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The battle between Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and Bezalel Smotrich over who wields authority in the territories could exacerbate the already fraught situation with the Palestinians...

Bank of Israel governor tells Netanyahu that global economic figures had expressed their concerns to him that changes could affect Israel's credit rating...

The chairman of the finance committee Moshe Gafni placed 60 bills on the Knesset's agenda this month including a proposal to enshrine Torah study into Israel's Basic Law and removing chametz from hospitals during Passover...

After Defense Minister Yoav Gallant ignored the demand by Bezalel Smotrich to halt the evacuation of an illegal outpost established overnight on privately held Palestinian land in the West Bank, PM Netanyahu summoned the two to a meeting, which sources ca...

The regulations directly apply Israeli laws to Israelis who reside in the area and are meant to govern the full provision of legal assistance between Israel and the recognized bodies of the Palestinian Authority...

Pence's representatives sent a letter to the National Archives notifying them of the documents and in a separate letter added the FBI came to the former vice president's home to collect the documents...

Around 1,000 workers downed digital tools on Tuesday to protest government plans to weaken the judicial system, with some talking of leaving the country if the overhaul is implemented...

The national security minister held a press conference alongside the police commissioner and hinted that another nationwide wave of violence akin to the one experienced in Israel's mixed Jewish-Arab cities in 2021 is to be expected in case of another ...

Israel needs a government that will promote real solutions to the country's actual problems, not a daily dose of culture war provocations The next phase in Netanyahu's plan to kill Israel's media Why the far right is obsessed with burning the ...

'I respectfully implore' Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to make good on previous pledges that he would block laws that threatened the independence of Israel's justice system, wrote Eric Goldstein...

The student's family appealed the decision to court. According to the Education Ministry's central district chief, the transfer was in the boy's best interests, but a professional opinion obtained by his family said it would hurt him and worse...

Investigative journalism in Israel is a disappearing genre, senior reporters and academics say. And as Netanyahu's far-right team digs in, reporters mull self-censorship...

The unannounced meeting comes at a tense moment in the relations between Jerusalem and Amman...

Last November, UNRWA Commissioner-General Lazzarini said that the agency's financial woes could result in it no longer being able to fulfil its mandate to provide humanitarian aid throughout the middle east...

The pool in the Har Homa neighborhood will be open on the Sabbath for the next two years, during which 'the extent of harm to the Shabbat atmosphere can be assessed,' but no food will be sold and no organized activities will be conducted...

Zients has previously led the Biden administration's COVID-19 response from 2021 to 2022 and held multiple positions in government, including as advisor to the Biden transition team and the Obama administration...

The new communications minister plans to shut Israel's public broadcaster among other media authorities and supervisory bodies The new government also aims to block publication of 'sensitive information'...

Drawing on a dark history of public book burning, an anti-Muslim far right provocateur has (once again) publicly set fire to the Koran in Stockholm. So why won't Sweden's government call it a hate crime?...

Addressing the rapidly rising tensions that led to demonstrations across the country and warning of deepening social rift, Herzog said that 'It's permissible to criticize the government branches, but it should be done in a dialogue'...

The IDF and the Shin Bet could find themselves facing serious allegations if the EU adds the Iranian organization to its terror blacklist. Harm to human rights and weapons sales to enemies of the EU are likely to be included in the expanded definition...

According to sources in Netanyahu's Likud party, one of the aims of the change was to remove Likud Knesset members who might oppose legislation that would benefit Netanyahu in his ongoing criminal corruption trial...

The temporary appointment of MKs Michael Malkieli and Yoav Ben Tzur follows last week's Israel's High Court decision to disqualify Shas leader Arye Dery from serving in any ministerial positions...

Their campaign will destroy anything standing in its way, including the separation of powers and judicial independence that constitute substantive democracy...

Hundreds of employees of several prominent high-tech companies abandoned their desks and gathered in Tel Aviv on Tuesday morning...

Just like the police, the AG's office, the prosecution, legal advisers, the left and the media - the court that disqualified Arye Dery is subversive and treacherous, Netanyahu believes...

The opposition leader said that he hopes that a different proposal can prevent a rift in the nation. Supreme Court President Hayut and Justice Minister Levin met for the second time since her speech opposing the plan to weaken the legal system...

External providers of education content must promise 'not to include material that shames or humiliates the Israel Defense Forces, its soldiers, its casualties or the casualties of terror attacks'...

'We stand with Israelis who are concerned about extremist members of the current Israeli government. Their bigoted statements, and the policies they espouse, run counter to our shared values,' the Jewish Democratic Council of America said...

The report connects the rising polarization and declining resilience in Israeli society to the recent political crisis, and warns that these issues and the risk they pose to Israel's international standing are significant threats...

Antony Blinken will be the second senior U.S. official to visit Israel since the new government was sworn in...

'For Iran, the message is clear: the United States and Israel have the capability to existentially threaten this regime if it crosses the Rubicon on nuclear development,' an American security official said...

Presidents of the country's major universities called on the government to 'refrain from a rapid constitutional change, which is being taken without a meaningful parliamentary and public conversation over the issues'...

Gali Baharav-Miara denied the claim in response to a letter issued by coalition heads saying that the move would be 'amount to a coup'...

Israel should understand that it may be a matter of when, not if, pressure from Washington begins to coalesce Weakening Israel's judiciary poses real risk to foreign investment Down and out and upside down with Tel Aviv's street performers Today&#...

Poached egg with caviar for $94 anyone? Tel Aviv's L'poque is a Francophile's dream waiters in formal dress and other gestures that you'll consider either charming and classic or outdated and eye-wateringly overpriced...

A resident of the Ofra settlement began cultivating the land on the outskirts of Ramallah, which had been owned by Jews before 1948, without a permit...

According to several European news outlets, the Hungarian government demands sanctions relief for both Alfa-Bank co-founder Mikhail Fridman and Moshe Kantor, a major shareholder in leading Russian fertilizer Acron...