Almost Everything He Said Was a Lie: Netanyahu's Speech Would Shatter a Lie Detector

The PM and Gantz made on effort to hide their mutual loathing as they take another turn on the Israeli election merry-go-round

How a Campaign to Legalize West Bank Outposts Settled Into Gantz's Party

As settler leaders realized annexation would be shelved for now, they launched efforts to legalize outposts by different means

A Rare Sight on Israeli TV: Network Live Fact-checks Netanyahu's Misleading Speech

While Netanyahu blamed Gantz's party of violating the coalition agreement, Channel 13 News displayed on screen that it was Likud that breached the agreement by refusing to pass a biennial state budget

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Qatar and Saudi Arabia Close to Restoring Ties Following Kushner Visit, Reports Say

Three-year rift between Saudi Arabia and Qatar over foreign policy, including close Iran ties, may be nearing an end, Al Jazeera and Bloomberg report, but similar talks collapsed in February

‘You Have 24 Hours’: Hackers Demand $1m Ransom From Israeli Firm

Leading Israel insurance firm targeted in cyber attack this week gets ransom note demanding 50 bitcoin: 'If you will not pay, the price will double. After that we will sell your data'

In Photos From Above, Even 2020 Looked Good: A Bird's-eye View of Israel's Year With COVID

Drone photography will be the main event at the Local Testimony photojournalism exhibition for 2020

Netanyahu Lost the Vote to End His Government, but Scored a Major Victory

Prime minister just ensured the political demise of the politician who actually won the preliminary vote to dissolve the Knesset, Benny Gantz

Opinion This Female Imam May Have the Solution to the Killings of Arab Women

The Israeli Left 'Has No Hunger for Power': General Turned Lawmaker Wants to Reinvent 'Small, Purist' Meretz

Yair Golan vows to 'silence and suppress' voices pushing to turn his party in a Jewish-Arab alliance: 'This could be the Israeli left’s big opportunity'

Ancient Greece Had Market Economy, 3,000 Years Earlier Than Thought

Integrated markets were thought to have started with the industrial revolution, but now pollen data demonstrates unexpectedly skewed crop choices, especially located on the Aegean coast

Editorial Gantz, This Is the Only Thing You Have to Tell Netanyahu

Laid Off During the Coronavirus Crisis? You Should Apply for a Tax Refund

If the worker’s salary changes drastically during the year – due to unemployment, for instance – deductions from first few months of year may not reflect the person’s actual tax liability

Biden Says He Will Reenter Iran Deal Without New Conditions, Then Negotiate New Agreement

In NYT interview with Thomas Friedman, President-elect Biden says it is critical for U.S. to return to nuclear deal – which Trump pulled out of in 2018 – as a means of stemming Iran's nuclear program

Opinion The Case for a True Left, Minuscule, Jewish-Arab Party

Children, Pregnant Women Will Be the Last to Be Vaccinated for COVID-19 in Israel

A panel has proposed that people 80 and over, medical staffers with high exposure to COVID and people with risk factors be given top preference

Czech Republic Plans to Open Branch of Tel Aviv Embassy in Jerusalem, Minister Says

The new branch office will be set up in the first half of next year and will be manned by a diplomat

Coronavirus Outbreak Caused 20 Percent Increase in Israeli Deaths in 2020

COVID deaths have been climbing since August – and 21 percent of all deaths in Israel in October were caused by the pandemic

Opinion Why Are Jews Flinging anti-Semitic Libels at Jews Who Simply Want to Pray in Synagogue?

Orthodox Jews helped win a Supreme Court victory for religious freedom in America. The response? Rank bigotry, insults and wild accusations – from fellow Jews

China's ‘XXX Files’: ‘25 Thousand People Disappear Each Year, Their Organs Are Harvested’

China experts and activists claim that the repression of minorities in Xinjiang has escalated in recent years, with thousands of Uighur Muslims in ‘reeducation camps’ being murdered and their organs harvested for wealthy Chinese and foreign patients. The Chinese deny all such allegations