Israel's military must enlist the ultra-Orthodox. What will that mean for Netanyahu and the war?
Israel's Supreme Court unanimously ordered the government to begin drafted ultra-Orthodox Jewish men into the army
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Israel's Supreme Court unanimously ordered the government to begin drafted ultra-Orthodox Jewish men into the army
June 25, 2024In the months since Hamas’ surprise attack sent them scattering across fields or hiding in desert brush, survivors of a massacre at a trance festival in Israel have come together as a community to heal
June 28, 2024A new kind of tourism has emerged in Israel since Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack
June 24, 2024The Israel Antiquities Authority says a company drilling for natural gas off the coast of northern Israel has discovered a 3,300-year-old ship and its cargo, one of the oldest known examples of a ship sailing far from land
June 20, 2024Benny Gantz, a centrist member of Israel’s three-man war Cabinet, has announced his resignation, accusing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of mismanaging the war effort and putting his own “political survival” over the country’s security needs
June 09, 2024David Levy, an Israeli politician born in Morocco who fought tirelessly against deep-seated racism against Jews from North Africa and rose to serve as foreign minister and other senior government posts, has died
June 02, 2024Israel's defense minister says Israel is looking into an alternative local governing body for Gaza, proposing a future beyond Hamas but giving no idea who those challengers might be
June 02, 2024Israel's Independence Day is normally a raucous affair, celebrated with day parties and barbecues in parks, but this year, celebrations — from Monday evening through Tuesday — were muted
May 14, 2024Israel will start marking Holocaust Remembrance Day on Sunday evening
May 05, 2024Israel’s Supreme Court has ordered an end to government subsidies for many ultra-Orthodox men who don't serve in the army
March 28, 2024As Israel battles a prolonged war in Gaza, exemptions from mandatory military service for ultra-Orthodox men have reopened a divide in the country and rattled the government coalition
March 26, 2024Tens of thousands of people have celebrated the Jewish holiday of Purim in Jerusalem, though the traditionally boisterous celebrations have been muted this year by the Israel-Hamas war
March 25, 2024Around 60,000 Israelis who evacuated from cities and towns along the border with Lebanon are grappling with the question of when they will be able to return home
March 19, 2024Evangelicals have been among Israel’s fiercest foreign supporters for years
March 13, 2024The Association of Rape Crisis Centers in Israel says it has found evidence of “systematic and intentional” rape and sexual abuse during the Hamas attack on Oct. 7 that ignited the war in Gaza
February 21, 2024As spring approaches each year, wildflowers erupt across Israel
February 16, 2024Israel's finance minister has slammed a decision by the financial ratings agency Moody’s to downgrade Israel’s credit rating
February 11, 2024A small group of families of Israelis who are hostages of Hamas believes that only continued Israeli military pressure on the militant group, rather than a deal, will free the captives
February 09, 2024A dissident Russian rock band angered by Moscow’s war in Ukraine has arrived in Israel after being deported from Thailand under suspected pressure from the Kremlin
February 01, 2024Hundreds of people gathered in Tel Aviv to mark the first birthday of Kfir Bibas, the youngest Israeli hostage held in Gaza
January 18, 2024Israeli officials say a young girl has been killed after police opened fire at a pair of suspected attackers who rammed their car into a West Bank checkpoint
January 07, 2024Hamas and Hezbollah have accused Israel of carrying out an airstrike that killed a top Hamas leader in Beirut
January 03, 2024The killing of a top Hamas commander in an apparent Israeli airstrike on a Beirut apartment has given Israel an important symbolic achievement in its 3-month-old war against the Islamic militant group
January 03, 2024An Israeli kibbutz hard-hit by Hamas' assault on southern Israel has announced the death of Judih Weinstein — an American-Canadian-Israeli woman who had been thought to be held hostage in Gaza
December 28, 2023The typically bustling biblical birthplace of Jesus looks like a ghost town on Christmas Eve, with celebrations in Bethlehem called off due to the Israel-Hamas war
December 24, 2023