don’t generally confine butchery to the beasts

We should be proud: Technology didn’t rise in Israel because God put it there for us to exploit

Israeli Prof. Dan Tchernov is not concerned for the fate of the earth, but believes an umbrella organization devoted to the sea is needed. 'For the first time an organism – us – is initiating the extinction'

'Our people bear on their body the scars of our forefathers' factionalism,' the prime minister says ■ Fifty-six names added to Israel's list of soldiers fallen in duty since the country's last Memorial Day

The project may spark controversy in nearby Arab neighborhoods of East Jerusalem ■ The municipality and Tourism Ministry say the project, part of larger renovation plans for the promenade, is still under review

Victims' families hang in the balance, without answers or compensation, after the deaths of their loved ones in Iran's alleged strike of an Israeli-owned merchant tanker

Most women in Israel can get an abortion on demand, often at no cost – something U.S. states will soon be able to outlaw, according to leaked Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade

It is one of the most enduring myths surrounding the 1948 war: The epic battle between a fearsome Arab Goliath and a newborn Israel to liberate Palestine. And it’s a fable that continues to inflict harm today

The loud voices criticizing Israel’s ‘deficient’ support for Ukraine, and their egregious Holocaust analogies, simply don’t recognize that Israel’s careful response to Russia relates to the most devastating threat to its own survival

The passing of Gilon, who made social justice one of the central missions of his career, evoked condolences and grief from across Israel's political spectrum

Moscow calls Israeli Foreign Minister Lapid's rebuke of Lavrov's Hitler comment 'anti-historical' and says it 'explains to a large extent why the current Israeli government supports the neo-Nazi regime in Kyiv'

Omar Bar-Lev was a former commander of the elite unit to which the soldier belonged, and the disclosure came despite a military order banning the publication of details pertaining to his death

'Roe was egregiously wrong from the start,' Justice Samuel Alito wrote in the draft opinion which is dated February 10, according to Politico

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer condemns the Russian FM's remarks, which spread 'disinformation about the history of the Holocaust in order to advance Mr. Putin's political and military agenda'

A total of 24,068 people have died in service since the year 1860, including members of several pre-state underground militias, Israel's military and police