Middle East Headlines

Tomer Persico, a research fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute and a Senior Scholar at the UC Berkeley Center for Middle Eastern Studies, joins Haaretz editor Amir Tibon to discuss Israel's most right-wing government and the possible consequences of...

Israel's High Court of Justice stated several grounds to disqualify the Shas party leader as interior and health minister, meaning that it would be difficult for Netanyahu's government to bypass the ruling through legislation...

Drawings of the house's floors, entrances, and emergency suits appear in a 2003 plan for added security installations. After Haaretz inquiry, the plans were taken offline...

The inspectors came to the Unitaf center an NGO operating preschools for migrant children in the city for the municipality and did not wait outside as is customary in similar cases, but entered the preschool compound, according to one of the children'...

Israel's High Court barred Arye Dery from serving as interior and health minister on Wednesday due to his criminal convictions...

Demonstrators announced that they are setting up a permanent protest camp in front of the justice minister's home, in opposition to his plan to weaken the justice system...

Two acquaintances of U.S. Representative George Santos said on Wednesday the openly gay Republican congressman competed as a drag queen 15 years ago...

Sullivan's visit is intended to refresh relations with Israel's new government against the backdrop of the extreme positions of its senior officials...

Maher Younis and his cousin Karim, who was released two weeks ago, kidnapped and murdered Israeli soldier Avi Bromberg in 1980...

The UAE hopes that massive investment and incentives will transform its middle class into a globally competitive high-tech work force. Their success depends on whether international companies will buy into the government's vision...

Washington supplied Ukraine with weapons from the emergency stockpile in Israel sending a signal that Iran is not a priority The recent personnel changes at the top of Israel's defense establishment increase the instability that already exists with th...

Once again, a coalition in Israel less than three weeks old has found itself in dire straits that could escalate into an unprecedented constitutional crisis...

By insisting he will not resign his ministry, Arye Dery has rolled a live grenade at the feet of the prime minister...

An override law would thwart the only body that has oversight of the coalition and pave the way to legitimizing any arbitrary or corrupt act...

Session focused on sanctions Israel imposed on the Palestinian Authority by confiscating their tax revenue - in response to the PA's recent successful UN initiative asking the International Court of Justice at The Hague...

According to the Israeli president's office, the two discussed 'the strong partnership between Israel and the U.S., beyond parties and governments'...

On the heels of a key High Court decision that could put Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government in jeopardy, Yair Lapid said he will join the protests on Saturday after not attending the previous rounds...

Who can still talk about 'shared values' as the core tenet of the U.S.-Israel relationship when Netanyahu and his far-right government are waging war on Israeli democracy?...

The former president added that 'it's also possible that the Trump Hating Marxist Thugs in charge will 'plant' documents while they're in possession of the material,' referencing the raid on his Mar-a-Lago estate in which the FBI s...

In a recent interview with Israel's public broadcaster, U.S. Ambassador Tom Nides declined to express an opinion on Yariv Levin's judicial reform package...

The High Court ruling barring Netanyahu's close ally Arye Dery from serving as a minister means a showdown between the rule of law and an enraged governing coalition and the prime minister has no easy way out...

Shapiro took the oath of office on a stack of three Bibles, including one that was rescued from the deadly attack at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh in 2018...

Many in the Israeli high-tech industry fear that the country's leading business sector will be devastated by the effects of Netanyahu's coalition. Yoel Cheshin, chairman and founder of a venture capital firm, explains what could "spell the beg...

'The court has thrown away 400,000 votes:' Israel's Shas party, whose leader Dery was barred from serving as a minister, hits back after bombshell ruling...

Israel's High Court disqualified Shas chairman Arye Dery from serving as health and interior minister, a move that could jeopardize the coalition's chance of survival...

With the far-right Religious Zionism party holding unprecedented power in Netanyahu's new government, Israel is about to change dramatically. Tomer Persico, an expert on Jewish religion and identity, joins the podcast to explain their rise and plans...

Geologists discover quake swarms and growing lava chamber beneath Greece's Kolumbo volcano, which last blew in 1650, devastating Greek islands and blowing ash across Turkey...

This is the second time a meeting on the controversial Jewish enclave in Jabel Mukaber has been postponed...

Lavrov —who drew fierce condemnation from Israel after accusing Ukraine's Jewish President, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, of Nazism last summer— said Washington was using the same tactic as Napoleon and the Nazis...

In the race against Gideon Saar for Likud leadership, Netanyahu raised 1.6 million shekels ($473,800) from foreign donors. More recently, the High Court ordered him to return 2 million shekels ($600,000) he received from overseas to pay for his legal defe...

According to Jake Sullivan, Iran is on the agenda, but right now the JCPOA is 'not the top priority, neither at this time nor in this context'...

The governor of the Kyiv region said that the helicopter crashed near a nursery and a residential building earlier on Wednesday...

Hard-pressed to keep up a steady supply of artillery shells to Ukraine in its fight against Russia, the U.S. requested that Israel allow the pentagon to tap into its stockpile of weapons in local reserves...

After the Jerusalem Municipality told Israeli artist Sara Benninga it would not display her art, which includes nude figures, in a municipal gallery, they denied censoring her. Now she wants to warn against shutting these conversations down...

On Tuesday, senior coalition officials said Dery will ultimately step down from his ministerial position if the High Court disqualifies his appointment, despite his earlier declarations that he would not quit...

Arab critics warn that the group, which is fighting for its social and cultural status in Lebanon, is trying to redefine which subjects can be written about...

Anyone who views Washington's position on Turkey as a message to Israel obviously does so at their own risk - but it is a calculated risk...

Italian media described Stefania Costantini as an advocate for Palestinian rights, while Israel's Shin Bet security service said she was arrested on suspicion of belonging to, and transferring funds to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine...