Two organizations call for finance minister to be denied entry for saying Palestinian town should be ‘wiped out’; other US Jewish groups also condemn his comments

Agreement announced by Finance Minister Smotrch and Histadrut chief Arnon Bar-David is first salary adjustment since 2015

PM says he only meant that in both cases people shouldn’t have taken law into their hands; Gantz urges him to ‘stop lying’ and apologize to anti-government demonstrators

It has been cleared for publication that over the past several months, the Police and Israeli Security Agency (Shin-Bet) arrested five residents of the Druze town of Yarka in northern Israel who kidnapped three Palestinian Arabs from the Hebron region several months ago. The suspects carried out the kidnapping in response to an incident during

Masked gunmen forced laborers into car in Druze city of Yarka and beat them, before Tiran Fero’s remains were returned by terrorists in Jenin

Announcement comes after Denmark said it’s in talks with Israeli firm to fill ‘critical gap’ after pledging all of its howitzers to Ukraine to fend off Russian invasion

Officer’s actions at Tel Aviv protests apparently violated regulations; Ben Gvir says he gives him ‘full backing’ in handling ‘anarchists’

State news agency says hostages taken, man and a child killed, operation underway to eliminate invaders; Kyiv dismisses claims as a false flag by Russians

Two Iranian warships docked in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday after the Brazilian government granted permission despite pressure from the United States to bar them. Rio’s port authority said in a statement that the IRIS Makran and IRIS Dena warships both arrived on Sunday morning, The Israeli Foreign Ministry is calling out the Brazilian government

Zman Yisrael editor Biranit Goren on a convergence of unprecedented events in yesterday’s Day of Disruptions; Knesset reporter Carrie Keller-Lynn on being targeted by stun grenades

Separately, security forces remove Otzma Yehudit MK who set up ‘parliamentary office’ in evacuated illegal outpost of Evyatar

Yaakov Haimovich is accused of stabbing Lidar Swisa Yaffe to death; defendant, who has a history of psychological issues, previously complained of buzzing that didn’t exist

PM says AG overreaching in preventing him from even discussing judicial reform, suggests it would be enough to bar him from process of appointing judges

A comprehensive list of the top face generator apps available in the market that use AI and deep learning algorithms to generate high-quality, realistic faces that can be used in various applications.

The prominent advocate for COVID-19 vaccines is struggling to untangle politics, anti-science and antisemitism — while saving lives.

Maayan Rockland’s childhood friend flew to Israel to be part of her happiest day; family shielded her from tragic news during celebration

The central district prosecution has submitted an indictment against Yaakov Haimovich (42) from Lod after he murdered his neighbor Lidar Swisa claiming that there was always noise coming from her apartment. The indictment, which was submitted by attorney Keren Inbar-Feibstein, states that at the beginning of February, Haimovich murdered Lidar Swisa, his neighbor, claiming that

Letter signed by hundreds of experts, including a Nobel winner, says ‘we can expect long-term damage to economic growth and Israelis’ standard of living’

Adults have a far higher risk of being diagnosed with heart, skin, and psychiatric conditions for at least the first three months after receiving a COVID vaccine shot, according to a peer-reviewed study of almost 300,000 people in California that was published in Nature Cardiovascular Research. Researchers studied new diagnoses given to people before and

Three children, ages three, four, and eight, were killed Thursday morning when a car them over in the Shuafat Refugee Camp in Jerusalem. MDA medics and paramedics in ambulances and intensive care vehicles waited at the entrance to the camp for the children who were evacuated by Red Cresent ambulances. MDA teams administered medical care

Esti Yaniv, whose sons Hillel and Yagel were murdered by a terrorist in the Arab village of Huwara on Sunday, has expressed her horror at the launch of a campaign of support for the residents of Huwara, the initiative of left-winger and Labor Party activist Yaya Fink. According to the Jerusalem Post, Fink is “collecting

Ship found to be carrying anti-tank missiles and fins for ballistic missile assemblies; despite widespread evidence, Iran denies supplying Houthi rebels with arms

Legislation is an amendment to law passed during previous government that upped the scholarships from 67% to 75% of public college costs

Girl, 8, and boys, 3 and 4, rushed to hospitals but doctors unable to save them; were reportedly walking to school in Shuafat refugee camp

MK Tzvi Sukkot (Religious Zionism) has put his parliamentary immunity as a Knesset member to use and established his parliamentary office in the community of Evyatar in Samaria. IDF forces securing Evyatar, whose residents have been evicted multiple times, most recently this week, allowed Sukkot to enter and set up his office, while limiting his

David Lau participates in ceremony dedicating cultural center, attends regional summit of rabbis, meets with Taiwanese officials; says impressed by locals dedication to tradition

‘Murnau Mit Kirche II’ belonged to Johanna Margarethe Stern, who was murdered in Auschwitz, and was returned to her descendants last year by a Dutch museum

120 professors, including several from each of Israel’s universities, have launched a petition of support for the judicial reforms being proposed by Justice Minister Yariv Levin and Knesset Constitution Committee chairman MK Simcha Rothman. Their petition states that, “Wide-ranging reform of the judicial system is vital, due to the judicial revolution led by Prof. Aharon

Britain’s Royal Navy announced on Thursday that it had seized Iranian weapons last month, including anti-tank guided missiles, from a smuggler vessel in international waters in the Gulf of Oman. According to Reuters, Britain said the vessel was seen traveling south from Iran at high speed during the hours of darkness by an unmanned U.S.

Yair Netanyahu, the son of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has taken to Twitter to express his disgust with the behavior of protesters in Tel Aviv on Wednesday night, after his mother, Sara, was trapped inside a hair salon for over three hours due to a mob of over a thousand left-wingers who had gathered outside

Thessaloniki’s documentary movie event to recall once-thriving large community sent to Auschwitz with several screenings about Holocaust, panel discussions

Heavily armed Jack Eugene Carpenter III posted on social media his intention to carry out ‘punishment of death’ on Jews in government if ‘they don’t confess or leave’

Justice Minister Yariv Levin is planning on making a change to his judicial reform plan that would soften it and could be a possible step towards a deal with the opposition. According to a report in Israel Hayom on Thursday, Minister Levin wishes to make changes to the bill that would prevent the Supreme Court

Police say they used violence after coming under attack by demonstrators, but senior officers say crowd behavior did not warrant use of excessive force and stun grenades

An Iranian cleric recently gave a Friday sermon in the city of Arak in which he expressed doubt that six million Jews were indeed killed in the Holocaust. The cleric, Gholamali Dorri-Najafabadi, is the representative of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to Iran’s Markazi Province. He said in the sermon on Friday, February 17, that

Panel reverses decision recommending freedom made by separate board in 2021, saying Palestinian who shot presidential candidate in 1968 needs better understanding of his actions

Six Moroccan activists targeted by spy software Pegasus said on Wednesday they would join a class action lawsuit in California against the software’s Israeli maker NSO, AFP reported. Claiming that they were “victims of illegal intrusion into their phones by Pegasus software”, they said they are planning to file a joint complaint under a case

The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will meet with Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi in Tehran on Saturday to try to “relaunch the dialogue” on the country’s atomic work, a diplomatic source said Wednesday, according to AFP. The visit by Rafael Grossi comes after the agency announced that its inspectors in Iran had

The J Street organization on Wednesday called on the Biden administration to avoid meetings with Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and even re-examine providing him with a visa for entry to the United States. The call follows Smotrich’s remarks that he wished the Arab village of Huwara would be “wiped out.” “Especially as the Israeli official

Speaking at conferences last week, Trump’s ambassador to Israel took issue with plan for override clause, countering MK leading push and warning it will harm minority rights

The US House Foreign Affairs Committee voted on Wednesday along party lines to give President Joe Biden the power to ban Chinese-owned TikTok, Reuters reported. Lawmakers voted 24 to 16 to approve the measure to grant the administration new powers to ban the ByteDance-owned app – which is used by over 100 million Americans –

A California review board on Wednesday, for the 16th time, denied parole to Sirhan Sirhan, who is serving a life sentence for assassinating US presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy in 1968, Reuters reported. Sirhan was denied parole for another three years by a panel of California parole board members, who said he was not suitable

Friends, family and others pack Ra’anana cemetery, recalling Elan Ganeles as “goofy’ and ‘annoying,’ but in a good way, while a far-right government minister vows to avenge death

State Department says ‘abhorrent’ remarks will goad others into violence, opening fresh rift weeks before far-right minister is slated to fly to Washington for Israel Bonds meeting

A senior Al-Qaeda figure was killed in a suspected US air strike in war-torn Yemen, security and local government sources told AFP on Wednesday. Hamad bin Hamoud al-Tamimi, a top leader of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), which Washington regards as among the global jihadist network’s most dangerous branches, died in the strike along

Julia DeVillers and Jennifer Roy are the inspiration for a set of throwback characters with a nuanced interfaith Jewish background for fans of the popular line

Housing Minister Yitzhak Goldknopf on Wednesday evening paid a condolence visit to the Yaniv family, whose sons Hillel and Yagel were murdered in the terrorist attack in Huwara earlier in the week. “Our right-wing government will survive. We received blessings from the great rabbis of Israel. People went out to vote so that the government

Moshe, the hairdresser whose salon was besieged by protesters while Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu”s wife, Sara, was getting a haircut, recalled the incident in a conversation with Channel 12 News. “I’m shocked, I’ve never experienced anything like this. I have clients from all walks of life. I’m in an emotional turmoil right now, it’s not

The Jerusalem District Attorney’s Office on Wednesday informed the attorney of MK Ofer Cassif (Hadash-Ta”al) that the Attorney General is considering prosecuting him over aggravated assault of a police officer, subject to a hearing being held for him. The decision was made on the opinion of the State Attorney, Amit Eisman. The suspicions relate to

Stephen Weiss, formerly senior clergy at a Conservative synagogue, given six months; prominent rabbi William Lebeau draws criticism for acting as character witness