Middle East Headlines

While Israel again came in ahead of the United States, it did slip six places since last February, ending a years-long steady upwards trend, and still remains a 'flawed democracy'...

Sleepy Circassian locale Kfar Kama has made the UN's Best Tourism Villages list, leaving some residents worrying that their clean and pleasant home will be ruined...

Workers at the scene stopped the tourist after he rioted in the church, knocked down a statue, and disfigured it. It is the fifth incident of damage to Christian holy sites in the past few weeks, according to the Vatican...

The financial markets don't play politics and Netanyahu's plans don't pose an immediate threat to the economy. That doesn't mean the day won't come...

An Israeli official said Wednesday that Sudan is likely to be the next Muslim country to join the Abraham Accords with Israel...

The head of the Institute for National Security Studies explains why the special relationship with the United States is now more important than ever, and how Netanyahu's government is putting it under threat...

Key religious, political and communal Jewish figureheads in the United States are increasingly distressed by the actions of the Israeli government, but there is no consensus on the best response...

Communications Minister Karhi reportedly put off plans to close Kan which he says would open 'the market to competition' as government marches on with efforts to neuter the power of Israel's courts...

The commonly accepted term in Israel for a terror attack Pigua only came into use in modern Hebrew after a 1968 hijacking, thanks to Prime Minister Levi Eshkol...

'We are celebrating a historic moment that follows years of contacts, during which I also visited Chad,' Netanyahu said at the ceremonial opening of the embassy in Ramat Gan...

Gali Baharav-Miara is expected to give her opinion on the Netanyahu-Levin plan in the comind days, and security officials are concerned with the level of threats against her...

Nearly ten months after Shimon Maatuf was struck in the head with an ax and had been under care at a rehabilitation hospital. His condition had deteriorated in the last several days, and he died at Tel Hashomer Hospital on Thursday...

Israel's Attorney General sent a letter to the prime minister telling him he 'must avoid intervening in initiatives regarding changes in the judicial system'...

Amir Saeid Iravani says the attack overnight Sunday was 'undertaken by Israel' and 'goes against international law'...

Under pressure to respond quickly and regain his anti-terrorism image, the national security minister bombarded the security cabinet with demands for punitive measures and tried to blame rockets on his decision to ban Palestinian security prisoners from b...

Yariv Levin says lawmakers will confront justices with 'full force' if the Supreme Court deems his plan for judicial overhaul to be unconstitutional...

Despite military coup - and at the request of the United States - negotiations between Israel and Sudan have been ongoing...

Prime Minister Netanyahu expanded Israel's business ties with China in the 2010s, but this time is likely to heed the concerns of Washington and adopt a more conservative approach...

A team of law professors and students believe the city's lively bars are the perfect spot to tell revelers about the dangers of Benjamin Netanyahu's plans to weaken the Supreme Court...

The meetings were held despite Israel's High Court of Justice ruling that Arye Dery may not act as a minister and despite the fact that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fired him at least officially following the verdict...

According to a report by the Israel Young Academy, while 55 percent of high school graduates in recent decades were born to parents without higher education, only about one-third of university bachelor's and master's degree graduates were first-ge...

During his visit, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken seemed much more worried about the internal state of Israeli democracy than the possibility of a major escalation between Israel and the Palestinians...

Parents of several of the student's classmates requested to order the Education Ministry to require the student which the suit referred to as 'girl student' to come to school 'in clothing that matches her biological sex' and stop refer...

Under Israel's Finance Ministry's plane, infirm patients whose condition is categorized as light by the National Insurance Institute, will no longer be eligible for nursing services at home and the allocation of some of them will be slashed...

Pakistan, the highest ranked country in the tournament, proves too much of a challenge, with an 11-3 win in the gold-medal game...

The statement acknowledges the latest escalation of violence in the region, decries the use of antisemitism as a political weapon and stresses that all criticisms 'emanate from a love for Israel and a steadfast support for its security and well-being&...

The prime minister's son made the allegation in testimony in a defamation case filed against him by Dana Cassidy for an alleged tweet from his account with her picture in connection with a 'Gantz's lovers' campaign...

For 10 years, the Hartman Institute received more than $25 million in donations from the CLAWS Foundation, the major financial backers of the conservative-libertarian Kohelet Policy Forum...

Analysis of 2,600-year-old ceramics from embalming workshop at Saqqara, Egypt shows mummification process included products sourced from as far as Southeast Asia...

The village of Khan al-Ahmar is located east of Jerusalem near the Jewish town of Kfar Adumim, in Area C, the part of the West Bank under full Israeli civilian and military control - and its evacuation has been avoided due to pressure from the internation...

For the Palestinian leadership, U.S. Secretary of State Blinken's visit to Israel and the West Bank left them with empty words, and nothing new to report...

In just six minutes, Prime Minister Netanyahu misled the viewers about several key points in his government's plan to weaken the Israeli judicial system...

Prior to the arrival of the storm system on Monday, the current winter had been 'one of the driest in the last 80 years' in the country's north, the Israel Meteorological Service had reported...

The makers of a new exhibition in southern Israel boast that it's the first to use artificial intelligence to "preserve the memory of Shoah victims." But the fake result is puzzling...

Yoav Kish orders principles to report any requests by politicians to visit schools, 'in order to prevent turning educational institutions into a political front by the left and by the right'...

The beloved Lebanese singer refuses to perform in Saudi Arabia or help its crown prince create his bubble of ostensible cultural liberalism...

Only 9 percent of Jewish respondents said they voted for Santos in November. His Democratic rival, Robert Zimmerman, who is Jewish, received 72 percent of the Jewish vote...

It ironically follows a campaign by the group, Im Tirtzu, objecting to comments in class by a Ben-Gurion University professor who has been summoned to the hearing and refuses to appear...

Orbn killed Hungary's independent media and universities. His takeover was brilliantly executed. There are even fewer barriers to Netanyahu enacting similar 'reforms,' a key component of the decimation of democracy, in Israel...

The court also ruled that their other two children, ages 6 and 11, will be sent to the Welfare Ministry's emergency center, after professionals involved in the case got the impression that the girls are afraid of living with their father and one of th...

'Even when missiles were flying, kids from Gaza came for treatment as usual,' says Sahir Zaid who translates children from the Palestinian Authority, Gaza and Arab countries at Schneider Medical Center...

'When we, the engine of the economy, speak like that and really take these steps, I think that they will come to the table and speak,' Tom Livne, CEO and founder of Verbit, said...

Votes could come as soon as Wednesday on the resolution against Omar, as House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has been eager to flex Republican power to remove the Minnesota Democrat...

Iran's UN mission says sanctions have no effect on Iran's drone production capacity, as its drones are all produced domestically...