'Difficult decisions will have to be made' if numbers go up, top official says, while Israel announces no teachers will be allowed in schools without proof of COVID vaccination or negative test

Interior Minister Shaked refused to give Afghan women temporary asylum, saying she didn't want to 'break the dam' on refugees, according to Yediot Ahronoth

Leifer, whom Israel extradited to Australia in January, pleaded not guilty to all charges

After the biggest eruption in the Holocene, the people of San Andres in El Salvador began to build giant structures – and then they did it again

The decision paves the way for a quick rollout of COVID booster shots as soon as this week for millions of people who had their second dose of the vaccine at least six months ago

If, or when, Iran develops a nuke, Israel will have to balance reassuring the public, deterring the Iranians and securing American backing

Israel's final decision on whether to expand a pilot program exempting students who were exposed to COVID from quarantine will be made after a two-week trial

The child's Israeli grandfather was questioned by police last week on suspicion of kidnapping a minor from Italy and released with restrictions

Are their ends just? There is nothing more just. Are the means they adopt to achieve them criminal, cruel and shocking? Certainly so.

'You study just to get the certificate and to raise your salary,' says a former police commander

Israel spent $9.4 million to buy Regeneron's COVID drug, however those who would probably benefit from it are the unvaccinated

Many Israeli anti-vaxxers are former protesters against former prime minister Netanyahu who have merely replaced the anti-Bibi protest with the anti-vaccine protest

The law, which is still in force from the period of Jordanian rule in the West Bank, is no longer in effect in Jordan itself

France had recalled its ambassador when the U.S. and Britain signed a nuclear submarine deal that replaced a prior agreement by Australia to buy French subs

The Israeli military is investigating whether information had leaked from the drone

Groundbreaking discovery that humans in howling Ice Age cold as well supports the thesis that we bested the Neanderthals because we developed better adaptability

Israeli officials say Iron Dome aid dispute is merely a technical issue of how the money is transferred, as U.S. Democratic Party prepares alternative legislation to approve the funding

Tom Nides calls Israel one of the United States' 'closest security partners,' vows to uphold security aid and 'oppose all efforts to isolate and delegitimize Israel'

Withholding finance from life-saving Iron Dome is a stupid move if you actually care about Palestinian lives, but from a purely selfish Israeli perspective, it's actually a good development

Potentially first time non-African fighter found working with an Islamist armed group led by Ugandans, blamed for dozens of massacres, mostly in remote villages

Health Ministry director-general calls life-saving COVID drug 'national resource in short supply,' vows to avoid waste and to carefully determine eligibility criteria

Police believe the 22-year-old suspect, who was arrested on the Tel Aviv seafront, was not acting out of terrorist motives

Despite the outrage, none of the progressives who opposed the inclusion of the Iron Dome funding in the spending bill have vocally pushed against the emergency aid itself

An estimated 0.2% of Ukraine's population is Jewish, after its pre-war Jewish population of about 1.5 million was virtually wiped in the Nazi Holocaust

'How many more children will die before the world wakes up?' Jordan's King Abdullah asked in a speech to the UN General Assembly ■ Saudi King Salman said Iran shouldn't obtain nuclear weapons

The sukkah, built on public grounds, is latest in a series of moves designed to commemorate the pre-Inquisition presence of Jews in Mallorca

President Erdogan's political foes says the cleric's growing profile is at odds with Turkey's secular constitution, and shows the president is using religion to boost his ratings ahead of the 2023 election

The Human Rights Council statement, presented by Bahrain in an online conference, calls for the integration of women in international diplomacy

After looting 15 terabytes of information from Israeli company Voicenter, a group of foreign hackers offered the data online for $1.5 million. But evidence points to motives beyond just money

‘Ima, are you happy?’ Forat asked me. She wanted me to interpret the prisoners’ escape for her, but I didn’t know what to say

After the foreign ministers of Israel and Sweden spoke for the first time in seven years this week, diplomats in Stockholm tell Haaretz what’s prompted the relaunching of relations with the new government in Jerusalem

In city centers or in the middle of nowhere, more and more Israelis now join trailer-dweller communities. ‘Many people look at me and say, ‘You’ve cracked the system’’

The U.S. president's speech to the United Nations didn’t throw any surprises when it comes to Iran or the Palestinians, but Biden's stated hope to mend ties with the UN has Israel worried

The latest Ben & Jerry’s headache isn’t settlers switching to Häagen-Dazs but U.S. states divesting Unilever stock. The law that requires them to do that is absurd

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

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