Two Israelis who returned to Israel from abroad were found to be carrying a combination of omicron and the infectious BA.2 variant of coronavirus, which has not been sequenced elsewhere in the world

Russia invades Ukraine: In third week of fighting, none of Putin's key objectives have been reached, despite thousands of people killed and more than two million made refugees

Including some kosher kitchens and reasonable prices, the move marks the first time a major international cruise line has chosen Israel as a base of operations

In 1948, a temporary border separated Arab families from their land in Israel’s Triangle region. Several months later, the border was erased. But in 2017, in a stunning upset of norms, Israel justified seizing the lands under the Absentee Property ...

The West Bank outpost has prevented local Palestinians from accessing their lands

The neighbors are at odds over several issues, primarily the 1.5 million people Armenia says were killed in 1915 in a genocide by the Ottoman Empire, the predecessor to modern Turkey

'The prime minister has not made a move without talking to the White House,' U.S. Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides says

Israel Prize selection committee for music highlights Medina’s long struggle for the legitimacy of Mizrahi music in Israel

The outgoing CENTCOM chief says the move can help Israel boost its ties with regional partners, as well as help counteract the 'over 3,000 ballistic missiles of various types, some of which can reach Tel Aviv' in Iran's hands

Palestinian diplomats hurried to Europe in a last-ditch bid to torpedo a Hungarian proposal to condition aid

Israeli government websites were targeted in what was called a ‘wide-scale’ attack, perhaps the biggest in Israel’s history. A day after, this is what we know – and what we don’t

The cabinet decided to approve the group's immigration to Israel in November, before a petition challenging their Jewish roots halted the process in its tracks

With MBS declaring Israel is 'not an enemy' but a 'potential ally,' and Biden’s upcoming trip to Riyadh, the war in Ukraine is triggering the belated return of sober thinking about relations between Saudi Arabia, Israel and the U.S.

COVID in Israel: Despite spread of coronavirus variant, experts say mass reinfection unlikely after 'omicron infected half the country'

A rabbi’s arrest, reports of irregularities in the approval process, and demands for transparency: The granting of citizenship to the Russian oligarch and Putin's ally has attracted public attention to the Portuguese passports industry

Defense Minister Gantz's representative on the board of JNF-owned Himnuta, suggests purchasing the islands as a haven for Jews, with JNF money. The proposal is met with sweeping opposition

Rabbi Litvak was accused of helping the Russian-Israeli oligarch fraudulently secure Portuguese citizenship last year, in a case that resurfaced after Ukraine-related sanctions targeted Abramovich

European powers have warned that Russia's demands to have its trade guaranteed with Iran could wreck an attempt to restore the Iranian nuclear deal

Israel's attempts to mediate between Russia and Ukraine could come with a heavy price, warns Eran Etzion, a former senior Israeli diplomat. Also on this episode: Meet the Israelis who joined the Ukrainian army to fight Putin

With Republicans consolidated in opposition to Biden’s diplomacy and some Democrats also criticizing a potential new deal, pressure on the president is rising

The Knesset speaker pledged that at least half of the parliament's 120 members be present for the address, but no final date has been set yet

Speaking for the first time since Russia invaded Ukraine, the two foreign ministers discuss sanctions, mediation, aid and refugees

Abdel-Latif el-Sayed, commander of the so-called Security Belt force in the southern Abyan province, survived the explosion

Moscow hoped that Ukraine's third-largest city, with its large Russian-speaking population, would rise up against Kyiv. So far, the usual pro-Kremlin voices have gone silent, while air raid sirens go off every night

Russia's top propagandists, many of whom have disseminated vicious antisemitism for decades, are now eagerly commandeering Jewish identity and the Holocaust as the next step in the grotesque "Nazi Ukraine" slur

March has seen unprecedented cold weather, though low temperatures are expected to rise slowly throughout the week

Hurry! The blooming of almond trees in Israel has just reached its peak

Why do Jews dress up for Purim? ■ Why do Jews eat hamantaschen on Purim ■ Was Jesus the real villain in the Purim story? ■ And also: 15 hamantaschen recipes

Poppyseed for the mainstream, chocolate for the addicted, vanilla cream for those who like it gooey, and Lotus spread for the innovative – four variations of traditional Purim treats

The Purim custom seems to have arisen in 13th century Italy, as festivities and masquerading escalated toward Shrove Tuesday

Russia invades Ukraine: After 20 days of fighting, none of Putin's key objectives have been reached, despite thousands of people killed and more than two million made refugees

A 16-year-old was shot dead in the Balata refugee camp during an Israeli raid, and another Palestinian was killed near Jerusalem

According to police, the incident occurred during a Shin Bet arrest of two suspects. There were no police casualties reported

Six Israeli drones struck a base in western Iran, reports say, in what may have been the motive for Tehran's Saturday night missile strike on Irbil

The ruling overturned the acquittal of a Border Police officer who was indicted for fraud and breach of trust despite the warrant against him seeking to prove bribery, a more serious crime

The Israeli Holocaust memorial had turned down a request by Ukraine to hold an event at the site in which Zelenskyy would speak, but sources at Yad Vashem say that the discussions are still ongoing

Amnesty International's executive director claimed U.S. Jews don't want Israel to be a Jewish state, just one month after the release of AI's report accusing Israel of being an 'apartheid state'

Iran has also reportedly made several arrests in a plot by an Israeli-recruited ring to sabotage the country's Fordow nuclear site

During cabinet meeting, Aliyah and Integration Minister Pnina Tamano-Shata demands the urgent rescue of eligible Ethiopian immigrants, who have themselves been in a war zone for over a year

A defense establishment source claims that this is the largest-ever cyberattack carried out against Israel

A Ukrainian woman who fled shelling in Kyiv cannot be deported until a final decision is made on her request to stay, judge rules

Schwarzbaum was the only one of his family to survive the concentration camps at Auschwitz and appeared on German television and schools to speak about the Holocaust's unbearable sufferings

Abramovich, who denies having close ties to Putin, is on the U.K. and EU's sanctions list meant to isolate the Russian president for his invasion of Ukraine

Israel and the UAE pressure the U.S. to bolster their aerial defense systems and to boost intelligence cooperation should the Iran nuclear talks be successful, Bloomberg reports

In a letter co-signed by 27 organizations, the Jewish community tells the Biden administration they know all too well what happens when 'America shuts its doors'

The newspaper claims that sources in the police stand by their claims and that a Justice Ministry team investigating the allegations of the force's misuse of NSO's Pegasus spyware has not been thoroughly examined

Russian disinformation about the invasion of Ukraine has been met with fierce opposition on Wikipedia; now, a top editor has been arrested for 'distributing fake anti-Russian information'

Tehran is backing Putin, happy with the upset to the U.S.-led international order, but many Iranians – even former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad – are impressed by Ukraine’s resistance

Though the digital boycott of Russia is much more widespread outside of Israel, more and more Israeli tech firms are halting operations over Ukraine

Russia's president has only bad options left, which makes him even more dangerous. Biden should offer him a way out of his own Ukraine mess, but only at the right moment, which hasn't yet arrived

Israel's current R number is the highest recorded since January 26, although it is far from the recent peak of 2.12 on December 30

When the two presidents met in Ankara last week, there were handshakes, flag-bearing horses, even a slick if revisionist film on Turkish-Jewish history. But how long will Erdogan’s U-turn towards Israel last, and how far can it go?

Lebanese Iron Maidens: They curse, sing about sexuality and social injustice and argue with relatives who want them to wear pink instead of “the devil’s color.” This is the story of 'Slave to Sirens,' which responds to gender and cultural stere...

There is no need to bring the Russian president to a psychologist’s couch in order to realize that he is in distress, while Israeli neutrality is being served with a twisted irony by Russia

Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked's hardline demands on refugee absorption from Ukraine were technically illegal – not to mention immoral

Dozens of oligarchs have already been sanctioned as part of European efforts against the Russian invasion of Ukraine

The West could have averted this war, but now, Putin has responded to the worst demons of his nature and unleashed indiscriminate destruction. We can’t know what level of risk he will take to achieve his goal

Such a string of cold days in March has not been measured in Israel since 1910 and 1894

Lapid also condemned Russia's 'unjustified' invasion of Ukraine on a visit to Romania on Sunday

Mariupol said the besieged Ukrainian port city was running out of food and water as Russian forces continued to shell non-military targets

Iraq was warned about being used against Iran, Tehran says after missile assault

Ukrainian leaders are eager to claim her as a native daughter, with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy saying the first female Israeli prime minister was 'a great woman who I admire'

Russia invades Ukraine: As the war enters its third week, none of Putin's key objectives have been reached, despite thousands of people killed and more than two million made refugee

Lines for basic goods in Kherson are lengthening, and in Melitopol residents are protesting the Russian kidnapping of the mayor. 'The occupiers thought they’d be greeted with flowers, but it didn’t happen'

Drawn up by the Department for Socioeconomic Development of the Bedouin Society, the plan's investments range from employment and infrastructure to education and youth programs

Jerusalem city hall removes images of both flags after harsh criticism

Throughout the tenure of five prime ministers, Israel's top court hasn't managed to reach a ruling on a cluster of Palestinian villages in the arid South Hebron Hills to make way for IDF training grounds

Tehran has adopted a policy of responding to any attack against it attributed to Israel, such as the one last week in Syria. Meanwhile, Israel fears new demands would see Iran getting more out of Vienna nuclear talks

Washington is signaling to Israel that joining the economic pressure on Putin's regime, including the oligarchs closest to him, is more important than mediating between Russia and Ukraine

As millions of Ukrainians flee Russia's invasion of their country, tens of thousands of elderly Jews, including Holocaust survivors, have remained behind

Israel's Foreign Minister Lapid has tried to schedule a call with his Ukrainian counterpart, who 'said he had been busy,' official says. Despite Kyiv's growing criticism of Israel's stance, a political source says the two are likely to speak soon

Interior Minister Shaked moves to further relax Israel's policy on Ukrainian refugees fleeing Russia's invasion, as its implementation stalls because forms aren't available online

Iran says the attack on Iraq's northern Kurdish regional capital of Irbil was retaliation for an Israeli strike in Syria, which killed two members of its Revolutionary Guard earlier this week

The airstrike on a base in the Lviv region, near the border with Poland, represents the westernmost target hit by Russia since its invasion of Ukraine began 18 days ago

Amid China's latest COVID surge, mainland authorities are enforcing a 'zero tolerance' strategy and have locked down entire cities to find and isolate every infected person

Ukraine has said it is willing to negotiate, but not to surrender or accept any ultimatums, while Russia says talks made substantial progress

'The coexistence between Jews and Palestinians is like a man who beats his wife at home, yet they look like a perfect couple on the outside,' says Tamer Nafar, Israel's most successful Palestinian rapper

Filmmaker Brent Renaud, who had a New York Times press badge but was not on assignment for the newspaper at the time, was killed in Irpin, near the Ukrainian capital

Iran reportedly halts aimed at defusing tensions between Tehran and Riyadh, a day after Saudi Arabia carries out its largest known mass execution

Associated with the Bronze Age Tagar culture, the amulet provides rare insight into the rituals associated with death in this balmy region of Siberia

For nearly 10 years the unicorn StoreDot promised a breakthrough – a battery that charges in a few minutes. With no product on the market, their story proves a lesson for Israeli tech

Why is AIPAC, which condemned Trump's incitement of violence on Jan 6th and the assault on America's democratic values, endorsing 'pro-Israel' candidates who align with insurrectionists and white supremacists?

Western powers were close to reaching a deal with Tehran on its nuclear program, before Russia intervened to seek guarantees on its trade with Iran

Turkey’s options, amid shifting economic and political considerations in the region, now include Israel as well

From the collapse of the Russian cyber prowess to the links between the Kremlin and cybergangs, here are the big changes in the cyber world and what they mean

'This year we will celebrate Purim in schools one day earlier,' Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Lion says as weather forecasts predict snowfall

Almost three weeks into Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Putin's propaganda machine is laying the groundwork for a chemical attack with false accusations that Kyiv is working on 'military biological programs'