The government's insistence on sticking with Netanyahu's chief of staff Braverman's ambassadorial appointment despite all the cases against him raises serious suspicions that someone wants him out of the prime minister's inner circle, to impede a thorough investigation of these cases
From a potato field near Kiryat Shmona to the Yoseftal neighborhood in Dimona, from the heart of Tel Aviv to the West Bank, Israelis are trying to overcome the state's fecklessness
Speaking at a ceremony for military judges held in his residence, Herzog asked those present: 'How are you supposed to implement it?' The president's office said he was referring to section 55 of the law and characterized the remarks as 'sarcastic'
Israel's embassy in Norway condemned the events by Norwegian Center Holocaust and Minority Studies in Oslo, saying they 'legitimize antisemitism.' The center said the aim is to 'understand shadows of historical traumas without equating them'
Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar welcomed the jury's resignation, saying, 'The message is clear: there is no place for politics, boycotts, or antisemitism in the cultural world'
Keir Starmer has promised 'effective and swift justice' after a wave of antisemitic violence in the U.K., most recently the stabbing of two Jewish men in London. But antisemitism can't be defeated by government action alone – it requires broad civic mobilization around Jewish safety
Liem Ben Hamo is the 17th soldier and the 21st Israeli killed since the start of the current round of fighting in the north. In a separate drone attack earlier on Thursday, two Israeli soldiers were moderately wounded and 10 lightly when a Hezbollah drone detonated in northern Israel
Roman Gofman approached several people involved in the use of an underage spy during his time in the army. One of them wondered whether Gofman tried to influence his testimony
Israel asked the U.S. to extradiate a man, ICE said, who is reportedly suspected of rape and indecent acts with minors committed in 2020-2023 while he was employed at an Israeli yeshiva
Democrats are citing legal and constitutional concerns as the Iran war approaches its 60th day, requiring Congress to vote to continue the war under the 1973 War Powers Resolution
Iranian media published a written statement attributed to the Supreme Leader in which he called to eliminate 'the enemy's abuses of the waterway,' vowing that Iran would restore 'calm and security.' A senior Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps official warned that any attack would be met with 'painful strikes'
The wider unemployment rate, which includes furloughed workers, jumped to over 16 percent in March, as the hostilities shuttered most economic activity across Israel
The Education Ministry has no plan to curb youth violence and is instead fueling it through political crackdowns on schools. Welfare services are overstretched and failing. And rather than uphold the law, police are violating it
Starmer criticized pro-Palestinian marches, saying that though the U.K. protects freedom of speech, 'if you are marching with people wearing pictures of paragliders without calling it out, you are venerating the murder of Jews'
Royal Commissioner Virginia Bell made 14 recommendations on Thursday in her first interim report. The report noted that the Australian government has allocated $73 million to increase security at Jewish sites
Whether Jewish Zionist parties would enter a coalition with Arab factions has become an early issue of the emerging election campaign. Both Bennett and Lapid, who launched a new party this week, have said they won't include Arab parties in their coalition
According to the military prosecution, the IDF major helped an Israeli civilian cross into Gaza and remain there several days as part of the smuggling operation, knowing that bringing an Israeli into Gaza could aid Hamas