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It took less than 24 hours for the Likud party to turn an interview with a former senior aide to ex-premier Naftali Bennett into fodder for a...
Welcome to Times Will Tell, The Times of Israel’s weekly feature podcast. This week we’re speaking about evangelical support for Israel with...
This summer, hundreds of young men and women will flock to Israel on “birthright” tours, learning about their religion and the country’s...
Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu offered incoming Prime Minister Yair Lapid peace and quiet in his new post Friday, but also put the newly...
There’s a bold change of pace in “The Last Photograph: Ran Tal After Micha Bar-Am,” a new exhibit at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art that slices up...
Likud party leader Benjamin Netanyahu wasted no time after the dispersal of the Knesset on Thursday, kicking off his election campaign by touring a...
An Iranian Jew who escaped the country after being persecuted for years and moved to Israel is begging the government to help bring his wife to the...
US President Joe Biden congratulated new Prime Minister Yair Lapid in a tweet published the minute he officially replaced Naftali Bennett as...
Yamina was Israel’s ruling party on Thursday. Just a day later, it finds itself as a minor Knesset faction struggling to survive in a volatile...
Palestinian authorities in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip systematically torture critics in detention, a practice that could amount to crimes...
Israeli researchers say they have developed a material that speeds the repair of damaged nerves using electricity. The ultra-thin material — a...
NEW YORK — Everyone with a drop of cultural awareness knows there was a sacred chord that King David played that pleased the Lord. It’s the...
Iranian hackers have recently hacked into a number of popular Israeli travel booking websites, managing to obtain the personal information of over...
NEW YORK — New York City Council Members slammed the chancellor of the city’s massive public college system on Thursday after he canceled his...
World powers are reportedly likely to reconvene for negotiations aimed at reviving the Iran nuclear deal after US President Joe Biden’s trip to...
Israel’s under-19 men’s soccer team was defeated by England in the country’s first-ever European soccer final on Friday night, with England...
JTA – A Boston-area college has fired an employee it said was responsible for terrorizing the campus for months with antisemitic and racist...
FELDAFING, Germany — In Germany, both Feldafing, overlooking picturesque Lake Starnberg, and Bad Reichenhall, nestled in the Bavarian Alps, are...
American family physician Dr. Vladimir “Zev” Zelenko, who rose to fame during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic by promoting an...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Pam Scheininger and J. David Bleich have this much in common: They are Orthodox Jews who are preoccupied with Jewish ethics...
The brother of a former mayor of a Druze town in the Galilee was shot to death Friday, the latest violent homicide in a crime wave in Israel’s...
The lawyer for an Israeli man arrested in Greece for alleged drug trafficking expressed high hopes Friday that his client would soon be recognized...
ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s media watchdog has banned access to the Turkish services of US public service broadcaster Voice of America and...
PARIS (AFP) — Executions in Iran have more than doubled in the first half of 2022, an NGO said Friday, warning that the surge in hangings was aimed...
The European Union on Tuesday informed a Palestinian civil society organization accused by Israel of terror funding that EU funding to the group...
AP — At a tourism conference in Phuket last month, Thailand’s prime minister looked out at attendees and posed a question with a predictable...
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand’s government has declared that American far-right groups the Proud Boys and The Base are terrorist...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea suggested Friday that its COVID-19 outbreak began in people who had contact with balloons flown from South...
JTA — In the global reckoning with sexual abuse by powerful leaders, no religious movement has escaped scrutiny and censure, including the broad...
A 28-year-old man was shot dead in his car while feeding his daughter, the second killing in a northern town Friday as a result of gun violence....
MADRID (AP) — An unstable world could get even more dangerous if NATO does not remain strong and united, the head of the alliance said Thursday at...
A key committee on Wednesday approved increasing public funding for political parties’ election campaigns by 12.5 percent. The Public Committee...
The lawyer of an Israeli man held in Greece for alleged drug trafficking expressed confidence Wednesday that his client would soon be released...
A 4-month-old boy died Thursday after being left by his father in a car for over three hours in the central ultra-Orthodox city of Elad. Paramedics...
DOHA, Qatar (AFP) –Indirect talks in Qatar’s capital between Iran and the US on reviving a 2015 nuclear deal have concluded with “no progress...
A snap opinion poll published by Channel 12 showed that the Yamina party, whose leadership was publicly handed over by outgoing Prime Minister...
MADRID, Spain (AFP) — The United States vowed to reinforce Europe’s defenses in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, as NATO declared...
Coalition and opposition lawmakers let fly at each other Thursday morning as the Knesset convened to disperse itself, having failed to do so at a...
An earthquake hit northern Israel on Wednesday evening, just as outgoing Prime Minister Naftali Bennett was wrapping up the final business of his...
Palestinian gunmen opened fire during clashes with IDF troops guarding worshipers at a Jewish shrine in West Bank early Thursday, lightly wounding...
Outgoing Prime Minister Naftali Bennett held a transition of power ceremony and handover briefing for incoming prime minister Yair Lapid on...
Welcome to The Times of Israel’s Daily Briefing, your 15-minute audio update on what’s happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world,...
Israel’s Knesset voted to disband itself Thursday morning, a little over 14 months after it convened and a year after the government was sworn...
Israel’s Foreign Ministry confirmed on Thursday that an Israeli citizen fighting on behalf of Ukraine had been taken captive by pro-Russian forces...
Likud MK Yuli Edelstein has walked back an earlier promise to run against Likud chairman Benjamin Netanyahu for the leadership of the party....
As the public stares down its fifth elections in three and half years, widespread voter apathy is likely to again keep many Arab Israelis at home...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Ketanji Brown Jackson has been sworn in to the Supreme Court, shattering a glass ceiling as the first Black woman on the...
An Iranian plot to attack Israelis centered on targeting former Israel’s consul general to Istanbul Yossi Levi-Sfari, according to the Turkish...
The Times of Israel is liveblogging Thursday’s events as they unfold. No agreement has been reached to pass a bill to enable the creation of a...
The Conversation via AP — Russian President Vladimir Putin’s foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, was asked in May 2022 how Russia could claim that...
Shimrit Meir, a top diplomatic adviser to outgoing Prime Minister Naftali Bennett who resigned from her position last month, said in an interview...
Some in Israel dismissed Yair Lapid as just another media star when the former news anchor, ad pitchman, and soap actor launched his bid for...
When the 8th Jerusalem Jazz Festival runs at the Israel Museum July 5-7, it will be the first in several years to feature international artists....
Former US president Donald Trump said Thursday that he would consider endorsing Likud chairman Benjamin Netanyahu in the upcoming election even...
TAIPEI (JTA) — When Rebecca Schrage arrived in Hong Kong from her home near Boston to work in finance around 2014, “there were no bagels. The best...
In its final legislative efforts before dispersing ahead of the next election, the 24th Knesset on Thursday passed a series of bills agreed to by...
Yair Lapid officially became prime minister at the stroke of midnight on Friday, taking office as the 14th premier in Israel’s history. Lapid’s...
SLOVIANSK, Ukraine (AP) — Russia on Thursday pulled back its forces from a strategically placed Black Sea island where they have faced relentless...
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a blow to the fight against climate change, the US Supreme Court on Thursday limited how the nation’s main anti-air pollution...
The Health Ministry’s advisory panel on infectious diseases voted unanimously on Thursday to recommend approving the COVID-19 vaccine for...
Efforts by lawmakers to dissolve the Knesset and call new elections Wednesday night ran out of steam amid a slew of political schemes and...
The world’s largest study on COVID vaccines and kids has found that they halved the risk of COVID infection during Israel’s winter wave. The...
US President Joe Biden said Thursday that one of the purposes of his upcoming trip to the Middle East is to “deepen Israel’s integration in the...
US retail giant Walmart is set to acquire an augmented reality (AR) startup founded by Israeli entrepreneurs to power its optical care operations...
Dozens of ultra-Orthodox extremists disrupted a boy’s bar mitzvah ceremony at the egalitarian plaza of the Western Wall on Thursday morning,...
Defense Minister Benny Gantz on Thursday ordered his ministry’s security department to conduct an investigation into recent media leaks that...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Iran said Thursday it is ready for new indirect talks with the United States to overcome the last hurdles to revive its...
A minor 3.1-magnitude earthquake rattled northern Israel on Wednesday night, in an area that has seen a series of similar incidents in recent...
Israel has deeply infiltrated and drastically shaken Iranian intelligence operations in recent months, a senior Iranian official told the New York...
The Times of Israel is liveblogging Wednesday’s events as they unfold. Yisrael Beytenu head Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman says his party will...
Egyptian security officials warned Iran not to operate on Egyptian soil to target Israelis, days after Turkey and Israel apparently thwarted...
Opposition lawmakers led by the Likud party appear to have seized on plans for an Israeli metro system — the country’s most ambitious public...
Ben & Jerry’s will continue to be sold in Israel and the West Bank, after the Israeli franchise came to an agreement with the ice cream maker’s...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran and the United States began indirect talks Tuesday in Qatar aimed at finding a way to save Tehran’s...
Prof. David Weiss Halivni, a theologian and pioneer in the field of academic Talmudic scholarship, died Wednesday at age 95. Born in today’s...
With the ideological ties that bound Israel’s big-tent coalition having frayed, the 24th Knesset is set to dissolve itself by midnight on...
A dual US-Iranian citizen has pleaded guilty in a federal court in Brooklyn of conspiring to illegally export US goods, technologies and services...
Israeli lawmakers were gearing up to pass the final readings of a bill to dissolve the 24th Knesset late Wednesday, as the country is set to go to...
Yehuda Meshi-Zahav, the founder of the ZAKA emergency service, died a year after his attempting to take his own life amid an investigation into...
The father of one of the Israelis held captive by Hamas in the Gaza Strip said Wednesday he is prepared to wait for his son to be released if it...
A senior general in Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corp was secretly arrested earlier this month for allegedly spying for Israel, according to a...
A Palestinian man was reportedly shot dead during clashes with Israeli forces who were conducting an arrest raid early Wednesday in Jenin....
PARIS, France (AFP) — The fossils of our earliest ancestors found in South Africa are a million years older than previously thought, meaning they...
MADRID, Spain (AP) — Turkey agreed Tuesday to lift its opposition to Sweden and Finland joining NATO, ending an impasse that had clouded a...
Over three-quarters of Israelis fear getting into a car accident and more than half of drivers regularly speed at more than 10 kilometers above the...
Welcome to The Times of Israel’s Daily Briefing, your 15-minute audio update on what’s happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world,...
Albert Bourla, the CEO and chairman of Pfizer, accepted this year’s annual $1 million Genesis Prize in Jerusalem on Wednesday evening, announcing...
Israeli gas prices will rise to NIS 8.08 ($2.35) per liter this week, the Energy Ministry announced on Wednesday, setting the price near the record...
President Isaac Herzog met with Jordan’s King Abdullah earlier this week, the president’s office announced on Wednesday, ahead of US President...
The director of Ben Gurion International Airport has apologized for the chaos at the airfield, but said it was because he didn’t want to cancel...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Agudath Israel of America praised the reversal of a judicial standard that came about as a result of a Supreme Court ruling...
With the Knesset poised to dissolve itself on Wednesday, both opposition and coalition parties submitted hundreds of objections to the dissolution...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — After complaints from Jewish staffers, the headquarters of a US-based training program for NATO pilots removed from display a...
The Mitzpe Ramon Pride March scheduled for Friday will stick to its its original route, after police withdrew its opposition on Wednesday amid a...
JTA — One of the United States’ largest kosher certifying agencies alleges that JetBlue airlines sold a snack it falsely claimed was certified...
Technology built and now deployed in Israel works to warn doctors if their patients’ uncoordinated treatment regimens could set them on course...
PARIS (AP) — A French court has found 19 men guilty of terrorism-related charges for the Islamic State terrorist attacks on the Bataclan theater,...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Indirect negotiations between Iran and the US over Tehran’s tattered nuclear deal with world powers ended...