Army says attacker in first incident 'neutralized' ■ One soldier lightly wounded in his hand

This comes after judge refused to strike from the ruling a mention of 'special methods' used during interrogation of Palestinian suspect

Adviser to Saudi royal family, who says he was briefed on matter, tells Wall Street Journal that it's clear attack did not come from direction of Yemen ■ Iran yet to respond to allegations

Israelis will be prioritized prior to March 23 election, after which a special committee will consider applications from select groups, including foreign workers and citizens' parents and partners

Israel sees small rise in infection rate as economy reopens ■ COVID czar says wearing mask outdoors not critical, but still mandatory ■ Israel promotes bill to use e-bracelets to track quarantine of Israelis returning from abroad

Sources close to developments in probe say that the explosive device was planted near Israeli embassy by local Indian Shia cell on Iran's behalf, Hindustan Times reports

Women made up 70 percent of the newly unemployed during Israel's COVID lockdowns, while the average number of monthly domestic violence reports has more than doubled

Duchess Meghan says she received no help when she had suicidal thoughts as a working royal, as Prince Harry says he feels 'let down' by his father

Concerned about the labor market amid as unemployment remains at a high 12%, the Bank of Israel looks askance at the prime minister’s grants program

After months at home during COVID lockdowns, Israeli students and teachers voice excitement at being back at school – although some still note the advantages of remote learning

How a court ruling on non-Orthodox converts and an international war crimes probe could plague the prime minister ahead of - and especially after - this month's election.

State media earlier said the Saudi-led military coalition battling the Houthis had intercepted 12 armed drones aimed at 'civilian targets' without specifying a location in the kingdom

Meretz leader Nitzan Horowitz defends remarks on International Criminal Court probe, tells Haaretz his party won't quit the election race and that he's willing to team up with rightist parties to replace Netanyahu

Citizens entering Israel will be given the option of an electronic bracelet, staying in a COVID quarantine hotel, or giving police access to their phone location in order to ensure they remain in self-isolation

Many were surprised to be allowed onto flight as Israel's coronavirus rules changed rapidly after numerous cancellations

The Hebrew-language headline of a Haaretz analysis about a potential Hamas victory in Palestinian elections unintentionally reveals a false consciousness

With the law mandating hotel isolation ending Sunday, hotels now have to rely on tourists again

The Yamina chairman has thus far stayed mum on whether he would join a Netanyahu government. For Bennett, this is part of a plan that just might win him the premiership

While the decision became a lightning rod in a long-standing debate over the Orthodox rabbinate’s control over matters of religion in Israel, the scope of the decision is relatively narrow

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was arrested at a Tehran airport in April 2016 and later convicted of plotting to overthrow the clerical establishment

The new U.S. administration is clearly taking a different approach towards Turkey than Trump had, but will it lead to changes domestically?

In March 2020, a small New York suburb found the National Guard on its streets and its name splashed across the media. Three members of the community recall a year like no other

'I never thought there was a question of whether I needed to obey the law, but suddenly people tell me they're going to boycott me,' says one owner threatened for enforcing regulations barring indoor seating for unvaccinated

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's sexual harassment allegations leave Democrats grappling with response

Yemen broke ties with the Gulf state during the four-year boycott by Saudi Arabia other Arab nations, but since the January detente, it is reestablishing relations

Britain also reported 5,177 new cases of COVID-19 on Sunday, a drop from 6,040 a day earlier

Democrats were more likely to vote by mail than Republicans in 2020 — largely due to Trump polarizing the issue. But that didn’t help them win the election, the Stanford study found

In the Arab community, the R number decreases, but rises in the ultra-Orthodox community ■ Israel's coronavirus czar says masks don't necessarily help in preventing infection in the open air, but rules aren't expected to change

The Mass in the autonomous Kurdish region is the pope's first engagement in his visit to Iraq, and local Christians have been eagerly awaiting it: 'We hope that he brings peace to Iraq and social harmony and an end to wars'

After a massive demonstration in Umm al-Fahm against police violence and for personal security, Israel's politicians – Arab and Jewish alike – must contain the rage and not fan the flames

Protesters were fined for not keeping distance, but received tickets for failing to obey police orders to disperse: 'The police knew that the ticket wasn't legal and that they would lose in court'

The Vatican hopes that the landmark visit will rally the country’s Christian communities and encourage them to stay despite decades of war and instability

The U.S. military's Central Command said the two B-52s flew over the region accompanied by military aircraft from nations including Israel, Saudi Arabia and Qatar

Syrian opposition groups and at least one war monitor blamed Russia for the strike on the facility used by Turkey-backed opposition forces

The Swiss government opposed the measure as a 'marginal' issue, with experts estimating that at most a few dozen Muslim women wear full-face coverings in the country of 8.5 million people

In latest debate over the historicity of the Bible, researchers get potty-mouthed over whether a 2,800-year-old shrine in Lachish, Israel was really desecrated by installing a lavatory

The indictment was filed at a Magistrate's Court in Nazareth behind closed the doors, and the woman's name has been barred from publication

The outrage over the portrayal of an ultra-Orthodox family refusing a transplant from a non-Jew is hollow when so many Orthodox Jews hold racist attitudes towards gentiles and refuse to donate organs to them

Right-wing politicians Gideon Sa'ar and Ayelet Shaked say they won't sit in government with left-wing party, after Nitzan Horowitz's comments during an interview

Her grandparents spoke Yiddish, her main language at home was Hebrew and she went to a Jewish school. Today, Yasmine Bakria is using cinema to bridge the abyss between two worlds

Trump is under investigation for urging Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a fellow Republican, to 'find' just enough votes to allow him to win

Major social media companies have been under pressure to curb conspiracy theories, violent rhetoric and other abuses on their sites

Joe Biden is enjoying an early presidential honeymoon with 60% of Americans approving of his job performance

Oddly, while some hold up the Byzantine Empire as the vanguard of white supremacy, a smaller group of white supremacists and conspiracy theorists sees it as 'the original Deep State'

Democratic Senator Tim Kaine said Colin Kahl's hearing was being used by critics to re-litigate the 2015 Iran nuclear deal

Israelis returning home will face a choice: Home isolation with an electronic tracking device, like those used for prisoners, or going to a coronavirus quarantine hostel — ‘It’s a slippery slope’

As Israel reopens, the government now grapples with how to balance public health and the rights of the unvaccinated

Israel sees small rise in infection rate as economy reopens ■ Pandemic czar says wearing mask outdoors not critical, but still mandatory ■ Israel promotes bill to use e-bracelets to track quarantine of Israelis returning from abroad

The Iran-backed Houthis, who have been battling the coalition since it intervened in Yemen's civil war in March 2015, recently stepped up cross-border missile and drone attacks on Saudi Arabia

Francis’ visit is the culmination of two decades of efforts to bring a pope to the birthplace of Abraham, the prophet central to Christian, Muslim and Jewish faiths, after St. John Paul II was prevented from going in 1999

Brazil is currently confronting a brutal and long-lasting second wave of the coronavirus, hitting a daily record of 1,910 deaths on Wednesday

Early reports by Palestinian media attributed the boat explosion to Israeli fire as Israel denied involvement ■ Hamas says it is probing the 'painful incident'

Netanyahu was counting on his COVID-19 vaccination strategy to lead the March 23 election campaign. But the message did not sink in; it even raised hackles and is going to be shelved

Englman’s decision was contrary to the positions taken by some members of the comptroller’s team, who argued for levying sanctions against Netanyahu

Figures have soared from just three in all of 2018 to 23 last year and 14 since the beginning of 2021; workers pass through breaches in security barrier

COVID-vaccinated Israelis stuck abroad no longer need approval of special committee to return to country ■ Grades 7-10 return to school in areas where infection rates are low enough

Most are asking for economic help for their families due to the coronavirus crisis; budget for such assistance has more than doubled in response

Protests were held outside the Prime Minister’s residence in Jerusalem, opposite Netanyahu’s private residence in Caesarea and at dozens of highway intersections and bridges around the country

Israel's COVID committee to decide on new regulations ■ Pandemic czar says fourth lockdown 'possible' before election

The prosecutor’s decision to launch an investigation into possible war crimes by Israel was made possible by the UN decision to grant the Palestinians state status in 2012

In October, Saad Hariri was named to form a new Cabinet but five months later, disagreements between him and President Michel Aoun on the shape of the Cabinet has stood in the way of a new government’s formation

Visiting the birthplace of the Prophet Abraham in Ur, Pope Francis says violence in the name of God is 'the greatest blasphemy'

The mother of all problems? Four families who had babies in 2020 reflect on the unique challenges, and occasional benefits, of bringing children into our coronavirus-impaired new world

Israel fears South African COVID strain spreading beyond control

24 people were also wounded by the missiles, which hit an oil refinery and market under the control of Turkish troops and Turkish-backed rebels, a war monitor reported

The police ordered to pay young man 20,000 shekels and legal fees in connection with incident that took place in 2018 when the young man was 15 years old

No new date has been set for the start of the campaign. The postponement took contractors and those involved in the drive by surprise, as they had believed that the budget for it had already been approved

A UN-brokered interim election among senior officials is the latest thing to go wrong in a country that still has two governments, two parliaments and plenty of warring militias

Was the vision of the burning bush a psychedelic experience? Did use of drugs inform early Christianity? Scholars who linked the emergence of religion to altered states of consciousness once paid a heavy price, but that may be changing

Israel's COVID committee to approve reopening universities on Sunday ■ Pandemic czar says fourth lockdown 'possible' before election ■ Israel, Austria and Denmark to set up joint coronavirus vaccine R&D fund

Former President Donald Trump intensified his war with the Republican establishment on Thursday by attacking Karl Rove, a longtime Republican strategist

Another six turtles were hurt by the tar from last month’s unprecedented spill, report submitted to the Israel Nature and Parks Authority said

Over ten thousand join protest in Umm al-Fahm, including Israeli MKs; Ra'am Leader Mansour Abbas, who hasn't ruled out joining a Netanyahu government, attacked by protesters

‘I was asked not to abandon my post,’ says the Labor lawmaker, who has not publicly recanted from his original decision to immediately step down

The Guard announcement on Friday did not identify the hijacker

The Pope aims to rally Iraq's Christians despite pandemic despair

The piece was originally titled “I’m channeling Anne Frank’s spirit in lockdown,” and was published Wednesday by a contributing writer. The title was later changed before the piece was deleted

Police suspect assailant was intending to carry out a terrorist attack against Jewish individuals

Eventbrite listing for the Dallas Jewish Conservatives mask-burning party promotes light refreshments. Organizers said kosher food would be available

Avdija, 20, has had an up-and-down rookie season, in part because of contracting COVID-19, which sidelined him for three weeks in January

The Houthis fired the intercepted drones towards Khamis Mushait near the Yemen border in attacks at dawn and during the morning, the coalition said in a statement carried by state news agency SPA

CNN's Jake Tapper has become a guide to his viewers, explaining what it is to be Jewish as a matter of course from a powerful platform, and he has a keen ear for anti-Jewish bigotry, wherever it originates

53.3 percent of Israelis has received the first dose of the coronavirus vaccine, and 40.8 percent the second. Vaccine data shows promising results

Closing Israel's borders did not stop this coronavirus strain from entering: Dozens are being infected each day. Israel vaccine data shows it's the only variant with less inoculation effectiveness

The stories told by mosaic depicting boars, grape-eating hares and Greek gods

Both Israel's Iron Dome and Trophy mark a decade since becoming operational. But while the first eases pressure to send soldier into the battlefield, the second makes their deployment easier

And why the Gulf may still feature prominently in Israeli PM's election campaign

Netanyahu can't hold back the reopening of the economy, but must slow the pace. And his promise for Seder night with the family will be hard to keep

Move follows busy week on Wall Street for Israeli companies ■ Founded by Israelis, Hippo's merger values it at $5 billion

Israeli firms struggle to find candidates whose skills are up to par ■ ‘English is taught from second grade, but people can’t conduct a conversation’

Coronavirus forces asylum seekers into 'genuine hunger,' survey concludes, as expert describes a 'severe humanitarian crisis' in south Tel Aviv

Benny Gantz tells U.S. network that Hezbollah has hundreds of thousands of rockets, says Israel is 'ready to fight'