Unvaccinated Israeli elderly are eight times more likely to experience a severe case of COVID-19 than their immunized counterparts, according to Health Ministry data

Attorney General Avichai Mendelblit is looking into two more complaints against Cohen; one regarding his alleged involvement in a car franchise, and the other concerning a possible security breach

With COVID cases soaring, Israel is rolling out tightened travel restrictions on Monday; Of the 10 countries, only four are allowing Israelis to enter

Israeli Health ministry data: 5,075 Israelis tested positive for COVID-19 on Sunday, with 519 in serious condition, a slight drop from Saturday's figures

Authorities say human agency is suspected, but did not specify if whether arson or negligence was behind the blaze

U.S. forces fired in the air at Kabul's airport on Monday to prevent hundreds of civilians running onto the tarmac, a U.S. official said

Israeli soldiers entered the refugee camp in Jenin to arrest a Hamas suspect, leading to an exchange of gunfire, according to the army

As the U.S. loses interest in the Middle East, Israel's gains from inking the historic normalization agreements does not amount to what it has initially expected

Some Israeli experts side with the World Health Organization and claim current policy is both morally and epidemiologically wrong

In the verdict, the judge said that by law, the welfare of the children must come first thereby ending 10-year legal battle

Police still investigate where the man, who was under the influence of drugs and alcohol, got the launcher from

Lead is increasingly being used in solar panels and batteries, but the more lead we produce, the more people are likely to be absorbing it into their bodies, Hebrew University-led team deduces

Lebanon is experiencing a severe fuel shortage that has caused long lines at petrol stations and extended blackouts

With economic crisis hitting hard, all factions in the Gaza Strip will meet Monday to discuss next steps

The Taliban’s crushing victory is a personal humiliation for U.S. President Joe Biden, emphasizing that America cannot fix failed states. Israel, surrounded by countries on the verge of collapse, should remember that

The lawmakers' criticism comes after Israel said it is consulting with the United States on possible responses to Poland's move that will restrict the possibility of restitution claims for property stolen from Jews by Nazis

This comes after Polish President Andrzej Duda approved on Saturday a controversial law that will restrict the possibility of restitution claims for property stolen from Jews by the Nazis

The United States' pledge to save Afghan interpreters and workers who helped it since the 2001 invasion seems to have run into a solid wall of American bureaucracy

Residents of communities in the Judean Hills have been evacuated from their homes as the blaze rages across the area

Normalization agreements with the UAE, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco have endured and even started to bear fruit, even though the Biden administration has other priorities right now

High Court rules ownership of the West Bank land has yet to be thoroughly examined, but justice criticizes authorities for allowing 'trespassing on a mass scale'

Bar Ilan confirms ransomware attack targeting its system, urges staff to shut down computers; national cyber authority involved

Seven people were indicted for torching the hotel during a wave of Jewish-Arab violence, but none were charged with killing Aby Har-Even, who died in the fire

American diplomats are evacuated from their embassy by chopper after a swift advance by Taliban militants, who are poised to run Afghanistan 20 years after they were toppled by U.S.-led forces

The 42-yearold Palestinian construction worker died after ceiling stones collapsed on him at an unreported Jerusalem site

What the Olympics taught us about muscular Jews and Zionism

The launch of a new fundraising round, the surprising acquisition offers, the pandemic shake-up – Yael Vizel, a founder of the virtual fitting room startup Zeekit, talks about the sale of her firm to the giant American Walmart corporation for an es...

Hamama Jarban, 42, a feminist icon and athlete from the village of Jisr al-Zarqa, is appearing in a campaign aimed at marketing modest swimwear. She herself doesn't wear hijab on a daily basis: 'I took this step out of identification with women who w...

Israel's top diplomat in the UAE announces his wife had given birth to a baby girl named Mia, 'the first Israeli baby born in the country since the Abraham Accords. What an honor'

After global investigation put the Israeli cyberarms firm on the defensive, new campaign – using the hashtag #IamNSO – highlights NSO's ‘family’ of workers

Justice Minister Sa'ar is one of hundreds of people who showed up at central Tel Aviv's Dizengoff Square to get a COVID shot

Negrito group has 30 to 40 percent more Denisovan DNA than nearby Papuans, suggesting an extra interbreeding event, new paper says

A debate is raging over the remains of the ancient reptiles found in Israel. Some researchers want them analyzed and displayed in a museum, others believe that the real museum is nature itself

Annie Londonderry (born Cohen Kopchovsky) became the first ever woman to pedal around the globe, taking some 15 months in the mid-1890s. Her Incredible achievement is finally told in a new book

A Taliban leader in Doha said the group ordered its fighters to refrain from violence and allow safe passage to anyone seeking to leave, as Western officials in the country seek safety

Saher Ismail, who ran on the New Hope election slate this year, was shot as he was sitting in his car in an apparent murder, the 70th this year in the Arab community. Party leader Sa'ar called him 'an honest and brave leader'

The Health Ministry's director-general, Prof. Nachman Ash, says he's 'cautiously optimistic' as the number of COVID patients hits a five-month high

Despite about $89 billion budgeted for training the Afghan army, it took the Taliban little more than a month to brush it aside

Sunday’s explosion was the deadliest in the country since an August 4, 2020, blast at Beirut’s port killed at least 214 and wounded thousands

Given the strident final chord of the American adventure in Afghanistan, one might wonder why it was necessary to draw out the withdrawal of U.S. troops for 20 years

The deployment of approximately 5,000 U.S. troops to Kabul has been authorized to ensure 'an orderly and safe drawdown of U.S. personnel and other allied personnel'

Some 70,000 doses were administered this weekend, bringing the total to 846,000, and over 100,000 people have signed up to get the third dose of the COVID vaccine next week

This is the latest turn in a crisis that has sunk the Lebanese pound by 90 percent in less than two years and pushed more than half of the population into poverty

The United States and Britain rushed in troops to help evacuate their embassies as Taliban rebels make gains

Almost five percent of Israel's COVID tests came back positive on Friday, compared to about nine percent on average during the previous wave

Poland says it will take 'appropriate diplomatic and political action, taking into account the principle of reciprocity'

Both Israel and the United States have expressed stark opposition to the legislation, which has led to tensions between Warsaw and Jerusalem

The national coronavirus taskforce, which issued the decision, also ordered a travel ban between all Iranian cities from Sunday to Friday

Eight COVID patients were transferred to hospitals in Jerusalem in the past 24 hours, as small hospitals in central Israel see high numbers

The government is planning to add health care staff every time the number of hospitalized patients doubles, but hospital officials say it won't be enough

Heavy rains that pounded coastal Turkey caused flooding that demolished homes, severed at least five bridges, swept away cars and rendered numerous roads unpassable

An Afghan lawmaker says the Taliban have captured Logar province and reached the Char Asyab district, just 7 miles south of the capital, Kabul

The two were not charged with killing the victim's sister, who also died at the scene, after a legal opinion said it wasn't possible to conclude that her death was caused as a result of the violent incident

The videos by Noble Energy and Delek Group praise the use of natural gas without mentioning its contribution to the climate crisis

This is the first U.S. comment on PM Bennett's plan to push for more than 2,000 Israeli settlement homes in the West Bank

The first non-Russian to win the Games' individual event in rhythmic gymnastics since 1996 tells Haaretz how the new atmosphere got her and her coach thinking about upping her difficulty level

Equipment and goods for humanitarian relief will also be allowed into Gaza, which is still recovering after hostilities erupted between Israel and Hamas in May

Ten other countries, including Israel, have announced that they will boycott the UN conference, known as the Durban conference

The third COVID dose will also be given in Israel to people with disabilities, psychiatric patients, and other high risk groups at a younger age

The agreement with the UAE failed to live up to Trump's hype about the 'deal of the century', the Palestinian issue hasn't faded and there's no real Israel-Sunni alliance against Iran

Mahmood Rashid Amur Al Habsi and a network of businesses have been targeted, the U.S. Treasury says

The incident comes a week after Israel's air force attacked Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip in response to incendiary balloons launched by the militant group the day before

In the past five years the number of such students in the better-funded Israeli program has climbed 160 percent. This should foster social mobility, but how do you teach citizenship to a noncitizen?

Israel is part of a growing list of governments that have decided to offer COVID booster doses. Analysts forecast revenue of over $6.6 billion for the Pfizer shot in 2023, mostly from booster sales

The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack in New Rafah, near the Gaza border

Officially, there have been only four virus cases and one death in Yemen’s north, according to the Houthi rebel authorities who control the capital and surrounding provinces

A continued rise in COVID figures comes as the country is expanding its vaccine booster campaign to people aged 50 and up

Israel is already administering the third shot to avoid another crisis due to the contagious delta variant of the coronavirus

On the nuclear issue and with the U.S. departure from Afghanistan, Iran may again have to display what Khamenei has called 'heroic flexibility'

The increase in the number of Palestinians killed this year – almost twice as many as in every other recent year – is due to a combination of circumstances

Bennett might succumb to pressures regarding a COVID lockdown, despite his previous objections ■ Meanwhile, Netanyahu is more interested in criticizing the new PM than in paying for his own hotel

As Israel's northern border heats up, army intelligence is forced to disentangle a complicated tangle of power brokers and interests between Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran's Quds Force

The resurgent Taliban are estimated to hold over two-thirds of Afghanistan, weeks before the end of the U.S. military mission some 20 years after its invasion

A seemingly furry shrimp and soldier termites on the march featured in BMC Ecology and Evolution Image Competition 2021

This week at the Tel Aviv airport: She's an Arabic teacher, he's training for Ironman. Here's their secret to a great relationship

Many health care leaders warned that the extra staff won’t have a profound impact anytime soon because it will take time for them to be trained in treating COVID-19 patients in the midst of a crisis

Imad Duikat was the sixth Palestinian to be shot dead by Israeli troops during recent protests against the settler outpost of Evyatar, and the 40th to be killed in the West Bank since May

Health Ministry orders administering third dose to medical workers 30 and up and prison staff 40 and up

While trying to educate people about historical injustices – by posting reports about the past in the present tense – this American got himself in hot water

Greece's largest fire broke out on the country’s second-largest island of Evia and was still smoldering more than a week later, after having destroyed most of the island’s north

The news is one of the most significant signs of concern in President Joe Biden's administration about the security situation and the failure of the Afghan government to protect key cities

The drone was monitored by Israeli forces from the moment it entered Israeli airspace, military says in statement a day after the incident

Little to nothing was known about the range of the woolly mammoth. Now we know the life story of one young bull in Alaska thanks to the isotopes in a tusk

Tumarkin, whose works include monuments and sculptures found all over Israel as well as paintings and drawings, was a controversial artist who frequently spoke out against the establishment

The victim, who brings foreign workers from China to Israel to work in the construction industry, was pulled out of his car and forced into a van by a group wearing police hats

For years powerful entities with vested interests, whether petroleum giants or conservative politicians, tried to deny a connection between human activity and extreme weather events. Dr. Friederike Otto, a trailblazing scientist from Oxford, provides...