The Crete tremor was felt in Israel, Egypt and all around the Mediterranean. No reports of casualties or damage to property thus far

Twenty-six years on, Netanyahu is still trying to convince the public that he, and not Yitzhak Rabin, was the real victim in November 1995, and he seems to think more and more are starting to believe it

On catwalks in Paris and flashy fashion magazines, an age-old handicraft is making a comeback. For the creators, it's a way of preserving Bedouin culture and female craft for future generations

Israel police are investigating whether the incident, in which 28-year-old Yogev Cohen fell on a car driving beneath him, is a work-related accident

Only a day after the violence epidemic in the Arab community claimed its 100th victim, a 25-year-old man was gunned down in northern Israel

The ministry has been aware of the problem for months but has failed to resolve it. 'We’re a weak population and we’re paying the price,' said one asylum seeker in Israel

Laser interceptions will be substantially cheaper than Iron Dome firings, as Israeli defense officials recognize that U.S. funding will only become more challenging to receive

Turkey summoned the ambassadors of 10 countries, including the U.S., Germany and France, over a statement calling for the urgent release of philanthropist Osman Kavala, who was jailed four years ago

U.S. health officials have been under pressure to authorize additional shots after the White House announced plans in August for a widespread booster campaign

Promises to fight violence in the Arab community have been heard from every possible platform, but Arabs' sense of personal security is at all-time low

'Three or four more Deir Yassins and not a single Arab would have remained in the country,’ Irgun commander Ben-Zion Cohen once remarked

Seven were killed last week in violent street clashes between Hezbollah and Amal groups over the Beirut blast investigator

'Lifting sanctions is an indication of seriousness of the other party,' Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said

Israel's health and education ministries will formulate a separate plan for cities with high COVID infection rates

The late Colin Powell has two legacies – one as an inspirational success story, and another as the secretary of state who publicly backed the disastrous invasion of Iraq

Israeli officials say the move is the result of recent pressure from Russian officials

Unvaccinated make up some three-quarters of serious cases, while number of Israelis who have received COVID booster shot reaches about 3.85 million

Former head of Walla's news desk testifies in the former PM's corruption trial, rejecting claim that pro-Netanyahu bias was the result of ideological views

When my daughter asked if I agreed with Indigenous People’s Day, I felt the burden of her trust – and recalled partial lessons in history taught years ago in America, and today in Israel ■ Post #37

How did real estate in East Jerusalem fall into the hands of the Virgin Islands' government, and who are the Israeli stars of the Pandora Papers leak? Also: inside the Trump administration's fancy Jerusalem reunion

New study shows that calorie restriction on its own achieves nothing, but fasting for most of the day, every day, has geroprotective effects

Fascism only took power in a few countries, but in interwar Europe every country had fascist movements, denouncing liberal democracies and attacking communists and Jews. Understanding their allure is just as relevant today

At the official ceremony marking 26th of Rabin's assassination, Bennett says an entire Israeli generation has PTSD ■ Netanyahu says assassination has been used to attack him

Despite evidence from public appearances that Erdogan's health is ailing, he is currently irreplaceable as his country's master statesman

Newly announced program will fast-track training and employment opportunities for Jewish medical professionals who are considering making aliyah, in a bid to stem severe staff shortages

Azi Schwartz, of Manhattan’s famous Conservative synagogue, has undergone a spiritual transition to an American-style Judaism. He talks about his journey, his Broadway-inflected music and the rift splitting U.S. Jews and Israel

Top four diplomats will discuss future economic cooperation ■ Indian FM, visiting Israel, discusses free trade zone, COVID and solar energy

Muslim forces also used swords similar to the now totally encrusted find, but the Ayyubids and Mamluks didn't arrive by sea, an archaeologist notes

Two communities located next to Gaza, Kibbutz Alumim and neighboring Nahal Oz, represent polar opposites when it comes to politics. But now, Naftali Bennett’s ‘government of change’ has finally brought them together

Yesh Atid chairman Yair Lapid requested a delay in procedures to allow his party to present another candidate, after Elazar Stern pulled out amid a storm over his comments on shredding anonymous complaints

Despite the setback from the hack, medical personnel say that the transition to handwritten notes has been 'swift and successful,' as the scenario of a cyberattack on the Israeli hospital had been simulated in the past

The list of historical documents reveals suspicions that Haganah soldiers committed murder, torture, theft and looting during the War of Independence

A 44-year-old man was shot dead in northern Israel on Monday, a day after Prime Minister Bennett said 'we are losing the country' amid the wave of violence

As further wrangling over the nuclear deal will take place this week in Brussels, Iran is continuing to enrich uranium, some of it to relatively high levels

The ex-Israeli prime minister will be the first opposition leader to skip the commemoration at Mt. Herzl cemetery, but will speak at a special Knesset session marking the anniversary

The bill would require all public agencies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, set up monitoring and reporting systems, and prepare for climate emergencies in Israel

Israel's cabinet also discussed a new amendment that will give police the right to conduct a warrantless search upon reasonable suspicion

Doctors delayed their resignation by one day, as they awaited a new Health Ministry response. The resignations could ultimately affect around 30 departments in hospitals around Israel

Assisted by the UN Special Envoy, the Syrian Constitutional Committee, which also include civil society groups, agrees to start drafting constitutional reform after weeklong talks

Amid efforts by Health Minister Horowitz to provide health insurance to adult asylum seekers who are not subject to deportation, Shaked said that such steps that would encourage them to settle down in Israel

Despite signs of change afoot at the Jerusalem holy site, Omer Bar-Lev said that he would keep regulations at the Temple Mount as they were set by Israel since 1967 at a post-holiday wrap up with top officials

Israeli police launch a criminal investigation into the attacks, which most hospitals managed to ward off. Hillel Yaffe Medical Center, however, struggled for several days with the impact of hacking

The court accepted the request made by Israel's Defense Minister Benny Gantz to postpone the eviction from the West Bank farmland by a year, but stated that no further extensions would be granted

Heads of state from several European countries and a world-famous Israeli historian were the stars of the show at last week’s International Forum on Holocaust Remembrance and Combating Antisemitism in Malmö

A lawmaker from the left-wing Meretz party said while the accusations against Peres will 'damage his memory', the deceased president should not become a pariah: 'it’s impossible to forget all the good he did for Israel'

Allium judaeum joins 14 other species from the genus Allium native to Israel; the areas it grows in are considered at risk because of human activity like construction

Zebulon Simentov, known for being the final Jew in Kabul prior to recent Taliban takeover, is heading to Israel after agreeing to grant his estranged wife a divorce in a Zoom call

Modi's Hindu nationalists have turned Gandhi's killer into a hero of India, feeding vigilante violence against Muslims, redefining 'patriotism' as blind obedience and tarring anti-Modi dissent as terrorism

The new program is based on home testing as Israel's number of daily COVID cases extends its fall

It's up to Palestinian women to fight their society's overblown emphasis on the values and symbols of male heroism, which are dooming the battle against Israeli occupation to a tragic dead end

Somebody was strolling on a beach in Crete 6 million years ago: Earliest ancestor of humans or just another ape?

IDF officer, soldier were sprayed with tear gas last week after investigating an arson of Palestinian produce

The whitest show with the blackest heart is back on our screens, and the rambunctious Roy family is as brilliant as ever

In one incident, deputy battalion commander Moshe Maor was caught on video pushing a left-wing activist, and in the other he was filmed pushing a Palestinian in the southern Hebron Hills

The killing of MP Sir David Amess, who was an honorary secretary of the Conservative Friends of Israel, is the second such murder in five years. Protecting elected lawmakers is becoming more urgent – and difficult

Axel Springer's CEO makes clear that tenets such as support for Israel's right to exist 'apply to every employee of our company,' even if they won't have to pledge this in writing

For the children of Tuba, a Palestinian village in South Hebron Hills, attending school means walking more than ten kilometers with an armed IDF escort, to bypass an illegal settlement whose residents regularly threaten and attack them. I was one of ...

Israel's daily COVID cases hit three-month low ■ COVID Green Pass goes into effect Sunday

When it isn’t the settlers who try to directly disrupt Palestinians' olive picking, it’s the Israeli army that prevents it from taking place

'The test showed that China had made astounding progress on hypersonic weapons and was far more advanced than US officials realized,' the Financial Times reported

The suspects are members of the Hasidic sect led by Rabbi Eliezer Berland, who in the past did prison time for sexual offenses

WhatsApp exchanges reveal difficulties faced by Israeli government legal advisers as they tried to draft rules for crowd sizes at the religious festival, ultimately giving up

Israel's high-tech industry has long been a professional destination for immigrants, but now even immigrants who lack tech experience have found opportunities

Eldad Peri had racked up a personal debt of about 342 million shekels ($106 million), in addition to some 500 million owed by his company, TheMarker reported in June

Heard of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts, or the Battle of Cable Street? A new TV drama sheds light on the less well-known rise of a postwar, violently antisemitic far right, the authorities' failure to confront it, and how Jews fought back

Just one out of the 21 new seriously ill patients in Israel was fully vaccinated against COVID

Channel 12 reported the new testimony on Saturday, a week after former lawmaker Colette Avital made similar claims about the late president and prime minister to Haaretz

Just as it seemed Lebanon was marching towards a better political and economic future, simmering tensions surrounding the probe into the Beirut blast exploded

Since a coup attempt in September, the Sudanese military has demanded cabinet reforms in what civilian groups call 'a power grab'

Midhat Saleh, who serves on the Golan Heights portfolio for the Assad government, was reportedly killed by gunfire in a Syrian town near the border

The shelling of the town of Sarmada comes amid increasing tensions in the last rebel stronghold in the Syrian northwest, where a truce reached in March last year has been repeatedly violated in recent weeks

Two people treated for smoke inhalation as efforts continue to contain the fire

The armed clashes erupted at a boundary between Christian and Shi'ite neighborhoods, during a protest called by Hezbollah against the judge investigating last year's Beirut port blast

Some Arab teachers in Israel juggle the Zionist and Palestinian versions of history. Others just outright rebel

Lotte Cohn and other prominent architects designed buildings that have become an integral part of the Israeli landscape. But unlike their male colleagues, they remain unknown to the public and are ignored in academia

Life in the Pamir Manountains in Tajikistan regressed by decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union. A trip to one of the world's most isolated regions

The FDA's Advisory Committee backs the shots for all J&J recipients aged 18 and older at least two months after their first dose

In a separate incident, a 17-year-old settler herding sheep was attacked by Palestinians and taken to the hospital in moderate condition

The law was passed amid a wave of efforts in Republican-led statehouses to prevent 'critical race theory,' 'divisive' topics and concepts related to race and bias from being taught to children

Critics says that the purchase of Newcastle United by the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund is nothing more than an attempt to distract from the Kingdom's abysmal human rights record.

The Conservative lawmaker from Boris Johnson's party was stabbed while meeting with constituents in a church

Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack on the worshipers from the minority sect, the second week in a row

'The bigger the march the more awareness we can raise, and change will follow,' said one of the protesters

Iran must show by actions its willingness to resume Vienna talks with world powers over its nuclear program, said a spokesperson for the French Foreign Affairs Ministry

The UN summit in Scotland is intended to motivate countries worldwide to act and halt the most severe effects of climate change, though, unlike dozens of countries, Israel has not yet declared a climate emergency

Up to 1,000 Israeli soldiers, after taking a special course, will be permitted to vaccinate consenting civilians