Israeli PM allegedly sought to advance a deal that would help producer Arnon Milchan, who has admitted giving the Netanyahus some $100,000 in gifts; both are under police investigation

As members of insular Hasidic communities integrate into Israeli society, spiritual leaders are waging a campaign to preserve Yiddish

In a Slovak town with no Jewish residents, a father and son restore a 200-year-old synagogue – and preserve the history of the Jewish life that once flourished there

Iranians took to Twitter to respond to Netanyahu's UN speech, in which the prime minister talked about penguins as 'supporters of Israel' and spoke in Farsi

The PM's address may have missed Israel's prime time TV hour, but its his audience in the Justice Ministry that he was really talking to

A new Knesset study documents how a distorted tax policy is failing to deter smokers and even encourages the young to turn to cheaper smokes

Judge says videotaped evidence shows police misrepresented their description of events

With Hezbollah, Iran and Russia triumphant in Syrian civil war and America's presence in region receding, Israeli army and political leadership's calculations can't help but change