Trial

Chief Rabbinate opens certification exams to women after High Court ruling

The Chief Rabbinate opens its exams to women after a court ruling deemed the long-standing exclusion unlawful. A historic moment for equality in Israel’s religious institutions.

Rabbi Kalman Ber attends the second round in the elections of for the new Chief Ashkenazi rabbi, at the Chief Rabbinate headquarters in Jerusalem, October 31, 2024.
A picture taken on August 4, 2016, shows the office of the US-based Christian NGO, World Vision, in east Jerusalem, Israel.

Hamas documents name former World Vision Gaza director as member of terror group

South Korea's former first lady Kim Keon Hee, wife of impeached former president Yoon Suk Yeol, arrives at a court to attend a hearing to review her arrest warrant requested by special prosecutors at the Seoul Central District Court, in Seoul, South Korea August 12, 2025.

South Korean court sentences ex-first lady Kim Keon Hee to jail for bribery by Unification Church

IDF reservist Sgt. (res.) Aviad Frija, suspected of shooting Israeli civilian Yuval Kestelman.

Frija trial begins: IDF reservist faces manslaughter charges in mistaken shooting


Brazil's Bolsonaro sentenced to 27 years after landmark coup plot conviction

Brazil’s Supreme Court sentenced ex-president Jair Bolsonaro to 27 years for plotting a coup after his 2022 loss, sparking US criticism and possible sanctions.

BRAZILIAN PRESIDENT Jair Bolsonaro receives the Friends of Zion Award in Jerusalem

Netanyahu trial: Monday schedule by prosecution may be tweaked due to internal court strikes

The court later announced that, due to the strikes, there would be no one available to record the protocol of a closed-door hearing.

 PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu appears at the Tel Aviv District Court last month before testifying in the trial against him. He will not resign before the next scheduled election, the writer maintains.

How will Israel find legal justice for the atrocities of October 7? - opinion

The pursuit of accountability must rise to meet the gravity of the offenses and ensure that the voices of victims are heard on an international stage.

THE WRITERS have a discussion, during Prof. Cotler’s recent visit to Israel, in connection with their collaborative efforts on the civil commission’s initiatives.

PMO: Netanyahu sick from food poisoning, resting at home for three days

Netanyahu will be unable to attend the scheduled criminal trial hearings this week and is set to resume in September.

 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu enters the Tel Aviv District Court for his criminal trial proceedings, July 14, 2025.

French prosecutors seek trial of six over 1982 attack on Jewish restaurant

The terrorists were members of the Fatah-Revolutionary Council (Fatah-RC), a now-defunct radical Palestinian dissident terror group that was based in Iraq at the time and led by Abu Nidal.

 Firemen evacuate a murdered person after the French-Jewish delicatessen restaurant Jo Goldenberg in Paris was attacked by Palestinian terrorist gunmen that threw a grenade into the restaurant and shot at customers with sub-machine guns, killing six customers and injuring 22 others, August 8, 1982.

Rare trial to begin in challenge to Trump-backed deportations of pro-Palestinian campus activists

Judges have ordered the release of students detained by immigration authorities after they argued the administration retaliated against them for their pro-Palestinian advocacy

 Students rally at the Columbia University campus in New York City, US, April 17, 2025

Netanyahu reports feeling ‘sick,’ trial hearing ends early

The testimony in the trial began on Tuesday morning behind closed doors, due to the sensitivity of the information disclosed.

 BILLS HAVE already been introduced to dissolve the Knesset, though Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is meeting with the key actors in this drama to try to avert that outcome. Here, Netanyahu arrives in the courtroom at the Tel Aviv District Court, before the start of his testimony on Tuesday.

‘I wasn’t a dog that answers to whistles,’ Netanyahu says at trial

Netanyahu testified that his friendships with billionaires Milchan and Packer were personal, denying any political favors despite evidence of gifts and contact.

 Benjamin Netanyahu at a previous hearing in his trial; illustrative.

Netanyahu trial: Cross-examination testimony opens in Tel Aviv

 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Tel Aviv District Court for day three of cross-examinations in his corruption trial, May 9, 2025.

First day of cross-examination: Prosecution calls Netanyahu testimony consistency into question

The prime minister insisted that whenever he said he “didn’t remember,” he truly didn’t remember - and was not trying to get out of a question or use the response to avoid telling the truth. 

 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a 40 signatures debate, at the plenum hall of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on May 28, 2025.