The new instructions go against the advice of the FDA, which said manufacturers' instructions should still be followed and that any incorrect use of throat swabs could pose a safety risk

Israel's Health Ministry announces that people self-testing for COVID should swab their throat as well as their nose when using antigen test and wait at least three days since exposure before testing with rapid kits

As both parties attend a court hearing on a defamation suit filed against Olmert, Netanyahu's lawyer says 'In a different country Olmert would have been arrested'

Herzog, a well-known public figure and activist, was also the wife of Sixth Israeli president Chaim Herzog

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett hates COVID lockdowns, but mass quarantines and long testing lines as a result of the omicron variant's uncontrolled spread come at a cost too

Israel is trying to keep its economy open and avoid another lockdown for as long as possible. However, tens of thousands of new COVID infections may render basic services obsolete

The Police Commissioner allegedly wanted to dismiss the officer from his post because he suspected he leaked to the media information about his unwillingness to restrict access to the site of the disaster last April

"Once his employer failed to strictly comply with safety regulations ... he should not be allowed to point the finger of blame at the worker for failing to demand this,” Justice David Mintz wrote in the ruling

Project has created the single largest repository in the world of online materials related to Eastern European Jewish life

Antigen tests are selling like hot cakes, and prices are shooting up ■ Israel is approving the sale of at-home test kits across almost all places that sell food and beverages

Fire at 19-story apartment building in the Bronx leaves another 13 hospitalized in serious condition ■ Fire not thought to be suspicious, but cause under investigation

Judge scolds opposition leader, his wife and their son for last-minute request to skip hearing in defamation suit against former prime minister

Principals have been left trying to cope with Israel's demand that schools stay open despite some 40,000 students and teachers had tested positive for COVID and 78,000 were in quarantine

The frustration of the Israeli public grows amid ever-changing COVID regulations, a shift to the less-reliable antigen tests, and long lines at testing facilities across the country

Parliament now has 30 days to elect the country's new president, who will then ask the largest bloc in parliament to form a government

The White House says Iran's sanctions imposed on dozens of Americans over the 2020 killing of General Qassem Soleimani comes as proxy militias continue to attack U.S. troops in the Middle East

The Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem says he believes radical Israeli groups aim to drive the Christian community from the old city, which has sites sacred to Judaism, Christianity and Islam

Bennett says information presented to cabinet shows that up to 2-4 million Israelis will be infected with COVID during the current wave ■ Expert panel will meet Sunday to discuss expanding drive of fourth shot to additional groups

'We have been working on outreach to the Arab world, into the Arabic-speaking public here in Israel for over a decade, and we have slowly built up a rich set of resources,' said the head of the library's collections

Director Adam McKay has made a successful climate change movie without ever mentioning the phrase once, which is a neat trick. But there are better options out there

The Yesh Atid leader founded his party in January 2012 and, despite early skepticism from many in the media, is now counting down the days until he becomes Israel’s 14th prime minister in August 2023

The village of artist Efrat Hakimi’s mother’s family, in the High Atlas, no longer exists even on maps. With the opening of her new show she talks about migration, memory and her journey

An Israeli court is now debating whether TikTok’s decision to ban the professor for ‘violent, racist, sexist’ hate speech infringes on his freedom of expression

The group charged Israel's Mossad was behind the murder of Fadi al-Batsh, which a New York Times report alleged was part of a Mossad operation to take out Hamas scientists and engineers training abroad

The amendment to the Citizenship Law expired in July following a mutiny in the coalition. Israel's cabinet is set to table the bill once again, but there are no guarantees it will secure a majority in the Knesset this time around

From Orban to Le Pen, Europe’s nativist, anti-Muslim far right is affirming its grim alliance with Bosnia’s belligerent Serb nationalists, joining endorsements from Russia and China

Fear of getting on a plane was a problem for many people long before COVID. Pilot Alon Pereg has drawn on 40-plus years’ flight experience to help create an app that could assuage the concerns of aerophobes

Following calls by artists to boycott Australia’s most prestigious cultural event over Israeli funding, a Hollywood-based pro-Israel group is leading the response against BDS 'censorship' with a 120-strong open letter

'The guns have started to threaten all of us, even in our own homes,' says the mayor of the Bedouin village in northern Israel, where 3-year-old Ammar Hujayrat was killed by a stray bullet

Amnesty International’s Security Lab confirms the four Kazakhstan phones were actually infected with Israeli NSO’s Pegasus software, just weeks after Apple alerted the victims to a ‘state-sponsored’ hack

The state tells High Court of Justice that it fears automatic work permits for LGBTQ asylum seekers that would reduce the chances of those Palestinians finding a permanent solution outside of Israel

University of Haifa researchers studied over a dozen species of songbirds and were surprised to find female molting patterns are determined by coloring of the males

Very little early Christian art has survived the centuries in the Holy Land – but then an Israeli art historian looked at the apse of a ruined Byzantine church in Shivta, and saw Jesus’ face and short curly hair

As Hezbollah drones increasingly conduct tactical reconnaissance missions, the Israeli army's situation room dedicated to the aerial threat has also become efficient

The currency is at roughly half the value of a year ago, but Turkey’s president refuses to raise interest rates. His popularity is plummeting as prices rise; lucky for him, he can forestall an election by over a year

Why is Israel still appeasing the ultra-Orthodox radicals who seek to erase and exclude women?

The number of seriously ill COVID patients has tripled in 18 days ■ 14 percent of Israelis over 20 are unvaccinated, yet they account for 50 percent of serious cases

‘Targeting our kid’s play space is so disturbing': When violent settlers pick on Palestinian children in the West Bank village of Susya, backed by the Israeli army, it’s part of a larger strategy of intimidation and dispossession

Israel prepares to welcome vaccinated tourists back amid omicron outbreak, logs record 18,780 new COVID infections and a rise in severe cases

The army, rebel groups, political parties and representatives from protest movements in Sudan will be invited to the UN talks in a bid to get the transition to 'democracy and peace' back on track after the October coup

Transcripts obtained by Haaretz reveal that the deputy prison commissioner disobeyed an order to block cellphone service in Gilboa Prison, a move which assisted six Palestinian prisoners escape in September

The Education Ministry failed to implement necessary changes when the school system was faced with COVID-induced problems, report concludes

Parts that took less than a month to get into Gaza now take up to five months, leading to breakdowns, releasing sewage to the sea and reducing the quality of drinking water

The move, which awaits the results of a government-run research, would cut quarantine in half for COVID carriers, in line with CDC recommendations

In 2020, Princess and rights activist Basmah Bint Saud bin Abdulaziz Al Saud said via her social media channels that she had been held in the capital Riyadh for more than a year and was sick

UN mediation in the weeks after the coup succeeded in reinstating Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok, but his resignation last week sparked a wave of deadly protests

Ramy Shaath, the son of a prominent Palestinian politician, was deported after more than two years in pre-trial detention over allegations of having ties with the Muslim Brotherhood

The strikes hit a camp for displaced people, though Ethiopia denies targeting civilians in the 14-month conflict with rebellious Tigrayan forces

Whether COVID lingers or disappears for good, it looks like Zoom is here to stay, having upended how interior designers and architects work. Welcome to the world of virtual design

Ramy Shaath was arrested in July 2019 at his home in Cairo and accused of having links to the Muslim Brotherhood, which the Egyptian government designated as a terrorist organization in 2013

Levan Kogeashvili, 22, was killed in the city of Almaty amid ongoing anti-government protests

The FeelBeit project is trying to harness art to forge ties between Jerusalem's Jewish, Palestinian, secular and religious communities. Participants push each other's most sensitive buttons – but the experience is transformative

One of the three arrested includes the son of Zakaria Zubeidi, who escaped from Gilboa prison in September, as footage of the arrest caused dozens of gunmen to take to the streets

Two of the three, Travis McMichael and his father Gregory McMichael, are sentenced to life with no parole, while William “Roddie” Bryan could seek parole in 30 years

The world-famous star was known for taking on roles that were not permitted to Black actors before him, portraying nuanced characters during a time of profound changes in American race relations

The army continues to expel residents of this Jordan Valley village when it trains on their land

Billions have been wasted trying to rebuild Afghanistan, a failure akin to the Iraqi army’s 2014 defeat to ISIS. With countries from Turkey to China talking with the Taliban, it will be very hard for Biden’s sanctions to work

Forget about Black Friday: Global supply chain problems, EU regulations and the end of the pandemic boon spell major problems for Israel’s Riskified

Demonstrations that began as a response to a fuel price hike have swelled into a movement against the government and ex-leader Nursultan Nazarbayev

Researchers at Ben-Gurion University taught six goldfish to drive a motorized fish tank in just 10 days – creating a very unique driving school

Western diplomats have indicated that they hope to have a breakthrough by the end of January or early February, but sharp differences remain with the toughest issues still unresolved

Head of Poland’s ruling conservative party admits that country bought Israeli spyware, days after a report revealed three Polish government critics were hacked using NSO's spyware

150,000 Eritrean refugees live in Ethiopia and some have been violently targeted and cut off from aid for months at a time, as air strikes on the Tigray region continue

While Israel logged 16,830 new cases Friday, a government shift in testing policy could soon render COVID statistics less reliable

We asked an El Al executive to explain an incident in which Guardian reporter Bethan McKernan was forced to miss her flight to the Netherlands due an invasive security check because her boyfriend's name is Mohammed

PM Bennett has no regrets over Knesset quarrel ■ Electricity bill shocks opposition ■ Defense Minister Gantz gets special treatment

Masks, tests, travel bans: Your guide to Israel's ever-changing COVID regulations, and the strategy behind them

Though Israeli criticism of the army has spiked in recent weeks, it turns out all state institutions have lost public confidence since the COVID pandemic began

Bad Gaza weather or a Hamas drill gone wrong cannot explain the series of incidents over the past two weeks ■ 2021 saw further decline in suicide bombings worldwide

One in 10 Israelis is at risk of becoming addicted to painkillers. The Health Ministry set up a task force to consider regulation of opioids three years ago – but it has yet to take action. The Shomrim media nonprofit reveals the panel's protocols

Pierre Girgis, a dual Egyptian-U.S. citizen living in Manhattan, operated between 2014 and April 2019 to advance the Egyptian government's interests in the United States, indictment alleges

65-year-old man was trying to stop the truck from confiscating unregistered vehicles in his village in the Hebron area, witnesses say. Police accuse 'rioters' of hurling stone at them, and the man for 'sprinting toward' the truck

Attorney General Avichai Mendelblit is due to end his tenure at the end of the month, and Amit Aisman will fill the post until a permanent appointment is confirmed

A week after Sudan's prime minister resigned from office, thousands took to the streets in the capital of Khartoum and other cities to protest the October military coup and call for a civilian-led transition to democracy

Police say member of a Lod family in an ongoing dispute with another family was shot dead, hours after a 4-year-old was killed by a stray bullet in Israel's north

The Jordanian government seeks to restore public trust and defuse anger over successive failures to deliver on pledges of reducing corruption and fixing the economy

Army still most trusted institution among Jewish Israelis, but the level has slid from 90 percent last June to 78 percent in October

How a surprise call to then-Jewish Agency chief Isaac Herzog in 2020 led to the compass from the ship ‘that launched a nation’ finding its way home from a small village in Cornwall

U.S. democracy ultimately prevailed last year but America’s allies – and enemies – now know just how precarious it is, even if it is not yet on the verge of becoming an ‘anocracy’

Dr. Iris Yaish, head of transgender health at Tel Aviv's Ichilov Hospital, talks about the challenges Israeli trans people encounter, how the army treats them and the misconceptions Israelis have

The rock shelters of Bhimbetka in central India go back to the dawn of humanity, but what is the deal with ancient pictures of people astride horses and elephants?

'We must be absolutely clear about what is true and what is a lie,' says President Biden a year after unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud, fueled by his predecessor, ignited an attack on the U.S. Capitol

Travel between Israel and the U.S., U.K., Canada, along with a host of other countries, for both Israelis and foreigners, is permitted as of Friday

Palestinian President Abbas declares a day of mourning over the deadly accident between a truck and a van driving laborers

The demand – and price – of penthouses in most Israeli cities has risen sharply, particularly since the start of the coronavirus outbreak, as people seek space, privacy and prestige

With Deborah Lipstadt’s approval as antisemitism envoy still held up in Congress, there are signs of buyer’s remorse among some Jewish establishment figures after the role became politicized

With Israel's testing facilities overwhelmed due to omicron outbreak, the Health Ministry has decided to change the rules: Who can get a PCR test and how long will they have to go into quarantine?