Middle East Headlines

To what can we attribute the acquiescence of civil society to Israel's new government? It may be connected to a Jewish inclination to obedience, and an unwillingness to defy either the sovereign or God...

In the week leading up to the police chief's order, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has paid particular attention to references to Germany's Third Reich seen at last week's demonstration in Tel Aviv...

Netanyahu also said that Israel will remain a democracy even after his contentious judicial reform package passes, pushing back against the Supreme Court president's comments a day earlier that the move would trample human rights...

If recent years of global chaos have taught us anything, it's that clean government, democratic freedom and the rule of law are essential for maintaining public order in an increasingly complicated and dangerous world...

From Itamar Ben-Gvir in Israel to Matt Gaetz in Washington, the virulent antidemocratic rhetoric is identical: anti-elites, anti-education, anti-science, anti-diversity, anti-anything different...

The authorization for the grants has expired and the Aliyah and Integration Ministry didn't fully pay benefits in December, amid a shortfall of 20 million shekels ($5.9 million) in funding...

The Lebanese military claims it did not shoot the drone down but the Israeli military said it was not aware of such reports...

Environmental groups are concerned that the appointment of Sultan Ahmed al-Jaber, the CEO of the UAE's state-owned Abu Dhabi National Oil Company as chairman of the COP28 climate conference in Dubai will lead to its failure...

France's Jewish community is skeptical after the comedian Dieudonn M'bala M'bala, who has popularized quasi-Nazi salutes, publishes letter apologizing for 'artistic gestures that went too far'...

The finance minister blasted Kochavi following his statements in multiple interviews, where he came out against the decision to transfer crucial West Bank powers to Smotrich...

50-year-old Ali Jarushi, known as an arbitrator in disputes in the Israeli underworld, was shot dead near a mosque in the city of Ramle...

With only days left in the role after four turbulent years, Aviv Kochavi speaks out against plans for defense and security by Israel's most extreme government ever...

The first and most tangible achievement of the new far-right government is the revival of the opposition camp, which had appeared to be nothing more than political cadaver...

This week at the Tel Aviv airport: A Luxembourgian expat tries to crack the secret to relationships, and a German traveling the world by bike...

The court system and the schools are on strike, fuel for the power plant is stuck in Beirut's port and nobody knows when a new president will be chosen. What's certain is that the final decision will be Hezbollah's...

The climate crisis is primarily a crisis of consciousness. Decades of abundance and over-consumption have warped us to the point where even technological innovations will not be enough to stop environmental deterioration. The only way left is to redefine ...

Did our government transfer 53 billion shekels to the Arabs? Of course not, but if lies and the truth are given equal standing by the news programs, the lies win...

He was arrested after not reporting for police questioning in the wake of a tweet that he posted. The Israeli right has pegged him as an enemy of the state, for others he's the hero of the hour. Who is ultra-Orthodox journalist Israel Frey? What drive...

As some party leaders plan to attend the mass protest in Tel Aviv, police warned that hundreds may attempt to attack officers and block traffic...

Losing what is left of Israel's fragile democracy will be a terrible blow for many Israelis but they will not see it as worth going to war for...

25-year-old's death follows the killing of a 41-year-old during a nighttime arrest, as clashes continue in Nablus during arrest operations...

Hayut said that the override clause will allow the Knesset to 'override human rights' AG: 'Majority rule is indeed a necessary condition for democracy to exist, but it is not a sufficient condition'...

While Israel's ultra-Orthodox parties have largely sought to strengthen their communities' budgets and autonomy, Maoz, as a representative of a messianic strain of religious Zionist Judaism, wants Shabbat to be observed by all Israelis, conversion...

Survey finds 87 percent of U.S. Jews felt less safe after the hostage-taking in Texas, with younger Jews being more worried about their safety...

An infamous tweet by basketball star Kyrie Irving drew attention to a film asserting that Black Americans are the real Jews and white Jews stole their identity. Haaretz explores the extremist group behind the controversial documentary...

Coalition agreement between Likud and Religious Zionism states it will advance the return of thousands of dunams of West Bank land as well as scores of buildings in Hebron to their pre-1948 Jewish owners...

U.S. legal scholar Benjamin Wittes says Israeli plans to reform the judicial system will leave it more vulnerable to international tribunals, but he doesn't expect the affair to become a flash point with American Jews...

Netanyahu and Smotrich unveiled a plan to combat the effects of spiral inflation, but inflation isn't out of control and their plan won't save consumers money....

Police say Ashraf Mash'al was murdered as part of a conflict between crime organizations in northern Israel, that has claimed the lives of at least nine people in the last two years...

The leading U.S. legal expert tells Haaretz Weekly how Israel's Supreme Court is a powerful institution built on a pillar of sand, and warns that Netanyahu's attempts to weaken it could hurt Israel in the international arena...

Three men from the fringe ultra-Orthodox sect Neturei Karta visited the home of a senior Islamic Jihad member in Jenin, violating Israeli law...

The Association for Civil Rights in Israel claims that the state-owned railway company's policies violate anti-discrimination laws, cites many cases when activists were detained and even assaulted due to political views...

Yoav Kisch's changes to the education ministry follow growing concern about the new government's educational policy in recent weeks...

The protesters, worried about the new government's plans to weaken the judiciary, have decided to sound the alarm in a rare move...

Few visitors know that the landscape of the placid Golan Heights was formed by millions of years of volcanic eruptions — and it still bears dazzling signs of its geological history...

The Nahum tower is, unfortunately, quite typical of Israeli skylines...

Ostrich eggs have been found in graves and the birds in ancient rock art, but now eggs as much as 7,000 years old were found for the first time in the context of a hearth, in the deep Negev desert...

One suspect who targeted witness Hadas Klein is a recurrent offender who served a prison sentence for raping a minor He used to unleash vulgar utterances at Netanyahu's political rivals and law enforcement officials...

Gali Baharav-Miara critique follows growing tension between her and Israel's new coalition and its intended judicial overhaul...

The unprecedented letter was signed by all of Israel's former attorney generals and most ex-state prosecutors...

A proposal expected to be launched next week by the head of the constitution committee will further weaken Israel's judicial system...

How did people hunt giant cows on the banks of the Jordan River around 60,000 years ago? Not the way you might think...

Man, 41, was reportedly shot while trying to prevent Israeli forces from arresting his son...