The total number of cases seen in Idlib province — an overcrowded enclave with a population of 4 million, many of them internally displaced — has more than doubled since the beginning of August to more than 61,000

Nathan Straus, owner of Macy’s, was first to realize that pasteurization could save lives, and is credited with slashing the mortality rate among children

After the Progressive Caucus forced the Israeli missile-defense funding off a major budget bill, Democratic leadership initiated the standalone due to pressure from the party's pro-Israel wing

Between ending the monopoly over kashrut and meetings with the Palestinian President, Haaretz reviews the first 100 days of the government that ousted Benjamin Netanyahu

If Iran is already a nuclear threshold state, and a unilateral military option is not really on the table, Israel will have to reassess how to deal with Tehran

Serious COVID cases are starting to stabilize, but the figure is still among the highest this month

The ECMO system replaces the heart and lungs when these are impaired for a variety of reasons, until they are functional again

To date, no nation has yet formally recognized the Taliban’s ascension by force to power or its all-male cabinet

Serving in the Knesset in 1977-1992, the Moroccan-born lawmaker founded the party seen as a forerunner of Shas, and was convicted in a fraud case

Israel will still very likely receive the promised $1 billion emergency aid it requested earlier this year attached to a different piece of legislation, according to Democratic sources on the Hill

A source told Haaretz that about 30 fines were issued in south Tel Aviv over the past few weeks around the city’s central bus station

In a far-reaching speech at the UN, Biden set out his vision for the U.S.'s role in the world ■ The president says Iran must be blocked from securing a nuke, but that the U.S. will return to the deal 'if Iran does the same'

The vote in the House of Representatives exemplifies the wrangling between rival factions and state bodies that has plagued UN-backed efforts to resolve Libya's decade-long crisis

Lebanese newspaper reports two proposals were made that include the release of Palestinians rearrested after being freed in 2011 deal and all jailed women and children

The latest poll by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research finds that 45 percent of Palestinians believe Hamas should lead them, while only 19 percent said Abbas' secular Fatah deserve that role

President Raisi said that Iran wants to resume negotiations of a deal that will lift sanctions on the country

A suspect was detained shortly after the incident near a construction site in the northern city of Nahariya that also moderately wounded a police officer ■ Police rule out politically motivated attack

Tantawi was former President Mubarak's loyal defense minister for two decades, but he also the one who led the country after Mubarak's ouster in 2011. His death comes 19 months after Mubarak died in custody

Top official says the situation was under control after the attempted coup overnight had been contained

'We are allies, we talk and don't hide elaborate different strategies. That's why there is a crisis in confidence,' France's Le Drian says after scrapped Australian deal, as EU foreign ministers meet at the UN

U.S. President Biden, Iran's Raisi and Israel's Bennett are all set to appear before the General Assembly for the first time

Trudeau, in power since 2015 and governing with a minority of House of Commons seats since 2019, decided to gamble on an early vote and capitalize on his government's handling of the pandemic

Diplomats were tentatively planning a ministerial meeting of the parties to the 2015 nuclear deal on the sidelines of the annual UN gathering of world leaders

25-year-old Alaa Sarsour is the second Arab victim of gun violence within hours. Eyewitnesses say the shooter, who has not been caught, ambushed a group of young people as they were leaving the wedding in Taibeh

American forces conducted a 'kinetic counterterrorism strike' near Idlib province targeting a senior leader of the militant group Al-Qaida, U.S. Central Command says

The 24-year-old man was shot and killed in Zarzir as part of a feud between criminals, according to the police

The White House plans to allow non-U.S. citizen travelers from countries that have been barred from the United States since early 2020 as it moves to new COVID requirements

The gunman has been identified as a student at Perm State University who obtained a hunting rifle in May

Hamas will have to decide whether to demand the release of the six captured fugitives in any future prisoner swap with Israel. For now, the Palestinian public is lowering its expectations

Sweden’s relations with Israel have been strained since the Social Democratic-led government in 2014 recognized Palestinian statehood

Leifer, 55, is facing 74 charges, including rape and indecent assault of three sisters, from her time as head of Melbourne’s Adass Israel School between 2004 and 2008

The vaccine induced a robust immune response in 5- to 11-year-olds, even though they were given a smaller dose than adults and teens in clinical trials, data from the drugmaker shows

Bone tools found in Morocco date to as much as 120,000 years ago and were used to skin wildcats and small canines for their pelts, a Max Planck team posits

France is right to feel betrayed by America after losing a $60 billion deal to sell submarines to Australia. But the U.S. is also right to pursue its number one foreign policy objective: countering China

In a video falsely suggesting the U.S. president fell asleep while meeting Bennett, the former prime minister seems more like an online troll with too much time on his hands than the man viewed for years as a master politician

An ultra-Orthodox group wanted to repair a neglected 16th-century cemetery in Eastern Europe, but its method for doing this has been described as 'barbarism' by leading scholars and rabbis

Lebanon is battling a deep depression, with worsening fuel shortages translating into few or any hours of state-backed power a day and most Lebanese relying on private generators for electricity

People who had COVID but recovered within the past three months will be exempted from testing, but will need to present proof of recovery to their airline before landing in Israel

According to Israeli officials, the six Palestinian prisoners feared their plans to escape Gilboa Prison would be discovered when it got to a point where 'people turned on a tap and sand came out'

About 10 percent of travelers coming back from Rosh Hashana pilgrimage to Uman brought the virus with them, Health Ministry data shows

The monument lies in the center of the Dutch capital and is a labyrinth of brick walls that, when seen from above, form Hebrew letters reading 'in remembrance'

Jordan had for years supported mainstream Western-backed rebels who controlled southern Syria until a Syrian campaign aided by Russia and Iranian-backed militias retook the province

Israel's energy minister backtracks on her environmental commitments 'to honor existing licenses', although her party vowed to fight climate change in the past election

The study, which has yet to be peer-reviewed, analyzed samples from 11,000 people infected with the COVID delta variant in Israel and found booster shots reduced viral loads by a factor of four

A Reuters fact check previously debunked the idea that Biden dozed off during his meeting with Bennett in the White House

So far, Palestinians married to permanent residents had to pay the government $89 a month for 27 months to become eligible for the national health insurance program

A military probe shows that the troops' decision to use stun grenades and tear gas against Israeli and Palestinian activists was mistaken

Elad Tene is appointed as head of Prime Minister's Office division in charge of Israel's efforts to explain its policies to the world

Scion to an iconic Zionist family and former member of the Shin Bet, Yaakov Sharett, 95, has become an anti-Zionist who encourages people to leave Israel

The Gaza Strip remains Israel's major and urgent problem, as long as Hamas' most recent demand to receive the final third of the Qatari aid money has not been met

In city centers or in the middle of nowhere, more and more Israelis now join trailer-dweller communities, escaping the cruel real estate race and falling in love with nature

A team comprised of mainly Israelis who learned the game locally surprised even themselves by reaching the final against the Netherlands, in which they lost 9-4

Jenin residents were surprised by the quiet arrest, but fellow prisoner say the fugitives became overly confident and careless

Israeli medical experts say FDA advisory panel's recommendation on Pfizer's booster vaccine shots is an acknowledgement that conditions differ in the two countries

The administration is withholding some military aid from Cairo, but not everyone in Washington is impressed. 'Other dictators notice when America talks tough but doesn’t follow with action,' one senator says

Successive Israeli governments continue to pretend that if they just hammer Gaza harder, even by committing war crimes, they’ll get what they want. And this government is proving no exception

If hominids who emerged from Africa reached the area of today’s Israel, they trod the same gravel we are walking on today. A sweaty journey to the place where there is literally nothing new under the sun, just 100 kilometers north of Eilat

The new take, which seems likely to expand from the current 55 high schools, explores the comments of an Israeli military leader who sought to ‘cleanse the interior of the Galilee’ of Palestinians

The Keshet Media Group, known for producing major Israeli hits, is launching a VC firm and a website for high-tech news

The iconic singer came out of the closet in a new song called 'A love like ours,' written by girlfriend Tamar Yahalomi and songwriter Yonatan Kalimi

11 constructions across Israel demonstrate what happens when architects realize the fantasies of politicians, contractors and capitalists

Proselytizing anti-vaxxers, a vocal minority in Israel, make many spurious and damaging claims, but one fallacy about the pandemic and the COVID vaccine stands head and shoulders above the rest

Mosaics, Roman remains and a stunning reservoir make Israel's Zippori worth a visit

Although the unvaccinated constitute about 17 percent of Israelis who are eligible for vaccine, they account for around two thirds of serious COVID cases

While the FDA prefer to wait for more data, Israeli Health Ministry officials are convinced that the decision to inoculate children was the correct one

Chase for six Gilboa Prison escapees draws to a close, amid reports of clashes between Palestinians and Israeli security forces in Jenin

According to Health Ministry figures released on Friday, some 147,000 school children were in quarantine, 44,314 of whom were infected with COVID and the rest of whom had been exposed to infected people

In a statement, the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said the officer’s conduct as reflected in the video was unbecoming to an IDF officer: 'The incident is under investigation and conclusions will be drawn accordingly'

The Israeli PM's comments come in light of the FDA's decision to limit booster shoots for over 65s and at-risk groups ■ Israel recorded the highest number of serious COVID cases in September on Saturday

As Israel passes the 3 million mark amid its booster campaign, the recommendation may renew debate over providing the so-called green passport only to those who have received a booster shot

The veteran of Algeria's war for independence ruled the North African country for two decades before his resignation in April 2019 after street demonstrations rejected his plan to seek a fifth term

The New York Times report reveals how an elaborate Mossad operation harnessed the final days of the Trump administration to assassinate Fakhrizadeh using a remote-controlled machine gun

Armin Laschet, seeking to become Germany's next chancellor, wants 'entry and residence bans, expulsions and deportations – as far as possible'

Shmuel Peleg was questioned by Israeli police on kidnapping suspicions and placed under house arrest amid an ongoing investigation

The 22-year-old former nursing student killed one woman and wounded three others, including an 8-year-old girl and the rabbi, who lost a finger

As part of Pegasus Project, Belgian media outlets say military intelligence report reveals a journalist and his wife were targeted by Israel's NSO

The Pentagon had said the strike targeted an Islamic State suicide bomber who posed an imminent threat to U.S. troops at Kabul airport. A top U.S. army official says he now believed it unlikely that those killed were dangerous

It may be convenient for Bennett to blame the failures on Netanyahu, but in this case he’s mostly right ■ Israel should consider a different approach on Gaza captives and fallen soldiers

Inmates linked with Islamic Jihad were dispersed across Israel's jails after six prisoners escaped from Gilboa Prison in the north, four of whom were captured last week

Dr. Michal Prins, founder of the Center for Jewish Intimacy, urges Israel's Orthodox community to reexamine the boundaries of its sexuality and be receptive to a more open discourse. She’s also not afraid to discuss the prohibition on touching. Jus...

Foreign Minister Lapid says the 'club is open for new members,' while the signatories hope other countries will join 'this new era of cooperation and friendship'

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization was formed in 2001 for Russia, China and ex-Soviet states in Central Asia to function as a counterweight to Western influence in the region

A new unit in the Israeli army’s Northern Command seeks to address the shortcomings

'There is no doubt that this is a row of ancient trees which includes magnificent and impressive specimens,' Israel's forestry commissioner said

This comes after the panel of experts overwhelmingly rejected widespread COVID booster shots, complaining that data provided by Israeli researchers might not be suitable for predicting the U.S. experience

For Yom Kippur, the Egyptians surprised Israel once again, but this time for the better ■ Bennett and Sissi got along famously, not that the prime minister wanted to stay overnight ■ Lapid encroaches on Gantz’s turf