The bill originally equated the status of Torah students with that of Israelis in military service, though ministers requested that the comparison be removed. The vote is part of a broader effort by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to enshrine his preferred election date in October
Police said they had gathered enough evidence to file charges against Golan, who is accused of bribery, fraud, breach of trust, forgery, obstruction of justice and obstructing a police officer in the line of duty
Tel Aviv researchers have developed a therapeutic treatment that can reduce damage caused to nerve cells after spinal injury, and even improve mobility for people who suffer from long-term, and sometimes, irreversible disabilities
Yulie Khromchenco, an Israeli trauma-informed educator, has spent years working with children in conflict and disaster zones. Her new book, 'It is Safe Here,' teaches grown-ups how to build safe spaces for children during crises
U.S. patience is waning as Israel persists with its 'peace through strength' doctrine in Lebanon and Iran. Still, Netanyahu fails to see that two years of war have brought us back to where we started
The ultra-Orthodox Jerusalem faction announced the escalation of protests in light of the decision to transfer 19 draft dodgers to the military police custody. About 150 protesters have blockd the entrance to Tel Aviv's Abu Kabir detention center
A man identified as a Palestinian refugee from Syria with Ukrainian citizenship was detained by Hezbollah and accused by Lebanon of being part of an Israeli bombing and assassination plot. His subsequent escape and disappearance now put Lebanon in a quandary
Netanyahu responded by saying Erdoğan is an 'antisemitic dictator ... who is committing genocide against the Kurds, supports the Hamas terrorist organization, oppresses his own people and imprisons political rivals'
The security service's Jewish Division, which investigates Jewish terrorism and extremism, will compile an intelligence assessment aimed at thwarting future attacks and preventing harm to 'the democratic order or its institutions'
According to reports, the Lebanese president is holding talks with the Vatican and U.S. ambassadors to prevent an Israeli strike in the Christian quarter of Tyre, after the IDF issued an evacuation warning to residents of the neighborhood for the first time on Tuesday
Trump has a rich history of expletive-laden comments on Netanyahu. But even his recent 'fucking crazy' epithet won't damage the Israeli prime minister's election chances as much as him querying whether 'Bibi even wants to continue'
ABC correspondent Jonathan Karl wrote that Trump said it's 'an open question whether Netanyahu will run for re-election,' calling him a 'wartime president.' The Likud party responded that Netanyahu will run and 'God willing, he will win'
Talks between the parties are struggling, after meetings on Tuesday night and Sunday ended without a breakthrough. The parties have yet to agree on who would lead the unified list or whether it would support a government that would replace Netanyahu's
The Oscar-winning actress stars in a commercial airing on Israeli TV for a luxury development in Herzliya, north of Tel Aviv. It was filmed in New York and produced by an Israeli agency
The layoffs are carried out as part of a reorganization of the global division's operations, which employs 4,000 employees, 650 of whom are in Israel ■ The division was put up for sale in January 2024 at a value of $1.5 billion – efforts to sell it have so far failed
I reject the idea that Israelis can be understood through Netanyahu, that every Israeli is an agent of state policy, or that citizenship alone tells us everything we need to know about a person's beliefs, actions or moral choices
Satellite images released by Soar confirmed that the Ramat David base had been hit amid renewed hostilities between Iran and Israel, during which roughly 30 missiles were fired at Israeli targets. No casualties were reported in any of the barrages
Nothing but a perpetual party: Let back in to the famed internatioal art exhibition by a controversial Biennale president, Russia set up a non-stop party with regime-compliant musicians. The artists protesting outside tried to be louder
City hall is refurbishing the ancient site, but the project would ruin the natural winter pool that formed there and threaten a cemetery already encroached on by Israel's Independence Park over the decades