Premier’s wife can alert defense team if witness lies, lawyers say, adding prime minister will attend hearing in Jerusalem; Milchan allowed to testify from UK for health reasons

Editor David Horovitz on political use of Temple Mount visits and Abu Mazen’s Nakba Day remarks; senior analyst Haviv Rettig Gur on how Israeli leadership has failed ultra-Orthodox

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, and the United Torah Judaism party reached an agreement Monday afternoon on additional funding for yeshiva students, ending the ongoing coalition crisis and paving the way for passage of the state budget this week. According to the agreement, 250 million shekels will be allocated to stipends for

Foreign Ministry said to have intervened ahead of Diaspora minister’s visit to Canada next week after Ottawa complained he was only meeting far-right representatives

Speaking at the Herzliya Conference, Herzog expresses optimism that a broad compromise would be found, but says there are no shortcuts

Yisrael Eichler says government power rests in hands of deep state and bureaucrats, who he compares to Russia’s Putin; blasts failure of interest rate hikes to bring down inflation

Last week, The Fundacion HispanoJud&iacutea (Jewish Hispanic Foundation) gave its first ever Do&ntildea Gracia Award to famed shoe designer Stuart Weitzman at the Moise Safra Center in New York. “Stuart spent 40 years manufacturing his iconic shoes in Spain, and always felt amazed at the extraordinary ignorance of many Spaniards towards their Jewish legacy,” said

The Knesset plenum opened early Monday morning, kicking off a week of deliberations on the government”s state budget plan. Monday”s meeting began at 9:00 a.m., rather than 4:00 p.m., for the beginning of hearings on the 2023-2024 spending plan, which must be passed by the May 29th deadline. If no budget is passed by then,

Yehuda Kurtzer and SVARA’s Benay Lappe discuss Torah as the inheritance not of an elite and pious few, but of all Jews — especially those on the margins.

Moscow’s embassy in Egypt posts tweet in response to Ukrainian president’s visit to Arab League summit, later deletes and reposts it without Israel reference

Second in a series about the rise of Jewish and Torah education in America after the Holocaust Part One: The Difficult Progress of Jewish Education in America Before the Holocaust Distorted Images of Jewish History The destruction of European Jewry and its significance for American Jewry has elicited some rather strange responses from popular historians.

A senior haredi lawmaker took aim at a top Israeli pop singer Monday, while defending his party”s calls for increased state funding of haredi schools. Speaking in the Knesset plenum Monday morning as he presented the government”s budget plan, Knesset Finance Committee chairman MK Moshe Gafni (United Torah Judaism) pushed back on criticism of increased

Team took the lead with a goal from Dor Turgeman, but Colombia fights back to win 2-1; favorites Brazil and Senegal also lose opening games

Police say raid comes after undercover probe into alleged torching of truck to force business owners to pay up; Ben Gvir touts process to ‘restore governance and security’

For over half a year, about 200 elderly people from the Jewish community in Kyiv were living in Poland – now they returned to their homes and to their families. The shelter in Poland was arranged by the Jewish community JCC Chabad in Kyiv, together with the Jewish community in Poland and philanthropists from England,

Once more, the Beautiful People are partying in Cannes for an International Film Festival. They have given Bad Boy Johnny Depp a standing ovation. All is forgiven or really forgotten for the sake of the business of making movies. This gathering always takes place at the Hotel Intercontinental Carlton, one town over from Nice where,

* Translation by Yehoshua Siskin Shavua tov and chodesh tov! Sunday the new month of Sivan began. We spent Shabbat with my parents in Herzilya. They suddenly noticed that our little daughter would not let me go to bed until she checked to see if I had counted the Omer. This is something that we

Finance minister reportedly left discussions earlier in month when PM said he planned to resolve crisis; Deri rebuked by Agudat Yisrael rabbis when he tried to visit, report says

Mr. Roger Waters: Ra: photos of murdered Jewish children Greetings 1. In a recent article in Haaretz you said that on the table in your office you have placed photos of Palestinian Arab children who died at the hands of Israel. Arab children, sadly, have died in the conflict between Israel and Arab terrorist organizations

The city of Jerusalem”s planning committee has given preliminary approval for the construction of a new Jewish neighborhood inside of an Arab enclave that straddles the border between the capital and Judea and Samaria. The town of Abu Dis, located on the eastern edge of Jerusalem, spans both sides of the line demarcating the municipal

Saudi stem-cell researcher and fighter pilot, along with US businessman, head to International Space Station on Axiom charter, which flew Israeli Eytan Stibbe on debut trip in 2022

Jerusalem committee gives first okay for proposal, advanced by the city together with right-wing groups, to build 400 new homes for Jewish residents in Palestinian town

Jordan”s Foreign Ministry on Sunday condemned National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir’s “incursion” into the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, the Xinhua news agency reported. Ben Gvir’s visit to the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, which was made under the protection of Israeli forces, “is a provocative step and a grave violation that leads to escalation,” the ministry’s spokesperson

In April 2023, The New York Times published that among the hundreds of top-secret Pentagon documents that were leaked recently, one CIA report (“Israeli Mossad Encourages Protests Against New Government Over Proposed Judicial Reforms”) stated: “In early to mid-February, Israeli Secret Intelligence Service (Mossad) leaders advocated for Mossad officials and Israeli citizens to protest against

Sivan is the month when summer is already permeating the senses. The bloom of the perennial flowers from the shining sun sings summer. Yet the magic of Sivan and the reason why it is such an extraordinary month is because in the month of Sivan, the Jewish people received the Torah. Sivan is the third

Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir visited the Israeli-Arab town of Tuba-Zangariyye early Monday morning, together with the Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai, as part of a special operation targeting Arab gangs extorting businesses with protection rackets. More than ten people were arrested on suspicion of extortion during the raids, and checkpoints were set up at

The Lebanese army arrested a prominent Al-Qaeda leader in Deir Ammar town, northeast of the city of Tripoli, Reuters reported. In Saturday”s announcement, the man arrested was identified only as “T.M.” The Lebanese army said in a statement that the arrest took place on Friday. “T.M. is one of the most prominent leaders of Al

Three more injured, including one critically, after Israeli soldiers enter Balata refugee camp near Nablus; videos show troops appearing to shoot man in back, block ambulance

Minister for the Development of the Periphery, the Negev and the Galilee, Yitzhak Wasserlauf, on Sunday met President Isaac Herzog and his office staff at the President’s Residence in Jerusalem. At the meeting, the Minister and the President discussed projects that create change and growth in the Negev and the Galilee, promoting employment and creating

Greece’s ruling New Democracy party won the country”s parliamentary election on Sunday but fell just short of the threshold needed to form a government on its own, Reuters reported. With most votes counted, conservative New Democracy took a commanding lead of 40.8%, defeating the leftist Syriza party, which governed from 2015 to 2019 and which

Iran said on Sunday it is capable of ensuring the safety of the vital Gulf waters in cooperation with neighboring countries, following maritime tensions with the United States. “The Islamic Republic of Iran and the countries south of the Persian Gulf are capable of cooperating to ensure the security of the Persian Gulf, the Strait

The Palestinian Authority”s health bureau reported early Monday morning that three people were killed in a gun battle with IDF soldiers in the Balata refugee camp in Shechem (Nablus). According to the reports, four people were injured in the exchange of fire, two of them in serious condition and two in moderate condition. The reports

State Department slams far-right minister for politicizing holy site with visit meant to show Israeli muscle; move paving way for resurrection of Homesh outpost also panned

The US State Department on Sunday criticized Israel for allowing Jews to enter the community of Homesh in Samaria. In a statement, State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller also criticized National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir”s visit to the Temple Mount on Sunday morning. “We are deeply troubled by the Israeli government”s order that allows its

Secondary School Teachers’ Association met with backlash from teachers, students and treasury after announcing latest measures to pressure government for higher salaries

Instagram was down for more than 98,000 users on Sunday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com. The website said that the first reports of trouble started a few minutes after 6:00 p.m. ET before spiking to over 175,000 reports at its peak. At the moment, other services belonging to Instagram”s parent company Meta, like Facebook,

Israel Museum expert says CT scans offer best way to examine how coffins, including one almost 3,000 years old, were made and decorated

A 4.9% increase in the government-regulated prices of bread will go into effect on Monday morning. The Price Committee at the Ministry of Finance approved the request of the bakeries for a price increase, despite the fact that the Minister of Economy, Nir Barkat, opposed the price increase, and refused to sign the order. Kan