Clocks moved forward by one hour at 2:00 a.m. Daylight Saving Time will be in effect until October 27, 2024.
Lapid wins the support of 52.5% of those with the right to vote in the primaries for the party leadership, but his opponent, MK Ram Ben Barak, scores significant achievement by garnering 47.5% of the votes.
Supreme Court freezes support for yeshiva students eligible for enlistment, claims it issued order 'in light of Attorney General's position.'
MK Moshe Gafni praises soldiers, prays they return home safely; notes that without Torah, the Jewish people have no future.
Dan Anteby, the father-in-law of Uriel Baruch, tells Arutz Sheva about the family's experience through months of uncertainty until they learned this week that he was killed.
Netanyahu meets families of soldiers held hostage by Hamas, says he is " committed to returning everyone, all of them."
Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara submitted her answer to the Supreme Court regarding the draft law, saying that since the law has expired, nothing prevents the enlistment of yeshiva students.
Yair Mor, whose brother, Eitan, is in Hamas captivity, enlisted in the Border Police. His father, Zvika: 'We are all obligated in this mandatory war for the defense of the nation.'
Education Minister Kisch announces 1st Israel Prize award ceremony since massacre to be held in southern Israel in solidarity with the heroic residents who are rebuilding after October 7.
Ahead of the Passover vacation, Rabbi David Lau called on students to strengthen the Torah, especially at a time when the soldiers are sacrificing their lives on the battlefield.
MK Danny Danon says while the US wants the war to end before elections, Israel has to care only about its own interests. 'If we hadn't listened to the Americans for the past few months all this may have been behind us already.'
Testimony of one of the October 7th massacre survivors tells how her son tried to negotiate with Hamas forces even while they shot his father.
Salem Alatrash, brother of kidnapped soldier Mohammed Alatrash, meets Belgian Foreign Min., urges her to push for hostages' release.
Police forces prevented demonstrators from blocking the aid trucks to Gaza. Three demonstrators were arrested after they interfered with police activity at the crossing.
Israel's President met today with a delegation of US Congressmen and women from the Democratic Party, led by AIPAC.
The clock change is expected to bring a number of benefits to the Israeli economy.
The Academy for Temple Knowledge held a conference this week to discuss the special purification ritual during which participants got to see the highly protected cattle.
Finance Minister Smotrich is acting to collapse the Palestinian Authority's banks, contrary to the security establishment's position.
Court employees claim that acting-President Uzi Vogelman is searching for the source of the leaks regarding the reasonability standard.
The Israel Dog Unit demonstrated its operational capabilities for those forced out of their homes by the war with Hezbollah.
Bus shakes as bullets hit, driver asks, 'What's this?' and the schoolchild replies, 'I think they hurled rocks at us.'
Louis Har, who was freed by the IDF along with Fernando Simon Marman last month, recalls the ordeal in an interview with the Daily Mail: They told us we had nowhere to return to.
Attorney General provides response to Supreme Court contrary to the government's position, says preparations must be made immediately to draft yeshiva students and end the funding for those who do not enlist.
Prime Minister Netanyahu met with a bipartisan delegation of congressmen and briefed them on the war in Gaza. 'It's very important for us to maintain bipartisan support at all times, but especially in these trying times.'
Hebrew University Rector Prof. Tamir Shefer, says Prof. Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, told him she does 'not deny the fact that on 10/7 there were cases of rape in the Gaza envelope,' and therefore nothing prevents her from continuing to teach.
Rabbi Moshe Tzadka says protection and safety of IDF soldiers depends on the learning of haredi yeshiva students, even those who don't learn full-time.
Ben Buchnik arrived in Israel from life-saving surgery in the US and was met by seniors from the Netivot Yosef yeshiva-high school in Mitzpe Yericho who sang and danced.
Justice Khaled Kabub ruled on case involving his children; organization calls for his dismissal.
Daughter born to eldest son of former PM, Yesh Atid leader.
Shlomo Kleinerman, 14, found hours after running away from yeshiva in Kiryat Malachi.
Settlement Minister Orit Strock speaks up on Draft Law, says number of haredim in civil service roles has increased.
Popular Israeli singer, Idan Amedi, posted on his Instagram page that he prefers to light a torch in the future for words of a song that he will write and not for his heroism: "Unfortunately, I will not be able to accept the honor this year."
Despite dwindling resources, many older adult Israelis exhibited impressive resilience during the initial period of the Israel-Hamas war, Bar-Ilan University study finds.
MK Tsega Melaku spoke to Arutz Sheva and called for increased efforts to search for the nine-year-old girl who disappeared from an absorption center in Tzfat and has not been found.
The lamp was used by Roman soldiers guarding a fort on the Scorpions Ascent; an identical lamp was discovered in the same spot 90 years ago.
Former IDF Chief of Staff Dan Halutz says that, after October 7, the Prime Minister "should climb the tallest tower and jump off it".
MK Sharren Haskel explains why Gideon Sa'ar could not remain in the government in the current situation and insists that this was not a political move.
Protesters, including relatives of hostages, block traffic on Ayalon Highway as they call for the release of the hostages. Police open the road and arrested four protesters.
Elon Levy, official Israeli government spokesman, will not continue in his position after he responded to the British foreign minister's remarks and sparked anger in Britain.
Sources negotiating the Draft Law said on Wednesday evening that United Torah Judaism had raised the threat of secession and demanded the removal of the threat of economic sanctions and quotas.
This year, 897 complaints were filed against judges. 24% were found to be justified and were about deficiencies in the justice system.
Grandstand collapses during post-Purim celebration at Amshinov Hasidic synagogue in Bayit VeGan neighborhood.
Bilha Yinon’s family have no doubt that she was murdered together with her husband Yaakov in their home in Netiv Ha’asara, but no findings have proven her death.
Yuli Edelstein, Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee chair, warns: 'Any attempt to circumvent the Knesset regulations and prevent the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee from handling the draft law will meet an appropriate response.'
Defense Min. Gallant holds meeting with US officials, discussing military operations needed to destroy Hamas.
'We must get to Sinwar - either alive or dead - so that we can see the hostages back home,' Israel's Pres. Herzog says.
IDF officer says he held enlistment activities in Arab school, mayor says claim is 'a lie and slander.' Im Tirtzu: If mayor drafted this announcement, he should be prosecuted for sedition.
Weather to turn hot and dry, with temperatures above average through weekend.
Prime Minister's Office says Hamas' rejection of hostage deal proposals is 'evidence of damage by the Security Council,' promises to see war through to the end.
A short time after the IDF withdrew forces from the Samaria city of Huwara, abandoned posts were vandalized with graffiti praising terrorism.
A majority of all political blocs and demographics believe that a war in Israel's north is inevitable.
Israel adds new indictments attributed to Hamas Nukhba terrorists, including the use of the "infringement of the state's sovereignty" clause that allows the death penalty for the terrorists.
Hamas claims that "Israel did not respond to any basic demand" and therefore it was decided to reject the proposal put forward by the mediators last week.
Military Intelligence Directorate chief Major General Aharon Haliva tells families of kidnapped soldiers 'we are responsible, we are guilty. I will go home at the end of the war.'
New Hope leader Gideon Sa'ar has announced that he is resigning from the emergency government due to disagreements with the handling of the war against Hamas.
In the wake of the cancelation of the Israeli delegation to Washington, Blue and White leader Benny Gantz called for the Prime Minister to go to Washington to speak directly with President Biden.
Police arrested a man who requested that they bring him an answer from the IDF about the possibility of reading the Book of Esther in the ancient synagogue of Gaza City.
Mevaser Dwight, a student in the Karnei Shomron Hesder Yeshiva, and Second Lieutenant Noam Alon, a student at Yeshivat Hakotel, who were both seriously wounded in Gaza, were filmed dancing at their respective yeshivas.
United on Purim Procession was held in the shadows of the war, led by the hostages’ families and Mayor of Jerusalem, Moshe Lion.
