With new polls showing 78 percent of center-left voters would prefer a coalition without ultra-Orthodox parties, Lapid is seeking to exploit his base's frustrations, yet will steer clear of running an anti-Haredi campaign

City preparing to vaccinate tens of thousands of asylum seekers from Tel Aviv and other cities in dedicated compound that is being set up

Modi’s relentless endorsement of Trump earned India few tangible benefits. And now he faces the mother of all political hangovers with a U.S. administration headed by the people his own media relentlessly trolled

Two cops were attacked when enforcing coronavirus restrictions on gatherings in Bnei Brak last week

The assessment, grades 10 social media platforms according to their respective Holocaust denial and general hate speech policies, response rates and enforcement actions. Twitch ranked highest with a 'B' rating

The Health Ministry has flagged the higher level of contagion among the new variants and the public’s lower-level observance of COVID restrictions as the cause for high infection rates

Israel is the only country in the world to close its airport. Instead of a proportionate, thought-out COVID policy that could have brought about the same result with less damage, Israel chose again to go with a single dramatic, aggressive move

Bee-io is working on developing cultured honey via an artificial bee stomach that imitates the enzymes and conditions inside actual honeybees

A Tel Aviv District Court Judge ruled that Apple can indeed be sued in Israel, paving the way for other suits against other multinational tech companies as well

Lebanon and Israel are still in a formal state of war and have long contested their land and maritime borders

Mayors of nearby cities also oppose the plan to put up 36,000 apartments in space being vacated by Israeli Military Industries moving their plants to the south

Avichai Mendelblit tells High Court he didn't know when approving the money transfer, meant to cover the prime minister's legal fees, that Netanyahu had business ties to his cousin Nathan Milikowsky

Channel 12 poll has Labor getting enough votes to enter Knesset following election of new leader, with Netanyahu and his likely allies two seats short of majority

The two advisers allegedly violated a ban barring civil servants from engaging in political activity

The source said the domestic intelligence agency had classified the AfD in Saxony-Anhalt as a 'suspicious entity' representing a potential threat to the democratic order

Victims of coronavirus made up five percent of the 17,000 Holocaust survivors who died during the year, Israel’s Holocaust Survivors’ Rights Authority says ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day

Baron, 66, expanded the Post newsroom from 580 journalists when he arrived to over 1,000 this year. The newsroom won 10 Pulitzer Prizes under his leadership

'We’re watching a profound change taking place in American society and it’s happening very fast. The stakes could not be higher,' warns Carlson

Peretz defied newly elected Chairwoman Merav Michaeli, who ordered him and Social Services Minister Itzik Shmuli to resign from government, but the move could help the party's image ahead of the March 23 vote

Head of mission arrives in Rabat for first time since Morocco suspended ties with Israel in 2000

Virus spreads after employee tests positive as a carrier of the British variant

Blinken is a longtime Biden confidant who has been confirmed by the U.S. Senate before, most recently to serve as No. 2 at the State Department

Amid talk of a Biden administration return to the 2015 deal, Kochavi says 'anything resembling the current agreement is bad and must not be permitted'

Britain has the fifth highest toll globally and reported a further 1,631 deaths and 20,089 cases on Tuesday, according to government figures

Canada's parliament called on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to 'use all available tools to address the proliferation of white supremacists and hate groups'

It remains unclear how Biden's administration might tackle Lebanon

The new administration's Middle East policy 'will be to support a mutually agreed, two-state solution, in which Israel lives in peace and security, alongside a viable Palestinian state,' acting ambassador tells the UN Security Council

Other potential executive actions in the works include reforms targeting prosecutorial decisions and sentencing, as well as policies involving voting and other civil rights laws

Protests broke out this month on the 10th anniversary of Tunisia's 2011 revolution that inspired that Arab Spring and introduced democracy

Ski resorts no longer exempt from some regulations following anger over parties taking place as country has observed two months of strict nighttime and weekend curfews

Using Yanbu, as well as air bases at Tabuk and Taif along the Red Sea, would give the American military more options along the crucial waterway

Yellen, 74, made history in 2014 when she became the first woman to chair the Federal Reserve

A soccer team and a beer factory are forgotten evidence of the active Jewish life in Oswiecim, the town next to the Auschwitz extermination camp. A 29-year-old Israeli has decided to go live there

Camille Kouchner's new book, in which she accuses the jurist and media personality Olivier Duhamel of raping his stepson, her twin brother, sparked a #MeTooIncest movement in France. 'It’s true that in leftist circles there was great permissiveness...

More than 1 million people in Israel have received both doses of the vaccine against COVID-19 while some 2.7 million received the first dose

'We do not allow content that asks for people's medical information,' said a Facebook spokeswoman, following a post seeking phone numbers to call and convince people to get COVID-19 vaccinations

Tel Aviv airport is shut ■ Health minister wants to extend lockdown by at least a week ■ Over 1 million receive second vaccine dose

Supreme Court Chief Justice Esther Hayut, speaking at the same ceremony for swearing in judges, insisted the courts were apolitical, rejecting accusations to the contrary by Israeli politicians and pundits

The PM’s strategy toward the ultra-Orthodox and Arab communities could yet backfire, while the COVID-19 mutation threatens to imperil his desired timetable for reopening the country

Tomas Zeron De Lucio is wanted for his role in the abduction and murder case of 43 students. He also helped bring NSO’s tech to Mexico. Now he’s hiding in Israel, Mexican FM says

Saudi Arabia's finance minister says, 'We are negotiating with a lot of the vaccination companies to provide more vaccinations particularly to low income countries'

On Saturday, the Saudi-led military coalition operating in Yemen had said it had intercepted and destroyed an 'enemy air target' launched towards Riyadh

A new online photography exhibition at Yad Vashem examines the lives of Jewish children right after the Holocaust

Yang's op-ed, which reads that 'BDS unfairly singles out Israel for unfair economic punishment,' sparked fierce debate between pro-Israel, progressive Democrats

The remarks by Iran's Cabinet spokesman Ali Rabiei are part of pressure Tehran is trying to exert on the U.S. to get the new U.S. administration to quickly return to the 2015 deal

The most recent wave of the coronavirus is more aggressive than its predecessors, and hospitals report a profound impact on their care and morale

The violence in Haredi communities this week over police enforcement of the coronavirus lockdown is the price the rabbis are paying for autonomy

17-year-old assailant attempted to stab two soldiers near Nablus, army says; no soldiers were wounded

Protests rage on over the Israeli teen who died in a police chase after stone-throwers in the West Bank and a Haredi demonstration against a new light rail

The Cordoba government reported that the alleged assailants were arrested in connection with the physical and verbal attack on a family

Sources say army is unmoved by state's dire economic situation, refuses to back down from request for additional 3 billion shekels ■ Military sidesteps treasury, goes straight to Netanyahu

Intelligence Minister Eli Cohen says Israeli officials discussed with their hosts diplomatic and security issues ■ Israel says a Sudanese delegation will hold a reciprocal visit

The initiative for the grandiose plan was reportedly conceived to the exclusion of professional levels, without any justification for such exclusion

Sources say a meeting of Joint List leaders only deepens the schism ahead of the March election, after Islamic faction demanded to preserve its right to vote independently, which could mean backing Netanyahu for prime minister

Eden Alene, who was meant to compete in the 2020 Eurovision that was cancelled to the coronavirus, will represent Israel in this year's contest, planned for May 18 in the Netherlands

The court ruling follows petitions filed with the backing of the Israel Bar Association by civil rights organizations, alleging improper ethnic profiling

Under the ban, planes of foreign airlines are not allowed to land in Israel until the end of Israel's current lockdown. Exiting the country is limited to exceptional circumstances

Four months after canceling its merger with Outbrain, the content recommendation startup pairs up with a shell corporation

The startup raised another $110 million, as business increased more than 20-fold during the coronavirus crisis

And at least 15,000 years ago – as the first humans walked to the Americas – they brought their dogs along

Large forces deploy to major ultra-Orthodox communities as tensions peak and politicians deliver mixed messages

The political paralysis comes as the COVID-19 crisis weakens an already battered economy, as both foreign lenders and Tunisia's powerful union urge fast reforms

'Indiscriminate universal distribution – like a grant for every child regardless of income – isn’t efficient,' officials say

Jura Abaev, who died last week at the age of 93, had served as the spiritual leader of the Khujad synagogue and had also immigrated to Israel three times – but returned each time, calling Khujand the only home he ever had

Israel claims the trees were planted on government-owned West Bank land, but the Palestinians appealed an eviction order prior to the removal of the trees, claiming that they own the land

'The Labor Party is leaving the corrupt Netanyahu-Gantz government,' Merav Michaeli says a day after her election as chairwoman, telling Peretz and Shmuli they 'must resign immediately'

From Iran to Israel, Damascus to Dubai, from exiting nuclear deals and withdrawing troops to brokering normalization and assassinations, Trump's four years have left deep scars. How will Biden engage with the region, and with Trump's legacy?

Ten years later, some former leading members of the Revolution Youth Coalition that drew together the uprising's disparate strands and social justice demands are in prison, others are in exile. Here are some of their stories

The Texas senator and the comedian have been sniping at each other for days on Twitter. (Warning: graphic language)

This week's climate change briefs bring grim news for gray whales, those planning their vacation in 2100, and reveal the zombie threat we should be worried about

Israel is considered a world leader in medical data, which is partly why it has received priority access to the COVID-19 vaccines. Experts agree that the Pfizer deal offers reasonable protection of citizens’ personal data - but some parts of the de...

Reconciliation, reparation and justice in racism-ridden America can be achieved by the joint efforts of Blacks and Jews driven by the visions of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Abraham Joshua Heschel, their daughters say

Master plan envisions a new hospital in Haredi town of Beit Shemesh, hundreds more beds in western Jerusalem – and leaves 30 percent of Jerusalem's residents dependent on overcrowded facilities

Now that so many previous leaders have fallen sway to joining right-wing and center-right coalitions, can Labor’s new leader Merav Michaeli reverse course before Israel’s founding party goes under?

Petitioners demand state investigation into Netanyahu’s participation in ‘the most serious defense corruption affair in the history of the country’

Dominion Voting Systems earlier filed lawsuits against the Trump campaign and former Trump campaign lawyer Sidney Powell

Decision overrules Jewish Agency, which had formally recognized the 2,000-strong Abayudaya community several years ago. A ruling in favor of the state could have serious repercussions for 'emerging Jewish communities’ around the world

A new report details how Russian-linked websites, often featuring ‘Echo’ in their title, are amplifying anti-American, anti-Turkish messages on the likes of Facebook and Twitter via ostensibly legitimate news coverage

Both sides have voiced optimism about the talks, but 60 attempts to sort out issues between the two NATO members have already collapsed since 2002

The move to reverse the policy has the support of Biden’s newly confirmed defense secretary, retired Army Gen. Lloyd Austin

The threats, and concerns that armed protesters could return to sack the Capitol anew, have prompted law enforcement to insist thousands of National Guard troops remain in Washington

The last heir of the disgraced House of Savoy, whose family had until now refused to apologize, attempts to atone for his ancestor's role in Mussolini's racial policies

López Obrador, 67, has rarely been seen wearing a mask and continued to keep up a busy travel schedule taking commercial flights

Biden on Monday is also reimposing an entry ban on nearly all non-U.S. travelers who have been in Brazil, the United Kingdom, Ireland and 26 countries in Europe

If Hamas wins significant representation in the May elections, the international community, including Israel and the Biden administration, must prioritize the welfare of Palestinians – by engaging with them

A roundup of some of the latest COVID-19 scientific studies

The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety said it aims to reach a decision within 40 days after cutting its previous deliberation period of up to 180 days to fast-track the approval

California, the United States' most populous state, emerged as a leading U.S. epicenter of the pandemic despite re-imposing some of the most stringent restrictions

Extradition of Leifer, who is accused of 74 counts of rape and sexual abuse in Australia, brings a years long legal battle to a close

U.S. Treasury issued at lightning speed a temporary license suspending sanctions over shady deals in Congo to Dan Gertler, who is represented by Trump ally Alan Dershowitz and former FBI director Louis Freeh

Doctors believe the rise in cases among children and pregnant women may be linked to new mutations, but lack of data means the picture is still cloudy