Middle East Headlines

'I feel like the earth is shaking under our feet,' says Iris, one of over 130,000 protesters at a mass demonstration in Tel Aviv voicing concern over moves to defang the judiciary...

The High Court ruled on Wednesday that the Shas party chairman should be removed from cabinet positions following his criminal conviction on tax evasion charges last year and subsequent suspended sentence...

The protests spanned across Israel in Jerusalem, Be'er Sheva, Haifa and Tel Aviv bringing in tens of thousands of Israelis to protest the government's plan to weaken the judiciary...

Three weeks ago, Israel's ambassador to France Yael German resigned from her position, citing 'extremist views' expressed by members in Netanyahu's government...

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara has demanded Netanyahu to remove Dery from his current positions in the government and replace him. Netanyahu has failed to do so and Dery has yet to resign...

Thousands are protesting in Haifa In U-turn, Israeli mall giant to publish Haaretz ad promoting 'democracy'...

A meeting on Friday in Germany did not result in a definitive statement from Kyiv's allies in the West, leading to several Baltic nations to call for Germany to 'help stop Russian agression'...

Haaretz asked to publish the ad, which states that 'democracy doesn't end with elections,' on a large digital billboard in Tel Aviv The ad was rejected by Azrieli Group, which claimed it only allows commercial ads...

Driving to work with his son, Ahmed Kahla was stopped at an army checkpoint, where he was shot dead. The army claimed he tried to grab a soldier's weapon. His son insists that he was slain for no reason...

It seemed that Israel's LGBTQ community could rest on its laurels. But the renewed assault on it by the Orthodox-nationalist right signals that the battle transcends protecting the rights of any single group...

What does a country, whose political, economic and social systems all revolve around opium, look like? Benzion Telefus, an expert on global drug war politics, offers some insight and explains why eliminating the illicit drug industry in Afghanistan would ...

Exquisite silks and cottons from the East and Nubia have been discovered at Nahal Omer, a way station along a previously unknown desert highway...

The 2020 High Court decision to let the indicted Benjamin Netanyahu serve as prime minister may be haunting Chief Justice Esther Hayut as she helps defend against efforts to quash Israeli democracy...

Al-Sissi is worried that raising the prices of fuel and pita essential goods that affect every household in Egypt will lead to widespread protests throughout the country A change in Israeli policy toward the Palestinians that will lead to a violent escala...

It is not clear who is behind the attack but it resembles previous strikes by Iranian backed groups in the area...

Three High Court judges saw Arye Dery's previous declarations that he would step down from politics as the primary reason behind the High Court ruling barring him from being appointed minister...

'Building a conservative community is a tough job. But both Hungary and Israel have had some great results already,' Orban tweeted after meeting Israeli conservative community leader Amiad Cohen...

Security forces have began evacuating an illegal outpost established by Israeli settlers in the West Bank overnight on Friday...

The most dangerous axis in the country is between Yariv Levin and Yair Netanyahu Lapid will try to escape the spiral he has found himself in Herzog's time is running out Dery's lesson on the limits of power How far and how low does the disqualific...

From geopolitics to weapons development, an internal Israeli army document charts how the war could impact Israel's next conflicts...

The COVID outbreak imbued the IDF with optimism as to its relationship with Israeli-Arab citizens. Little of that has materialized What the right-wing has in store for the new army chief...

This week at the Tel Aviv airport: A musician heading to Thailand to get away from everything he knows, and a tattoo artist searching for a dream...

Reflections on a weekend getaway for secular young women, aimed at strengthening our Jewishness...

Organizers call for action: 'Everyone fighting for democracy must demonstrate this Saturday night on Kaplan Street and work together to stop the coup against our system of government'...

Shlomit Barnea-Farago, who has been attending cabinet meetings for 20 years, is also a prosecution witness in Netanyahu's criminal trial...

The ancient tablets, uncovered 30 years ago during the Gulf War and forgotten until now, offer a first glimpse of the Amorite language that Hebrew developed from...

Deputy Minister Avi Maoz is establishing a government agency that aims to eradicate Israel's secular identity. Dozens of recordings, speeches and articles by Maoz and his mentor, Rabbi Zvi Thau, reveal their plan to bring Israel 'closer to redempt...

Ben-Gvir's party's coalition agreement with Prime Minister Netanyahu's Likud states that the Shin Bet will address criminal activity beyond national security threats, but Shin Bet officials say that would violate the law and could lead to harm...

The ultra-Orthodox leader who was forced out of government by the Supreme Court this week likes to claim that his party has carried out a revolution, but this has only happened at the ballot box, not in real life...

Former HRW Director Ken Roth believes he lost the scholarship for criticizing Israel. Harvard dean Douglas Elmendorf says the initial rejection was based on an 'evaluation of his potential contributions' to the school...

The Biden administration is ignoring the fact that Netanyahu is the weakest party leader in his own coalition The film that predicted the rise of Israel's far right and its chief plan Supplying Ukraine with weapons stored in Israel underscores Washing...

Facing off against protests, loudspeakers, whistles and jeers, the Women of the Wall's choir is using their voices in the fight against religious coercion in Jerusalem...

It stands at the center of the government's plan to undermine the judiciary and stars in this week's political disaster for Prime Minister Netanyahu. But what exactly is the 'reasonableness' standard roiling Israel?...

The diplomatic office in Kyiv has been open on an ad hoc basis since June, but it is set to completely return to its normal operations within the next 60 days, according to Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen...

Online shoppers searching for goat cheese, olives and other goods wind up being offered sex toys on the supermarket chain's website...

In a plea bargain, Ilana Sporta Hania admitted to threatening Bennett and his family, but the prosecution dropped the charge of possession of ammunition, which was filed after she mailed bullets to the then-prime minister's home...

In their documentary 'H2: The Occupation Lab,' Idit Avrahami and Noam Sheizaf show how the military occupation in Hebron has served as a model for the whole settlement project and now for life in Israel itself. An interview ahead of an imminent ca...

At a time of rising antisemitism, Tom Stoppard's play 'Leopoldstadt9; is a Broadway hit precisely because it asks the question that many U.S. Jews were afraid to speak aloud...

Many in Washington fear it's only a matter of time before Netanyahu and his coalition of racists and authoritarians go too far, forcing the U.S. to reassess the alliance with Israel's government. That means Biden must have clear, and irrevocable, ...

The drone was first noticed by a passerby in Jaffa who alerted the police leading to an investigation and arrest...

The West Bank is on the verge of an explosion and the dramatic increase in terror attacks and shootings attests to that. With Ramadan and Passover approaching, even the smallest incident could set it all ablaze...

The two countries' economy have been especially hard by the conflict and neither have any realistic answer for what to do part from muddling along...

Speaking a day after the High Court disqualified Shas party leader Arye Dery from serving as a government minister, MK Israel Eichler said the judiciary was declaring war on the law...

Netanyahu's agreements with his far-right allies mean the rise of a new Israel of state-sanctioned racism, unbound by political decency. As a Jew I'm disoriented. As an Ethiopian, a woman and mother I am outraged. As a citizen, I am afraid...