Protests across the country also take aim at Israel's crystallizing budget, charging that the plan will inflate funding for ultra-Orthodox institutions at the expense of secular Israelis

'I painted something unlike anything I’ve ever done': The 50th anniversary of Pablo Picasso’s death is being commemorated in a large exhibition at the Picasso Museum in Antibes

If the budget is not approved by May 29, the government will fall. Otzma Yehudit, United Torah Judaism and Noam threaten to do so if their demand for 'coalition funds' not met

As community nears 80 homicides since the beginning of the year, Israeli Arab leader say crime in Arab society is the 'result of a deliberate policy to divert attention from political and national issues'

The report by state media did not blame the attack on any particular group and no group immediately claimed responsibility

After receiving an honorary doctorate from Tel Aviv University, Prof. Barbara Engelking, who claims that the Poles 'simply failed' in their treatment of Jews during World War II, tells Haaretz about the threats she has faced from a government trying to court the nationalist right

Galit Gutman slammed after talking on live TV about ‘these ultra-Orthodox people who suck our blood.’ She later apologized, but comment was widely condemned by government ministers