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Netanyahu, his justice minister and his far-right allies are conducting a demolition derby of Israel's state institutions and its foreign relations. An illiberal future beckons as does The Hague, and lethal conflict within and across Israel's bord...

According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, the young Palestinian suffered a shot to the head. The Israeli military has yet to comment on the incident...

In a recording published by the Kan public broadcaster on Monday, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich can be heard airing his thoughts on LGBTQ people. 'I won't stone gays, and you won't feed me shrimp'...

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich are to decide on delegation of authority, but the latter has all the real leverage...

The legal opinions are expected to point to numerous legal failures in the bills composing what Chief Justice Esther Hayut has called a plan to 'crush' the Israeli justice system...

Brig. Gen. Kobi Yaacobi, recently appointed as commander of the Zion region at the Jerusalem District, is the National Security Minister's first appointment. Demonstrators have claimed in the past that he employed disproportionate force during the pro...

In a statement, Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem said that Dr. Ahmed Mahajana clarified that he 'sees human life as the highest value and condemns any violent activity and any harm to any person, including terrorist activity'...

The eight-year-old boy was arrested last Thursday at his school in violation of an agreement with the Tel Aviv municipality and taken to a holding center...

What will Netanyahu do if and when a clash between Smotrich and the military happens? The American billionaires behind the far-right attempt to destroy liberal Israel landmark report finds U.K. student union created 'hostile environment' for Jews ...

The protest against the Netanyahu-led far-right Israeli government was supposed to attract every citizen worried about their rights, first and foremost the marginalized. In practice, the lack of mobilization by Arab leadership, mistrust in government inst...

The proposal, which still requires Knesset approval, gives Noam party head Avi Maoz key power over educational content and worries ministry officials...

The annual index of some 20,000 people also found that 57 percent of Israelis opposed blocking the Supreme Court's authority in halting legislation from the Knesset, as proposed by Israel's new government, if the essence of those laws are anti-dem...

Critics say they're playing into the hands of Itamar Ben-Gvir and other Israeli far-rightists, but these demonstrators have a different idea about what makes up a proper Zionist protest...

The report was called 'shocking' by U.K. Higher Education Minister but was also criticized by Palestinian organizations and activists...

Ronen Levi served for nearly 30 years in the intelligence and security community, and and was involved in forging the Abraham Accords between Israel, the UAE and Bahrain...

Justice Minister Yariv Levin's judicial overhaul was apparently written by the Kohelet Policy Forum, one of the best-funded research institutes in Israel, which advances nationalist, libertarian policies and is funded by two American billionaires...

'Freedom,' 'power,' 'possibilities' the Israeli women in 'The Prostitution Dialogues' have surprising things to say about their life as sex workers...

The boy was taken out of class on Thursday in violation of an agreement with the Tel Aviv municipality and is set to be expelled to Ghana...

Against the backdrop of Israel's most religious government ever, a new program aims to grant secular soldiers a partial exemption from military service in order to study science and the humanities in the way some religious troops study the Talmud...

Roee Joseph took part in a military investigation in which a soldier was cleared for shooting dead a harmless 64-year-old Gazan. The Israeli's new play aims to fill gaps in communication and interpretation...

Following the massive demonstrations across Israel on Saturday protesting the government's judicial reforms, the prime minister claimed that the reform package is backed by 'the millions who voted for us'...

What remains to be seen is how many of the tens of thousands of protestors will continue showing up week after week to fight for Israel's fragile democracy as the campaign to weaken the Supreme Court and eliminate judicial review of the government mar...

Haaretz photographers capture the demonstrations against the government throughout the country...

An initial investigation revealed that a grenade was found in a field during a training exercise, and it had exploded inside one of the soldier's bags...

Despite the President's ongoing efforts, the chances of a successful negotiation are low sources from several parties believe that a compromise on key issues such the 'override clause' is unlikely...

Despite her diminutive stature, Ra'anana native Noa Kahn hopes to be the next big thing behind a drum kit. "Every time I get on stage, people assume I'm the singer or something."...

With Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and new Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer expected to be calling the shots, diplomats say marginalizing the Foreign Ministry could damage Israel's international policy...

Israel halted defense exports to Myanmar in 2018 following the junta's brutal crackdown on the Rohingya minority. In 2020 Cognyte won a tender for an advanced system to spy on civilians...

Lt. Gen. Aviv Kochavi says economic sanctions and a military option involving more than Israel could convince Tehran to adopt the moderate approach that it embraced in 2003...

The foreign ministers of several European states fear the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's new far-right government will take unilateral measures that will harm the two-state solution with the Palestinians...

Legal sources say that the most worrying aspect of Justice Minister Yariv Levin's plan to reform the justice system is that it could bar the Supreme Court from overturning Israel's Basic Laws, as his reforms would be enacted via such laws...

Saturday's protest in Tel Aviv against the far right's planned judicial overhaul saw a four-fold increase in numbers from last week, despite occasionally heavy rainfall, with smaller but sizeable showings in Jerusalem and Haifa too...

Facebook's parent company claims Voyager Labs used tens of thousands of fake accounts and advanced tracking tools to secretly collect information on 600,000 Facebook and Instagram users...

Protesters are expected to demonstrate for the second straight week in Tel Aviv on Saturday evening...

The assailants reportedly used pepper spray and batons to attack the hikers, who had to wait two hours before soldiers came to escort them back to their bus...

State Prosecutor Amit Eisman says state attorneys are subject to attacks which are getting 'worse over the years, in terms of their quantity and intensity,' and that the attacks are directed at prosecutors in cases 'of high public interest'...

Both Britain and the U.S. described the death sentence handed to Iran's former deputy defense minister Alireza Akbari as being politically motivated. In an audio recording, Akbari said he had made false confessions as a result of torture...

Two Palestinians were shot dead by IDF soldiers on a demolition mission to destroy the houses of families of two other young men, who had killed an officer. Collective punishment was thus compounded by more killing...

The death of Al-Jaabari raises the number of Palestinians killed during Israeli raids in the West Bank since the beginning of the year to 10...

A Galilee entrepreneur hoped to achieve a modest goal: to make fish oil a tasty food additive for children. But along the way he came up with a revolutionary method to treat sugar making it possible to use only a fraction of the amount usually found in pr...