NAFTALI BENNETT

The lawmaker, Ghaida Rinawie Zoabi, was the second Knesset member to quit Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s ruling coalition in the last two months.

Police are making preparations at a Jewish holy site in northern Israel ahead of the arrival of thousands of worshipers and revelers a year after a disaster that left 45 people dead

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has welcomed a recent decision to expand Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank

An Israeli hospital says a Palestinian gunman has died after being critically wounded in clashes with Israeli troops

Israel has advanced plans for the construction of more than 4,000 settler homes in the occupied West Bank.

A key Israeli governing partner says it is remaining in the country’s fragile coalition

Israeli police say officers arrested a 65-year-old woman suspected of sending death threats with bullets to the prime minister and his family last month

The government of Israel’s embattled prime minister is limping into the opening of parliament’s summer session on the verge of collapse

The government of Israel’s embattled prime minister is limping into the opening of parliament’s summer session on the verge of collapse.

The stabbing was the latest in a series of deadly assaults deep inside the country in recent weeks.

The Palestinian Health Ministry said Sunday that a Palestinian man died after he was shot by Israeli troops near a military checkpoint in the occupied West Bank. The Israeli military said that soldiers “spotted a suspect who attempted to illegally cross the security fence” and fired at him. In a separate incident, a Palestinian man allegedly stabbed an Israeli police officer outside Jerusalem's Old City.

Israel’s interior minister says it is set to advance plans for the construction of 4,000 settler homes in the occupied West Bank

Israel's interior minister says plans will be advanced for the construction of 4,000 settler homes in the occupied West Bank.

Israeli security forces are carrying out a massive manhunt for two Palestinians suspected in a mass stabbing near Tel Aviv that left three Israelis dead.

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Police said they suspect it was a militant attack and that the assailant fled in a vehicle.

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett says he accepted an apology from Russian President Vladimir Putin for controversial remarks about the Holocaust made by Moscow’s top diplomat

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett says he accepted an apology from Russian President Vladimir Putin for controversial remarks about the Holocaust made by Moscow’s top diplomat.

Israel honored its soldiers and civilians killed in wars and militant attacks on Wednesday, with air raid sirens wailing nationwide for two minutes and citizens observing a moment of pause for Memorial Day

"This is an unforgivable and outrageous statement and a terrible historic mistake and we expect an apology," Israel's foreign minister said.

"This is an unforgivable and outrageous statement and a terrible historic mistake and we expect an apology," Israel's foreign minister said.

Israel said the comments by Russia's foreign minister, which suggested Jews were to blame for their own murder in the Holocaust, were "unforgiveable."

In an interview on Italian television, Russia's foreign minister appeared to compare Ukraine's Jewish president to Adolf Hitler. Israeli officials reacted with fury.

Israel has summoned the Russian ambassador over comments made by the Russian foreign minister about Nazism and antisemitism.

Palestinian Muslims walk in front of the Dome of Rock at the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem's Old City, occupied Palestine, April 17. Photo: AFPStarting on April 15, the Israeli occupation army and police raided the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Occupied East Jerusalem on a daily basis. Located in the Old City of Occupied East Jerusalem, the Sanctuary is considered one of the holiest sites for all Muslims. But the mass protests in Jerusalem and the subsequent Palestinian unity at the time forced Israel to cancel its plans. Israel plans to “impose a temporal and spatial division of Al-Aqsa Mosque”, according to Adnan Ghaith, the Palestinian Authority’s top representative in East Jerusalem.

A bomb scare set off scenes of panic at Israel’s airport after an American family showed up with an unexploded artillery shell they had found in the Golan Heights.

Israeli police say that the family of Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has received a death threat and a bullet in the mail for the second time this week

Israeli police say that the family of Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has received a death threat and a bullet in the mail for the second time this week.

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett's teenage son has received a death threat and bullet in the mail, Israeli officials said Thursday, he second such warning against the Israeli leader's family this week. The threats have come at a time of deep political divisions in Israel. In a major speech on Wednesday night marking Israel's Holocaust memorial day, Bennett had spoken out against the polarization in Israel, urging citizens not to let internal divisions rip society apart.

Israel has come to a halt to honor the 6 million Jews killed in the Holocaust

Israel has come to a halt to honor the 6 million Jews killed in the Holocaust.

Israeli police say they have launched an investigation into a death threat made against the country’s prime minister

Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett spoke Sunday about “shared regional and global security challenges, including the threat posed by Iran and its proxies," the White House said.

There is a reason why Israel is insistent on linking the series of attacks carried out by Palestinians recently to a specific location, namely the Jenin

Israel's leaders say the military's laser defense system has successfully intercepted drones, mortars, rockets and anti-tank missiles in recent tests.

Israel's new laser missile defense system has successfully intercepted mortars, rockets and anti-tank missiles in recent tests, Defense Minister Benny Gantz said Thursday. The Israeli-made laser system, designed to complement a series of aerial defense systems such as the costly Iron Dome deployed by Israel, will be operational “as soon as possible,” Gantz said. The goal is to deploy the laser systems around Israel's borders over the next decade, Gantz added.

Officials say Israeli forces have shot and killed two Palestinians, including an unarmed woman, in confrontations across Israel and the occupied West Bank.

The Thursday evening shooting in a downtown area packed with people in bars and restaurants caused scenes of mass panic in the heart of the city. It was the fourth deadly attack in three weeks.

Israeli security forces say they have killed a Palestinian man who opened fire into a crowded bar in central Tel Aviv and killed two people

A third Israeli has died following the attack by a Palestinian man who opened fire into a crowded bar in central Tel Aviv.

Israeli security forces early Friday hunted down and killed a Palestinian man who had opened fire into a crowded bar in central Tel Aviv, killing two and wounding over 10 in an attack that caused scenes of mass panic in the heart of the bustling city. It was the fourth deadly attack in Israel by Palestinians in three weeks, and came at a time of heightened tensions around the start of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. Thousands of Palestinians from the West Bank were set to enter Jerusalem for the first Friday prayers of Ramadan at the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

The shooting comes amid a spike in attacks carried out by Palestinians across Israel in recent weeks.

A Palestinian opened fire into a crowded bar in central Tel Aviv, killing at least two people and wounding several others.

As Naftali Bennett’s fragile coalition teeters on the brink, Benjamin Netanyahu looks to be the beneficiary.

The resignation of Idit Silman stripped Israel’s already fragile coalition of its majority and raised the prospect of a fresh round of elections.

An Israeli lawmaker quit the government's wafer-thin ruling coalition over a dispute about Passover matza rules in hospitals on Wednesday, throwing the fragile alliance into disarray without a majority in parliament. Backbencher Idit Silman's departure raises the possibility of new parliamentary elections less than a year after the government took office. While Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s government remains in power, it is now hamstrung in the 120-seat parliament and will likely struggle to function.

A summit in Israel, at a decisive moment, highlighted the tensions that have rendered the nation an outlier among democratic states.

Extremists are trying to stop the mutual alienation between Israel’s Jewish and Arab citizens from changing to cautious integration.

The gathering in the Negev desert was historic, but it also underscored the failure to bring other Middle East nations into the Abraham Accords.

Israeli forces have raided a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, setting off a gunbattle.

Israeli police say the attacker who used an assault rifle to methodically gun down victims from a motorcycle in a central Israeli city was a Palestinian

Three deadly attacks in Israel in a week are raising doubts over Israel’s approach to its conflict with the Palestinians.

The shooting spree Tuesday night appeared to be the latest in a recent string of deadly attacks.

The shooter was killed by police.

A gunman on a motorcycle opened fire in a crowded city in central Israel late Tuesday, killing at least four people in the second mass shooting rampage this week. The shooter was killed by police.

A gunman on a motorcycle opened fire in a crowded city in central Israel late Tuesday, gunning down victims as he killed at least five people in the second mass shooting rampage this week.

Israeli officials say at least five people have been killed by a gunman who opened fire in a crowded city in central Israel.

Israel has hosted the foreign ministers of four Arab nations and the United States in a bid to strengthen its position in a rapidly shifting Middle East.

The Islamic State group claimed responsibility after a pair of Arab gunmen killed two people and wounded four before being killed by police in Hadera, central Israel

The militant Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for a shooting in central Israel that police say killed two people and wounded four

The militant Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for a shooting in central Israel that police say killed two people and wounded four.

The militant Islamic State group claimed responsibility on Monday after a pair of Arab gunmen killed two people and wounded four in central Israel before they were killed by police. The two killed in the Sunday night attack in the city of Hadera were Israeli police officers, authorities said. It was the second deadly attack carried out by Arab assailants in an Israeli city in less than a week ahead of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

Israel's prime minister has tested positive for the coronavirus and is working from home after he held a series of meetings, including with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

Israeli authorities say a pair of gunmen have killed two people and wounded four others in a shooting spree in central Israel, before they were killed by police.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will try to use his three-nation tour of the Middle East and North Africa to reassure wary Israelis and Arabs that the Biden administration is committed to the region’s security at a time when Washington is confronting multiple foreign policy challenges.

As the war enters its fourth week, New Delhi has been receiving a stream of high-profile visitors from major capitals around the world.

Israeli police say a knife-wielding Arab man has killed four people and seriously wounded two others in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba.

Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and the Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed held a trilateral summit in Egypt's Sharm el-Sheikh on Tuesday, the Egyptian presidency said.Why it matters: The unprecedented meeting is the most significant diplomatic engagement between Israeli and regional leaders since the Abraham Accords, which normalized relations between Israel and the UAE, was brokered in 2020 by the Trump administration. Stay on top of the l

Officials say Israel’s prime minister, the crown prince of Abu Dhabi and Egypt’s president have held meetings to discuss the war in Ukraine and other issues

People in Tel Aviv gather in a central square to watch an address by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to the country's parliament. In it he urged Israel to abandon its effort to maintain neutrality following Russia's invasion, saying the time had come for the Jewish state to firmly back his country.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he is prepared to discuss a commitment from Ukraine not to seek NATO membership in exchange for a cease-fire, the withdrawal of Russian troops and a guarantee of Ukraine’s security.

Mike Pence spent more than four years standing in President Donald Trump’s shadow, refusing to criticize or allow sunlight between them.

"It is possible to mediate between countries, but not between good and evil,” Ukraine's president said.

Ukraine’s president has called on Israel to take a stronger stand against Russia, delivering an emotional appeal that compared Russia’s invasion of his country to the actions of Nazi Germany.

Hundreds of thousands of people have participated in the funeral of a prominent ultra-Orthodox rabbi in the central Israel city of Bnei Brak.

Vladimir Putin has again painted his enemies in Ukraine as “neo-Nazis,” even though the country has a Jewish president who lost relatives in the Holocaust and who heads a Western-backed, democratically elected government.

Iran has converted a fraction of its stockpile of highly enriched uranium into material that can detect cancers and other diseases.

Just a year ago, Naftali Bennett was struggling for political survival.

Ukraine says a fourth Russian general has been killed in the fighting.

The Israeli Prime Minister’s government has a choice to make on two fronts—between American leadership and its own course.

The secretary-general of the United Nations is warning that Russia’s war on Ukraine is harming poor developing countries that face skyrocketing food, fuel and fertilizer prices.

Former Vice President Mike Pence spoke with two far-right Israelis with past links to a banned Jewish terror group during a visit to a hard-line settlement in the occupied West Bank.

Turkey and Israel have agreed to rebuild their relationship despite their differences.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has thanked Israel for its efforts to end Russia's war with Ukraine.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has assured Lithuania and Latvia of NATO protection and American support.

Most of the world is shunning President Vladimir Putin since Russia invaded Ukraine.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has entered its 12th day following what Ukrainian authorities described as increased shelling of encircled cities and another failed attempt to evacuate civilians from the port of Mariupol.

Israel's prime minister is assuming the unlikely role of mediator between Russia and Ukraine with his surprise visit to Moscow.

Australia’s prime minister has described Russia and China’s closer relationship as opportunistic rather than strategic.

The Russian military assault on Ukraine went into its fifth day.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has put his nuclear forces on increased alert, escalating tensions further as Putin's military presses its invasion of Ukraine.

The world’s attention has been focused on Ukraine, but the Biden administration has been racing toward restoring the 2015 international nuclear deal with Iran.

Israel’s prime minister has criticized an emerging deal over Iran's nuclear program.

Australia has added the U.S.-based far-right extremist group National Socialist Order and plans to add the entirety of the Palestinian group Hamas to its list of outlawed terrorist organizations.

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is flying to the Gulf state of Bahrain.

Israel says its security forces killed three Palestinian militants in the occupied West Bank city of Nablus who had been responsible for recent shooting attacks.

Israel's prime minister says the country is speeding up the rollout of a “new generation” of missile defense technology to help protect the country from rocket attacks.

Amnesty International says Israel has maintained “a system of oppression and domination” over the Palestinians going all the way back to its establishment in 1948, one that meets the international definition of apartheid.

Israel’s figurehead president has met the powerful crown prince of Abu Dhabi on the first official visit to the United Arab Emirates by the country’s head of state.

Several dozen impoverished elderly Israelis, among them Holocaust survivors, received food donations from a charity ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day.