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NEW YORK — Protesters denounced coalition lawmakers who were visiting New York on Sunday for the city’s Celebrate Israel Parade, a major annual...
She was born Lucette Ferraille into a Catholic family in northern France in 1920. She was buried in Jerusalem in 2000 as Ruth Blau, a longtime...
The wife of Knesset Member Simcha Rothman said Sunday she felt “assaulted” by protesters who confronted the couple in New York City over the...
VIENNA, Austria (AFP) — Riyadh on Sunday announced a fresh oil output cut following a meeting of major producers aiming to prop up prices despite...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The US Navy said Monday its sailors and the United Kingdom Royal Navy came to the aid of a ship in the crucial...
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia’s Defense Ministry announced early Monday its forces had thwarted a large Ukrainian attack in the eastern province...
An umbrella group representing senior staff at leading universities said Monday that it was ending a labor strike launched two weeks ago after...
A military court handed down two life sentences on Sunday to a Palestinian terrorist who carried out a deadly shooting attack in the West Bank in...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s recently appointed media adviser has spread 2020 US election fraud conspiracies and charged that US President...
An Egyptian policeman accused of killing three Israeli soldiers in an attack on the border on Saturday morning was named Monday as Mohamed Salah...
Australian police have reopened an investigation into whether a Jewish girls school in Melbourne helped former principal and convicted sex offender...
Police have arrested two Jerusalem residents for stabbing an 11-year-old boy on the city’s outskirts. The two, ages 18 and 23, are suspected of...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to fully investigate the killing of three soldiers in southern Israel by an Egyptian policeman on Saturday,...
The Biden administration’s special envoy for Iran has reportedly held several recent meetings with the Iranian ambassador to the United Nations,...
The owner of a pickup truck from the Sharon region will have to explain to a judge why he converted the back of his vehicle into a pool and drove...
Thousands turned out to pay their final respects Sunday evening to the three IDF soldiers who were killed over the weekend by an Egyptian policeman...
Several coalition lawmakers expressed support for Religious Zionism MK Simcha Rothman on Saturday after he was filmed forcefully seizing a...
An original letter signed by then-British prime minister Winston Churchill and sent to wellwishers upon the Allied victory in World War II was...
Likud lawmaker David Amsalem, who serves as a minister within the Justice Ministry, reportedly fired the head of the government’s Anti-Racism...
Israeli 3D-printing firm Stratasys said it had received a counterbid from US rival 3D Systems after entering into a $1.8 billion merger agreement...
The Yesh Din organization has written to Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara demanding a criminal investigation of two cabinet ministers regarding...
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s largest opposition party is leading a march Sunday meant to mobilize voters against the right-wing government,...
BALASORE, India (AP) — With rescue work finished, authorities began clearing the mangled wreckage of two passenger trains that derailed in...
Following a month-long consumer boycott of Angel Bakeries by many ultra-Orthodox Jews, the chairman of the firm’s board apologized on Sunday for...
The Times of Israel is liveblogging Sunday’s events as they happen. CAIRO — Egypt deployed three tugboats to tow away an oil tanker that had...
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,...
A shooting in the central city of Ramle on Saturday night left a man dead and a teenager wounded, as a relentless wave of violent crime in Israeli...
In a landmark achievement for Israeli soccer, the national under-20 team upset powerhouse Brazil 3-2 in extra time in the World Cup quarterfinals...
A man riding an electric bicycle was killed in a hit-and-run by a concrete-mixer truck in Tel Aviv Sunday, police and medics said. Paramedics...
Israel Defense Forces chief Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi on Sunday appointed a general to lead an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the...
A 17-year-old was indicted on Sunday for allegedly raping a 2-year-old girl and sexually assaulting a 9-year-old in Beit Shemesh. The charges were...
Even by the standards of the Cold War espionage world, Ulrich Schnaft had a rare talent for infiltration. A former Nazi and Waffen-SS fighter, in...
Masked Israeli settlers from the illegal outpost of Homesh attacked homes and residents of the adjacent Palestinian village of Burqa in the...
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) — A tanker transporting crude oil broke down in a single-lane part of Egypt’s Suez Canal on Sunday, briefly disrupting traffic...
A committee of religious Zionist rabbis tapped Meir Kahana, a rabbinical judge in Ashkelon, as the movement’s candidate to serve as the next...
Unidentified individuals shot dead a man in his 30s in Qalansawe, an Arab city near Kfar Saba in central Israel on Sunday evening. Police believe...
A heckler called Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis a “fucking fascist” while the Republican presidential nominee hopeful spoke about his state’s...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday said Israel has told Egypt it expects an “exhaustive and thorough” investigation into the killings...
Dan Ahdoot, New York-born son of Iranian Jewish immigrants, was well on his way to becoming a doctor. He had completed all the premed course...
Israel’s high-level security cabinet convened Sunday night at the military’s main operational command bunker in Tel Aviv to simulate...
Demonstrations against the government’s judicial overhaul were set to enter their 22nd week on Saturday night spurred by a series of violent...
A Palestinian from the West Bank has been arrested for posing as an Arab Israeli man to work as an armed guard at a mall in Holon. Police said they...
The Israel Nature and Parks Authority on Saturday urged hikers to immediately leave the Judean Desert area after a flash flood warning was issued....
The Times of Israel is liveblogging Saturday’s events as they happen. Several hundred protesters against the judicial overhaul rally near Prime...
Hollywood star Andie MacDowell doesn’t lose her fabulous head of perfectly graying curls in “My Happy Ending,” a story of cancer and friendship,...
One of three Israeli soldiers killed by an Egyptian policeman in attacks on the border on Saturday morning was named by the Israel Defense Forces...
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Good Book is being treated like a bad book in Utah after a parent frustrated by efforts to ban materials from schools...
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s longtime leader, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, took the oath of office on Saturday, ushering in his third presidential...
Three people were arrested for alleged public disorder and attacking police officers during a protest on Friday night outside the private residence...
At least 200 people were killed, more than 850 more were injured and many others are feared trapped after a grisly three-train collision late...
JTA — Bulgaria’s ambassador to Israel did not attend a conference on Bulgarian Holocaust history last week, in a move that organizers said...
The Israeli military on Saturday evening said it believed an Egyptian policeman who killed three soldiers in southern Israel earlier in the day...
The elections for the Chief Rabbinate, which were due to be held in August, have been postponed until after the municipal elections on October 31,...
At least two Israelis were hit by gunfire in an incident on the Egyptian border on Saturday morning. The incident occurred close to the southern...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AFP) — The European Union and the United States said Wednesday that they would soon release a voluntary code of conduct on...
An Israeli environmental group said its researchers confirmed Friday that a rare and endangered Mediterranean monk seal — affectionately known as...
NEW YORK — New York City’s annual Celebrate Israel Parade was set to take place on Sunday under the shadow of the government’s contentious...
Anti-government demonstrators filed harassment charges against Religious Zionism MK Simcha Rothamn early Saturday after he forcefully grabbed a...
NEW YORK (AP) — Cynthia Weil, a Grammy-winning lyricist of notable range and endurance who enjoyed a decades-long partnership with husband Barry...
A few days after playwright Wendy Kout was asked to create a play about Holocaust survivors, white supremacists took to the streets of...
THE CONVERSATION via AP — Could organizations use artificial intelligence language models such as ChatGPT to induce voters to behave in specific...
JTA — TikTok star Montana Tucker, who documented a family trip to Auschwitz last year for her millions of followers, will emcee the Israeli embassy...
Weekly protests against the government’s intention to overhaul the justice system enjoyed slightly increased turnout Saturday evening over last...
Powerful winds kicked blinding clouds of sand and dust into the skies over Israel and the surrounding region Thursday, knocking down trees and...
The security cabinet is set to convene next week to discuss a potential multi-front conflict including Iran and Hezbollah, amid concerns over...
Israel simmered under a severe heat wave Friday as temperatures topped 38°C (100°F) in most places and high winds whipped up hundreds of fires...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Fending off a US default, the Senate gave final approval late Thursday to a debt ceiling and budget cuts package, grinding into...
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Rabbi Jonathan Perlman took the witness stand Thursday wearing the yarmulke he had on the day a gunman burst into his...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The US imposed sanctions Thursday on an Iranian Revolutionary Guard official and others it says took part in wide-ranging plots...
Israelis and American Jews protested Thursday in New Jersey outside an event attended by a leading figure in the government’s push to overhaul...
Energy Minister Israel Katz and Environmental Protection Minister Idit Silman on Friday met separately in Jerusalem with John Kerry, the Biden...
Roger Waters did not sport a costume resembling an SS officer and omitted a controversial comparison between Israel and the Nazis at his Birmingham...
A senior Biden administration official on Wednesday reproved the “misreporting” in the Israeli press about US efforts to broker a long-sought...
NEW YORK — Pressure mounted on New York City’s public college system on Thursday in the wake of a commencement speech that was harshly critical...
The head of the Shin Bet security agency was in Washington on Thursday for meetings with senior American officials amid growing US concern over the...
JTA – The state of Arkansas has paid $500 it had promised to a Jewish doctor, after withholding the payment for months because of the doctor’s...
A pair of teenagers were arrested Friday for the suspected rape of a toddler in Beit Shemesh, in a case described as “especially cruel and...
(JTA) – Polish-Canadian historian Jan Grabowski was about to deliver a lecture in Warsaw Tuesday related to his battle against efforts by Polish...
JTA — When Rabbi Arthur Green gave the commencement address last week at the Jewish Theological Seminary, the Conservative flagship where he was...
MADRID (JTA) — Ada Colau, Barcelona’s left-wing mayor who made headlines for breaking off the city’s long-standing relationship with Tel Aviv,...
PORTO, Portugal — If you’re a Jew considering immigrating, your coreligionists in this coastal city would like you to know that it has a...
Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploration into one key issue shaping Israel and the Jewish world — right now. On Sunday, Prime...
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian air defenses shot down more than 30 Russian cruise missiles and drones in Moscow’s sixth air attack in six days on...
UK pop star Robbie Williams took the stage for his long-awaited show in Tel Aviv’s Yarkon Park on Thursday night, dressed in gold, a slinky scarf...
GENEVA (AP) — An anti-racism group called on soccer’s top referee Thursday to distance himself from a far-right politician in Poland, and UEFA...
Hundreds of thousands of homes across Israel lost power Friday as a severe heatwave forced officials managing the nation’s electric grid to...
Police on Friday arrested a teen who allegedly assaulted a member of the LGBTQ community in Jerusalem following the city’s heavily secured pride...
Signs are pointing in a worrying direction for Israel. A smattering of reports, meetings and announcement appear to indicate that the US is moving...
A potential transition to a circular economy, in which one person’s or company’s waste is another’s resource, could generate 12,000 additional...
NEW YORK — Over two dozen alumni of the Tikvah Fund, a conservative US Jewish organization, have urged the group to cut support to the Kohelet...
WASHINGTON — US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to Riyadh next week, with warming ties between Israel and Saudi Arabia on the agenda...
All but two of Rabbi Binyomin Jacobs’ seven children have left their native Netherlands, raising their own children in Israel and beyond. This...
NEW YORK (AP) — Two weeks before ending his life, Jeffrey Epstein sat in the corner of his Manhattan jail cell with his hands over his ears,...
Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem marked the official opening of its new state-of-the art Helmsley Cancer Center this week. The cancer...
JTA — On Wednesday morning, Alfred Moses, 93, sat in a small white armchair at a round wooden table in a Manhattan office building as a historian...
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,...
A 72-year-old resident of Holon was killed early Thursday while riding a scooter when he was rammed by a fleeing car thief, the Israel Police said...
The Times of Israel is liveblogging Thursday’s events as they happen. Police in the central city of Ramat Gan say that forces opened fire on a...
A woman was caught trying to smuggle dozens of snakes and other reptiles into the country, including a dangerous anaconda, one of the largest...
Protesters against the government’s plans for a drastic overhaul of the judiciary held rallies Thursday outside events attended by two government...