Outgoing National Unity MK Gadi Eisenkot is reportedly leaning toward joining former right-wing Prime Minister Naftali Bennett's new party – a move that could leave Yair Lapid in a tough spot on the center-left

Israeli and international rights groups called to shut down the Gaza Humanitarian Fund, citing reports that over 500 Palestinians were killed and nearly 4,000 injured while trying to access aid at its four distribution sites

In an interview, the top government official was asked about the Haaretz report that the prime minister's candidate said in closed talks that Israel's judicial system is 'a dictatorship that controls the entire country'

Anat Angrest is worried that Netanyahu recently said he wanted to 'rescue' hostages – she knows IDF strikes in Gaza could kill her son, Matan. But she's hopeful after the Iran operation: 'Ministers are talking about ending the war'

In an interview, Netanyahu's son said the Israeli Supreme Court justices are a system backed by left-wing elites seeking to 'dismantle Zionism.' He claimed, 'Israel's governing system is very similar to the Iranian model'

Mamdani secured 56 percent of the vote, while Andrew Cuomo received 44 percent. With over 545,000 votes, he received the highest number in a Democratic mayoral primary since 1989

As Netanyahu polishes his shoes for the Oval Office, Israelis who love and loathe Trump alike see him as the only hope for ending the Gaza war, as June alone claimed the lives of 20 soldiers

Airstrikes left 30 dead at a seaside cafe, and gunfire left 23 dead as Palestinians tried to get aid, witnesses and health officials said

German prosecutors said the man, whom they named as Ali S. under German privacy law, spied on three properties in June in preparation for further intelligence activities, including possibly attacks on Jewish targets

From Tehran's iconic Glass Building to the monumental Azadi Stadium, architect Abdol-Aziz Farmanfarmaian helped shape Iran's modern identity – but died in exile, far from the city he helped build

The U.S. president told reporters he was hopeful an Israel-Hamas truce would 'happen sometime next week,' as talks between the parties have once again ground to a halt. Netanyahu 'wants to end it too,' he said

An all-encompassing peace agreement would require Israel or Syria to accept a gigantic compromise regarding the status of the Golan Heights – which neither country is positioned to do at this moment

Qatar is working to tie the end of the Gaza war to diplomatic gains for Israel, including renewed talks with Saudi Arabia, normalization with Oman, and a historic declaration from Syria ending hostilities

Even right-wingers were troubled by Trump's condemnation of Netanyahu's ongoing criminal trial, seeing it as an insult to Israel's independence. Yet these critics conveniently ignore that Israel asserts and denies its sovereignty according to political interests – and regularly violates other countries' sovereignty at will

A reflection on symbolism, fatherhood, and survival in a place where reality never stops bleeding

Israel's government resolution to cut off support for alternative housing for most Gaza border residents is causing a lot of consternation, concern and mainly a sense of acute uncertainty

With Hamas hurting and the PA excluded, clans gaining control in northern Gaza, protecting aid distribution and helping civilians. Ordinary Gazans have criticism but also concern that Israel will eventually end the arrangement – in order to reintroduce chaos

According to sources, a leader of the non-Hassidic Lithuanian faction, Degel Hatorah, said that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Chair Yuli Edelstein were given a deadline for submitting a draft bill

As Qatar grows frustrated with the lack of progress on Israel-Hamas Gaza negotiations, it and Saudi Arabia are now seeking to advance a new nuclear agreement between the U.S. and Iran

Ever since U.S. strikes on Iran, Israeli TV pundits have shower U.S. President Donald Trump with admiration and adoration, columnists praise his moral judgement and security experts fawn over his sophisticated approach toward international affairs. But Israelis would be well advised to curb their enthusiasm

A 16-year-old and a 24-year-old were killed in separate incidents in the army's operations in Ramallah and near the border crossing with Israel in Hebron, respectively, according to the ministry's announcement

Backed by the government, settler violence spreads to new areas – and those trying to enforce the law are the ones punished. Dismantling this system will take a radical political shift

Archaeology at the biblical city of Lachish began a century ago and went neither well nor smoothly. In a new book, Yosef Garfinkel tells the fascinating tale of the hazards the archaeologists faced

Over 20 Israelis have been arrested over the past few months on suspicion of committing security offenses for Iran

Kahana was the Religious Affairs Minister from 2021 to 2022 in what was known as Israel's 'government of change,' the first coalition since 2010 not led by current Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

The federal court ruled that lectures delivered by William Haddad soon after October 7, in which he repeated vicious antisemitic tropes, were likely 'to offend, insult, humiliate or intimidate Jewish people.' The Executive Council of Australian praised the 'landmark' ruling

'In Gaza today, unless your legs or arms have been blown off, no one pays attention': A CT scan could have saved Abd al-Karim al-Kahlut after he was shot near an aid center, but the lack of imaging machines and the continued strain on Gaza's hospitals cost him his life

After repeated disruptions, High Court criticized Netanyahu's handling of the Shin Bet chief appointment and urged a resolution. Netanyahu's lawyer cited urgency due to Iran; the state requested a closed-door update on classified matters

Move will allow the U.S. to maintain sanctions on Bashar al-Assad, human rights abusers, terror groups and Iranian proxies

Haaretz exclusive: David Zini also privately attacked the very agency the prime minister is fighting to tooth and nail for him to head

'The bombing by the U.S. and Israel didn't kill us. Then the Islamic Republic brought us to a place that will practically kill us,' said a jailed Iranian dissident, who narrowly escaped death when Israeli missiles struck Tehran's Evin Prison

Questions over who funds the U.S.-backed Gaza aid project rose again at the Knesset when a transfer of $208 million to the defense budget was approved, a sum one MK said suspiciously resembled the estimated cost of the aid

The director of a Jaffa theater said screening a documentary on Palestinian booksellers' efforts to import Arabic literature into Israel was a natural choice: 'This story is part of our DNA'

Despite their children attending local schools, three Eritrean asylum seeker families in the Haredi city of Bnei Brak remain in a missile-damaged building, denied municipal aid due to lack of legal status and absence from city tax records

Eyal Zamir told ministers that Hamas' abuse of Israeli hostages in Gaza is worsening and that 'their condition is very grave,' while far-right ministers Smotrich and Ben-Gvir continued to clash with the army chief

MK Gadi Eisenkot reportedly expressed dissatisfaction with how the National Unity party's primaries are being run. Political sources indicate that Yair Lapid may offer Eisenkot a position on the Yesh Atid list and a role in the party's leadership

Trump officials have increasingly alluded in recent days to an agreement between Israel and Syria. But a hawkish post-Oct. 7 Israel and a new Syrian leader with a skeptical domestic base make a deal far from plain sailing

After a Haaretz exposé on IDF aid site killings in Gaza, the mayor of Arad ordered that the newspaper not be sold in his city. Locals handed out copies to residents in protest, hoping for 'more press freedom'

A 2023 Haaretz report revealed that Israel's then-foreign minister ordered a diplomatic passport for Yair Netanyahu, the prime minister's son, despite him not meeting the criteria

Boaz Sapir, who was active in efforts to get captured Israeli solider Gilad Shalit released, says he is 'constantly moved by the ability' of the hostage relatives 'to convey that the nation's recovery cannot begin until the last hostage is brought home'

As the far-right minister nurtures fantasies of Hamas bending the knee before mighty Netanyahu, civilians and soldiers he was tasked with protecting are barely surviving another day as hostages in Gaza's tunnels

'She was marching peacefully for the hostages in Gaza when an extremist doused protesters with gasoline and threw a Molotov cocktail,' said the Chicago Jewish Alliance. 'Karen was one of several Jews burned simply for standing in solidarity'

A new study from the Pew Research Center demonstrated that more Jews voted Republican and fewer voted Democrat in 2024 than in 2020, bolstering claims that U.S. Jews are moving to the right

After Bob Vylan frontman chanted 'Death, death to the IDF!' at Glastonbury, the duo's visas were cancelled ahead of their upcoming American tour. 'Foreigners who glorify violence and hatred are not welcome visitors to our country,' a U.S. official said

London's High Court rejected a challenge by Ramallah-based Al-Haq to U.K. exports of F-35 parts to Israel, ruling that halting them would mean exiting the international F-35 program, which is 'vital to British and global security'

Once again, after this weekend, a 14-year-old boy has been hospitalized and the pattern of using minors in the settler project continues. How can supposedly religious communities and leadership continue to endanger children?

Two weeks after an Iranian missile hit, Bat Yam held a farewell ceremony beside the ruined building, honoring five members of a young Ukrainian family lost in the strike. Mourners called for unity between the two war-torn nations: 'Ukraine and Israel have a lot in common – we must fight together'

IDF officials said that in the most serious shelling near aid distribution, dozens of civilians were wounded, some killed. While the IDF chief says the army's Gaza offensive is nearing its goals, a senior official believes it should continue

From Tamra to Tel Aviv and further south, Israeli engineers' maps show how a shock wave from Iran's ballistic missiles can be as ruinous as a direct hit

The Trump administration warned that if Harvard does not immediately implement changes, it will lose all federal financial support, jeopardizing more than $2 billion in grants and contracts

Ben-Gurion University was hit, the Weizmann Institute was devastated and the Technion was threatened. As one professor puts it, 'Iron Dome, David's Sling and the rest of the air defense systems began at the universities'

The Oscar-winning producer of some of Quentin Tarantino's best films explains why the Hamas attack – and Hollywood's silence – led him to focus on Jewish and Israeli stories. 'None of those people were there for me and my people,' he says

'They took him for questioning, and he never returned': Danny Elgarat told lawmakers Hamas wrongly thought his brother Itzhak was a pilot. He was later removed from the Knesset hearing after accusing PM Netanyahu of funding Hamas

Rutger Bregman's new book is a guide for ordinary citizens and activists who want to affect change and build political power. He spoke to Haaretz about outrage versus organization, plus his School of Moral Ambition – which pays people to quit their jobs and focus on social change

Ancient Greeks and Romans were just as preoccupied with health and fitness as we are today. Some dietary advice fits well with today's wellness trends and philosophies. Some doesn't

The U.S. president pushes his 'big deal' for the Middle East but still faces challenges in Lebanon, Syria, and Saudi Arabia, and has yet to sway Netanyahu's government, which still dreams of returning to Gaza, for now

CIA Director John Ratcliffe told lawmakers the strikes wiped out a key step in Iran's bomb-making process, delaying its nuclear ambitions by years. But IAEA chief Rafael Grossi warned that 'You cannot undo the knowledge' and urged renewed diplomacy

Knesset committee members clashed over Odeh's comments on a hostage-prisoner deal, with several participants removed from the hearing. Outside, Arab and Jewish Israelis held a rally urging lawmakers to halt the expulsion process

'All that the government in Syria wants from Israel right now is for Israel to calm down and not embarrass it,' an Arab diplomat told Haaretz, adding that Syria's participation in the Abraham Accords would be highly unlikely due to its government's inability to facilitate such a move

Even if his recruitment of Trump to help him halt his criminal trial fails, Netanyahu will try to solidify the anger about the deep state harassing him among his base. It would be hard to blame the hostage families if, in a desperate effort to free their loved ones, they join Netanyahu

Amidst his new popularity, the prime minister can lead a reconciliation campaign – even if some simply hate him to death. Healing internal divisions will prepare the nation for looming threats from an unchanged Iran

Netanyahu has been robbed of his main tool. A hush was tossed into Tehran's skies, and an ace was thrown onto the table: his strongest card, the threat of Armageddon in which thousands of Iranian missiles will destroy Israel

Since the beginning, there hasn't been a trick Netanyahu hasn't been pulled to delay his trial. It's no wonder he sought Trump's backing, seeing he too despises his own country's judicial system and, as a result, any independent and equitable judiciary

The IDF said settlers set fire to a security system used to prevent terrorist attacks in the area. The settlers were protesting the shooting of an Israeli teenager in the West Bank, which the army is investigating amid claims he was injured by IDF fire

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that as a result of the war with Iran, opportunities have opened up, 'first and foremost to rescue the hostages, but also for broader regional prospects.' ■ Israeli army assessments, however, show no change in Hamas' position

The Attorney General's Office opposes the bill on constitutional grounds, saying, 'The message that emerges from them is that a media outlet that does not bend to the government's whims may find itself struggling for its very existence'

According to the Washington Post, the U.S. intercepted communications in which the extend of the damage at three Iranian nuclear facilities was called into question

The latest episode of settler violence in the West Bank, where a mob assaulted soldiers for hours, reveals Israel's ethnonationalist rules of engagement: Jews are arrested unharmed for crimes that would get Palestinians killed

In his resignation letter, Cohen of the far-right Otzma Yehudit party accused the 'deep state' of blocking his plan to build a civilian airport in the Negev, which he gave as his reason for stepping down. His return to the Knesset will force out MK Tzvi Succot

The cabinet's resolution notes there's no security impediment to residents' return, but excludes communities with a 'rehabilitative impediment' from the decision. Reconstruction in Nahal Oz, for example, is set to end by August

The 10-day sentence was an Israeli army commander's retribution for having complained about a shortage of mental health resources in the Kfir Brigade, soldiers told Haaretz. 'You have only two options: Go AWOL or commit suicide'

Despite having a Jewish wife and grandfather, a young Russian who had been in Israel on a study program was denied his request for Aliyah because his estranged father refuses to take a DNA test to prove his paternity

'It's hard to get people to protest in Bil'in – but they'll sure watch a film about it,' says Libby Lenkinski, head of the Albi foundation

Footage obtained by Reuters showed police scuffling with a group of activists holding rainbow flags in the city centre before rounding them up and loading them into police vans. Authorities have banned Pride marches in Turkey's largest city since 2015

Both born in Algeria, a Palestinian exile and an Israeli émigré created a culinary experiment in coexistence. For three days, it worked better than they could ever have imagined

In a new solo exhibition, photographer Ronen Zien revisits the emotional history of his Druze family's emigration from Syria. 'I would love to walk on Syrian soil and meet family I've never met'

'You are of us, and we are of you,' said the narrator of Hamas' video, which attempts to express solidarity with Gazans. Palestinians rejected the message, prompting Al Jazeera to delete social media posts sharing the video

The boomerang-shaped artifact made of mammoth tusk had been found in 1987 and misdated to a mere 20,000 years, but it's Aurignacian and likely served a ritual function, archaeologists say

Queerotique Presents offers a trans- and lesbian-friendly alternative to Tel Aviv's male-dominated gay nightlife. Plus, readers rejoice: The Independent Publishers Fair and Hebrew Book Week are both back after a wartime hiatus

By echoing Benjamin Netanyahu's grievances about being on trial on charges of corruption, which both call a 'witch hunt,' the U.S. President is ignoring the real problem: Israel's prime minister doesn't want the war to end

Despite lacking evidence to refute the report, Arad's mayor accused Haaretz of 'libeling the country in the service of terrorists.' Haaretz editor-in-chief responded: 'We will continue to loyally serve our readers in Arad'

Sergeant Yisrael Natan Rosenfeld, 20, was killed during combat operations on Sunday ■ He's the 20th soldier to be killed in combat in Gaza this month, marking June as the month with the highest number of military casualties over the last year

Israel's State Prosecutor's Office charged 30-year-old Dennis Lyakhov with offenses against national security, for being in contact with an Iranian agent through Telegram and carrying out paid missions at his request and per his instructions, both in Israel and Latvia

Bob Vylan led the crowd in chants of 'Death, death to the IDF!' as members of the audience hoisted Palestinian flags, while one of Kneecap's members wore a shirt reading 'We are all Palestine Action,' referencing a group that the U.K. is planning on designating as a terror organization