How Israel intentionally destroyed the Dead Sea
Everyone laments the vanishing of the Dead Sea. Yet discussions, articles and forecasts of decades ago show that every stage of the sea’s demise was actually anticipated in advance
Bucking global trend, Israel imports record amount of meat via live animal shipments
Despite efforts to curb the practice, which results in the suffering and death of some of the animals while on the ships, the number of live animal shipments jumped last year by 42%
Why did Israel’s government almost collapse this week? Haaretz answers your questions
A crisis over planting trees next to Bedouin communities exposed the government’s fragile standing. What does it all have to do with a decades-old split within Israel’s Islamic Movement? Haaretz explains
The Haredi answer to Tel Aviv: A night in Israel’s most crowded city
In a city more densely populated than Karachi, families are crammed in basements, bomb shelters double as classrooms and traffic is atrocious. But there's an unparalleled sense of community
Rocket attack on U.S. embassy in Baghdad foiled, Iraqi military says
The rockets were shot down before reaching the embassy compound, causing no casualties or damage, according to Iraqi military officials
Mesopotamians created the first hybrid animal 4500 years ago, and it was a bit of an ass
The kunga was a cross between a female donkey and a male wild ass, genetic study shows. In a time before domesticated horses, it was bred at enormous cost for one main purpose: War
They wanted to cure heart disease. They discovered a way to grow a different kind of muscle
Israeli researchers have made a breakthrough in growing meat in the lab – at lightning-fast speed
The Israeli link behind New York’s temple of comedy
The Comedy Cellar in Greenwich Village is a place where Dave Chapelle, Amy Schumer, Sarah Silverman and Ray Romano just drop by to perform unannounced. The bosses there tell Haaretz why
‘Revenge is definite’: Drone strike targets Trump in video release by Iran’s supreme leader
An animated video published on Khmenei's official website joins Iran's commemoration of the U.S. strike that killed Gen. Qassem Soleimani two years ago
Israeli scientists observe new kind of supernova
It hadn’t been clear whether super-massive Wolf-Rayet stars even go nova. They do, but some may collapse into black holes as well