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Bahai organization calls arrests part of Tehran’s ‘escalating campaign of persecution’ against members of the religion, including...
In Davos, Mohammad Javad Zarif also says Israel failed in its Gaza war objectives, Tehran not building nukes; report says Iran to receive missile...
Matthew Mahrer apologizes to family as he heads to prison for case that divided Jewish community members
Palestinian workers, villagers targeted while plowing West Bank land in work coordinated with the IDF; 5 Palestinians, 2 Israelis injured in clashes
25-year-old singer says music has been ‘one of the strongest ingredients in my healing process,’ after hiding for eight hours under a pile of...
Finance minister said to convene with bereaved families, relatives of hostages, and strategists to formulate pressure tactics for stopping...
Amit Isaac decries ‘organized smear campaign,’ as justice minister cites reported conflicts of interest claims in latest bid to block judicial...
MBS says he plans to invest $600b in US during 2nd Trump term; Netanyahu fields first call from new Secretary of State Rubio, who vows to ‘work...
Swiss AG confirms receiving ‘several criminal complaints’ against Israeli president, who attended Davos conference but has since left Switzerland
Damage to Hezbollah, Sinwar’s killing pressured Hamas, officials say, while Trump’s ‘hell to pay’ threat gave new momentum; Qataris credit...
Audience sings every word along with Yehudit Ravitz, David Broza, Gidi Gov and Yoni Rechter
Nir Barkat says Jerusalem would be ‘certainly be willing’ to let the UAE, Saudis and others ‘rebuild something that doesn’t threaten Israel’
Prime minister ‘is once again choosing petty politics that endangers lives,’ says Yesh Atid, calling to close two of the three available...
Katz threatens to tank enlistment bill unless it ensures the preservation of the ‘Torah world,’ the network of full-time yeshivas that form the...
3,000 people expected to attend ceremony on Jan. 27 as international delegations mark 80 years since largest German death camp was liberated by Red...
Government commission concludes Belgian National Railway Company should apologize for WWII transports; Holocaust restitution group pans outcome
Hamas confirms Qutaiba al-Shalabi and Mohammed Nazal carried out attack; defense minister says Gaza lessons being applied in West Bank amid major...
Executive action set to rescind Biden’s removal of designation over aid concerns, with USAID ordered to sever ties with any organization that has...
Acting chief justice refuses justice minister’s demand, alleging an ‘organized smear campaign’ against him against the backdrop of Levin’s...
Claims Conference poll exposes a global trend of fading knowledge about basic facts of the Holocaust, with almost half of French young adults...
Hebrew media reports incident suspected to be an attempt to avenge double homicide in Nahariya earlier this month; wounded 57-year-old said...
Foreign Minister Sa’ar tells UN envoy to Lebanon no compromise on security; strategic affairs minister said to discuss with US security chief...
Zencity uses AI and big data to help local governments hear voices of residents to help tackle pressing issues facing communities: housing, public...
Yehud is thought to be held by Islamic Jihad, leading to apparent concern that Hamas may attempt to put off her release; IDF says troops killed...
Man allegedly was in contact with terror group’s handler abroad who has recruited others in the past, met with operatives in Jenin, took photos...
Reports say officials found Abdelaziz Kaddi had no lodging plans, little money and no obvious reason for wanting to visit, but okayed him anyway;...
Organization’s chief, opposition lawmakers denounce legislation as justice minister’s revenge for not backing his picks for Supreme Court, amid...
Jewish Book Council gives top honor to Lee Yaron for her ’10/7: 100 Human Stories’; reporter Amir Tibon wins best autobiography for account of...
Times of Israel founding editor David Horovitz discusses twists and turns of the ceasefire deal; the PA and Gaza; and the resignation of IDF chief...
Prime minister says billionaire X owner is ‘a great friend of Israel’ and ‘is being falsely smeared over gesture he made during Trump’s...
Trump said opposed, but Israeli envoy says approval likely; as 60-day deadline looms, IDF still finding arms caches, Lebanese army not deploying to...
Hadash-Ta’al party chairman Ayman Odeh defended himself on Tuesday against a wave of backlash from lawmakers across the political spectrum that...
Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar said on Tuesday that his joint proposal with Justice Minister Yariv Levin to change the composition and functioning...
Released hostage Emily Damari thanked the London soccer team Tottenham Hotspur (Spurs) and its fans on Wednesday for their support during her time...
In neighborhoods leveled by 15 months of war with Israel, Hamas officials are overseeing the clearance of rubble in the wake of Sunday’s...
An off-duty Israel Defense Forces tank officer who lost a hand during fighting in the Gaza Strip last year was among those who attempted to...
DUBAI – A Swiss national who Iranian authorities said took his own life while in an Iranian jail after being arrested on suspicion of espionage...
Nearly 900 humanitarian aid trucks entered the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, the third day of a ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian terrorists Hamas,...
Israel attempted on Wednesday to play down reports and speculation that the Palestinian Authority would play a larger role in postwar Gaza and that...
The strength of the Israeli real estate market during 2024 surprised many, as home prices rose about 8 percent during a year defined by a...
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — Iraq’s parliament passed three divisive laws Tuesday, including amendments to the country’s personal status law that...
Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister said on Tuesday he did not see Donald Trump’s new administration increasing the risk of an Israel-Iran...
An initial IDF investigation into a settler attack on two West Bank Palestinian villages Monday night found that dozens of assailants were...
US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he’s considering visiting the Middle East, though not immediately, as he again lauded his new...
JTA — In the ultra-Orthodox Jerusalem neighborhood of Geula, a newly renamed pizzeria advertised a special just for Monday: Customers who bought...
The year 2024 was a “peak year” for antisemitism, with a 340 percent increase in total antisemitic incidents worldwide compared to 2022, according...
Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels said Wednesday they released the crew of the Galaxy Leader, a vehicle carrier seized in November 2023 at the...
This Editor’s Note was sent out earlier Wednesday in ToI’s weekly update email to members of the Times of Israel Community. To receive these...
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The coalition on Wednesday defeated an opposition bill in the Knesset calling for the establishment of a state commission of inquiry into the...
Recent polling conducted before the clinching of a hostage release and ceasefire agreement with Hamas this month found consistently high levels of...
DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) – Iran is “pressing the gas pedal” on its enrichment of uranium to near weapons grade, UN nuclear watchdog chief...
Four people were wounded Tuesday evening by a terrorist who went on a stabbing spree in a trendy Tel Aviv neighborhood, emergency services and...
JTA — Hours after US President Donald Trump’s inauguration, many Jewish groups sounded the alarm when Elon Musk appeared to twice deliver a...
After Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi announced his resignation, Defense Minister Israel Katz on Wednesday notified...
A magnificent assortment of 364 gold and silver coins dating back to the 14th and 15th centuries CE has been unearthed at the site of an ancient...
The mother of freed hostage Emily Damari on Tuesday posted a new photo of the two of them together following her daughter’s return to Israel this...
A senior Hezbollah official in eastern Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley region was shot dead Tuesday in what Lebanese media reported was an apparent...
The Times of Israel is liveblogging Wednesday’s events as they happen. Coalition lawmakers pass into law a bill enabling the justice minister and...
US President Donald Trump’s nominee to become the ambassador to the United Nations said Tuesday that she will use the role to combat “antisemitic...
NEW YORK — Several hundred anti-Israel demonstrators rallied outside the gates of Columbia University in New York City on Tuesday, as student...
The Times of Israel is liveblogging Tuesday’s events as they unfold. An Israeli historian targeted by anti-Zionist protesters says he invited the...
After 471 days in captivity at the hands of Hamas terrorists in Gaza, three Israeli women who were released on the first day of a hostage release-...
Two Israeli men were apparently shot and badly injured by a police officer in the West Bank late Monday, medics said, during an attack by settlers...
US President Donald Trump is preparing to issue sweeping pardons to defendants charged in the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol and intends...
Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th US president Monday, returning to power with a promise of a new “golden age of America” and pledging to...
Israeli relatives of hostages held by Hamas in Gaza and a rescued former captive were invited on stage with US President Donald Trump Sunday at a...
WASHINGTON — US President Donald Trump began his promised flurry of executive action on the first day of his second term. With his opening rounds...
Right-wing Israeli politicians expressed pleasure on Tuesday after US President Donald Trump signed an executive order to cancel US sanctions...
A Hamas official confirmed Tuesday that four Israeli female hostages would be freed on Saturday as part of the ceasefire deal that will also see...
Israeli LGBTQ organizations heavily criticized US President Donald Trump on Tuesday after he signed an executive order the previous day declaring...
Yehuda Cohen, the father of Israeli-American hostage Nimrod Cohen, met with the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court on Tuesday, to...
To mark Tuesday’s annual Hebrew Language Day, the Academy of the Hebrew Language has announced its word of 2024: “hostages.” The Hebrew word...
The full text of IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi’s letter to Defense Minister Israel Katz, announcing he intends to resign on March 6. (...
The Israel Defense Forces launched a major counterterrorism operation in the northern West Bank city of Jenin on Tuesday afternoon, which military...
In bombshell announcements on Tuesday, Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi and the head of the IDF Southern Command said...
Turkey could restart trade with Israel “if peace is permanent,” Nail Olpak, head of the Turkish Foreign Economic Relations Board (DEIK), said...
The vice president of Yemen’s UN-recognized government on Tuesday welcomed Donald Trump’s return as US president, saying it was a decisive...
Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee chairman Yuli Edelstein (Likud) pushed back Tuesday against coalition pressure to pass legislation...
A law criminalizing the denial, minimization or celebration of the Hamas terror group’s October 7 attack on southern Israel passed its third and...
A durable ceasefire with the Hamas terror group in the war in Gaza would reduce “downside risks to Israel’s economy and public finances,”...
With his far-right party’s exit from the government going into effect on Tuesday morning, Otzma Yehudit MK Almog Cohen entered a state of...
BERLIN, Germany — The Berlin Film Festival is set to screen a documentary about an Israeli actor taken hostage by Hamas, organizers said Tuesday,...
JTA — Viewers tuning in early to broadcasts of US President Donald Trump’s inauguration ceremony on Monday could catch a glimpse of a woman with...
JTA — With an evangelical pastor’s arm around his shoulders, Yehudah Glick recited the Jewish priestly blessing on Monday before a crowd in...
Police in Australia believe a string of antisemitic attacks, including the torching of a daycare center in Sydney early Tuesday morning, may be...
Outgoing National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir officially took leave of his post Tuesday morning, as he and the rest of his party quit the...
A Jewish childcare center was torched near a Sydney synagogue on Tuesday, causing the Australian state of New South Wales to commit more police to...
The 200-kilometer-long border Israel shares with Egypt is not considered one of the multiple fronts of the ongoing war sparked by the Hamas terror...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Yemen’s Houthi rebels signaled Monday they now will limit their attacks in the Red Sea corridor to only Israeli-...
WASHINGTON — The US Senate quickly confirmed Marco Rubio as secretary of state Monday, voting unanimously to give US President Donald Trump the...
US President Donald Trump on Monday pardoned more than 1,500 of his supporters charged with crimes in the January 6, 2021, attack on the US...
An executive order signed by US President Donald Trump on Monday appeared to target, among others, foreign nationals who participated in...
US President Donald Trump said Monday he was “not confident” the Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal that came into effect the previous day...
NEW YORK — During a trip to Israel this month, Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch and a delegation of US Reform rabbis listened to artillery fire and a drone...
The hostage deal in Gaza is bringing an end to the war, while creating the conditions for an agreement with Saudi Arabia; as the government turns...
Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar on Monday did not rule out the possibility that Israel would accept the Palestinian Authority playing a role in...
JTA — Hosting “Saturday Night Live” in its final broadcast before the inauguration of Donald Trump, comedian Dave Chappelle concluded with...
JTA — When Elon Musk gave his own victory speech following US President Donald Trump’s inauguration, it was something he did — rather than...
US President Donald Trump on Monday reversed an executive order of Joe Biden’s administration, renewing sanctions against members of the...