Animals can count, add and subtract, it has been shown. Now groundbreaking research shows that chickens react to the void. The ladies, at least

The two Palestinians carried out an attack in ultra-Orthodox city of Elad that killed three Israelis and wounded four

A rash of commentary celebrating a supposed shift in Qatari policy, away from promoting and subsidizing radical Islamists like Hamas and the Taliban to "moderating" them, is misplaced, misinformed and dangerously naïve

Two confirmed dead after Russia dropped a bomb on a school in Ukraine's Luhansk region where about 90 people were sheltering, governor says

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

The bylaws of Joint List leader Ayman Odeh’s Hadash faction reveal one factor that Odeh may consider in his calculations to stand with or vote against Bennett's fragile government

Latest attacks quash any hopes that calm would be restored after Ramadan, and Israelis' frustration and insecurity are leading to a pining for earlier times

With fighting still ongoing underneath the steel complex in the destroyed Ukrainian city, observers are speculating about announcements Putin might make on Monday, when Russia celebrates its victory over Nazi Germany

Oren Zeev explains why he tries to avoid attending too many board meetings and how his fund turned $50 million into $660 million

Art AI was an early player in the generative digital art world. Now it has a platform that allows others to create their own AI-driven NFT drops

An Israeli source told Iran International, a U.K.-based Iranian opposition channel, that Indian police carried out drills around the New Delhi embassy

U.S. officials were prepared to swallow the approval of 2,000 to 3,000 housing units in the West Bank in light of the shaky Bennett government’s need to shore up support among right-wing voters, an Israeli source said

Israel's prime minister may have thought he got an apology from the Russian president over Lavrov's antisemitic remarks, but for the Kremlin, it doesn't really mean much

'This part of the Mariupol humanitarian operation is over,' Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk declared after numerous attempts to evacuate civilians were halted by renewed shelling

Restrictions on women continue to grow with return of hard-line restriction, which threatens punishments for male relatives of women who don't cover their faces outside

The ambush comes just one week after an attack in Sinai's north blew up a natural gas pipeline as part of an Islamic State-led insurgency plaguing the peninsula

Authorities now believe the suspects are still in Israel, as search continues after attack in ultra-Orthodox city of Elad that killed three Israelis and wounded four

Lusitanian cownose rays, seldom seen near Israel, are staying close to shore, but proposed marina could harm them and other sea creatures

Wall Street Journal reports that Kushner’s new VC firm, which has already raised $2 billion from official Saudi fund, will invest directly in at least two Israeli tech companies

So far this year, North Korea has fired missiles 15 times. They include the country's first test of an intercontinental ballistic missile since 2017 in March that demonstrated a potential range to reach the entirety of the U.S.

Al-Zawahri, whose whereabouts are unknown, says 'U.S. weakness' allowed Ukraine to become 'prey' for Russia in video marking anniversary of bin Laden death

Militants in Gaza agree not to fire rockets into Israel in exchange for limiting Jewish entry into the Al-Aqsa Mosque and opening border crossings, Palestinian newspaper reports

No casualties reported in second airstrike in Deir el-Zour within a week. Damascus didn't say who was responsible for it

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

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