At the end of the last round of fighting, Israel told the public that Hezbollah forces south of Litani had been badly hit, when in reality most of them simply fled north and have been returning to the region bordering Israel in recent weeks

For three decades, the Palestinian Authority's envoy embodied the Palestinian cause in France. When the prospect of peace collapsed, the hope she had carried for decades crumbled with it. An obituary

Netanyahu, Defense Minister Katz and their peers want Israelis to 'take a deep breath' and not rush to end the Iran war, giving time for a total victory which never seems to come

After central Israel residents spent a sleepless night in shelters overnight into Wednesday, local governments in the north warn of a similar scenario amid threats of escalation of rocket fire from Lebanon and missile barrages from Iran

Can Israel's air defense system withstand attempts by Iran and Hezbollah to undermine it?

The pardons department at the ministry did not say whether it supported or opposed the request. President Donald Trump has been pressuring President Isaac Herzog to Pardon Netanyahu in his criminal trials

The source indicates that Russia is providing Iran with tactical advice on sending Shahed drones, which it has used extensively in the war with Ukraine and which so far have been effective at hitting targets in the Gulf and Cyprus

The move to release 400 million barrels of oil was characterized by the IEA as an emergency response to the U.S.-Iran war, but was played down by the U.S. Interior Secretary, who said that the oil crisis was a 'temporary transit problem that we're resolving militarily and diplomatically'

Ambassador Ana Salomon Perez was dismissed on March 11th, effectively reducing relations to the rank of chargé d'affaires. Israel's last ambassador in Spain was recalled in 2024

A year after first announcing the largest acquisition of a company founded in Israel, Google completed the deal that's expected to help it compete against Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure

As missiles strike the city after the U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran, residents without safe rooms are spending their nights in a subterranean parking garage beneath the Dizengoff Center mall

The U.K.'s Home Secretary backed the rare step of banning what police call a 'uniquely contentious' annual pro-Palestine protest due to tensions fueled by the Iran war. The march organizers say police 'capitulated to the pressure of the Zionist lobby'

The New York Times cited U.S. officials and others briefed on the ongoing probe as saying the strike, which killed 175 people – many of them children – likely resulted from outdated coordinates used by the U.S. military targeting an adjacent IRGC compound

The death of Father Pierre al-Raai in shelling by IDF in the Christian village of al-Qleiaa sparked backlash from Lebanese Christian leaders; accusations against Hezbollah and renewed calls for the Lebanese Army to secure the border area

Rabbi Gesa Ederberg, a convert to Judaism, will be installed this week as head of the Rabbinical Assembly, an organization that represents 1,600 rabbis around the world. She is the first person outside North America and Israel to fill this role

For years the Gulf has bought its way onto the global sports stage. Now war threatens that carefully built calendar

Three foreign nationals were injured in the attack. The war caused major disruptions to the world's busiest international airport

Iranian-born journalist and author Maziar Bahari survived detention in the notorious Tehran Evin Prison in 2009. Now he talks to Haaretz about the time he met Khamenei in person and why Iranians won't accept a new pro-Western authoritarian regime

Israeli strikes have killed 570 people in Lebanon, the health ministry said on Wednesday, including 86 children. Meanwhile, the IDF announced that it will reinforce Israel's northern border with combat forces transferred from the country's south

Five members of the soccer team accepted the asylum, offered amid concerns for their safety after having been labeled 'wartime traitors' on Iranian state television ■ Meanwhile, Iran throws cold water on Wednesday on team's participation in the men's World Cup

The severe damage to the Golestan Palace in Tehran during the Israeli strikes is raising once again the question of whether World Heritage sites can be protected during wartime

California's San Jose police are investigating a possible hate crime, after two Israeli-Americans were assaulted in broad daylight on Sunday, amid heightened security threats for Jewish communities worldwide

The National Cyber Directorate said it was trying to intercept a wave of Iranian cyber attacks on Israeli civilian companies in recent days

Three vessels have ⁠been hit by unknown ‌projectiles, maritime security agencies said on Wednesday. At least 14 ships have been attacked since the onset of the U.S.-Israeli military campaign in Iran

Sirens triggered by Iranian missiles launched at central Israel deprived Israelis of more than three consecutive hours of sleep, as the U.S. and Israel struck Iran in what the Pentagon and Iranians on the ground called the most ‌intense airstrikes of the war

The pace of global warming almost doubled in just 10 years. The hoax is the pretense that climate change isn't happening

In 12 days of fighting, the IDF has disabled about half of the Islamic Republic's ballistic missile launchers and killed thousands of security personnel – but sees no signs of the regime's collapse. Additional targets have been divided into categories in the hope of completing the strikes on those marked as essential before the end of the war ■ This is how the joint preparations with the U.S. for the war unfolded

The Israeli prime minister has changed the tune of absolute victory and shifted to emphasizing the Iranian people's decisive role in toppling the regime. In contrast, the government's attempt to brand the war as Houthi-style harassment is nothing less than a deception

By shelving the bill, Netanyahu and Smotrich continue to violate the law and a High Court ruling. Netanyahu said the war with Iran requires tens of billions of shekels for defense, to be funded by a 3 percent across-the-board cut to other ministries

Israelis, in deep despair, are crying out for any solution, almost indifferent to whether it comes through more war or agreements

This time it's Iran. Yesterday it was Gaza, and the day before that, Lebanon. Tomorrow it will be Turkey – and after that, who knows?

The prime minister's empty promises of security after each consecutive war demonstrate his true aim: to replace a democratic Israel with military occupations on all sides, and militias in the West Bank

After receiving support from both Iran and Qatar, Hamas now waits to see how the war unfolds. The organization is worried about a regime change, which could lead to ending the military and financial support with potentially far-reaching consequences

At a Republican symposium on antisemitism, Sen. Ted Cruz said he's 'seen more antisemitism on the right in the past 18 months than I have at any point in my lifetime,' pointing to the rhetoric of Tucker Carlson as 'the most dangerous'

U.S. Pentagon chief said the U.S. 'has been eliminating inactive mine-laying vessels in the Strait of Hormuz, wiping them out with ruthless precision'; Trump threatened retaliation 'at a level never seen before' if Tehran targets the vital oil transit route

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara is expected to soon submit her position on PM Netanyahu's pardon request and is likely to determine that it does not meet the legal criteria. The Justice Ministry's Pardons Department will issue its decision after reviewing her response

South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham has long had ambitions for U.S. intervention in Iran, and with Trump and Netanyahu's ear, he's fashioned himself into a de facto Mideast envoy

Social Equality Minister May Golan, under investigation for alleged misuse of public funds, flew to New York for UN Women's Day, calling the trip a 'political necessity' despite wartime emergency guidelines and widespread flight cancellations. Many of her predecessors attended virtually or not at all

Trump envoy Steve Witkoff said in an interview that he may visit Israel next week. 'The visit we were intending to do was less about smoothing out differences because there aren't that many,' he said, while noting he does 'not know' how the war will end

Arab states are not taking part in the war, despite Iranian strikes on their territory. Tehran appears to be betting that economic hardship will spark public anger in these countries and undermine their stability – and concern is already beginning to spread

Over 90 percent of Jewish Israelis support the U.S.-Israel attack on Iran – it might even get Netanyahu re-elected. Meanwhile, Trump is still struggling to get any Tehran bounce in the polls, but the MAGA 'split' isn't what it seems – and it won't determine the conduct of the war

According to Haaretz's findings, at least ten cluster missiles have been confirmed over Israeli territory. Meanwhile, the IDF said it failed to intercept two Hezbollah rockets fired from Lebanon on Monday, which struck central Israel without sirens sounding

Missiles and interceptor fragments are not the main danger in the West Bank. During the first week of the war, five Palestinians were killed by settlers and hundreds arrested

Israel's laser defense has joined the fight but remains far from the revolutionary shield once envisioned. Experts cite technical limits, short range and difficult terrain as key obstacles

Among those accompanying Master Sgt. Maher Khatar, killed in Lebanon, on his final journey in Majdal Shams were residents once ostracized for holding Israeli ID cards. But Israel's discriminatory treatment may threaten the process distancing the Golan Druze from Syria

Oded Oren, a Tel Aviv-born chef who has been living in London for 15 years, has made the Michelin Bib Gourmand list. He explains why he prefers it to a star, why he avoids the label Israeli and how he keeps his prices reasonable in one of the world's most expensive cities

Surging oil prices from the war in Iran are accelerating the shift to green energy while also boosting oil companies' profits. As Israel and Jordan face a regional natural gas crisis, economic pressure on American consumers could force Trump to end the war

Johann Wadephul became the first foreign minister to visit Israel since it launched its assault on Iran. Meanwhile in Berlin, Chancellor Merz expressed concerns over the lack of a plan to end the war by Israel and the U.S. 'More questions arise with each passing day,' he said

As Trump gives conflicting messages on the war's goals and timeline, sources close to Netanyahu's office say that Israel intends to continue striking Iran for as long as possible to inflict maximum damage

The IDF struck hundreds of targets in Lebanon since the weekend and ordered what officials describe as 'unprecedented evacuations,' as Hezbollah attacks reach central Israel

Despite downplaying the economic fallout as negligible and temporary, the U.S. president knows voters may see it differently ■ Israel is concerned by Hezbollah's increasingly sophisticated ability to strike the home front with greater precision

The ministry announced a plan to gradually reopen schools in low-risk areas starting Wednesday, but postponed the move after leaders from 18 local authorities refused to comply with the directives

Judge Amit Michels did not criticize Netanyahu for not being available for the questioning, saying that the prime minister is understandably busy with managing the war with Iran. He also pointed out that delays in approving Netanyahu's questioning by the attorney general contributed to the postponement of his testimony

Tal Alexander, 39, and Oren and Alon, 38-year-old twins, were found guilty following a week-long trial in a Manhattan federal court. The prosecution had accused them of luring women and girls, over a period of decades, to exclusive parties where the brothers drugged and raped them. They could face up to life in prison

In addition to laying out the three current objectives of the war in Iran, Secretary of Defense Hegseth vowed that the United States will not allow Tehran to possess nuclear weapons, 'not now, not ever, not on our watch'

Described as a 'serious security breach,' the two luxury apartments owned by Mojtaba Khamenei are part of a world-spanning real estate empire, paid for by Iranian oil revenues

While European leaders claim their involvement in the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran will remain limited to 'defensive actions,' some analysts aren't convinced that the EU and NATO won't get roped in, especially if Cyprus and Turkey continue to be targeted

Be'er Sheva District Court Judge Alon Gavison criticized the State Prosecutor's Office, arguing that there is no risk in releasing Zini to house arrest, citing Zini's background in religous zionism and his kinship to the Shin Bet chief as mitigating circumstances

Amid Murtuzov, who had been in critical condition in Sheba Medical Center, was wounded alongside 61-year-old Rustam Gulomov, who was pronounced dead on the scene. Gulomov was laid to rest in Petah Tikvah on Monday

Last week, Poland officially returned to Greece 91 artifacts stolen from Greek Jews by the Nazis and stored in Poland

The Australian government granted the visas a day after police helped extract the women from their Iranian government handlers. Help is available to the other players currently in Australia with the Iranian national team, but it was up to them to accept, Prime Minister Albanese said

U.S. President also claimed that 'if the Iranians had a nuclear weapon, they would've used it against Israel'

Until now, only residents in neighborhoods adjacent to the West Bank were eligible for weapons. Now, another 300,000 residents in the city will enter the eligibility circle, including tens of thousands who did not complete military service

The American arm of the Smol Emuni movement, born out of Israel's judicial overhaul protests, attracted hundreds of religious Jews to its second annual conference in New York. As the Iran war rages, the panels focused on Jewish supremacy, the destruction of Gaza and West Bank settler violence

At the peak of endless wars, death and destruction, Israelis received their 11th commandment: Thou shalt not complain

What Netanyahu would do well to remember before intoxicating himself with fantasies of erasing the memory of October 7, ending his trial and holding a royal feast with Iran's new shah

Tehran employs a zero-tolerance policy against its own citizens abroad who are vocally opposed to the regime. Iran says Up to 5 million Iranians live abroad, the majority of them in the ⁠U.S. and Europe, while Iranian media says almost 10 million live abroad

The cyberattacks exploit stolen credentials and remote-access vulnerabilities across multiple sectors, signaling a shift from espionage to attempted data destruction, Israel's National Cyber Directorate said, adding that no critical infrastructure has been compromised

Senior Israel Police officials criticize the appointment of Eran Nahon to the sensitive role. He has previously assisted the far-right minister in toughening conditions for Palestinian security prisoners

Channel 12 apologized for erroneously airing footage taken from the gameplay of Digital Combat Simulator World, which can be found on YouTube and was uploaded over three years ago

Australia on ‌Tuesday agreed to ‌provide visas to five Iranian ⁠women's soccer players to ⁠stay ​in the country after they refused to sing their national anthem before a match at the Asian Cup, which is being held in Australia

To convince his base that U.S. military action in Iran will indeed 'Make America Great Again,' the president has turned to social media to manufacture enthusiasm for his war

The senator, who is close to the president and one of the loudest proponents of the war with Iran, questioned the value of a defense pact with Saudi Arabia and warned Gulf states of "consequences" if they continue to avoid a more active role in the war

The Persian Jewish community in Los Angeles, the largest outside of Israel, has been rallying for regime change in Iran, led by Trump and Netanyahu. But it is not a monolith. 'I'm not convinced this war bears any indication of being a humanitarian mission at its core,' says a young member of the community

Trump said that Mojtaba Khamenei's appointment as his father's successor was 'unacceptable' as Iran's hard-liners proclaimed their loyalty to their new supreme leader

While the Lebanese government enjoys public backing but cannot aid the displaced or rebuild, Hezbollah sees a new war with Israel as a last-ditch effort to prevent its disarmament and derail political negotiations between Beirut and Jerusalem

Macron visited Cyprus to discuss regional security with the President of Cyprus and the Prime Minister of Greece. Last week, an Iranian-made drone strike hit Britain's Royal Air Force base in Cyprus

Lebanese President Aoun accused Hezbollah of launching missile attacks on Israel aimed at Lebanon's 'collapse for the sake of the Iranian regime'; Lebanese Prime Minister Salam said Lebanon is open to discussing any agenda, any format and any venue' with Israel

New York police commissioner said the city is on high alert due to the war in Iran, noting that the last time an improvised explosive device targeting people was deployed in New York City was in 2017

Staff Sgt. Or Demry, 20, was killed alongside Master Sgt. Maher Khatar, 38, on Saturday. The IDF said that the troops were attempting to recover a stranded armored personnel carrier in Lebanese territory using a bulldozer when the vehicle was struck by an anti-tank missile