Confirming TV report, Hadash leader says proposal 'harms the weak'; Abbas says happy for Arab-majority alliance to join coalition, but it is 'impossible to rely on their word'

Quick tests will also be used at mass events; health officials reportedly pushing to limit access to indoor venues only to vaccinated, recovered

Germany to set up special aid fund as national fatalities reach 156; worst storms in living memory draw attention to climate change policy ahead of elections

Palestinian worshipers clash with police, but no reports of injuries or arrests; Hamas mocks Jewish visitors to site on fast day as 'straying herds of settlers'

Arab Israeli man, identified as Izat Hamad, gunned down while riding motorcycle through Tel Aviv

Normally scenic Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler is one of the worst hit towns in massive flooding that killed at least 140 people in country's west

Youths curse worshipers, set up gender partition at site; World Jewish Congress leader slams incident, calls on government to take action to protect other streams of Judaism

State Department rejects claims from Tehran that US and Britain were holding swap 'hostage' to negotiations, says Iran could simply free the prisoners now if it wanted

Jacob Steinmetz confident he can deal with challenges of keeping his Jewish lifestyle and making it into Major League Baseball after being drafted by Arizona Diamondbacks

Herzog urges 'special effort' to counter global warming as death toll from disastrous flooding in Western Europe rises above 160