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This satellite photo from Planet Labs PBC shows construction on a new underground facility at Iran's Natanz nuclear site, on April 14, 2023. (Planet Labs PBC via AP)

'A nightmare scenario'

Iran’s latest subterranean nuclear site likely impenetrable to US bunker busters

By Jon Gambrell

Analysts say continued tunneling near Natanz facility, revealed by recent satellite images, complicates calculations for US and Israel as nuclear deal remains stalled

In this photo released by the US Air Force on May 2, 2023, airmen look at a GBU-57, or the Massive Ordnance Penetrator bomb, at Whiteman Air Base in Missouri (US Air Force via AP)

ExplainerAmid Iran tensions, US releases photos of bomb able to destroy underground facilities

By Jon Gambrell

Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council Ali Shamkhani sits in a meeting in Tehran, Iran, on June 12, 2021. (Vahid Salemi/AP)

Iran’s security chief Shamkhani replaced with Revolutionary Guard official

By AP and ToI Staff

Religious Zionism head Bezalel Smotrich (standing) with United Torah Judaism leader Yitzchak Goldknopf at the Knesset on November 21, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu gives UTJ nod to pay NIS 250m to yeshiva students, ending budget boycott

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

As final budget votes begin in Knesset, government secures critical support for two-year, trillion-shekel plan

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich during a press conference, at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on April 30, 2023. (Alex Kolomoisky/Pool)

Smotrich said to have walked out of meeting with Netanyahu over UTJ budget demands

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, shakes hands with United Torah Judaism MKs Yisrael Eichler, center and Meir Porush in the Knesset, January 25, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90/File)

Haredi MK threatens elections if budget demands ignored, says PM ‘not a leader’

US flogs Ben Gvir for ‘provocative, inflammatory’ tour on tense Temple Mount

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

The United States expressed deep misgivings with National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir's "provocative" visit to the Temple Mount Sunday, chiding the Israeli hardliner for using "inflammatory rhetoric" and politicizing the holy site. The statement from State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller also spoke out against Jerusalem for lifting... Continue Reading

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, flanked by police officers, greets people gathered in front of Damascus Gate leading to the Old City of Jerusalem on May 18, 2023. (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)

Incoming National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir shakes hands with incoming Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Knesset after a vote to expand Ben Gvir's ministerial powers, December 28, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Netanyahu, Ben Gvir reach deal, removing last hurdle for approving state budget

By Michael Bachner

After meeting that lasted over 3 hours, PM hands Otzma Yehudit ministry NIS 250 million from year-end surplus, ending far-right minister’s threat to thwart crucial budget passage

6:38 pm

Netanyahu hands Ben Gvir NIS 250m from budget surplus, removing last budget hurdle
6:25 pm

Meeting for 3 hours, Netanyahu, Ben Gvir yet to agree on solution for budget crisis
6:05 pm

Baby in serious condition after drinking kerosene in Beit Shemesh

Inside Story

Shalom Yerushalmi

Jerusalem planners give initial approval to Jewish enclave in Palestinian Abu Dis

Plans for 400 new homes inside a Palestinian neighborhood straddling the West Bank and East Jerusalem were given the go-ahead by the Jerusalem District Planning and Building Committee last week, paving the way for Israel to drastically expand a Jewish enclave in the heart of the town. The proposal for a new neighborhood in Abu Dis, a Palestinian town sliced... Continue Reading

A general view of the security barrier and the town of Abu Dis, just outside Jerusalem. February 02, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

They couldn’t see the ocean for the trees

When neighbors banded together to save the Magnolia tree that blocks their view, only to be thwarted by their city’s tree maintenance guy

Eran Shamir-Borer

A war by any other name still needs the approval of the security cabinet

The law on national security decision-making needs to be amended to ensure that Israeli leaders cannot independently undertake ’military operations’

When Martin Amis took on the Holocaust

The late English novelist fought his way through ’a forest of taboos’ to create his provocative novella, Time’s Arrow

Is there a lesson in Israel’s bizarre bread boycott?

Haredi consumers took offense when Omer Bar-Lev supposedly insulted a great Torah scholar. There’s just one problem…

Outrage after top Haredi MK says he would donate clothing to pop star Noa Kirel

A top Haredi politician sparked outrage Monday with a comment about Israel's Eurovision representative, pop star Noa Kirel, during a debate on the budget in the Knesset. MK Moshe Gafni, who leads the Degel HaTorah faction within the United Torah Judaism (UTJ) coalition party, made the comments while... Continue Reading

(R) United Torah Judaism MK Moshe Gafni on January 18, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90) and (L) Noa Kirel on September 7, 2022 (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Products at Be Pharmacy with purple stickers covering the faces of women on May 17, 2023. (Twitter account of Stav Ella used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

After backlash, Bnei Brak drugstore stops covering up images of women on products

Protesters march in Bnei Brak against the billions in funds provided to ultra-Orthodox parties in the state budget, on May 17, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

‘Backward country’: Economists warn government over Haredi budget allocations

By Sharon Wrobel

In letter, former senior Bank of Israel and Treasury officials say the planned funding of food vouchers and unregulated schools poses an ‘existential threat to Israel’s future’

UTJ MK and Deputy Knesset Speaker Yisrael Eichler (right) during a vote in the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on December 28, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

UTJ MK: ‘The government is not in our hands,’ Bank of Israel chief should quit

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant speaks at a May 9, 2023 press conference. (Ariel Harmoni/Defense Ministry)

Gallant presents billion-shekel plan to boost benefits for reserve soldiers

By Emanuel Fabian

Nikki Glaser arrives on the red carpet for the 24th Annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, March 19, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)

Interview'I’m excited to meet the "fboys" of Israel'

Why Nikki Glaser says her stand-up show in Tel Aviv will be ‘the best of the tour’

The comedian, podcaster and reality TV show star says she has ignored calls to cancel Saturday’s Israel show since ‘I just want to tell jokes for people who want to hear them’

Hezbollah invites reporters to watch group simulate war with Israel in south Lebanon

Masked fighters jump through flaming hoops, blow up Israeli flags as terror group asserts it is ready for conflict with Jewish state ahead of 23rd anniversary of IDF pullout

Muslim men pray along an a pavement by a public beach after a demonstration against modesty customs, in Lebanon's southern city of Sidon on May 21, 2023. (MAHMOUD ZAYYAT/AFP)

Lebanese women protest modesty norms after beachgoer harassed for bathing suit

By AFP

File: Chief of the General Staff of Iran's Armed Forces Gen. Mohammad Hossein Bagheri addresses a military parade commemorating the anniversary of the start of the 1980-88 Iraq-Iran War, in front of the shrine of the late supreme leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, just outside Tehran, Iran, September 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

As maritime tensions with US soar, Iran brags it can secure Gulf with its neighbors

By AFP

Israeli soldiers leave after a raid at the Balata refugee camp near the West Bank city of Nablus early on May 22, 2023 (Zain JAAFAR / AFP)

3 Palestinian gunmen killed during IDF operation near Nablus in West Bank

Al-Aqsa Martyr’s Brigade claims dead as members; 6 Palestinians injured in Balata camp raid; solider lightly hurt; IDF says 3 terror suspects arrested, explosives lab destroyed

The scene of an alleged car-ramming attack in the West Bank town of Huwara on May 21, 2023. (United Hatzalah)

IDF: Soldier moderately hurt in car-ramming attack in West Bank’s Huwara

By Emanuel Fabian

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks at a UN event commemorating the Palestinian 'Nakba,' in New York, May 15, 2023. (Screenshot: UN; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing May 22: At UN, PA head Abbas reveals his most rejectionist face yet

People take a knee as an organizer reads a prayer to the crowd of several hundred gathered during a Proud Boys rally at Delta Park in Portland, Oregon on September 26, 2020 (Maranie R. STAAB / AFP)

Interview'Black people, like Jews, are seen as cursed by God'

A scholar sees a common root for antisemitism and racism: ‘Christian supremacy’

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

Polish-born academic Magda Teter’s new book, ‘Christian Supremacy,’ traces how a history of exclusion and dominance trickles down from Paul the Apostle to today’s Proud Boys

In this photo provided by Saudi Press Agency, SPA, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky, left, is greeted by Prince Badr Bin Sultan, deputy governor of Mecca, upon his arrival at Jeddah airport, Saudi Arabia, May 19, 2023, to attend the Arab summit. (Saudi Press Agency via AP)

Russia says Zelensky heads ‘Nazi regime’ with ‘blood ties to Israel’

By Michael Horovitz

Moscow’s embassy in Egypt posts tweet in response to Ukrainian president’s visit to Arab League summit, later deletes and reposts it without Israel reference

Likud MK Amichai Chikli speaks at the Federation of Local Authorities conference in Tel Aviv, December 7, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Chikli doubles down on Soros attacks despite criticism rhetoric is antisemitic

By ToI Staff and Tal Schneider

Illustrative: A view of the Górki Czechowskie park in Lublin, Poland. (Park na Górkach Czechowskich)

World War II-era mass grave discovered in Lublin, Poland

In this photo taken with low shutter speed, Muslim pilgrims circumambulate around the Kaaba, the cubic building at the Grand Mosque, in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, July 6, 2022. (Amr Nabil/AP)

Israel reportedly in ‘advanced’ talks for direct flights to Hajj in Saudi Arabia

Several outlets claim breakthrough in talks for pilgrimage flights next month, which would ease burden for Muslims making trip; FM Cohen says normalization possible in 6 months

Analysis

Carrie Keller-Lynn

Rallying against looming budget, anti-overhaul protesters may be overreaching

Twenty weeks into their sustained campaign against the government's plan to siphon off judicial power, leaders of the national protest movement have made an apparent change in strategy. With legislation to shake up the judiciary on hold until Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government passes a state budget by its May 29 deadline, the protest movement... Continue Reading

Anti-overhaul protesters gather in Tel Aviv, May 20, 2023. (Amir Goldstein/ Courtesy)

President Isaac Herzog hosts delegations from Likud, Yesh Atid and National Unity for judicial overhaul negotiations at his residence in Jerusalem, March 28, 2023. (Kobi Gideon/ GPO)

Direct negotiations over judicial reform paused as lawmakers focus on budget votes

President Isaac Herzog speaks at the 2023 Herzliya Conference, May 22, 2023 (Gilad Kavalerchik)

Judicial fight is ‘source of pride for the country,’ says Herzog

By Lazar Berman

An ancient Egyptian sarcophagus undergoing a CT scan at Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem, May 21, 2023. (Shaare Zedek Medical Center)

Unwrapped

Ancient Egyptian sarcophagi undergo CT scans in Jerusalem hospital to reveal craft

Israel Museum expert says CT scans offer best way to examine how coffins, including one almost 3,000 years old, were made and decorated

Smashed windows at the home of crime boss Ben Butbika in the coastal city of Netanya, May 22, 2023. (Twitter screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Bomb-carrying drone used in suspected underworld hit attempt in Netanya

By Michael Horovitz

Explosion damages balcony, shatters windows in fourth alleged attempted murder of gang leader Ben Butbika

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Attendees visit the Meta booth at the Game Developers Conference 2023 in San Francisco, March 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

Meta fined record $1.3 billion by EU, ordered to stop transferring user data to US

Sara Netanyahu arrives for a hearing at the Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court on June 12, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

PM’s lawyers ask for Sara Netanyahu to sit with Milchan in London as he testifies

View of the Bank Hapoalim offices in the center of Tel Aviv. August 4, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Bank Hapoalim posts NIS 2.01b quarterly profit fueled by 49% jump in interest income

By Sharon Wrobel

Mohammed Abu Huwash (Courtesy)

Four charged in murder of 10-year-old in Bedouin town last month

Two nude soldiers are seen at a firing range at the Nahal training base in southern Israel, May 18, 2023. (Video screenshot)

Cheeky shotIDF soldiers jailed for naked firing range practice

By Emanuel Fabian

Greece's Prime Minister and leader of New Democracy Kyriakos Mitsotakis votes at a polling station in Athens, Greece, May 21, 2023. (Yorgos Karahalis/AP)

Incumbent Greek PM routs competition at ballot box, with second round expected

By Hui Min NEO and John Hadoulis

Firefighters tackle a forest fire at Segula Junction on May 22, 2023. (Fire and Rescue Service)

Homes and park evacuated as large fire spreads near Petah Tikva

Smoke rises in Khartoum, Sudan, April 29, 2023, as gunfire and heavy artillery fire continued despite the extension of a cease-fire between the country's two top generals. (AP Photo/Marwan Ali)

Latest ceasefire in Sudan violated within hours, as humanitarian crisis worsens

By AFP

Illustrative: Keshet high school students take an examination in Jerusalem on May 20, 2019 (Courtesy Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Union says high school teachers to skip parties, Poland trips as wage flap ramps up

Saudi Arabian astronaut Rayyanah Barnawi waves to family and friends as she arrives at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., for a scheduled launch Sunday, May 21, 2023. (AP/John Raoux)

Saudi Arabia’s first female astronaut blasts off for space station

A suspect arrested in a raid targeting a protection racket in northern Israel, May 22, 2023. (Israel Police)

Cops nab 14 suspects in raid targeting protection racket in north

By Michael Horovitz

Israel's Stav Lemkin reacts after losing a FIFA U-20 World Cup group C soccer match against Colombia at Diego Maradona stadium in La Plata, Argentina, May 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Gustavo Garello)

Late goal sees Israel lose its 1st-ever game in men’s Under-20 World Cup in Argentina

By ToI Staff and AP

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