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Car set ablaze in Lod, May 2021.

State Refuses to Compensate Umm al-Fahm for Damages Sustained During May Riots

During the riots and clashes with police in Umm al-Fahm, one police building was torched and burned down, but the state is refusing to renumerate the city the way it has other cities like Lod

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Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and MK Mansour Abbas shaking hands in the Knesset

OpinionOpinion |

'Left' and 'Right' Keeps Israeli Politics From Working Together

Health Minister and Meretz leader Nitzan Horowitz.

OpinionOpinion |

Meretz’s Problem Is Not Identity Politics, It’s Tokenism

Yair Lapid

OpinionOpinion |

Yair Lapid Is the Most Israeli of All

A Palestinian flag is taken down from a building by Israeli authorities after being put up by an advocacy group that promotes coexistence between Palestinians and Israelis, in Ramat Gan, Israel earlier this month

OpinionOpinion |

Israel-Palestine Confederation: A Response to Eric Yoffie

Members of the Boston Red Cloaks march to the State House to protest the overturning of Roe vs. Wade and call for support of pro-choice for all women in the US in Boston, Massachusetts, in May.

EditorialEditorial |

Roe v. Wade Reversal: A Warning Sign From the U.S.

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Outgoing Prime Minister Naftali Bennett at the Knesset.

Bennett in Final Interviews: 'The Opposition Is Ready to Burn the State'

Haaretz Cartoon

Haaretz Cartoon

Head of the opposition Benjamin Netanyahu.

Roe v. Wade Reversal: Israel's Next Election Will Determine if 'It Can Happen Here'

Berlin's mayor Franziska Giffey speaks during a press conference on the opening of the 'Welcome Hall State of Berlin' for refugees from the Ukraine in Berlin, Germany, in March.

European Officials Duped Into Calls With Fake Kyiv Mayor

Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi arrives to supervise a military operation against Islamic State in the western region of Anbar, in April.

Iraqi PM to Head to Saudi Arabia, Iran for New Dialogue

Police forces in the Arab city of Umm al-Fahm, in March.

Arab Man Shot Dead, Five Injured in Violent Incidents Across Israel

Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian meets with High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell, in Tehran, Iran on Saturday.

Iran Nuclear Talks With U.S. to Resume Soon, Tehran and EU Say

Norwegian police officers stand guard in the streets of central Oslo between security tape lines, in Norway on Saturday.

Norway Shooting That Killed 2 Before Pride Investigated as Terrorism

A 10th century depiction in the Codex Egberti of the Massacre of the Innocents, . Herod is on the left.

Will the Real King Herod Please Stand Up?

Clashes between Israeli forces and Palestinians in Beita, near Nablus, in May.

Teen Killed by Israeli Fire Near Ramallah, Palestinians Say

A young Zeschke during down time, while serving with the Wehrmacht in Scandinavia.

How a Spanish Beach Town Became a Haven for Nazis

Ayelet Shaked.

What's Ayelet Shaked's Next Move?

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and his Iranian counterpart, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, at a news conference in Tehran on Thursday.

Analysis Analysis |

The Iranian Octopus' Arms Are More Important Than Its Head

A Ukrainian service member with a dog observes in the industrial area of the city of Sievierodonetsk, Ukraine on Monday.

Ukraine Retreats From Eastern City as Russian Troops Close In

Naftali Bennett in the Knesset on the day of the vote for its dissolution.

Bennett Pans 'Partisan' Netanyahu, but Says He Won't Rule Out Gov't With Anybody

A view of the gate of the Auschwitz Nazi death camp in Oswiecim, Poland, in January 2020.

Auschwitz Museum Says It's a Target of 'Gross' Russian Propaganda

Abortion-rights activists react outside the Supreme Court in Washington on Friday.

U.S. Jewish Leaders Decry Nixing of Abortion Rights as 'Moral Failure'

Tunisia's President Kais Saied gives a speech at the Carthage Palace outside Tunis, 2020.

Tunisia Says It Foiled Attack Near Synagogue, Warns of Threats to President's Life

A group photo of the Supreme Court Justices in Washington, U.S. in April.

U.S. Supreme Court Overturns Constitutional Right to Abortion in Landmark Ruling

A detail of the figurative representation 'People's Justice' by Taring Padi pictured during the documenta fifteen contemporary art exhibition in Kassel, Monday.

Curators of Major German Art Show Apologize for Antisemitic Work

Shireen Abu Akleh reporting from Jerusalem, last year.

AnalysisAnalysis |

Killing of Al Jazeera Journalist: Israel Squandering the Little International Trust Left

Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in Jerusalem, last year.

UN Rights Office: Al Jazeera Journalist Killed by Israeli Troops

This file photo shows the inside of reactor at the Russian-built Bushehr nuclear power plant in southern Iran, in 2010.

Top EU Diplomat to Visit Tehran Friday in Effort to Revive Nuclear Talks

Two Turkish riot police officers walk in front of the Blue Mosque in Istanbul, last week.

Tehran Says Israeli Accusation of Iranian Plot in Turkey Is 'Ridiculous'

Suriname's foreign minister, Albert Ramdin, left, and Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid in Israel, in May.

Suriname Backtracks on Jerusalem Embassy

Names of the victims of the Champlain Towers South condo collapse are written on a screen surrounding the vacant lot where the 12-story building once stood in Florida on Wednesday.

A Year On, Surfside Commemorates Victims of Condo Collapse

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked, in April.

Bennett, Shaked to Discuss Political Future in First Meeting Since Israel Called Election

This handout image released by the Israeli army on June 2, 2022, shows soldiers taking part in military exercises in Cyprus.

AnalysisAnalysis |

Large U.S. Army Delegation in Israel Reflects Tighter Ties, and Sends a Powerful Message

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu and Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid meet in Ankara, Turkey, June 23, 2022. Necati Savas/Pool via REUTERS

AnalysisAnalysis |

Lapid Is About to Become Israel's PM, and the Entire Mideast Is Watching

Amos Biderman

AnalysisAnalysis |

Bennett Admits He Failed but Will Do His All to Help Save Israel

Ultra-Orthodox protesters demonstrating against a female Reform prayer group at the Western Wall in April.

OpinionOpinion |

What Jewish Fundamentalists Really Fear

MK Gilad Kariv in the Knesset in June.

EditorialEditorial |

A Law to Criminalize Journalists Is an Affront to Freedom of the Press

Haaretz Cartoon

Haaretz Cartoon

Bennett. To attain power he shed the old ideologies and appeared as a high-techie in the reserves.

The Fall of Israel's High-tech Prime Minister

Irina Typograph and Vladimir “Vova” Diachekno.

'Mom Raised a Few Professors of International Caliber'

Chief Superintendent Niso Guetta in a Rishon Letzion court, on Thursday.

Senior Officer Convicted of Assaulting Protester, Photographer at anti-Netanyahu Demo

Iris Rachamimov

'Concentration Camp Inmates Were Placed in a Situation Where They Couldn’t Survive'

A demonstration by teachers in front of Prime Minister Bennett's home in Raanana, this month.

Schools Across Israel to Reopen as Teachers Suspend Strike

Former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a rally held by right-wing Israelis in Jerusalem, in April.

OpinionOpinion |

Just Like Trump, Netanyahu Is a Danger to Israel

A Ukrainian national flag hangs from a balcony of a civilian destroyed building in Irpin, Ukraine, last week.

'Historic Moment': EU Grants Ukraine Candidate Status

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett in the Knesset, on Wednesday.

OpinionOpinion |

Israel Has Reached Another Impasse. The Experiment Will Go on Failing

Ayelet Shaked.

OpinionOpinion |

One Person Holds Copyright for the Destruction of This Government

Pope Pius XII

Vatican to Release Jewish Files Amid Renewed Debate on the Legacy of World War II-era Pope

Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani looks on as he attends a news conference with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz at the Chancellery, in Berlin, Germany May 20, 2022.

Qatar's Ruler to Visit Egypt in First Since Boycott Over Terrorism Support

Israeli police confront mourners carrying the casket of slain Al Jazeera veteran journalist Shireen Abu Akleh during her funeral in Jerusalem, Friday, May 13, 2022.

Police Chief on Al Jazeera Journalist’s Funeral: We Were Wrong, but No Heads Should Roll

Prof. Manuel Trajtenberg, in 2020.

Israelis Pitching Protest Tents in the Streets Should Learn From This Man's Experience

Baltimore, Maryland Stadium in June.

Second Teen Pleads Guilty in Fatal Baltimore Shooting of Israeli Man

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks during a joint press conference with Prime Minister of Luxembourg following talks in Kyiv on Tuesday.

Zelenskyy Calls on Israel to Arm Ukraine, Join Sanctions

Mourners carry the body of Palestinian Ali Harb, 27, at a hospital in Salfit in the West Bank on Tuesday.

Jewish Israeli Suspected of Murdering Palestinian in West Bank

From the cover of 'Shmutz.'

What Happens When a Young Orthodox Woman Discovers the World of Online Porn

An aerial view of raging forest fires in the Kyrenia mountains in northern Cyprus on Thursday.

Israel Sends Two Planes to Fight Blaze in Cyprus' Breakaway North

Deborah Lipstadt speaking during a Senate Foreign Relations hearing on Capitol Hill in February.

Lipstadt Picks Saudi Arabia for First Overseas Visit as U.S. Antisemitism Envoy

Israel's Foreign Minister Yair Lapid and Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu attend a news conference as they meet in Ankara, Turkey on Thursday.

In Turkey, Lapid Thanks Government for Foiling Iranian Plot

An El Al jet sits on the tarmac at John C. Munro International Airport in Hamilton, Thursday, in 2003.

El Al to Stop Flying to Toronto, Warsaw and Brussels

Mourners attend the funeral ceremony of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Col. Hassan Sayyad Khodaei, in May.

Iran Dismisses Head of Revolutionary Guards Intelligence Unit

The ancient synagogue in Aleppo, 1947.

On Eve of Israel's Establishment, One Jewish Woman Traveled to Aleppo to Save a Synagogue

Kyiv during the early days of the Russian invasion.

Israeli Embassy in Kyiv Reopens for First Time Since Russian Invasion

A handout picture provided by Hezbollah's media office on Thursday shows the chief of the Lebanese Iran-backed group Hassan Nasrallah during a meeting with Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh.

Hezbollah's Nasrallah Meets Hamas Chief Haniyeh in Beirut to Discuss anti-Israel Alliance

Protest tent going up before news cameras in central Tel Aviv, June 2022

Analysis Analysis |

Housing Prices Are Soaring. Why Most Israelis Don’t Care

Zvika Livne. He enlisted in August, 1970, right as the cease-fire ending the War of Attrition was signed.

Israeli Warrior Died of Cancer After a Secret Mission. Then the War on His Memory Began

Filaments of Ca. Thiomargarita magnifica, discovered in the French Caribbean mangroves.

Bacteria as Big as Tadpoles Discovered in Caribbean Swamp

Turkish police in Istanbul, last week.

Turkey Reportedly Detains Iranian Agents Plotting Attacks on Former Israeli Diplomat, Wife

Karahan Tepe, in the heart of southeastern Turkey where this all began

Where Did Agriculture Begin? In Turkey, 10,500 Years Ago

Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz and Ghaida Rinawie Zoabi, last year.

Horowitz Attacks Zoabi: 'We Have No Connection to This Woman'

A handout picture provided by the Iranian presidential office shows Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi addressing the crowd this month.

Iran Orders U.S. to Pay Compensation for Slain Nuke Scientists

Protest in Lod marking one year since the 2021 Gaza war, in May.

Israel Accuses Facebook of Allowing Hamas to Publish Incitement

A woman lights a candle in front of a poster depicting veteran Al-Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in May.

Nearly Half of Senate Democrats Urge Biden to Investigate Shireen Abu Akleh’s Killing

נתניהו עם כיפה שחורה על הראש נשען בשתי ידיו על הכותל

AnalysisAnalysis |

Israel Is Heading for Its Most 'Jewish' Election Ever

WALTHER RAATHENAU, 1915

OpinionOpinion |

Reviving a Jewish Icon of German Democracy, Assassinated by Far Right Antisemites

Defense Minister Benny Gantz during a vote at the Knesset in June.

AnalysisAnalysis |

Despite Looming Elections, Gantz Still Has Wiggle Room to Appoint New Army Chief

Foreign Ministers Yair Lapid and Mevlut Cavusoglu on Thursday.

Lapid Visits Turkey Amid Iranian Threat and Political Uncertainty

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid attends a cabinet meeting at the prime minister's office in Jerusalem in May.

OpinionOpinion |

Israel Needs a Leader, Not a Promoter

Israeli snipers take aim as they lie prone over an earth barrier along the border with the Gaza strip in southern Israel, as Palestinians demonstrate on the other side of the border, during a protest demanding the right to return to their homeland, at the Israel-Gaza border, in the southern Gaza east Rafah on July 6, 2018.

OpinionOpinion |

For a Generation of Gazans, the Siege Is the Only Reality They Know

Benjamin Netanyahu in the Knesset, on Wednesday

OpinionOpinion |

A Different Netanyahu Story

A BDS protest against an Israel Philharmonic Orchestra concert in New York, in 2019.

Appeals Court Upholds Arkansas Law Pledging Not to Boycott Israel

Haaretz Cartoon, June 22, 2022.

Haaretz Cartoon

Benjamin Netanyahu at the Knesset, in February.

EditorialEditorial |

No to an Alternative Government

Children on their way to school at 10.00 A.M. this week, Israel.

Schools, Kindergartens Remain Closed as Teachers' Strike Enters Second Day

An Israeli helicopter participates in the 'Chariots of Fire' IDF exercise in May.

Israel, U.S. Conducted Joint Exercise Simulating Escalation on Northern Border

Crowds at Israel's Ben-Gurion International Airport, in April.

U.S. Official: West Bank Entry for Palestinian Americans Unrelated to Israeli Visa Waivers

ICYMI

American Judaism Is in Decline. That's Great News for American Jews

'My Jewish Grandmother Has a Number on Her Arm, Why Does Israel Greet Me This Way?'

It’s Not Just the Holocaust. Israel Is Failing to Teach the History of the Jews

Israel and Poland Fight Over History, Truth - and Israeli Students

Unique Burial Plot in Jerusalem Tells Story of Extraordinary Jewish Dynasty

What Israel's 'Antisemitism Envoy' Did on a Conspiracy-laden Fox News Panel

Why Turkey Became the Preferred Location for Iranian Revenge on Israel

Revealed: Under Pinochet's Nose, Secret Israeli Rescue of Hundreds of Dissidents

Puncturing the Netanyahu Myth: Yoni, Bibi and the Truth About Entebbe

Welcome to the Craziest Travel Season Ever

For Israelis and Palestinians, Confederation Is a Disastrous Fantasy

Techno, Parties and the Occupation: The Gap Between Young Palestinians and Their Parents

In Israel's Dysfunctional Democracy, the Rabbis Reign

Nearly Lost Footage Shows Polish Town Before It Was Obliterated in the Holocaust

No, It's Not 'The Situation.' It's Israel's Soldiers

Dozens of Jerusalem Day Videos Showed Jews Beating Palestinians. Only Two Were Arrested

A Revolution in Arabic Studies Is Shaking Up Israeli Universities

Will Someone Finally Say Israel Has Lost It?