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An assailant with knives attacked a police officer guarding the Israeli Embassy in Serbia overnight before the officer shot him dead, according to Serbian authorities. Interior Minister Ivica Dačić ...

JERUSALEM – As election results from Israel’s parliamentary vote on Tuesday continue to trickle in, what seems clearest is that no side in this political race will have enough votes to form a majority ...

Traders on the prediction market Polymarket are betting that former Israel Defense Forces chief of staff Gadi Eisenkot will replace incumbent Benjamin Netanyahu as Israel’s next prime minister ...

The first parliamentary election since Oct.7, 2023, pits Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition against Eisenkot’s ideologically diverse opposition, with neither bloc expected to secure a governing majority.

JERUSALEM — Israel Police arrested a man carrying a large knife after he approached Yair Golan, head of the Democrats party, as Golan was campaigning in Tel Aviv on Election Day ...

Rescued and taken to Phoenix after the war, two Jewish ritual textiles looted during Kristallnacht have made their way back to Berlin. For Moishe Saksenhaus, a young Holocaust survivor from Belarus, ...

This story was last updated at 12:15 p.m. ET on Oct. 28. JERUSALEM – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had a clear lead Wednesday over his main political rival Gadi Eisenkot, as his Likud party ...

Israel’s longest-serving prime minister faces a pivotal election. But analysts say his political staying power and a fragmented opposition could complicate efforts to replace him. JERUSALEM – He’s ...

Backed by Cenk Uygur, the spot drew criticism for invoking antisemitic tropes about U.S. support for "killing Palestinans." ...

Israeli expats are spending thousands of dollars to cast ballots in an election they see as critical to their country’s future.

A Torah scroll fragment believed to have been used as parcel paper by Nazi SS soldiers is expected to be donated to a US Holocaust remembrance organization after a Norwegian auction house listed it ...