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Last week, the EU and Israel reached a deal: More humanitarian aid into Gaza, in exchange for nixing any punitive downgrading of EU-Israel trade. But European states should have known that Netanyahu's government is full of liars, thieves and demagogues who place no value on their own word

New study suggests the 3,000-year-old Canaanite custom was the result of Egyptian colonization in Canaan, and persisted well after the pharaohs left

Troops stationed along the Golan Heights border failed to secure the area, and police did not set up checkpoints. Israel's defense establishment fears that some of those who had crossed into Syria could be killed or kidnapped

The suspect is well-known to the justice system, and is not a first offender: "Since September, this is his fifth antisemitic attack targeting a rabbi."

James Gunn's "Superman" reboots the franchise with ensemble flair, a tech-bro villain, and a rare superpower in today's cinema: kindness

If and when elections are held in Israel, National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir will be one of the few coalition members able to show his voters a fulfilled election promise: to worsen conditions for Palestinian prisoners

Brigadier General (res.) Asaf Agmon, whose grandson was killed last year while guarding a right-wing archeologist who entered a combat zone in southern Lebanon for the purpose of mapping settlements, calls on the Israeli public to join his protest of Netanyahu at the courthouse

While ultra-Orthodox rabbis want to go to the polls immediately over Netanyahu's failure to deliver on Haredi draft exemption, party leaders are more prudent and not in a rush to overthrow the government. Despite their demonstrative anger, ultra-Orthodox politicians remain loyal to the governing coalition, their ally for decades

Huckabee said the visit was meant as an American message signaling that 'we want Israel to be successful.' After his visit, Huckabee said he believes Trump 'is right,' two weeks after the president called for the charges against Netanyahu to be dropped

Chaos developed along the Israeli-Syrian border as hundreds of Israeli Druze crossed into Syria. Prime Minister Netanyahu called on Israeli Druze to return to Israel, saying they are 'harming the efforts of the IDF.' The leader of the Druze community in Israel called the clashes with the Syrian regime 'a battle for the Druze community's very survival'

If all goes well – we might be entering an Ararat time, released from prolonged isolation, fear, and restrictions and starting anew. What will our future look like? Two poems by Dan Pagis and Amichai Chasson

At these sold-out concerts, the audience is the real star of the show. People of all ages gather to sing-along to the great Arabic songs of the past, from Fairuz to Abdel Halim Hafez

He has not publicly commented on the meeting or made a public statement urging pro-Palestinian demonstrators to stop using the phrase. 

More Palestinians have died while awaiting aid as conflicting reports emerge from the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation and local witnesses, with the former blaming Hamas and the latter claiming that GHF workers themselves are perpetrating violence

Columbia's Interim President Claire Shipman stressed that there was "no place for intimidation, hateful language, or targeting of Jews or Israelis at Columbia."

Between April to December, the company, of which Einhorn is the sole employee, received funds from outside Serbia for 'services in foreign markets.' Einhorn, who emigrated to Serbia last year, is wanted for questioning in the Qatargate affair and is accused of harassing a state witness Shlomo Filber

A source close to the U.S. president told Haaretz that Trump expects a breakthrough in negotiations for a hostage deal and a cease-fire in Gaza to come from the Israeli side. The question is how he will respond if Israel continues to drag out the negotiations with Hamas

The Druze in Israel and Syria claim that the current escalation is a calculated move by the new regime in Damascus. Whether this is true or not, the incidents in Sweida illustrate the difficulty of dealing with a regime that persecutes minorities

Many of the reps. echoed President Donald Trump's recent attacks on universities, and questioned whether the presidents were doing enough to protect Jewish students.