This week at the Tel Aviv airport: A French-Israeli couple that was brought together by a dating app a day before the first COVID lockdown, and a father dealing with his son's choice to become ultra-Orthodox

'The Europeans want to return to their capitals for consultations ... We are ready to stay in Vienna for further talks,' an Iranian official

Police open fire at the vehicle, killing one of the suspects and lightly wounding the other

On COVID omicron variant, Bennett is coming across as panic-prone, Netanyahu-style ■ His wife's vacation was a big snafu, but the hysteria that gripped the Israeli television studios was over the top

Democratic Socialists of America's National Political Committee said it will reexamine its relationship with Rep. Jamaal Bowman due to his lack of support for the BDS movement, and as of now will not re-endorse him

Ultra-Orthodox rabbis are in crisis mode over a looming change in regulations over mobile phone numbers, frantically trying to constrict their followers in an off-grid ghetto. They’re fighting a losing battle

Cooler weather provides the perfect time to visit this area of the Jordan River, where you can observe the pelicans, the river and the neighboring kingdom

Rabbi Eliezer Berland, leader of the Haredi cult implicated in the killings, has been freed alongside his son-in-law. Berland, however, returned to prison to complete a sentence for robbing his followers

Judge Shaul Shohat, currently deputy president of the Tel Aviv District Court, will serve on the Supreme Court for six months. He is the first temporary appointment since 2007

The visit, which was postponed until after Nides completed his mandatory COVID quarantine, included a tour of the Holocaust History Museum and Children's Memorial

Speaking alongside Prime Minister Bennett with Vienna negotiations underway, the Mossad's David Barnea says will 'do whatever it takes' to stop Tehran from acquiring nuclear weapon

Israel's Interior Ministry makes it simpler to register children born to Israeli parents, allowing them into the country despite a temporary ban on entry by non-residents amid alarm over the omicron COVID variant

Why the murder of women in Israel's society heralds a positive process and which Palestinian leaders are true partners for peace? Historian Ronit Marzan explains

Shin Bet puts Religious Services Minister Matan Kahana under guard after discovering group issued 'din rodef' ruling sanctioning his murder. Sources tie the threats to kashrut, conversion reforms the minister is promoting

Saif al-Islam Gadhafi's candidacy was initially rejected on the basis of his conviction in absentia for war crimes committed during the 2011 fighting that ousted his father. His lawyer hails 'victory for justice'

Most removed accounts targeted Palestinians, Meta said, and were linked to Hamas during an 'internal investigation into suspected coordinated inauthentic behavior in the region'

The emergency order, which allows Shin Bet to monitor COVID patients and has been in effect for five days, expires midnight on Thursday. Health Minister Horowitz: 'We must protect privacy, even in an emergency'

Israel is warming twice as fast as the global average, says head of climate services

Water shortages rather than heavy water may be a key concern of Iranians right now, but that doesn’t mean Tehran will be looking for a deal with the world powers in the ongoing nuclear talks

Rights groups argued that early in the COVID pandemic Shin Bet tracking was ineffective and violated civil rights. The justices unanimously rule that the cabinet's decision wasn't disproportionately violating the right to privacy

There was still time for Iran to 'engage meaningfully' in negotiations with world powers in Vienna, Secretary Blinken said, after Israel's Bennett called for an immediate halt to the nuclear talks

The likes of Rupert Murdoch and Larry Ellison may hugely admire Netanyahu, but they weren’t about to bankroll an entire Israeli news channel for him, leaving the former prime minister with a local consolation prize

Just what make us different from all the other visitors taking selfies at the Yayoi Kusama exhibition at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art?

The U.S. news host's rhetoric on COVID vaccinations is 'disrespectful to victims' of the Nazi war criminal, as well as 'a sad symptom of moral and intellectual decline,' the Auschwitz Museum said

The COVID omicron genome includes about 50 mutations that did not exist in the original version of the virus, and 32 of them are in the spike protein that binds the virus to cells in the body

An Israeli professor who’s on sabbatical in Turkey finds herself in the midst of a tumultuous clash between students and police, and is deeply impressed by the nonviolent strategy of the university’s faculty

27-year-old from the Israeli Arab city of Taibeh is sentenced over photographs she gave to Hezbollah agent of an Iron Dome anti-missile system, a military base and a hospital

The solar-powered Sacoglossa sea slug is survival-oriented, at levels unmatched in the animal kingdom

Jewish presences in Malaysia can be traced back to 1835, however nowadays, the country is known as one of the most antisemitic places in the world

Meanwhile, Israel called to immediately halt talks in Vienna after the UN watchdog revealed that Tehran has begun enriching uranium with more advanced centrifuges

Once among the world's highest, Israeli Bedouins' birth rates have dropped to the national average in just two decades, shocking demographers

Two members of the same family accused of firing at Jewish residents during Jewish-Arab clashes in Lod earlier this year

Plans to unveil a new Agency head by the end of October have come and gone, with February now looming as the next deadline. But will Yair Lapid and Naftali Bennett have agreed on a state-sanctioned candidate by then?

Hours after the shooting in the Arab city of Umm al-Fahm, four houses and three cars in the city caught on fire in suspected arson. Police believe these events are related

Israeli NSO has secretly teamed up with a cyber firm exploiting big-tech vulnerabilities. 'Realmode Labs' has recently demonstrated a major breach capability into Amazon servers

Israel's R number drops to three-week low ■ No rise in serious cases after newly sequenced omicron variant of COVID-19 reaches Israel

If approved, Israel's new plan will allow women to terminate unwanted pregnancies without committee approval up to 12 weeks

Tel Aviv University’s TAU Ventures has raised a second fund of $50 million to invest in early-stage startups, after seeing the success of their first fund

In his first event celebrating the Jewish holiday since entering the White House, the 46th president expressed his commitment to fighting rising antisemitism, and welcomed Israel's new U.S. ambassador

With the appearance of the new COVID omicron variant, countries are taking on a harsher stance on vaccines. The pandemic is breathing down our necks, and leaders are fed up with hesitation, opposition and deliberation, and may push for mandatory vacc...

In a phone call that U.S. officials say focused on new Jewish construction in East Jerusalem – and not on nuclear negotiations – Israeli prime minister said the decision hasn't yet arrived to the political echelon

TransitTech company Via proudly announced $100 million in revenues from smart transit software, but declined to mention presumably low growth in other fields. The company closed a $130 million fundraising round on Tuesday

Gantz will head to Washington where he will meet with his American counterpart Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin as well as Secretary of State Antony Blinken

Plans for a permanent Reform shul in the commuter town of Shoham are pitting Orthodox Jews against one another, and may even be connected to the race for the job of Israel’s next Ashkenazi chief rabbi

Bipedal trail at Laetoli, Tanzania was thought to have been left by a bear. It was in fact made by an ancestral hominin who confused researchers by cross-stepping like a ballerina

The Israeli military rejected the findings, saying the 'mass riots' organized by Gaza's militant Hamas rulers were aimed at providing cover for cross-border attacks

The State Prosecutor's Office decided to close the case after receiving the report examining the testimonies as part of the June 2018 investigation into the alleged 'pimping' of female prison guards

The organizers of an anti-government demonstration, slated for Tuesday in Tel Aviv, will protest Bennett's coalition over its policies on kashrut supervision, conversion and Sabbath observance

Israeli judge rejects a plea bargain reached with the prosecution, claiming the man 'deserves no benefits' but rather a much stiffer sentence

A video taken from an open-top bus shows a group of men shouting and making obscene hand gestures and Nazi salutes at the Jewish people inside celebrating Hanukkah

The two accidently rode in their car to Manara Square in Ramallah and were stopped by Palestinians who began vandalizing the vehicle

The groups argue that precedent set early in the COVID pandemic shows Shin Bet tracking is ineffective and violates civil rights, after Israel authorized the emergency monitoring powers amid the omicron variant

Despite Bennett asking Israelis to avoid travel in light of new fears over the omicron COVID variant, the PM's family is setting off for a holiday abroad

Iran accuses Israel of 'trumpeting lies to poison' the Vienna nuke talks on reviving the 2015 nuclear deal

In recent weeks, senior Israeli officials have approached the countries engaged in the talks and asked that the negotiations be limited and subject to a deadline

Israel's Salman Zarka clarified it was his opinion, and that the Health Ministry and cabinet are not advancing mandatory COVID vaccination

Forat is ‘only’ familiar with Israeli soldiers’ weapons. The questions arising from our lives in North Carolina require precision I lack when it comes to security officers and guns ■ Post #40

Ambassador Thomas Nides postponed his original plans to visit the Holocaust museum after landing on Monday, due to the government's new COVID guidelines

The 32 films allegedly share a lesser-heard narrative around the world, but some Palestinians in the movie business note the absence of films like 'Jenin, Jenin' and say Palestinian-Israeli directors have been marginalized

A Swedish Jewish organization blasts the church’s decision, saying it cements its image as anti-Israel, while some of the church’s own bishops say it has a ‘one-sided fixation on Israel’

Rep. Jamaal Bowman of New York, a strong critic of the occupation, is being attacked by left-wing activists for participating in a J Street trip to Israel and other forms of engagement with liberal Zionist groups

How Netta Engelhardt of MIT and colleagues found a way to reconcile the basic theories of physics, Quantum physics and Einstein’s theory of relativity. You’re about to discover what ‘unitarity’ is

Israel needs to muster the courage to propose a bold and creative move, beyond a return to the Iran nuclear deal or a one-and-done strike likely to fail

The secret of Tel Aviv’s attraction once lay in its ability to transform nothing into a wonder that allows movement and life. Now it turns out to be a very costly nothing

Ron Huldai, Tel Aviv’s mayor for the past 20 years, calls on the state to take responsibility for lowering real estate prices

The central bank said it intervened 'via selling transactions due to unhealthy price formations in exchange rates,' amid unprecedented inflation in Turkey

The cross-examination of former Netanyahu adviser turned state's evidence Nir Hefetz began with new accusations that he was spat on by interrogators: 'They kept putting pressure on me to provide information'

Hiking housing prices, a soaring currency and costly goods are to blame, as Tel Aviv climbs five places to win the grim title, ahead of Paris, Singapore, and New York

A century ago Zionist leaders strove to keep ‘weak people’ from immigrating. 'It is one of the most controversial disputes in the history of the Zionist movement'

Sultan Hamidat was accused of throwing rocks at security forces 'in June 2019 or thereabouts,' even though he was in an Israeli prison until July 28

Police say that there is no connection between the activists' politics and the raids and searches of their home, while the tenants say they feel targeted

Last week, Li Hushi, 53, a foreign construction worker, was killed at an Electra construction site, but police have made no arrests

Tor Wennesland says parties must calm tensions, reduce violence across the Palestinian territories, avoid unilateral steps including new Israeli settlement building and solidify the May cease-fire

Replicating Netanyahu’s populist alarmism by claiming that the year is 1938 and Iran is Nazi Germany, won't help Israel convince its allies. Bennett should instead work quietly and discreetly with Biden on the Iranian issue

The U.S. drugmaker published data last week suggesting that the drug was significantly less effective than previously thought, but the medication is likely to become an important therapeutic tool

Cross-examination of former Netanyahu aide Nir Hefetz begins with him accusing investigators of 'totally disproportionate' treatment

Eduard Kachura is held over the suspected murder of 17-year-old Yael Melnik, who was once hospitalized at the institution he worked at

Neighborhood resistance committees called the protests, demanding full civilian authority, casting aside an agreement last week that reinstated civilian Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok

The plan was backed by several mayors of cities in which the marinas were planned to be built, but the National Planning and Building Council accepted the objections of several environmental groups

Government-backed benefit package meant to entice returning Israelis who have lived abroad between one and five years

Designer and activist Denis Weil's family has been donating to the museum for years. His father Ernst established the Swiss Friends of the Museum organization