PM says Israeli officials are not 'automatic naysayers' to the Vienna talks, but a positive outcome appears highly unlikely

Fully vaccinated people exposed to all COVID carriers, including Omicron, will be allowed out of isolation following a negative PCR test

South African data, not yet peer-reviewed, comes from 13 cases; researchers can't definitively say neutralization of Omicron not due to vaccination or previous infection

Veteran US diplomat will resume role he held during the Trump and Obama administrations

In radio interviews from quarantine, Bennett also says Israel will not automatically reject a nuclear deal reached with Iran in Vienna

Communications minister's reported initiative comes as government advances controversial bid to enable censorship of posts deemed 'incitement'

Mandelblit says in opinion to High Court that Oded Goldreich should receive award despite education minister's decision to deny him over alleged boycott support

Nachman Shai says he knows highlighting Israel's diverse coalition alone won't win over progressives, but insists that improved government social media presence is essential

Videos posted to social media show huge explosions and fires raging across the port, likely from secondary explosions of Iranian munitions, in second attack on facility this month

Reports say move comes with Omicron already spreading in Israel; officials also planning to shorten quarantine regulations amid fears hundreds of thousands will be confined

Child from southern town of Netivot rushed to hospital, but doctors unable to save her; circumstances of incident not clear

Scientist stirred controversy with 1975 book, 'Sociobiology: The New Synthesis,' that linked human behavior and genetics; critics equated theories with sexism, racism and Nazism

Decision driven by a surge in Omicron cases and growing evidence that people are most infectious in two days before and three days after symptoms develop

'I did this with a full, full heart,' says Prof. Jacob Lavee of Sheba hospital, which is conducting a landmark study to establish necessity of a fourth dose to combat the virus

Dating back as far as the 7th century, remains of Jewish house of worship in Side include a plaque with a menorah motif, inscription in Hebrew and Greek