Netanyahu used to prefer giving interviews to foreign journalists to avoid questions about Israel's internal problems and speak about national security instead – but in his last two interviews with NBC and CBS, he found himself speaking almost exclusively on tensions caused by his far-right government

Hundreds of demonstrators are attending weekly protests in Manhattan, looking to encourage more American Jews to join their struggle against the Netanyahu government’s judicial overhaul plans. However, the events are encountering similar problems to those Israelis already faced back home

The reptiles (and other animals) had been shrouded and buried in fine copper boxes, analysis study of six votive boxes from 2,500 years ago

Secular Israelis have long rejected klezmer, an overt, emotional expression of Ashkenazi Jewish musical culture. Sometimes the strength of that opposition – and resistance to anything Yiddish, religious or associated with the Holocaust – knocks me flat

Work on Shabbat and particularly infrastructure work has been a thorny issue for the ultra-Orthodox parties, and has sparked coalition crises in the past