Exactly half a millennium ago, in 1517, German theologian and monk Martin Luther laid the foundations for a global religious revolution.
Visitors at the arrival hall of Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv can’t help but notice the balloons clinging to the ceiling.
Two young wild boars were seen wandering around a public park in Bat Yam, causing a stir in the coastal city.
The French government has published new regulations requiring labels on all products originating in “the territories occupied by Israel since June 1967.”
Israel’s currency is getting stronger as the euro fell below the 4 shekel mark for the first time in 15 years.
The sidewalks in the Tel Aviv metropolis are already crowded, not only with pedestrians, but also joggers, skateboarders, baby carriages and more and more electric bicycles.
A new Israeli start-up has invented a new way to keep tabs on those small objects so easily misplaced.
SodaStream, an Israeli company that has been a prime target of the pro-Palestinian BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) movement, is fighting back with a clever public relations campaign.
A high school in Taiwan staged a parade on campus with kids dressed as Nazis and a teacher made up to be Hitler.
For the first time in history, a Hasidic woman has been sworn in to public office in the US. Rachel Freier, a 51-year-old mother of six, has been appointed to serve as a civil court judge in the state of New York.
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Here at Israel Today we have thought long and hard about how together with our readers we can make a significant contribution to the preservation of Jewish Jerusalem, in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the reunification of the city during the Six Day War in 1967.
There are sayings in life that always cause me to act or react. One of them is, “There’s never anything to eat in this house.”
An exhibition of 30 nature and landscape photographs taken in Israel has been on display at United Nations headquarters in New York.
Legendary actor and martial artist Chuck Norris, star of more than 20 films and the long-running TV series Walker, Texas Ranger, visited Israel and got a red carpet welcome.
Just before Passover, on April 6, the French musician and composer Jean-Michel Jarre will perform on a legendary stage—the ancient Jewish fortress of Masada.
In Between is a new film which tells the tale of three young Israeli Arab women living together in an apartment in Tel Aviv.
The original seal of Sultan Abdul Hamid II has been restored atop the landmark Clock Tower in the port city of Jaffa, just south of Tel Aviv.
High school pupils assisted in uncovering a spectacular pottery vessel dating back nearly four millennia.
Brigadier General Ran Pecker-Ronen, one of Israel’s greatest pilots, has died at the age of 80.
Israel is extending the “long arm” of the Air Force with the best fighter jet in the world—the American-made F-35 stealth fighter manufactured by Lockheed Martin.
While Israel is a bastion of modern Western values and culture, it is still very much a part of the Middle East—and some things in this region haven’t changed in millennia.
Initially, my purpose in meeting Rabbi Elijah Peretz was to find out more about his wild game meat business.
The Bible describes Israel as “a dry and weary land” (Psalm 63:1). The sun shines for eight months a year, so when the winter rains finally come it’s something of a national revival.
In the articles dealing with Ps. 110:4 [“After the Order Of”?] and with Isa. 53:5 [“By His Stripes”?]—both pronounced Messianic passages—I demonstrated differences between the Hebrew of the Masoretic text [MT] and the Greek Septuagint [LXX].
Like so many other biblical stories, King David’s spectacular defeat of the Moabites, as told in 2 Samuel 8, was seen by many scholars as a flamboyant myth.
In Jerusalem, people live longer and fewer people die of cancer than in the rest of the cities and towns in Israel.
The Palestinians are demanding an apology from new UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres after he said that the Jewish Temple once existed in Jerusalem.
Twelve years ago, when Mahmoud Abbas was elected head of the Palestinian Authority, there were many Israelis who “demanded to investigate his past, particularly the fact that he is a Holocaust denier,” writes Edy Cohen in his new book, The Holocaust in the Eyes of Mahmoud Abbas.
If it wasn’t for his Arabic-sounding name, Atta Farhat, head of the Druze Zionist Council, could be easily mistaken for a member of the right-wing Jewish Home party.
There was something different about the Cybertech Security Conference in Israel this year: the open participation of both the Mossad spy agency and Shin Bet domestic security service.
Israel Today Interview with Sheikh Abu Khalil al Tamimi
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s first meeting with US President Donald Trump was full of subtle but important hints.
