As COVID infection rate hits six-month high, Israeli cabinet reduces list of high-infection 'red' countries from 70 to 15, approves new plan for schools

India’s tiny Christian minority now joins Muslims as targets of the majoritarian mob, baying for a theocratic Hindu state with Modi as high priest. Only the burial rites of the Constitution, promising equality to all citizens, have yet to be conduc...

Who walked upright in Crete 6 million years ago? What on earth was that hominin in Tanzania doing 3.6 million years ago, a coupé jeté? And who are we, really – the epitome of evolution or hybrids?

Without opening the mummy, researchers were able to have a look inside the perfectly-preserved shroud of Amenhotep I, who ruled Egypt about 3,500 years ago

As majority leader, Reid served as President Barack Obama's point man in the Senate and helped secure congressional passage of Obamacare

As of Thursday, the list of 'red' countries with high coronavirus infections rates will shrink from 70 to 15, with Mexico to be added to it. Meanwhile, Israel mulls amending quarantine rules

His Emmy-winning documentary 'The Number on Great-Grandpa’s Arm,' explains his story of survival through the death camps and the compassion he brought with him to America

Despite promises, no solution reached on closing the Central Bus Station

As omicron keeps rapidly spreading, Health Ministry officials are deliberating the administration of a fourth COVID vaccine dose, as data increasingly shows waning immunity around four months after first booster

In a first working meeting for Abbas in Israel since 2010, he asked Israel to act against settler violence, source said. The two leaders discussed the economic relations, security coordination

John T. Earnest, who killed a woman and injured three other people at the Chabad of Poway synagogue, will run his federal life sentence after his state one

Justice Minister Gideon Sa'ar's bill, given a preliminary nod by the cabinet, has experts alarmed over what they say is legislation that could easily be used to stifle dissent

In his testimony, Nir Hefetz, who served as the former PM's family spokesman, said Yedioth Ahronoth's publisher was warned that a competitor would destroy the paper if Netanyahu coverage didn't soften

Israel Bar Association seeking new contenders after members of the vetting panel objected to its choices

Officials say the latest strike caused greater damage than a similar one earlier this month. A Syrian war monitor says Israel struck targets in Syria 29 times in 2021

Rafat Othman Abbas is the 123th fatal victim of gun violence and crime in Israel's Arab community this year

Well, just two so far. The eruption on the island of Thera in the Bronze Age lasted weeks and produced not one massive tsunami but four – which spread all the way to Anatolia, a Turkish-Israeli study finds

Justice Minister Sa'ar opposes demolishing the Homesh yeshiva, arguing that a 'wider perspective' on its legal status must take into account Yehuda Dimentman's death in a shooting attack

Biden's rejection of a provision requiring the sharing of intel on Iran's military capabilities comes days after the U.S. Navy seized Iranian weapons bound for Yemen

Although the military is preparing its target bank and advanced weaponry, it would still be difficult to determine the consequences of a strike on Iran, the IDF tells government

The prime minister calls on unvaccinated Israelis to 'stay home as much as possible,' saying the current COVID policy won't stop a wave of omicron infections, but rather focus on preventing a spike in serious cases and keeping the economy open

Experts say Naftali Bennett's government is sending confusing signals to the public on the Omicron variant, as stark warnings aren't accompanied by new restrictions

Climate change is slamming Iran especially hard, but to do anything about it, Tehran needs the sanctions to cease

When most of the IDF's talk with the media is about food, it means that Israel's security is stable — but it raises other red flags as well

The Russian envoy to the negotiations in Vienna says that world powers are discussing lifting sanctions on Tehran ■ Iran's FM also reports progress, says deal can be reached with 'good faith' from all parties

Israel Police are investigating the incident, which follows a wave of similar assassination attempts in the Arab community

Producers Osnat Handelsman-Keren and Talia Kleinhendler recall the encounter that led to the film adaptation of Elena Ferrante’s ‘The Lost Daughter’

An Israeli judge recently suggested to defense officials that they meet with Mordechai Vanunu, but the former spy's lawyer is being banned from the meeting, for security reasons. Once again, the High Court is acting as a rubber stamp for the defense ...

The year about to end saw the creation of a new government, a war with Hamas in Gaza, a world-first booster vaccination campaign, and much more. Listen to Haaretz Weekly's end of year special

He beat Trump in 2020, but in 2021, Joe Biden took on an equally important task: restoring the foundations of American democracy. Can he finish the job, despite multiple crises abroad and a falling approval rating at home?

As world powers resume nuclear talks in Vienna, Israel warns that Iran will cross a significant nuclear threshold by the end of January if no deal is reached

Israel's prime minister also decides that vaccinated people who are exposed to COVID carriers must isolate until they obtain a negative test, and will be forbidden from meeting vulnerable people for 10 days

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention added that asymptomatic people should wear a mask for five days when around others after finishing isolation, as omicron becomes the dominant variant in the U.S.

'Iran is negotiating with a very weak hand. But unfortunately the world is acting like Iran is at a strong point,' Bennett told Israel's Army Radio

Only a few people in the Israeli health care system seem to be aware of the existence and importance of a crucial decision made by the US Department of Education

Necropolis excavation in the Sambian Peninsula, Russia reveal not graves of the simple folk described by Tacitus, but sophisticated people – who played Roman games

The English derived half their DNA from French migrants who descended from early Turkish farmers. Not so the Scots

Putin has once again established the fact that invading his neighbors is his prerogative. China and Iran's leaders have learned this lesson well. In 2021, they all showed us what a world without American-set rules looks like

Before the change was introduced, children who passed the screening test administered in second grade were automatically allowed to continue in gifted programs into junior high and high school

A news report showed officers descending from a helicopter as the police commissioner looked on – omitting the fact that police had already found nothing in a raid hours earlier

According to reports in Syria, Israeli fighter jets attacked the container complex at the port with missiles, in the second attack on the vital facility this month

The bill, submitted by a member of Likud, is seen as a way of hindering Nir Barkat, who is planning on running against Netanyahu during the party's internal elections

Jerusalem's neighborhoods have a long and somber history with many stories to tell. Here are three that show what it means to lose a home

A parliamentary committee on the elections said that if problems were not addressed then it would be impossible to hold an election on January 24

Mendelblit tells High Court that education minister's decision not to award Israel Prize to professor over his views is unfounded

The former Knesset had granted Haim Katz immunity, but that expired upon its dissolution

'It is true that defending the nation requires cooperation between the army, the people and the resistance, but the main responsibility is the state's,' President Aoun says in a televised speech

The Israeli police have shown no desire to tackle even the most serious crimes in the ultra-Orthodox community, where sexual abuse is taboo

As the omicron variant rapidly spreads through Israel, health officials warn of an impending rise in severe cases

The prime minister, who was in quarantine after his daughter tested positive for coronavirus, was forced to show up in person after the required 40 lawmakers signed a demand for his appearance

Opposition leader Netanyahu, who made a habit of bashing opponents for any political activity in English, released a series of videos calling the current government 'a threat to democracy'

Rights groups accuse Iran’s security agencies of using foreign detainees as bargaining chips for money or influence in negotiations with the West

Over 5,000 migratory cranes die of virus, authorities warn of egg shortage as hundreds of thousands of infected hens are killed

Joe Biden’s first year in the White House saw a war between Israel and Hamas, a political fight over Iron Dome funding, and a dispute about America's consulate in Jerusalem. A look back at the year's top stories

A team of Israeli, Moroccan and French researchers on a rescue excavation at a ruined synagogue in Morocco found amulets, the last remnants of a bygone community. The project will soon be expanded to the entire region, under royal sponsorship

From Berlin 1936 to Beijing 2022: History, the Holocaust and humanity requires a refusal to send diplomats to the Games, in solidarity with the Uyghurs against an oppressive China. But will Israel remain indifferent?

'Santa isn't coming to Lebanon': The country’s most dire economic crisis has hit hotels hard this holiday season while families are forced to buy second-hand tombstones

Stirring controversy two weeks ago, Minister Omer Bar-Lev told a U.S. envoy that Israel is working to put an end to settler violence

With acclaimed movie 'Dune' being filmed in the deserts of Abu Dhabi, and supermodel Naomi Campbell hosting a Saudi film festival, Arab states – and especially the Gulf – are heading toward a cultural change that regimes aren’t so opposed to

Nir Hefetz, a key witness in Netanyahu's trial, tells court that despite visiting the prime minister’s official residence 'hundreds of times,' he 'had no knowledge of the cigars' from businessman Arnon Milchan

For three years Hadas Hakimi has been informing parents about abusive preschool and day care staff around the country. 'Out of every 10 day cares tested, eight come back improper'

Manual laborers working in Israel earn more than someone with a graduate degree in chemistry in the occupied territories. A reform to improve Palestinian workers’ lot has failed

According to a Haaretz investigation in November, Chaim Walder allegedly sexually exploited women, girls and boys for years

The Byzantines and the Crusaders both did well this year, but let’s not forget that plan to make the Apocalypse a great day out

The Sheba Medical Center administers the fourth coronavirus vaccine doses to 150 subjects – all medical staff – after an expert panel recommended that Israel become the first country to offer the second booster

Health Ministry says decision on vaccine boosters is based on a 'steep rise' in infections, as the omicron variant spreads

CRISPR-based cures will soon help combat all kinds of disease, from UTIs to leukemia. But terrifying implications of gene editing are abound as well

Iran has steadily abandoned all of the 2015 nuclear deal's limits since the American withdrawal and is now enriching uranium to 60 percent purity

Two psychiatric opinions say solitary confinement could worsen the prisoner's schizophrenia

Several complaints of serious violent behavior towards East Jerusalem Palestinians were lodged at the Justice Ministry. Only one indictment was filed against a single policeman

Veteran Likud lawmakers are pushing a bill to take money out of party politics, so long as Benjamin Netanyahu stays in charge

In clinical trials, Pfizer’s oral medicine Paxlovid for COVID due in Israel this week was almost 90 percent effective at preventing hospitalizations, serious illness and death among high-risk patients

Litzman, suspected of attempting to block the extradition to Australia of alleged sex abuser Malka Leifer, denies that his decision was related to the ongoing criminal case against him

Therapists, rabbinical court judges, rabbis and professionals described alleged cases of forced sexual relations and sexual harassment of women, girls and boys who had come to Walder for treatment

Iran bans entry of travelers from the U.K., France, Denmark and Norway and extends entry ban from South Africa and seven neighboring countries

Eliran Malul was convicted of the murder, with aggravating circumstance, in October. The judges found that Malul murdered his wife with particular cruelty, stabbing her numerous times in front of their daughter

While travel restrictions paralyze the airport, and gathering restrictions are enforced in malls, Israelis are partying at weddings and bar mitzvahs despite high risk of infection

Paxlovid, the first at-home treatment for the coronavirus, is expected to arrive in Israel in the next few days

Israel will construct thousands of new housing units, develop transportation infrastructure, upgrade the area's medical and education system and promote thousands of new jobs, according to the plan

Many an excavation in Israel and the world resumed in 2021 after the serial coronavirus lockdowns of the year before. Here are some of my favorite archaeology stories of the year.

'When Israel becomes a ‘red’ country, with thousands of local infections with omicron, there is no reason to fear a person leaving another ‘red’ country,' Prof. Ran Balicer said

The Western Wall is a holy site for all Jews everywhere. It should reflect the true diversity of Jewish practice around the world. But by suspending, again, an egalitarian prayer space at the Kotel, the Bennett government is bowing to Israel’s most...

Gadi Yevarkan, member of Netanyahu's Likud party, was ejected from the Knesset meeting after he said Bennett's COVID restrictions are 'like Austria…but without concentration camps'

25-year-old LGBTQ and women's rights defender, who hails from an influential family in Jordan, was arrested by Lebanese authorities before a flight to Australia, Amnesty International says. Amman denies the arrest

The amoral Roy family rose to even greater heights in 2021, while there was bad news for ‘Hummussolini’ in Israel. A look back at the year in television, and a look ahead to 2022

Bennett tests negative for COVID for the second time on Sunday. Despite the negative result, the prime minister will remain in isolation

Israel Police suspect the explosion in the mixed-city of Ramle was an assassination ■ The murder marks the 123rd crime-related death in the Arab community in 2021