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Carrie Keller-LynnThe Times of Israel |
Advocates and left-wing politicians are committed to a long-term diplomatic solution with Palestinians, although general support for a two-state...
NIS 17 billion for military and NIS 13 billion for home front mostly funded by increased deficit, though some comes from cuts to ministries and...
National security minister dismisses connection between his efforts to disseminate guns and slacken open-fire rules to tragic shooting death of Yuval...
Finance minister heckled in plenum by opposition MKs who say government should not be spending on coalition favors as nation fights Hamas, deals with...
Ben Gvir accuses Hamas of breaking Gaza ceasefire after the terror group takes responsibility for a deadly Thursday terror attack in Jerusalem
Despite far-right leader’s threat, Netanyahu’s coalition would survive the loss of Otzma Yehudit if National Unity continues to back him
Violent crimes, including rock throwing, cited by Prison Service in cases of 64 of 117 Palestinian prisoners released in first three waves of hostage...
Remark made in reference to polls showing most West Bank Palestinians back Hamas’s Oct. 7 onslaught; Netanyahu said lobbying Likud MKs, saying...
Ministers slated to approve new war budget, redirecting some NIS 30b from 2023 budget to defense goals, while also unlocking hundreds of millions in...
Spontaneous celebrations welcome returnees on way from Gaza; grandfather of 4-year-old Avigail Idan elated, but her parents’ deaths are...
Since the Knesset made it easier to qualify for a gun license last month, welfare groups register an uptick in firearms concerns for roughly 13,200...
Herzog, Lapid back cabinet-approved agreement; many lawmakers stress that initial deal must lead to release of all hostages, allow for IDF to continue...
Far-right former settler activist skirts question whether Jewish settlement should return to Gaza; Yisrael Beytenu party leader Liberman in opposition...
As Druze death toll in war against Hamas reaches 6, PM backs acknowledging community’s contributions, but no commitment to amend much-panned...
Josep Borrell implies war has a high casualty and humanitarian toll because of Israeli fury over terror group’s October 7 massacre of 1,200...
Lawmakers get temporary bans, pay withheld; Ra’am’s Khatib-Yassin has apologized after saying ‘they didn’t slaughter babies and...
‘Not a traditional rape investigation’: Police say they have multiple witnesses, are focusing on gathering circumstantial evidence as...
Former New Jersey governor and 2024 hopeful visits kibbutz targeted in Oct. 7 Hamas attack, saying the devastation is ‘something that I think...
PM rejects taking responsibility for Oct. 7: ‘Did people ask George Bush’ after 9/11?; rejects calls for lengthy humanitarian pauses in fighting;...
Despite definitive witness testimony, global skepticism persists about the terrorists’ sexual crimes. ToI investigates how a mass-casualty event in...
Speaking to reporters in Tel Aviv, war cabinet minister says terror group’s brutal Oct. 7 onslaught threatened Israel’s ‘Zionist and...
A far-right minister risked setting off an international scandal on Sunday, at a time when Israel is battling to maintain freedom of operation in its...
Opposition party leaders slammed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday for continuing to deflect blame for Israel’s failure to prevent...
The cabinet nixed a scheduled vote on Sunday morning that would have transferred NIS 300 million to Haredi schools, out of a pool of frozen coalition...
Just last month, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu predicted a new era of peace and prosperity in the Middle East, based on growing acceptance of...
NIR OZ — For the first time since Hamas took two of her children hostage, Hadas Calderon returned to Kibbutz Nir Oz on Monday, in order to see...
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said Monday he had instructed the ministry to halt the transfer of funds to the Palestinian Authority and is urging...
Defense Minister Yoav Gallant says that Israel’s new, second phase of its war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip may last for “months,” and the...
Opposition Leader Yair Lapid attacked the government Thursday for what he sais was inadequate delivery of services to citizens, 20 days after Israel...
Nineteen days into a war triggered by Hamas’s brutal October 7 terror attack on southern Israel, with the nation reeling from the horrific killings...
Released Hamas hostage Yocheved Lifshitz, 85, described Tuesday at a widely attended press conference outside Tel Aviv’s Ichilov Hospital how her...
Israel’s municipal elections will be pushed to January 30, 2024, instead of being held on October 31 as planned, after the Knesset finalized wartime...
The Israeli government on Monday screened for 200 members of the foreign press corps some 43 minutes of harrowing scenes of murder, torture and...
BE’ERI — A team of about 20 forensic volunteers continued Sunday to sort through the wreckage of Kibbutz Be’eri, which just two weeks before had...
The Agriculture Ministry is looking to allow some 8,000 West Bank Palestinians to enter Israel for agricultural work, with many foreign laborers...
Israel’s flailing Public Diplomacy Ministry will be shuttered and its budget used instead to rehabilitate communities near the Gaza border, the...
The government will allocate NIS 1 billion ($248 million) to a new, dedicated agency to rehabilitate Israel’s southern Gaza border communities...
Opposition Leader Yair Lapid said Thursday he believed the best solution for a post-Hamas Gaza Strip would be returning the coastal enclave to the...
Convening to approve a series of emergency wartime measures, the Knesset on Wednesday passed a law enabling National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir...
OFAKIM — Less than an hour after Hamas began its October 7 attack that killed some 1,400 in Israel and saw at least 199 people kidnapped into the...
ASHKELON — The Hamas terror group ruling the Gaza Strip is part of an Iranian-Russia anti-liberal axis, according to parliamentarians from Baltic...
Opening Israel’s wartime Knesset session under fire on Monday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a warning to Hezbollah and Iran, urging them...
Israel’s parliament opens for its winter legislative session on Monday, 10 days after Hamas mounted the deadliest massacre of Jews since the...
SDEROT — The coach buses pulling into Sderot Sunday opened their doors to allow on some of the few remaining residents of this Israeli city on the...
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich will head up a new council to oversee economic activity during the Israel-Gaza war, his ministry announced on Sunday...
Michael Shamai, 36, was finishing his last working shift as a helicopter medical rescue pilot in the south before his scheduled return home, when he...
Right-wing party head and former defense minister has demanded end of Hamas, says he won’t accept Likud invitation to join security cabinet...
National Security Council head Tzachi Hanegbi said on Saturday that there are no active negotiation efforts underway to repatriate the Israelis...
Hundreds of people on Saturday joined a vigil outside the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv started by a man whose wife and three children are being held...
RAMLE — Bodies are hauled in via refrigerated trucks, shrouded in thin white sheets or sealed in plastic bags, and unloaded in a quiet corner of the...