While Israel recorded 1,398 new coronavirus cases on Sunday, it also saw an almost three-week high in the number of people getting inoculated

Israel's foreign minister writes: We need to lower the level of hysteria over criticism. Not everyone who opposes Israel’s policy in the Gaza Strip is antisemitic

'New Zealand has not taken this step lightly,' says Prime Minister Ardern, arguing 'international responsibilities' and 'the fact that children are involved' led to the decision

A political outsider seeking to reform Tunisia's 2014 constitution he had helped draft, Kais Saied's move to dismiss government and freeze parliament are seen by critics as an attack on democracy

'There is no need for any foreign combat forces on Iraqi soil,' says Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi ahead of a round of talks with President Joe Biden

Taekwondo fighter wins first Tokyo 2020 medal for Israel ■ Israel set for Olympic medals in judo

President Kais Saied said he would assume executive authority with the assistance of a new prime minister, in a move critics call a coup

Medical personnel at Israeli hospitals indicate that while the number of hospitalized COVID patients may be growing, vaccines are likely weakening the severity of symptoms

Moscow's announcement that it disrupted an Israeli attack in Syria reflects concern over Israeli airstrikes reaching closer to areas where Russia is present

Avichai Mendelblit heads the committee that is considering choosing his assistant Gil Limon for a role that handles conflict of interest in the civil service

Earlier, Israel halved Gaza's fishing zone after explosive-laden balloons from the Strip started three brush fires in the Negev

The suspect, an Israeli student, spent a short time in Iran, according to an investigation by police and the Shin Bet

According to the poll, 29 percent of Hungarians agree with the statement that 'intellectuals of Jewish descent keep the media and culture under their control'

Amir Hayek is one of the 11 ambassadorial appointments FM Lapid is allowed to make from outside the Foreign Service

Israel has long used arms sales as a form of diplomacy, and its countenancing of cyberarms to dictators and corrupt regimes is just the latest upgrade. Despite the Pegasus spyware scandal, don’t expect anything to change

Abdullah tells CNN that the Bennett-led government may not be the 'most ideal' to advance a two-state solution, but that it's important to get Israelis and Palestinians 'back to the table'

In August and September, nationwide testing in Israel for COVID-19 antibodies will be carried out for all students and teachers

For the past five years, the U.S. has been regarded a ‘flawed democracy.’ Unless it can resolve its internal problems, the rest of the world will lose faith in American leadership. That would be a problem for U.S. allies like Israel

The latest comments by Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef follow remarks in which he described Israel's core curriculum of secular subjects as 'nonsense'

Speaking during a rally in Arizona, former U.S. President Donald Trump impersonates the group's leader by grunting and groaning

Eli Avidar, who has been a thorn in the coalition's side, made minister without portfolio, while an ex-deputy army chief Yair Golan named deputy economy minister

The Homo line has puny teeth compared with this ‘robust australopithecine’ Paranthropus, but if either of us ate 'hard foods', it apparently wasn’t him

Kibbutz Ma’agan Michael was supposed to build proper public access to the beach within its territory, but 12 years have passed and it hasn’t happened. Environmental groups and activists are already making waves

'This is a step that may promote peace,' says transplant center head. 'When I spoke to the doctors from Abu Dhabi, they said that they were also happy to be partners for the first time'

On July 25th, 1965, Bob Dylan, the 24-year-old idol of the American folk-music scene, plugged in a Fender Stratocaster guitar and flabbergasted the audience

Apple TV’s soccer sitcom is back for a winning second season, while HBO’s surfing documentary series is simply breathtaking

The plan is an improvement over prior drafts, but it lacks major provisions, such as targets on electricity production from renewable sources and appropriate economic incentives

A proposal to produce most of the country's electricity from renewable sources by 2050 was dropped and other provisions have been softened

The irascible Mason was known for his sharp wit and piercing social commentary, often about being Jewish, men and women and his own inadequacies

Modi's India and NSO: For two years, aided by Israeli technology, my own government spied on me. This is what it's like to be targeted, why Israel must shut down sales of Pegasus, and why authoritarian cowards troll and intimidate - but they won't si...

Israir and El Al announce two roughly six hour flights to Morocco, to be joined by Arkia and Royal Air Maroc, as tourism officials predict high demand

Baby girl’s father, Rahamim, had also been born at the Ramat Gan zoo 11 years ago

At the end of a week in which Ben & Jerry’s sent Israeli politicians into meltdown, a joint exercise with five Western air forces, has injected some perspective on the multiple levels of Israel’s standing in the world

Iran - not Hamas or Hezbollah - is the Israeli defense establishment’s biggest and most effective way of getting a higher spending increase

Number of seriously ill COVID patients in Israel 'is beginning to worry us,' but number of ventilated patients remains stable, says coronavirus czar

Publicly, the IDF allowed smears claiming Arab drivers refused to come to work due to clashes in mixed cities during the latest escalation

The movement behind Evyatar expressed intentions to establish a settlement in the Jordan Valley, and have managed to secure army authorization for a second night amid protests from local Palestinians

Activists say government failed to fulfill promise enshrined in 2018 law to the tune of 600 million shekels

Missiles allegedly fired by Israel in the Homs area were shot down by Syrian forces, using Russian-made air defense systems, says Vadim Kulit, the head of the Russian military’s Reconciliation Center in Syria

Yisrael Beiteinu's Eli Avidar is set to become a minister without portfolio, while Meretz lawmaker Yair Golan will get an appointment at the Economy Ministry

Meanwhile, American officials have asked an Israeli defense official for more details following the publication of a massive international investigation, which they told their Israeli counterpart was 'disturbing'

The moment of silence for the 11 Israeli athletes murdered at the 1972 Olympics wasn’t just a painful reminder of the past. Forty-nine years later, the International Olympics Committee has finally taken responsibility

While this is an unprecedented decision for Israel, the goals set are low compared to other Western countries

The decision comes after Jordan lifted most restrictions, reopening gyms, pools and night clubs at hotels after cases dropped from a peak in March of several thousands of new cases daily

NSO's Pegasus spyware, a cyberweapon enabling state-sponsored terrorism against civil society, has outraged the world. In Israel, there's complicity – or complete indifference

Lebanon has imposed increasingly long power cuts across the nation as fuel supplies have run short

'Others may be surprised. I am not,' said 19-year-old Israeli taekwondo competitor Avishag Semberg after defeating Turkey’s Rukiye Yıldırım to win a bronze medal for Israel at the Tokyo Olympics

The remarks come despite security forces' crack down on drought demonstrations, which have included live fire

Arguing 'no systematic persecution' by the PA, Israel is willing to grant basic rights to Palestinians accused of collaboration, but not to victims of domestic violence or LGBTQ people who had to flee the West Bank or Gaza

One Palestinian, who was reportedly seriously wounded on Friday near the village of Nabi Saleh, succumbed to his wounds overnight into Saturday

According to the amended version, which will now return to the lower house of parliament, existing claims will continue being reviewed, but with restrictions on possibility of retrieving stolen property

Police say demonstrators refused to disperse, reached secure area ■ Protest comes a day after Bennett criticized vaccine refusers in a televised speech

Lawmakers call for investigation, regulation of spyware industry after reports of Israeli company NSO's leasing of its tools to authoritarian regimes around the world

The verdict, which overturns a lower court's decision, says that a convicted ex-police officer's tracing methods violated the privacy of a soldier he had sexually assaulted

Move signals potential unraveling of lax gun laws implemented by executive orders over the Netanyahu years, which saw the number of civilians holding gun permits rise to 140,000

If the bill passes during the winter Knesset session, opposition leader Netanyahu, who has been indicted for bribery, fraud and breach of trust would not be able to form a government in the next election

Although Israel witnessed a slight decline in daily infections, the percentage of positive COVID tests increased, suggesting the delta variant's spread is continuing unabated

Israel refuses to approve family reunification for thousands of citizens of Arab countries who are married to Palestinians

Plans to build more than 250 luxury homes on the ruins of the Palestinian village of Lifta are coming to fruition. A tour among the homes of the stunning village with one of its last living refugees

Did it approve, or was it supposed to approve, selling the software to each of NSO’s clients? Did it initiate the tapping of targets by means of NSO and its clients?

The attempt to break up the Rabbinate's monopoly on the system for certifying kosher food is impressive, but there's still the feeling that decisions are getting postponed and slogans are being spewed

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid also hasn’t talked with the Palestinian leader, but other politicians, including President Isaac Herzog and Defense Minister Benny Gantz, have reached out to Abbas

What good is a threat to destroy infrastructure if there is no Lebanon?

Officials will soon begin meeting to formulate new government's position on pipeline deal, as energy minister says her ministry doesn't see it as economically beneficial

Between COVID and Bibi’s shadow, the new prime minister is struggling to find a straight path

This week at the Tel Aviv airport: A woman who made her husband swear he would become an Israeli; a Jazz musician and an opera singer reunite after months apart

A messianic figure recaptures Berlin for the Jews, who once called it home: That’s the thesis of a startling new artwork which poses hard questions about 'redeeming' history, exile, justice and the nationalist myths beloved of Europe’s populist l...

Rabbis were uncertain whether it was permitted to drink it, and places that served it were accused of encouraging homosexuality. A new exhibition examines the origins of the coffee scene in Jerusalem, which caused scandals and prompted investigations...

While some calls to boycott Israel can justify a withholding of the Israel Prize, however, in Prof. Oded Goldreich case these calls were 'isolated' and 'took place many years ago,' attorney general says

February's massive influx of tar polluted beaches across Israel, killing hundreds of animals, including many sea turtles

Historian Merav Schnitzer talks about the medieval clothing revolution, a bra described by 11th-century scholar Rashi and how Jewish women managed to take their house keys with them to synagogue on Shabbat

High Court won't order the creation of a commission of inquiry into a government purchase of naval vessels from Germany

Proposal to increase the number of Palestinians workers in Israel comes following a visit by U.S. official Hady Amr last week

Same Israeli data shows effectiveness of COVID vaccine in preventing hospitalizations and severe symptoms at 88 percent and 91 percent, respectively

Israel returns to 55-state pan-African organization in what the Foreign Ministry's head of African affairs calls an extremely important political recognition

Human Rights Council says Navi Pillay will head international commission of inquiry into alleged crimes by Israel and Hamas during Israel's latest flare-up with Gaza

The bone structure of flaplings in two pterosaur species indicate they may have been nimble in the air from day one – which argues against parental nurture

Sonar finds 2,000-year-old remains of paving and structures now underwater, belying the tradition that Venice’s lagoon was only settled in the early Middle Ages

They saw death, torture and persecution in Eritrea and Darfur, but managed to escape and find shelter in Israel. Now they’re part of the refugee team at the Tokyo Olympics. Despite the racism they have encountered, they assert clearly: ‘I am an I...

After a global investigation into a list of potential targets selected by their clients, NSO faces a string of very serious challenges - with one simple solution

Foreign Minister Lapid leading talks with Washington in bid to pressure Warsaw not to pass legislation that would dismiss older restitution claims

Since the outbreak of the pandemic, growing numbers of young Jews on Masa-sponsored internship programs are opting to make aliyah. Employment opportunities, it turns out, are not the only incentive

West Bank factory owner says he found gas canister after pursuing fleeing car, as suspects' lawyer says they just happened to be in the area and were uninvolved

Forty Indian journalists were on a list of potential names to be targeted by Pegasus software. ‘It’s utterly shameful of the Israeli government,’ they say

A month ago, my union, PSC-CUNY, passed two resolutions: On China and on Palestine. They couldn't have been more different – and illustrate how antisemitism today operates in subtle but powerful ways