The late pontiff's suggestion that Israel may be guilty of committing genocide in Gaza set him at odds with many in Italy's Jewish community – though its leaders were quick to mourn his loss on Monday
While Israel's Culture Ministry failed to publish a call for curators and artists, leaving them little time to prepare, the Foreign Ministry blamed the delay in renovating the Israeli pavilion on the lack of a state budget
The Shin Bet chief set up a command post in an underground IDF bunker in central Tel Aviv, ordering agents to detect and report any incoming threats against Netanyahu, after a drone hit the PM's home last October
Julie Brill always wondered how so many members of her family were spared when virtually the entire Jewish population of Belgrade was wiped out in the war. Her new book 'Hidden in Plain Sight: A Family Memoir and the Untold Story of the Holocaust in Serbia' unravels the mystery
'If it weren't for the hostages, many troops wouldn't be here': As the burden of the war becomes increasingly more difficult to bear, it's clear to IDF troops that the return to combat in Gaza is just more of the same – and is not intended to benefit the hostages
The Anti-Defamation League's annual audit found that one out of every five incidents of Jew-hatred last year took place on college campuses, which it calls 'the epicenter of American antisemitism'
The PM is charged with fraud and breach of trust over gifts he received from U.S. businessman Arnon Milchan in exchange for taking actions in his favor. Netanyahu testified that Milchan's gifts were a sign of friendship: 'He likes to please'
Ronen Bar's revelations highlight yet again that Benjamin Netanyahu is an immediate danger to Israeli democracy, statehood, norms of integrity and fairness - and to Zionism itself. He will not be declared incapacitated, but the Supreme Court must order a criminal investigation
After destroying buildings and killing human beings, it's time to destroy the life of the mind. A university's defining trait is the battle of ideas. If that is crushed, the entire world is impoverished
The Netanyahu camp's celebrations marking the nearly complete capture of Israel's security establishment are misplaced. The prime minister may soon be the last man standing, facing a futile, unpopular and brutish conflict he can't win
The Israeli police cannot suppress solidarity and empathy; quite the opposite: in their racist ineptitude, they might just end up amplifying it even further