Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) demonstrators burned trees and attempted to block traffic at Jerusalem's Bar-Ilan Intersection on Tuesday in protest of the city's light rail construction, Israeli media reported.
As part of the steps to establish the Department of Internal Police Investigations (DIPI) as an independent body, Attorney Avi Amiram was appointed in late June to the search committee tasked with selecting the department’s next director.
DUBAI — The US military launched new strikes against Iran early Wednesday, hours after three merchant ships were struck in the Strait of Hormuz, in the latest exchange of fire to threaten the interim deal to end the fighting between the two countries.
Israeli sports-tech company Pixellot has renewed its partnership with the Maccabiah Games to provide worldwide broadcast coverage of the world’s largest Jewish sporting event through a dedicated interactive streaming channel, allowing families, athletes and fans around the globe to follow the action in real time.
Qatar has summoned Iran's deputy ambassador and delivered a formal protest note following the targeting of a Qatari liquefied natural gas tanker near the Strait of Hormuz.
The UK Foreign Office has summoned Iran's most senior diplomat in the country following the sentencing of two Romanian nationals over their role in an attack on journalist Pouria Zeraati in 2024.
The U.S. began a "series of powerful strikes" against Iran on Tuesday in retaliation for Iranian attacks on three commercial vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz, U.S. Central Command said.
The Trump administration on Tuesday revoked a licence that temporarily lifted oil sanctions on Iran after several vessels came under attack in the Gulf, removing the main economic incentives that saw it agree to an end to the war in the Middle East.
The body of Iran’s former supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei arrived in Najaf late on Tuesday, putting the spiritual centre of Shiite Islam at the heart of a state funeral designed to do more than mourn a leader.
A bill banning the trade of goods from the occupied Palestinian territory has been passed by the lower house of the Irish parliament, the Press Association reported.
The US on Tuesday said it was revoking a general licence that authorised the sale of Iranian oil, placing new economic pressure on Tehran after it was blamed for recent attacks on tankers in the Strait of Hormuz.
A liquefied natural gas tanker caught fire after being struck by a projectile in the Strait of Hormuz, escalating tensions in one of the world's most critical shipping lanes. The attack comes as Iran mourns Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and nuclear talks with the United States remain stalled.
The United States revoked on Tuesday a general license that authorized the sale of Iranian oil, as a US official warned that Iran's actions in the Strait of Hormuz were "wholly unacceptable" and would be met with consequences after attacks on tankers in the strategic waterway.
Just before the Jerusalem Film Festival opens on Thursday, and only a few months before the national elections, Culture and Sport Minister Miki Zohar has released a video on social media boasting about how the changes he initiated in the Cinema Law have stopped Israeli filmmakers from making movies that show Israel …
United Nations experts have called on Israel to immediately release Palestinian physician Dr Hussam Abu Safiya and all health and care workers held in what they described as arbitrary detention.
The U.S. Treasury Department on Tuesday revoked its authorization of Iranian oil sales after a series of attacks on tankers in the Strait of Hormuz this week.
Organisations in the Middle East and Africa are taking a more disciplined approach to adopting artificial intelligence to prioritise control of data and "operational control", a study has shown.
A Jerusalem man was arrested on suspicion of reckless driving after sharing a video he filmed while riding a motorcycle with his dog in his lap, the Israel Police stated on Monday.
The state was due on Tuesday to file its response to a petition filed by Physicians for Human Rights Israel (PHRI) before the High Court of Justice, in which the NGO seeks the release of 14 Palestinian Gazan doctors, including Hamas-affiliated Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, who Israel has been holding in administrative dete…
Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, the spiritual leader of the haredi (ultra-Orthodox) party Shas, sent a letter on Tuesday to chairman MK Arye Deri calling on the party to support the coalition’s contentious legislation in exchange for advancing a series of haredi-backed bills.
Iran is seemingly challenging the Gulf and the US with its recent attacks in the Strait of Hormuz. Iran has, currently, shaken the hornet’s nest by attacking a Qatari vessel. Qatar is enraged by this, as evidenced by its Foreign Ministry's reaction.
Most Israelis believe that Israel's security is not a central consideration for US President Donald Trump, according to a survey published on Tuesday by the Israel Democracy Institute.
The Justice Ministry’s Police Investigation Department (PID) filed an indictment under a plea arrangement against Border Police squad commander Eyal Haimov, accusing him of beating a Palestinian resident of the West Bank at a Jerusalem-area checkpoint and leaving him with a broken hand and bleeding.
The threat level to ships crossing the Strait of Hormuz has increased to "severe" after several Iranian attacks on tankers, a naval coalition led by the U.S. warned merchant vessels Tuesday.
Two bombs exploded near a hotel in Damascus where French President Emmanuel Macron spent the night, wounding 18 people and overshadowing the first visit to Syria by an EU head of state since Bashar al-Assad was toppled.
The High Court of Justice gave the state until the end of Tuesday to respond to Tzohar Kashrut’s newly issued license as an official kashrut-certifying body, after senior officials in the Chief Rabbinate and Religious Services Ministry challenged the way it was granted.
Israel Police are conducting a broad series of operations this week in northern Israel to combat the rise in organized crime within the Arab Israeli population.
With yields blowing out today as they followed the sharp increase in oil prices after Iran struck no less than 3 ships crossing the Hormuz Strait (with a Trump response sure to follow), we doubt there was much focus on today's 3Y auction. Which is unfortunate because despite the selloff in the secondary market, the …
US President Donald Trump said he would lift sanctions on Turkey and consider selling F-35 jets to the country after arriving in Ankara for a high-stakes Nato summit dominated by tension between member states and US criticism of Europe's stance on the war in Iran.