Vaccine 95 percent effective, Israeli HMO reports ■ Fauci commends Israel's vaccine rollout ■ Health Ministry eases criteria for schools to reopen nationwide

'He stood by us through thick and thin,' Netanyahu wrote of Limbaugh, the firebrand right-wing talkshow host, whose death was announced Wednesday

Snow will continue to fall throughout the day in Jerusalem and the mountains of northern Israel. Jerusalem schools open late

Preliminary investigation following arrest revealed that the suspect stabbed his mother to death while she was sleeping, the police said

High-tech companies and their employees have clear incentives to invest in AI training – and they're already the wealthiest actors in the Israeli job market. So why should the taxpayer get involved?

Over the past year, raw materials and transport have increased, and manufacturers can't delay a price hike much longer - despite concerns over poverty and hunger.

Most expensive places to live in for renters are still Tel Aviv and its suburb of Ramat Gan.

Although Israel has no laws mandating vaccinations, groups say many workers are reporting being given a choice to get the shot or be fired

Dozens of Haredi schools continue to operate in violation of regulations, amid limited police enforcement of regulations in towns with large ultra-Orthodox communities

The office of the chief justice of the Sharia courts in the West Bank rejected the ruling, saying that its courts are the sole arbiter of Palestinian religious law

Defense sources say men being promoted to positions meant for women; Chief of Staff Kochavi tells closed forum he wants the best in order to win wars

Despite calls from unions and NGOs, doors to coronavirus vaccination centers remain closed to thousands of Palestinians from the West Bank who work in Israel

Legislation comes amid other measures by Ministry to compel Israelis to get the coronavirus vaccine, despite calls against mandatory inoculation

The two leaders discussed continuation of the peace process in the Middle East, the Iranian threat and regional security challenges in hour-long conversation, PM's office says

Israeli HMO says data shows fully vaccinated person has chance of one in a 1,000 of contracting COVID

Limbaugh pioneered the American media phenomenon of conservative talk radio and became an enthusiastic combatant in the U.S. culture wars

The state prosecutor is conducting a probe of the possible role of Israeli officials in aiding crimes against humanity and genocide in Guatemala's civil war decades ago

In the second of a series of articles ahead of Israel’s March 23 election, a brief explanation of Israel’s coalition blocs and what makes this year’s election unique

First shock from genetic analysis of three ancient mammoths: Siberia had two lineages of steppe mammoth. Second surprise: The North American mammoth was a hybrid

Beny Steinmetz, sentenced to five years imprisonment for bribery, paid cyber firm to 'collect intelligence' on billionaire George Soros, according to front man's testimony

From sexual misconduct civil suits to a criminal probe in Georgia for potential election tampering, here is a break down of Donald Trump's legal issues

Nobody knows for sure what the herd immunity threshold is for the coronavirus, though many experts say it’s 70% or higher. And the emergence of variants is further complicating the picture

Two years ago, AIPAC and AJC howled at Netanyahu’s alliance with neo-Kahanists. This time, though, no comment. American Jews ‘won’t be particularly shocked or outraged by anything he does at this point,’ says Israel Studies expert Dov Waxman

The deal is the culmination of a long effort by Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch and News Corp Chief Executive Robert Thomson to seek compensation for premium content from platforms such as Google

The bill sets a $40,000 fine for 'knowingly disseminating false information' about the Soviet Union’s actions during the war

‘We didn’t want to be stuck in any of the political mud that all the national institutions in Israel are stuck in,’ explains CEO Russell Robinson, who also shrugs off dire predictions about future JNF fundraising following recent settlements co...

Politicians, members of the Jewish community and activists in Hamburg seek to rebuild the once importnat Bornplatz Synagogue which the Nazis destroyed. But there's a good reason to keep the square empty

One snag is that Libya’s oil production, such as it is, is financing both sides of the country’s civil war

Israeli woman, reportedly a resident of the West Bank settlement of Modi'in Illit, crossed in Syria and was subsequently arrested, Syrian state television reports ■ Netanyahu: we are working to save her life

Initial findings in Israel, which have attracted worldwide attention, show that the coronavirus vaccinations work but that protection isn’t perfect

A Democratic congressman is accusing Trump in court of violating the Ku Klux Klan Act, an 1871 law passed to crack down on the white supremacist organization

The U.S. Navy's 7th Fleet said destroyer USS Russell 'asserted navigational rights and freedoms in the Spratly Islands, consistent with international law'

About 100 of more than 270 schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram from the town of Chibok in 2014 remain in captivity

In a two hour phone call with Xi this month, Biden emphasized the U.S. priority of preserving a free and open Indo-Pacific region, where the United States and China are major strategic rival

The Biden White House has been pressuring Saudi Arabia to improve its record on human rights, including the release of political prisoners such as women’s rights advocates from jails

Millions of people in Texas awoke on Wednesday without heat again as the power grid fails. Cold snap has killed at least 21 people across four states

Despite their current differences, McConnell played a major role during Trump's administration in helping pass the president's signature 2017 tax cut and in confirming three conservative justices for the U.S. Supreme Court

Gold was first diagnosed with cancer in 2013. His brother Elon is a noted standup comedian who references his Jewishness in routines

Aslan Karatsev, who is having a historic run at the 2021 Australian Open, was recruited to play internationally for Israel, where he spent much of his youth, but in the end opted to play for Russia

Shipment from West Bank includes some 1,000 Sputnik V vaccines donated by Russia to the Palestinian Authority

Kahanist party asked to bar Ibtisam Mara’ana claiming she had called to destroy an Israeli city. Decision will now be debated at the Supreme Court

Vaccine 95 percent effective, Israeli HMO reports ■ Fauci commends Israel's vaccine rollout ■ Israel's Education Ministry wants names of vaccinated teachers, students

Forecasters predicting snowfall may reach up to 4 inches in the capital. Schools cancelled in northern Israel as snow blankets region

Many guides have concluded that tourism won’t be back anytime soon and are starting to look for other work

A preliminary estimate by Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics shows that GDP contracted 2.4 percent despite pandemic

The committee will discuss a request to disqualify Ibtisam Mara’ana for comments she made on social media

Some 230 Israelis contracted the South African strain, including two who had already recovered from a coronavirus infection

Rabbi Lau’s office said on Tuesday that as far as he is concerned, all the judges are required to be vaccinated

New poll sees bloc of parties opposing Netanyahu secure 61-seat majority

Despite the removal of the skits, taken from satirical comedy 'the Jews are Coming' from the Education Ministry website, teachers can still use them in lessons

Within a few years, the air force will have 75 F-35s. The IDF also plans to purchase another squadron of Boeing’s F-15s

Exercise included targeting rocket and missile storage sites and responding to rockets and cruise missiles directed at Israel

The arrest of Israelis on suspicion of developing, producing and illegally selling arms to an Asian superpower rival of the U.S. doesn’t reflect good law enforcement – but fear. Meanwhile, Malaysia, Vietnam and Azerbaijan remain controversial mar...

Last week, revelations surfaced that the Lincoln Project knew about allegations of sexual harassment involving one of its co-founders several months before acknowledging them publicly

Emergency services and the Israel Electric Corporation have increased preparations ahead of stormy conditions; forecasters are predicting snowfall may reach up to 4 inches

Remarks come amid concerns that Biden is sending a message to the Israeli government after not calling during his first several weeks in office

The occupation may be a fact of life for Palestinians, but on Hebrew Wikipedia, too, the creeping annexation is making headway

Doctors can't say with certainty whether the fetus died of COVID-19, but they haven't ruled it out either

In footage published by BBC, the daughter of Dubai's ruler says she is being held against her will in a barricaded villa with police officers stationed outside and inside

A Palestinian women's rights expert says the ruling might have aimed at stemming a recent increase in Gaza women seeking work outside the small coastal territory, where employment is 49 percent

From blaming Gantz for Israel's COVID deaths to the PM's corruption trial and ties with the United Arab List – Haaretz fact-checks Netanyahu's claims ahead of the March election

Communications with Damascus on the matter are mediated by Russia

From who wins the coronavirus narrative to whether Yair Lapid can break the 20-seat ceiling (and at whose expense), these are the key factors ahead of the March 23 Israel election

The blaze spread for three days after an explosion on Saturday which set off a huge fire that engulfed many of the hundreds of trucks lined up at the border crossing

Ankara accuses Kurdish PKK militants of killing 13 Turkish captives in northern Iraq

The social network went dark after Amazon suspended the platform from its web hosting service and Google and Apple banned the app following the January 6 Capitol attack

'This fascist who attacked our president would have been a damn Nazi if he had lived during World War II,' said a spokesman Erdogan's AK Party in response

Police say they have launched an investigation into the incident in the settlement of Shiloh, which comes after five suspects have been detained on suspicion of committing hate crimes in the West Bank in the last two days

Three Libyans who joined the 2011 mass protests share their story, as the country remains still split between rival factions

Kosovo courted Israel, unrequited, for a decade. This is how Yasser Arafat, Trumpist transactionalism, the ‘Muslim terrorist’ phantasm, appeals to Holocaust memory and fear of succession played a part in Israel’s decision

This is the second such joint Russia-Iran exercise since 2019, when the two nations plus China held a four-day exercise, and comes amid a tense standoff with the U.S. over the Iran's nuclear capabilities

Jewish leaders are calling for an investigation into incitement to violence and discrimination after a far-right event attended by 300

A former minister slams Labor leader Merav Michaeli's pick of Tel Aviv-based candidate for Arab slot on party list, deliberates teaming up with other parties

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 allies