FM Zarif says Iranian decision to end UN snap inspections of nuclear facilities doesn't mean abandoning deal ■ Comments come as head of the UN nuclear watchdog meets with Iran’s atomic chief

Oil spill off Israel's coast is its worst maritime pollution in decades. Environmental activists slam the overwhelmed government for not implementing a pollution plan approved almost 13 years ago

Pfizer vaccine is 98.9% effective in preventing death, Israeli data shows ■ COVID ‘Green Pass’ app crashes evening before launch ■ Pfizer vaccine is 98.9% effective in preventing death, Israeli data shows ■ Israel has 'willingness' to vacci...

Nasser al-Kidwa – a longstanding critic of Abbas’ leadership – revealed the open secret of an alternative slate in the works and called on the jailed Marwan Barghouti to join him

Israel’s ability to influence Biden on Iran is limited, nor is the option of clashing openly with the U.S. administration truly feasible

'We are consulting with our partners, including Russia and China, and we will respond to this proposal in the future,' said the country's deputy FM

The International Criminal Court decision that it can investigate alleged war crimes committed by Israel is a vindication of the Palestinians’ legal strategy. Unless it backfires

PA says Israel has agreed to vaccinate Palestinian workers, but Israeli officials say no decision yet ■ Pfizer says vaccine can be stored at higher temperatures

Blackwater founder Erik Prince was involved in 'a well-funded private military company operation' to provide military equipment to eastern-based Libyan commander Khalifa Hifter, UN panel says

'I am a doctor fighting public ignorance, not the pandemic,' says a pulmonologist at a Baghdad hospital, as the country sees first full day of a curfew

Critics assume it is a political ploy, as the Palestinian territories go towards a long-awaited presidential and legislative contest

Attack comes days after NATO announced it would boost its troop presence in the country

The visit, the second in a six-month span, comes amid diplomatic efforts to keep alive the nuclear agreement

Protesters take to the streets in Jerusalem, Caesarea and throughout the country for the 35th week in a row

Two weeks after the second dose, close to 96 percent of people inoculated with the coronavirus vaccine don't get sick at all, data on people vaccinated up to February 13 shows

The second round of school openings on Sunday brings children in grades 5-6 and 11-12 back to schools in cities with lower infection rates

Al Arabiya reports Israel has approached Cairo, but details of the negotiations, which come amid reports of a vaccines-for-prisoner deal between Israel and Syria, remain unclear

Khaled Drareni was imprisoned for 'inciting an unarmed gathering' and 'endangering national unity,' charges linked to his coverage of the protest movement

Preemptive approval for CoviVac had raised concerns among some scientists, but Moscow says the first 120,000 doses will be produced and released to the national coronavirus inoculation program next month

Moscow court swiftly rejects Navalny's appeal, but shortens his three-and-a-half-year jail term by six weeks

A breakthrough book by Gershom Gorenberg featuring uncovered secrets from World War II reveals how easily the war could have gone the other way, and how Israelis tend to exaggerate the role played by the Palmach

Dr. Fauci says he's optimistic about where the U.S. is heading on COVID-19 inoculations, but acknowledges in an interview that ‘We have a real discrepancy between supply and demand’

The 95-year-old man who authorities say confessed to guarding prisoners at a German concentration camp is wanted for accessory to murder

The deal with Damascus to secure the return of an Israeli who crossed the border raises an uncomfortable question for the prime minister

According to foreign reports, Israel agreed to buy COVID vaccines for transfer to Bashar Assad's government in exchange for woman's release

Relatives and a good friend of mine in Russia have been subjected to intimidating visits by the police during the latest anti-Putin protests. If this is what’s happening in my close circle, one can only imagine how far the authorities are ready to ...

Netanyahu is signaling to voters that only he can fix the Iran crisis ■ Israeli drone activity in Lebanon could lead to flare-up

Since nearly 200 countries signed the 2015 pact to prevent catastrophic climate change, Trump has been the only leader to withdraw from it, claiming climate action would cost too much

Despite the fast appointment of judge Tarek Bitar, the removal of his predecessor by the country's top court will likely further delay the investigation into the horrific explosion

A senior defense official when the sale of German submarines to Egypt was approved says Benjamin Netanyahu and Ehud Barak okayed the deal behind his back and despite his opposition. Barak denies this

Phase two of Israel's COVID lockdown exit strategy starts Sunday, and some venues will only be open for those who are vaccinated against the coronavirus

Israeli and Palestinian health officials also agreed to work together to curb the spread of new coronavirus strains, the Palestinian Health Ministry says following a joint meeting in Ramallah

'She continues to improve and we are hopeful she will return to public life at the appropriate time,' reads a statement by the UAE embassy in London

Their administrations’ relationship has started on the wrong foot, and it’s unclear how it will improve if neither side is willing to concede on key issues

Thousands of volunteers join cleaning efforts, with four sea turtles the first known fatalities. European satellite tracking points to the source as a tanker that passed through the area a week ago

The IAEA is preparing to rebuke Tehran for failing to explain the presence of the material, diplomats say, possibly complicating U.S. efforts to revive nuclear diplomacy

Saeid Mollaei, who plays for Mongolia after fleeing his country, said: 'I have always been an athlete, never political'

In his first major speech aimed at an international audience, President Biden says the U.S. is willing to reopen talks on Tehran's nuclear program, warns of 'Iran's destabilizing activities across the Middle East'

Even in normal times, society looks with embarrassment upon people who don’t have kids. During the coronavirus period that attitude only intensified

'Give diplomacy a chance,' said one Iranian official, and Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif tweeted that when sanctions are lifted, 'we will then immediately reverse all remedial measures. Simple'

If approved, the less onerous storage requirements would provide significant logistical relief for vaccine roll-out worldwide, particularly in lower-income countries that lack ultra-cold storage capabilities

We do not deserve the olive as our national tree

With a lack of appropriate state support, Israel is likely to see the ‘social epidemic blow up in our faces,’ social worker union boss says

In 2003, the plan was for the U.S. to profit from Iraq’s post-war reconstruction. Now, the resource-rich, bankrupt and corrupt country has become an economic playground for China, Russia and Iran

Ocasio-Cortez slams Texas governor for mention of Green New Deal in power crisis

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz blamed his daughters for the trip

The country is the second in Africa, after Malawi, to announce such a move to the city in recent months

Going back to the agreement would facilitate path to nuclear arsenal, Israel reiterates, a day after U.S. says it's ready to talk with Iran

Eric Trump’s wife, Lara, is reportedly more serious about a Senate candidacy in North Carolina, where the incumbent Republican, Richard Burr, has said he will not run in 2022

Tehran has set a February 23 deadline for Washington to begin removing sanctions, threatening to ban snap UN inspections if it doesn't

Government won't disclose part of Russian-mediated deal to secure woman's return, likely because it has the potential to anger the Israeli public

Jerusalem is banking on its fast response and cooperation with the U.S. to prevent the affair becoming a new flashpoint

The Hebrew University center study surveyed 1,100 teens aged 16-18 representing Israel’s different “tribes” – secular, religious Zionist, Haredi and Arab.

If the two wannabe prime ministers had forged a common slate for the March 23 election, Bibi would be in real trouble right now

The woman was transferred to Russia over the past week, and a private Israeli plane left Tel Aviv on Thursday to retrieve her ■ Earlier, Israel repatriated two Syrian shepherds who had crossed into Israel

The research, published in The Lancet, was conducted on more than 7,000 healthcare workers who were vaccinated for the coronavirus at the Sheba Medical Center in Israel

U.S. informs Israel of move to resume nuclear talks, source says ■ The United States also rescinded former president Donald Trump’s restoration of UN sanctions on Iran

Reselling limited-edition athletic shoes can spell big money for the mostly young people in the business

Among the 46 percent of coronavirus patients who reported persistent symptoms, the most common was fatigue

Israel should have had enough experience in such affairs by now, but an unnecessary complication in Russian-mediated talks to retrieve the woman was created at the last minute

The pollution, which has affected mostly beaches in the Sharon and Carmel regions, has covered wildlife near the beaches with the black substance

Restrictions on regular flights were initially meant to be in effect until February 20

Tehran has set a deadline of next week for Biden to begin reversing sanctions imposed by Trump, or says it will ban short-notice UN inspections, its biggest step yet to breach the deal

Palestinians in Israel over the age of 18 are barred from visiting their loved ones in the Gaza Strip. Hundreds of families are being torn apart

This week at the Tel Aviv airport: A nomadic couple says life is best while traveling back and forth between Israel and Switzerland, and a lawyer who says big cases are not the ones that generate the most joy

The man in question heard her negative comments in Arabic about Jewish Israelis, and the situation escalated into physical assault

Health Ministry says there are very few reports of such side effects of Pfizer's COVID vaccine and that it would be ‘difficult' to establish a direct link ■ Vaccine panel to keep monitoring the phenomena

Nature and Parks Authority officials say it's unclear what caused the death of the fin whale, adding that the water nearby is polluted, including with tar

In an interview with Bloomberg, the New York City mayor calls Israel a 'fundamentally progressive concept' while criticizing BDS

A year after the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, the three-fold crisis plaguing Israeli society threatens the basic contract between the state and its citizenry, and has led to a lack of trust in government leaders and institutions and an 'unpa...

'It’s important for Israel that we work together,' New Hope leader Gideon Sa'ar tells Yamina's Naftali Bennett, calling to end negative campaigning

But the rate of vaccination against COVID-19 among the country’s Bedouin is still far lower than among the general population

Veteran far-right leader Geert Wilders is hoping to attract Dutch Jews while rival Thierry Baudet is embroiled in antisemitism scandals, as both look to woo voters with their anti-immigration policies in the March 17 election

What's the Russian vote in Israel, why does it mainly go for the right-wing, and what was PM Benjamin Netanyahu trying to achieve in his rare prime-time TV interview? Election Overdose podcast – episode 8

Fresh from his ‘warm’ conversation with the U.S. president, Prime Minister Netanyahu decided to eulogize Rush Limbaugh – a man reviled by 99 percent of Biden voters and most American Jews

Trump’s deal is dead, Biden is busy, the far right dreams of annexation and the far left of BDS, the peace process industry is engrossed in its fantasies. But there’s a practical, unglamorous way to make life better for two million Israelis and P...

Tens of thousands of Palestinians laborers had to stay in Israel under restrictions that have been in effect since the start of its third coronavirus lockdown

The experiences of the intelligence officer of the Israel Defense Forces division that oversaw the entry of Christian Phalangists into Beirut's Sabra and Chatila refugee camps reveal what went on behind the scenes in September 1982 – and what led h...

Forough Abbasi urges women to work toward changing Iranian laws after her ski coach was banned from leaving the country by her husband

The development is likely to further delay the investigation into the horrific explosion that killed more than 200 people, wounded over 6,000 and disfigured much of Beirut

'I think what ‘Little Sparta’ is doing is to keep its powder dry for whatever it needs to do next'

Fighting rages while around 80% of Yemen's population relies on aid and millions are on the verge of famine

More than 68,000 Republicans have left the party in recent weeks in Florida, Pennsylvania and North Carolina, crucial states for Democrats' hopes of keeping control of Congress

Israel's Arrow 2 and Arrow 3 interceptors are already operational as part of a multi-layered system to destroy incoming missiles

Health minister says front-line health workers are being vaccinated first

To his fans, Limbaugh’s death Wednesday of lung cancer at the age of 70 was an occasion for deep mourning. For his foes, it was good riddance. Somewhere, Rush could surely appreciate it

Joe Biden cited reports of more police and military personnel joining white supremacist groups and the Trump administration downplaying the threat of right-wing terrorism

Israeli woman, reportedly a resident of West Bank settlement Modi'in Illit, crossed into Syria and was arrested ■ Moscow mediated negotiations between the parties

Exiled Iranian judoka Saeid Mollaei is set to compete at the Tel Aviv Grand Slam against Israel's Sagi Muki. In 2019 Mollaei was forced to skip a match against him that cost him the world championships

A chance encounter between a law professor and an elderly woman struggling to get her favorite jam from the shelf sparks an online discussion around Bonne Maman's alleged rescuing of Jews in World War II