The Latest Breaking News from Haaretz

The US State Department has said it was deeply concerned by increasing violence in the occupied West Bank, urging Israel and the Palestinians to “take urgent action” for de-escalation. “The United States is deeply concerned by the increased violence in the West Bank,” US State Department spokesperson Ned Price said…

The Guardian and dozens of international media titles publish a joint editorial calling for radical thinking on how to fund climate action in poorer countries

"The election's biggest surprise is the resounding success of the radical right-wing Religious Zionism coalition"

Israel is set to approve a request by the Palestinian Authority to purchase helicopters to transport its top officials, according to a "Haaretz" report released Friday. The Israeli daily, Israeli security chiefs had objected to the prospect over the year, citing security concerns, however, Abbas has recently renewed the request…

The US Department of Homeland Security informed Israel that it has failed to meet the requirements to enter the visa waiver program. Earlier, the Israeli government informed its citizens that it had reached the final arrangements to obtain an official US decision to cancel the entry visa. On Wednesday, Haaretz…

The Israeli army used chemical and biological weapons during the 1948 war, including poisoning water wells in several Palestinian towns, original documents stored in the Israel State Archive, as well as other archives revealed. The documents showed that Israeli political and military leaders and some scholars were partners in the…

Israel wants Egypt and Qatar to pressure Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to activate the security forces and prevent armed operations during the upcoming Jewish holidays. The Palestinian Foreign Ministry said Israel is responsible for the ongoing escalation, saying it regularly targets Palestinian citizens with the worst forms of persecution and…

Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid announced that his country was conducting an intensive campaign to prevent the signing of a “dangerous nuclear agreement” between Iran and major powers. Addressing a cabinet meeting on Sunday, Lapid announced that the director of the Mossad, David Barnea, would head to Washington on Monday…

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has been barring Iran for three years now from retaliating to Israeli raids on Syria to avert an escalation, reported Israel’s Haaretz. Assad reportedly made the order directly to Iran’s slain Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani and it has largely held. Soleimani was killed in a…

Video shows two Palestinian men had been attacked by Israeli police, forcing prosecutors to drop the investigation.

A Palestinian human rights group and an Israeli newspaper are reporting that an explosion in a cemetery that killed five Palestinian children during the latest Gaza flare-up was caused by an Israeli airstrike