Israel news feed

This week at Ben-Gurion Airport: A French woman who, after an initial culture shock, is envisioning her future in Israel, and an Israeli who found safety and tranquility in Cyprus

The ultra-Orthodox Adass Israel synagogue was targeted early Friday morning in what Australia's education minister called 'a deliberate act of violence, an attack on a place of worship'

When Israeli commanders' reports about what is happening in northern Gaza reached me, I knew what I must do, writes former Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon

Netanyahu's testimony, set to begin Tuesday, will take place three times a week in six-hour sessions after judges found there was no compelling reason to slow its pace

The IDF targeted Muwasi, an area it had designated as 'safe,' where tens of thousands of displaced Gazans live in tents, several of which were set ablaze in the strike. The army said it was targeting a Hamas official

Far-right Minister Ben-Gvir is demanding that the MK follow formal procedures for visiting security detainees, even though the four suspects, accused of firing flares at Netanyahu's home, have not been convicted of terror offenses

Why do so many fish die young? Good question, but meanwhile a hormone that has existed for hundreds of millions of years turns out to play one role in you and another in zebrafish

The legal opinion, now published, says Netanyahu spokesperson Eli Feldstein held a conference call with Channel 12 news senior editor Raviv Golan, during which Golan was introduced as 'D from the Mossad'

A woman with a child is shot while waving a white flag ■ Starving girls are crushed to death in line for bread ■ A cuffed 62-year-old man is run over, evidently by a tank ■ An aerial strike targets people trying to help a wounded boy ■ A database of thousands of videos, photos, testimonies, reports and investigations documents the horrors committed by Israel in Gaza

Julia Kornberg's 'Berlin Atomized' is a coming-of-age story, an epic family tale, and a foray into speculative fiction set in Argentina, Israel and Germany. In an interview with Haaretz she talks about her inspirations and handling the 'touchy subject' of Israel

Kobi Yaakobi found out about the probe when his effort to push for Avishai Mualem's promotion ran into trouble ■ Mualem is alleged to have ignored intelligence on Jewish terror

In the 1960s and 1970s, left-wing governments of Israel proposed plans to 'thin' the population of the Gaza Strip. A perusal of the minutes of meetings reveals that their ideas don't differ much from those of today's far-right government

'Belle from Gaza,' which portrays Palestinian society as anti-LBGTQ, is not Israeli and only partly filmed in Israel, but Cinemamed decided to pull its screening after various activist groups said it 'Contributes to the pinkwashing and colonialist narrative of genocide'

We can only hope that Israeli Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara continues to resist pressure and remains steadfast in her efforts to clean up the country's hopelessly sullied leadership

Despite their very different circumstances, there are similarities in the authoritarian 'wave' threatening all three societies. This is why, together with the imminent Trump presidency, South Korea and Georgia could galvanize Israel's democratic decline