Middle East Headlines

A day after the firing of Arye Dery following the High Court's decision, coalition members - including the prime minister - held a press conference attacking the media and defending the convicted criminal...

The ruling by a court in Amman follows the 2017 shooting, which led to a drastic deterioration in diplomatic ties between the two countries...

'My grandparents were in the Holocaust,' Bowen Yang as Santos says in the skit. 'They actually knew Anne Frank. My ancestors were the ones that told her, 'You should be writing this down''...

'Israel has one friend in the world...Those who risk U.S. support should know what they're doing': Rep. Brad Sherman, one of Israel's strongest supporters in Congress, has a pointed warning for Netanyahu's government, its plans to unde...

Girl group BLACKPINK's short skirts and uncovered heads scandalized many Saudis, while a movie that features intimate scenes has done the same in Jordan...

The IDF's initial report stated that 45-year-old Ahmed Kahla arrived at a military post in the West Bank and was shot dead after approaching soldiers with a knife...

The street performers who make Israeli intersections sparkle don't mind being paid with payment apps...

Pompeo writes about Netanyahu deliberately leaking a nonexistent pledge to advance a formal defense treaty between the U.S. and Israel for political purposes: 'It was false, but it was a good story for him'...

Education programs in the ultra-Orthodox community have continually rejected instructions requiring them to integrate anti-racist, pro-coexistence studies 'There's no chance of introducing topics that are seen as leftist or universal,' sources...

The suspect was posing as Elysee Palace's secretary general in an attempt to defraud European ambassadors. An undercover investigation is being conducted on the subject in response to a request from the French police...

Ibrahim Suri was hit while sitting on his balcony filming police on the street during disturbances in Jaffa during the 2021 war when Israel fought with Hamas and its allies in Gaza that year...

Netanyahu's authoritarian plans to undermine the judiciary and repress civil rights are being met by massive protests and analogies to Turkey's Erdogan regime. But there's another side to the comparison that Israel's pro-democracy camp is ...

Following significant public pushback including from the ultra-Orthodox public Israel's PM announced the government will continue subsidizing cultural events on Shabbat...

The Movement for Quality Government announced that, similar to Saturday night's demonstration, it will hold a separate protest at Habima Square...

Police suspect the father of giving his minor son a false alibi by saying he was with him when the murder occurred. Additionally, they say he used his position to threaten investigating officers, and interfered with a house search...

A study by the Israeli Democracy Institute examined the economic implications of a weakening of the judiciary in other countries, finding that the Israeli government's plans pose a real risk to its credit rating and foreign investment...

The initiative dubbed 'Israeli Shabbat' was meant to help municipalities in Israel's periphery to bring more residents to attend cultural events on the weekend; now local officials are being informed that they must cease holding these events a...

All hospitals and health clinics will operate on a reduced schedule, protesting violence and demanding the Health Ministry to ensure 'an appropriate and safe working environment'...

The bill submitted by the Likud MK and former journalist Boaz Bismuth will ban the publication of a person's recording without their permission the basis of many journalistic investigations...

The organizers of the high-tech protest have announced that they have started to raise funds to finance their struggle aiming for millions of shekels...

The AG will meet with senior jurists and Justice Ministry officials to discuss whether Netanyahu has a conflict of interests with the judiciary as a result of his ongoing criminal trial, but sources insist that these are merely preliminary consultations...

The escalators are designed to service light rail stations built atop a ridge, but since public transport doesn't run on Shabbat, the Jerusalem municipality said there is no reason for the escalators to run either...

Justice Minister Levin's plan to overhaul Israel's judiciary has sparked widespread public resistance. But the steps that prompted the public protest are just the first phase of the prime minister and justice minister's full plan, the details ...

From Blinken to Nides, the message is "It will be okay; we can work with him." This sends Israelis a message of weakness Jerusalem's pro-democracy protest is smaller, but may prove more important how discoveries at Megiddo retell the story of ...

Senior Ukrainian official tells Haaretz that in order to obtain Israeli weapons, his country willing to offer more diplomatic support, including in UN votes...

Brant Slomovic, a Jewish Canadian doctor, decided after the coronavirus to devote himself to his second love: photography. In the project 'The Cracks in Everything' he documented non-Israeli soldiers in the IDF...

While the bigger protests in Tel Aviv are attracting a secular crowd, Saturday's event in Jerusalem boasted a broader spectrum of Israelis, including centrists, Orthodox and even ultra-Orthodox Jews...

The illegal outpost of Or Haim was evacuated on order of Israel's defense minister last week, leading to accusations between Netanyahu government ministers...

Boutique hotels keep popping up in the city, but the Elknonin stands out: Behind it are two families whose remarkable histories include a Turkish twist and a heroic act by Mayor Dizengoff...

In a letter to students and staff, Prof. Ariel Porat says he supports protests against plans to weaken the judicial system adding that 'There's a point when the danger of the State of Israel's democratic character requires a response from each...

Writing in a leading Israeli daily in response to plans to curb the court's authority, Karnit Flug and Jacob Frenkel warned against a decrease in foreign investment and a lowering of Israel's credit rating...

How does the new Tel Aviv store compare to the U.S. original? Haaretz sent a New Jerseyan along to find out...

Prof. Yisrael Aumann, one of the most prominent intellectuals on the Israeli right and a Nobel prize-winning economist, spoke out against the proposed legislation that would permit the Knesset to override Supreme Court decisions by a very slim majority, b...

For the first time, archaeologists have dated a complete sequence from the Early Bronze Age to the Iron Age. What they found at Megiddo changes the story of the ancient Levant...

The shooting took place at a ballroom dance venue during Chinese Lunar New Year celebrations held in Monterey Park, near downtown Los Angeles. The suspected gunman fled the scene...

Dogs at airports, hang your heads: Tel Aviv scientists create locust bio-mech in proof of concept...

'If so many Israelis are feeling as internal exiles at their home, it's clear that something has gone wrong,' the renowned Israeli author told a huge crowd in central Tel Aviv, as over 130,000 Israelis went out to protest the Netanyahu-led gov...

The claim that Israel's judicial selection process is unique is based on questionable conclusions of a Kohelet Forum study...

Despite his criminal convictions, Shas leader Arye Dery had been appointed health and interior minister by Netanyahu, but a High Court ruling last week urged the prime minister to remove Dery from ministerial appointments...

The plan proposed by far-right lawmaker and discussed at the panel Simcha Rotman would increase the power of politicians and decrease that of judges and lawyers in appointing judges, effectively making them political appointments...

Maher Younis, who was released from prison after 40 years of imprisonment for murdering an Israeli soldier in the 80's, was interrogated by police for comments made in a radio interview immediately following his release...

In exchange, visiting U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan has made it clear that the new Israeli government has a friend in Washington...

Neither U.S. President Joe Biden nor his wife, Jill, were present during the Justice Department's search, Biden's attorney Bob Bauer says...