A collection of precious relics of Afghanistan’s ancient past are returning home as the nation confronts deepening uncertainty about its future

'Critical and timely' shipment of nearly 200,000 doses of the AstraZeneca coronavirus shot would kick off Damascus' efforts to inoculate 20 percent of the population by the end of the year

Biden is preparing to recognize the Armenian genocide. So why is Israel, founded in the wake of genocide, holding out? How far does Israel's decision really rest on the state of relations with Ankara and Erdogan?

Syrian missile fired at an IAF jet, missed its target and landed near Dimona. Israeli interceptor failed to shoot it down. Syria reported that an Israeli strike near Damascus injured four soldiers

Yehuda Meshi-Zahav was found unconscious at his home and evacuated to the hospital in critical condition; In March, a Haaretz investigation revealed dozens of accusations of sexual assault against him

For the first time in many years, Netanyahu is realizing that sometimes the party really is over

The U.S. has also been transparent with Israel regarding the potential sanctions it is prepared to lift, senior State Department official says

The explosion and a power outage damaged an unknown number of centrifuges and Iranian state TV has shown footage of machines that it says were replaced there

The post-corornavirus consumer surge has defied the worst expectations, but what will happen when people can start shopping overseas again?

Only 9,000 Israelis went back to work in second half of March, gov’t says

Israel typically alternates between dollar and euro every year, and the bonds typically attract a huge number of foreign, thanks to the country’s relatively strong economy

Program includes opportunities at West Bank 28 farms, including locations that have been the scene of violence and the seizure of Palestinian-owned land

The water of the southern Jordan River is currently not of sufficient quality to rehabilitate the ecological system in the area. Implementing the Water Authority's plan would change that, but Mekorot has other ideas

Tucker Carlson’s outlier views on Israel concern Jewish conservatives. But they agree with him about the illegal immigration crisis, even if his language sometimes echoes white supremacists

Washington open to easing terrorism sanctions against Iran’s central bank, national oil and tanker companies and key economic sectors, says Wall Street Journal, citing two people familiar with the matter

Also present at the event were diplomats from Morocco and Bahrain, countries that reached normalization agreements with Israel last year

In report published Wednesday, Facebook accuses cyber wing of the Palestinian Preventive Security Service of running rudimentary hacking operations that targeted Palestinian reporters, activists, and dissidents

Recent takedown of fake accounts linked to Iran joins long list of cyberattacks, influence campaigns and disinformation ops: ‘We’re seeing techniques revealed by Mueller deployed against Israel’

Algorithms deduce that the Great Isaiah Scroll was written by two scribes, showing AI can help unravel the mystery of who penned the oldest known manuscripts of the Hebrew Bible

Yamina chairman says he prefers to form right-wing gov't, but says Netanyahu is only interested in fifth election ■ Earlier on Wednesday, Netanyahu's Likud party slammed Bennett's 'out of control ambitions to become prime minister at any cost'

The crisis is driving a brain drain, with professionals emigrating in large numbers, which in turn has a knock-on effect on the local economy, further depressing investments and demand for services

Over 132,000 people arrived in Israel from abroad in the last month, among which 445 cases of the coronavirus were identified

In Whatsapp group for the far-right Lehava organization's event, questions were raised about how to obtain tear gas and even grenades

Google and Amazon beat Microsoft and Oracle for Israel's Project Nimbus - which will see local cloud centers set up at an investment of 4 billion shekel

U.S. special envoy on Yemen told U.S. lawmakers Wednesday that it has been difficult to halt ships bearing weapons from Iran to Houthis in Yemen, and that the U.S. needs more international assistance in doing so

And four other scenarios that could break Israel's political deadlock

Two weeks ago, in the dead of night, dozens of settlers moved into two new buildings in Silwan, as part of a broader plan to unite all the Jewish buildings into one neighborhood

A campaign to block the vote that allowed JNF to purchase land in the West Bank is underway as Jews in the Diaspora worry that the fund is no longer representing the global Zionist consensus

Judge Or Mammon said that the evidence demonstrating the attack was racially motivated did not convince him, saying 'if anything it significantly weakened it'

'Should the anti-Netanyahu bloc make it to 61 seats... There could be an opening for ultra-Orthodox parties to join such a government down the road,' an unnamed ultra-Orthodox minister told Haaretz

Instead of trying to prevent Lebanon's final collapse, Hezbollah is preparing for it

Rebel group that the military blames for President Idriss Deby Itno’s death says its forces are 'heading toward N’Djamena at this very moment'

Conservative Jewish movement Noam members are refusing to participate in an online conversation with Tzipi Hotovely, the Israeli ambassador to the U.K., because of her political and religious views

The United Arab List's policy of ambiguity has thrust them to the center of Israeli political and public discourse; meanwhile, the Joint List struggles to find their footing

No casualties have been reported. The explosion seems to have occurred during a routine test at an advanced weapons factory which houses various types of missiles

IDF officials have been meeting with experts worldwide to express the challenges faced in modern warfare, after Israeli-owned ships were attacked in the Persian gulf

When so-called absentee properties – homes whose owners fled in 1948 – in Jaffa are sold, the buyers are usually Jewish, leading to accusations that the government seeks to drive out the Arab population

Rising tensions have been impacted by several local incidents, Ramadan restrictions, social media videos and right-wing Jewish activists

Proposal comes as Energy Ministry tries to solve Haifa Bay's pollution problem amid an impasse in developing the area

Jury convicts Chauvin of murder and manslaughter over killing of George Floyd, the Black man whose death triggered worldwide protests

Israeli, Palestinian and U.S. figures virtually addressed about 5,000 activists, signaling a new willingness from mainstream figures to apply pressure to influence Israeli policy

The Supreme Court says 'reality in which educational services for a third of the city’s students are supplied by private schools or public schools outside the local authority is not reasonable'

Despite seeking the delay, Mendelblit agreed with the petitioners that the failure to appoint permanent cabinet ministers is a serious problem that will severely impede the government’s functioning

The anti-vaccine activist appeared on Fox News, criticizing pandemic restrictions promoted by Fauci, claiming he doesn’t serve the cause of 'public health for the American people'

The first round of direct talks between regional rivals come as the Biden administration paves the way for re-opening diplomatic channels in the region

Major new projects will increase traffic congestion, cost billions and destroy one of the last open areas in central Israel

Israel prevents the PA from political activity in East Jerusalem, which could thwart the election – but that may work in President Abbas' favor as Fatah split bolsters Hamas

Spot Option deceived U.S. investors and 'devised a manipulative payout structure for binary options trades,' the Securities and Exchange Commission said

It was not clear when the shipments of the Pfizer and Sputnik V coronavirus vaccines would begin arriving, but Palestinian health minister says they were likely to come in the near future

The campaign kicks off in the southern port city of Aden, the government's interim capital in a six-year-old war, starting with frontline workers, the elderly and those with certain health problems

Saudi Arabia has been under increasing pressure to end the six-year war with Yemen's Houthis by Biden administration as the United Nations warns of looming famine

Black bears in Stone Age Mexico didn’t just relieve themselves in the woods, a groundbreaking genetic study reveals

Following public debate over Galia Oz's book: How to identify, survive and heal from narcissistic parenting, the most silenced type of domestic abuse

American remake of ‘Being With Her’ starring Nathalie Kelley and Victor Rasuk brings the show a second life

A video of the incident on the Jerusalem light rail posted on social media sparked uproar. Police say one of the suspects, both residents of East Jerusalem, fled to the West Bank but was captured at an Israeli checkpoint

Little is known about 50-year-old Damascus resident Faten Ali Nahar however Assad is widely expected to run and win a fourth seven-year term in the May 26 election

The prime minister announces deals for 16 million more coronavirus vaccine doses, adding Israel 'assesses that vaccines will be approved for children' within six months

Prime Minister Mustafa Madbouly is the most senior Egyptian official to visit Libya since the oil-rich country plunged into chaos in 2011, with trade and bilateral ties topping the agenda

The moderate Islamist party slam president's claim that his constitutional control of the military extended to the internal security forces, in part of an ongoing power struggle between him, parliament and the prime minister

After being bought by Rami Levy, the airline has removed reservations for flights planned for Saturdays

United Torah Judaism leader's remarks come as Netanyahu, struggling to form a coalition, commends direct vote for prime minister as way out of stalemate and calls on Bennett to back it too 'if he wants a right-wing government'

Forces arrived in Jerusalem's Mea Sh'earim neighborhood to arrest suspects in the sabotage of light rail construction in the city

Deby's son has been named the interim successor, a day after the leader won Chad's presidential election ■ Netanyahu's office tweeted that it will 'always remember his historic decision to renew Chad's relationship with Israel'

With negotiations underway in Vienna, Israel should strengthen its ties with the United States instead of picking fights. But under Netanyahu, Israel, not Iran, has become isolated on the nuclear issue

Statement after meeting between FM Gabi Ashkenazi and British Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove in Tel Aviv gave no timeline for implementing such a measure, which apparently would apply only to vaccinated travelers

Backing racist voting laws and Tucker Carlson’s replacement conspiracies, author, venture capitalist and now populist ‘hero’ J.D. Vance is campaigning for a white American volk. And Jews are central to his ugly narrative

The group has been described as a cult and as the 'Jewish Taliban,' as women and girls older than 3 are required to dress in long black robes covering their entire body

Iran began enriching uranium to 60 percent purity as a response to an explosion in Natanz, a move that has further complicated talks aimed at reviving the 2015 deal

Under Jordanian rule the Airport in Atarot served 100,000 passengers a year and ran lines to Iran and Qatar. After the Six-Day War, foreign airlines refused to use it. Now it may be turned into a Haredi neighborhood

Remarks by Iranian envoy to Baghdad come a day after Iran's foreign ministry said that Tehran always welcomed dialogue with its arch-rival Saudi Arabia, without confirming that talks were held

Videos of police violence against Palestinians at the scene come amid other footage of Palestinian attacks on Jewish passersby and on police vehicles

In the suspected hit-and-run, the body of a 35-year-old man was found near his scooter on Jabotinsky St. in Tel Aviv

Witnesses say suspects walked around Jerusalem city center and asked people questions in attempt to find out if they had an Arabic accent, and attacking those who were presumed to be Arab

The tensions originated with last year’s remarks by France’s president who defended the publication of caricatures of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad by a satirical newspaper, drawing condemnation from across the Muslim world

Rep. Alan Lowenthal says de facto annexation sets the stage for de jure annexation since Israeli settlements are either permanent or they appear to be permanent

Netanyahu secures Naftali Bennett's support in key vote, but is thwarted by Islamist party. The Knesset Arrangements Committee controls the legislative agenda until a government is formed

Amman sent its aid request last month, when coronavirus infection rates were peaking, and Israel's COVID success is allowing it to send hundreds of ventilators, COVID test kits and face masks

The prime minister was upended on a key Knesset vote by the Arab leader he’s been wooing, as the racists he enabled gloat

At J Street conference, UAE ambassador to the United States says that normalization pact with Israel created more space for diplomacy

The premier will 'integrate his commitments,' said the AG in response to petition claiming that Netanyahu's trial renders him 'physically, functionally and essentially' absent

But economist says the data, including surging imports, point to a growing economy for Israel going forward

Move comes as Israeli and UAE arms makers agree to collaborate on AI, big data

Warren also called for the U.S. to restrict military aid to Israel from being used in the West Bank and Gaza in order to halt settlement expansion and implement the two-state solution

Child, two others arrested during demonstration a day after an assault on rabbi, amid plans to sell a building in the traditionally Arab neighborhood to a yeshiva

Agreement comes as global office-sharing company retrenches in wake of failed IPO

With Lebanon lacking a government and mired in political and economic crises, the Islamist organization has stepped into the breach with payments to the needy and cheap grocery stores

A recent Iran-linked phishing attempt is only the latest in a string of coronavirus cyberattacks: ‘Israeli healthcare is by far more targeted in comparison to other countries’