Jewish Joint Distribution Committee is directing aid to Haiti. But in Afghanistan, where the Taliban is now in charge, avenues to help are largely blocked

Under the proposed agreement, the Qatari cash will be funneled through the UN and not via Palestinian banks in the West Bank, which fear legal repercussions over facilitating transfers to Hamas operatives

The blaze, which broke out on Sunday, has burned 5,000 acres of bushland and forest, forcing the evacuation of several communities

Serious cases appear to be stable at 559; over a million Israelis have received third COVID shot

The United States legitimized the Taliban when Trump signed a deal with them in 2020; will Biden find himself, too, cooperating with the Taliban?

His comments come after weeks of public pressure from the Biden administration and bipartisan lawmakers in both houses of Congress

In a televised address on Monday, the President responded to criticism over the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and the swift Taliban takeover

The Israel Airports Authority attributes the 50-percent drop to new restrictions, which require returning Israelis from almost every country to quarantine

The proposal by the health and education ministries, which is pending legal overview due to concerns of discrimination, will allow in-school learning for classes in which over 70 percent of students are vaccinated or recovered

For the second time in two weeks, Israeli forces encounter heavy fire from Palestinians in Jenin and respond with deadly force, adding to an already significant increase in violent incidents in the West Bank. And Gaza isn't quiet either

The emerging situation in Afghanistan, while dangerous to the standing of the U.S., could spur Israel to pursue greater cooperation with Sunni states

Massouma Tajik is an educated woman who has worked with the U.S. government – a combination which the Taliban despise. Now, as she tries to flee Afghanistan, she has no idea where she'll end up

Judge orders release of man due to be deported out of concern he was singled out on the basis of his skin color

No instructions on how to implement the 'green classroom' model have been provided, nor have any discussions been held on alternatives to in-school learning, principals say, as top health officials floats idea of delaying school year

'The citizens of Israel are the first in the world to receive a third COVID vaccine shot, and that shouldn't be taken for granted,' Bennett celebrates, as Israel ignores a World Health Organization plea to stop administering boosters

Haaretz photographers document what remains as more than 4,200 acres of land are consumed by fire

The Biden administration is walking a fine line as it tries to balance a promise to the Palestinians to reopen the U.S. consulate in Jerusalem, and a desire to help Israel's new government maintain political stability

Poland's deputy foreign minister says the government will consider limiting Holocaust commemoration trips for Israeli students, accuses Israel of spreading 'anti-Polish hatred'

A lower court previously ordered the two researchers to apologize to a woman who claimed her deceased uncle had been defamed by the scholars' claims he cooperated with the Nazis

Despite the sofa field marshals declaring that America’s reputation has been damaged forever after its withdrawal from Afghanistan, it was necessary for Biden to end one of the the worst foreign policy calamities in U.S. history

With climate change and global warming, a new era of forest fires, unlike anything seen in the region before, has begun. Now, Israel must change how it fights – and thinks about them

More than 78 percent of Israelis eligible for COVID-19 vaccination have been inoculated. As delta variant spreads, booster shot campaign is under way

The suspect is a resident of Jenin in the West Bank where four Palestinians were killed overnight in an Israeli army arrest operation

At least 10 officers were filmed beating prisoners and dozens more were present, in one of the most violent events to ever take place in an Israeli jail. Only four officers were questioned, none were arrested

Netanyahu, who had previously closed down most international travel in response to the pandemic, has been harshly critical of Bennett's handling of the health crisis

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

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

Iron Dome intercepted one of the rockets ■ Islamic Jihad vowed to avenge deaths of the four Palestinians killed in West Bank overnight ■ Gaza factions meet over delayed Qatari cash handout

TikTok has had a tough year in Israel - with calls to have it banned during the last round of fighting - but some say recent ban are too little to late

COVID vaccine refusers around the world are often conservative and religious. So how come in Israel many of them are secular and politically liberal, and what is the connection between the Balfour demonstrations and the fight against COVID jabs

Many are furious with Finance Minister Lieberman who has not met with disabled rights groups during ongoing negotiations, despite having previously expressed support and including protest leader on party ticket

At least seven people die in the chaos, officials say, after Taliban takes over Afghanistan

One witness said he had seen the bodies of five people being taken to a vehicle

Pioneering program for U.S. Jewish summer camps, developed by the New Israel Fund, aims to present Israel in all its complex realities to American Jewish teens

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

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 in the blaze that destroyed roughly 80 percent as much acreage as a 2010 fire in Israel's north, which was the worst in the country's history

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 do not amount to what it has initially expected

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