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The Hasbara ministry that was re-established this week is intended to disseminate Israel's messages to the world, but new Minister Galit Distel Atbaryan is hard at work on a campaign promoting Yariv Levin's controversial moves to Israelis...

The steep decline in new home sales and housing threatens to hit hundreds of construction material suppliers and thousands of workers. 'Everyone needs to prepare,' says one supplier...

It's not terrorism when the Palestinians seek action against Israel at the UN Jordan envoy held up at the entrance to Al-Aqsa by Israeli police Armenia and Azerbaijan are at a boiling point Why is it so hard to become Jewish? Today's best reads on...

By destroying the fundamentals of Israeli democracy, the far right may yet manage to tank the economy and the risk isn't lost on Netanyahu...

As Shas head awaits court ruling, a fellow party member says that the justices are 'shooting themselves in the head' if they eventually disqualify Dery from heading ministerial posts in Israel's government...

In a meeting dealing with Israeli mayors' opposition to the new government's plan to force them to allocate budgets for construction of ultra-Orthodox schools, Education Minister Yoav Kisch doubled-down, saying 'a very significant increase'...

Displaced persons camps after the war featured orchestras, choruses, plays, language classes, vocational training and lectures as life also flourished literally in the form of the highest birthrate in the world at the time...

Food shortages in Nagorno-Karabakh is another sign of the growing tensions over the disputed area, and residents and experts say both sides are doubling down on their positions...

The police officer at the entrance to the holy site reportedly didn't recognize the ambassador who eventually left in protest. Jordan's Foreign Ministry summoned Israel's ambassador in Amman immediately after the incident to protest Israel'...

On the U.S. Senate's first trip to Israel since Benjamin Netanyahu assumed power, Sen. Jacky Rosen's request comes amid speculation about how members of Congress and the Biden administration would engage with far-right Israeli lawmakers...

Competitive bidding for a contract to provide coverage has failed to draw a single bidder despite the deadline being extended three times. Interior and Health Minister Arye Dery's office says he is examining the problem...

The family of a Polish firefighter who secretly photographed the streets of the ghetto in the wake of the revolt unearthed the photos 80 years after the uprising...

The comment comes after the release of rare footage purporting to show Ethiopian-Israeli prisoner Avera Mengistu, who has been held by Hamas since 2014...

Is the planned high-speed train to Eilat a vision of progress or an environmental disaster?...

In a perfect world all conversions to Judaism, no matter the denomination, would be accepted. But as Israel's new government attempts to narrow the definition of Jewish identity, we need to ask why Orthodox conversion, the common denominator across al...

In the coalition agreements that led to the creation of his new government, prime minister Netanyahu agreed to give politicians more control over the military's rabbinate; experts warn of a dangerous precedent...

Israel's new government kicked off the year by slapping a series of sanctions on the PA in response to its request for an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice in The Hague on Israel's occupation...

If the latest video is indeed authentic, Hamas has violated for the second time a principle of many years' standing for organizations holding Israelis hostage: no free gifts...

The legal foundation for removing Netanyahu from office was laid in 2020 by the previous attorney general. In light of his patent efforts to destroy the rule of law in Israel, and his clear motivation, it's up to his successor to take extreme measures...

Russian missile caused heavy civilian toll in city of Dnipro as German defense minister resigns amid criticism over Ukraine arms...

Senior police officials say that Israel's Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai was caught by surprise, adding that he did not oppose the appointment but had preferred another officer...

'It is no secret that I believe that for generations the judicial system has overreached its authority, and has blocked any attempt at reform,' Bennett wrote but added 'no historical distortion is corrected by another distortion'...

HBO's gripping new drama about a killer virus is the video game adaptation it's okay to love...

The biggest question after this weekend's protest has to be: what's next? The cost of de facto annexation will be paid in blood Iran's uprising falters, but anger endures How supercomputers became the Middle East's new arms race Today'...

The Israeli owned spyware company has been ordered to pay 50,000 euros for failing to cooperate as part of an ongoing international spyware investigation...

The decision to investigate the funding sources for the celebrated film H2:Occupation Lab was taken after a right-wing organization asked the minister to look into the issue...

Opposition head Lapid quips at faction meeting that prime minister 'didn't tell the voters that Israel would cease to be a democracy,' as Netanyahu asserts that his reforms are supported by millions...

At Tel Aviv University, hundreds faced off with a dozen counterdemonstrators from a right-wing organization, who voiced their support for the new Israeli government's plans...

The two teens were arrested last week after video footage showing vandals breaking into the site and desecrating over 30 graves...

As a former member of Herut and executive of World Likud, I ask you, Netanyahu: Why have you sold out Begin and Shamir for Ben-Gvir and Smotrich? Why have you submitted to theocratic thugs and far-right racists?...

The footage of the man presented as Avera Mengistu was published on the first day in office for the Israeli army's new chief of staff...

The amendment debated at the Knesset's Constitutional Committee would allow cabinet members to ignore the advice of their ministry's legal adviser. 'The cabinet will be the law,' the attorney general's office charged...

Electra Consumer Products, the American retailer's franchisee in Israel, has launched its first 7-Eleven location in the center of Tel Aviv, but it plans to open elsewhere in the Tel Aviv area soon and appears leery of alienating the ultra-Orthodox pu...

The locale in the south of the city is a tasty, inexpensive window onto a national cuisine that many Israelis previously only knew from Netflix...

Dubai is not only super cars and designer bags. In Bur Dubai and Deira we learn how pearl divers, fishermen and small-time merchants lived before the era of oil and big money...

In recent months, several members of the European Parliament have approached Josep Borrell and urged him to intensify the Union's position towards Israel...

Palestinian officials say there is growing concern among the three leaders about developments in the West Bank, particularly the punitive measures Israel is taking against the Palestinian Authority and the expansion of West Bank settlements...

The fear of execution or imprisonment in the Rejaei Shahr Prison seems to have served its purpose, and the dimensions of the protest in Iran have shrunk In the first half of 2022, 330 people were executed in Iran, about 25 percent more than in 2021...

The 25-year-old victim was shopping at a store in a village near Ramallah when he was approached and stabbed, Israeli police reported...

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant vowed at the ceremony to prevent political pressures from influencing the army's work amid the security echelon's anxieties as the far-right Religious Zionism party gears up to take over a key body that oversees the W...

Netanyahu, his justice minister and his far-right allies are conducting a demolition derby of Israel's state institutions and its foreign relations. An illiberal future beckons as does The Hague, and lethal conflict within and across Israel's bord...

According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, the young Palestinian suffered a shot to the head. The Israeli military has yet to comment on the incident...

In a recording published by the Kan public broadcaster on Monday, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich can be heard airing his thoughts on LGBTQ people. 'I won't stone gays, and you won't feed me shrimp'...