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This was a week of victories for women in Israeli politics

The Labor Party and in Habayit Hayehudi both held primaries that sent charismatic female candidates to the upper reaches of their electoral lists; also, what good news did an American strategist give Herzog and Livni?

By Yossi Verter | Jan 17, 2015 | 01:30 AM

There's a scent of change in Israeli politics
By Yoel Marcus | 3
Netanyahu's primary run largely financed by foreign donors
By Ariel David | 2

Netanyahu during a Likud press conference in Tel Aviv.

Netanyahu's primary run largely financed by foreign donors

About half the prime minister's campaign funds came from three wealthy U.S. families, records show. Labor politicians take a more grassroots Israeli approach.

By Ariel David | Jan 16, 2015 | 06:50 PM | 2

Police detain senior official, ex-MK over alleged graft at land authority

National Fraud Investigations Unit raids Israel Land Authority offices in Jerusalem.

By Yaniv Kubovich | Jan 16, 2015 | 06:23 PM

Mother of 7 released from two-day detention for refusing divorce

Woman handcuffed for not accepting Jewish bill of divorce that ignored husband's failure to live up to his end of bargain made in family affairs court.

By Nir Hasson | Jan 16, 2015 | 04:00 AM | 5

African asylum seekers at the Holot detention facility in the Negev

Asylum seekers jailed in Holot to be given heaters, state promises court

Following petition by three human rights organizations and complaints over bitter cold conditions in detention center, state says will install heater in every cell.

By Ilan Lior | Jan 16, 2015 | 03:37 AM

Beit Shemesh creates ultra-Orthodox school by moving secular children

150 girls will be moved from secular school to another facility, despite parents objections; secular school will be turned into ultra-Orthodox one.

By Yarden Skop | Jan 16, 2015 | 01:37 AM

70 Bedouin ordered to leave homes near West Bank settlement

The Kaabneh tribe was moved to the area 30 years ago. Nonetheless, the evacuation order issued Monday refers to a 'new incursion' onto state land.

By Amira Hass | Jan 15, 2015 | 05:05 PM

Military court authorizes IDF to search troops' phones without warrant

Soldier convicted of drug dealing appealed that his conviction was based on inadmissible evidence.

By Gili Cohen | Jan 15, 2015 | 04:46 AM

Justice Asher Grunis at a judicial swearing-in ceremony at the President’s Residence

Asher Grunis ends his term as Supreme Court president

Grunis scored the lowest marks among Supreme Court justices in a recent survey in which lawyers rate the judges who hear their cases.

By Revital Hovel | Jan 15, 2015 | 04:01 AM

High school student protest after teachers ban school trips.

Back to school || Teachers lift sanctions, Israeli high school students end strike

Teachers' union agrees to limited responsibility for their charges on field trips.

By Yarden Skop | Jan 15, 2015 | 03:52 AM

An election employee preparing voting slips at a polling booth in southern Israel on Monday.

Israel's Supreme Court rejects petition against increasing electoral threshold

The change effectively forces Arab parties to run in joint slates in order to gain Knesset representation.

By Revital Hovel | Jan 15, 2015 | 03:44 AM

Middle East

A rebel-held region outside the capital Damascus on Jan. 11, 2015

In new blow, Syrian opposition shuns Russia peace initiative

By The Associated Press | 09:27 AM

ISIS planning to launch online TV channel

By Haaretz | 05:33 AM

Turkish protestors praise Charli Hebdo attackers, Istanbul, Jan. 16, 2015

Middle East Updates / Protesters praise Charlie Hebdo gunmen in Istanbul

By Haaretz | 08:20 PM

Diplomacy & Defense

Laying the final part of the Eilat-Ashkelon Pipeline, 1969.

The Iranian debt: How Netanyahu is losing Israel's real battle with the Islamic Republic

By Aluf Benn | 08:14 AM

Jim Clancy, screenshot from CNN broadcast.

CNN’s Jim Clancy resigns after controversial Israel tweets

By JTA | 07:55 AM

Former PM Barak: To go nuclear, Iran is waiting for the world to be paralyzed

By Gidi Weitz | 11:41 PM | 10

The Iran Debate

Samantha Power, September 3, 2014 in New York City.

U.S. envoy to UN: New sanctions could thwart Iran nuclear deal

By Louis Charbonneau | 06:11 PM

An archive photo from 2010 shows Iran's former President Ahmadinejad with Hamas's Meshal in Syria.

Report: Hamas' Meshal set to visit Tehran

By Jack Khoury | 11:24 PM

Israel responding to boycott waves like Saddam Hussein or Khamanei

By Zvi Bar'el | 08:48 PM

World

Marine Le Pen calls for mosque surveillance in France

By The Associated Press | 04:05 AM

Sympathizers of German right-wing populist movement PEGIDA

Report: Terrorists targeting train stations in Germany

By Ofer Aderet | 03:12 AM

California’s historic drought: A warning buoy sits on the dry, cracked bed of Lake Mendocino.

2014 was Earth's hottest year on record, U.S. scientists say

By Reuters | 10:18 PM

Features

Miriam Naor, new president of the Israel's Supreme Court, is a woman with a mission

By Dalia Karpel | 08:22 AM

Anthony Evan Hecht (1923-2004), American writer & poet

This Day in Jewish History / Poet laureate who liberated a concentration camp dies

By David B. Green | 02:39 AM

A French soldier near the Eiffel Tower, Paris, January 12, 2015.

The lesson from France: 'No' to the politics of fear

By Eva Illouz | 04:00 PM

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