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The lie that a Palestinian state would be a terrorist state – even as Israel wreaks destruction in Gaza and the West Bank – ignores the Palestinian Authority's repeated pursuit of diplomacy. And while this month's UN Security Council resolution mirrors one from 2016, Netanyahu continues to ignore Israel's interests and its obligations to the people it occupies

Three recent rulings show how the court's more conservative jurisprudence since Netanyahu retook office and amid the Gaza war has given the government greater leeway, even for legally questionable actions. 'Israel's factionalism and polarization also seep into the Supreme Court,' said one legal expert

Former Shin Bet directors and legal advisers warned that a bill meant to curb terrorism would cause backlash and harm national security. 'The death penalty is unacceptable in terms of legal norms, therefore, unconstitutional,' an open letter read, noting it would change Israel's international status

Israel's Defense and Security Forum, a group of ex-IDF officers also advocates for Israel to annex the West Bank. In 2024, it got 13.3M shekels ($3.95M) from the Central Fund for Israel, a right-wing U.S.-based foundation

Defense Minister Israel Katz isn't the first to try and shutter Israel's Army Radio. Even though public opinion surveys overwhelmingly demonstrate that Israelis don't support closing the station, former commanders say this time, the threat seems more serious than ever

Israel Police's representative told the court that most of the Qatargate investigation has been completed, adding that the remaining steps include the Shin Bet security service putting together an opinion on the threat posed to Israel's national security by the Qatargate affair

Israeli Culture Minister Miki Zohar thinks it's a dangerous film. But 'The Sea,' centered on a Palestinian boy who longs to see the sea, is exactly the kind of film that could have helped mend Israel's battered international image

Once fueled by euphoria and a pioneering spirit, Israel's settlement enterprise is now marked by decline

Initially defined by euphoria, Israel's settlement enterprise faces a decline, with violence and a lack of interest marking a stark contrast to the past's pioneering spirit

Politically, it is much easier for Netanyahu to end Israel's military dominance in the Middle East and give the Americans his blessing to sell F-35 jets to an Arab country than to say the words 'Palestinian state'

Annual inflation in Israel remains unchanged at 2.5%, keeping inflation well below the upper limit of the Bank of Israel's annual target range of 3%.

The bill for capital punishment progressing in Israel's Knesset would be used exclusively to target Arabs, and would mark another departure from Western international norms. Israel has only executed two men in its history: an IDF officer wrongly charged with treason in 1948, and Adolf Eichmann

Even as Haredi leaders secure a generous military service exemption, unprecedented rivalries within Degel HaTorah and Shas reveal deep fractures across Israel's ultra-Orthodox public

Friday's storm caused power outages in central Israel's Light Rail and delays were caused in Israel Railways' train schedule

A year after arrest warrants for Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Gallant, and two years into South Africa's ICJ case, the proceedings against Israel remain firmly in place. Trump's sanctions and allegations against Prosecutor Karim Khan have not slowed them, and the arrest of the Military Advocate General has eroded Israel's already weak international standing

One source told Haaretz that Herzog 'knew he would run for president and wanted to offer the pardon as a kind of goodwill gesture to Likud members, seeking their support.' He kept his stance quiet, partly out of concern over how it might be received by Israel's center-left voters

Calling Netanyahu's trial 'a political, unjustified prosecution,' Trump asked Israel's President Herzog in a formal letter to pardon Netanyahu, who faces charges of bribery, fraud, and breach of trust in three separate criminal cases; Netanyahu responded to Trump: 'You get right to the point and call it like it is'

In her ruling, the judge said that the Histadrut, Israel's largest labor union, appeared to be run 'like a private business' by its chairman, Arnon Bar-David, who is suspected of appointing people to key positions in exchange for benefits. 'We know for certain cash was involved,' said the police's representative

The right has turned perpetual conflict into an ideology, casting Palestinians as villains whose only goal is Israel's destruction. It's time to replace this distorted view

Benjamin Netanyahu and Ron Dermer failed to account for a white supremacist takeover of their cherished MAGA evangelical base. Now, Israel's fate lies with an American right that increasingly embraces antisemitism