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21-year-old Elimelech Stern, a resident of the central Israeli city of Beit Shemesh, was arrested after allegedly being contacted by Iranian intelligence online and told to carry out 'missions' such as hanging banners, stashing money and delivering packages in exchange for cryptocurrency payments

The Capital Market Authority has admitted that for nearly a year hundreds of millions of shekels were stolen from pensions under its supervision, and none of the victims were told. But accepting blame is another thing

According to the Public Defender's Office report on its activity in 2023, more terrorism incitement indictments were filed since the start of Israel's war with Hamas in Gaza than in the past four years, along with a surge in complaints of police brutality

Orban suggested 'reopening direct lines of diplomatic communication with Russia,' clashing with the EU's commitment to provide continued political, financial, economic, humanitarian, military and diplomatic support to Ukraine, for 'as long as it takes and as intensely as needed'

The largest urban area in Jerusalem lacks running water, and no one seems to care: Residents of Kafr Aqab only get a few hours of water a week, can't do laundry or wash floors and are forced to forego showers

One of the biggest Israeli tech success stories, Noam Bardin, has returned to Israel after 13 years in the U.S. a day after October 7. 'This great crisis provides an opportunity, albeit at a wild cost, to press 'restart' for this country,' he tells Haaretz

In response to a petition by female soldiers demanding to be allowed to serve in combat posts, the Israeli army replied that integrating women in Armored Corps units will be postponed because of the war, and that the program will open in November 2025

Close to 70% of British Columbians feel that breaking up the campus protests and encampments was the correct course of action. 

Biden doubles-down on his stance toward Israel, calling himself a Zionist. 'You don't have to be a Jew to be a Zionist,' he said in a Monday interview.

I brought Gaza's suffering into Tel Aviv. I read her words aloud. I wanted Israelis who have never heard about Gaza to know about the lives of the Palestinians on the other side of the fence

The world only cares about what happened to Mohammad Deif, the people of Gaza say, and 'nobody talks about the scores of dead anymore.' There used to be international pressure, a human rights activist said, but 'now, everyone is waiting for Netanyahu'

Three ultranationalist groups have received upward of $200,000 in tax-deductible donations from the US and Israel, despite sanctions.

The important issue right now isn't whether Hamas chief Mohammed Deif is alive or dead, but what's in store for the negotiations. A deadlock could drag on until the U.S. elections, risking the hostages' lives further, and significantly increasing the chance of an all-out war between Israel and Lebanon

  The Republican Party Conference in Milwaukee concluded its first day with the official nomination of Donald Trump as the party's candidate. The conference opened with a moment of silence in memory of the victim who was killed in the assassination attempt on Trump earlier this week, along with a call for the recovery of […]

  Fifty-four families with American citizenship, some of whom also hold Israeli citizenship and were affected by the massacre on October 7th, have filed a half-billion-dollar lawsuit against Iran in the Federal District Court in Washington, stating that Iran funded, armed, aided, and supported Hamas, the terrorist organization responsible for the October 7th massacre, with […]

Human rights advocates say even MLK and Mahatma Gandhi would not be recognized as conscientious objectors based on the IDF's definition of the term. Academics on the committee, activists, objectors and lawyers tell Haaretz how the military system deals with defiant refusers

  Foreign Minister Israel Katz has rejected a request from his Norwegian counterpart, Espen Barth Eide, for an official visit to Israel. The decision comes in the wake of Oslo's controversial recognition of a Palestinian state and its stance on the Gaza War. The rejection came after the Norwegian Foreign Ministry's initial attempts to coordinate […]

When a prominent New York cultural space gave its window display to an artist who applauds Hamas' October 7 attack, it left many Jewish and Israeli artists shocked – but not altogether surprised. Has the art world created 'a flat field that sees reality from a single perspective,' as one curator charges?

Sabra, who appeared as an Israeli Mossad agent in the 1981 comics, features in the film's trailer as a stripped-down and reimagined character amid calls to boycott the film