'People call me a maligner of Israel, but it's our government that maligns Israel, the settler-messianic right wing. They are the people who think that the IDF's campaign should continue, and that dead soldiers and dead hostages are an understandable price.' Batsheva Dance Company choreographer Ohad Naharin refuses to shut up and dance

This week at Ben-Gurion airport: An American who decided to become a rabbi after encountering a series of prophets, and an Israeli family taking a break after the father completes months of reserve duty in Gaza

Britain, U.S. strike Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen after months of attacks on Red Sea shipping ■ Qatar close to finalizing deal with Hamas to transfer medicine to Israeli hostages in Gaza ■ Israel's High Court rejects petition to oust Netanyahu due to war ■ Israel foils ISIS attack planned by two East Jerusalem residents ■ IDF finds forensic evidence that Hamas held hostages in newly uncovered tunnel under Khan Yunis ■ Blinken says Israel working with region, creating path to Palestinian state, will isolate Iran

The fingernail-sized piece of skin from an ancestral reptile is the earliest skin fossil ever found from a land animal, and may demonstrate the primitive condition

The scope of the crisis in Gaza is becoming clearer; according to the UN, Israel is creating conditions that are making life in Gaza impossible; but Israeli leaders are unbothered

Intelligence has failed time and again, now a war is being fought on two fronts and the civilian rear is subject to an unprecedented offensive. The IDF's deterrence worked against the threats of the 1960s, but different solutions are needed today. The old system is bankrupt

Hezbollah, the Houthis in Yemen and Shi'ite militia groups in Iraq have managed to rack up achievements in their battles at home – and they don't intend to stop once the war in Gaza ends