For the first time, a Jewish organization has been officially registered in Syria, which the foreign minister called 'a step for us to tell the world that Syria has room for everyone.' As the minority has almost entirely left and synagogues are derelict, the diaspora remains reluctant to return

On the witness stand in a Tel Aviv courtroom, amid a tedious corruption trial that skirts his far graver sins, Netanyahu was forced to face reality, if only for a moment

Supporters say security forces seized the activist in Mashhad as she spoke unveiled at a service for a lawyer found dead. The Nobel Committee said it was 'deeply concerned,' as doctors warn a return to prison could endanger her health

According to a report in Bild, Stuttgart police are examining suspicions that Maccabi fans sang offensive chants, including chants targeting Palestinians

Mamdani's outreach to Jewish leaders, including past opponents, underscores the tightrope he must walk: pushing an ambitious affordability agenda while calming fears over his Israel rhetoric before January 1

U.S. intelligence officials briefly withheld live drone feeds and limited Israel's use of some targeting information during the Gaza war over concerns about civilian casualties and alleged mistreatment of Palestinian prisoners, resuming sharing only after Israel provided assurances

Israel's Foreign Ministry condemned the UN resolution, saying it 'proves once again that it is a morally distorted body' and calling the UN a 'cynical political machine.' Earlier this week, Israeli forces raided the UNRWA headquarters in East Jerusalem

Two weeks ago, police arrested 23 suspects from the Hariri and Abu Latif crime organizations, suspected of collecting protection money, taking over businesses, extortion, intimidation, and involvement in several homicides in recent years

Lebanese Foreign Minister Youssef Rajji also criticized Hezbollah and Iran, saying that Tehran's regional policy 'is a source of instability' and its influence on Lebanon is negative. He urged Iran to 'stop financing an illegal organization'

The investigation by Israel's state comptroller will suffice with minor reprimands of political leaders while focusing on the security establishment's blunders, just in time for the Knesset elections. Until then, related witch hunts and harassment efforts will escalate

Eitan Mor, who was among the 20 Israeli hostages released as part of the U.S.-brokered Gaza cease-fire deal in October, told an Israeli news site that the hunger in Gaza City began 'about a month' after October 7 – creating especially difficult conditions in the tunnels – and that he met the current leader of Hamas in Gaza twice

The game's main guest was released hostage Omri Miran, who celebrated his return in an emotional ceremony as fans packed the home court and the team's power forward delivered a record-setting performance to mark European basketball's comeback to Israel. 'This is a return to normalcy,' coach Oded Kattash said

The climate is changing, reshaping our landscape, our economy, and our way of life, creating new risks and intensifying old ones. We must plan for this change, strengthen our emergency and rescue services, and stop wasting resources on West Bank settlements and on blind vengeance in Gaza

Israel's Meteorological Service called the rainfall 'exceptional,' as humanitarian aid organizations in Gaza warned the storm would have a dire effect on the health of displaced persons residing in tents and buildings weakened by the war

Trump administration pressures mediators for Hamas disarmament and Israel to forgo the Yellow Line border, to secure Board of Peace's ability to govern the entire Strip and deploy the international stabilization force

As the presumed compatibility of 'American interests' and 'Jewish aims' collapses, and Israel increasingly rejects democratic principles, Jewish communities face a new reality

Saudi Arabia and the UAE, both partners of the coalition seeking to be involved in Gaza's future, have yet to settle their local conflicts in Yemen and Sudan, which have taken hundreds of thousands of lives. For now, it seems the United States will continue to take a neutral stand

The Social Equality minister used a letter written to police by the Arab mayors' council head expressing general support in the fight against Arab community crime as evidence that Arab leaders supported her diverting funds to the Shin Bet to combat crime

Likud remains the largest in the Knesset with 27 seats, two up from last week, a Channel 12 News poll finds. Former PM Naftali Bennett's party gains one seat to reach 22, while Yair Golan's Democrats party drops one seat to 11 and Smotrich's Religious Zionism party falls below the threshold

Hamas controls the enclave with an iron fist, no one has volunteered to disarm it and Netanyahu is in no hurry to press on – but the U.S. president wants a win ■ On the northern front, Hezbollah's new motto has become 'Survival is victory'

There can no longer be any doubt: The conduct of Israel's president is a national disgrace ■ Does anyone really believe that after a pardon, Netanyahu will roll back his assault on democracy? ■ Galit Distel Atbaryan, a modern-day Joseph McCarthy

With thousands of members, a quarter-million social media followers, and a spot on TIME's list of emerging leaders, 'Standing Together' co-founder Alon Lee-Green is charting a new course for Israel's fractured political opposition

Lebanon's foot-dragging has allowed Hezbollah to restock its arsenals, funded by a renewed cash flow from Iran and prompting Israel's escalation. The U.S. must use its leverage on Beirut now before it's too late

'They're creating an atmosphere of ouster around me,' Boaz Balat, who is being attacked by politicians and those close to the government because of his refusal to incriminate Israel's attorney general, told his colleagues ■ President Herzog is trapped between the threats of Netanyahu and Trump and those of his former confidant

It's possible that the Israeli president wants to pardon Netanyahu, maybe even without a promise that he'll retire from politics. But it's hard to see Herzog daring to do that, as a huge majority of the political community from which he comes is opposed to such a step

People who have learned to turn their gazes away from the pain of people far away ultimately turn their gazes away even from the pain of those closest to them

The committee, citing technical issues, blocked eight candidates nominated by Arab-Jewish groups, and a candidate from a group that called for barring the 'Ben-Gvir police' from campus was temporarily blocked. Haaretz learned that the union received over 500 complaints about students who couldn't vote because of the voting system's technical issues

In February of last year, policemen shot and killed Morshad Abd al-Hai, a resident of central Israel's Tira, after he resisted arrest. The Justice Ministry notified his family last week that there was no evidentiary basis for criminal proceedings against the officers involved

The Israeli military said on Saturday that Ahmed Khalil al-Rajabi tried to run over troops stationed in the city center in an attempted ramming attack, but new footage shows al-Rajabi fleeing from soldiers advancing toward him, one of them pointing his gun at the vehicle

Right-wing pundit Tucker Carlson bonds with UN special rapporteur Francesca Albanese, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene meets with pro-Palestinian Code Pink activists: The GOP split over Israel and antisemitism is now creating a swathe of unlikely bedfellows, much to the chagrin of AIPAC and pro-Israel Republicans

Politicians, ministries, police units and regulatory bodies increasingly operate according to the same logic: personal alliances over public duty, impunity over accountability, loyalty over legality

Mamdani's attendance at the Satmar sect event signals a growing closeness to the group, whose leaders partly supported him in the mayoral race. President Trump also sent a letter to Satmar leaders: 'Together, we will continue to usher in the Golden Age of America'

A wide-ranging interview with a Holocaust survivor and outspoken critic of Israel who has become a superstar in the fields of trauma and childhood development – and who believes Western culture is a toxic environment that fuels disease

The judge said the case is unlikely to progress against Netanyahu's spokesman and a reservist suspected of leaking the classified information from the IDF to the Prime Minister's Office, who then leaked it to the German tabloid Bild

Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Almog Sarusi, Alex Lobanov, Carmel Gat, Eden Yerushalmi and Ori Danino are seen in the video obtained by the IDF. The bodies of the six hostages were found in late August 2024 in a narrow tunnel after Israeli troops had been operating in the area for several days

Democratic lawmakers held a press conference alongside an American journalist wounded by the IDF in Lebanon in October 2023 to demand that Israel take responsibility for targeting reporters during combat operations, saying that efforts to get answers have 'been stonewalled at every turn'

'Israel is a peace-seeking country,' the 2023 representative said, adding that she was disappointed by the five countries that withdrew from Eurovision 2026 over Israel's participation. Kirel says that boycotting the contest 'isn't just an insult to us, it's an insult to everything Eurovision represents'

Footage showing an attempt to burn an Israeli flag in class has sparked a debate about art and servility to the Netanyahu government

The report notes 'documented evidence that Palestinian assailants committed sexual assault and other forms of sexual violence' both on October 7 and against hostages they held in Gaza. Former members of Amnesty's Israeli chapter claim the report on Israel was withheld over concerns about its 'perception'

Israel's Culture Minister Miki Zohar's threats don't scare Danny Wilensky, the head of an Israeli human rights film festival where Israeli violence in the West Bank and Gaza are in full display

Israeli filmmaker Tal Kantor's animated short film 'Letter to a Pig,' exploring intergenerational trauma and its potential to lead to empathy, has received numerous accolades. Now, a rabbi in Sweden has shown the film to Jewish-Muslim audiences to encourage dialogue post October 7 and the Israel-Gaza war

Israeli Education Ministry officials said that the policy aims to reduce distractions, to strengthen social ties in school, and to provide the best possible setting for learning. According to ministry data, 60 percent of the country's youth are addicted to social media

Kibbutz Ein Carmel, near Haifa, recorded more than seven inches of rainfall since the powerful storm reached the region

According to the bill, passed in a preliminary vote with 54 lawmakers in favor and 41 against, if a group is designated a terrorist organization, the Shin Bet would have the authority to use means against them that it would ordinarily employ against threats to state security

British media outlets said that two of the detainees have lost at least 10 kilograms and have been on hunger strike for over a month, adding that there is a 'real and increasingly likely potential that young British citizens will die in prison, having never been convicted of an offense'

'Maintenance Artist' chronicles Mierle Laderman Ukeles's 46-year reign as artist-in-residence at the New York City Department of Sanitation. Before the movie's screening at the Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival, she tells Haaretz how her feminism and Orthodox Jewish upbringing shaped her artistic path

Court filings say officials insist the boy, who lives in the West Bank, 'can go to Jordan instead,' even though local specialists stand ready to treat him. His mother warns he can no longer walk and is 'deteriorating every day,' after his father died of the same illness

A new collection of essays by Oded Lifshitz – abducted on October 7 and murdered in captivity – revives a leftist political voice that has all but disappeared: confident, critical, generous, unafraid

To the extent that Israeli business faced a boycott, it's over. Not so at the universities and in the arts, and soft power is too important for Israel to ignore

The Justice Ministry's Pardons Department is unlikely to recommend that President Herzog approve Netanyahu's pardon request without modifications or conditions. Although the president can grant a pardon against the department's advice, the High Court of Justice could still overturn it

Hailed across the Arab world and condemned in Israel, novelist Basem Khandakji - who was convicted in the 2004 Carmel Market bombing in Tel Aviv - enjoys a new chapter in Egypt and vows 'to expose the true face of Zionist literature'

Cryptic B was considered impenetrable because there's so little material. Then, Emmanuel Oliveiro, a scholar in the Netherlands, noticed what looked like the word 'Yisrael'

The attorney general will respond to the High Court next week on petitions seeking the far-right minister's dismissal. Netanyahu rejected her request to stop Ben-Gvir from controlling the police, while petitioners say his removal is needed over ongoing violations of police independence and politicization

The Israeli national team star signed with the NWSL's Gotham FC and will become the first Israeli in the league when play restarts next year

In recent weeks, senior European representatives were denied entry to the coordination center in southern Israel. A European source said the Americans were displeased and noted the move was Israel's request, reflecting its long-standing policy against unifying the West Bank and Gaza under one authority

This fried pastry is a cross between a Hanukkah doughnut – sufganiya in Hebrew – and a Spanish-style churro, with spices that impart a surprising aroma and flavor with every bite. It's perfect with special dips or sprinkled with powdered sugar

Despite the Israel-Hamas cease-fire taking effect in October, thousands in Gaza still live in makeshift tents with little protection from the rain. Displaced persons' camps are flooded with garbage and sewage, increasing the risk of infectious diseases

The South American nation restored ties after a new center-right government replaced socialist and Israel critic Evo Morales. Netanyahu invited right-wing President Rodrigo Paz to visit Israel, with an Israeli diplomat noting, '2026 will likely be a year of opportunity for Israel' in the region

Taiwan has few official diplomatic ties worldwide due to pressure from China. Sources told Reuters that this month's visit to Israel by the senior deputy foreign minister occurred, with both countries declining to comment