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Dozens of ultra-Orthodox extremists disrupted a boy’s bar mitzvah ceremony at the egalitarian plaza of the Western Wall on Thursday morning,...
The Russian and Belarusian delegations to next month’s Maccabiah Games in Israel withdrew themselves from the massive international event, the...
The daughter of a Russian billionaire diamond merchant paid secular Israeli female social media stars tens of thousands of shekels each to promote...
A prison parole board agreed to grant an early release to rapist and sex offender Alon Kastiel on Monday, despite strenuous efforts by state...
Israel is building a regional air defense alliance to defend its members from Iran, Defense Minister Benny Gantz said Monday, appearing to confirm, at...
Ultra-Orthodox leaders and newspapers have rejoiced at the impending dissolution of the Knesset and government — the latter being one of the few in...
The presumptive chairman-to-be of the Jewish Agency spent his first Shabbat after being nominated to the position at the Israeli Reform movement’s...
Progressive streams of Judaism had high hopes when Israel’s current coalition came together last year. Gone were the ultra-Orthodox and more...
Former IDF general Doron Almog was nominated to take the reins of the Jewish Agency for Israel on Thursday, the group said, ending a nearly year-long...
After more than two decades of living “chained”to her husband, a woman identifying as Tamar was granted a divorce this week, a more bitter than...
Israel will send a delegation of military veterans to take part in the United Kingdom’s Invictus Games next year in Dusseldorf for the first time,...
Heads of the Reform and Conservative movements in Israel said they were disappointed by the near-total lack of progress on the prime minister’s...
The recently appointed head of the semi-governmental volunteer organization Shalom Corps was facing possible termination Thursday after he was found...
The head of Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust museum met with Pope Francis in the Vatican on Thursday, in the first meeting of its kind, a museum...
The Conservative movement on Wednesday announced that it had agreed to adjust its liturgy for Torah services to accommodate people who do not identify...
Deputy Religious Services Minister Matan Kahana on Tuesday night spoke out against an Israel Defense Forces plan to offer more combat roles to women,...
Dozens of disabled British military veterans and their families arrived in Israel this week for three days of swimming, marksmanship and...
The Israeli government will begin paying the salaries of female advisers on Jewish law, Deputy Minister Matan Kahana announced Thursday, marking a...
One of the most successful political movements in Israel in recent decades has been one relating to the Temple Mount, turning what was once an...
More Jewish Israelis support allowing Jews to pray on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem than oppose it, a recent survey has found. Half of those polled by...
Immigration Minister Pnina Tamano-Shata on Sunday said she was working to expand awareness about the thousands of Ethiopian Jews estimated to have...
The success of this year’s Lag B’Omer festivities is in the eye of the beholder: To the government and the organizers, Wednesday night was a...
Police arrested a group of men and women on Tuesday suspected of planning to sabotage the preparations being made for Wednesday night’s Lag B’Omer...
Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz changed his ministry’s policies on Tuesday to give so-called “chained women” access to artificial insemination...
One year after the worst civil tragedy in Israel’s history, authorities are gearing up for another massive celebration at Mount Meron in northern...
The World Zionist Organization condemned its own cooperation with an ultra-Orthodox group that violently protested against the Women of the Wall...
The heads of the Jewish Agency on Sunday night issued what could be viewed as an effective condemnation of the agency’s own acting chairman, Yaakov...
Religious Services Minister Matan Kahana signed off Sunday on a major reform of the way municipal rabbis are chosen, with the goal of making the...
On March 8, after nearly two weeks of intense Russian bombing, a humanitarian “green corridor” was established in the Ukrainian city of Sumy,...
They were some of the first Jews killed defending a Zionist Jewish community in what would later become Israel. The story of how they died is national...
Right-wing Jewish Israelis have grown significantly more pessimistic about the potential of a common future with Arab Israelis over the past year,...
Leading religious figures from around the world gathered in Ukraine earlier this month on a solidarity mission, meeting refugees and delivering a...
Harold Livingston, an American aviator who helped found the Israeli Air Force and later worked as a Star Trek screenwriter, died on Thursday at the...
A specially outfitted plane carrying nine Holocaust survivor Ukrainian refugees landed in Israel Wednesday night just as the country was entering its...
A new Tel Aviv University study found a record-high number of reports of antisemitic activity throughout the world in 2021, much of it tied to the...
Over the past two months, nearly 9,000 people from Ukraine have immigrated to Israel — nearly three times as many as in all of 2021 — as have...
Amir has his daughter’s name tattooed down his forearm, spelled out in giant black and fluorescent blue bubble letters. His profile picture on the...
MK Idit Silman’s resignation this week, in part over the issue of leavened goods, or hametz, in public spaces during the Passover holiday, joined a...
The High Court of Justice barred Chief Rabbi David Lau from appointing rabbinic judges without the consent of the rabbinate’s legal adviser on...
It is an annual tradition in Israel to have a brutal food fight in the weeks before Passover — specifically, over the ban on bringing leavened...
Immigration and Absorption Minister Pnina Tamano-Shata will travel to Ukraine on Thursday night to meet with the Israeli officials processing...
In a highly irregular, seemingly self-contradictory ruling, the Jerusalem Rabbinic Court upheld the validity of a former “chained” woman’s...
Diaspora Affairs Minister Nahman Shai sees a silver lining in the horror and misery caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: Israelis and their...
Eleven people have been killed in Israel in three separate terror attacks over the past week, the largest weekly toll since 2006 at the tail end of...
A government initiative slated for next week will highlight Israel’s connection to Jewish communities abroad, with educational and social programs...
The government on Monday launched a new initiative to allow Israelis to host new immigrants from Ukraine for the Passover Seder, the ritual meal held...
Sasha Zlobjn from Kharkiv, Ukraine, is the 10,000th person to immigrate to Israel from the former Soviet Union since Russia invaded Ukraine last...
Knesset Member Alon Tal has harshly criticized the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee lobbying group for its endorsement of Republican lawmakers...