2,500 U.S. and about 10,000 NATO troops are still in Afghanistan, while analysts agree there is no easy solution to the war-ravaged country's deteriorating conditions

As electioneering steps up in earnest, the prime minister's former ally takes aim at the government's handling of the coronavirus crisis, arguing the dead are 'just background noise' for Netanyahu

'We will not be able to be part of such a process if the new administration returns to that deal,' Ambassador Gilad Erdan says

The Palestinian Authority, which has inoculated medical staff against COVID-19, puts vaccine rollout in the West Bank on hold

The vice president of a survivors' committee weighed in on the failure of German courts to prosecute Nazi criminals after the belated trials of a former concentration camp guard and secretary in February

Cabinet approves partial reopening of commerce, schools on Sunday ■ Education Ministry wants names of vaccinated teachers, students ■ West Bank coronavirus vaccine rollout on hold, as Gaza awaits first shipment

Neanderthals hadn't been thought capable of fashioning clever 'Nubian Levallois' tools. Now a tooth found with such tools in a West Bank cave has been identified as Neanderthal

Attorney general okays giving COVID information to the ministry, while Health Ministry opposes move over privacy concerns

The data is encouraging, but how long it will take for Israel to return to the normality of pre-COVID days depends on questions with no clear answers

Iraqi president says rocket attack on area near where U.S. forces are based in northern Iraq is a 'dangerous escalation'

The private equity fund lost big in its deal to sell Psagot Investment House because financial services is a competitive market; It did much better when it sold the dairy monopoly Tnuva

National Insurance Institute paid benefits to 382,000 people who did not qualify because it lacked access to up-to-date data on their status

Stores, malls, museums and more get green light, grades 7-10 will stay home in next phase of Israel's COVID lockdown exit

Lapid's Yesh Atid could become the second-largest in the Knesset, but it fears eating into support for its center-left

Israel's coronavirus flight ban left thousands stranded abroad, often in violation of local laws. A draconian solution turned into a nightmare

In an interview with Channel 12 news, Netanyahu says he spoke with Milchan, who is at the heart of one of the three corruption cases against the prime minister, 'Once or twice' since the charges were filed

Religious Zionism, led by Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir passes threshold with five seats ■ Prime Minister Netanyahu's Likud party is still the biggest party with 28 seats, according to the Channel 13 poll

Rabbi Eliezer Berland, who had previously done prison time for sexual offenses, is charged with 16 counts of fraud and exploitation, and with money laundering totaling $43 million

The suspects were arrested as part of a joint operation by the Shin Bet and police ■ A gag order has been placed on details of the investigation

Gyms, tourism and cultural venues to reopen to vaccinated Israelis ■ Gatherings of 10 indoors, 20 outdoors permitted beginning Friday ■ Netanyahu still mulling additional restrictions over Purim

In challenge to Biden's hopes of rejoining the accord, spokesman says steps are reversible if 'other party changes its path and honors its obligations'

In the years since the attack that killed 17, some of the victims’ Jewish parents have become prominent activists for gun control and school safety

Fauci, who has won the Dan David Prize for his work during the COVID pandemic, has butted heads with Trump over the management of the crisis

Their claims were explosive. Their evidence was weak. These are the superspreaders

The Biden team will work closely with whoever wins next month's election, but one source close to the administration says Netanyahu has ‘personally undermined any goodwill about engaging with him’

The former president has met with political aides to discuss efforts to help Republicans try to take control of the House and Senate in the 2022 midterms elections

Five Israeli children hospitalized, one in serious condition, as experts warn that reopening schools will cause spike in COVID infection among kids too young to be vaccinated

Turkey summons U.S. ambassador over statement on Iraq killings

The message is getting out, say N.Y.-area health-care workers: Between 'going on a vent' and getting a shot – it's best for expecting moms to avoid the worst-case scenario of COVID-19 infection

British thriller ‘Behind Her Eyes’ is the latest best-selling novel to get the Netflix treatment. But is a six-part series really the best format for it?

After criticism, Virginia RNC member Patricia Bast Lyman apologizes, saying she was misunderstood

Despite numerous assaults, only seven indictments have been filed in the eight months since the protests began

Mercaz Olami, the Zionist organization of the Conservative-Masorti movement, is the latest Diaspora group to voice opposition of the move

How warriors against 'cancel culture', Bari Weiss and Ben Shapiro, give conservatives like Gina Carano a free pass on the same antisemitism they condemn so fiercely when it comes from the ‘woke’ left

In a statement on Twitter, Houthi military spokesman Yahya Sarea said the attacks halted operations at the airports for two hours as a result

Senator Graham told Fox News' Chris Wallace, 'If she runs, I will certainly be behind her because I think she represents the future of the Republican Party'

Palestinian Authority requests 1,000 vaccines for Gaza medical teams ■ Head of Knesset committee: Jabs will reach Hamas, not medics

Recovered patients – 650,000 people and counting – aren't eligible to get vaccinated against COVID despite the World Health Organization's recommendation and there being no shortage of available doses in Israel

Sensitive, knowledgeable and easy to read aloud, Rachel Tzvia Back’s English translations of the later works of the Israel Prize laureate are a pleasure to read

'She is radical, no doubt,' said Mike Lester of his congresswoman. 'But she is there to support me, radical or not'

The Israeli authorities' lies, coupled with violence by settlers and soldiers alike, are allowing the continuous expansion of so-called individual farms – i.e., illegal outposts – in the occupied territories

Survey by the American Enterprise Institute found 29% of Republicans believe the baseless claim that 'Trump has been secretly fighting a group of child sex traffickers that include prominent Democrats and Hollywood elites'

Ofer Schreiber decided to skip his legal clerkship 10 years ago and started to invest in cyber. Now he’s looking for two Israelis with an interesting story: ‘We feel very comfortable writing a large check’

From Beijing and Washington to Moscow and Tehran, political leaders and allied media effectively functioned as superspreaders

Israel announced its embassy had opened in Abu Dhabi, after the countries agreed to normalize relations in August

Gyms, pools and cultural venues to reopen for vaccinated Israelis ■ Netanyahu pushes for legislation to disclose names of unvaccinated Israelis ■ Two Israelis contract South African variant after recovery

Facilities to make beer go back over 13,000 years, but nothing the size of this facility – built by a necropolis at Abydos – had been found before

Clinging to Antarctic rock, a small sedentary animal was discovered where none were thought to be able to survive

With its plan to start buying Palestinian land to support West Bank settlements, the Jewish National Fund (or JNF) just became another acronym headache for President Biden

The White House said Biden would be calling Netanyahu soon. But even after that happens, Israel will need a lot of time to repair the damage he did to the ties with the Democratic Party

Proposal would tax some of the centers based on their parent companies’ global profits ■ Tech executives warn that the move could hurt sales of Israeli startups and lead parent companies to move management elsewhere

Missiles were fired from Golan Heights and Galilee, Syrian army statement says, not mentioning casualties ■ Six Iran-backed fighters killed in strikes, Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says

Netanyahu pushes for legislation to disclose names of unvaccinated Israelis ■ Two Israelis contract South African variant after recovery ■ venues to reopen next week in green areas ■ 75% of new COVID cases under 39

Netanyahu has tied his fate in the election to COVID vaccinations, and suspicion arises that his proposals are influenced by personal considerations. Meanwhile, disclosing names of Israelis who have yet to get vaccinated paves way for severe infringe...

The National Insurance Institute also finds that workers over age 65 were the least likely to return to work, followed by those in the 45-54 bracket

Mira Lapidot comes with more than two decades of experience at the Israel Museum, where she curated exhibitions of leading artists, like the first exhibition in Israel of Chinese artist Ai Weiwei

The NEET rate – which stands for Not in Education, Employment, or Training – is 30 percent in Israel's Arab communities, more than twice the Jewish rate

Critics of the regime in the country and abroad have fallen victim to Saudi Arabia's social media surveillance system. A handful of activists have garnered international attention, but many have not won this 'glory'

Coronavirus cabinet approves advancing the proposal, which will address how the information on those not yet vaccinated will be protected

Rabbi Yuval Hacohen Asherov has recently posted a video clip in which he falsely claims that the COVID-19 vaccine damages fertility and can be fatal

Amir Raz initially said he had no explanation for shooting his wife in their West Bank home, before changing his testimony on Sunday

The Jewish-Asian Film Project, a series of videos of young Asian American Jews in conversation which launched this week, aims to create a community for Jews of color

The Pfizer COVID vaccine, the study found, was equally effective for all age groups, including people aged 70 and older

Health Ministry says 44 cases of the COVID strain have been found in Israel, and that patients had been in contact with 124 people

Qatar's envoy to the Strip says in interview to SAWA News project after negotiations between the Palestinian Authority, Israeli gas company Delek, and other international figures ■ The gas pipeline construction is expected to take about 2.5 years

The Iranian-backed rebels earlier this month renewed their attack on the oil-rich province, an anti-Houthi stronghold held by the internationally recognized government

The organization's board of directors still needs to approve the decision, which would allow it to expand its purchase of land in the West Bank for the benefit of Jewish settlements, and will do so after the election

In hopes of breaking down barriers that sometimes isolate the Orthodox from wider society, community leaders organized the pop-up vaccination event at the end of Shabbat

Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler made public a potentially incriminating conversation between the House GOP leader and Trump and urged other Republicans to do so as well

Squirrels are heading for the hills, a problem with trees, a snag in measuring climate change at 'Ground Zero,' and wet Israel

A military spokesman for the Iran-aligned Houthi group said two drones launched on Sunday afternoon by its forces had struck Saudi Arabia's Abha airport

McConnell, played by Beck Bennett, finally let loose, 'I think he’s guilty as hell. And the worst person I ever met. And I hope every city, county, and state locks his ass up. Oh God, that felt good!'

The owner of a popup bar in Tel Aviv’s Carmel Market shares her recipes for colorful and aromatic cocktails

You can bet that every one of the jurors believed wholeheartedly that Trump was guilty as charged. The verdict preceded the trial: innocent even if proven guilty

Check Point finds simple flaw in Israel’s so-called coronavirus passport, which in the future is expected to allow access to cultural events, centers of business and even travel

New COVID mutations and low rate of inoculation among young people are contributing factors – with some Israelis from the age bracket getting seriously ill

Until now, El Al had the exclusive right to offer limited flights for Israelis stranded in the U.S. while Ben-Gurion Airport is closed due to COVID-19 restrictions

Infection rates in Germany have been declining steadily in recent weeks but officials are concerned about the possible impact of variants first discovered in Britain and South Africa

Clearly angry, the Senate’s longest-serving GOP leader said Trump’s actions surrounding the attack on Congress were 'a disgraceful, disgraceful dereliction of duty'

White House deputy press secretary T.J. Ducklo has resigned after a report surfaced in Vanity Fair outlining his sexist threats against a female Politico journalist

A federal appeals court on Friday ruled that Arkansas’ law requiring state contractors to pledge not to boycott Israel is unconstitutional

Rift in the organization over policy to expand remit into West Bank intensified after deputy chair Alon Tal spoke to Defense Minister Benny Gantz, whose Kahol Lavan party opposes the move

Turkey's Operation Claw-Eagle 2 previously led to the deaths of 48 PKK militants, including three senior members, and the capture of two insurgents

Israeli Health Ministry's operation center, dedicated to tracking and countering false reports and forgeries about the coronavirus vaccine, has its sights set on those hesitant to inoculate

According to Haaretz’s averaged polls, Gideon Sa'ar's New Hope stands to gain 13.5 Knesset seats and Naftali Bennett's Yamina is projected to win 11.5 in Israel's March election, a far cry from the 20+ they both dream of

The number of new coronavirus cases and patients in critical condition reflect a drop, but it is still much too early for hospitals in Israel to celebrate

The Senate voted 57-43 to charge the former president with incitement of insurrection for the deadly riot on Capitol Hill in January ■ Trump: trial is 'greatest witch hunt in the history of our country'

Although the research didn't point to less rain as a result of climate change, scientific models estimate that the Eastern Mediterranean will see a 25 to 35 percent decrease in rainfall later this century

Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades to visit Israel Sunday and expected to announce a mutual coronavirus quarantine exemption if flights resume