The Israeli defense minister's announcement comes after Haaretz reported earlier this week that the Israeli army was preparing to incorporate Rafah and its surrounding neighborhoods into the buffer zone it is establishing along the border

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With articles penned by popular writers covering dozens of pages and tens of thousands of copies reaching about a half-million readers, the so-called leaflets distributed each week for free in synagogues around the country have morphed into major influencers of religious-Zionist public opinion

Witkoff told the WSJ that if Iran refuses to dismantle its nuclear program, it will be up to Trump to decide what aspects of the Iranian nuclear program the U.S. could potentially accept, adding that the goal of Saturday's talks is to build trust – not achieve full agreements

The committee tasked with election oversight still refuses to divulge the names of the slates that received these votes, but Haaretz has traced many of the addresses provided by the voters to five specific yeshivas

Irit Pauker, whose father was murdered during the Oct. 7 Hamas attack, says she has lost faith not just in Israel's government and public, but in the opposition too, listing dozens of MKs who are nowhere to be seen at the weekly protests. 'They need to be replaced. I don't have much hope in them'

The government's contention that Khalil's presence in the U.S. posed 'potentially serious foreign policy consequences' was enough to satisfy requirements for his deportation, the judge ruled. Lawyers for Khalil say they plan to keep fighting

Yehoash Hirschberg was among the founding generation of Israeli music research. He is best known for his studies on the development of artistic music in the Jewish community during the British Mandate period and after the establishment of the State of Israel